There’s a very goodarticlein the New York Times about “positive procrastination.” Yes, that’s right, procrastination that’s agoodthing. They talk to Dr. John Perry, author ofThe Art of Procrastination, who explains a good method for leveraging your laziness: Dr. Perry was a typical s...
In the same way that your software is frequently patched and you have a good antivirus programming running in the background, we need the same for our world. And as per a recentNew York TimesSunday Review article, these patches are finally becoming available for your smart phone. Like an ...
This article from IQ Matrix says it well: “It’s human nature to gravitate towards pleasure and to seek to avoid pain. In other words, you will make most of your decisions based on acquiring pleasure while at the same time trying to avoiding pain. This works well at times, however, at...
Dr. Sirois is quoted in the New York Times as saying, “It doesn’t make sense to do something you know is going to have negative consequences.” Thus, procrastination. Similarly, other studies have found a high association between negative automatic thoughts (self-talk) and procrastination. ...
Identify when you're most effective, and do the tasks that you find most difficult at these times. Set yourself time-bound goals. Setting yourself specific deadlines to complete tasks will keep you on track to achieve your goals, and will mean that you have no time for procrastination! Use...
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New York: Oxford University Press.Procrastination and the ExtendedWill. Heath,J.,Anderson,J. The Thief of Time:Philosophical Essays on Procrastination . 2010Heath, J. & Anderson, J. (2010), Procrastination and the Extended W...
but we haven’t found a better reward, our brain is just going to keep doing it over and over until we give it something better to do,” psychiatrist and neuroscientist Dr. Judson Brewer, Director of Research and Innovation at Brown University’s Mindfulness Center, told theNew York Times....
Why You Procrastinate (It Has Nothing to Do With Self-Control:We all procrastinate at one point or another. ThisNew York Timesarticle delves into why … and as the title says, it’s not about self-control or time management. “Procrastination isn’t a unique character flaw or a mys...
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