Procrastination: learned or genetic?

It's always so enlightening to see what various chat groups are discussing. I belong to a few organizations recently have been discussing procrastination, a topic that I love to debate. Is it a learned behavior or is it something we genetic? In my opinion, genetic things the color of our eyes, our skin tone or sadly rare diseases.

Some people I know (you know who you are ) claim that they procrastinate because they just are always that way and genetically that's just how they have always been.

The dictionary defines procrastination as:

–verb (used without object): to defer action; delay: to procrastinate until an opportunity is lost.

–verb (used with object): to put off till another day or time; defer; delay.

The interesting thing about this word is that it starts with PRO, which typically means to think ahead or FORWARD action.

Are we ACTIVELY thinking we don't want to do something? Is the end result going to be really that bad?

What would happen if we actually completed the said task? How would that make us feel?

I can tell you from my own experience that procrastination makes me feel icky. I hate the guilt, stress or pressure in not completing a specific action. Believe me, I too fall prey to procrastination. Let's face it, we are all human. The key is to accepting what we do and making the change happen!

Tell me what you think about it... learned or inherited?

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Posted by Megan Spears at 1/15/2010 2:02 PM
Categories: Time Management,Procrastination,Productivity
 

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