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The Procrastination Equation: An In-Depth Breakdown (Ep. 167)

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The Importance of Expectancy

Your expectancy is basically like your degree of belief that you can do the thing, right? Yeah. I might procrastinate learning how to jump off a cliff and fly because I don't think it's going to work. And likewise, if you were to try to make a video or something, like you could probably do it. But I would put it off for quite a while. Because sometimes you're just like, nothing in the world will be better if I do this. So my expectancy is very low. Or like to make a more realistic assumption. It's motivation equals expectancy times value all over impulsiveness times delay.

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