{"id":9013,"date":"2026-04-25T20:09:35","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T10:09:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/?p=9013"},"modified":"2026-04-25T20:09:35","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T10:09:35","slug":"avoidance-loop-how-to-break-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/2026\/04\/25\/avoidance-loop-how-to-break-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Avoidance loop &#8211; how to break it"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Procrastination<br>-> Just start, do a small thing on the big scary task that you are avoiding.<br>Perfectionism is the enemy to productivity, and a good friend to procrastination.<br>Productive procrastination &#8211; performing some other task is actually good, but less risky.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tnVI3AFWPJw\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tnVI3AFWPJw<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Procrastination-> Just start, do a small thing on the big scary task that you are avoiding.Perfectionism is the enemy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[456,450],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mntlhlth","category-psych"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9013"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9014,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9013\/revisions\/9014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}