Psychologyspeaking topic
Procrastination and overvaluing the present moment: we sacrifice tomorrow's reward for a small comfort today. Why do we keep putting off the thing we genuinely believe we'll do tomorrow?
— temporal discounting
practice with this topic
Set the timer (5-30 min), take 20 seconds of prep if you like, start talking. Jot your thoughts onto the sticky-note board.
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