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Before Breakfast

What procrastination can teach us

Before Breakfast

iHeartPodcasts

Education, Self-improvement

4.51.5K Ratings

🗓️ 17 May 2019

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Get curious about procrastination — and achieve breakthroughs.

Transcript

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0:00.0

The assassination of President John F. Kennedy is the greatest murder mystery in American history.

0:05.6

That's Rob Briner.

0:07.6

Rob called me, Soledette O'Brien, and asked me what I knew about this crime.

0:11.6

Well, ask, who had the motive to assassinate a sitting president.

0:16.0

Then we'll pull the curtain back on the cover-up.

0:20.0

The American people need to know the truth.

0:22.0

Listen to who the truth.

0:22.6

Listen to who killed JFK on the I Heart Radio app,

0:27.0

Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast.

0:30.7

Welcome to Before Breakfast. I'm

0:37.0

Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of I Heart Radio.

0:41.0

Good morning. This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast Podcast.

0:44.6

This is the fifth episode in my five-part series about procrastination.

0:49.3

Today's tip is to get curious about procrastination.

0:53.0

You can make big breakthroughs in life if you figure out what procrastination might be teaching you.

0:58.0

We tend to think of procrastination as a bad thing and generally it is.

1:03.8

As we've discussed this week, the definition of procrastination is to delay, even knowing

1:08.7

that you'll be worse off for the delay.

1:12.0

It's no problem to put off work that doesn't need to be done in the first place.

1:15.0

But studying for an exam that's critical for whether you'll get into grad school, that's a different matter.

1:21.0

We've discussed why we procrastinate and we've discussed

1:24.7

strategies for making progress. But today I want to raise a different possibility,

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