218 Dr. Erin Westgate on How to Create a Psychologically Rich Life
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Is There a Strategy for Procrastination?
Sometimes when I am procrastinating on something, it's because what I'm about to do has not been broken up into sufficiently small pieces. There's actually really interesting research from Alexandra Freud out of Zurich about procrastination and this kind of strategy where if you're putting something off because it seems too hard. So one strategy like we talked about is to break it down into chunks. But her work suggests another really interesting approach, which is to remind yourself of why you care about what it is that you're doing.
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