The Cause for Procrastination

(If there are any incorrect or unnatural expressions in the entry, please help me to correct them :)

I just stumbled on a video about the cause for procrastination by offering a vivid example. As far as I am concerned, it is more helpful to show people the cause for the terrible habit of procrastination rather than just to provide us with a few tips. Now I want to share it with you.

Firstly, you have to differentiate procrastination from laziness. Some people may naturally connect a person who has a habit of procrastination with a characteristic of "laziness". However, it is not right to think that way. Laziness refers to a person who sits around and does nothing all day, and he/she doesn't feel guilty about it in the slightest. However, if people procrastinate, they tend to stop what they are doing to do other things, like updating micro blogs or pushing the LIKE button all the time. They cannot enjoy true happiness from playing their Apples or iPads, they just relax for a moment. Because they know they have to continue to do the stuff they don't want to do.

Here is the cause for procrastination. Let's try to imagine you are going to walk on a long and wide board on the ground. You absolutely will go across on it immediately. Now if the scene changes slightly, and the board is set between two 100-floor buildings A and B, meaning you are in danger of falling down. At this moment you probably will hesitate and procrastinate. Essentially, the difficulty of walking on the board doesn't increase. The only thing changed is the severity of consequence following the failure. But now if the building A catches fire suddenly, and you know if you don't go, you will die. I believe you will go instantly without hesitation under the circumstance. Once you are done, you will realize it is not as hard as you have thought. You may think "I could have done it earlier". And this is the entire process of procrastination. Sometimes you delay doing something just because you are afraid of screwing it up. You mentally set the board on a high level. You don't want your performance to fail to live up to people's expectations. This is the reason why you will procrastinate. To overcome this awful habit, you should learn to prepare for the worst and change the self dialogue—saying to yourself " I want to" instead of "I have to" or "I must" or "I need to".

The Cause for Procrastination

(If there are any incorrect or unnatural expressions in the entry, please help me to correct them :)
I just stumbled on upon a video about the cause for procrastination by offering which offered a vivid example. As far as I am concerned, it is more helpful useful to show people the causes for the terrible habit of procrastination rather than just to provide us with simply providing a few tips. Now I want to share it with you.
Firstly, you have to differentiate between procrastination from and laziness. Some people may naturally connect equate a person who has a habit of person's procrastination with a characteristic of to "laziness". However, it is not right to think that way. Laziness refers to a person who sits around and does nothing all day, and he/she doesn't feel guilty of it in the slightest without any guilty feelings. However, if when people have procrastination procrastinate, they tend to stop what they are doing to do other things, like updating micro blogs or pushing the LIKE button all the time. They cannot enjoy true happiness from playing their Apples Itunes or iPads (the verb playing does not match the noun IPads), so they just get a little bit want to relax for a moment. Because because they know they have to continue to do the stuff they don't want to do.
Here is the cause for procrastination. Let's try to imagine you are going to walk on a long and wide board (not sure what this means) on the ground. You absolutely will go across on it immediately. Now if the scene changes slightly, and the board is set between two 100-floor buildings A and B, meaning you are in danger of falling down. At this moment you probably will hesitate and procrastinate (This is not an example of procrastination; this is an example of hesitation). Essentially, the difficulty of walking on the board doesn't increase. The only thing changed that changes is the severity of consequence following that follows the failure. But now if the building A catches fire suddenly, and you know if you don't go, you will die. I believe you will go instantly without hesitation under the circumstance. Once you are done, you will realize it is not as hard as you have thought. You may think "I could have done it earlier". And this is the entire process of procrastination. Sometimes you delay doing something just because you are afraid of screwing it up. You mentally set the board in a high level. You don't want your performance to fail to live up to people's expectations. This is the reason why you will procrastinate. To overcome this awful habit, you should learn to prepare for the worst and change the self dialogue your mind-set—saying to yourself " I want to" instead of "I have to" or "I must" or "I need to".

Hu Shu Chang

I could not visualize your example story about the board so it was hard to know exactly what you meant to write.