Understanding Procrastination
Before we begin to provide possible solutions to procrastination, we need to know what it is and why it occurs. For this reason, we could start by saying that procrastination consists of deliberately stopping doing an activity because we have the belief that it is not pleasant.
On the other hand, one of its possible causes is the lack of specificity of the activity. Actually, we want not to carry out an activity for a long time because in our head we see it in fog, we have an idea that it exists, but not of its details.
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