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(Ep 135) - Piers Steel - The science behind procrastination

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The Relationship Between Expectancy and Value

A lot of procrastination is also this kind of high expectation that, oh, I will be able to pass this exam and study for it eventually. Whereas if there is a kind of abstract sense of, well, yeah, I got still got lots of time,. It's very easy to put it off. The same thing with time, you know, five minutes, right? If you always break it down into five minute increments and say,Yeah, how about we just take a five minute more break? Yeah. You know, what difference can five minutes?"

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