Learning How to Learn ( Procrastination)

Procrastination

When you procrastinate, you feel better--but only temporarily.  In this, procrastination shares common features with addiction.

Building habits

• The Cue
• The trigger that launches you in zombie mode
• The cue could be beneficial like when see the first task of our list or denial as the message of our friend to go out. 
• The real problem is the routine to react to the cue
• The routine
• Create a positive routine
• Reward
• Have a reward is beneficial otherwise the procrastination seems more pleaseant overall by be inmediatly
• Belief
• The most important thing is change the underline belief

Surf's up 

This is a technique to re-frame your mind when start an activity you are procrastinating.

• Focus on the PROCESS not the PODUCT
• The process is the habit that of course at the end will produce the product
• It is like surf a wave, the surfer is focus in the moment not in arrive at the end of the wave

Steps

To create a new habit or override a habit is CHANGE the reaction to the cue.

• Identify the cue for the bad habit, this cue can be in at least one of these categories:
• Time
• How I feel
• Location
• Reaction
• Create a routine
• Develop a plan like leave the cellphone on the car before you go to the classroom
• Establish the reward
• Like in the TV show establish your goal or what you gonna get at the end of the process
• The belief
• Belief that you can change and get your goal

Advices

• Create a list
• Planning your quitting time is as important as planning your working time. 
• Eat your Frogs first. This phrase means to do the things you don't like first

Techniques

• Create acronyms 
• Associate the number with something meaningful like a birthday
• Create mnemonic that is a sentence where the first letter of each word represent a concept

Memory palace technique

• Remember a place you know very well like your house
• Put the things you want to learn in a path from that place
• For example: When you enter to you house there is a concept, later few more steps ahead there is another and so on.