Formula For Procrastination Found

kandela writes "Science Daily reports that a University of Calgary academic has published a paper titled The Nature of Procrastination: A Meta-Analytic and Theoretical Review of Quintessential Self-Regulatory Failure in the Psychological Bulletin. The research reveals that most people's New Year's resolutions are doomed to failure, most self-help books have it completely wrong when they say perfectionism is at the root of procrastination, and procrastination can be explained by a single mathematical equation. The research is apparently the culmination of 10 years work. However, no indication was given of how much time was spent putting it off before it was begun." From the article: "Essentially, procrastinators have less confidence in themselves, less expectancy that they can actually complete a task... Perfectionism is not the culprit. In fact, perfectionists actually procrastinate less, but they worry about it more."

Comments

Second post!

[Commander Doofus]

I was trying for the first post, but put it off too long.

Meh.

[numbski]

I'll deal with it later. :\

Re:That's great!

[AchiIIe]

Well, I was going to tag it on del.icio.us as toRead ... and read it later, good thing I read your entry. Joking aside the artice does not say anything about avoiding it, and I've tried everything, from egg timers to google calendar to elastic bands on the wrist (smack yourself when you catch yourself doing a bad habit) (see http://www.amazon.com/Snap-Out-Herbert-S-Cohen/dp/ 0871318962 )

I've given up and now accept my procrastination as a way of life