The 10-Minute Technique: How to Make Yourself Do What You Don't Want

03.04.2024 11:38

Probably, every person has found himself in the following situation: you urgently need to start this or that work, but you are lazy.

Actions are postponed until later. As a result, the work cannot be completed on time.

A student fails to hand over his completed thesis to his supervisor at the right moment, an office worker is late in presenting a project to his boss, etc.

How to overcome procrastination? How to force yourself to work and not miss the deadline?

It turns out there is one very interesting psychological trick.

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The essence of the "10 minutes" technique

You need to tell yourself the following: “I will do this work for a maximum of 10 minutes. Then I will continue to rest.”

The reception allows you to do, perhaps, the most important thing - get to work.

Then, in many cases, an interesting phenomenon makes itself known: a person, despite the preliminary installation, continues to work for 30 minutes, 1 hour, several hours...

In other words, the following rule is observed: "The main thing is to start. And then the work will be done almost by itself."

Previously, experts explained why people sometimes need to say no.

Kurchev Anton Author: Kurchev Anton Deputy Editor-in-Chief