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🗓️ 7 July 2021
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0:00.0 | Hey, dessert listeners. Today's episode is about procrastination. I get a lot of questions about |
0:07.2 | procrastination, emails, and during my YouTube live Q&As, people asking about it. So I thought I |
0:16.0 | would do a deep dive on procrastination. There's a lot to say. I think that there's a lot of |
0:21.7 | misunderstandings about procrastination. And often people will just say, you know what? Just don't |
0:28.4 | be lazy. You need to use your willpower. Well, it is way more complicated than that. And a lot of our |
0:35.3 | simplistic notions about procrastination and how to get things done will actually keep us in a |
0:40.8 | cycle of procrastination. In this episode, this is going to be a patron only episode, by the way. |
0:47.2 | This episode, I'm going to go over the definition of procrastination, the prevalence rates a little |
0:51.7 | bit. I'm going to talk about the typology or the different types of procrastination. We're going |
0:56.4 | to talk about the coping techniques. This is a very important part of this lecture is that there are |
1:02.0 | different ways in which people will cope maladaptively with their procrastination and perpetuated. |
1:08.4 | And then I'm going to talk about the many, many factors according to research and according to my |
1:14.2 | clinical experience that are involved in procrastination. That's kind of the beat of this lecture, |
1:20.8 | all the various causes and none of the causes are laziness or lack of willpower. I'm going to talk |
1:28.8 | about treatment. But mainly I'm going to, at the very end, I'm going to talk about how to avoid |
1:32.7 | procrastination. There's a lot of different things you can do. And they're basically based on the |
1:36.4 | factors that we're going to get into. All right. Well, that is what I'm going to talk about. This is |
1:42.1 | the psychology and Seattle podcast. I'm your host, Dr. Kirk Honda. I'm a therapist and professor. |
1:46.8 | This episode is just for patrons of the podcast. So if you have been procrastinating about |
1:51.0 | becoming a patron of the podcast, do it now. But you don't have to use your willpower because that's |
1:55.9 | not really a thing. And it's not because you're lazy. There's usually just some sort of barrier, |
2:00.0 | just some sort of like issue of organization, which we'll get into. But anyway, if you come up |
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