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Back to Search#92: Your writing-anxiety Sliding Doors moment
Episode 92
Remember that movie, Sliding Doors? Gwyneth Paltrow's character lost her job and then we saw how her life unfolded in dramatically different ways, de…
2 years, 1 month ago
#91: Sartre, 3pm, and writing off writing days
Episode 91
Does your writing time ever turn into a stressful nightmare? You don't make the progress you hoped in the morning, which means you need to be even mo…
2 years, 1 month ago
#90: The surprising productivity of rest
Episode 90
Athletes know that if they want to improve their performance, they need to incorporate rest into their training. You, on the other hand, are absolute…
2 years, 2 months ago
#89: Doubting your willpower is holding you back
Episode 89
Do you ever tell yourself that it's your own fault that you don't have what you want in life, because you just don't have the willpower do get it? If…
2 years, 2 months ago
#88: How to be a quitter
Episode 88
Never give up, right? Winners never quit and quitters never win! All nonsense, I'm afraid. The sensible advice is much more measured and boring: quit…
2 years, 3 months ago
#87: You're overlooking your unique value
Episode 87
Did you know that your brain never devotes more than 0.5% of its power to important things like finding food, avoiding predators, thinking, perceivin…
2 years, 3 months ago
#86: Every Academic Imperfectionist episode, summarised
Episode 86
I've been thinking: how might someone summarise the main bits of advice from all 85 (so far) episodes of this podcast? Gather round the virtual campf…
2 years, 4 months ago
#85: The fundamental attribution error is ruining your life
Episode 85
Perhaps you're already familiar with what social psychologists have had to say about the fundamental attribution error, but did you know that it has …
2 years, 4 months ago
#84: The underappreciated value of waiting for success
Episode 84
Where did we all get this idea that if we want to succeed, we need to go faster? And that if we haven't succeeded yet, that must mean that we're prob…
2 years, 4 months ago
#83: How to be happy
Episode 83
No, not like that. I'm not talking about how to achieve the ultimate happiness, eudaimonia, or enlightenment. I'm simply talking about how to enjoy y…
2 years, 5 months ago