“You need to create an immediate reward for doing the work, not for the outcome.” danariely
, opened up about how an accident early in his life led him to study human behavior like procrastination. When he was a teenager, Dan was in a building when magnesium flares ignited. He had to run through the flames to escape, burning about 70 percent of his body. In this episode ofDan shares how conquering procrastination helped him take his medicine, overcome an illness, and look at the world in a whole new way. This transcript has been condensed and edited for clarity.
It’s about now versus later—the cookie now versus health later, watching something fun on television versus getting some more progress toward the project later. The reality is that we fail on this in all kinds of ways. We fail on this because we’re not good at it to start with. There was this analysis that looked at what percentage of human mortality happens too early—we accelerate our death because we make bad decisions.
I basically made a deal with myself. I like movies, so when I was on this hep C regimen, I made a deal with myself that every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday—which were the injection days—I would go to the video store first thing in the morning. There were video stores at the time. I would rent two or three videos I really wanted to watch. I would carry them in my backpack the whole day, looking forward to watching them. I would get home in the evening. I would put the video in the VCR.
The enemy of big projects is the fear that this is just too big—I don’t know how to start. I don’t want to look foolish. I don’t want to make a mistake. Breaking it into small components and just starting is really important.
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