The Dopamine Hit of the Checklist

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Sometimes it's just people who are sort of addicted to the checklist satisfaction. What I really needed was a deposit of 20 minutes on the book that I really wanted to write more than anything else in my life. To me, it is just another thing our brains can get addicted to and it can feel really good just like eating a cookie. But it is not actually doing something good. And again, you saw you people, it's not like the answer is to not take your stuff to the cleaners ever. Doing those things is like taking a shower, it's going to the bathroom. It's just it's stuff that you have to do. You're not getting work done.

ABOUT TIM URBAN

Tim Urban is a writer and bestselling author. Above all else, he spends a ton of time thinking about how we can think more effectively. Tim is the creator and author of the popular blog, Wait But Why, and the author of the new bestselling book What's Our Problem.

In this episode of the Elevate Podcast, revisit Robert Glazer's conversation with Tim from 2019. In a wide ranging conversation, Robert and Tim dig into Tim’s career as a writer, his TED Talk on why everybody is a procrastinator, and an eye-opening post Tim wrote that creates a visual timeline of a human life and emphasizes that we have less time with loved ones than we think, even in the best case scenario.

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