Are You a Chronic Procrastinator?

The science behind procrastination.

Host and Producer: Vanessa Hill

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[arecus]

I don't even get pushed by the consequences anymore ._.

[braincraft]

I'm planning on watching this later.


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[Giga_Pudding]

I procrastinate to avoid the crushing anxiety of knowing I'll eventually fail at some point, leading to indecision, and indecision is failure.

[ftgphoto]

I will stop procrastinating starting tomorrow.

[alfieahasun]

Awks cause I'm watching this while proscrastinating :'(

[Cernunns]

*Reads the title* - YES!

*After watching* - Damn... my limbic system is really strong!

[Drudenfusz]

I even procrastinate while I am procrastinating! Yeah, I know, I am awesome like that!

[CW]

My terrible grades never motivated me to do better at school.

[allmytoonsareblue]

I think my procrastination comes from a low will to live to begin with. "I'd rather wait and see what kills me first" When it comes to getting my life in order

[EvilParagon]

Yeah, deadlines don't work for me. The closer they get the less I care that they exist and what happens happens.
Reframing doesn't work either. I'd rather do nothing for two hours with a little stress than do a task for an hour and do nothing stress free for an hour.
Finally, "don't enable them" wouldn't work on me, when I was in a group project with this other guy and he kept pressuring me into doing work I just slowly stopped showing up to class until I didn't show up at all anymore. Bad grades to me eventually just become the past, a fact of life.
Stopping me from procrastinating is almost impossible.

I'll even procrastinate on things that I don't even hate. My job is so easy and once I start I can go for hours without an issue, just starting is the issue.

Oh and I get sick all the time, whether that is my diet or procrastination I do not know.

[lostingames]

I wasn't procrastinating, I was exercising my limbic system

[Idler]

The problem is that I NEVER LEARN! I just keep procrastinating no matter what.

[Ermude]

I have a few tricks that I use, and most of the time it works quite well.

> First of all, remove any distractions. Go to a library to work, or go to a place without internet (If you need internet, download the material in advance if possible).

>I usually make a short mental list of what I need to do right now or what other productive things I can do. If I'm in the mood to procrastinate (which is often) I will reorder my list from "most fun" to "least fun" order and procrastinate the most important thing by doing something less important, but still productive.

>If I'm out of energy, I just do 20 push-ups. It's easy to do, you can do it almost anywhere and it takes less than half a minute. After that, I might have more energy to do the tasks that needs to be done.

[ChazEvansdale]

Procrastinating always made me more motivated. Writing that paper 1 week early was boring, Writing that paper the last night, or few hours was a huge motivator. Since I was never late with assignments I never learned that it could be detrimental.

Setting deadlines that have no concrete end date doesn't motivate me. I'd like help/tips for the things you can do "eventually."

[alexisfa]

My productivity has gone up since I've started doing something that I call "productive procrastination". Instead of fighting procrastination, I treat it like another task that must be done, along eating and sleeping, like it is another "body need". So, whenever I feel distracted and feel like procrastinating, I do. I watch a couple of videos or play a match or two in a game, and then back to work. I feel more relaxed and focused afterwards.
It's been working for me, and I hope it works for someone else!

[crainthorx]

The irony for me is that i procrastinate by watching a video about procrastination.

[terashewchenko]

From personal experience, negative reinforcement doesn't work for me even half as well as setting goals and positive reinforcement. Could be different for everyone but if I make myself feel bad about myself I only procrastinate more. I am WAY more motivated by telling myself I can do it and it'll be good when I do.

[williamsierrawu]

Whenever I begin to sense the feeling of laziness/procrastination, I always tell myself this, "This is your responsibility and yours alone. If you don't do it now then no one else will." After that, I just do it. Finishing everything until there's nothing left to be done. At least until the next cycle.

[keepinitbeef]

Man, that vid hit hard. I just got back from failing my chem exam for uni, found myself feeling sick leading up to it and stressing out like mad. Now that I think back, I just kept putting study off again and again. gah, thanks for the kick in the butt to get this fixed.

[TheHelleri]

Remove distractions. Sounds simple enough but it's more than telling yourself not to be distracted. It's doing things like putting your phone somewhere inconvenient. Moving a book you were going to read back to a shelf instead of leaving it on the table. Unplugging the tv or computer at night so in order to use it the next day you have to get down there and plug it all back in. That's how I get stuff done. I make it inconvenient to do anything other than what I need to get done.