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Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time
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All the comments and stories posted to Hacker News that reference this book.also can't go wrong with Brian Tracy on such topicshttp://www.amazon.com/Eat-That-Frog-Great-Procrastinating/dp...
It's based on Brian Tracy's book "Eat that Frog!" which is a great book on stopping procrastination.http://www.amazon.com/Eat-That-Frog-Great-Procrastinating/dp...
I came here to add that research that Kathy Sierra referred to in her article on willpower and cognitive processing capacity... but you beat me to it :-)Another interesting article on willpower is by the APA on http://www.apa.org/helpcenter/willpower.aspx, refering to actual experiments instead of common opinions. Interesting quotes from that:
> At its essence, willpower is the ability to resist short-term temptations in order to meet long-term goals.
> Self-discipline, the researchers found, was more important than IQ in predicting academic success.
> The benefits of willpower seem to extend well beyond the college years.
There's a nice (short) book on techniques to stop/handle procrastination: Eat That Frog, http://www.amazon.com/Eat-That-Frog-Great-Procrastinating/dp.... One of the ideas is that if you start with the hardest task, everything else will be easier after that.