{"id":1972,"date":"2013-06-06T12:40:17","date_gmt":"2013-06-06T12:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vskills.in\/certification\/blog\/?p=1972"},"modified":"2024-04-03T13:10:36","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T07:40:36","slug":"the-act-of-procrastination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vskills.in\/certification\/blog\/the-act-of-procrastination\/","title":{"rendered":"The act of Procrastination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a ref=\"magnificPopup\" href=\"http:\/\/vskills.in\/certification\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Albert-Rex.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1974\" src=\"http:\/\/vskills.in\/certification\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Albert-Rex-225x300.png\" alt=\"Albert &amp; Rex\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vskills.in\/certification\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Albert-Rex-225x300.png 225w, https:\/\/www.vskills.in\/certification\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Albert-Rex.png 324w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We think we&#8217;re are very clever, yet our mighty brains that allow us to to touch the moon and create evolution&nbsp;are the same stupid brains&nbsp;that can&#8217;t complete an assignment until it&#8217;s due<i>.&nbsp;<\/i>Our brains has evolved from primitive creatures, but had never quite shed ourselves of their heritage. Lets call our&nbsp;rational part of the brain which you think of as your human consciousness as Albert which&nbsp;lives next to an impulsive baby reptile say Rex. Rex was evolved millions of years ago and his instincts guide with primitive thoughts and no language.<\/p>\n<p>Note, Rex makes the final call on every single decisions<b>.&nbsp;<\/b>We<i>&nbsp;<\/i>think of Albert as our true conscious mind &#8211; our true self such that Albert is the talking, reasoning part. When we obey traffic rules or study for exams, Albert makes that decision.&nbsp;Rex does&nbsp;listen&nbsp;to Albert like a child and works as he&#8217;s told to, but as long as he wants to. If Rex prefers to relax and watch Hangover or just chill and party, then that&#8217;s what you&#8217;re going to do.<\/p>\n<p>The available food and shelter takes care of us, so does a system of law, and justice, mandatory education, entertainment, monogamy all of which calms Rex down for Albert to do something useful &#8211; like discover light, or invent iPads.&nbsp;You make several decisions with your conscious mind and wondering why you&#8217;re not carrying it out. This is because of the&nbsp;real&nbsp;decision maker &#8211; Rex &nbsp;which is not nearly so mature.<\/p>\n<p>Remember,<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Once you&#8217;ve decided to do something, logic and rationale will not help you. Your inner reptile can be pacified, scared and excited but it cannot be reasoned with.<\/li>\n<li>When you are hungry, tired or depressed your inner reptile will fight back and refuse to do what you say.<\/li>\n<li>Reward yourself for successes, and set up assured punishments for your failure. One of the examples include committing to a public goal, or working in a team &#8211; here the social pressure influences Rex.<\/li>\n<li>Rex the reptile in our brain responds to emotion.&nbsp;Motivational talks, movies and articles work for a while so better&nbsp;make your imagination vibrant enough that it shakes you.<\/li>\n<li>Rex&#8217;s instincts avoid changes but once you begin something those instincts come in your favor. You can even convince Rex to&nbsp;love&nbsp;doing the things he hates over a period of time be enforcing your instincts.<\/li>\n<li>The&nbsp;reptile inside us is short sighted and not terribly bright. It&#8217;s like showing a child the start of a cool TV program immediately before bedtime. You must try to design your environment free from such distractions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Once you recognize what to look for, you&#8217;ll start understanding the patterns and control them.&nbsp;There&#8217;s an brash baby reptile in your brain, and unfortunately he has the steering wheel. If you channel the impulsive baby in us like like a good parent&nbsp;he is most likely to do what you say, and serve you well. You have to just remember who&#8217;s in charge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We think we&#8217;re are very clever, yet our mighty brains that allow us to to touch the moon and create evolution&nbsp;are the same stupid brains&nbsp;that can&#8217;t complete an assignment until it&#8217;s due.&nbsp;Our brains has evolved from primitive creatures, but had never quite shed ourselves of their heritage. 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