LEFT TO THE LAST MINUTE WHY WE PROCRASTINATE, AND HOW TO STOP S. TAKKALAPALLI What is it? Picture this: the end of the school term is approaching, and just when you think you're done for the term, to your dismay, you’re hit with a biblical studies assignment. You know you should get straight to work and get it done sooner rather than later. But instead, a quick 10minute YouTube break turns into 20, then 30 minutes. And by the end of the hour, zero words have been written. Instead, you're now on the 10th Daily Dose of Internet video.
Before you know it, the days will have slipped away, the deadline creeping ever closer, and you find yourself sacrificing sleep to finish that assignment the night before. If you find yourself perfecting the art of last-minute cramming, and wonder how you ended up in that situation, fear not, you are not alone. So, what is this invisible force that tempts us to binge-watch Netflix or scroll through TikTok for hours instead of doing that biblical studies assignment? Enter the world of procrastination, the prevailing art of postponing tasks until the eleventh hour. More specifically, it is “the act of unnecessarily and voluntarily delaying or postponing something despite knowing that there will be negative consequences for doing so”. We actively know that there will be consequences when we leave things to the last minute — so why do we still procrastinate?
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