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I make ambitious plans for my free time and then do absolutely none of them
Planning activates the reward centres of the brain in a way that partially substitutes for actually doing the thing — the plan itself delivers a hit of anticipatory satisfaction. This can reduce the motivation needed to execute.
Have you ever done this?
Be honest — have you ever done this?
Related fact
The "planning fallacy" — first identified by Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky — describes the near-universal human tendency to underestimate how long tasks will take and overestimate follow-through.