Psychology professor draws on 20 years of studying often crippling issue that can affect sufferers’ careers and even health
Have you thought about tackling your procrastination but, you know … dog videos, shopping lists, catching up on Twitter, the last-ever episode of Neighbours with Mike and “plain Jane superbrain”, apparently.Fuschia Sirois
There is a lot of advice and opinion on the subject, which is not helpful, she added. “You’re lazy, go do a time-management course … show your self-discipline – ‘come on soldier!’” At its core is an irrational and emotional act, Sirois said. “Procrastination is a form of emotion regulation where sufferers avoid a task that might spark negative emotions, by disengaging with it or putting it off.”
“But we’ve done it temporarily and we’ve done it externally so it is going to come back to haunt us.”
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