Top Ten Reasons to Procrastinate:
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There is now a scientific explanation* for your malady.
In effect:
"Steel's formula, called the Temporal Motivation Theory, calculates procrastination like Albert Einstein's equation for energy, E=MC2. It factors the person's expectancy for succeeding at a given task (E) or self-confidence; the value of completing the task (V); its immediacy or availability (Gamma); and the person's sensitivity to delay (D) to come up with the desirability of the task (Utility)."
I love the highlighted quote from the article, where the professor who came up with this explanation talks about the 'motivationaly toxic environment' that people live in an likens it to dieting:
Imagine trying to diet with a magic floating spoon of ice cream following you around.
--Piers Steel, professor
University of Calgary
Of course, my spoon would be carrying Rocky Road ice cream with chocolate syrup drizzled on top and maybe a touch of whip cream....oh the humanity!
I think the key quote in the story is where Steel says
"The heart of procrastination is an adaptive natural tendency to value today much more than tomorrow,"
That's so true when I'm putting things off that I should, but don't want to, do. Right now is so very important, but by doing and living that way, I am, in effect, devaluing later! Wow, what a cool way to look at it.
*note the date for this publishing...so many great things are born that day!
