procrastination
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February 26th, 2022
- from a Intend user, re the commitment contracts feature - relates to towardsness & awayness & procrastination
- > You bring an interesting point up about how we want to perceive our motivations for goal completion. There's a podcast with Rich Roll and Andrew Huberman, and in it Dr Huberman states, that, to the body, it doesn't matter how we are motivated (either by passion or pain of losing money - which is another aspect of motivation in that podcast, Humberman goes on to state that there are two different types of procrastination (hopefully I'm correct on that) one is anxious/fearful the other would be hypo-aroused. If that's true, then the latter type would find it more advantageous to use extrinsic motivation.
- the two different types of procrastination seem like a vital component for any model of akrasia & commitment contracts
- although I guess I think in some cases the way Beeminder operates is that people have anxiety around school so they get school done, but unless they also generate anxiety around making sure to hang out with friends they they just become socially isolated, or whatever 😅
- like, someone might even already be getting their homework done due to the inherent anxiety of grades & deadlines
- but they put off hanging out with friends unless they beemind it
- (the podcast btw seems to be Rich's podcast, interviewing Huberman, not an episode of Huberman's podcast)
in good time
- Another is procrastination—that is, procrastination in the phenomenological sense, referring to the subjective experience of something not happening in good time and of needing to take some action in order for that to be true.