I DREAM BIG BUT DO NOTHING. the neuroscience behind why & how to fix

If you've ever planned something big and then done absolutely nothing about it, it is not because you're lazy. There's literally a neurological cycle happening in your brain that prevents you from pursuing your dreams. And in this video, I'll explain how it works and how [music] to fix it. My name is Olga. I study cognitive science and computation at the University of Pennsylvania. And after the last [music] four years of studying how the human mind works, I think this is probably the most fascinating and most useful thing I learned about. So, procrastination researcher Tim Pychyl has spent decades studying why people don't do the things that they promised [music] themselves to do. And he found that procrastination is not a time management problem. Procrastination is an emotion regulation problem. And here's what it means. When you have something important to do, like starting a creative project or submitting an application or doing a workout or an assignment, [music] and you think about actually doing it, that's when your brain generates a It can be self-doubt, overwhelm, [music] anxiety. You might have fear that And your brain does not like negative emotions. So, it escapes. You start start cleaning your room. You reorganize your desk. You