On September 21, 2009
Readers’ Procrastinator Pride: Are They Crazy?
Last week when I posted an item on an interesting little psychological study that seems to show procrastinating in college is correlated with later burn-out at work, I wasn’t expecting too much passion in the comments. But when the first commentator, RobinvdS, noted that the information in the study wasn’t exactly actionable (fair enough) and asked of procrastinating, “how do you get rid of it? How do you get people convinced that they need to get the things done?,” a great outpouring of procrastinator pride was unleashed. Apparently, there is a deep well of pride in procrastinators and even a belief that those who put off projects until the last moment, actually, in the end, turn in better work. Gustafr,…
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