The 72-hour principle: the watershed between doing and not doing

What does it depend on whether you can do one thing you think of?

See if you can do it: "it's easy to be difficult;" If you don't do it, it's easy and difficult. " In other words, if you do it, the difficult things will become easy, and if you don't do it, the easy things will become difficult.

So, what does it depend on to do or not to do?

Obviously, it does not depend on the difficulty of the matter.

Whether to do or not to do a thing depends on whether to do it immediately when you think about it.

Anyone who has read Qian Qian the Dog will probably remember the "72-hour rule" mentioned in the book: when you decide to do something, you must finish it within 72 hours, otherwise you will probably never do it again.

Give the simplest example. People often say "invite you to dinner later". Anyone with a little social experience and a little worldly wisdom knows that this sentence is just an expression and must not be taken seriously. Not only is there no specific time and place for this statement, but the most important thing is that as long as there is no definition of the "72-hour principle", it can be directly judged as "this thing will not happen" if it is not invited today or tomorrow, not to mention the day after tomorrow.

Therefore, the way we usually refuse marketing is to "contact later when necessary"; The euphemism for girls rejecting boys they don't like is "I haven't decided yet" or "I don't want to have a boyfriend for the time being"; Parents refuse their children's unreasonable demands, and the excuse that they don't want to make their children sad is "when you grow up" ...

As a result, the salesman waited for Xie Hua, but didn't wait for that person to have demand; The girl turned around and fell in love with the boy she liked; When the children really grow up, they find that their parents don't want to meet the requirements of ta at all. ...

The essence of the "72-hour principle" is: if you think of something, you should either do it right away or never do it.

What? You just said "procrastination"

It doesn't exist. When you have to do something you really don't want to do, procrastination is just the best excuse.