The Telegraph out of the UK posted a story today titled “Academics invent a mathematical equation for why people procrastinate.” In it, writer Urmee Khan reports on Prof Piers Steel, a Canadian academic who has spent over a decade looking into why people put off until tomorrow what they could do today. Acoording to Khan, Prof [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Procrastination’
December 8th, 2008
Procrastination Demystified Finally…I think…
July 13th, 2008
Banning Social Sites at Work: NO AIR!
The debate about banning or blocking social sites has been going on for some time. Listening to the conversation, it seems like the most heated debates surround the topic of banning facebook, with some making the argument that it hampers productivity and others claiming that it can help the employee get work done.
I have [...]
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4 Comments »June 20th, 2008
True Life: I am a Chronic Procrastinator
I’m not sure if MTV’s ever done a True Life episode on procrastination, but if they did, I would have been the perfect candidate about a year ago.
In high school, I was a model student, but the minute I set foot on the streets of Foggy Bottom, I got the itch, the [...]
