{"podcast":{"title":"PRODUCTIVITY","slug":"productivity-6443634","podcast_index_feed_id":6443634,"rss_url":"https://rss.buzzsprout.com/2154246.rss","website_url":"https://theproductivitypodcast.com","image_url":"https://storage.buzzsprout.com/55b8se0egh97kbdj76nsga5ig0c8?.jpg","author":"Brandon White","episode_count":310,"summary":"The PRODUCTIVITY Podcast brings you science backed productivity tactics, techniques, and procedures that work so you can get the most out of your time, talent and ideas. You get one productivity episode a day in a short, productive, episode that gives you actionable playbooks to put the ideas to work for yourself. Your Host Brandon White has been an entrepreneur in the trenches for over two decades. He has his Masters in Psychology, MBA, and is a certified Expert Tiny Habits Coach studying with BJ Fogg from Standford's Behavioral Design Lab. With real life experience , Brandon knows he'll never get everything done in a day, but he's figured out the best productivity strategies and products that are force multipliers to get the most out of a day in your personal and professional life. Listen in for your daily productivity tips.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-07T06:21:44.379476+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/productivity-6443634"},"episode":{"title":"Learned Industriousness: How to Train Your Brain to Enjoy Hard Work","slug":"learned-industriousness-how-to-train-your-brain-to-enjoy-hard-work","published_at":"2026-05-14T07:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/productivity-6443634/learned-industriousness-how-to-train-your-brain-to-enjoy-hard-work","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/productivity-6443634","url":"https://www.buzzsprout.com/2154246/episodes/19174275-learned-industriousness-how-to-train-your-brain-to-enjoy-hard-work.mp3","audio_url":"https://www.buzzsprout.com/2154246/episodes/19174275-learned-industriousness-how-to-train-your-brain-to-enjoy-hard-work.mp3","summary":"Learned industriousness is, what psychology says about why high effort tasks can become genuinely rewarding, and 3 protocols for training your brain to stop dreading hard work and start craving it. STUDY CITATION Eisenberger, R. (1992). Learned industriousness. Psychological Review, 99(2), 248–267. Make sure you hit \"FOLLOW\" in your podcast player so you never miss an episode of the PRODUCTIVITY Podcast SUPPORT OUR SPONSOR Trevally: A Home for All Your Family, Friends and Colleagues One l...","meta_description":"Learned industriousness is, what psychology says about why high effort tasks can become genuinely rewarding, and 3 protocols for training your brain to st…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":310,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/productivity-6443634/episodes/learned-industriousness-how-to-train-your-brain-to-enjoy-hard-work/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/productivity-6443634/learned-industriousness-how-to-train-your-brain-to-enjoy-hard-work.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}