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How to Be Awesome at Your Job

443: Beating Procrastination with Petr Ludwig

How to Be Awesome at Your Job

How to be Awesome at Your Job

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🗓️ 23 May 2019

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Petr Ludwig shares his research-based strategies and tactics for overcoming procrastination.


— YOU'LL LEARN —

1) Petr’s recipe for finding willpower in the moment

2) How to find your ongoing motivation

3) Why you should rest before you get tired


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— ABOUT PETR —

Petr Ludwig is a science popularizer, entrepreneur, and consultant for Fortune 500 companies. He is the author of the bestselling book The End of Procrastination, a book dedicated to overcoming the habit of putting off tasks and responsibilities. His book has been translated into more than 10 languages and sold hundreds of thousands of copies globally.

Petr is the founder and CEO of the company Procrastination.com, which applies the latest scientific findings in neuroscience and behavioral economics to help individuals and companies in their sustainable growth. His core fields of interests are a purpose at work, value-based leadership, and critical thinking.

• Petr’s Book: The End of Procrastination

• Petr’s website: Procrastination.com


— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —

• App: ClassPass

• App: Cold Turkey

• App: Freedom

• App: Habit List

• App: Headspace

• App: Simple Habit

• Resource: Google Scholar

• Term: Hedonic adaptation

• Term: Ikigai

• Study: Stanford Prison Experiment

• Study: Sugar and Willpower

• Book: Give and Take by Adam Grant

• Book: Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman

• Prior episode: 317: How to Form Habits the Smart Way with BJ Fogg, PhD


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Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast, the show where brilliant professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills required to flourish at work.

0:10.0

Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money.

0:14.0

With your host, Pete McKitis.

0:16.0

Hello and thanks for joining us here for episode 443 of the Peter Ludwig.

0:22.0

Peter is she on his expertise when it comes to Concord. I'm going to see here for episode 443 of the Peter Ludwig.

0:22.6

Peter is sharing his expertise when it comes to conquering procrastination.

0:25.9

So you'll learn one, Peter's recipe for finding willpower in the moment.

0:28.9

Two, how to find your ongoing motivation.

0:31.4

And three, why you should rest before you get tired.

0:34.0

So if you want to check out the show notes or the transcript or the links to Adams that we've

0:37.1

referenced you'll find it over at awesome at your job.com slash eep 443 that's awesome at your

0:41.6

job.com com slash EP 443.

0:44.6

Now he's Peter's story.

0:45.4

Peter Ludwig is a science popularizer,

0:47.6

entrepreneur, and consultant for Fortune 500 companies.

0:50.0

He's the author of the best-selling book,

0:51.3

The End of Accrastination, a book dedicated to overcoming

0:53.8

the habit of putting off tasks and responsibilities.

0:56.9

His book has been translated into more than 10 languages and sold hundreds of thousands of copies globally.

1:01.3

Peter is the founder and CEO of the

1:03.0

company Procrastination.com, which applies the latest scientific findings in

1:06.2

neuroscience and behavioral economics to help individuals and

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