On a level, thats useful. This automatically undercuts any excuses youll have because ultimately, the task, if youve signed up for it, aligns with your values. So we tend to think of the productivity side of it. Thats episode 295. And again, we think of Germany is being highly efficient, trains running on time and everything sort of very precise, and the tolerance there for procrastination is quite low. Procrastination thrives in secrecy and isolation. Alice Boyes is a former clinical psychologist and the author of the book Stress Free Productivity. Kim I. Accept the emotion that is there, have self-compassion and forgiveness for the emotional experience you had. You can extrapolate out a little bit. And again, estimates there range between 15% to 25%, which is still quite a few people who are really engaging in procrastination as a fairly regular way of dealing with tasks that they don't want to deal with. We protect the self temporarily by avoiding the task that threatens it. I mean, that being said, there has been some experimental research done where they gave students a range of tasks easy and more difficult and looked at the time on task and what things they did otherwise. In particular, starting new tasks is a problem. So one of the projects I want to look at, I know there was this type of work that was done with perfectionism showing that perfectionism is increasing over time. Its about identifying the forms of procrastination that cause problems for you, like where youve got a sense of a possible problem in your mind, and you just keep putting off thinking about it, putting off dealing with it. They think of it as being about daily habits. We'll also talk about being involved in eSports, balancing academic life and leisure, avoiding the pitfalls of procrastination, and about overcoming the fear of putting yourself out there to make new friends. Alice, thanks for being here. A lot of the focus on overcoming procrastination has been on habit forming and discipline, and getting the gumption to face the tasks you dont like doing. Far more than a productivity hack. Sometimes its just noticing that relationship. Bottom line is that we value patient care, so even we dont necessarily feel like doing small tasks throughout the day, we still do them because we link them to our deeper values. And so we label our downtime as procrastination. Why is that? If it was a country where the tolerance for procrastination was quite low, that might certainly have an impact, but I think it's about the acceptability as well. So the evidence, it's a little mixed. ALICE BOYES: I dont think you need to separate emotions from tasks. Thanks for listening to the HBR IdeaCast. It's just not that thing that they should be doing right now that's looming and important and will have negative consequences if they don't get it done. The variable task or system-based factors are: This can become paralyzing, especially when we are unwilling to ask for help. So there's this task, we may not have enough information about it, and we start imagining how difficult it's going to be and how complex it's going to be and how we're going to fail or struggle. So doing compassionate self talk is useful about the feelings that youre having. I think that its often part of the creative process that sometimes we procrastinate because were doing something hard. Planning more than only the first step can be its own form of procrastination. And the other thing that happens too, when you don't start a task, you can still live in that wonderful space where you can imagine how great it's going to be and you can picture how perfect the ending's going to be when you finish writing that report or redecorating your house or whatever it is, that task that you're dealing with at that time.
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