Overcoming Procrastination: Start Small

Your brain is literally wired to make you procrastinate. Here's why you keep scrolling instead

of studying. Ancient Greeks called it akrasia, acting against your better judgment.

Science calls it time inconsistency. Your present self craves instant rewards while your future

self wants long-term benefits. That's why you choose TikTok over your essay.

The guilt of procrastinating is actually worse than doing the work. The problem isn't doing it,

it's starting it. Try the two-minute rule. Make your task so small it takes less

than two minutes to begin. Once you start, momentum carries you forward.

Breaking tasks into fifteen-minute chunks worked for writer Anthony Trollope, who published forty-seven