Hey,
Here we are again.
Talking about procrastination.
But this time I will not tell you how to stop it or why it happens.
I want to show you something deeper.
How procrastination is connected to learning.
And why that connection is the real reason you keep avoiding the thing.
We talked before about beating procrastination. You can read it here: If This Does Not Help You Beat Procrastination, Nothing Will
But there is one key I just discovered.
We do not hate work.
We hate learning.
It is not that we do not want to learn new things.
We hate the process.
The curve.
The feeling of not knowing what we are doing.
When you do something new, something you have never done before, your brain has to build new pathways. New roots. And that takes energy. It takes discomfort. It takes failing before you figure it out.
And your brain hates that.
So it tells you to do it later.
Think about it.
Making your bed.
Responding to morning emails.
Reading a few pages.
These tasks are easy because there is no learning curve. You already know how to do them. Your brain is comfortable.
But the moment a task requires you to figure something out?
You delay it.
For example:
You are creating a landing page for a client.
You set up the project. Plan the steps. Plan the sections. And you think, this time I will be creative. I will make it really good.
But you do not have much experience with landing pages.
So you start with what you know.
The navbar. Easy.
The hero section. Easy.
But then there is this one section.
The client wants an interactive 3D animation that showcases his products.
You do not know how to do that.
You feel it inside. This is hard.
So what do you do?
You reschedule it to tomorrow.
You work on the easy sections instead.
Tomorrow comes.
Same feeling.
You skip it again.
And again.
Until the deadline is breathing down your neck.
Now you have no choice.
You open YouTube. You try to learn it as fast as possible. You struggle. You fail. You try again.
And after many attempts, you finally figure it out.
You look at the result.
You feel proud.
Your client is happy.
And you realise something.
It was worth it.
It was always going to be worth it.
You just had to get through the learning.
We do not procrastinate on tasks we can do without thinking.
We procrastinate on tasks that require flow.
Tasks that are not impossible.
But not easy either.
Challenging.
Requiring focus.
Requiring growth.
Those are the ones we avoid.
And those are the ones that matter most.
If you keep procrastinating, remember this.
A day will come when you have to do that task.
No matter what.
It is just a matter of time.
So the only question is: do you want to do it now, or do you want to suffer the stress of avoidance first?
If you are building a business, remember that your competitors are not waiting. Some of them have speed. They will not procrastinate. They will follow the trend. And they will be ahead of you while you are still "planning to start."
If you are in the gym, doing the same 12 reps every week, no failure, no extra weight, your muscles will not grow. You are checking the box. But you are not changing.
You need to learn in order to grow.
And to learn, you need to stop procrastinating on the hard stuff.
Two Tricks That Work For Me
1. Fall in love with learning.
Not the result. The process.
The struggle. The confusion. The moment it finally clicks.
Learning is not easy. But if you find a way to enjoy it, you will never skip it.
2. The 5-Minute Rule.
Whenever I catch myself procrastinating, I change the task status in my Second Brain from "To Do" to "Just 5 Minutes."
That is it.
Just start for 5 minutes.
Once those 5 minutes are done, I am already in motion. And I almost always keep going.
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Thanks for reading.
Osama (OLS)
P.S. — The tasks you avoid are the tasks that will grow you the most. Stop running from them.
