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Understand Procrastination

Procrastination is the act of delaying something in order to avoid the discomfort that starting it would cause — a short-term mood repair that reliably costs more later.

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How it works

This is the explanatory counterpart to the practical procrastination tool. It matters because the wrong model produces the wrong fix: if you believe the problem is discipline, you will try harder and fail again. Understanding it as avoidance of a specific feeling points at a different and more workable intervention.

Grounded in

the emotion-regulation account of procrastination, Timothy Pychyl and Piers Steel.

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