The Engage Rule

Rian Doris. Steven Kotler. 

Execution: Procrastination.

Procrastination. Often high motivation + inaction. 

3 types of procrastination.

1. Inertia. Prevents you from starting work. 
2. Distractibility. Diverts your focus. 
3. Chronic delay. Perpetually postpones and prevents progress.

Approach-Avoidance Conflict.

Flow Cycle:

1. Engage. Starting to struggle. Hardest part. 
2. Struggle.
3. Release.
4. Flow.
5. Recovery.

Triggers:

1. Clear goals. Focus on the target. Break the task in microscopic goals. Wildly specific goals. So thinny, so easy. 
2. Challenge-Skills balance. 
1. Challenge skill regulator #1. Lower the hurdle. Less effort to engage.
2. Challenge skill regulator #2. Regulate time. 
3. Challenge skill regulator #3. Define the scope. 
3. Bypassing. Response-Inhibition. 
4. Flow payoff.
5. Procrastination is natural but optional.

Bibliography.

• Mihály Csíkszentmihályi. Flow.