This post is a re-blog from The Procrastinator's Mind. The Big 5 personality factors or test is by far the most accurate personality test available in the world right now. I've taken this test during my business school, and it is fairly accurate to not only me but also to all the other 400 students …
Continue reading What motivates different kinds of people towards action? (in Big 5 format)
Belonging is an essential biological need for all human beings. We are designed in such a way that if we feel left out from our desired ‘group’ or from a person we want to be connected with then we biologically with an uncontrollable intention go into a self-destructive state that might include a self-destructive narrative …
Continue reading Why we develop fight or flight or procrastinate even in simple situations in life?
Procrastinators are addicted to instant gratification and hence most of the times they are onto YouTube videos, chats, reading unnecessary articles etc. that give instant gratification second to second. On the other hand, most tasks that we do in our life have a longer gratification cycle. Therefore, a procrastinator's subconscious mind sees these tasks as …
Apart from laziness, fear of not being liked or respected is a major reason for procrastination. But, why are only some people are more driven by this fear? Fear of not being liked or respected <-- caused by---- 1. procrastinator thinks that others think that he or she should know 2. procrastinator thinks that what he …
My hypothesis is that: With the increased convenience and the fast pace of the world today, we want to be gratified instantly and our ability to wait for gratification is coming down. This is what I call as the gratification cycle and the cycle seems to become shorter and shorter. Our instant access to online …
In any situation, we have four choices of action: The right thing to do The easiest thing to do What you want to do (is more driven by emotions in the moment) The optimum thing to do (given the RAC) Many times we do what we want to do and hope that change will come. …
This is an article from Psychology Today and the link to the original post is here. A woman responded anonymously to my most recent blog post by saying, “…I really have nothing to offer. I can’t see why anyone would want to marry me.” Then she goes on to add, “I’ve been treated like a …
This is a post from Psychology Today and the link to the original article is here. What better way to attract readers than to say that up is down or in is out. When we challenge basic assumptions about the world, we attract that limited resource of attention. Moreover, when what we say is that …
Continue reading Procrastination As A Virtue For Creativity, Why It’s False
This is a post by PsychologyToday and the link to the original article is here. The bulk of the research on procrastination has been conducted on undergraduate students. This isn’t surprising, as most psychological research has been conducted on this captive group of willing volunteers who often earn grade-raising credit for their participation. However, as …
Continue reading Self-efficacy, Autonomous motivation and procrastination
This article is from Psychology Today and is actually adapted from the book "Heaven and Hell: The Psychology of Emotions" A person is being lazy if he is able to carry out some activity that he ought to carry out, but is disinclined to do so because of the effort involved. Instead, he carries out …
Continue reading The Psychology of Laziness, Procrastination and Idleness
Procrastinating is simply a lack of prioritization and this can really go to huge proportions. Sometimes one keeps delaying a task even if one knows that the task is already delayed a lot and is important and urgent. To work on such a task, one must first accept that one has already delayed the task and failed in completing …
We always procrastinate our work telling that we will handle the work in future time. Basically, the current self of yours hands over the work to the future self. Your current self says I will have this pleasure now (delaying the work) and my future self will take the pain (doing the work). The current …
Continue reading Why is the current self wrong about the future self?
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