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Show HN: I made an interactive anti-procrastination video course

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Re: Show HN: I made an interactive anti-procrastination video course

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Post by arkitaip »

The problem with actionable anti-procrastination content is that they have too many steps and to little immediate action. As procrastinators, we've marinated our anxious brains to develop sophisticated techniques to ignore any and all remedies.

The ultimate anti-procrastination app? It just has one "Stop procrastination" button.

Re: Show HN: I made an interactive anti-procrastination video course

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Post by izgzhen »

Not to dismiss this course since I never tried it, but my personal experience is that I procrastinate a lot when I don’t enjoy my work, have a lot of FUD around the project, or simply not passionate about the profession.

On the contrary, when I got motivated by my work and feel excited, I just naturally stop procrastination. In fact, it becomes difficult to pay attention to things beyond work at that state.

My advice to people who suffer from procrastination: first think about the root cause, that is whether pivoting from current job is what you really need to do.

Re: Show HN: I made an interactive anti-procrastination video course

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Post by vitabenes »

izgzhen wrote: post #16

Not to dismiss this course since I never tried it, but my personal experience is that I procrastinate a lot when I don’t enjoy my work, have a lot of FUD around the project, or simply not passionate about the profession. On the contrary, when I got motivated by my work and feel excited, I just naturally stop procrastination. In fact, it becomes difficult to pay attention to things beyond work at that state. My advice…

Yep, not enjoying the work in general is definitely one cause, but there are other ones. In our materials, we divide the causes into: behavioral, temporary, and deeper causes. Then we deal with them more specifically.

From personal experience I know that the same work can be daunting or motivating, depending on the personal habits/behaviors and systems. In other words, they are temporary. That's what the course focuses on (not looking for a new job).

In any case, your advice about figuring out the root cause is spot on (and also in the course).

Re: Show HN: I made an interactive anti-procrastination video course

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Post by vitabenes »

arkitaip wrote: post #15

The problem with actionable anti-procrastination content is that they have too many steps and to little immediate action. As procrastinators, we've marinated our anxious brains to develop sophisticated techniques to ignore any and all remedies. The ultimate anti-procrastination app? It just has one "Stop procrastination" button.

I'd argue that the ultimate scenario is that you prevent procrastination before it arises.

I do get what you're saying about too many steps. I tried to avoid that pitfall. For instance, the Deprocrastinator 7000 feature is about getting the right lesson in a short amount of time. You pick a problem, you get a lesson that contains a specific technique, you apply it with the worksheet. Information --> action.

Re: Show HN: I made an interactive anti-procrastination video course

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Post by 90hexe »

Cool project with a clean layout and neat little illustrations.

If you were taking suggestions:

* First video should be somewhat interesting and relevant to the topic, I felt that for a video named "Introduction" it was mostly promotions for other products/the "premium" versions/etc.

* Having three animating progress bars on desktop for each step is a little distracting. There's one in the video embed, one green progress bar below the video, and another green loading bar on the left.

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