Hey, what's up y'all? This is Eric Andre.

I made a podcast called Bombing about absolutely tanking on stage.

I tell gnarly stories, and I talk to friends about their worst moments of bombing in all sorts of ways.

Bombing on stage, bombing in public, bombing in life.

Like the time I stole a girl's phone during a set and she dumped on stage and threw a big haymaker punch to my nose.

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Good morning.

This is Laura.

Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.

Today's tip is to beware of activity that is posing as productivity, but is actually procrastination.

So we've probably all had a task we needed to complete, or an important project we needed to start, but that we kept delaying because it was hard or intimidating.

As productive people, we don't like sitting around twiddling our thumbs so if we are looking to avoid

something we often do something else that looks productive that might mean preparing extensively for a meeting

this afternoon that isn't really all that important instead of returning a call from a prickly colleague

it could be getting to inbox zero instead of returning a call from a prickly colleague. It could be getting to inbox zero instead of editing a book chapter.

I have seen this referred to as

procrastivity, a mashup of productivity and procrastination.

And I'm guessing we have all been guilty of this at one point

or another. I also think it is helpful to give this behavior a name. When a behavior has a name,

it is easier to recognize it and redirect ourselves. So if you realize you're doing something that is not especially important

in order to avoid something else, ask yourself, is this procrastivity? If you have to say yes,

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