Overcoming Procrastination: Start Small

Procrastination isn't laziness. It's your brain choosing instant rewards over future

benefits. Ancient Greeks called it akrasia: acting against your better judgment.

Here's what happens: your Future Self sets goals like finishing that assignment, but your Present

Self craves scrolling TikTok right now. Your brain values immediate gratification over long-term payoffs.

The guilt of procrastinating actually hurts more than doing the work. The problem isn't working,

it's starting. Try the 2-Minute Rule: make your task take less than two minutes to begin.

Just open the textbook. Write one sentence. Start ridiculously small. Break big projects

into 15-minute chunks like writer Anthony Trollope, who wrote 47 novels this way.