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Leveraging Self-Control: An interesting strategy for coping with procrastination

Published: June 30, 2010, 7:21 p.m.

b'This is the last podcast of my sabbatical year. Don\'t worry, I will continue my regular schedule for the summer. This week, I am summarizing a key idea from a chapter in a recent book entitled The Thief of Time: Philosophical Essays on Procrastination. Chrisoula Andreou, a philosopher from the University of Utah, argues that we can use self-control in one area of our lives where we don\'t procrastinate to help us achieve goals in other areas of our lives where we seem to lack self-control. I explain how this works with the notion of local traits.

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