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The Inforium

Habits and Diminishing Returns (Ep. 64)

The Inforium

Thomas Frank and Martin Boehme

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

4.8998 Ratings

🗓️ 15 June 2015

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Thoughts on how habits deaden the pleasure of certain experiences. When you notice this happening, should you change your habits? Full show notes Things mentioned in this episode: Episode 63 - Habit-Building Strategies for Different Personalities with Gretchen Rubin Better Than Before - Gretchen's book 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. 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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0:00.0

Hey it's Thomas Frank. I've just got a quick note for you before we get into the show.

0:03.2

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0:34.0

Hello everybody and welcome to the college info geek

0:41.0

podcast. My name is Thomas Frank and this is a show that helps you become a more effective student

0:46.0

whether you're in college, high school, or just a student of life.

0:49.0

And this particular episode is, as a few of the other episodes in the history of this podcast, have been a car episode.

0:58.0

Other than this intro recording, which is being done on my big microphone.

1:02.0

But I'm doing this intro because the car part requires a little bit of

1:06.1

introduction. Number one, it's a pretty short episode. It's just some kind of thoughts I was

1:11.1

mulling about in my head and it actually was recorded quite a while ago.

1:15.5

I recorded these thoughts back before I went to Japan so it was right around the beginning of May

1:21.0

and I think it was the day that my girlfriend graduated from college.

1:25.7

It's also a bit out of order.

1:27.5

So if you listen to the last episode, episode 63 with Gretchen Rubin about habit building strategies for different personalities, this episode was born from some thoughts I had about a certain passage that I read in her book better than before. It happened before I interviewed her and I don't

1:46.2

think that really matters a whole lot in terms of whether you listen to that episode before

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