Episode 73 - QUICK & EASY Projects vs. SLOW Masterpieces - Which are YOU & WHY? (w/ Dr. Brad Appelhans)

Do you gravitate towards the quick and easy weekend project or the long haul masterpiece?  The answer likely depends on your brain chemistry, your work/life schedule and availability, and your innate ability to tolerate delayed gratification.

In this episode, our next installment of The Psychology Series, we tackle this FASCINATING Question with the help of Dr. Brad Appelhans, a PhD psychologist and professor at Rush University Medical Center who has spent his career studying immediate vs. delayed gratification, and by the way, IS ALSO A WOODWORKER.  Together we dig into whether our brains prefer the small reward now over the bigger one later, and what that means for all of us in our artistic journey.

In this episode:

• Brad's "slow vending machine" experiment, and why a 25 second delay is all it takes to change a not-so-good choice
• The famous marshmallow test of immediate vs. delayed gratification
• Paul's "mini boss" method for surviving 300-hour+ projects
• The hot-cold empathy gap: why your future self might regret all those cutting boards
• "Failure to launch": why new woodworkers (even surgeons) give up quickly
• Brad's strategies for playing the long game: commitment, shrinking the time horizon, choice bundling, and episodic future thinking
• A lightning round that gets….. Well, let’s say “revealing”

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