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, and it's why you keep putting off that essay until

2 AM. Your Present Self wants instant gratification while your Future Self wants long-term

rewards. The problem isn't doing the work, it's starting it. Try the 2-Minute

Rule: make your task so small it takes less than two minutes to start. Don't write the

whole paper, just open the document. Break everything into 15-minute chunks like writer Anthony

Trollope who published 47 novels using this exact method. Once you start, momentum carries

you forward. The guilt of procrastinating is always worse than actually doing the work.