I was going to link to this article about why we procrastinate the other day, but I didn’t get around to it because I was going to attend this workshop, but then it got postponed. So, now I guess I have to do it.
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I Was Going To Post This Last Week…
…but I kept procrastinating about it.
Here’s an animated film made by a Irish fellow named Johnny Kelly as his graduation project from the Royal College of Art in London in 2007. It’s entitled “Procrastination”.
Johnny and his brother Mickey, who is also an Irish fellow as you might have guessed, are both artists, and they sometimes collaborate, but their website features their individual works as well as their collaborations.
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Scientific American has this article about how to kick the bad habit of procrastinating. I mean to post it last week, but you know how that goes…
Turns out that human personalities are unique combinations of differing degrees of five basic traits: conscientiousness, agreeableness, neuroticism, openness and extroversion. If those remind you of Carl Jung’s archetypes or the four axes of the Myers-Briggs Index, you’re catching on. Procrastination is generally a trait of someone with a low degree of conscientiousness or a high degree of neuroticism. Heaven help the individual who is both lacking in conscience and abundantly neurotic — of course, the does help to explain Congress.
The article is a bit of a gyp because it doesn’t actually tell you how to kick the habit of procrastinating at all. It does give you some very good excuses (“I couldn’t help it, professor, I’m genetically predetermined to blow off my assignments!”), but all they can really offer is “just do it”. I’m sure Nike’s lawyers will be in touch just as soon as they can get around to it.