Teaching Talk: Helping Students Who Procrastinate (Tim Pychyl)

[@bryanbrown6835]

I love these anti-procrastination videos. They take my mind off of what I should be doing.

[@swapnilmd7616]

😂, yeah when you have something to do everything else seems interesting and you have nothing to do , nothing seems interesting

[@z5m2]

Yeah, I love watching anti-procrastination videos to procrastinate.

[@mrnarason]

psychology professors always have a soothing speaking voice.

[@WagWanTeleban]

yeah because they need to speak rhetorically because so much of their speech is pseudoscience

[@SugarHoneyIceTea90]

ertaetwerwd LMMFAO

[@synterlu]

ertaetwerwd Psychology is an actual science, smartass.

[@TheMrVogue]

Lol, rekt. A lot of it still holds decent weight though. I will concede the point that there seems to be a lot of bullshit floating around in the field when it comes to journals.

[@robins.here.]

i was just thinking the same thing! i was like i hope he doesn't have an annoying voice or im not listening to it. once i started to listen his voice was so soothing i got through the whole lecture.

[@Krazyloko]

It took me getting quarantined by the coronavirus to finally watch this video after a year of knowing about it...

[@matthewb.7172]

I emailed Tim after seeing this lecture and reading his book. He responded within an hour, and he gave me a long and thoughtful response. I was inquiring about setting goals, b/c without concrete life goals every waking moment feels like procrastination. He spoke to me about the recent loss of his father, and referred me to "Man’s Search For Meaning” by Victor Frankl. So, if anyone else is having difficulty deciding which tasks in life are important, as I have been, I would give that book a shot. It's a difficult read, but I found it helpful.

[@coscorrodrift]

i loved the book as well, read some recommendations about it saying it's life changing and shit. i wouldn't call it personally lifechanging, but the book is absolutely amazing and a must-read imo. Frankl has been through some tough shit and his thinking is admirable.

[@512Squared]

It's interesting to see how the need for 'meaning' is a necessary requirement to get one through the early inception and planning phases of a task, while the 'cut it down into concrete chunks' aspect is important when it comes to simply getting through the actual 'work' requirements. We don't eat a whole months' food in one meal, we have to manage our energy flow more conservatively, by eating three meals a day.

[@512Squared]

What I mean to connect is Frankl's logotherapy ideas with the results of Tim's and other's research on the importance of finding something meaningful in the planning stages for task completion.

[@pandexity]

Matthew B. I think the things you should strive for are Value (Bieng good at your job and having a good a job) Freedom (Control over your life and your time) and Meaning (which you can derive from family, friends, learning and creating new things).

[@M3Lucky]

Can you explain why you found it helpful?

[@guavacupcake]

11:50 is there any way I could do it now 31:00 risk factors: not conscientious, impulsive, perfectionism, Emotional intelligence 38:00 procrastinator: work-do nothing-work-do nothing.. 42:35 Nature of goals and intentions: How the nature of the task you're trying to do affects your procrastination 43:00 1. Find meaning. Why is it important to you? Drive it home. Make it really connect (TA) 2. Find structure. What are the steps? Sketch it out. What should you do when? (Advisiors, TAs) 45:30 When it's concrete, your brain things it's urgent and you should do it now 47:00 Counterfactuals 55:00 Go from goal intention to implementation intention

[@mittyxxx8791]

thank you!

[@smeeth6808]

Thanks

[@CraftingTableMC]

thanks

[@TheMaxthesis]

I am watching this instead of doing things I should.

[@matthewb.7172]

I always have something I need to be doing. That's what I hate about the modern economy. We don't "clock-out" anymore. Work follows us everywhere and that only adds to the anxiety.

[@jessethomas5680]

I'm watching this while doing the things I need to do, so I'm getting the reward of thinking I'm procrastinating but actually getting things done. The things might get done slower, but I'm ok with that.

[@frontview1]

LMAO

[@wagz2003]

I know, right!? LOL

[@MrBlbll]

Hopefully the video will help with that and you (we, let's be real) will learn how to deal with the behavior and not repeat it!

[@Nayte08]

No joke, after finding this video over 2-3 years ago, I still remembered I needed to watch it and finally did just now. Great talk.

[@eviee]

I am not exaggerating but this was life-changing for me.

[@jerrycdc8421]

How 2 years later?

