World's Leading Expert On How To Solve Procrastination

World's Leading Expert On How To Solve Procrastination - Dr Tim Pychyl

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We can all struggle with procrastination. Putting stuff off not only makes us feel bad but it can set us back in our careers and lives. So what do we do about it? Dr Tim Pychyl is as one of the world’s leading experts in procrastination. He has written two books about how and why we procrastinate, as well as many scientific papers. In this episode of Deep Dive I talk to Tim about what exactly procrastination is, how to nudge ourselves into better habits, and spirituality and flow. Tim is such a brilliant and knowledgable researcher and this conversation gave me fascinating look into the the psychology of procrastination.
0:00 Intro
1:58 Procrastination vs. delay
9:43 Why can procrastination feel good?
13:41 Getting started
21:10 Goals, discipline, motivation
33:54 How can we achieve effortlessness?
38:02 Spirituality and flow
45:00 How do we nudge ourselves into habits?
56:44 Procrastination as an emotional problem
1:07:28 Why tips and tricks don’t always work
1:13:15 Reading philosophy
1:15:14 Being a father
🔗 CONNECT WITH TIM
🐦 Twitter - / procrastwitate
💻 Website - carleton.ca/psychology/people...
📕 Solving The Procrastination Puzzle - geni.us/TSS2
📙 Procrastination, Health and Wellbeing - geni.us/noWc
🔗 CONNECT WITH ALI
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🐦 Twitter - / aliabdaal
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👥 Linkedin - / ali-abdaal
📚 RESOURCES MENTIONED
The War of Art by Steven Pressfield - geni.us/H7z29S
The Moral Animal by Robert Wright - geni.us/fwolPQ
Atomic Habits by James Clear - geni.us/lsrei
The Art of Procrastination by John Perry - geni.us/RbB8ZP
The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg - geni.us/h3XN0s6
The Power of Vulnerability by Berne Brown - geni.us/b19T
The Willpower Instinct by Kelly McGonigal - geni.us/L8oK5
The Courage to Teach by Parker Palmer - geni.us/7Aa9a5
A Guide to the Good Life by William Irvine - geni.us/A7bExOK
Happy by Derren Brown - geni.us/GHHI
The Daily Stoic by Ryan Holiday and Stephen Hanselman - geni.us/alvI2o
Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman - geni.us/oZwL
The Way of Zen by Alan Watts - geni.us/rqlvW6
Radical Compassion by Tara Brach - geni.us/zypL
Affect Regulation Training by Matthias Berking - geni.us/UlSk9z
The Courage to Be by Paul Tillich - geni.us/cf0JR
Man’s Search for Meaning by Victor E Frankl - geni.us/nFjoNo
📄SHOW NOTES & TRANSCRIPT
Visit the website for the transcript and highlights from the conversation - aliabdaal.com/podcast/
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@DeepDivewithAliAbdaal Жыл бұрын

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@abhi_abhie Жыл бұрын

I will watch this later 🙏

@Adrian_Estando Жыл бұрын

You win the internet!😂🥳

@bharatsharma5860 Жыл бұрын

hahah sahi

@reakal7740 Жыл бұрын

Have you watched it finally?

@blueberrymuffin46 Жыл бұрын

vicious cycle of procrastination 😂😂😂😂😂

@AnnBertholf Жыл бұрын

😂😂😂😂😂

@shehzadhussain1876 Жыл бұрын

Very insightful, my takeaways were: 1- Just show up, no matter what. #Stoic 2- Motivation follow action 3- if it isn’t in your calendar, you’re procrastinating.

@Onyxscubababy 4 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@TheKeegs84 29 күн бұрын

It was great to hear Tim talk again… I’ve listened to all of his iProcrastinate podcast episodes. The end comment about him meeting with a man and just chatting, human to human, was very touching. There needs to be more connection like that.

@sallymcmullin Жыл бұрын

Enjoyed this talk. Some of my favorite takeaways: (1) abstract things belong to tomorrow and concrete ones belong to today. Make goals CONCRETE because the brain treats em differently. (2) WHEN/THEN - example: when my tea is steeping, I will do some stretching. (3) I can have an emotion but don’t have to BE that emotion! 💥 (4) Don’t steal their struggle! LOVED this one. - Lastly, I really enjoyed how he easily referenced so many books and authors! GREAT ‘Deep Dive’!👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

@annikalind4920 Жыл бұрын

"Delayed due to emotional problems" - thank you for saying that. 🙏

@Onyxscubababy 4 ай бұрын

This is pure gold! I am at the crossroads of my career, and I procrastinated on the work I needed to do and felt quilted and frustrated. Deep down, I knew why, and your excellent podcast with Dr. Tim Pychyl has eloquently elucidated the emotional maze behind this, which helps me to get moving. I greatly appreciate that!

