Procrastination as Avoidance of Mental Discomfort and Root-Cause Analysis
Artem addresses students who chronically delay lab reports, essays, and problem sets, not because they are lazy, but because these tasks trigger strong mental discomfort.
Yin–Yang Reframing and Finding the White Spot in Dreaded Tasks
The Yin–Yang technique is aimed at students and knowledge workers who view certain assignments as pure “black holes” of dread, seeing only tedium, anxiety, or perceived uselessness.
Creative Knowledge Work and the Limits of Outcome-Based Goals
Artem speaks to students, researchers, and other knowledge workers whose main tasks involve creativity—deriving equations, debugging tricky code, or writing essays—rather than repetitive procedures.
Switching from Output Goals to Time-Based Goals for Study Tasks
The advice targets learners who repeatedly promise themselves to “finish” a problem set or essay today, fail, and then spiral into avoidance because their goals were impossible to guarantee.
Spaced \"Stupid Report Writing\" Blocks to Prevent Burnout
Artem’s “stupid report writing” (SRW) practice targets students buried under long, recurring assignments—multi-page lab reports and similar obligations that encourage chronic last-minute marathons.