Putting off Procrastination By Stefan Molyneux

Putting off Procrastination By Stefan Molyneux

I’m venturing in to the world of (psycho) philosophers lately and my latest discovery is , host of the Freedomain Radio. He is a man both loved and demonized for his liberal opinions. Reason why I invited him to speak at the upcoming in Amsterdam this April. A little controversy, never killed no party.

In this video Stefan explains why you procrastinate and how to stop. It seems like the more we connect online, the more productive we get. It was never easier to launch new ideas and start new businesses but at the same time our attention span decreases to the size of a fly. There’s so much going on that simply finishing your tasks is more challenging than ever.

I think everyone should have 30 minutes to watch a guy tell a great story but I’ll give you a short abstract as well (you scratch & win mentality people!):

Spoiler alert
Stefan’s opinion is that we suffer from procrastination because as children we are treaded as slaves. Children are not often consulted about their opinion or being asked for feedback. At home and at school children are being told what to do, this is just the way parenting works. But the thing is: We don’t really shake off this ‘trauma’ when we grow up. Every to-do today can still feel like an order that we passive aggressively want to resist. Procrastination is not natural, it’s a scar tissue. So what we need to do is: Stop ordering ourselves around and really choose for the things we want to do. We need to stop externalizing our have-to’s and focus on why we ‘want’ to do the things we ‘need’ to do.

Ok now get to work everybody! 🙂

What is Hypnosis & NLP ?

Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) is a pseudoscientific approach to communication, personal development, and psychotherapy created by Richard Bandler and John Grinder in California, United States, in the 1970s. NLP’s creators claim there is a connection between neurological processes (neuro-), language (linguistic) and behavioral patterns learned through experience (programming), and that these can be changed to achieve specific goals in life. Bandler and Grinder also claim that NLP methodology can “model” the skills of exceptional people, allowing anyone to acquire those skills. They claim as well that, often in a single session, NLP can treat problems such as phobias, depression, tic disorders, psychosomatic illnesses, near-sightedness, allergy, the common cold, and learning disorders.NLP has been adopted by some hypnotherapists and also by companies that run seminars marketed as leadership training to businesses and government agencies.

There is no scientific evidence supporting the claims made by NLP advocates, and it has been discredited as a pseudoscience.Scientific reviews state that NLP is based on outdated metaphors of how the brain works that are inconsistent with current neurological theory and contain numerous factual errors. Reviews also found that all^{[dubious – discuss]} of the supportive research on NLP contained significant methodological flaws and that there were three times as many studies of a much higher quality that failed to reproduce the “extraordinary claims” made by Bandler, Grinder, and other NLP practitioners.

Putting off Procrastination By Stefan Molyneux