Monday, December 1, 2008

Yes! Waiting for the upside...

"A penchant for postponement takes its toll. Procrastination carries a financial penalty, endangers health, harms relationships and ends careers. “Procrastination undermines well-being on a wide scale,” notes psychologist Timothy A. Pychyl, director of the Procrastination Research Group at Carleton University in Ottawa. Nevertheless, recent work hints at potential upsides to this otherwise bad habit: perpetual foot-draggers seem to benefit emotionally from their trademark tactics, which support the human inclination to avoid the disagreeable." [emphasis added - jg]

from a scientific american article I linked to via the learned and helpful David Scrimshaw

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

What... oh ya... I have a comment, but I haven't gotten around to writing it yet...soon...soon

aandjblog said...

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This virtual event is taking place on December 16th 2008.

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We hope to see you there!

A & J

Jen G said...

wow - I love to party. In fact, my newest post mentions that a few times. (I haven't posted it yet due to - you guessed it - )