The Mental Birthplace of Procrastination

Using Psychology To Stop Procrastinating is an eBook dedicated to the issue of understanding and resolving procrastination with the help of psychology. Here's an excerpt from it which showcases who the mind of a young human individual discovers this phenomena and what is the mental and emotional context in which it is usually created.

Procrastination and the fallacy of the "Why" Issue

Copyright: JD

An article IOL recently explored procrastination from many different perspectives, including the now already famous Tim Urban’s Ted speech (the owner of the blog Wait But Why) about this issue. Inside of it, many several interesting ideas are presented, including the key notion which states:

“Interestingly, research suggests that one of the most effective things that procrastinators can do is to forgive themselves for procrastinating. In a study by Pychyl and others, students who reported forgiving themselves for procrastinating on studying for a first exam ended up procrastinating less for a second exam.”

Here, the essential aspect of procrastinating is presented, exceedingly similar to the basic premise of my eBook Using Psychology to Stop Procrastinating. But, at the same time, this is also the spot where the paradoxical nature of the entire article (and general public attitude to procrastination) is shown – from the first moment, right in the title, the article begins its quest for the answered on the “why do some people procrastinate” issue, which is a faulty starting point.