The amazing insight into procrastination

I read one article yesterday, that was about why we procrastinate and how to avoid that. Indeed, I do that. Learning for exam, and sometimes computer science, reading books, doing chores, etc. Main factors that make them happen are commonly considered such as fear of failure, perfectionism. But the article pointed out that there may be a one more factor, human evolution.

We are human species, and if we go back long time, there are another kind of human. So, how we survived? Archaeologists have long examined about that, and found out out brain is the key, the size of if. Especially, one part of our brain is bigger than other's, made it happen. That part organize how we think. We can have multiple plans, and pick the seemingly best one out of them. That is the reason. And that is how our brain developed.

Now let's go back to our story. The brain development theory implicates that our brain can judge whether the plan is valid or not. Therefore, the 3rd reason of procrastination is that our brain warns us not to do it, or it is not worth doing. Procrastination is considered stems from our character, but it may be not.

And this is the most amazing point, how we avoid procrastination. We now know the reason. Now let's eliminate that. Say, if our brain refuses the plan you really think you've got to achieve, our brain says "Oh, don't do that, that is useless, waste of time, I know trust me". Brain is not telling lies, but truth based on your whole experiences and unconscious. And here is a hack. By knowing someone who has succeeded with your plan, and how they achieved and what process they took, our brain would think that can be possible because each human is mostly has same capability.

This strategy is really useful. But one thing I noticed is that we can't apply this to challenging something new because there is nobody have done this before. In that case, you've got to have courage, and logics, calmness, willingness, passion to dive in that.
And one more hack is that it is also nice to here what our brain says, because it is good warning system. Therefore, you've got to get along with our brain.