Personal Development Circle: Moving Past Procrastination

We're taught that procrastination is lack of discipline or a sign of laziness. But what if our common understanding is wrong, and this very misconception is what keeps us stuck? This meetup explores a meta analysis of procrastination research that reveals it not as a time management issue, but as a profound failure of self-regulation, driven by our brain's battle between immediate desires and long term goals.

Join us for an engaging evening where we will:

1. Unpack the Insight: We'll explore the findings of drivers of procrastination task aversiveness, low self-efficacy, and impulsiveness. Learn why the brain consistently chooses short term relief over long term reward.
2. Discuss the Implications: What does this mean for how we work, learn, and pursue our goals? We'll discuss why traditional "just do it" advice often fails and what truly works. We'll explore how understanding the balance between conscientiousness and impulsivity can help us design our lives and environments to make procrastination less likely, leading to better performance and greater well being.
3. Explore Effective Strategies: Moving beyond theory, we'll discuss practical, research-backed interventions. How can we increase the value of tasks, build self-efficacy, and structure deadlines to outsmart our own minds? We'll cover techniques from goal-setting and environmental design to cognitive reframing that can help us bridge the infamous "intention-action gap" for good.

Paper source:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/6598646_The_Nature_of_Procrastination_A_Meta-Analytic_and_Theoretical_Review_of_Quintessential_Self-Regulatory_Failure