I Built A System That Makes Procrastination Neurologica… — Transcript

Discover a neuroscience-based system that makes procrastination neurologically impossible and helps you focus for 8+ hours daily.

Key Takeaways

Procrastination is a neurological issue, not a lack of willpower.
Fear and negative perceptions of tasks trigger procrastination.
Breaking tasks into small steps reduces resistance and improves focus.
Emotional detachment from success and failure helps maintain consistent action.
Effective procrastination solutions must address brain wiring, not just behavior.

Summary

The creator transformed from chronic procrastination to entering flow states for over eight hours daily.
Procrastination is explained as a neurological wiring issue, not a willpower problem.
The brain is wired to avoid tasks that move you closer to your goals, causing procrastination.
Common forms of procrastination include fear of failure, fear of effort, fear of judgment, and perfectionism.
Most traditional procrastination advice fails because it doesn't address the neurological root causes.
Breaking tasks into small, manageable checkpoints helps overcome initial resistance and speeds task completion.
The brain runs mental simulations that can create fear responses to tasks, similar to fearing dangerous situations.
Success should be treated as a side effect; focus on doing the action for its own sake to reduce emotional attachment.
The system is based on four years of neuroscience research and personal experimentation.
The video offers both short-term and long-term fixes to help viewers enjoy their work and improve productivity.

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Just three years ago, I went from sitting at my desk not knowing exactly what to work on but never doing it to now being able to enter flow states for eight plus hours a day and scale my business in a fraction of the time because the work actually feels fun for me.

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of the time because the work actually feels fun for me. And the best part is I've built a system that makes procrastination neurologically impossible [music] and it's based off 4 years of neuroscience research I've been doing myself cuz the main thing I want

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And the best part is I've built a system that makes procrastination neurologically impossible.

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problem. So in this video, I'll go into everything from why you procrastinate, the long and short-term fixes you can implement right now, and why most procrastination advice never solves the real issue so you can finally start enjoying your work right after watching

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And it's based off four years of neuroscience research I've been doing myself because the main thing I want you to understand is procrastination isn't a willpower problem, it's a neurological one.

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focus issue. I just [music] thought oh, my brain's not wired for focus. But really, it was because of procrastination. I'd always put tasks off, I'd scroll instead of working, and I'd always look back at my day at 6:00

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And your brain is physically wired to avoid tasks that move you closer towards your goal.

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me. And the most annoying thing I faced was I knew I had the skills, I knew I had the talent cuz I've been studying and doing this copywriting [music] business for ages, but I just couldn't do the work to scale. And after going

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And until you fix that wiring, no amount of working harder will fix your problem.

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it like some people could? And in that thinking session, I realized the task wasn't the issue, [music] it was just my perception of my brain viewing it. Because if you think about it, every single task you work on is

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So in this video, I'll go into everything from why you procrastinate, the long and short-term fixes you can implement right now, and why most procrastination advice never solves the real issue so you can finally start enjoying your work right after watching this video.

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Theoretically, these are very easy tasks to do when you think about it like that.

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If you've watched my videos before, you already know the story that I went through.

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productivity videos. I'd watched all the videos on how to remove procrastination and I knew it was all behind it. [music] All the Andrew Huberman podcast, but it never worked for me. By the way, if you're thinking right now this is my

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Three years ago, I had my copywriting business.

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the description. Takes 30 seconds. Now, let me show you exactly why you procrastinate. The very first thing you have to realize is procrastination follows a process. It's not something that is random. [music] It always follows the exact same process

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Every day, I'd always lose focus and in that moment, I always thought it was a focus issue.

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Whether the activity was good, bad, whether it was enjoyable, whether it was hard, whether it was just pleasurable, right?

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I just thought, oh, my brain's not wired for focus.

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So, this is called the prism of the mind where all this data is stored, and it will find every single bit of data surrounding it. If the data is mostly negative, you will procrastinate.

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But really, it was because of procrastination.

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There will be no procrastination. And this leads to different forms of procrastination [music] like fear of failure, fear of effort, fear of judgment, perfectionism as well. And the reason why I said most advice doesn't work is because they don't teach you the

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I'd always put tasks off, I'd scroll instead of working, and I'd always look back at my day at 6:00 p.m. realizing that I had not really done anything productive.

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there's other ones you're struggling with, just let me know below and I'll make another video going more in-depth on every [music] single one, but these are the three main ones you can experience. The main one is fear of

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Sure, I sat at my desk for eight hours, but all of that time was just me scrolling, avoiding the work, working on shallow tasks that don't even move the needle for me.

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Your brain basically thinks that speaking to a camera or typing on a keyboard is the same as climbing a snowy mountain. Imagine you're at the bottom of a snowy mountain right now. You look up, you want to reach the top of it, but

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And the most annoying thing I faced was I knew I had the skills, I knew I had the talent because I've been studying and doing this copywriting business for ages, but I just couldn't do the work to scale.

