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Fighting Bullying With Babies. How to Beat Procrastination. Part of the sequence: The Science of Winning at Life My own behavior baffles me. I find myself doing what I hate, and not doing what I really want to do! - Saint Paul (Romans 7:15) Once you're trained in BayesCraft, it may be tempting to tackle classic problems "from scratch" with your new Rationality Powers. Today, I want to tackle procrastination by summarizing what we know about it, and how to overcome it.

Let me begin with three character vignettes... Eddie attended the sales seminar, read all the books, and repeated the self-affirmations in the mirror this morning. Three blocks away, Valerie stares at a blank document in Microsoft Word. In the next apartment down, Tom is ahead of the game. Eddie, Valerie, and Tom are all procrastinators, but in different ways.1 Eddie's problem is low expectancy. Valerie's problem is that her task has low value for her.

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No matter how good your game is, now matter how good your opening line is, every woman you meet is going to stereotype you based on how you are dressed. This is amazingly good news, because your look can be changed faster than any other part of your game. This is the easiest part of the game for me to fix. I'm Brad P. Perhaps you've heard of me. -Savoy, Love Systems/Mystery Method You'll learn: