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To procrastinate or not
[T]he answer may be down to differences in how our brains are wired, a study suggests.
It identified two areas of the brain that determine whether we are more likely to get on with a task or continually put it off.
Researchers used a survey and scans of 264 people's brains to measure how proactive they were.
Experts say the study, in Psychological Science, underlines procrastination is more about managing emotions than time.
It found that the amygdala - an almond-shaped structure in the temporal (side) lobe which processes our emotions and controls our motivation - was larger in procrastinators.
In these individuals, there were also poorer connections between the amygdala and a part of the brain called the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex (DACC).
The DACC uses information from the amygdala and decides what action the body will take. It helps keep the person on track by blocking out competing emotions and distractions.
"Individuals with a larger amygdala may be more anxious about the negative consequences of an action - they tend to hesitate and put off things," says Erhan Genç, one of the study authors, based at Ruhr University Bochum.
The researchers suggest that procrastinators are less able to filter out interfering emotions and distractions because the connections between the amygdala and the DACC in their brains are not as good as in proactive individuals.
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(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 03 2018, @06:50AM (2 children)
sagen alle schlauen Leute! :)
(Score: 3, Interesting) by maxwell demon on Monday September 03 2018, @09:01AM (1 child)
Was Du heute kannst besorgen,
das verschiebe nicht auf morgen:
Übermorgen ist auch noch Zeit,
und bis dahin ist's noch weit.
;-)
And for those who don't speak German:
The original AC post was referring to a German saying: "Morgen, morgen, nur nicht heute, sagen alle faulen Leute" ("Tomorrow, tomorrow, not today, all the lazy people say"), but replaced "faulen" ("lazy") with "schlauen" ("clever").
I took another German saying, "Was du heute kannst besorgen, das verschiebe nicht auf morgen" ("What you can do today, don't postpone to tomorrow"), and added a reason for it: "Übermorgen ist auch noch Zeit, und bis dahin ist noch weit" ("The day after tomorrow there's still time for it, and that's still far away").
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 03 2018, @04:05PM
The lazy version is traditional, but in my time the clever version was far more commonly used and heard.