5 Questions: Extrinsic vs. Intrinsic Rewards, Alarm Clocks and Social Media (Ep. 179)

The Inforium

Thomas Frank and Martin Boehme

Personal Branding, Career, Productivity, Business, Learning, Lifehacking, College, University, Education, 101, Lifestyle Design, Work Smart, Class

4.8 • 998 Ratings

🗓️ 2 October 2017

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Here we go once again with the email. In this 5 questions episode, we talk about social media, the overjustification effect, and alarms. Full show notes Things mentioned in this episode: 5 Questions: Early Networking, Cold Showers, and Morning Routines (Ep. 173) The College Info Geek Community Cal Newport Deep Work, by Cal Newport Thomas and Martin on LinkedIn Evernote Facebook News Feed Eradicator for Facebook (Chrome) Tom's Focus app College Info Geek on Facebook Powlyglot Primitive Technology on YouTube College Info Geek on LinkedIn CPG Grey on YouTube CGP Grey's website CGP Grey's Royal Family video Overjustification Effect Beeminder (iOS | Android) Couch to 5K (iOS | Android) Fitocracy (iOS | Android) Strava (iOS | Android) Circadian Rhythm How to Get to Bed on Time and Stop Losing Sleep The Science Behind Getting Better Sleep (Ep. 124) sleepyti.me Sleep Cycle alarm clock (iOS | Android) How to Wake Up Early and Make It a Habit WebTalentMarketing - How to Change Your Name and Preserve Your SEO How to Be a Good Significant Other (Ep. 177) Want more cool stuff? You can find all sorts of great tools at my Resources page. You can also get a free copy of my book, 10 Steps to Earning Awesome Grades (While Studying Less), by staying up to date with the College Info Geek newsletter. Timestamps: 0:03:09 - How to submit questions for the podcast 0:04:06 - Benefits and setbacks of using social media 0:17:28 - How external rewards can boost or destroy your motivation 0:23:15 - Deciding when and how to fall asleep or wake up 0:26:34 - Explaining sleep cycles 0:31:16 - Changing your last name when you’ve already established a presence 0:37:12 - Managing productivity and a romantic relationship 0:44:40 - Conclusion If you enjoyed this episode, subscribe to the podcast on iTunes! It's easy, you'll get new episodes automatically, and it also helps the show gain exposure :) You can also leave a review! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:33.4	Before we get started here, Martin, I just want to let you know that I
0:36.2	am keeping with the T theme technically.
0:39.8	Hold on.
0:40.8	Kind of. Is there tea in that?
0:46.0	No. Ha. Well, it says natural flavors. It might be tea.
0:49.0	It could be tea. I don't know that it's not.
0:50.0	I don't know if it is though. I think you the unspoken you have to have some form of tea rule on this podcast
0:56.6	I was gonna drink this whole thing on the way back. Oh but then you didn't
1:00.1	I kambuocch's tea right?
1:02.8	Pretty sure that's fermented. Yeah, it's like fermented white tea or something like that. I don't know actually it's actually black tea.
1:08.8	Yeah, why do you just assume it was white tea? There was no implication of that. I had a bottle at one point and I thought that it said that. So I thought that kambuchi was like always just white tea, but maybe it's just like all kinds of tea. Te's not always white tea. That is true. You know? Yeah. So it's just like you just like let it
1:24.5	ferment and get weird fungus on it and then drink it. You just kind of rub the tea and a lot of
1:29.2	dirty stuff I think. Okay. Just dirt water? The bacteria just, I don't know how to make.
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