Do you know why do you procrastinate?
Procrastination is an act of delaying and postponing tasks/assignments at hand despite knowing its ill effects. Apparently, it seems quite satisfactory to procrastinate however, the results therefore, are relatively atrocious. According to a study 95 percent of people are involved in procrastination to some extent. Procrastination is often confused with laziness but they are different things altogether. Laziness indicates inactiveness, reluctance to do or perform tasks. Procrastination is an act of putting off or postponing important tasks for less important ones; and preferring pleasurable and easy tasks over hard but important tasks. It’s a blend of multiple psychological issues.
Piers Steel, a business Professor at the university of Calgary, concluded in a 2007 study that 80 to 95 percent of college students are indulged in procrastination; around 75 percent consider themselves procrastinators, and nearly 50 percent procrastinate constantly and problematically.
Students procrastinate because they don’t see how a task is relevant or of significance to them. They don’t understand the material, or just don’t know how to commence the work.
Here are some reasons why do people procrastinate, look through them and find yours also:
- Incompetence: Some people procrastinate because they lack the required skill vital to perform a particular task. So, they keep up an avoidance behavior and they just pretend to be not wanting to put effort rather than confessing that they lack skills. “The chronic procrastinator, the person who does this as a lifestyle, would rather have other people think that they lack effort than lacking ability,”. “It’s a maladaptive lifestyle.” says Dr. Ferrari, a professor of Psychology at University of Chicago.
- Reluctance to face undesirable consequences: Are you afraid of impending failure? It’s also a cause of procrastination. Fear is a negative response to some emotional stress. Fear runs on the mechanism of fight or flight where you either fight with the fear and face it or you just run away. So in the case of procrastination, people tend to run away out of fear of facing failure. They fear failure of not doing good in their respective jobs, similarly students fear results of their exams. Different fears stem from different mindsets that lead to procrastination.
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