[redmaverick]

Mindfulness (for 45 mins to 1 hr) helps a lot in combating procrastination. The catch is that if you are a procrastinator, you will procrastinate on trying to meditate also.

[onion2k]

It is impossible to procrastinate if you practice mindfulness meditation for 45 mins to 1 hr.

There's plenty of good research in to the benefits of mindfulness meditation, but I've never seen anything go quite that far.

[redmaverick]

Edited it. Basically, for me at least, meditation creates a bias towards action. I feel procrastination relates to biochemistry (serotonin, dopamine etc) and somehow meditation kind of "fixes" the issue temporarily. If I stop meditating, I quickly revert back to the old me.

[fabled_giraffe]

Beyond procrastination, for those of us that have trouble focusing, this sort of thing is no joke.

In 30 seconds, we can go from fully intending to do something that we should do to better ourselves to reading HN submissions and commenting on them.

[elcapitan]

I actually use HN frequently as a tool to concentrate better during work. I often juggle quite different tasks that I have to solve at work. To flush my mind and go from one finished thing to some completely unrelated next task, I jump to HN, read some things, then jump back to what I'm supposed to do. The important part is to have things actionable and with a definition of when they are 'done', so that you can close them and do the next task.

[agumonkey]

Internet is the greatest library that you will never read. Internet should be read-only.