[@youllgetnoinfoaboutmytwitt5689]

@@jerrycdc8421dudes so productive now he can’t get distracted by replying to comments

[@eviee]

@@jerrycdc8421 I am now a graduate student and I am facing procrastination issues again, and I am back to watch this again. Thanks for asking ❤️

[@promisethatyouwillsingabou7920]

@@eviee before you were a graduate student did this video benefit your habits?

[@eviee]

@@promisethatyouwillsingabou7920 yes because I was facing procrastination not only with university related stuff, but also with personal matters. It's really tough but once you try to understand the reasons why you're procrastinating, solving the issue becomes easier.

[@ton6737]

I just clicked the “watch later” button and then realized how ironic that was.

[@archaxxx]

hahaha so true, I also saved up this video to watch tomorrow morning when going to work, lets see if the procrastination succeeds

[@jeyhun6309]

This made me laugh irl 😂 just on point!!

[@TravisFabel]

Thats OK.. this has been in a browser tab with me putting off watching it for days... right now, it says your post is 1 hour old, but I know its days old.

[@jayvee4020]

It's been sitting in my ''watch later'' folder for 2 years probably. It's never too late I guess.

[@Cr1ck3t]

Watched it yesterday after it had been on my watch later list for about 5 years. :D

[@sarahjames8195]

This was in my watch later folder from Reddit for years. I finally watched it with time I have on a Christmas break. Time to make small steps to big progress in 2023!!

[@koroglurustem1722]

I was procrastinating by listening to KZbin and came across this and now I am halfway through and need to put this off in order to do my job again. Really great lecture. I have lots of anxiety in my final year of graduate school in which I didn't do much...one thing is certain: without a worthy goal and belief that you can achieve it, you just keep procrastinating.

[@kleinaapje2947]

I'm procrastinating watching this right now but I convinced myself watching a talk as helpful as this one is worth the procrastination.

[@dudebroman4039]

So have you watched the video yet?

[@512Squared]

I watched through all of this, having used both good and bad study habits in the past. The BAD: up until the second year of university, I was a 'last minute' kind of worker. In this, I had NO structure for doing schoolwork all through school, having been the first in the family to show any kind of academic promise at school. The GOOD: the second year of university I had a trip the US planned in the month leading up to Christmas, which was also a very busy time for assignments. I had a simple choice, either stay very much on top of the work all through the term or not have the chance to travel. I did the work as soon as was possible, and by the time of my travel, had completed all assignments A MONTH before the deadlines. It felt great and I also got excellent grades, unsurprisingly. I took that new experience through the rest of my university education and graduated with First Class Honours and the highest grades in the Humanities for that graduation year. This research does seem to be based mainly on procrastination in educational work. In research, studying students and educational work is an easy setting. Bad habits learned then are also taken into the work place later, so one might expect consistent results across educational and work settings. But one thing strikes me - the 'do something pleasurable now' principle too easily suggests that we are simply pleasure seekers, when an alternative view is that we are just as much pain avoiders. When it comes to financial management, poor people often have a situation where the ends just don't meet. They have no chance even to 'complete all the work', even if they could. Knowing this to be true, rather than waste resources on a task (bill) that they know they have no hope of completing (paying), they will often divert those minimal resources towards something else, whether it's pleasure seeking (doing something fun with the kids) or simply fulfilling other more feasible tasks (buying food vs. paying the electricity bill). Sometimes, if a situation appears impossible, the whole situation is avoided rather than trying to work at the problem piece-meal, simply because one is either convinced the effort won't make a difference, and any attempts to solve it only reinforce the feelings of despair and helplessness, or one has lost hope that things will actually improve enough to make a difference later. It is easy to see how this 'pain avoidance' is a useful survival strategy, and one that adds a different dynamic to the 'procrastination' picture. Sometimes procrastination is an attempt to avoid the worst psychological effects of a problem. In this kind of 'economy', it's easy to see the pay-off, it offers an alternative coping mechanism, the ability to put difficult things to the back of one's mind and carry on with the basics of survival. In modern terms, that survival likely translates often as simple pleasure seeking, which can make procrastination appear trivial, when its origins might have been anything but trivial and where the payoffs may have been more positive than negative. It isn't very often that a learned behaviour that has followed us throughout our evolution has entirely negative consequences - usually there is a positive aspect to it, but in a modern context, that payoff is diminished by a different mechanism for setting priorities.

