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Discussion on: Ultimate & Short Guide to Stop Procrastinating

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Shauna Gordon

There's actually research to back this. Researchers found that the brain equates telling people with actually doing the thing, thus killing the motivation to actually do it.

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Christian | 🧑🏼‍💻

Interesting, I will have to look into it deeper at some point; But yeah killing motivation sounds about right. I'll be impassioned whilst talking about it, then a day later just not feel like making any progress on project x or pushing it off to another day (rinse and repeat)