‘Concrete’ Ways to Beat Procrastination
By Bill Hendrick — Go ahead, do it. Don’t wait. It won’t get easier. There won’t be a better time. So start. Right now. Just stop procrastinating, already!
Chances are you’ve given yourself such admonitions many times, and chances are also good you will again, concludes an international team of psychologists.
Procrastination is a costly psychological trait that almost all people share, but it may be possible to conquer it, says Sean McCrea of the University of Konstanz in Germany, who led the team of psychologists that studied the phenomenon. The study is published in the December 2008 edition of Psychological Science.
So what did they find? People are more apt to procrastinate when they think of tasks abstractly instead of in concrete terms.
The psychologists conducted a series of three studies of university students. For example, the first study handed out questionnaires to 34 students and asked each to respond by email within three weeks.
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