Dr. Alok 'Dr. K' Kanodia

When you have a circuitry,

That is externally oriented.

When you have a circuitry that is environmentally oriented, when you have a task that yields you no immediate benefit, like studying for an exam that you have at the end of the month, your brain does not want to do it.

This is why it is such a crippling issue.

Because the whole point is that you can't do it ahead of time.

You need that external level of environment.

to motivate you in order to act.

So training outside of doing the task, going and grinding gear so that you can down the raid boss is incredibly boring.

It's not how your motivation system works.

So how do you address that?

And that's where I suggest you start very concretely in doing things that are not important to do.

So as you look around, you'll see there's all kinds of stuff that you should do.

all kinds of things that you need to do and all kinds of things that you want to do.

What I encourage you to do is just practice doing the task that you don't want to do.

And it's not even about should or need.

It is recognizing that once your brain has a certain motivational system that is active, once I train my brain only to act in last-minute panic, then what I require is last-minute panic in order to act.

Right?

Neurons that fire together, wire together.

So we want to start unwiring those neurons.

We want to take a small little thing.