Name: The 'To Do' List - Procrasti-Nation (3/7)
Uploaded: 2020-01-23T14:50:24.000+01:00
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Description: Procrastinators are the proverbial ostrich. We know once we get started the task is never as bad as the dread of the task. But we'd rather just let the problem fester, a bill hidden under piles of other bills, unopened letters shoved to the back of the letterbox. We know we should. But some how, we just don't. What happens when we procrastinate on a global scale?

The 'To Do' List

Tachar de la lista

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Procrastinators are the proverbial ostrich. We know once we get started the task is never as bad as the dread of the task. But we'd rather just let the problem fester, a bill hidden under piles of other bills, unopened letters shoved to the back of the letterbox. We know we should. But some how, we just don't. What happens when we procrastinate on a global scale?

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Procrasti-Nation

Procrastinators are the proverbial ostrich. We know once we get started the task is never as bad as the dread of the task. But we'd rather just let the problem fester, a bill hidden under piles of other bills, unopened letters shoved to the back of the letterbox. We know we should. But some how, we just don't. What happens when we procrastinate on a global scale?<br /><br /><br />

Procrasti-Nation (3/7)

How procrastination could mean the end of the world 

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Procrastination is said to be the "evil of the century", dethroning back pain and sore thumbs from texting. But according to the so-called Institut Français d'Observation de la Procrastination (IFOP), 97.4% of statements on the origins of procrastination are questionable. So let's go back to its genesis.

Procrasti-Nation (1/7)

Procrastination has got the better of even the best of us

Genesis

Procrastinators are annoying. They'll do absolutely anything other than the thing they are supposed to be doing. That's why cats are the perfect spirit animal. The cat will always delay what needs to be done in favour of just another little nap. Unless of course it's putting dead mice on your bed. Really annoying...

Procrasti-Nation (2/7)

Cats are perfectly designed predators. They could take over the world if they wanted to. Maybe tomorrow though...

Cats, an Example to us All

The concept of procrastination comes from the idea that everything must be optimised. Workers must be more and more productive every day, and any time that isn't spent being productive is a waste. But that kind of attitude comes at a cost. Maybe procrastination isn't the enemy after all...

Procrasti-Nation (4/7)

What if it's not procrastination, but productivity, that's the real enemy?

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Sometimes procrastination isn't about laziness, or anxiety over the size of a task. Sometimes without even meaning for it to be, it's a form of very pointed, passive protest. Without saying a word, the procrastinator effectively says: nope.

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Without saying a word, the procrastinator effectively says: nope

Direct Inaction

Many great writers and academics don't procrastinate because they don't care. It's because they care too much. They have a vision of the perfect piece of writing in their heads and it just isn't happening. So rather than create something substandard, they delay until the last minute - often preferring not to create anything at all. 

Procrasti-Nation (6/7)

Many great writers and academics don't procrastinate because they don't care. It's because they care too much

Intellectual Procrasturbation

Most of us love to procrastinate online and then hate ourselves when several hours have passed and all we've done is check Facebook, look at Instagram and watch several Youtube videos. But social media platforms are designed to use our procrastination for their own profit. So if we want to truly procrastinate in peace? Then maybe we should grow some worms. 

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