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Why people procrastinate.

Why people procrastinate.

People often assume that procrastination is simply a matter of willpower, but in reality, the situation is far more complex than that.

However, there are also various demotivating factors that we can experience , For example, anxiety, fear of failure, and other negative emotions can cause us to delay unnecessarily, as can being given a task that is unpleasant.This causes us to fail to self-regulate our behavior, which means that we postpone things unnecessarily, even when we know we should be doing them, which is why procrastination often leads to a gap between how we intend to act.

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