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A review by nheer
Stop Procrastinating: A Simple Guide to Hacking Laziness, Building Self Discipline, and Overcoming Procrastination by Nils Salzgeber
5.0
The book's central premise is that procrastination is not a time management issue, but an emotion management problem.
When I first came across this premise, it made so much sense to me. Suppose you can have the best scheduled day in the world. Your instant gratification monkey (Tim Urban) will still try to overcome the negative feelings of doing something hard by doing something more pleasant. That means, if you can't regulate your emotions, the monkey will lead you to procrastinate.
This is a compelling way to think about the topic.
The book goes more into depth about overcoming these emotions by building willpower and exercising self-compassion.
Overall, I think this book combines many powerful ideas and methods into one.
I can recommend this book to anyone struggling with procrastination.
(PS: The Audible version seems not cleanly edited since there are some repetitions in it, but it is not that bad.)
When I first came across this premise, it made so much sense to me. Suppose you can have the best scheduled day in the world. Your instant gratification monkey (Tim Urban) will still try to overcome the negative feelings of doing something hard by doing something more pleasant. That means, if you can't regulate your emotions, the monkey will lead you to procrastinate.
This is a compelling way to think about the topic.
The book goes more into depth about overcoming these emotions by building willpower and exercising self-compassion.
Overall, I think this book combines many powerful ideas and methods into one.
I can recommend this book to anyone struggling with procrastination.
(PS: The Audible version seems not cleanly edited since there are some repetitions in it, but it is not that bad.)