[@0sujin]

One of the best lectures I've heard in a long time, watched 3 times to really absorb the insights.

[@khaithianthang]

I have only left 2 hrs study time and I watched this video instead of doing my homework and I didn't finish my homework. But It was soooo worth it.

[@sebastianponzo89]

+omgimsoop kapsz are you working more studiously now?

[@dianagama3390]

+omgimsoop kapsz Can you do a TL;DR please?

[@Geoffreyg41]

+Diana Gama Do it. Now. Stop thinking about it, fucking do it. Make a plan, and get to it. In the long run, build good habits.

[@Geoffreyg41]

+Diana Gama Do it. Now. Stop thinking about it, sodding do it. Make a plan, and get to it. In the long run, build good habits.

[@Ranayal]

I forced myself to watch it all, I benefitted enormously, I recommend it for all of you reading this comment. I realize it's hard to watch 58 minutes continuously but force yourself out of this depraving habit.

[@ba8e]

+Mustafa Baban The funny thing is, he talks exactly about why one would not watch this. More specifically, the ambiguity of the task i.e. not knowing what to expect of the video.

[@oliking3000]

I only wish there was more time where I could hear him talk. Truly an amazing educator. There are only a few people every generation who can illustrate technical concepts so eloquently an Dr. Pychyl is clearly one of them, on of Feynmans bretheren.

[@JJsLife30]

I was procrastinating and came to watch this video it helped a lot and kind of gave me the motivation to it. Why put pressure on my future self, tomorrow never comes, the time i'm wasting watching TV is not enjoyable as I have a heavy weight, pressure and stress of having to complete 'that work' so why not complete it and actually relax and have fun?

[@TheHellogs4444]

Hey wait a sec, this sounds like you're idealizing the work-nothing-work-nothing cycle of a procrastinator, with "bursts of productivity". I think this is bad cognitively, i.e. if you're only studying because there's an exam it's extrinsic motivation - so you'll be fine as an employee but do terribly in academia because there's nothing at stake in academia

[@Dee-nj4xo]

This talk is a gem... Why doesnt it have more views? This really helped me...

[@F4rl4nd]

Just want to say I finally returned to this video when I bookmarked it on January 8th 2019 to "watch later" while procastinating writing my bachelor's thesis

[@bestmotivatedchange]

This guy is brilliant. Well worth the time to listen to perhaps a couple of times even. Thanks for the post.

[@YAOG]

I watched this immediately. I was going to make a joke about procrastinating, but I put that off.

[@carmenkim8933]

YAOG so funny finding you here, I'm subscribed to you. it's currently 4am and I'm procrastinating!

[@YAOG]

Hey, Carmen! Thanks for being a subscriber. I really appreciate it.

[@JockoJonson17]

YAOG I added this to playlist Watch Later.

[@josephcall9289]

2meta4me

[@bubbles02010]

but u did make a joke! no?..

[@rishabhsarangi111]

I am so grateful to have found this gem

[@PonderJutsu]

this will probably be the last procrastination-related video I'll ever watch, thank you mr. tim pychyl.

[@shassie2514]

he has a really young voice, it's really refreshing and makes me happy to think someone could sound so much like a jovial yet passionate teenager so late in life, i like this guy

[@treym.2675]

As I reach the end of this lecture I looked around in my car and noticed about 10 different things that I have been procrastinating on I am anxious to get home and find out the millions of other things that I've yet to do thanks professor

[@lordbaltimore8308]

Dr. Pychyl has never met me, yet he described me to a T as a graduate student procrastinating like crazy with his thesis. So much of this made me laugh and shake my head because it was so true! When friends and family ask what I'm doing "I'm working on my thesis"; thinking of how much time I have at the beginning before watching it drift frivolously away; thinking "I'll get it all done on this day"; thinking "I can't get anything done in 30 minutes"; thinking of all of the easy tasks that I can do instead (like cooking and cleaning); the list goes on... I really need to get my shit together.

[@theOne23]

I can honestly say i'm a procrastinator and this video opened my eyes...thank you so much!!!! I'm going to do my best to implement this into my life. Thanks for the lecture.

[@weissybmx555]

Danny Rodriguez how'd it go? I'm about to try the same

[@soldiersvejk2053]

This is hands down the best video about procrastination out there.

