EPISODE 21: Procrastination refers to the process of delaying or postponing tasks. Everyone bangs on about we should try all these techniques to avoid procrastination but I think that procrastinating is sometimes our subconscious telling us we need time to think about the work we are supposed to be doing
Pay attention to when your brain wants to start procrastinating, because your subconscious is trying to guide you in the right direction.
Academic John Perry calls this technique Structured Procrastination. He suggests you fill your to-do list with everything that needs doing and then complete something further down the list in avoidance of whatever is on the top. The argument here is that we pander to our inner procrastinator by suggesting something else more fun. So long as the something else is also on your to-do list then you are being productive and getting work done.
I do this already, so found it quite a relief to read John’s witty essay about this method. Academics find it easy to place difficult, drawn-out tasks on the top of our lists. These tasks can stay up there for months, supplying all the necessary avoidance-motivation required to procrastinate our way through hundreds of other tasks.
PhDs are perfectly engineered for this purpose.
Using John’s method, it is possible to appear incredibly productive to the outside world while procrastinating 100% of the time.
In today’s podcast episode, you will discover:
- Why you should embrace your procrastination tendencies
- How to choose between active and passive procrastination
- Why your focus should be on where your subconscious is taking you
- How you can tackle procrastination
- Strategies for active procrastination
- How to give yourself permission to procrastinate
- The importance of scheduling your procrastination.
Resources from this episode
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