Tim Pychyl on Procrastination

The One You Feed

Eric Zimmer

Education, Self-improvement, Religion & Spirituality, Health & Fitness, Buddhism, Mental Health

4.6 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2018

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Tim Pychyl is an Associate Professor of Psychology at Carlton University and hosts a podcast called I Procrastinate. His book that we discuss in this episode is on that very topic – it’s called Solving the Procrastination Puzzle: A Concise Guide to Strategies for Change

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In This Interview, Tim Pychyl and I Discuss…

His book, Solving the Procrastination Puzzle: A Concise Guide to Strategies for Change
How it’s in the getting on in life that makes a life
That procrastination can be an existential matter
What he tells his children: I didn’t ask what you want to do or how you feel, I told you it’s time to make your bed.
When we procrastinate we delay getting on with our lives
Being an active member or your own life
The two ways procrastination compromises our health
Stress
Fewer wellness behaviors
Treatment delay “I’ll look after that later”
Procrastination being a problem of self-regulated behavior
I won’t give in to feel good
Goal Intentions and Implementation intentions
When….then…
Giving the monkey something to do
What’s the next action?
Keeping it small
Hacks to work around our irrational thinking
Motivation and then Action or Action and then Motivation
The meaning behind our goals
Meaning and Manageability
Asking what will this cost me if I put it off?
Prefer tomorrow over today
Thinking “I’ll feel like doing it tomorrow”
Affect forecasting
Thinking of your future self as a stranger
Developing empathy for future self
Self-handicap to preserve self-esteem

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0:00.0	It is in the getting on with life that makes our lives and that procrastination in a very real sense is an existential issue of not getting on with life itself.
0:17.0	Welcome to the one you feed.
0:19.0	Throughout time, great thinkers have recognized the importance of the thoughts we have, quotes like garbage in, garbage out, or you are what you think, ring true.
0:29.0	And yet, for many of us, our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us. We tend to add negativity, self-pity, jealousy or fear.
0:38.0	We see what we don't have instead of what we do. We think things that hold us back and dampen our spirit.
0:44.0	But it's not just about thinking. Our actions matter. It takes conscious, consistent and creative effort to make a life worth living.
0:52.0	This podcast is about how other people keep themselves moving in the right direction. How they feed their good wolf.
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1:44.0	Thanks for joining us. Our guest on this episode is Tim Sitchel.
1:48.0	Tim is an associate professor of psychology at Carlton University in Ottawa and has garnered an international reputation for his scholarship and a global audience for his iPrecrastine podcast.
1:59.0	He also writes a popular Don't Delay blog with psychology today. His new book is Solving the Recrastination Puzzle, a concise guide to strategies for change.
2:09.0	Hi Tim, welcome to the show. Hi Eric, thanks for having me.
2:14.0	I am really excited to have you on. Your book is called Solving the Recrastination Puzzle, a concise guide to strategies for change.
2:22.0	You actually have a couple books, but this is the one that I read to focus on for the interview.
2:27.0	And I know Recrastination runs rampant everywhere, and I know our listeners, it's something they also are interested in.
2:36.0	So I'm really looking forward to getting into that. But let's start like we normally do with the parable.
2:42.0	There is a grandfather who's talking with his granddaughter and he says in life, there are two wolves inside of us that are always at battle.
2:50.0	What is a good wolf, which represents things like kindness and bravery and love, and the other is a bad wolf, which represents things like greed and hatred and fear.
3:00.0	And the granddaughter stops and she thinks about it for a second and looks up at her grandfather and she says, well, grandfather, which one wins?
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