Have you ever noticed how you floss more frequently when a dentist appointment is looming?
Our brains have a bias for focus on imminent events. Knowing this, here’s the best hack ever to GSD.
Set up a meeting which creates a deadline before the work is done. And then make the meeting sooner than you think you can finish the work. You’ll find a way, simply because this leverages another human bias we have – our need to maintain social contracts.
Getting stuff done is hard, sometimes the thing we need to hack most in startups is ourselves.