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28. The 5 Smartest Things I've Read This Year

Exam Study Expert: ace your exams with the science of learning

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How to Succeed in Your Exams

There are six main task attributes that make procrastination more likely. When a task is boring, frustrating, difficult, unstructured or ambiguous, lacking in personal meaning, and lacking in intrinsic rewards, i.e. it's not fun or engaging. Chris Bailey shares some examples of how armed with this knowledge, when you recognize that a task you're procrastinating on has one or more of these attributes,. how you can change the task or change the setting to avoid and or dampen down the procrastination. We'll talk a little bit more about that concept of biological prime time in the episode next week.

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