Why you procrastinate
Researchers found four phases we go through to do a job:
- Inception: Decide to get started
- Planning: Decide how to complete the task
- Action: Perform the steps
- Termination: Define when the work is done
Triggers that lead to procrastination are: Boredom, frustration, difficulty, stressful, ambiguous, unstructured, unrewarding, and meaningless. The first four triggers tend to appear at all stages of doing a task, and the other four can happen after the work has started.
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