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Leveraging Self-Control: An interesting strategy for coping with procrastination
Leveraging Self-Control: An interesting strategy for coping with procrastination
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Length:
24 minutes
Released:
Jun 30, 2010
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
This is the last podcast of my sabbatical year. Don't worry, I will continue my regular schedule for the summer. This week, I am summarizing a key idea from a chapter in a recent book entitled The Thief of Time: Philosophical Essays on Procrastination. Chrisoula Andreou, a philosopher from the University of Utah, argues that we can use self-control in one area of our lives where we don't procrastinate to help us achieve goals in other areas of our lives where we seem to lack self-control. I explain how this works with the notion of local traits.To learn more about procrastination, see procrastination.ca
Released:
Jun 30, 2010
Format:
Podcast episode
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