Procrastination: Ten Things To Know
There a good article on procrastination at the Psychology Today website. The author spoke with two experts on procrastination: Joseph Ferrari, Ph.D., associate professor of psychology at De Paul University in Chicago, and Timorthy Pychyl, Ph.D., associate professor of psychology at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada.
As one of the “20 percent” that would qualify as a chronic procrastinator, I can say that there is a great deal of truth the points listed. For example,
Procrastination is not a problem of time management or of planning. Procrastinators are not different in their ability to estimate time, although they are more optimistic than others. “Telling someone who procrastinates to buy a weekly planner is like telling someone with chronic depression to just cheer up,” insists Dr. Ferrari.
If you’re frustrated by your inability to make time-management systems work, the problem my not be the system. If you are a serious procrastinator, you might need a behavioural approach to change things.
Read the article: Psychology Today: Procrastination: Ten Things To Know
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This article seems to be talking about a very different phenomenon of procrastination than what’s usually discussed on productivity blogs. Not getting started on the work project you know you should do sounds a lot different than something you need therapy for — we have a dichotomy here of ‘you need a planner’ vs ‘no you need a therapist’ — I think most of us need a third solution for what maybe we could call ordinary procrastination — along the lines of books like “Do it now” and so on.
Oh, I have a doctorate in psychology – and if I had a dime for every time having an authoritarian father was invoked as a cause for something – well, then I could procrastinate all I wanted with my earnings to support me!
I myself am a founder of the procrastination club for my area. I’d show you my membership card but I haven’t gone to get it yet:)
Interesting read, nice work.
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A friend of mine is an exceptionally effective person. He was amazed that I might want/need something like GTD. Could _not_ understand that I didn’t do everything a.s.a.p!
It’s a different world for him, I tell you