How to Beat Procrastination Like It Owes You Money

Summary by Krater

Mark Manson discusses how to overcome procrastination by manipulating your environment, incentives, and social pressure, using a case study of a woman named Jiwon starting a Korean pottery business.

From the video

Answers: How do you stop procrastinating and actually take action on your goals?

• procrastination
• behavior change
• environment design
• incentives
• social pressure
• action over motivation

Exercises

• sled push · sled

What it concludes

• Action is not the result of motivation, but actually the cause of motivation.
• The most important factor to determining behavior change is your environment.
• Taking the first small action creates a chain reaction that leads to results.