The Procrastination Equation: An In-Depth Breakdown (Ep. 167)

The Inforium

Thomas Frank and Martin Boehme

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4.8 • 998 Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2017

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Banish your procrastination habits, one variable at a time. Here are our thoughts on "The Procrastination Equation" and how to apply it to your own life. Full show notes Things mentioned in this episode: The Procrastination Equation, by Piers Steel Quiz - How much of a procrastinator are you? Quiz - Which motivation variables affect you most? (If Expectancy <= 24, it's a likely problem area. If Value or Delay >= 24, they're what you should probably be looking at.) 10-Step Anti-Procrastination Checklist Focus app Cold Turkey app Magnet app Learned helplessness dog study Learned Helplessness (Ep. 99) What We Learned from Reading “Deep Work” (Ep. 140) Just 6 Weeks app (iOS | Android) Habitica Beeminder 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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0:35.2	You know Martin it might actually be a good idea for us to tell people about the
0:39.2	app we've been raving about for the past two minutes so...
0:41.8	Wait what have we been raving? I forgot the last two minutes magnet oh yeah magnet that's cool I can't believe that just happened yeah I thought phone app immediately that's the problem oh actually well you were messing around the phone app weren't you?
0:54.0	I don't and by messing around I mean you're using one regularly called a hundred
0:58.8	push-ups. Oh so we're switching to a different app. Well, you mentioned phones.
1:04.0	Just six weeks.
1:05.0	That's what it's called.
1:06.0	Just a workout app I'm using because it tells me what to do and I don't have to think very hard.
1:10.0	Sweet.
1:11.0	So this episode is about procrastination. So we can segue into this for a couple seconds
1:14.9	This app seems to be like the one that has gotten you to stop procrastinating on working out regularly again.
1:20.7	Oh yeah because I was trying to do that and I would work out but it would be like
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