Myths About Procrastination: Too Many Distractions

There's no doubt that the modern world is a fantastic place to do a lot of stuff while not doing anything. For this, a mobile device or a computer will do perfectly, thanks to the fact that any of these can provide a person with an almost infinite amount of information and entertainment.

But, the thing that scares most people is not the amount of information that is readily available, but the fact that most of us spend so much time on things that don’t really interests us, like watching random YouTube clips, Wikihopping or surfing the feeds and timelines of social media. All these things have in common the fact that we consume their content but not because we tend to do it in a premeditated manner, but more by stumbling upon them, usually when we have something else to do.

Procrastination is tightly connected with these behaviors and people tend to realize they procrastinate during periods like the ones mentioned before. However, from a psychological perspective, this notion could be explained as a need to allocate responsibility for an unwanted behavior to the outside environment, not the person who is experiencing it. This broader phenomenon is known as the Locus of Control and it is often seen in many domains of human activity, including procrastination. Because of this, many people who also have access to YouTube, Wikipedia and cat pictures still do not procrastinate, in spite of all of these distractions. Simply put, procrastination comes from the inside, not the outside.

Because of this, the problem of too many distractions can definitely be labelled a procrastination myth. From more information on how toresolve procrastination take a look at this eBook.