Fighting laziness or the problem of delayed promotion.
Many of you must be confronted with the situation - there is an important, interesting, profitable business (underline;), there is time to do this. And the soul does not lie to him. One has only to sit down at work, as if the devil was pulling to listen to music, surfing the Internet, chatting with friends. One - another time, no matter where it went, but it happens all the time, and often under the most plausible pretexts (for example: in order to find out new information necessary for a project). Not only the machinations of the unclean.
Congratulations, you are facing a delayed promotion problem. Those. it is not the evil spirits that are to blame, and it makes no sense to call an exorcist, but your psyche. This problem has long been studied by psychologists, a solution has been found and you can only use it.
We are nothing but animals. Reasonable social animals. And the basic properties of our psyche are 90% the same - conditioned reflexes. Consciousness is a younger part of the psyche, and often has no voting right in decision-making.
So, about the animals. You can teach a chicken to peck a key for a grain of wheat. Moreover, it can be taught to peck a key several times. So, the longer the gap between the beginning of work and the promotion, the more reluctantly the chicken pecks and the longer the pause (especially at the beginning) between strokes. The truth is similar to our case.
How is it treated.
Develop a clear self-promotion system.
1. Decide what is positive reinforcement for you - i.e. What is able to motivate you to work. It doesn’t have to be something complicated (sometimes it’s already an encouragement to relax with a sense of accomplishment.)
2. Break up the work into clear and achievable stages and reinforce (give yourself an incentive) to complete each stage.
3. If you unexpectedly performed a task (for example, came up with a more efficient implementation of the algorithm), be sure to encourage yourself. Even if the time for supplying reinforcements did not fit. You must consolidate your success.
4. Over time, if you do everything right, the need for artificial reinforcement should disappear. The body produces a sustainable link between work and ultimate reward. So such problems are typical only for beginners.
And further. Remember the law of conservation of energy - Never put off until tomorrow what you can not do at all. Laziness is the same touch of evolution as consciousness. So weigh the pros and cons and go.
I learned this solution from
Karen Prior. Do not growl at the dog! www.libbooks.ru/bookbox_93046.html
[Long-Term Behavioral Programs] I
recommend reading it to everyone. There is a very clear and easy language of presentation. + Lots of useful practical examples.
Encouraged me to write an article
Learn to Work → How I Fought Over Time habrahabr.ru/blogs/arbeit/44532
Here is a particular solution to the problem. Having the charm of a freshly invented bicycle.
In general, good luck to everyone. I hope something helped.
PS After a day ... The article did not think about how to motivate yourself, but that it is useful to read classic working solutions before inventing a bicycle.
Around. Including self-motivation.
Congratulations, you are facing a delayed promotion problem. Those. it is not the evil spirits that are to blame, and it makes no sense to call an exorcist, but your psyche. This problem has long been studied by psychologists, a solution has been found and you can only use it.
We are nothing but animals. Reasonable social animals. And the basic properties of our psyche are 90% the same - conditioned reflexes. Consciousness is a younger part of the psyche, and often has no voting right in decision-making.
So, about the animals. You can teach a chicken to peck a key for a grain of wheat. Moreover, it can be taught to peck a key several times. So, the longer the gap between the beginning of work and the promotion, the more reluctantly the chicken pecks and the longer the pause (especially at the beginning) between strokes. The truth is similar to our case.
How is it treated.
Develop a clear self-promotion system.
1. Decide what is positive reinforcement for you - i.e. What is able to motivate you to work. It doesn’t have to be something complicated (sometimes it’s already an encouragement to relax with a sense of accomplishment.)
2. Break up the work into clear and achievable stages and reinforce (give yourself an incentive) to complete each stage.
3. If you unexpectedly performed a task (for example, came up with a more efficient implementation of the algorithm), be sure to encourage yourself. Even if the time for supplying reinforcements did not fit. You must consolidate your success.
4. Over time, if you do everything right, the need for artificial reinforcement should disappear. The body produces a sustainable link between work and ultimate reward. So such problems are typical only for beginners.
And further. Remember the law of conservation of energy - Never put off until tomorrow what you can not do at all. Laziness is the same touch of evolution as consciousness. So weigh the pros and cons and go.
I learned this solution from
Karen Prior. Do not growl at the dog! www.libbooks.ru/bookbox_93046.html
[Long-Term Behavioral Programs] I
recommend reading it to everyone. There is a very clear and easy language of presentation. + Lots of useful practical examples.
Encouraged me to write an article
Learn to Work → How I Fought Over Time habrahabr.ru/blogs/arbeit/44532
Here is a particular solution to the problem. Having the charm of a freshly invented bicycle.
In general, good luck to everyone. I hope something helped.
PS After a day ... The article did not think about how to motivate yourself, but that it is useful to read classic working solutions before inventing a bicycle.
Around. Including self-motivation.