PROCRASTINATION allows individuals to take comfort in believing that their ability is greater than their performance indicates, perhaps even maintaining the belief that they are brilliant or unlimited in their potential to do well. As long as they procrastinate, their reasoning is, they never have to confront the real limits of their ability. The fear of being judged as lacking ability is so powerful for these individuals that they would rather suffer the consequences of procrastination than the humiliation of trying and not doing as well as they hoped. It is more tolerable to blame themselves for being disorganized, lazy or uncooperative than to view themselves as being inadequate and unworthy – the failure which they fear so deeply. And it is the fear of this failure that is eased by procrastination. (Extracted from the text entitled: Procrastination by: Jane B. Burka, Ph.D & Lenore M. Yuen, Ph.D)
Posted on: Tue, 25 Jun 2013 21:16:28 +0000
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