Dr. Adam Grant: How to Unlock Your Potential, Motivation & Unique Abilities

I think this goes to why people procrastinate, which is a lot of people think it's laziness ... You're not avoiding work when you procrastinate ... It's not that you're being lazy; it's that you're avoiding negative emotions that a task stirs up.

In order for moderate procrastination to fuel creativity, you have to be intrinsically motivated by the thing you're procrastinating on.

When intrinsic motivation is difficult to find, what you want to substitute with is a sense of purpose. Maybe a better way to say that is when the process is not interesting to you, you need to find a meaningful outcome.

I don't think that rewards should be carrots that we dangle to try to control people's behavior; I think they should be symbols of how much we appreciate and value a particular behavior.

There was some evidence during COVID that people have their best meetings right after lunch. They're something like 30% less likely to multitask in an after-lunch meeting.

I read a series of I think it was three studies recently showing that early birds actually did do more creative in the morning.

The peak of creativity is in the middle of procrastination.