LETTER

How you can beat Procrastination forever.

Coach Tony
Aug 23, 2017 · 2 min read

Medium just dropped the paywall from their Members content and moved to metered. That means you can look at some of the Members content Better Humans has been publishing before having to pay.

One of my favorite of the first 53 articles we published is this Science of Procrastination piece from Dr. Tim Pychyl.

The article highlight, which I’ve been repeating to a lot of our coaches, is about your future self.

You can think of procrastination as selling your future self short. It would be best for you to do the work right now and it’s going to be a lot harder on your future self. But you postpone the task anyway. That’s procrastination.

Tim summarized the science of this for us:

When we process information about our present and future selves, the brain regions involved in processing information about our future self are the same as those used when we process information about a stranger.

We treat our future self the exact same way we would treat a stranger.

If you think that sort of science might hold the key for you to beat procrastination, then please head over to Tim’s article and give it some claps.


Over the last few weeks, a number of you have given us great feedback on how we can turn Better Humans into the most trusted personal development publication. I appreciate that.

As a quick update, we’ve started to put together an advisory board, we’ve updated our style guide for our authors, and shortly we have one more special announcement coming shortly.

We’re looking forward to publishing many more life changing articles for you.

In service,

Tony Stubblebine

Better Humans

Better Humans is a collection of the world's most trustworthy writing on human potential and self improvement by coaches, academics, and aggressive self-experimenters. Articles are based on deep personal experience, science, and research. No fluff, book reports, or listicles.

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    Better Humans

    Better Humans is a collection of the world's most trustworthy writing on human potential and self improvement by coaches, academics, and aggressive self-experimenters. Articles are based on deep personal experience, science, and research. No fluff, book reports, or listicles.

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