📅 🕚 Why Do You Keep Not Doing the Thing? Procrastination + Self-Control

Why we picked it

Podcast discussion night - Huberman Lab x Dr. Kentaro Fujita You know the thing you should do. The email. The workout. The project. The book you keep restarting. The life admin that somehow becomes emotionally radioactive. The one task that would take 20 minutes, except you've been carrying it around in your head for three weeks like a cursed object. This meetup is built around Huberman Lab episode 280: "Master Self Control & Overcome Procrastination" with Dr. Kentaro Fujita, a psychology professor at The Ohio State University who studies self-control and motivation. But this is not a "wake up at 5 AM and become a productivity machine" night. I'm much more interested in the human version: Why do we stall? Why does willpower fail? Why do we confuse discipline with rigidity? Why does burnout make even simple tasks feel impossible? And what if self-control is less about fighting yourself and more about understanding what you're actually avoiding? This replaces the third June Silent Readin