[@donnydanko2718]

Recalling information aids in memorization, so i'm going to use this as an exercise. What procrastination is and isn't: A) Procrastination is intentionally delaying a something you promised you would do - it's the gap between intention (what you tell yourself to do) and action (what you actually do) B) Procrastination will cost you a lot, even on your death bed - Procrastination is existential. When it comes down to it, it's whether you took agency of your life; it's sloth, a sin in major religions. C) How often does this occur over populations? - About 20% of adults (even lawyers, PhD students) and 95% of students D) It's not about time mismanagement or planning problems - Planning gives a false sense of control, and when given planners procrastinators will just schedule things to the last minute. E) A little progress breaks the mental barrier of "i can't do it" - Just convincing yourself to do 15 minutes of work is good progress Procrastination is an issue of self-regulation, like a gambling problem, or overeating. Going back to point A, procrastination happens when you cannot exert self-control/your will is weak. (Well, i'm going to follow your advice and take this lecture bit by bit. Continue at 27:30 tomorrow :)

[@donnydanko2718]

A few days late & a deleted comment later: What procrastination is: - Giving in to feeling good - Negative reinforcement; (-) getting rid of negative emotions of a task by (+) avoiding a task There are 4 quadrants to self-regulation failure. 1) personality 2) the nature of our goals 3) self-control and willpower and 4) beliefs. for 1) personality. This is 50% determined by your genetics. Are you a conscientious person? This is determined by your genes but as well as your habits. - Impulsivity (not being able to focus on one thing at a time) and Perfectionism will screw you over if it's part of your personality. if you're the 1st type of perfectionist (self-oriented) you do things for yourself, this isn't too bad. if the 2nd, you're doing things on the expectations of society/your family. - Having high emotional intelligence, the lower your procrastination, because you're able to harness your emotions and navigate them in the right way. 2) The nature of your goals. - Self identity: how sure of you of who you are & how your strategies are contributing to that? the more confident you are, the less procrastination you have. - Aversiveness. Either youre 1) lacking meaning (not caring about the task) vs 2) lacking planning ( simply not knowing how to do it) What next? - working "better" under panic-driven adrenaline pressure isn't sustainable. - making excuses (counterfactuals) like i should;ve started earlier or it could've been worse only makes you feel better temporarily and isn't sustainable either. 3) Self-control - Willpower is like a muscle, it has limited capacity. - Takeaway fix: create "implementation intentions": during situation X I will do behaviour Y to achieve goal Z. That's it!

[@donnydanko2718]

ps I also watched this to procrastinate on some work. rip

[@chasecollins3263]

This is more relevant now than ever.

[@micaelat3734]

A well known strategy that has been lying around for ages: in formulating your outcome, BE SPECIFIC. - what exactly, concretely? - when exactly? Pat yourself on the back along the way.

[@dudebroman4039]

Putting this here to remind me

[@SimonSomething]

I put this video in a playlist to watch at a later time, only now while scrolling through it some 6-7 years later did I find it. I'll make sure to watch it later though!

[@katdekarachisimba1056]

what a wonderful man and great presentation!!

[@investigate3_11]

What a cool guy. Loved his style and delivery. Very calming to listen to. I think I know what needs to be done next time I want to avoid procrastination now. Hopefully I can execute what I learnt here.

[@pablohugen4744]

That video felt like a slap in my face. Thanks.

[@darkacademia9667]

I procrastinated watching this video for over a month

[@dudebroman4039]

Did you finally watch it?

[@darkacademia9667]

@@dudebroman4039 Nope hahahaha

[@dudebroman4039]

@@darkacademia9667 I'm sure you'll take care of it later

[@DIYPanda1]

I've had this book marked for 2 years and have only just got around to watching it.

[@yumtoyl2263]

I feel so much for what he had said. For an undergraduate student like me, it has been driving me crazy.

[@torque390]

This video will forever be in my watch later

[@WoodlandsAway10]

35:08; You need to develop the skill of Emotional Intelligence; must learn to identify and manage your feelings. 57:11 Move from Goal Intention to Implementation Intention. “The reason most people fail instead of succeed is they trade what they want most for what they want at the moment.” ― Napoleon Bonaparte.