@Sad_bumper_sticker. Жыл бұрын

I highly recommend Dr Timothy Pychyls Podcast on an adult ADHD study on academic students

@KoenBunders Жыл бұрын

I love the pleasant, wise, peaceful energy coming from Tim Pychyl! Interesting he referred to Parker J. Palmer whom I enjoy for similar reasons.

@malluenggrl Жыл бұрын

Procrastinating by watching a video on procrastination. 💁🏽‍♀️

@vans4lyf2013 Жыл бұрын

hmm as someone with really low conscientiousness, which, as the interviewee implied correlates highly with procrastination, it would be really good to hear someone like that talk about how they stopped procrastinating. The interviewee said that they've always had high conscientiousness so they've always been able to just start tasks and work in a disciplined way, so it feels so much less relatable when people who already had good amounts of discipline talks about how you need to just start the task. I know there was nuance to what he was saying but I would love to hear from someone who made a complete 180 in terms of procrastination.

@ndndndnnduwjqams Жыл бұрын

Agree

@Douglas_Gillette 10 ай бұрын

I use commitment contracts. I have a referee who enforces the contracts. It is a way to manipulate your emotions. It’s more desirable to fulfill the contract than to give into feeling good.

@RaghavSharma-di2yl 6 ай бұрын

i think you should listen Mel robbins for this.

@cuandcre Жыл бұрын

Is there a way to tap into the feeling and thoughts of "This isn't that bad, why didn't I start earlier?" So that we can use it to not procrastinate?

@razabadass Жыл бұрын

Thank you Tim, Ali, Angus, Elizabeth and others behind the scenes! Raza :)

@RyanMaherFaith Жыл бұрын

This is truly an awesome conversation! I’ve listened to it multiple times now and I greatly appreciate your work Ali!

@artcrazymalik11 Жыл бұрын

I love this! ❤️ Thank you Ali for the amazing quality content!

@drdavibonatto Жыл бұрын

Thank you, Ali, for this amazing interview. You and Tim Pychyl share the same wholesome vibes and it feels really good to learn with both of u. 🌻

@janetteehan8230 Жыл бұрын

I really enjoyed this interview. Thank you both for sharing.

@toyinzuleiha3154 Жыл бұрын

About the question of happiness being found in goal setting and the spiritual notion that happiness is found in the moment, I don't think there is anything paradoxical about it. The spiritual notion that happiness is found in the moment is about how you experience the moment or in the actions that you are taking to achieve your goals. It means not being attached to the outcome like you are not attached to the outcome of your KZfaq channel Ali but only focused on the metrics within your control. So one sets a goal, but they don't spend time in the future anxious about what might go wrong or in the past worried about what happened that might prevent them from achieving the goal. It is being present with everything you are doing even the tasks associated with goals you have set. Procrastination itself is influenced by shame, avoidance etc., all emotions that are as a result of dwelling too much either in the past or in the future.

@omphiledirero5622 10 ай бұрын

Hi, you explained this so well,I just watched a video about why we don't follow through,I just realised that I spent so much time fantasies about my goals instead of executing them.

@Mochore_Ruth Жыл бұрын

Thank you Ali for thing life changing interviews ☺️

@yungbootyheadmcgee Жыл бұрын

Needed this👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

@Mochore_Ruth Жыл бұрын

Very... veeeeeeery lovely...I didn't know that about being a parent...lovely conversation ❤️

@kerrylewendon9042 10 ай бұрын

What a nice guy, enjoyed that a lot. Watched the procrastinating cleaning my room, but got a lot from it, more than a clean room!!!!!

@nenataylor Жыл бұрын

Excellent interview🤗

@diarimachan Жыл бұрын

Wonderful to have segments feature activated..makes long video easier to digest

@aqasanu1992 8 ай бұрын

There's so much richness here; thank you

@motivationmattersMarkT 9 ай бұрын

Motivation is the Reason (Motive) to do something (Action) It’s your Why, what you do (Action) is driven by your reason (motive)

@Squintillions Жыл бұрын

Excellent interview

@JaimeHuffman Жыл бұрын

This was EXCELLENT. Thank you both for your time and expertise. I took so many notes and your insights resonated with me.

@sruthiganeshiyer1509 Жыл бұрын

Can you please share your notes? Thankyou :)

@abdullahalhashem986 Жыл бұрын

procastination vs delay reward vs utlility, resistence, procastination is a reward driven to avoid emotional pain, of not reaching your goals compensatory beliefs and thinking, always later. rationalization, in the moment of beating the resistence. just get started. what is the next action? as a gateway? reaction on stress. trasitive preference. we are good of self-deception. , structured procastination. strongest emotion associated with procastination, is guilt, and if long enough it develops into shame. by engaging we find reward and by getting started we find that reward Goal oriented, pre-frontal cortex, executive functions, motion focus coping, we need to focus more on process, not output. the amount of excercise you can control not the output which is the body percentage. showup is disipline. concientince motivation should follow action, not the otherway around. like if we are waiting for our muse, all of these things come together if you have good habits. effortlessness. gamifcation ===> limits to how much you enjoy that flow takes effort, but it takes thousands of times to reach that which involves disipline. --- had the impression to enlarge your biceps you need to make it effortless. === the opposite of one great truth is other great truth, the courage to teach.

