#356: How to Finally Beat Procrastination

The Art of Manliness

Society & Culture, Education, Philosophy

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🗓️ 14 November 2017

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Procrastination. We’ve all done it and we tell ourselves we’ll never do it again. So we come up with an elaborate time management system to get us on track only to find ourselves continuing to put things off. While some procrastination can be mildly infuriating, chronic procrastination can be financially, professionally, and personally devastating — overdue bills result in calls from collection agencies, late reports result in getting fired, and undone chores turn your house into a dump. Why do we procrastinate despite our best intentions not to? My guests today are clinical psychologists who have spent their career working with procrastinators. Their names are Jane Burka and Lenora Yuen. They’re the co-authors of the book "Procrastination: Why You Do It, What to Do About It Now." We begin our conversation discussing the difference between procrastination and strategically postponing things. They then take us through the cycle of procrastination that we’ve all been through and explain why it’s such a vicious loop. We then transition to talk about why we procrastinate and why faulty time management isn’t the real root cause of it. Jane and Lenora argue that if you don’t tackle the true origins of procrastination — which range from the fear of failure to the fear of success — no amount of time management or planning will help you. We finally dig into how to tackle these roots so you can exit the procrastinator’s cycle and get stuff done. This podcast is filled with great insights and actionable advice. Don’t put off listening to it!

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0:00.0	[♪ INTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪
0:13.9	[♪ INTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪
0:14.7	Brett McKay here and welcome to another edition of the Art of Manliness Podcasts,
0:18.4	Procrastination. We've all done it and we tell ourselves we'll never do it again,
0:22.3	so we come up with elaborate time management systems to get us back on track,
0:26.0	only to find ourselves continuing to put things off.
0:28.7	While some procrastination can be mildly infuriating,
0:31.2	chronic procrastination can be financially,
0:33.6	professionally, and personally devastating. Overdoe bills, resulting calls from collection
0:38.0	agencies, late-reported asalting to be fired, and undone chores turn your house into a dump.
0:42.9	Why do we procrastinate, despite our best intentions not to? And despite knowing the fact that
0:47.5	it hurts us. Well, my guess today are clinical psychologists who have spent the career
0:51.2	working with procrastinators. Their names are Jane Berka and Lenora Ewan. They're the coauthors
0:55.3	of the book Procrastination, why you do it, what to do about it now. And today on the show,
0:59.4	we begin our conversation discussing the difference between procrastination and
1:03.0	strategically putting things off or postponing things. They then take us through the cycle of
1:07.0	procrastination that we've all been through and explain why it's such a vicious loop. We then
1:10.8	transition to talk about why we procrastinate and why faulty time management isn't the actual
1:15.7	root cause of most procrastination. Jane and Lenora argue that if you don't tackle the true
1:19.8	orange of procrastinations, which can range from fear failure to affectionism to fear success,
1:24.4	no amount of time management or planning will help you. We dig in on how to tackle these roots so
1:28.5	you can exit the procrastinators cycle and get stuff done. This podcast is filled with great
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