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Setting a worse task against the one you are avoiding is a procrastination hack that actually works.

Drawn from what Lex Fridman said

ambition

ambition How much to take on and how hard to push: superlinear returns to effort, focus, slack time, and procrastination.

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  1. Lex Fridman

    AI researcher and host of the Lex Fridman Podcast

    It’s when you really don’t want to do a thing that you imagine a thing you don’t want to do more that’s worse than that and then in that way, you procrastinate by not doing the thing that’s worse. It’s a nice hack, it actually works.

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