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.

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Show Notes

• According to Wikipedia: Procrastination


• According to Wikipedia: Tomb Raider 2013 (video game)


• YouTube: Tomb Raider official trailer ↓

• Loadout (video game)


• YouTube: Loadout official game trailer ↓

• ElephantWords.co.uk


• NaNoWriMo—otherwise known as National Novel Writing Month


• YouTube: Stewie on Brian’s novel (Family Guy) ↓

• According to Wikipedia: Bill Sienkiewicz


• According to Wikipedia: Walt Simonson


• Back to Work—the podcast from Merlin Mann and Dan Benjamin


• Merlin Mann


• Dan Benjamin


• Amazon: “What’s Stopping You?” by Robert Kelsey


• Amazon: “The Creative Habit” by Twyla Tharpe


• MOMBcast—the podcast from MOMBcomics.com


• Thought Bubble comic art festival


• DailyMotion: Spaced—Brian, painter, loser


• Lem, maker of Bunny Comic


• Andrew Tunney, make of Girl & Boy


• According to Wikipedia: Jonathan Coulton


• 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 ↓
  
  

Further material

• “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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