Beat Procrastination With the 2-Minute Rule

Your brain literally values scrolling TikTok right now more than your future success.

Scientists call this time inconsistency, where your Present Self wants instant gratification while

your Future Self wants long-term rewards. When that assignment is due tomorrow,

suddenly future consequences become present consequences and you finally start working.

Here's the trick: use the 2-minute rule. Tell yourself you'll only study for two

minutes. Once you start, momentum carries you forward because starting is actually

harder than continuing. Break that huge project into tiny 15-minute chunks like author Anthony

Trollope did when writing 47 novels. The pain of procrastinating is usually worse than actually doing