How I Eliminated Procrastination From My Life (Using Neuroscience)

Researchers looked at the white matter of the brains of more than nine hundred people and found that procrastination is linked to specific patterns of brain connectivity. One of them is a weakened connection between the limbic system and the frontoparietal network. So while procrastination is often portrayed as a battle between the present self and

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Executive function. This comes from the most recently evolved part of the human brain, the prefrontal cortex, which is part of the neocortex. Executive function allows us to plan for the future, to postpone immediate gratification for the sake of greater gratification at a later time (for example, building a business or going to college). Executive

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