The Science of Procrastination with Piers Steel

Piers Steel, one of the world's leading researchers on the science of procrastination, explains how to think about procrastination, what really causes it, and the changes we can make to do it a little less.

Show Notes

• Meta-analysis
• David Hume, An Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding
• The four factors in procrastination:
  1. Values
  2. Self-confidence
  3. Impulsiveness
  4. Reward delay
• Task aversiveness
• Subjective Expected Utility Theory
• The Procrastination Equation
• The Marshmallow Test
• Steven Covey
• Aldus Huxely, Brave New World Revisited
• Roy Baumeister and willpower research
• Presatiation
• Drive Theory
• Learned Helplessness
• SMART Goals
• The Attention Economy
• Procrastination vs Laziness
• How to help kids with procrastination

You can learn more about Piers and his work here:

• Procrastinus (Website)
• The Procrastination Equation (Book)

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