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And so you stand there for around 10 minutes deciding whether you should go up because you don't really want to go up. You're scared you might die, but you also really want to go up as well. Well, the solution isn't to just go up the

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And after going through this cycle for so many months and even years, to be honest, I'd just sit down with myself and wonder why I was procrastinating.

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Imagine there's a cliff every few steps as you go up the mountain, right? There's a flag as well. That's going to make it a lot easier to go through because you're not looking at the top of the mountain, you're looking at the

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Why was I putting off work?

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two main things you can do. The first thing is to split each task into simple checkpoints or steps to complete, right?

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Why couldn't I sit down and do the work and actually enjoy it like some people could?

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as you go along and complete these small steps, they're a lot easier to complete, and so you get through the task much faster, but it's a lot easier to do. And the best part about this is every single

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And in that thinking session, I realized the task wasn't the issue, it was just my perception of my brain viewing it.

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to get past that initial resistance. But when you set these small timers, it's a lot easier to go through because if you set a 1-hour timer to do the work, you're going to be struggling to do it, right? It's just a lot of work to do.

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Because if you think about it, every single task you work on is probably just typing on a keyboard, going on calls with people, maybe just writing on a piece of paper.

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lot easier to go through and naturally work on that task. This is the first form of procrastination. Now, the next one, the most common one, is fear of failure. This is basically just when you're scared of failing around an

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Theoretically, these are very easy tasks to do when you think about it like that.

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basically run a simulation, right? It will run a simulation in your mind, and it will get this like fake version of you, and it will basically simulate yourself going through whatever process you're going through, right? So, let's go back to the snowy mountain. What will

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But for some reason, your brain thinks you're getting chased by a gorilla or you're walking through fire.

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and you know you're strong and capable, you will go up there, and you'll get a assignment, right? However, if you've never been up a mountain, and you're scared of going up, and your brain knows that, you will get fear. If you're in

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And this one realization was the only thing that allowed me to start focusing for eight hours a day because I'd watched all the productivity videos.

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The first one is not really caring about success, because the thing that many people don't understand is if you don't care about success, you don't care about a failure. The major thing you want to do is release emotional attachments to

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I'd watched all the videos on how to remove procrastination and I knew it was all behind it.

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caring. You don't really care if you get the result, right? So, that's the first thing. Make sure success is a side effect. The main thing you want to focus on is just doing the action for the sake of doing it. And the next way to get

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All the Andrew Huberman podcasts, but it never worked for me.

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have not done the necessary causes to get the effect you wanted, or the effect that was successful, right? And so, this also releases all of the emotional attachments to succeeding, because you realize, "Okay, if I failed, that's fine. I can just try again. I can try

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By the way, if you're thinking right now this is my exact problem, everything I'm about to go over is what I teach in my free school community.

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right? The thing is perfectionism never really creates perfection. All it is is an attachment to being happy. It's not doing something until you actually feel happy about doing it. So, not starting that business until every situation inside your life is perfect. Not raising

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You get a free philosophy course, a free one-to-one coaching call with me, and 570 plus entrepreneurs working on the exact same thing.

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failure, fear of effort, fear of judgment, right? And so, the solution to perfectionism isn't to do anything to do with perfectionism, is to get to the root cause of why you need everything to be perfect before you take action. And

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So, click the link in the description. It takes 30 seconds.

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the problem was actually fear of effort. It wasn't anything to do with perfectionism. The effort required to do the action was just way too high. And so, we did the stuff with fear of effort, and he never had the

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Now, let me show you exactly why you procrastinate.

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Now, everything I've just showed you, all the procrastination forms, the procrastination process, that's everything I go over inside of my free community on school. When you do join, you get a free flow state course and a free one-time coaching call based off of

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The very first thing you have to realize is procrastination follows a process.

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who are also improving their productivity and getting into flow states for 8 plus hours a day. So, if you're making anywhere from 3 to 20k a month with your business, and you know focus is your main issue or doing the

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It's not something that is random.

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to seeing you inside, okay? Have a magnificent day, man. Peace.

Topics:procrastinationneurosciencefocusproductivityflow statefear of failuretask managementmental simulationperfectionismself-improvement

Frequently Asked Questions

Why is procrastination considered a neurological problem rather than a willpower issue?

Procrastination stems from the brain's wiring to avoid tasks that move you closer to your goals, triggering fear and negative perceptions, which cannot be overcome by willpower alone.

What are the main forms of procrastination discussed in the video?

The video highlights fear of failure, fear of effort, fear of judgment, and perfectionism as the primary forms of procrastination that affect productivity.

How does breaking tasks into smaller steps help reduce procrastination?

Splitting tasks into simple checkpoints lowers the brain's resistance by making the task feel more manageable, allowing for easier progress and faster completion.

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