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Timothy A. Pychyl
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Timothy A. Pychyl writes Solving the Procrastination Puzzle, a personal blog at procrastination.ca about productivity and health. Since 2011, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
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HN readers link Timothy Pychyl's procrastination research site and the iProcrastinate podcast, which commenters cite as accessible guides to current procrastination research and as a starting point for the topic.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 13 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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Try http://www.procrastination.ca/ and the iProcrastinate podcast. Main takeaways are: * Just get started. * Don't give in to "feel good". * Use implementation intentions to put the trigger for action in the environment. * Procrastination is an existential issue. One who is procrastinating is not getting on with their life. * Approach goals are better than avoidance goals.
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on “Tricks to start working despite not feeling like it”For me, I procrastinate to get the reward of making progress without having to do the hard thing that I'm supposed to be doing. It is an emotional thing, almost entirely; I feel low (perhaps for unrelated reasons - I was bereaved of my mother 18 months ago) and so seek quick rewards through "work", just not the work I'm being paid for. So, I got diverted from a difficult task and spent time doing a task that created…
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on “Procrastination is connected to perfectionism”The iProcrastinate podcast ( http://iprocrastinate.libsyn.com/ ) is really good. Some of the early episodes have audio issues, but they are worth listening to. The host has been researching procrastination for like 20+ years. Their main website is http://www.procrastination.ca/
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on “Show HN: Why Do I Procrastinate? – Web MD for Procrastination”Dear Procrastinator, Go read up on the topic of procrastination, because it's actually an interesting field of research within psychology. I know you want to, because that way, you can procrastinate even more! I'm appalled that nobody has yet mentioned http://procrastination.ca — home of the Uni Ottawa procrastination research group. Also home of the excellent iProcrastinate podcast: http://iprocrastinate.libsyn.com…
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on “Dear procrastinator”Fair point. So far I haven't found the underlying papers (Google isn't great at turning up papers I know I've read about in books, it turns out..) however the Internet's non-scholarly literature on the subject consistency identifies procrastination as essentially an anxiety disorder, not one of poor time management skills. e.g. : https://www.psychologicalscience.org/observer/why-wait-the-s... https://www.nbcnews.com…
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on “Procrastination is more about managing emotions than time: study”Kind of tangential, but a self-sabotage concept I find fascinating is called "short term mood repair." That's a phrase that one of the top academics studying procrastination uses to describe one of the most common prompts for procrastination. (Tim Pychyl) In this concept, you have some tiny anxiety about upcoming work that probably never even reaches your conscious thoughts. And the absolute fastest way to make that…
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on “Fake it till you make it: the wolves of Instagram”Oh, I forgot to add: Tim Pychyl's work and podcast was such an essential resource for me as I started to take my procrastination issues more seriously.[1] Tim's a procrastination researcher out of the University of Ottawa, I think. The podcast does a fantastic job of making current research on procrastination accessible and engaging. [1]: https://www.procrastination.ca
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on “A systems model of anxiety-driven procrastination”This aligns with prof. pychyl's "motivation follows action" and "just get started" https://www.procrastination.ca/
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on “Observations on 6 Years of Journaling”Procrastination is a holistic issue with no single fix. I am not a psychologist, so take the next 5 points with a HUGE grain of salt. 1. Ask yourself if you are suppressing an impulse to perform tasks, or waiting the impulse out, or simply not experiencing the impulse at all. Ask yourself what dots need to be connected to actually lead you to performing the task. Some people procrastinate tasks that require nearly z…
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on “Ask HN: Were you a procrastinator and could overcome it? How did you do?”>Why does the procrastinator do these things? Because they are a way of not doing something more important. // That's not why, that's just reiterating what one does. Recently I came across a thesis by Dr Pychyl that in fact it's emotional - you're looking for a win, a win based on your intellect (or whatever aspect you're exercising). This fits for me. https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702303933104579306...…
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on “Structured Procrastination”Here is information about the research group at Carleton University and a short article: 1. http://www.procrastination.ca/ 2. http://newsroom.carleton.ca/2012/09/20/what-are-you-waiting-... Also, Dr. Pychyl's book on procrastination: Solving the Procrastination Puzzle: A Concise Guide to Strategies for Change if you're interested in a read: https://www.amazon.com/Solving-Procrastination-Puzzle-Concis... (Just throwi…
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on “Why Don't They Just Do It? Lecture on Procrastination by Expert Dr. Pychyl”http://www.procrastination.ca ?
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on “Why do we procrastinate?”Timothy Pychyl https://www.procrastination.ca/ https://iprocrastinate.libsyn.com/
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on “A Book Summary of “The Procrastination Equation”, by Dr. Piers Steel”
