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Surefire Technique to Get It Done: Short Scoping Ep63

Surefire Technique to Get It Done: Short Scoping Ep63

FromHow to Save the World | The Psychology & Science of Environmental Behavior


Surefire Technique to Get It Done: Short Scoping Ep63

FromHow to Save the World | The Psychology & Science of Environmental Behavior

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Length:
12 minutes
Released:
Sep 5, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

You probably have a new website you're trying to launch, a blog you need to finish, an app you're trying to complete, a presentation you need to give, and several unfinished art projects in your closet. I see you. I know you!
In this episode, I share my own personal technique for getting complex things finished and shipped. I call it "short scoping."
To "Short scope" is the opposite to "scope creep" or "feature creep" where are ideas get more branches and features as we work on them until they turn into unmanageable, unfinishable, and expensive behemoths.
As someone who is afflicted by many ideas, often coming at me at the same time, and who is inspired to work on different things, being able to "short scope" a project to make a chunk of deliverable work is the only reason why anything I do gets out.
Without short scoping, my life's work down in a molasses of compounding new ideas and intricate feature-creeps dragging it down to bottom of the sea of unfinished projects.
It's simple and it WORKS. Try it out and let me know how it goes!

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How to Save the World is a podcast about the psychology of what gets people to do eco-behaviors and take climate action: Environmental engineer, designer, and author, Katie Patrick, hunts down the latest behavioral science literature from top universities such as Harvard, MIT, and Stanford to unearth the evidence-based teachings you can use to rapidly get more people to adopt your environmental campaign, program, or product.
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Released:
Sep 5, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

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What *really* gets people to take action for the planet? Environmental engineer, designer, and author, Katie Patrick, takes you on a wild intellectual journey into the heart of the environmental psyche. Katie hunts down the latest behavioral science literature from top universities such as Harvard, MIT, and Stanford to unearth the evidence-based teachings you can use to get more people to adopt your environmental campaign, product, or behavior. Warning: Best for deep sustainability nerds. Sign up for Katie's free course on climate action + gamification design at http://katiepatrick.com.