Task Paralysis & AI

This post by Daniel Gilbert immediately resonated with me, because I struggle with procrastination and have found AI tools to be surprisingly helpful in overcoming it. I have a stale task waiting to be done, but I just can’t bring myself to get started working on it. All I really have to do is pull up my AI agent and say “Hey I gotta do this thing”. The peppy AI will immediately respond with Hey sounds good, want me to do XXX for you? or What do you think about YYY, should we work through that together? And I’ll either say Yeah that’s what I was thinking or No, I want to do this instead or Actually I’m not too sure, what about… And it almost doesn’t matter at all what the AI actually says. What it has given me is momentum. Because now my head is in the game, my fingers are working, and I’ve already taken the first step without even realizing it. Just like that, it’s now so much easier for me to keep working and make real progress. Getting started is the hardest part, but the AI will…