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		sharpshadow 14 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How to motivate yourself to do a thing you don't w... Doing it to distract yourself from the other thing which you want to do even less.

reddit_clone 14 days ago [–]

This works for me, sometimes.

More often than not, the primary task I am not doing becomes a 'keylog' issue, I can't do anything else either.

Its just a death spiral.

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