Curiosity Chronicle How to Stop Procrastinating
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Jun 27, 2025 Explore how Jeremy Bentham's ideas on pain and pleasure influence our productivity. Discover Skinner's Law as a framework to combat procrastination. The discussion offers practical strategies like public declarations and accountability partnerships to help listeners take action. With personal insights and motivating tips, this conversation inspires everyone to conquer procrastination and enhance their lives.
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Behavior Driven by Pleasure and Pain
- Human behavior is driven by the pursuit of pleasure and the avoidance of pain.
- This idea underpins Skinner's Law, a powerful productivity framework based on behavioral psychology.
Use Skinner's Law to Motivate
- To overcome procrastination, increase the pain of not doing a task or increase the pleasure of doing it.
- Make either the cost of inaction higher or the reward of action greater to hack your motivation.
Writing Book with Hunger Rule
- Sahil Bloom used Skinner's Law to write his book by not eating breakfast until writing 500 words.
- This rule increased the pain of not writing and helped him complete a book that sold 300,000 copies worldwide.
