I’ve noticed the same thing. My theory is that when you’re thinking about things in the future, that activates far mode, which is better at thinking about and doing things related to long-term abstract considerations like money, learning math, saving the world, and most of the things you procrastinate on. To take advantage of this you can make a plan in the evening and execute it when you get up next morning. I’ve even found it useful to plan what I will do tomorrow, then what I will do this evening, then what I will do right now… somehow the feeling of strategic far mode thinking can thus be transferred in to thinking & doing in the present.
Can even be as simple as making a really granular, dumb, easy-to-follow to-do list, then getting up for a while and walking around, and then coming back and doing everything on your list. Somehow it’s easier to plan out something for your future self to do than your current self. (I wonder if you could push this even farther and just conceptualize the tasks that you were going to do as tasks you were going to do in the far future somehow… also, this looks interesting.
I’ve noticed the same thing. My theory is that when you’re thinking about things in the future, that activates far mode, which is better at thinking about and doing things related to long-term abstract considerations like money, learning math, saving the world, and most of the things you procrastinate on. To take advantage of this you can make a plan in the evening and execute it when you get up next morning. I’ve even found it useful to plan what I will do tomorrow, then what I will do this evening, then what I will do right now… somehow the feeling of strategic far mode thinking can thus be transferred in to thinking & doing in the present.
Can even be as simple as making a really granular, dumb, easy-to-follow to-do list, then getting up for a while and walking around, and then coming back and doing everything on your list. Somehow it’s easier to plan out something for your future self to do than your current self. (I wonder if you could push this even farther and just conceptualize the tasks that you were going to do as tasks you were going to do in the far future somehow… also, this looks interesting.