Procrastination is the greatest enemy of learning, and if you want to keep learning, you have to beat it. But the reality is that many people are suffering from procrastination, thinking that they are "late-stage procrastination" and completely hopeless. In fact, procrastination is not that difficult to overcome, and the following methods will teach you how to not only kill procrastination inadvertently, but also start learning anytime and anywhere, and have the best learning state.
1. Accept that "anyone will procrastinate".
When you want to do something, but you can't help but procrastinate, do you feel very irritable, very restless, very anxious, you want to start acting, but you just can't act, you are very entangled, and your heart is extremely struggling.
If you're stuck in such a state, the first thing you have to do is: stop being anxious and accept procrastination.
As we mentioned earlier, in the process of learning, we should try to protect our limited energy and reduce the consumption of energy in anything that assists learning. And the irritability, restlessness, and inner struggle caused by our procrastination are all a kind of internal friction and extremely energy-consuming. Moreover, when you are restless, there is no way to quickly get into the learning mode, which will have a great impact on your learning.
So, the first thing we have to do is to break free ourselves from this state and stop self-consumption.
When you procrastinate, you may blame yourself and find the symptoms irritating. In fact, procrastination is not your problem, but a human problem, everyone has procrastination to a greater or lesser extent, and no matter how successful people are, they also have a procrastination side.
So, the first thing to do to get rid of procrastination is to accept it and tell yourself that "it's not my fault."
Once you accept this and calm yourself down, we can move on to the next step.
2. Dry: Have a three-second ritual
Now, it's okay to meditate on your own, or say it out. With that, you immediately start your studies and do what you are supposed to do. It's a three-second ritual for yourself. Don't underestimate this little ritual, it's the most important start to help you get rid of procrastination. Because, as soon as you start, everything can be improved.
Just start, you're not procrastinating;As long as you start to act, it is possible to do it.
You might say, does this little meditation ritual have such a magical effect?If you don't believe me, you can try.
3. Keep dry: Just do it for two minutes first
Now that you've already started to do it, let's do it for two minutes!”
It doesn't matter if it can learn something, if it can do something. It doesn't matter, just do it for two minutes first, and even if I can't do it again, I can still do it for two minutes. ”
Even if two minutes don't produce any results, that is, two minutes of wasted time, compared to 24 hours a day, decades of life, this is really nothing to pity. ”
It's a big deal, I'll stop after two minutes, so what? ”
When you start drying, if you have physical rejection or resistance in your heart, then try to say these words to yourself. I'm sure you can do it for two minutes.
Of course, this two minutes is a virtual finger, or it could be three minutes, or five minutes. This time is the time when you can keep yourself doing one thing.
When you've learned for two minutes, I'm sure there's a 99% chance you'll keep learning. Chances are, you'll be able to study for an hour, or even two hours straight.
Again, if you don't believe it, then you try.
After trying it out, you'll tell me: I can really learn, and I don't seem to be procrastinating.
Fourth, do the difficult thing first: the higher rank ** delays
When you've completed the first three steps, you may find that you're starting to learn and don't procrastinate anymore. Then congratulations, you've completed the first level of taking out procrastination;Next, let's move on to the second level of taking out procrastination.
People's conventional thinking of doing one thing is from easy to difficult, and we all start from simple and easy things. However, when we have to complete multiple tasks in a period of time, if we choose to do that simple thing first, it is likely to cause us to develop a new procrastination, which is a procrastination that is tired of coping with difficult tasks in the process of doing things.
If you do the simple thing first, you will keep avoiding the difficult thing, and you will always procrastinate in the process of doing things.
To put this matter on the study is to have a fear of difficulty, although learning, but always pick the easy to learn, avoid the difficult part, this is a new kind of procrastination. This is very scary in learning, because if you continue like this, you may never improve, you will never be able to make a breakthrough in your learning, and it is very likely that you will still not gain anything after studying for a long time. In the "Deep Digestion" section of this book, I talked about the need to eliminate the fear of difficulties and be brave enough to start tackling difficult problems, so that you can achieve real improvement. This is actually a way to eliminate the procrastination that occurs in the learning process.
Based on the above case, I believe you should understand that to get rid of this procrastination, all you have to do is: change the order of doing things and delay gratification.
Delaying gratification means not coveting temporary comfort, but resetting the order of happiness and pain in life: first, facing problems and feeling pain;Second, solve the problem and have fun. It's a simple and easy way to live.
Seeing this, have you found that it is actually very simple to get rid of procrastination, and low-level procrastination can be solved by following the method of "accepting, starting in three seconds, and doing it for two minutes first".As for high-level procrastination, that is, procrastination in the process, you only need to reverse the order of learning and doing things, and you can easily solve it.
The above, I hope it will help you to get rid of procrastination, and if you have any other good ways to get rid of procrastination, you can also share it in the comment area.