Day 4: Write Conclusion (1 page at home office before work, 1 page at 11:00, final page after team meeting at 3:00)Ĭhunking works to increase our motivation because by splitting things into smaller pieces, it increases our sense of self-efficacy, the belief that we can successfully accomplish a goal.Day 3: Write Section 2 (at coffee shop before work).Day 2: Write Section 1 (3 pages before breakfast and 3 pages in the evening after putting kids to bed).Instead, what if we broke it down into smaller chunks?įor example: If you have five days left to write the report, you might chunk it like this: As it stands, you’re seeing it as one giant, overwhelming task. Psychologically, a big part of your procrastination here is how you look at the project. You imagine the 25+ pages of tedious corporate drivel you need to churn out by Sunday evening and you shudder at the mere thought of it, instinctively deciding to clean your bathroom rather than sit down to work on the report. In fact, chunking-or breaking things down into smaller parts-is a fantastically effective strategy in just about any endeavor.įor example, suppose you have a big report to finish by the end of the week and you keep procrastinating on it. Luckily, the principle of chunking applies to much more than remembering number strings, or even memory in general. Chunking is a technique from cognitive psychology originally used to improve memory performance.įor most people, it might be pretty tough to remember a long string of random numbers like this: 5052950167Ĭhances are it’ll be easier to remember if you break it up into chunks: 505 – 295 – 0167
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