Why You Leave Everything Until the Last Moment | It Is Not About Motivation

Main subjects

AVAlexander VolchekDecisions, action, and self-sabotageProcrastinationChildren, parenting, and family lifeHealth, rest, and lifestyleLove

Main threads of the conversation

• 02:35Why we put off important tasks
• 04:47“I need to be under pressure”: what lies behind it
• 05:54Why a person or project can suddenly give you energy
• 08:10Why working more does not mean earning more
• 11:27Procrastination or inability to do the task
• 12:04How we assess our own abilities
• 13:50False standards of work and productivity
• 18:00The real reasons people do not act
• 20:57Doing things at the last minute is not always a problem
• 21:57How to approach Alexander's reflections
• 27:21What makes a life correct or incorrect

Claims made here

Individual claims identified in the material: who said them, when, and what kind of thought they express. Each timestamp opens that point in the video.

• 00:48

  I think this video will change how you perceive your own system of motivation, and you will begin acting differently, in a way that is better for you as a human being and for other people.

  Alexander Volchek

• 05:55

  They think, “That means it is right and important to be with this person. It is a sign that we should work together.”

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• 09:10

  My wife turned to my son and said, “Do you know how long you have to work to earn enough for a house like this?” Then we left and walked down the street.

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• 16:13

  Very often, money ends up going to people who are actually mentally unstable and crazy—crazy in a particular area, people outside the norm.

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• 16:56

  Here in Silicon Valley, with its tech businesses, people like to single out tech entrepreneurs—or entrepreneurs generally. I have also followed that path in my life, or you could say I am still on it.

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• 17:13

  Tech business has always been one strand of my work. But I have never agreed with these standards, such as the idea that startup owners work more than anyone else.

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• 20:50

  So there is no problem, Olya, in someone not having done something at all.

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• 23:23

  That means I do not favor either person.

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• 23:51

  The person who came to me heard this very clearly: I regard both people in the conflict equally as human beings.

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• 25:12

  Receive this content with your entire spiritual being, with everything you truly are, rather than only your first and last name or the person you are at this particular moment.

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