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[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Scientists shut off the dopamine in some rats and they stopped eating. Food everywhere. They starved in a full cage, not because they hated it. Put sugar on their tongue and they licked their lips. They still liked it. They just lost the drive to go get it.

This is one of the strangest things we know about the brain, and it traces back to a researcher named Kent Berridge at the University of Michigan. Your head runs two different systems. One is wanting, the push that gets you off the couch and moving. The other is liking, the good feeling once you are in it. Dopamine runs the wanting. The enjoyment runs on separate wiring. So you can be sure you will love something and still feel almost no pull to start it.

That is the man in the cartoon, swinging at rock with diamonds all around him. He could see the good stuff. He just could not make himself dig toward it.

Once you see why, the usual story about procrastination stops making sense. We say lazy, or bad with time. Mostly, it is neither. Two psychologists, Fuschia Sirois and Tim Pychyl, argued back in 2013 that it runs on emotion. A task makes you feel something you would rather not feel, even just the small dread of starting, and putting it off makes that feeling vanish on the spot. So you scroll, or you suddenly need to clean the kitchen. Dodging the task is a quick hit of relief, and your brain grabs it. The bill goes straight to future-you, who is left holding the guilt and the deadline.

You can even see it on a brain scan. In 2018, a team in Germany scanned 264 people and matched the scans against how much each person put things off. The big procrastinators had a larger amygdala, the little alarm bell deep in the brain that flags anything risky. They also had a weaker link to the part meant to quiet that alarm and get you moving, a region called the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex. Loud alarm, weak off-switch.

And if this is you, you have plenty of company. A big 2007 review found that 80 to 95 percent of college students procrastinate, that roughly one in five adults does it long-term, and that more than 95 percent of them wish they could quit. Students alone burn about a third of their day on it.

The fix falls out of that same split. If wanting and liking are two different systems, then waiting to "feel like it" is waiting for a bus that may never come. The main treatment for the severe version, called behavioral activation, flips the order. You start first, as small as you can stand, before any motivation shows up. The wanting tends to arrive a few minutes after you begin. The diamonds were there the whole time. You just have to swing the pick before you feel ready.

[Henrick Johansson @compliantvc]

A trolley is about to hit 5 people laying on the track

You can redirect the car, but the other track has not yet reached regulatory approval or completed its 1 year environmental testing period, so operating a train car on it is a violation of transit regulations

What do you do?

[nt50 @nt50_ira]

「へへーん！ボクの勝ちだねっ！」
#メイ #GGST_MA

[Bricktop_NAFO @Bricktop_NAFO]

Dude: ''I'm In Band''

Female: ''What Type of Band''

Dude'' You Wouldn't Understand''

[SushiiCat✨🍉 @Scarlet_Rose025]

Mythical youtube pull

[Stelle @CipherStelle]

@JustDeclo You end up meeting so many people who have never thought for their own beliefs. Cause then they wouldn't believe it.

[Meli @TheTruthNBT]

15 YEARS OF THIS MISSION, 1ST PLACE THAT’S THE VISION 👊🏽👊🏽

[Rusty Cage @RSTYCG]

They removed another one where I am covering their own community guideline updates. @YouTube @TeamYouTube @YouTubeCreators WHAT IS GOING ON?

[Stelle @CipherStelle]

@pipkinpippa Glad that you're okay rabbit

[MatPat @MatPatGT]

New quest: Washington DC!

After two years of work, Steph and I have just launched the Creator Economy Caucus in the House of Representatives, a bipartisan group where creators can work alongside lawmakers to ensure legislation is timely and relevant for the Internet age. We've already got ~10 reps on board and we're just getting started.

We'll eventually want to assemble creator advocates from around the country, so if you're interested in helping Washington understand our world, stay tuned here for more info!

[BasedBinkie @basedbinkie]

Phase connect parking lot knife battle simulator

[Blurbs @Blurbstv]

In preparation for the Oblivion Remaster, I recreated the entire Xbox 360 "Blades" Dashboard from scratch.

But instead of being connected to Xbox Live, it's connected to Twitch Chat. 2006 is so back.

[Channel Awesome @ChannelAwesome]

@SolidusJJ You had me at silly voice

[Sonic the Hedgehog @sonic_hedgehog]

.@SuperMonkeyBall

[🎀 🍫 🔪 shondo || しゃどう || STRONGEST SCHIZOPHRENIC @fallenshadow_YT]

happy mens day!!!!!!!!!! to the sexiest gender (i'm biased)

i hope you know that you are special and strong and i am very proud of you! you're doing a great job! and even if you don't think so, i'll always be cheering you on until you believe me when i say that you really really are!!!

[Gideon Rachman @gideonrachman]

A usually reliable source tells me that the North Korean soldiers who have deployed to Russia have never had unfettered access to the internet before. As a result, they are gorging on pornography.

[LoL Esports @lolesports]

Canada: see you soon!