[@jaswind3r]

One of the best, understandable, relatable & efficient talk about procrastination and how to minimise it. Thanks

[@D.K-j7r]

Watched it. Nothing new or meaningful. Just like all the other videos. Did it helped you?

[@alienkishorekumar]

I had to drop grad school because of chronic procrastination and fear of finishing work. I know this is a deep psychological issue but I think this lecture is helping me realize that it's not so difficult. If you have to do it now, just do it, otherwise you'll regret about it. And I have never told about my procrastination to anyone, but yeah, it doesn't matter even if you tell someone and they help you, you have to help yourself especially with procrastination because you do your work.

[@eviee]

I hope you figured things out eventually! :)

[@robotlinkle]

subbed and notified :) thankyou, and Thankyou Tim. This is a big step in a direction for me. This will help me achieve many things. Thankyou.

[@Fematika]

Which direction?

[@kandekore]

I watched this while procrastinating. But this has been very helpful

[@michellesmcleod]

Very helpful indeed! I listen to the podcasts regularly and highly recommend them!

[@Cr1ck3t]

I have found this video around 2016 and clicked 'watch latter' and here we are in 2021 and I finally watched it... Only 5 years... lol

[@batuhaninalkac9418]

This is in my watch later for 5 years

[@TheHellogs4444]

I've watched it after two years in watch later, and I'm back because I linked this to someone and they got back to me.... anyway, I think it's worth prioritizing on a month-long timescale. I've found that as I've learned more about procrastination and kept it in my mind more I've gotten better at dealing with it and aligning my short term mind with my long term goals.

[@AtamoskTPK]

im supposed to be doing work, not watching this video on procrastination... This was a great video thanks!

[@BlackBile666]

This was posted on Reddit a year ago. I wanted to watch it, but decided to procrastinate, finally found the motivation now.

[@thekabeer3149]

After sitting on my Waterfox tabs for over a month, I finally watch the entire video, I feel complete now.

[@jordwhitewolf3051]

Really beautiful talk, I appreciate it being apart of my journey of self betterment.

[@JonahHax]

I have been meaning to watch this video for 4 years now... Surely I will get to it in 2020...

[@dudebroman4039]

So you finally watch it?

[@JonahHax]

@@dudebroman4039 Not yet, but any day now!!

[@coolasacucumber3421]

This video has been in my “watch later” playlist for a year now

[@dudebroman4039]

Did you finally watch it

[@coolasacucumber3421]

@@dudebroman4039 I actually did

[@dudebroman4039]

@@coolasacucumber3421 Hell yeah

[@Xellothath]

I saved this for about 8 months before I finally watched this.

[@44gg37]

He's my favourite lecturer now

[@RC-go2kl]

I got the rest of my life to watch this. I'll get back to it later.

[@douglasargueta3727]

Saw the entire thing. I recommend it to everyone.

[@LivinGreat]

Sometimes, all you need is go to the beach and have fun. It takes your focus off the negative (which in this case is procrastination), and you just let go. After a while, you'll feel inspired to take the action. You just needed to let go of the struggle in your mind and emotion.

[@codex1809]

This is a great, great talk. Thank you!

[@M4s84]

this is in my watch-later-list since years now

[@money10125]

Actually watched the whole thing without procrastination... shocking, but glad I watched it! Can now implement strategies to beat my own procrastination on assignments and projects :)

[@ArchitecturalAesthetics2046]

such a great speaker.

[@MetroAndroid]

I would often-times procrastinate even with doing things that I enjoy, so it's not just doing what feels good. And it would often take me incredibly long periods of time to do basic things. For instance, writing a three page paper could take me 12 hours because I'm awful at stretching out information and tend to condense it all down to very little. I'm also obsessive compulsive/mild perfectionist and would consider myself "conscientious" but still have immense problems getting things done, even without any distractions. It's like having the worst of both worlds. About "waiting for the mood to strike". That's an actual thing. Some days, I could just get everything done easily right away with no stress, and others, just thinking about it would cause me to go into a cold sweat, and doing it felt agonizing to type a single letter, even well after I'd gotten started.

[@aVeryIntelligentDog]

I've had this video in my Bookmarks and my "Watch Later" list for over 8 years now. I still haven't watched it.

[@talha10ahmad]

Looks like a great lecture. Just going to save it to Watch Later

[@stachowi]

Best thing on this topic i've heard or seen yet. Thanks.

