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Tired of procrastinating? To overcome it, take the time to understand it Procrastination isn't shameful or a character flaw. Instead it's rooted in a very human need: the need to feel competent and worthy, says educator Nic Voge.
"It's 11 o'clock. You're in your dorm room, and you have a paper due in a day or so. You sit down at your desk, you open up your laptop to get started, and then you think, 'I'm gonna check my email just for a minute; get that out of the way.' Forty-five minutes later, you've checked a lot of email," says Nic Voge, senior associate director of Princeton University's McGraw Center for Teaching and Learning in New Jersey, in a TEDxPrinceton talk. "You've done a really good job of that, but now you realize, 'You know what? I'm pretty tired. I'm kind of exhausted, and that's not conducive to writing a good paper. What do I need? I need to go to sleep." And you do - only to wake up and go through the whole cycle of delays-and-excuses the next day.
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