How to Beat Procrastination

B2 – Upper Intermediate

You might be putting off a task because you have to re-prioritize your workload. If you’re briefly delaying an important task for a genuinely good reason, then you aren’t necessarily procrastinating. However, if you start to put things off indefinitely or switch focus because you want to avoid doing something, then you probably are.

Read the article on how to deal with and prevent procrastination and answer the questions below:

https://hbr.org/2016/07/how-to-beat-procrastination

Discussion Questions:

  1. Why do you think people procrastinate?
  2. Who do you know that always procrastinates?
  3. When is it good to procrastinate?
  4. When is it really bad to procrastinate?
  5. What kinds of things do you usually put off doing?
  6. How do you feel when other people put off something you want done soon?
  7. Do you think people in some cultures are in too much of a rush?
  8. Do you think people in other cultures are too relaxed?
  9. Do you want to accomplish many things in your life or do you want to take it easy?

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One reply on “How to Beat Procrastination”

1. Generally, people procrastinate because the cost and the effort of the action seems bigger than the benefits of it. In a short term, we do things that are easy and confortable for us, because our brain feels better in common issues.
2. Everybody always procrastinate at different situations. It is impossible to avoid.
3. Never is good to procrastinate because that means that there are actions that we want or we must to do, but our brain doesn’t help to continue the way until the goal.
4. Overall, in my opinion the worst situation to procrastinate is when our goals or actions affect to other people.
5. Normally I use to put off things related with my body care and learning languages.
6. When the procrastination affects to me, I try to persuade and help other people to go on.
7. Of course, in the capitalism world where people are submit to the big companies, the time and the pulse are accelerated. The production make people slaves of their time, and that means that those have lack of motivation to enjoy their life.
8. No, I think that we must be more relaxed. Do thing that we want to do, share and enjoy the time with other people, simply to live.
9. I want to accomplish many things in my life because is the unique life that I have.

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