How to beat procrastination?

07.00 Clear goals — goals that focus on the action, not the outcome. (Very specific)

See GTD on next-actions that make a distinction between outcomes (projects) and clear goals (Next-Actions)

"This keeps your brain from wondering, what is the first step?"

10.00 Challenge-skill balance. Find sweet spot where challenge is slightly more than your skill level. Too much challenge is anxiety, too little is boredom. How to tune it? (1) Lower the hurdle. (2) Compress time for a given task. (3) Define scope (What needs to be done? Why? How long?)

14.00 Bypassing/response inhibition. Engaging in a task as soon as you are committed. Don't waver. Sleep to flow is an example.

17.30 Flow payoff — have long blocks of focus, where the struggle to get into flow is actually worth it.

Zu hohe Temperaturen führen zu Schädigungen in den Baumkronen tropischer Bäume, die die Fähigkeit zur Photosynthese eingeschränken. Eine umfangreiche Studie aus der Basis von Satellitenmessungen und Feldforschung zeigt, dass solche Werte durch die globale Erhitzung immer häufiger erreicht werden und damit die Fähigkeiten vor allem der Regenwälder behindern als CO2 l-Senken zu wirken.

https://www.repubblica.it/green-and-blue/2023/09/18/news/fotosintesi_a_rischio_causa_cambiamenti_climatici-414478820/?ref=RHRM-BG-P2-S1-T1ec

Active inhibition is the filter that prevents our minds from being constantly flooded with memories and allows us to focus. It acts as a barrier between our long term memories and our immediate present.

Is the filter behind active inhibition really active or is it passive? What is the actual physiological mechanism?

Study Identifies Risk Factors for Elevated Anxiety in Young Adults During COVID-19 Pandemic. (2021, February 12). National Institutes of Health (NIH). https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/study-identifies-risk-factors-elevated-anxiety-young-adults-during-covid-19-pandemic

pre-incubation time is 30 min

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Was this RNA or DNA that was spiked in?

• O. Keta is a salmon fish
• The reference cited here (Haugland et al., 2005) uses a DNA standard of O.keta 16s rRNA gene