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From the Ted Talk by Ayelet Fishbach: 4 proven ways to kick your procrastination habit

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WPR: I mean, in your research, have you found that people of different backgrounds, you know, by age or gender or race, that they experience motivation drifnletefy or that there are certain strategies that are more helpful?

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WPR: I mean, in your research, have you found that people of different backgrounds, you know, by age or gender or race, that they experience motivation ___________ or that there are certain strategies that are more helpful?

AF: There is a lot of research on _____________ _______. You _______ up several other variables that just get me thinking in like, ten different directions right now. So let me focus on the age. There are some really interesting developmental effects. Self-control develops with age, so the ability to put aside something because there is something more important that you want to do, that's something that develops into your 20s and that suggests that maybe there is another reason why we should stop calling our teenagers “procrastinators” and blaming them for lack of self-control. They are still __________ it. At a later age, we see that as people's resources, our physical _________ are on the decline, then there are new challenges. And I briefly touch the idea that you often need to find a compromise between several goals, and you need to think about how you ______ several goals at the same time. In research, we often look at this in _____ of finding activities and we refer to them as multi-final. They achieve more than one goal.

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Original Text


WPR: I mean, in your research, have you found that people of different backgrounds, you know, by age or gender or race, that they experience motivation differently or that there are certain strategies that are more helpful?

AF: There is a lot of research on developmental effects. You brought up several other variables that just get me thinking in like, ten different directions right now. So let me focus on the age. There are some really interesting developmental effects. Self-control develops with age, so the ability to put aside something because there is something more important that you want to do, that's something that develops into your 20s and that suggests that maybe there is another reason why we should stop calling our teenagers “procrastinators” and blaming them for lack of self-control. They are still developing it. At a later age, we see that as people's resources, our physical resources are on the decline, then there are new challenges. And I briefly touch the idea that you often need to find a compromise between several goals, and you need to think about how you pursue several goals at the same time. In research, we often look at this in terms of finding activities and we refer to them as multi-final. They achieve more than one goal.

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