World's Leading Expert On How To Solve Procrastination - Dr Tim Pychyl

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Released

August 25, 2022

Duration

1h 21m

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Deep Dive with Ali Abdaal

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📝 EPISODE DESCRIPTION

[Free 3-hour course] Turn your expertise into a $100k/year income stream → https://go.lifestylebusiness.com/lbafound Make money with the skills you already have: https://go.aliabdaal.com/lbapoddesc Subscribe to LifeNotes 👉 https://go.aliabdaal.com/lifenotes_deepdive Go to https://www.shortform.com/deepdive to get 20% off the annual premium subscription. 📚 Check Out My New York Times Bestselling Book Feel-Good Productivity! 👉 https://go.feelgoodproductivity.com/podcast 📧 Sign up for LifeNotes - my weekly newsletter where I share actionable productivity tips, practical life advice, and high-quality insights from across the web directly to your inbox. 👉https://go.aliabdaal.com/lifenotes/podcast We can all struggle with procrastination. Putting stuff off not only makes us feel bad but it can set us back in our careers and lives. So what do we do about it? Dr Tim Pychyl is as one of the world’s leading experts in procrastination. He has written two books about how and why we procrastinate, as well as many scientific papers. In this episode of Deep Dive I talk to Tim about what exactly procrastination is, how to nudge ourselves into better habits, and spirituality and flow. Tim is such a brilliant and knowledgable researcher and this conversation gave me fascinating look into the the psychology of procrastination. 0:00 Intro 1:58 Procrastination vs. delay 9:43 Why can procrastination feel good? 13:41 Getting started 21:10 Goals, discipline, motivation 33:54 How can we achieve effortlessness? 38:02 Spirituality and flow 45:00 How do we nudge ourselves into habits? 56:44 Procrastination as an emotional problem 1:07:28 Why tips and tricks don’t always work 1:13:15 Reading philosophy 1:15:14 Being a father 🔗 CONNECT WITH TIM 🐦 Twitter - https://twitter.com/procrastwitate 💻 Website - https://carleton.ca/psychology/people/timothy-a-pychyl/ 📕 Solving The Procrastination Puzzle - https://geni.us/TSS2 📙 Procrastination, Health and Wellbeing - https://geni.us/noWc 🔗 CONNECT WITH ALI 🎥 YouTube Channel - https://youtube.com/aliabdaal 🐦 Twitter - https://twitter.com/aliabdaal 📸 Instagram - https://instagram.com/aliabdaal 💻 Website - https://aliabdaal.com 👥 Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/ali-abdaal/ 📚 RESOURCES MENTIONED The War of Art by Steven Pressfield - https://geni.us/H7z29S The Moral Animal by Robert Wright - https://geni.us/fwolPQ Atomic Habits by James Clear - https://geni.us/lsrei The Art of Procrastination by John Perry - https://geni.us/RbB8ZP The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg - https://geni.us/h3XN0s6 The Power of Vulnerability by Berne Brown - https://geni.us/b19T The Willpower Instinct by Kelly McGonigal - https://geni.us/L8oK5 The Courage to Teach by Parker Palmer - https://geni.us/7Aa9a5 A Guide to the Good Life by William Irvine - https://geni.us/A7bExOK Happy by Derren Brown - https://geni.us/GHHI The Daily Stoic by Ryan Holiday and Stephen Hanselman - https://geni.us/alvI2o Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman - https://geni.us/oZwL The Way of Zen by Alan Watts - https://geni.us/rqlvW6 Radical Compassion by Tara Brach - https://geni.us/zypL Affect Regulation Training by Matthias Berking - https://geni.us/UlSk9z The Courage to Be by Paul Tillich - https://geni.us/cf0JR Man’s Search for Meaning by Victor E Frankl - https://geni.us/nFjoNo 📄SHOW NOTES & TRANSCRIPT Visit the website for the transcript and highlights from the conversation - https://aliabdaal.com/podcast/ 🎙 ABOUT THE PODCAST Deep Dive is the podcast that delves into the minds of entrepreneurs, creators and other inspiring people to uncover the philosophies, strategies and tools that help us live happier, healthier and more productive lives. Want to start your own podcast? We use Transistor! https://go.aliabdaal.com/transistor 🎧 LISTEN FOR FREE Apple Podcasts - https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast... Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7gZkflC... RSS - https://feeds.transistor.fm/deep-dive 🙏 LEAVE A REVIEW If you enjoyed listening to the podcast, we'd love for you to leave a 5-star review on Apple Podcasts to help others discover the show :) https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast... 📙 SPONSORED BY SHORTFORM This episode is kindly brought to you by Shortform, the world's best provider of guides for non-fiction books. Shortform gives you comprehensive coverage of thousands of books, the key ideas, clearly and simply explained, plus smart commentary and analysis. It’s like your smartest friend teaching you about a book. Go to www.shortform.com/deepdive to get 20% off the annual premium subscription. 👋🏼 GET IN TOUCH You can also Tweet @aliabdaal with any feedback, ideas or thoughts about the lessons you've learnt from the episodes and we can thank you personally for tuning in 🙏 PS: Some of the links in this description are affiliate links that I get a kickback from 😜

🎤 SPEAKERS

• Dr. Tim Pychyl

  guest

  Psychologist and leading researcher on procrastination, known for his academic work and books on the psychology of procrastination.

• Ali Abdaal

  host

  Productivity-focused creator and host of the podcast Deep Dive with Ali Abdaal.

🧾 EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of Deep Dive with Ali Abdaal, featuring Dr. Tim Pychyl and Ali Abdaal, World's Leading Expert On How To Solve Procrastination - Dr Tim Pychyl explores Procrastination is emotion regulation: start with the next action Dr. Tim Pychyl defines procrastination as voluntarily delaying an intended action despite expecting to be worse off, and contrasts it with purposeful, inevitable, and emotionally driven delays that should not be mislabeled as procrastination.

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