Akrasia: The Challenge of Knowing vs. Doing | 371

About this episode

This episode explores the reasons behind procrastination and offers strategies to overcome it.

How often do you put things off? Why do you put things off that you know you should do? Maybe waiting for circumstances to be just right before you make a change? In this week’s episode we’re going to dive a deeper into why put things off, and what you can do to build momentum, and move forward. “It is not that we have a short space of time, but that we waste much of it. Life is long enough, and it has been given in sufficiently generous measure to allow the accomplishment of the very greatest things if the whole of it is well invested.” ― Seneca

People in this episode

Host: Erick Cloward

Topics covered

• akrasia
• procrastination
• self-improvement
• motivation
• philosophy

Keywords

• akrasia
• procrastination
• motivation
• Seneca
• self-discipline

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