The Scientific Approach to Understanding Procrastination
Hello everyone and welcome to my blog. You all may be aware with the term procrastination and many of you may be facing this problem. According to the oxford dictionary, procrastination is the act of delaying something that you should do, usually because you do not want to do it. Procrastination is not a new phenomenon and it existed for ages. We can find many evidences from the past that shows that procrastination is an age old phenomenon. But the things only have worsened through the course of history. According to Dr. Piers Steel, one of the leading researchers in the world on the science of motivation and procrastination, there's been about a 300-400% growth in chronic procrastination in the last 40 years. Why Do We Procrastinate? But why do we procrastinate despite knowing the fact that it is bad for us and at some point in time we have do that task. Why a person does something which is harmful to them despite knowing that it is harmful. You may blame social media and other di...