The Science Behind Why You Procrastinate

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Want to stop procrastinating so much? The first step is to learn exactly WHY you procrastinate - why your brain loves to put off important work in favor of instant gratification.

In this first installment of a 3-part mini-series, we'll be digging into the science of procrastination.

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[Thomasfrank]

Lol i'm procrastinating by watching this video haha 🤣🤣🤣

[mysterym]

Expectancy,
reward,
value,
motivation,


Long ago, the four nations lived together in harmony.


Then everything changed when the Procrasti _nation_ attacked. 🔥

[fernandogomezdelatorre]

I personally procrastinate when I have lots of things to do. That's why I found it very helpful to divide my work into little pieces, that way I don't feel so overwhelmed and accomplish more!

[nataliehaviland]

One of my favourite aspects of Thomas’s videos is that they’re backed up by a lot of research - which also provides the viewer further, more in-depth resources to explore the topic at hand!

[kengee]

Please please upload the next part as soon as possible. I beg of you 🙇

[itsyourbro]

Now I'm gonna stop procrastinate and pause this video and finish my test syllabus before date.

I got motivated by just watching 6 minutes of the video.😛😠

[katieinman]

Why do you always put out the perfect videos at the perfect time?

Edit: 2 more videos on procrastination? Awesome! I'm a chronic procrastinator. I'm not proud of it. Mostly it's due to a lack of motivation to do any of the schoolwork.

[abbyc]

i can vouch for the lycanthropy thing
man EVERY TIME i procrastinate, i become a wolf

[pincherty]

what I like about your channel is that you offer practical advice in most of your videos that we could apply right away, instead of just trying to motivate us (I don't believe in motivational speakers) and giving us a few tips here and there

[weirdrage]

I don’t procrastinate much at work (I did quite badly when I studied), but then on my days off I procrastinate in all of my free time putting off cleaning, tidying, working out, walking the dog, gardening. And sometimes I’ll only end up during a chore to put off doing a different one even though I know the end result of everything will make my life better 😖

[samuvisser]

Wow.. Just wow. This is so good! It totally is helping me getting through a very hard period with lots of exams. Love how scientific it is, but yet so interesting :) And btw, really disappointed in the comments here mostly talking about how people are procrastinating right now. This video deserves so much more!

[chooyongming]

At first, I thought why is this in my recommended...




then finally I realised I have an important assignment to finish and luckily I have 12 hrs to finish it, luckily it isn't just 1 hr left.
Thanks for your video and youtube's recommended section is really weird to be honest.

[adrianasuniverse]

You can't just follow your passion sometimes, I still have 2 1/2 years of high school left and I hate it but I need to keep working hard so I can end up doing my dream job.

[mememem]

Thanks for the timely upload I was just about to start doing my work

[thisisthelukas]

10:15 Yeah, I totally agree. I'm studying biology at university, and yet still, things relevant to my interests cause my procrastination centers to go "LET'S DO THIS LATER." I love so much about biology and I'm almost 100% sure this is where I want to be, but good god getting some of the work done (like drawing out the JAK-STAT signaling pathway and understanding the causes and consequences) can feel like a large burden.

[Martin-dgit]

The irony is that you've just caught me procrastinating once again...

I need to do something about it.

[RangerRuby]

Procrastinate is so annoying but I do not know anyone who has never procrastinated. I'm glad you give these tips to get better though!

[ramyakrohanmohanty]

@Thomas Frank huge fan here! Love your videos...


A request: PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE make a video about Self Confidence and how to develop it.

[KCobb]

*In the middle of procrastinating homework assignments* *video pops up on why I lol

[gabrielaandrade]

Hi Thomás, I just want say that I know that you don’t have a lot of views on videos like this now, but don’t give up because this videos are just incredible. Please don’t give up on them. You, the Chanel on it self is just diferent and that is what make special, so don’t give up. Thanks for your possible atention! 👊🏼🙂( i am a big fan 😘)