Unanswered 20: Procrastination

It took Steev and Nick thirteen months to record their first podcast after deciding they would make one together. Twenty episodes of Unanswered later they get around to tackling procrastination as a topic. They are well suited to discuss it.

Is procrastination a manifestation of boredom, distractibility or fear? What are the barriers procrastinators build for themselves to avoid doing the things which really matter? Can displacement activities themselves be productive? Steev and Nick ask a lot of questions of themselves in our most personal episode so far. Continue reading →

It took Steev and Nick thirteen months to record their first podcast after deciding they would make one together. Twenty episodes of Unanswered later they get around to tackling procrastination as a topic. They are well suited to discuss it.

Is procrastination a manifestation of boredom, distractibility or fear? What are the barriers procrastinators build for themselves to avoid doing the things which really matter? Can displacement activities themselves be productive? Steev and Nick ask a lot of questions of themselves in our most personal episode so far.

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ElephantWords.co.uk
NaNoWriMo—otherwise known as National Novel Writing Month
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Back to Work—the podcast from Merlin Mann and Dan Benjamin
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Dan Benjamin
Amazon: “What’s Stopping You?” by Robert Kelsey
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MOMBcast—the podcast from MOMBcomics.com
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DailyMotion: Spaced—Brian, painter, loser
Lem, maker of Bunny Comic
Andrew Tunney, make of Girl & Boy
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Jonathan Coulton
Jonathan Coulton’s Thing A Week
Jonathan Mann
Jonathan Mann’s “Song A Day” YouTube channel
Amazon: “High Fidelity” by Nick Hornby
IMDB: High Fidelity (2000)
YouTube: High Fidelity (2000) trailer ↓

“Why Procrastinators Procrastinate” from Wait But Why; October 2013
“How to Beat Procrastination” from Wait But Why; November 2013

Details

Recorded: 12 February 2014
Running time: 1:07’24
Bad language: Yes [4x f*ck; 5x sh*t]
Aural erratum: It was Jonathan Mann who records a song a day; Jonathan Coulton did a “Thing A Week” for a year.
Feature image source: http://www.donotenter.com/cool/ucgraphics/animated/page2/index.htm


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