CHAPTER 10
Making it work
Putting the pieces into practice
Do or do not do. There is no try. MASTER YODA
BEFORE I GET INTO THIS chapter, I want to thank you for persevering. People who procrastinate tend to get distracted and turn to other things. So since you have reached Chapter 10 – and I am assuming you haven’t skipped ahead to the end – you deserve a little praise. After all, the tendency to put off has such a deep resonance in our beings that it is more remarkable when we don’t procrastinate than when we do. Having read through the book, you have a good grasp of the underpinnings of procrastination, how it emerges from our brain’s architecture, the ways in which the modern world makes it worse, and what you can do about diminishing it. ...
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