Chapter 1: What is procrastination?
“Procrastination is like a credit card: it’s a lot of fun until you get the bill.”
-Christopher Parker
Procrastination is the action of delaying or postponing something especially something that requires immediate attention. To procrastinate is to be slow or late about doing something that should be done; to delay doing something until a later time because you do not want to do it, because you are lazy, etc.
Procrastination is, in fact, an emotional issue, not a time-management issue. It is about the fear of success and the fear of making a mistake.
According to research, the emotional reaction of our brain usually leads reasoning. When our brain perceives a pleasurable experience, it produces a hormone called dopamine. The secretion of these hormones in the brain sets out an emotional response in a much shorter time than it takes the brain to think with logic and reason. So long as a task has a higher historical likelihood of producing dopamine, our brain is addicted to reproducing these activities thus we are avoiding the others tasks.