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> Procrastination exists because there are two distinctly different personalities living inside all of us. There’s the primitive and impulsive side of us and there’s the rational and thought-through side of us. Those personalities line up with different brain regions: the limbic system (seat of our impulses) and the prefrontal cortex (seat of our reason and willpower).

Respectfully, this is a discredited scientific model of the brain. In short, emotions are "whole brain" things which cannot be localized to one part of the brain that precisely. See Barrett's book "How Emotions are Made" for more.



> > Procrastination exists because there are two distinctly different personalities living inside all of us.

> Respectfully, this is a discredited scientific model of the brain.

Agreed. There are three personalities in my brain.

The rational decision maker, the instant gratification monkey, and the chaos monster:

https://waitbutwhy.com/2013/10/why-procrastinators-procrasti...


Tim Urban’s model is not exactly scientific, either. If I were labeling personalities in my brain I’d have a completely different set.




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