[@geist-2111]

Saved to watch later

[@fudgingpudnpie3440]

I have not watched it yet, but i've bookmarked the site for later view.....

[@EK-qf8lk]

I’ll save this to watch later

[@1997ontherun]

This was really great, helped me understand myself more and hopefully I will use this to change.

[@ShaneCasserly]

i completely agree with this. doing it now helps more than anything

[@nadiaalbul]

Those are nice pieces of advice! As for me, I use Time Planner app to make me inspired to do more, as it shows me my own stats about my own time wasted. That is a real wake-up call!

[@bradhagadorn1026]

Remind me to watch this tomorrow.

[@Mersipher]

Thank you so much for sharing this video. I'm now finding myself watching this at least once a week. I'm still procrastinating atm and having hard time focusing on learning and following through with learning a solo online course. Lets hope i can figure out how to overcome my lack of self will to get it done in a consistent manner. If you have any tips please feel free to share when or if you have time. Regards, Edgar.

[@thomaschansler754]

One small detail that I feel is off the mark is bring forth the difference between abstract and concrete instead of the difference of vagueness and clarity. These latter terms seemed to be what the study in question was measuring. When it is clear on how to accomplish the task, one can apply a more visceral viewpoint to accomplishing it and thus is able to achieve a rote pathway to the task, forming a habit.

[@XTheSpartanX7]

as a student stuck at home due to corona, I'm procrastinating by watching this.

[@ISOCZAR]

I think I'll watch this in a little while

[@ChrisC97]

Such a good lecture. It really helps me to understand my problem better so I can start to live my life again

[@thecompl33tnoob]

It took me a few months to watch this. I'm glad I waited, because this video unintentionally represents the two major unspoken causes of procrastination: way too much fluff, and no acknowledgement of the effects of clinical anxiety and/or depression. Academics like to pad out their work to justify their existence. 50% or more of this lecture could be discarded with no loss of comprehension. The same holds true for the dozens of college courses I've taken or discussed with friends/fellow classmates. If you want to help people stop procrastinating, suck it up, admit that you don't have that much of true novel import to say (because nobody does, we're tiny humans), and cut the rest of the bullshit out. It cannot be overstated how devastating clinical depression and anxiety are to smart, motivated people. I've made great strides in eliminating procrastination from my life (I did finally watch this, after all), and there are very few things in my day that I truly do not want to do. Every task I complete is a joy and a triumph. So why don't I do more, and why was it so difficult in the past? It's because depression and anxiety literally sap one's ability to think critically, to make objective decisions, to feel any kind of motivation. It wasn't until five years ago that dysthymia - literally unnatural apathy caused by lack/excess/malfunctioning of certain chemical processes in the brain - was introduced into the DSM. For people suffering from these conditions, which may be as high as over a third of the population, saying in essence to them "oh you're just lazy, here, use these techniques so you can stop being such a bum" is a terrible evil. It typically takes much training, therapy, education, and medication to even begin to utilize the "normal" tactics for defeating procrastination. I understand that this TA means no ill, and that many people have gotten a lot from his lecture. But from this limited view, it seems like he needs to wipe that smug look off his face and do another few years of deep research into medical and biological effects on psychology before he gets up in front of anyone else to speak.

[@dew8nada]

While I didn't listen to it he actually have another lecture where he talks about procrastination and depression, when someone has been working for years purely to understand one concept for years, making many researches on it from different aspect, I think it isn't a good idea to judge them or their content telling them to do another years of research I was also hoping that he would address depression and try to analyze the causes of procrastination in more depth yet I think it is understandable that he needs to skip through some points because of the limitation of time, which he points to more than once. He points out at the end that these points only present the structure or wider concept of procrastination, during a 1-hour lecture he has to present the meaning of procrastination, the causes of it, and some ways to deal with it, which he managed to do perfectly without over-simplifying the problem. The startegies and ideas which he suggested are also proven and packed by research t And even for some one who is suffering from depression, while it is important to address the main cause, i still believe this lecture would be useful for them and might even help them, so I really hope that people don't get discouraged by this comment and watch the lecture

[@clubpenguinrockie]

I think it’s ridiculous that you’re expecting him to cover every aspect of procrastination in one hour. Nowhere did he state that this particular talk would be touching on mental health issues, this talk was purely on general procrastination and it has and will continue to be helpful to the general population. Yes, mental illness can have major effects on procrastination, but that was not the point of this talk. If you’re coming into this talk expecting certain things, you’re obviously going to be disappointed and learn nothing coming out of it. Procrastination is such a multifaceted thing and unless you give him more time, there’s no way he’s going to be able to cover every aspect he has explored within an hour considering the years of research. This is coming from someone who had major issues with procrastination due to depression, regardless of this topic not being discussed, it does not take away the worth of this talk for the general population and even for me, it has been educational.

