You’re not stuck because you’re lazy.
Your brain is doing exactly what it was built to do, keep you inside what’s already safe and familiar.
In this clip, Emily Mcdonald and Jay Shetty break down the three reasons people procrastinate, and why none of them are about willpower.
She explains the part of your brain that writes the story of who you are, why it quietly blocks any goal that doesn’t match that story, and the study on kittens raised in a dark room that changed how she thinks about what we can and can’t see in our own lives.
Learn about the three-step process she used to rewire what she believed she already deserved, and why the thing you desperately want is the thing you’re least likely to get.
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Chapters
0:00 — Why feeling stuck is your biology working
0:56 — The three reasons people procrastinate
1:12 — The part of your brain writing your story
2:24 — Pretending you’re asleep until you are
2:57 — Be careful with the labels you give yourself
3:20 — Being afraid of your own success
3:46 — Get specific about your fears, not your goals
4:11 — Take it all the way to the end
5:14 — Delusional-level risks
5:37 — Cheap dopamine
6:18 — Withhold the reward until the task is done
7:22 — Why scrolling at night steals tomorrow’s motivation
8:56 — Discipline as looking out for future you
9:39 — Why "good job" out loud actually works
10:23 — Why wanting it too badly blocks it
11:02 — The incubation effect
12:09 — The kittens who couldn’t see table legs
14:41 — Step one: name the feeling, not the thing
16:05 — The reasons you already have to feel that way
17:11 — What you can give yourself today
18:04 — What happened two months later
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