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What exactly is procrastination, and how is it different from simply deciding to postpone something? Why is chronic procrastination so common, and why can it affect highly conscientious and productive people just as much as anyone else? Are there really different types of procrastination, and why does it matter whether someone is procrastinating because of anxiety, distraction, burnout, impulsivity, or perfectionism? How does anxiety turn an unpleasant task into something we continually avoid? Why can anxiety sometimes motivate action while overwhelming anxiety instead leaves us paralyzed? What happens when we repeatedly use procrastination to make ourselves feel better in the short term? Why does that temporary relief reinforce the very behavior that makes things worse in the long term? How do digital distractions differ from internal distractions such as boredom and frustration? And why can procrastination persist even when we genuinely care about the thing we're putting off?
Itamar Shatz created Solving Procrastination to help people understand and overcome procrastination, based on insights that he synthesized from hundreds of research articles, and holds a PhD from Cambridge University, where is an affiliated lecturer teaching quantitative research methods.
Links:
- Itamar's Latest Book: Solving Procrastination
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