Why Procrastination Is Emotional, Not a Discipline Problem (with Robin J Emdon)
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This episode discusses how procrastination is an emotional issue rather than a discipline problem, featuring insights from Robin J Emdon.
This episode is brought to you by The 10 Second Inbox—a small, tactical system for taming email without chasing inbox zero. One ten-second decision per message, one calm inbox you can glance at and close. It's launch priced at $29 (reg. $49) through July 26th. Get it at mikevardy.com/10secondinbox (code INBOXTODAY auto-applies). We tend to treat procrastination like a willpower leak — something we could plug if we just tried harder, planned better, or bought the right system. Robin J Emdon makes the case that we've been aiming at the wrong target entirely. Procrastination isn't a discipline failure; it's an emotional one. It's a survival instinct doing exactly what it was built to do, which is why "try harder" so rarely works and why the cupboard full of abandoned planners keeps growing. Robin trained as a life coach with Tony Robbins back in 2001, raised two sons on his own, and then had a coffee-shop epiphany in 2019 that sent him through more than 900 studies on procrastination. The result is his book, Get Resultsology: The Science of Getting Stuff Done — an arts-and-humanities translation of the science into plain English. Our conversation moves from why we stall, to why…
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