What is the instinct of people? The pursuit of pleasure is an instinct.
Ancient Greek philosopher , Epicurus Happiness believes that happiness is the purpose of life. On the premise of conforming to morality and laws and regulations, pursuing pleasure is nothing wrong.
Now, our lives are filled with all kinds of things that can make us enjoy, making us instinctively procrastinate.
It’s like it’s hard for us to get rid of the temptation of our mobile phone every day. Browsing our circle of friends and watching short videos takes up a lot of our time, which not only makes us always want to delay when encountering problems, but also makes us fall into internal friction and unable to extricate ourselves.
For example, when encountering difficult problems at work, you always instinctively want to retreat.
When faced with the tasks assigned by the leader, they always delayed until the last moment to complete them in a hurry.
Want to learn more and improve your work ability, but when you encounter difficulties in learning, you easily give up.
Facing these habits in life, if you want to change and get rid of internal friction, you must rebel against instinct.
The book "Anti-Instinct" starts from human instincts and tells us how we should overcome those low-end instincts, drive our own behavior and thinking to change, and then become a better self and obtain changes at all levels of life.
If you want to deal with it effectively, you must prescribe the right medicine.
1. Start with simplicity
If you want to change the habit of procrastination, a more scientific method is to start with simplicity.
starts with the simple part and lowers the threshold so that we don’t have that much sense of repulsion. Let yourself slowly adapt to this ease of change.
For example, at work, you should set fewer and easier tasks for yourself on the first day, and find that you can complete it smoothly and don’t feel uncomfortable, and then increase the amount of tasks. In this way, we can gradually adapt to the changes we need, so that our changes will become more effective.
2. Visible progress
We want to make ourselves more actionable and effectively reduce procrastination. We can give ourselves more specific requirements when making plans and divide them into quantitative planning progress.
For example, during work, set the amount of tasks to be completed, and set the specific time and location of completion to complete the tasks within this small goal. This kind of small goals can be achieved easily and will make you feel accomplished. This will greatly improve your efficiency.
3. Let new habits replace old habits
Zhang Ailing said: "The best way to forget one person is to fall in love with another person." Again, the same is true for habits. If we want to change a bad habit, we need to replace it with another habit, and we also need to repeat it continuously.
For example, if you browse your phone before going to bed every day, it will be difficult to stick to it at first, you can start with 10 minutes and then 20 minutes. The long-term changes will be more effective and lasting. When new habits make you significantly change, you will be more confident and motivated.
Most people actually do not lack the courage to overcome laziness and timidity, but perhaps what they lack is the "anti-instinct" thinking and skills. Only by not being bound by inertia and breaking out of the shackles of thinking can we better see ourselves and things.
The more anti-instinct person is, the more he will move forward step by step and achieve his goals steadily. In the end, they often advance from excellence to excellence.
