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Items tagged "procrastination":

  1. Procrastination is a prevalent and pernicious form of self-regulatory failure that is not entirely understood. Hence, the relevant conceptual, theoretical, and empirical work is reviewed, drawing upon correlational, experimental, and qualitative findings. A meta-analysis of procrastination’s possible causes and effects, based on 691 correlations, reveals that neuroticism, rebelliousness, and sensation seeking show only a weak connection. Strong and consistent predictors of procrastination were task aversiveness, task delay, self-efficacy, and impulsiveness, as well as conscientiousness and its facets of self-control, distractibility, organization, and achievement motivation. These effects prove consistent with temporal motivation theory, an integrative hybrid of expectancy theory and hyperbolic discounting. Continued research into procrastination should not be delayed, especially because its prevalence appears to be growing.

    Source: “The Nature of Procrastination: A Meta-Analytic and Theoretical Review of Quintessential Self-Regulatory Failure” from Psychological Bulletin

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  2. this describes my life at the moment. 

    Graduation film from the Royal College of Art, 2007.

    An investigative and exploratory hands-on gloves-off study into the practice of putting things ‘off”. Sometimes the only way to get something done is to do two dozen other things first.

    Story, Animation, Direction: Johnny Kelly
    Voice Over: Bryan Quinn

    Sound Supervision: Mike Wyeld
    Foley Artist: Sue Harding 
    Foley Engineer: John Mark
    Foley recorded at Fonic Studios, London

    (Source: mickeyandjohnny.com)

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