It's true... everyone (including you) has probably procrastinated at some point in life.
However, according to Psychology Today, 20 percent of people chronically avoid difficult tasks and deliberately look for distractions in their lives.
Procrastination is defined as an action delaying or postponing something that you need to get done.
Procrastinating comes in all ways: watching TV, scrolling through your phone, shopping online, or anything that distracts you from doing the specific task you need to get done.
How can you avoid procrastination?
Listen in as Tim Pychyl, PhD, shares what procrastination is, how it differs from other forms of delay, and ways to stop it.
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Put the Brakes on Procrastination
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Dr. Tim Pychyl is the Director of the Centre for Initiatives in Education and Associate Professor of Psychology at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. Tim and his students have been researching procrastination for the past 20 years (procrastination.ca).
He is the author of Solving the Procrastination Puzzle: A Concise Guide to Strategies for Change (Tarcher/Penguin, 2013) and co-editor of Procrastination, Health and Well-Being (Elsevier, in press). A professor passionate about teaching, Tim is the recipient of numerous teaching awards and he is a 3M National Teaching Fellow.
Tim Pychyl, PhD
Dr. Tim Pychyl is the Director of the Centre for Initiatives in Education and Associate Professor of Psychology at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. Tim and his students have been researching procrastination for the past 20 years (procrastination.ca).He is the author of Solving the Procrastination Puzzle: A Concise Guide to Strategies for Change (Tarcher/Penguin, 2013) and co-editor of Procrastination, Health and Well-Being (Elsevier, in press). A professor passionate about teaching, Tim is the recipient of numerous teaching awards and he is a 3M National Teaching Fellow.