259 - Think Again - Adam Grant (rebroadcast)

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🗓️ 13 May 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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How to manage procrastination according to Margaret Atwood, how to work around your first-instinct fallacy, the upsides of imposter syndrome, the best way to avoid falling prey to the Dunning-Kruger effect, how to avoid thinking like a preacher, prosecutor, or politician so you can think like a scientist instead – and that’s just the beginning of the conversation in this episode with psychologist, podcast host, and author Adam Grant.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the You Are Not So Smart Pinecast.
0:27.7	Episode 259.
0:46.5	There's really no limit to the amount of advice you can find about procrastination, about
0:51.2	dealing with your propensity to procrastinate all over the internet in magazines and books.
0:57.2	It's just something we've been dealing with since we've been people, but if you really
1:01.8	want good advice, I recommend you listen to an author.
1:07.7	There's probably no other profession in which people procrastinate more, and you can
1:12.8	look on social media, follow any author, especially a big, famous author, and you'll see
1:18.1	that maybe 25% of what they share are jokes and grumblings about procrastination.
1:25.4	And if you're going to follow an author on social media, one of the best, one of the
1:30.2	most impactful, and the one who talks a lot about procrastination, is market outward.
1:36.0	It's like going into a very cold lake when you've decided you're going to go swimming
1:41.0	in it.
1:42.2	You put your foot in, you take it out, you put it in again, it's still too cold.
1:52.5	I procrastinated about starting the Handmaid's Tale, I procrastinated for about three years.
1:58.6	I tried to write a more normal novel instead, because I thought it was just too bad.
2:06.5	The Handmaid's Tale, a book that had a huge impact on our discourse and will inform
2:11.4	the marketplace of ideas, the metaphors we use to make sense of ourselves for generations
2:17.4	to come, for a hundred years.
2:20.3	The author of that book procrastinated starting it because she thought it was maybe a bad idea.
2:28.1	Yeah, I mean, it doesn't seem very bad enough, but think of when this was, it was in the
2:32.2	early 80s.
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