Deadline Effect

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Claim

A Deadline serves as a Commitment devices help enforce behavioral adherence through external constraints, helping us overcome our tendency to Procrastination is delaying intended actions despite preference to act by giving us a punishment of some sort if we are delayed.

Explanation

This also helps limits the effect of A task takes as much time as you give it, by declaring a clear end date for the task, we can be relatively certain that the task wouldn't take more than x amount of time, in contrast with not having a deadline where it can extend until infinity.

Why it matters

Examples

Supporters

This is exactly why A task takes as much time as you give it — a hard deadline caps how far a task can stretch, forcing it to fit inside the time we've given it.

Opposers

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