Ikigai & Kaizen: The Japanese Strategy to Achieve Personal Happiness and Professional Success (How to set goals, stop procrastinating, be more productive, build good habits, focus, & thrive)

by Anthony Raymond

The more uncertain we are of the potential benefit of a task, the easier it is for the lower mind to concoct reasons to avoid doing it. Procrastination is your brain’s way of telling you that it doesn’t see the immediate value in expending the energy that you’re asking it to devote to the task at hand. Your lower mind is very good at pursuing short-term pleasures. And very bad at assessing the potential value of long-term goals.