Ever wonder why you choose Netflix over deadlines?Let’s dive into the psychology of procrastination!

Name: Ever wonder why you choose Netflix over deadlines?Let’s dive into the psychology of procrastination!
Uploaded: 2024-01-08T20:28:23+00:00
Duration: 45 s
Channel: Rich Bello
Description: Rich Bello (speaker) explains a simple psychological model of procrastination using a slide with three timeline points: A (assignment date), B (actual…

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Rich Bello (speaker) explains a simple psychological model of procrastination using a slide with three timeline points: A (assignment date), B (actual start), and C (deadline). He states that from A until B the immediate "pleasure of delay" (small gratifications like checking the fridge or surfing the web) is greater than the "pain of procrastination" (stress, missed deadlines, humiliation), which explains why people delay starting work until later.

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Why do people procrastinate? Let's take a look at the chart here on the slide. So point A is the assignment date. Let's say there's the date that you invite everybody you know to a goal setting webinar. Point B is the actual start line. This is when you actually start working on the seminar. Point C is the deadline. This is the day of the webinar. In other words today. Now why not start at point A as soon as you set the deadline? I'll tell you why. It's a very simple equation. From point A until point B, the point pleasure of delay is greater than the pain of procrastination. So what do I mean by that? The pleasure of delay is all of the immediate gratification things that can be doing instead of preparing for the webinar like seeing what's in the refrigerator every five minutes or surfing the web for the latest sports news. Whereas the pain of procrastination, stress, missing the deadline, public humiliation.