It’s February. It’s that time of year we start to wonder if we might not follow through with our New Year’s resolutions. It’s that time of the year when procrastination becomes a centerpiece of our psychological concerns.
If you only just now started working and answering emails and eating properly, that this just means you are a normal human living in really weird times, and everyone else is also slowly, and begrudgingly, starting to accept the fact that it is 2023 as well
Our guest in this episode is professor, author, therapist, and speaker Britt Frank, a trauma specialist who treats people with a unique and powerful set of techniques and approaches which, taken together, help clients to get out of the feeling of being STUCK. Author of The Science of Stuck, she says, “Procrastination is not a character flaw. Nor is it a sign of weakness. Nor is it a sign of laziness. Procrastination is an indicator that internal consent has not been given. When our inner parts are distressed, afraid, sad, angry, grief-stricken or anxious, it is important to listen to their concerns, not to shame them or coerce them into action.”
In the show you’ll learn about the physiological origins of procrastination – the inner brake pedal and gas pedal – and what to do to escape the two different versions of this universal challenge to getting unstuck and getting things done.
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127 - Selfie
126 - Separate Spheres (rebroadcast)
125 - Status Quo Rationalization
124 - Belief Change Blindness
123 - Active Information Avoidance (rebroadcast)
122 - Tribal Psychology
121 - Progress (rebroadcast)
120 - The Backfire Effect - Part Four
119 - The Unpersuadables
118 - Connections (rebroadcast)
117 - Idiot Brain (rebroadcast)
116 - Reality (rebroadcast)
115 - Machine Bias
114 - Moral Arguments (rebroadcast)
113 - Narrative Persuasion
112 - Change My View (rebroadcast)
111 - Collective Intelligence
110 - Sleep Deprivation and Bias
109 - The Search Effect (rebroadcast)
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