Dear Mark: Why Do We Procrastinate and How Do We Beat It?

September 3, 2012

pimg class=”alignright” title=”Procrastination” src=”http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg158/MDA2008/MDA%202011/procrastination.jpg” alt=”procrastination” width=”320″ height=”212″ /Do you procrastinate? If you#8217;re an actual human being #8211; not a replicant, nor an android, nor an AI #8211; and you#8217;re being honest, then you should probably be nodding your head. But what#8217;s odd about a ubiquitous behavior like procrastination is that it#8217;s almost unanimously regarded as being detrimental to our success, our happiness, and our progress as human beings, and yet we still put things off until later. Counterintuitive yet persistent behaviors fascinate me to no end, because they suggest (at least to me) an evolutionary incongruence at hand. They suggest that in another context, another environment, the counterintuitive was anything but./p
pIs procrastination just such a behavior? Let#8217;s explore:/p
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pI have noticed that procrastination is a huge problem for many of my friends and colleagues. I know that I too will make myself miserable by putting a project off until the very […]

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