Closing the Akrasia Gap: A Toolkit for the Moment Between Knowing and Doing

Philosopheasy Podcast · Oct 21, 2026 · 21m

Listen first. This week’s episode, above, tells the whole story. This article is the companion.

“No, I’ll definitely start on Monday. Monday’s good. Monday I’m a different person.”

A man said this into his phone on the 17:42 to Reading, loudly enough for the whole carriage. It was a Thursday. He sounded delighted.

What stuck with me was that he wasn’t embarrassed. He was having a lovely time. Saying ‘Monday’ felt good all by itself. You get to be the man who has decided, and I think that was most of what he was after. He’d likely said it before. The sentence didn’t need Monday to arrive…