Motivation is a hard thing to come by, and that is because [[The Motivation Myth|motivation is a myth]]. When we procrastinate, we fool ourselves into thinking "if only I had the motivation to do the task, then I would do it", when in reality that motivation never comes. The five minute rule is a technique to create motivation, where you trick your brain into doing an unpleasant task by kickstarting the task for only five minutes, after which you would have the motivation to finish the rest of it. ^7a7acb The reason why this works is because the hardest part of a task is starting it, not unlike [[static friction]]. Once the initial resistance is overcome, the rest becomes easier.