Don’t you have something you should be doing right now?

Oh, wait—you’re procrastinating by reading internet articles, aren’t you? Well, you’ve come to the right place, because this particular article is going to show you just how to stop doing that.

A lasting solution to procrastination is hard to come by because the problem isn’t just psychological—it’s biological, and there’s a constant battle happening in your brain when you try to do something that you don’t exactly want to do.

The neocortex is a section of your brain that handles higher-order functions like spatial reasoning and language. This is the part that helps you make decisions based on long-term benefits—for example, that the benefits of going for a run today will benefit you later on.

But there’s another part of your brain that’s only concerned with what’s good for you right now, and that’s the limbic system. If there is more difficulty than immediate benefit, this part of your brain doesn’t want anything to do with it.

Unfortunately for us, the limbic system often wins out. But there ways you can give your neocortex a boost! To help you do that, let’s take a look at 6 science-backed ways you can stop procrastinating.