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What’s the real meaning of procrastination? What are some common misconceptions about procrastination?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Solving the Procrastination Puzzle<\/em>, Timothy A. Pychyl explains what procrastination is and what procrastination isn’t. More specifically, he addresses the idea that we procrastinate because we’re bad at managing our time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Keep reading to learn why procrastination originates from unregulated emotions, not bad time management.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Procrastination Isn\u2019t About Time, But Emotions <\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

What is the real meaning of procrastination? According to Pychyl, procrastination is a choice to postpone a task you need to complete, even though you know that negative consequences will follow<\/strong>. Pychyl explains that when you choose to procrastinate<\/a>, you deliberately make a decision<\/a> that sabotages your progress toward your goals. But your knowledge that there will be consequences doesn\u2019t make the habit any easier to overcome. That\u2019s because procrastination isn\u2019t rational: Instead, it\u2019s driven by emotions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You\u2019ve likely heard that procrastination results from a failure of the cognitive capacity psychologists call self-regulation<\/em>: the ability to manage your emotions<\/a>, attention, and behavior so you can work toward your goals or act according to your values. Pychyl contends that procrastination is specifically a failure of <\/strong>emotion regulation<\/em><\/strong>. He explains that you procrastinate because you want to feel positive emotions<\/a>, and you achieve that by avoiding tasks that make you feel negative emotions about your work or yourself. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We associate all kinds of negative emotions with the tasks we procrastinate on<\/strong>. For example, you might put off reading a proposal at work because you anticipate being bored by it. Or you might delay assembling the desk your partner asked you to build because you\u2019re worried you\u2019ll struggle with the instructions\u2014being defeated by an Ikea desk would be pretty humiliating.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By avoiding negative emotions, we get to feel better temporarily. However, as Pychyl points out, we typically feel bad about procrastinating, so we don\u2019t get to opt out of negative emotions altogether. Nonetheless, we choose to \u201cfeel good\u201d for the moment<\/strong> by both avoiding an unpleasant task and imagining ourselves accomplishing that task some other time\u2014like \u201clater\u201d or \u201ctomorrow.\u201d The problem is that this doesn\u2019t happen just once: Procrastination becomes a habit, one prompted by the thoughts or feelings we associate with a task<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not Every Delay Is Caused by Procrastination<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Before we dig further into what causes procrastination<\/a> and how you can overcome it, Pychyl contends that it\u2019s important to learn to tell the difference between procrastination and more productive kinds of delays<\/strong> that can temporarily impede your progress toward your goals. He points out that it\u2019s sometimes necessary to put a task on the back burner, for all kinds of practical (and rational) reasons. To work toward your most important goals or fulfill the obligations of your most significant roles, you often have to put one task ahead of the other things on your agenda<\/strong>, handling the most important or most time-sensitive things first. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Shortform note: Figuring out which tasks to prioritize is crucial to productivity. Just as reducing procrastination isn\u2019t so much a problem of time management as of emotion regulation, experts say optimizing your productivity is less about managing your time<\/a> and more about managing your attention. Psychologist and Originals<\/em><\/a> <\/em>author Adam Grant explains that when you choose what to prioritize, you shouldn\u2019t just set aside a specific amount of time for a task. Instead, you should motivate yourself<\/a> to spend whatever time the task takes by reminding yourself why it\u2019s meaningful. That way, the task will hold your attention, and you can make the most productive use of your time\u2014minimizing how long you have to delay the other tasks on your agenda.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prioritizing inevitably leads to putting off some tasks, but Pychyl emphasizes that\u2019s not the same thing as procrastination. For example, you might have to push back a project at work to stay home with your child when they catch the flu. You\u2019re delaying something you need to do, but you\u2019re doing it to take care of something more important. Pychyl says these delays don\u2019t qualify as procrastination. Procrastination only happens when we deliberately put off a task that we could (and should) begin right away<\/strong>. You can recognize procrastination because you\u2019re not putting the task off for a rational reason: Instead, you don\u2019t feel like getting started on it, so you defer it until \u201clater\u201d or \u201ctomorrow.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Shortform note: Some delays are productive, as Pychyl explains. But some are procrastination in disguise: While your nervous system sometimes prompts you to put off a stressful task by doing nothing, other times, it pushes you to do everything except that task<\/a>. This is productive procrastination<\/a>: staying busy with tasks that distract you from crucial work. Some experts say you can use this tactic to move between projects<\/a> as needed. But others say it\u2019s best to build the habit of focusing on what matters most. An illustration of unproductive procrastination<\/a> is the character of Max Fischer in the 1998 film Rushmore<\/em>. Max spends so much time starting clubs, staging plays<\/a>, and \u201csaving\u201d Latin classes that he neglects what he should<\/em> be doing\u2014his schoolwork\u2014and gets expelled.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What’s the real meaning of procrastination? What are some common misconceptions about procrastination? In Solving the Procrastination Puzzle, Timothy A. Pychyl explains what procrastination is and what procrastination isn’t. More specifically, he addresses the idea that we procrastinate because we’re bad at managing our time. 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