Procrastination from an economic perspective

Procrastination from an economic perspective

Most people occasionally settle, and this procrastination is known by economist Piers Steele, of the University of Calgary, as a delay in choosing the pace of work that is binding on one, although he expects to delay it. For his work will lead to an unpleasant result, it is disturbing that 15 to 20 per cent of adults ( who postpone today's work until tomorrow) are accustomed to postponing Activities, which could have been done in a way Better if you accomplish editing with the first favorable opportunity.

According to a 2007 analytical study, procrastination is a scourge affecting 80 to 90 per cent of college-level students, who are at significant risk from their overcrowded academic schedules and the life of fun, nightlife and causerie.

Procrastination is not intended to deliberately program non-urgent tasks to be accomplished when the opportunity arises later, the term is more in line with the situation in which one fails to comply with the dictates of logic and status An end to the postponement of critical or urgent tasks. In other words, if one thinks of postponing one's work, and feels very slight discomfort or that thinking is getting him to do the small things, it is likely that he will be doomed to what is entrusted to his work.

There are negative effects resulting from one's tendency to postpone one's work, because procrastination imposes a fine on the owner, harms his health, harms social relations and destroys his career. Procrastination is widespread, notes psychologist Timothy Beschel, head of the Research Group on Procrastination at The University of Carleton.

Procrastination is a habit acquired, but there are inherent personal features that raise the likelihood of one gaining the habit, says Beschel: (Procrastination is only a dance between the brain and the attitude).

The habit of procrastination has arisen since the human race existed, and for farming communities, delaying crop cultivation may mean that people fall into the brain. Thus, our ancestors equated between procrastination and laziness.

As for the industrial revolution, it has made it easier for people to postpone important work, as technical progress has alleviated some of the pressures caused by violent economic changes and famines, in addition to Increasing leisure time, consuming large quantities of goods, increasing the number of options available to one to engage in activities, as contemporary society has provided a large number of games, especially computer games, Watching Television, e-messaging - and no need to be reminded of cars and planes that take us to see different places and do different purposes - all tempt us to postpone our work.

Surrendering such pleasures can be costly. Experts have estimated that 40% of people suffer financial losses due to procrastination in some difficult circumstances.

Procrastination can also harm the health sector. In 2006, psychologist Fushkia Sriwus, of the University of Whitsur, reported in a study of 254 adults that the affected people are more likely to experience higher levels of severity and acute health problems than Individuals who have completed their work on time.

The disgust of the work entrusted to one is one of the main external agitators, which makes him delay the completion of his work.

One's procrastination is influenced by the time frame that separates one from when he is to implement what he plans to do. Away, this is due to a phenomenon known as time lag, which means that the closer one gets rewarded (or a sense of achievement) the greater the value of the reward in itself, and therefore weakens The completion of the work to be completed may be postponed.

At the end of the last century psychologists began to study the so-called five main personality traits that blend together to form one's qualities, namely: the characteristic of the living conscience and the recipe of contentment (conviction) and the recipe of neurosis and recipe Openness is a simplified recipe according to Steele's opinion.

The most obvious of these advantages in their relationship with procrastination is the characteristic of a living conscience.

A person with a living conscience is a person who is committed to fulfilling his duties, organized in arranging his affairs, and being good at his or her work. Accordingly, an unscrupulous person is highly willing to postpone, and a reckless person is considered a disserviced person without risk calculation.

Two key elements behind the reason for not doing the work in time are the feeling of difficulty in doing a job, and the desire to avoid the discomfort of doing so.

One says: I feel disgusted by the performance of the task." "Shown here so that his beds could be released," Bichel explains.

Psychologist Joseph Ferrari, from Depaul University, created the phrase " procrastinatingavoiding" as a description of the person whose avoidance is motivated by the president.

The frequency is another psychological motivation, as it is not possible for the reluctant suflist to decide on one of the tasks.

It should be noted that there is a third explanation for postponing works without a logical reason: exhortation, which confirms that it performs its work optimally when under pressure.

However, sociologist Ingo Lee, from Hala University, argues that the postponement does not make the job work exciting.

In general, the massodis are self-conscious individuals, who are troubled by the postponement of their work.

Some recent analytical studies therefore suggest that 95 per cent of the  procrastinator wish to get rid of the habit of procrastination but are unable to do so, because they have become spontaneous and firmly rooted in their hearts. Habits become processes of the subconscious, Beschel says: "When one's procrastination habit is consolidated, it is essentially an automatic guide."

In 2008, psychologist Shane Owens of Hofstra University explained that the soviets, who set goals combined with the means of achieving them, were about eight times more likely to go ahead than Those who didn't. Therefore, one has to make a special commitment in advance at any time, anywhere to do his job, and to tell Owens, this will increase the likelihood that one will move forward with one's work.

This is a very complex process.

Quite simply, more than one researcher of the disabled people recommends that (they think they are starting to work), the task of the work is often more severe than to accomplish.