{"id":228690,"date":"2026-01-10T01:24:23","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T07:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/motivation-brake-may-explain-why-its-so-hard-to-get-started-on-an-unpleasant-task"},"modified":"2026-01-10T01:24:23","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T07:24:23","slug":"motivation-brake-may-explain-why-its-so-hard-to-get-started-on-an-unpleasant-task","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/motivation-brake-may-explain-why-its-so-hard-to-get-started-on-an-unpleasant-task","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Motivation brake\u2019 may explain why it\u2019s so hard to get started on an unpleasant task"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/motivation-brake-may-explain-why-its-so-hard-to-get-started-on-an-unpleasant-task2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Most of us know the feeling: maybe it is making a difficult phone call, starting a report you fear will be criticized, or preparing a presentation that\u2019s stressful just to think about. You understand what needs to be done, yet taking that very first step feels surprisingly hard.<\/p>\n<p>When this difficulty becomes severe, it is known medically as avolition. People with avolition are not lazy or unaware: they know what they need to do, but their brain seems unable to push the \u201cgo\u201d button.<\/p>\n<p>Avolition is commonly seen in conditions such as depression, schizophrenia, and Parkinson\u2019s disease, and it seriously disrupts a person\u2019s ability to manage daily life and maintain social functions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most of us know the feeling: maybe it is making a difficult phone call, starting a report you fear will be criticized, or preparing a presentation that\u2019s stressful just to think about. You understand what needs to be done, yet taking that very first step feels surprisingly hard. When this difficulty becomes severe, it is [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-228690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228690\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}