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Structured Procrastination: Harness avoidance to succeed
Structured Procrastination: Harness avoidance to succeed
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Length:
37 minutes
Released:
Aug 31, 2009
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
Perhaps the most frequently read essay on the Internet about procrastination, is Professor John Perry's (Stanford University) piece entitled, "Structured Procrastination." In this podcast I summarize Prof. Perry's argument and reflect on its strengths and the limitation of this approach. I know you'll like it, as Prof. Perry writes about how we can harness our task avoidance to actually get things done! In Perry's words, "what could be more noble than using one character flaw to offset the bad effects of another?"You can read Prof. Perry's essay at structuredprocrastination.com (you can even buy the t-shirt!).You can learn more about procrastination at procrastination.ca.
Released:
Aug 31, 2009
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (100)
Taxes and other aversive stuff: Why do we put it off? (Why not!?): Why do so many of us procrastinate on our taxes? Isn't the saner question, who doesn't? Who likes doing taxes? In fact, that's part of the answer to why we put it off - it's aversive! But, what does aversive mean? We explore a little bit of this based... by iProcrastinate Podcast