[@ineluctablemodality]

What a great talk! I love his voice.

[@sanjeevakaalex]

Thing that I learnt is, we do procrastinate, we are aware of it but we think it is to feel good now, somehow we live in self denial of the consequences it will produce. For example if at the time of procrastination I just tell myself that due to it I have to work even harder and have to go through lot of pain to pull the work at the last minute, which will probably be not half decent can create impact. Choosing self awareness and making conscious decision to ask oneself Will scheduling this work later will give me same gratification and pleasure later as postponing it gives now? Second *procrastination is a habit.* Habit are acquired over time and bad habits take time to leave. So if you are thinking one day you will have an epiphany and suddenly you will stop procrastination. You couldn't be more wrong. Single video or article won't probably solve your problems but will surely help mitigating it. *Concrete goals over abstract goals.* Be specific and break down problem and focus on just one sub problem at a time.

[@TheHellogs4444]

Holy fuckpickle. This has been on my to do list for 2 years. And this is bringing me to tears. I am just coming out of this well, and realising of the agency I've missed as more real than a daydream. More real than the achievements who had never intentionally achieved anything.

[@webbyman]

Added to favourites.. Maybe I'll watch it some day

[@ArtTube333]

I added this to watch later

[@elmostafa]

me too but i have watch it today

[@linamcmore4973]

Have you tried using that procrastination bulldozer method to beat your procrastination? My friend says she had amazing results with it. :)

[@IvarHuisman]

I have a very difficult time motivating myself because I feel it doesn't matter what I do.

[@uwotm8634]

Ivar Huisman then find a meaningful goal or thing to do

[@jamessaratore1416]

Feel that. Many times it's going to be setting the small goal like "take the garbage out" then a break. Then "clean my room" and if not even the big then just put 10 pieces of clothes away. Or even just "I'll work for 5 minutes".as you see yourself improving you'll get addicted. After all our emotional circuits are only engaged when we see have a goal and see ourselves moving forward or backward in relation to the goal. Maybe eventually you'll feel like doing it

[@ThePestilentDefiler]

U WOT M8 i only find meaning in gaming. Nothing else really matters to me other than my really expensive hobbies. Which i need to cycle through for budget means.

[@Flanchester]

I have had this tab open for literally two years and I still haven't watched it.

[@adamslade1266]

You know it’s bad when you’re using a video about procrastination to procrastinate..... the struggle is real.

[@raziel8799]

I swear, I actually had this tab open for 3 Months, before I finally watched the whole video...

[@mpizzle13]

added to watch later :)

[@notme6026]

Watching this tomorrow, today I'm gonna play League all day ;)

[@CreativoErratico]

I've been trying to watch this video until the end, since 2014...

[@hatekeefer301]

this is a great lecture. dont look down, its just idiots making the same joke.

[@jamjamjamjam8829]

thank you! comment sections for procrastination videos/articles are the fucking worst lol

[@a.z6765]

Great advice

[@hemu5443]

Thank you

[@benroden1944]

Came for the procrastination techniques, stayed for the asmr

[@positivecynic86]

Skip to at least 52:00. I watched the whole thing. Most of this is just academic meandering and defining the issue rather than explaining how to solve it. Dr. Tim Pychyl, you owe me 50 minutes of my life that I can never get back.

[@boratsagdiyev4735]

51:22 "Please don't mind the camera, only Dr. Pychyl will be recorded" Meanwhile 3 other people are being recorded lmao

[@amaduli]

I'm going to keep this queued up in a browser tab and watch it... later.

[@Dodo-zf2bz]

I have watches videos bout procrastination last year and still doing it now

[@nikinthehill]

This man procrastinated in having kids.

[@scLightO]

I added this video to watch later and then realized why I kinda need it ^^