@judymjumbe3671 Жыл бұрын

Most meaningful video I have ever watched @ Ali abdaal. As an avid procrastinator

@raghavsomani5828 Жыл бұрын

I'm watching it while procrastinating 🙂

@Angelo-wg2kb Жыл бұрын

damn that transition out of the intro was clean af. keep that!

@Angelo-wg2kb Жыл бұрын

also that fingersnap is how you start a take right? haha

@PierreChe Жыл бұрын

Another great conversation. The guests are phenomenal and the questions brought up by Ali are super sharp on bringing the whole chat further into the deep dive. Loving it ! Thx for the great work !

@anthonyplugins Жыл бұрын

Nice Content! :D Thanks a lot for inspire People 💎

@CharliWrites Жыл бұрын

Ali, recently Science published an article about how toxicity of excess glutamate may contribute to cognitive fatigue. Given your background as a physician - would it be possible that the issue underlying procrastination might actually be brain toxicity of excess glutamate? That the brain is simply suffering from this buildup and needs to rest? So if that is true, then the answer is not to "to just get started" and "realizing that you only have one life to live", but rather the realization that rest (in between work sessions and on weekends etc) is actually the antidote to procrastination? Or at least: one of the factors?

@Sannyasin 9 ай бұрын

We don't do tasks We don't do projects We do ACTIONS, the best question you can ask yourself is WHAT'S THE NEXT ACTION - David Allen

@chinyererachel Жыл бұрын

Choosing now to do things if we are able to rather than delaying it.

@mimi.94x Жыл бұрын

I'm procrastinating by watching a video on procrastinating :)

@innomatrix Жыл бұрын

Ali, It would be really helpful if you can help us with this....... What I can't understand about Things like Time Blocking & all, is that - How can you block an exact duration of time for something if you don't know how long it would take? Like Ali was giving example about studying chapter 3 of subject X from 7-9 PM. OK but you haven't studied it; so How do you know how difficult it is & how long it would take ? What if it takes more time than that? Then you delay the whole schedule & waste time on that?

@innomatrix Жыл бұрын

And if you say Input based goals like just study X from 7-9PM, Then I lose focus as I don't have any goal to follow and unsurprisingly I tend to just pass the time and call it a day. But then we can't get anything done as per deadlines.

@Douglas_Gillette 10 ай бұрын

I think once you block your behavior a lot, you can get an accurate estimate. Expect to miscalculate when you first start.

@pawelzabicki7785 6 ай бұрын

Now, a special content for those with ADHD. ;)

@therenaissanceman441 Жыл бұрын

Which book did he recommend? ART something, can someone list it? I lost which point in the conversation he mentioned.

@Vaarjat 5 ай бұрын

So let's start my efforts to change, see you all later fellow procrastinators, hopefully with any results!

@MalikNfkt Жыл бұрын

This came up on my YT android app endless scroll and I immediately downloaded it. Then I really wanted to procrastinate watching it and continue with the endless scroll...

@mikseljamaa1954 Жыл бұрын

Ali have you spoken with Neal Ford? I would love to see an interview seems like a very interesting book he has on productivity

@Nunya24567 8 ай бұрын

I didn’t know Cam from Ferris buellers day off was a doc

@therenaissanceman441 Жыл бұрын

I'm watching 6 hours of KZfaq everyday. Am I procrastinating?

@omphiledirero5622 10 ай бұрын

Yes, unless you learning something

@georgejaggy6718 10 ай бұрын

I need to fix my problem of denial and then later as soon as possible fix my problem of procras.

@irishadullah-al-akbaruthma8796 Жыл бұрын

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@abdullahalhashem986 Жыл бұрын

Have you finished your food? then wash your bowl :) it hit me like a truck

@jezusrvd Жыл бұрын

🙏

@obaidrahmdil8543 Жыл бұрын

I knew I saw him somewhere. He's Mr. Walter White.

@modernchallengeorsurvival-7427 Жыл бұрын

18,20,27,33 most important notes

@mehditate Жыл бұрын

I hope you're doing well.. I post videos about self improvement and would love for you to join a small, but mighty community of people who want to learn more about themselves. Love, Mehdi

@Fixer934 Жыл бұрын

I sense the doctor practices Vipassana

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