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Why does an imminent deadline to get something done make it impossible to make myself focus on the thing I need to work on?? Argh so frustrated and stressed and making absolutely no progress on it 😭
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Anonymous 13h

bc your brain focuses on the stress more than the actual thing causing the stress. so it blanks

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Anonymous 10h

The autonomous nervous system reacts to stressful situations. We tend to think of this as our “fight or flight” response, but there are actually two more ways our autonomous nervous system can respond: by freezing or by copulating. We perceive the imminent deadline as a threat and respond by freezing

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