Does this sound familiar to you? You have some sort of significant project that you need to

complete. Like maybe your passport is expired and you have to figure out how to renew it, or

you volunteered to update the text on your organization's website and you're not quite sure

how to get started. And you find yourself day after day unable to make progress. It goes on your list and it stays there

untouched. Now, to the outside world, it might look like you're lazy in the sense that you know

that there's something you need to do and you're simply not doing it. But you know inside that

things are not so simple. You're not just sitting around playing video games.

You're constantly in motion on your devices. You're sending and receiving messages. You're

checking in on the news. You're tumbling down potentially productive rabbit holes.

And your days are filled with this little P productivity, but not the big P productive

accomplishments that actually matter. Well, I struggle

with this sometimes, and I'm convinced that technology has made the situation much more common

and much more worse. But what exactly is happening in our adult brains when we find ourselves

procrastinating on important projects like this? And once we understand what it is, how might we

fix it? Well, it's Monday, which means it's

time for an advice episode of this show, which is the perfect opportunity to tackle these

questions. So here's my plan. I recently came across a Reddit post from the Rhabit subreddit

that originally got me thinking about this topic. The title of this post

was, you're not lazy, you're overstimulated. And it proposes, this post proposes some answers to

the questions that we just asked. So we're going to use that as our jumping off point today.

But then I'm going to bring in the help of a psychology professor that I know. we're going to use that as our jumping off point today. But then I'm going to

bring in the help of a psychology professor that I know. We're going to pick apart what this post

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