The Nuclear Option for Changing Your Habits (Ep. 58)

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

🗓️ 6 April 2015

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Need a way to force yourself to build or break a habit? In this episode, I chat with the founders of Beeminder - an app that makes you pledge real money towards your goals. Full show notes Things mentioned in this episode: Beeminder IFTTT channel for Beeminder Hyperbolic discounting Pomodoro Poker The Motivation Hacker - one of my essential books for students etc/hosts ("etsy hosts") Momentum Strict WorkFlow StayFocusd RescueTime My Beeminder Goals - content creation and sleeping in Here's how Beeminder helps me wake up early Follow Beeminder on Twitter! 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.
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0:34.0	Hello everybody and welcome to the college info geek
0:41.0	podcast. I'm Thomas Frank and this is a show that helps you be a more effective student and in this episode I'm talking to my friends Daniel Reeves and Bethany Soul who are the founders of a tool called BeMinder.
0:52.8	And if you have been following me for any amount of time,
0:54.9	you may know that I use BeMinder
0:57.1	to sort of bind myself to get things done.
1:00.0	Specifically, to get two pieces of content up
1:02.3	on my website every week, a
1:03.5	podcast and a video, sometimes a third as a blog post, but at bare minimum those
1:08.4	things and the way that Bebinder helps me do that is that I've actually pledged money to basically sending it data to say that I've published things and if I don't publish something for long enough then I will eventually be charged money.
1:21.6	Now a lot of people have used this system to get a lot of things done and the way I heard about
1:25.8	it was from a guy named Nick Winter who wrote a book called The Motivation Hacker and Nick
1:30.9	actually pledged $7,000 to make sure he would have this book written by a certain date
1:36.4	and what do you think happened? He got it done. So obviously you don't have to go crazy with that,
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