For the past few months I’ve been doing a deep dive into Procrastination, trying to find the cognitive strategies that people who have no trouble with procrastination use to overcome their procrastination. -------------- This deep dive has involved:
* Introspecting on my own cognitive strategies * Reading the self help literature and mining cognitive strategies * Scouring the scientific literature for reviews and meta studies related to overcoming procrastination, and mining the cognitive strategies. *Interviewing people who have trouble with procrastination, and people who have overcome it, and modelling their cognitive strategies.
I then took these ~18 cognitive strategies, split them into 7 lessons, and spent ~50 hours taking people individually through the lessons and seeing what worked, what didn’t and what was missing.
This resulted in me doing another round of research, adding a whole new set of cognitive strategies, (for a grand total of 25 cognitive strategies taught over the course of 10 lessons) and testing for another round of ~50 hours to again test these cognitive strategies with 1-on-1 lessons to see what worked for people. ------------------------------------- The first piece of more scalable testing is now ready. I used Spencer Greenberg’s GuidedTrack tool to create a “virtual coach” for overcoming procrastination. I suspect it won’t be very useful without the lessons (I’m writing up a LW sequence with those), but nevertheless am still looking for a few people who haven’t taken the lessons to test it out and see if its’ helpful.
The virtual coach walks you through all the parts of a work session and holds your hand. If you feel unmotivated, indecisive, or overwhelmed, its’ there to help. If you feel ambiguity, perfectionism, or fear of failure, its’ there to help.
If you’re interested in alpha testing, let me know!
*Virtual Procrastination Coach*
For the past few months I’ve been doing a deep dive into Procrastination, trying to find the cognitive strategies that people who have no trouble with procrastination use to overcome their procrastination.
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This deep dive has involved:
* Introspecting on my own cognitive strategies
* Reading the self help literature and mining cognitive strategies
* Scouring the scientific literature for reviews and meta studies related to overcoming procrastination, and mining the cognitive strategies.
*Interviewing people who have trouble with procrastination, and people who have overcome it, and modelling their cognitive strategies.
I then took these ~18 cognitive strategies, split them into 7 lessons, and spent ~50 hours taking people individually through the lessons and seeing what worked, what didn’t and what was missing.
This resulted in me doing another round of research, adding a whole new set of cognitive strategies, (for a grand total of 25 cognitive strategies taught over the course of 10 lessons) and testing for another round of ~50 hours to again test these cognitive strategies with 1-on-1 lessons to see what worked for people.
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The first piece of more scalable testing is now ready. I used Spencer Greenberg’s GuidedTrack tool to create a “virtual coach” for overcoming procrastination. I suspect it won’t be very useful without the lessons (I’m writing up a LW sequence with those), but nevertheless am still looking for a few people who haven’t taken the lessons to test it out and see if its’ helpful.
The virtual coach walks you through all the parts of a work session and holds your hand. If you feel unmotivated, indecisive, or overwhelmed, its’ there to help. If you feel ambiguity, perfectionism, or fear of failure, its’ there to help.
If you’re interested in alpha testing, let me know!