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- Title: Savouring the Flavours of Delay (Essay)
- Author : English Studies in Canada
- Release Date : January 01, 2008
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 173 KB
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IT WAS n PLEASURE To BE INVITED to participate in the recent panel on procrastination at the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, particularly because I got to engage in a lively discussion, across disciplines, about my favourite topic. Procrastination has been my topic of research as a psychologist for over a decade. I've supervised many theses, published numerous articles, and co-edited two books on the topic. I also author a website, procrastination.ca, where you can access my "Don't Delay" blog for Psychology Today, iProcrastinate Podcast, or recent procrastination audioBoo (audioboo.fm). I even produce a cartoon strip entitled "Carpe Diem" with a friend who has the artistic talent that I lack. From a social scientific perspective, I guess you would call me an expert. In lay terms, I'm certainly a geek that knows too much about a little thing. Well, maybe that's not fair to me or the topic. Procrastination isn't a "little thing:" First, it's an extremely common "thing" in our lives. It's so common in fact that at social gatherings people who speak with me about my research usually volunteer as willing participants, certain that they are exemplary specimens. In short, this little thing we call procrastination is everywhere, and it seems to trouble a lot of people. Second, procrastination isn't a "little" thing because it represents one manifestation of a whole collection of behaviours that we typically group together as self-regulation failure (for example, overeating, compulsive shopping, or gambling). Even without depicting this form of delay as a pathology, as Julia Wright and Theo Finigan argue we do, I still believe that procrastination holds no virtue. It is the unpalatable form of the many flavours of delay in our lives. Procrastination is that needless, voluntary, often irrational delay of an intended task despite the potential for undermining our performance and/or our well-being in the process. It's not a good thing.
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