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Other causes of precrastination
- Cheap satisfaction: we get immediate satisfaction from checking off the little things on our to-do lists.
- Survival instinct: going after the easy, low-hanging fruit in life probably made more sense in our history than putting things off in order to get a long-term payoff.
- Time management vs Energy management: most of us are taught to think about work and productivity in terms of managing our time well.
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The ultimate cause of precrastination is short-term, emotionally-driven decision-making.
Just like in procrastination, precrastination involves making a decision based on what feels good in the moment rather than what’s in our long-term best interest.
This is the compulsion to immediately work on new tasks, despite long-term costs and tradeoffs.
While the procrastinator delays important tasks too long, the precrastinator doesn’t delay unimportant tasks long enough.
- Awareness is always the first step. It’s difficult to stop doing something if you’re not aware that you’re doing it in the first place.
- Practice emotional tolerance: precrastination is all about emotion. This means that working through precrastination will always invol...
This is the compulsion to immediately work on new tasks, despite long-term costs and tradeoffs.
While the procrastinator delays important tasks too long, the precrastinator doesn’t delay unimportant tasks long enough.
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When you don't feel like working on your tasks, take a few moments to plan your day.
Even if you do it as a form of procrastination, to postpone doing the actual work, it will help you by keeping you on track for the rest of the day.
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- The reason that to-do list is never completed and that never feel like getting enough done has far less to do with procrastination, than with the chronic habit of overcommitting to work, and then underestimating how long that work will take me.
- Once you understood t...
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Procrastination or intentional delay?
Often people confuse the two, procrastination is the act of postponing a task. It can also be defined as the force that prevents you from following through. However, the intentional delay is more deliberate. For example, a student who has to hand in an ...
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