Monday, January 29, 2007

Procrastinators, let's wait up!

John Tierney, in his science blog at the New York Times site, discusses procrastination--
http://tierneylab.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/01/22/procrastinate-now/

Tierney quotes an interesting paper by Piers Steel, noting

as structure continues to decrease, the opportunity for workers to procrastinate will concomitantly increase. Furthermore, the prevalence and availability of temptation, for example, in the forms of computer gaming or internet messaging, should continue to exacerbate the problem of procrastination. There are simply more activities with desirable features competing for our attention.


There is even an online procrastinator quiz--

http://www.procrastinus.com/

I really need to get around to TAKING that quiz...

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