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Modulating task outcome value to mitigate real-world procrastination via noninvasive brain stimulation
Zhiyi Chen, Zhilin Ren, Wei Li, ZhenZhen Huo, ZhuangZheng Wang, Ye Liu, Bowen Hu, Wanting Chen, Ting Xu, Artemiy Leonov, Chenyan Zhang, Bernhard Hommel, Tingyong Feng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21000

Modulating task outcome value to mitigate real-world procrastination via noninvasive brain stimulation
Procrastination represents one of the most prevalent behavioral problems affecting individual health and societal productivity. Although it is often conceptualized as a form of self-control failure, its underlying neurocognitive mechanisms are poorly understood. A leading model posits that procrastination arises from imbalanced competing motivations: the avoidance of negative task aversiveness and the pursuit of positive task outcomes, yet this theoretical framework has not fully validated in r…

#ScribesAndMakers for July 3: When (and if) you procrastinate, what do you do? If you don't, what do you do to avoid it?
I'll swap right out of programming to read a book, play a video game, or watch some anime. Often got things open in other windows so it's as simple as alt-tab.
I've noticed recently I tend to do this more often when I have a hard problem to solve that I'm not 100% sure about. I definitely have cycles of better & worse motivation and I've gotten to a place where I'm pretty relaxed about it instead of feeling guilty. I work how I work, and that includes cycles of rest, and that's enough (at least, for me it has been so far, and I'm in a comfortable career, married with 2 kids).
Some projects ultimately lose steam and get abandoned, and I've learned to accept that too. I learn a lot and grow from each project, so nothing is a true waste of time, and there remains plenty of future ahead of me to achieve cool things.
The procrastination does sometimes impact my wife & kids, and that's something I do sometimes feel bad about, but I think I keep that in check well enough, and for things my wife worries about, I usually don't procrastinate those too much (used to be worse about this).
Right now I'm procrastinating a big work project by working on a hobby project instead. The work project probably won't get done by the start of the semester as a result. But as I remind myself, my work doesn't actually pay me to work during the summer, and things will be okay without the work project being finished until later.
When I want to force myself into a more productive cycle, talking to people about project details sometimes helps, as does finding some new tech I can learn about by shoehorning it into a project. Have been thinking about talking to a rubber duck, but haven't motivated myself to try that yet, and I'm not really in doldrums right now.

Happy to answer questions on it as a different from the usual form of procrastination...

Very, very useful:
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Überlege eine Todo-Bankrotterklärung zu machen. Es gibt diese Items die ich seit Wochen, manche seit Monaten immer nach hinten verschiebe.
Wie wäre es wenn ich den Beteiligten dabei offen erkläre, dass ich raus bin, statt die ganze Zeit mit schlechtem Gewissen nur minimale Beiträge zu leisten damit es irgendwie weiter geht.
Wäre sicherlich sehr schmerzhaft (weshalb ich es bisher nicht getan habe).
Und: Creative Procrastination. Ich schaffe mehr neue Sachen weil ich diese Dinge nicht tue.