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• How to Help Our Prefrontal Cortex Prevail Instead of trying to motivate yourself or beat yourself up over a lack of discipline, it’s more effective to practice specific habits that help the prefrontal cortex prevail over our lazy, impulsive limbic system. We’ll go over five of these habits right now. 1. Practice task-chunking:
• The easier a task or project is, the less the limbic system will protest against it. That’s why task-chunking is highly effective.
• Minimize distractions: When distractions are within easy reach, the limbic system senses a quick and fun escape from our tasks or goals. In most cases, working on our goals is more challenging, energy-intensive, and less stimulating than most distractions, which is why our brain gravitates towards distractions. Many of today’s digital distraction...
• meditation helps to build a better-working prefrontal cortex and keep our limbic system under control, which puts us in a much better position to overcome procrastination
• it turns out, procrastination finds its roots in neurobiology. It’s the result of a constant battle in our brain between the limbic system and the prefrontal cortex.

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