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NEW- Why Procrastination Isn't About Laziness (It's Your Brain's Cost Calculator)
Procrastination keeps you walking past the same task for years. You know cleaning out that closet will take eleven minutes. You put it off for months anyway. Your brain evaluates the effort cost before you even start. That calculation happens in a separate pathway from the reward you'll feel when it's done.
Dr. Yammine references a study that mapped the motivational break in monkey brains. Scientists manipulated cells to turn off procrastination and motivate monkeys to do avoided tasks. Your brain runs two separate calculations: how good the outcome will be versus how much the journey might…
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