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The Evan Brand Show

Dr. Tim Pychyl: Why Do We Procrastinate and How to Take Action

The Evan Brand Show

Evan Brand, BCHN, FNTP

Health & Fitness

4.8802 Ratings

🗓️ 17 July 2013

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Tim Pychyl, associate professor of psychology and director of the Procrastination Research Group at Carleton University. He provides a series of short talks, interviews and question/answer podcasts that explain why we procrastinate and what we can do about it.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey everybody.

0:09.0

Hey everybody. Welcome back to the Not Just Paleo podcast.

0:25.5

I'm coming to you live from Austin, Texas, in the middle of a hotel room as it's raining.

0:32.1

And I'm about 25 miles outside of Austin right now.

0:35.7

I just drove here two days ago. If you listened last week,

0:39.7

you heard me talking about moving. So I drove from Kentucky with Hannah, my beautiful lady,

0:47.0

and we drove 1,033 miles door to door from Kentucky to Austin, Texas. I did it in a day, and it was a very long drive.

0:57.6

But I had plenty of beef jerky for the road, and I actually made it at a pretty good time.

1:03.1

I didn't have to drive in the nighttime too long.

1:06.2

But anyways, I'm here, and I knew that Wednesday was coming up quick,

1:10.3

so I needed to find a place to sit down and whip out the microphone and do a podcast.

1:15.1

So that's what I did.

1:16.8

And today, we are talking to the host of the I procrastinate podcast.

1:22.6

And he has one of the top-rated podcasts on all of iTunes when it comes to self-help.

1:27.7

And he is a psychologist and works as a professor in Ottawa, Canada at a university.

1:35.1

And he just happens to do the podcast on the side.

1:37.9

So he helps people with procrastination.

1:39.9

So that is the topic of today's show.

1:43.0

And I urge you, if you have been procrastinating on something, don't.

1:47.2

I mean, if you have a dream or you have a passion, go for it.

1:50.9

I mean, that's exactly what I did.

1:52.4

And it's possible.

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