Dr. Alok 'Dr. K' Kanodia

Oh my God, it'll take me three days.

If a task takes an hour and your brain thinks, oh, it's going to take three days.

How does that affect your capacity to work today, right?

So if something can't be finished in the next hour, it's noon on a Monday, and you're sitting there and you're thinking to yourself, man, I have homework.

And your brain is like, yeah.

It can be you at 1 p.m.

on Monday, one hour from now, you could be done with that task.

And then you're like, damn, I could be done with this task Monday at 1 p.m.

And then I can have the rest of the day.

This is the last piece of homework I have for the next three days.

I could relax for the next three days if I just sit down and do one hour of work right now.

But if your brain is like, no.

This is going to take three days.

This piece of homework has suddenly become a dissertation.

So now it's hard to get started, right?

So our brain doesn't just get started on tasks that take a large amount of time.

I don't wake up one day and be like, I'm just going to get my PhD today.

You can't do that.

So the larger amount of time something takes to

the more preparation our brain needs, the more guarantees it needs, right?