Procrastination Isn't All Bad — Here’s How to Use it

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How much have we all complained about our own procrastination?

Procrastinating has been considered as the plague of productivity recently, notably due to social media. Indeed, just opening Facebook or YouTube can send you down a rabbit hole for hours on end.

While I personally have been able to repress my urge to use social media for the past few years, I have wasted quite a lot of time on games since I got the switch in 2017. Just as a quick proof, I’ve spent 245 hours on Zelda: Breath of the Wild, more than 360 hours on Super Smash Bros Ultimate, 130 hours on Xenoblade 2 and upwards of 50 hours on many others. As a whole, I have spent about 25 workweeks playing the Switch while I could have done other more productive things.

Of course, resting is important and its importance should not be overlooked. Playing a game here and there, watching YouTube a bit, checking Facebook, etc. are all fine. If in controlled doses.

To put it in simple terms, procrastination is pushing back something we know we should do but don’t have the motivation to start now.

Let’s analyze its two main concepts.

We should act

The main reason we see procrastinating as a problem is a dissonance created by our brain. We know…