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What are the neurological reasons behind knowing that you have to do something and consciously not doing it and what is the state of research in mitigating it?

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Is there known psychological phenomena to describe why we focus on simpler but ultimately meaningless adjacent problems rather then the important but difficult one?

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What are the neurological reasons behind knowing that you have to do something and consciously not doing it and what is the state of research in mitigating it?	33
Is there known psychological phenomena to describe why we focus on simpler but ultimately meaningless adjacent problems rather then the important but difficult one?	1