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Mini Blog Post 24: On Procrastination - The art of shaping your future actions — Neel Nanda

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It’s easy to encounter an interesting idea, and really want to act on it, but to never get around it, while feeling a latent sense of guilt. This post is about my tools to translate that guilt into action , and overcome procrastination

Mini Blog Post 24: On Procrastination - The art of shaping your future actions Jul 3 Written By Neel Nanda (Note: This is an article on planning and overcoming procrastination. An extremely useful subskill is called Murphyjitsu - a technique for better using your intuitions to plan. I have notes for a workshop I taught on it here , I think it complements the post well) (My post on systems & willpower also complements this well) Introduction By default, I’m an excellent procrastinator. Worse, I’m a mathematician, and trained to be excited by existence proofs and theory, and to ignore the implem

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