The Procrastination Equation

Everything you wanted to know about procrastination but put off finding out.

The Procrastination Equation - It's About Time

This video by John Kelly sums up this site

Well, having stumbled upon this Psychology Today blog, let me quickly establish what you have discovered with a video by John Kelly:

For the last decade, I have been a motivational researcher with a specialty in procrastination. I conduct research about procrastination, teach it, won awards for it, and finally wrote a book about it: The Procrastination Equation. Everything wonderful, wild, and weird about procrastination is what this blog is all about. Borrowing on John Kelly's phrasing, this is what we will explore for as long as you join me:

Procrastination is wonderful and awful. Procrastination is funny and tragic. Procrastination affects everyone, including the famous. Procrastination is hardwired into us. Procrastination can be overcome. Procrastination is responsible for society's tragedies. Procrastination can kill you. Procrastination is a vice of all major religions. Procrastination isn't always so bad. Procrastination is fun to watch, especially when you are procrastinating. Procrastination isn't acknowledged by economists. Procrastination is celebrated by humorists. Procrastination is getting worse. Procrastination is about you.

Over the ensuing while, together we will find out who is a procrastinator and how come. We will find out how the very structure of society is designed to increase it and that most major problems are influenced by procrastination. Best of all, we explore proven, scientifically tested technique designed to help overcome this tendency to leave life until tomorrow. There is so much I want to share with you about this delightful and dangerous aspect of ourselves. And, if a particular aspect of procrastination fascinates you, let me know. I will see if I can address it. Let's take the first step and begin.



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Piers Steel has a Ph.D. in Industrial-Organizational Psychology and is a student of life and a professor of procrastination.

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