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1 Understand Why We Procrastinate
1. Unhappy feeling with the task
2. Funnel attention onto a more pleasant task
3. Feel happy
3.2 Habits Have 4 Parts
1. The cue
2.
The routine 3. The reward 4. The belief
3.3 Anti-Procrastination: Process vs Product
Focus on process (just do it, 25 mins)
Not concerned about product/result
Enjoy the process
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4 Anti-Procrastination: Develop Good Zombies (Habits)
What launches you into anti-procrastination mode?
1. The cue
- Location
- Time
- How you feel
- Reactions
2. The routine
- Plan
3. The reward
4.
The belief
3.5 Good Anti-Procrastination Habits - Daily Life
1. Put items into Daily, Weekly Plans (To-Do Lists)
2. Prioritize
3.
Do important and hard things first in the energetic time period. 3. Focus on process (25 mins) 4. Have rewards 5. Have finish time!
3.6 Anti-Procrastination Strategy SummingUp
Summing up procrastination:
- Keep a planner journal
- Commit yourself to certain routines and tasks each day
- Delay rewards until you finish the task
- Watch for procrastination cues
- Gain trust in your new system
- Have backup plans for when you still procrastinate
- Eat your frogs first
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7 Diving Deeper Into Memory
- We are good at visual memory. Associate to-be-remembered things with images.
- Repetition & Feedback, make short-term memories to long-term ones.
- Hand writing, hand drawing
- Use flashcard program like Anki
3.7A Long Term Memory
- Spaced repetition for consolidation, reactivation-to-reconsolidation
- Spaced learning, instead of one big-block learning
3.8 Memory Enhance Techniques:
Meaningful Association, Memory Palace
- Use initials to form a meaningful word
- Use image to associate a concept
- Use a palace (or home) to hold multiple memory items.
3.9 Memory Insight SummingUp
- Long-term vs Short-Term (Working) memories: ==> spaced repeating
- Visual capacities, use them
- visual ~ abstract association
