#procrastination — Public Fediverse posts

Leonardo da Vinci
"I'll finish it tomorrow."
Tomorrow:
"See you tomorrow."
#LeonardoDaVinci #Procrastination #CreativeLife

@rvedotrc /me chuckles knowingly at you not having read The Get Things Done Book 😏

#procrastination

@ChrisMayLA6
#tRump has, once again, shown himself to be hell bent on proving he is as strong a man as the Kremlin #MafiaBoss. It there ever was a time for US #Allies and the #UN to call #redlines, now is the time to push back on #MadKingDonny. It’s now or never to put maximum diplomatic pressure on the US Administration (come what may).

#Procrastination or #appeasement will have nothing but dire negative impact on the global situation —- and we can hardly afford more belligerence or aggression on this very sick planet.

The realization hit me this week that we're no longer really, really late in taking down our artificial tree from last Christmas.

Now we're really early in getting started for this year's Christmas decorating.

#Christmas #Procrastination #LifeHack

What advice would you give to a perfectionnist with tendancy to procrastination to actually get things done? 👀

(Especially interested in tried and tested tips)

Feel free to boost around!

#Perfectionism #Procrastination

DATE: August 11, 2026 at 04:00PM
SOURCE: PSYPOST.ORG

** Research quality varies widely from fantastic to small exploratory studies. Please check research methods when conclusions are very important to you. **
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TITLE: Brain imaging study links childhood trauma to chronic procrastination in adulthood

URL: https://www.psypost.org/brain-imaging-links-childhood-trauma-to-chronic-procrastination-in-adulthood/

Childhood trauma can leave lasting marks on human development, and a new study links these early adverse experiences to higher rates of procrastination in young adults. By scanning the brains of over a thousand participants, researchers mapped how trauma-related changes in neural networks might elevate anxiety and lower self-control, paving the way for chronic delay. The research was published in the journal NeuroImage.

Procrastination is often dismissed as simple laziness or poor time management. Psychologists generally view chronic procrastination as a failure of self-control. When faced with a stressful or unpleasant task, people may delay doing it as a way to find temporary relief from negative feelings. This concept is known as the short-term emotion repair theory. While putting off a difficult project provides immediate comfort, it interferes with long-term goals.

Experiencing abuse or neglect in childhood can disrupt the development of systems in the brain that handle emotion and cognitive control. This early adversity can make individuals highly sensitive to negative emotions, elevating their baseline stress. It can also reduce their ability to suppress immediate impulses in favor of future rewards.

Researchers at Southwest University in China wanted to see if the neurobiological changes associated with childhood trauma might explain the tendency to put things off. The study was led by psychologist Tingyong Feng along with Luo Xu and colleagues. They hypothesized that early traumatic events alter large-scale brain networks. These structural and functional changes would subsequently raise a person’s baseline anxiety and degrade their ability to maintain self-control.

To test this framework, the research team recruited undergraduate students with no history of psychiatric disorders, dividing them into a primary discovery group of 760 participants and a validation group of 429 participants. Every individual completed a series of standardized questionnaires. These surveys assessed their history of physical and emotional abuse or neglect, general tendency to procrastinate, trait anxiety, and baseline self-control. Trait anxiety refers to a person’s general, everyday level of stress and worry, rather than temporary anxiety tied to a specific passing event.

The participants then underwent functional magnetic resonance imaging. This brain scanning technique measures blood flow to track brain activity while a person is resting. By observing which areas of the brain activate in sync, researchers can map out functional networks. The team focused on the strength of the connections between 268 different brain regions, looking for patterns that corresponded with the behavioral survey scores.

In the first part of their analysis using the behavioral survey data, the researchers found that higher scores on the childhood trauma questionnaire predicted higher levels of procrastination. When they introduced the other survey variables into their statistical models, they found that trait anxiety and self-control acted as mediators. The data indicated that childhood trauma was associated with higher trait anxiety and lower self-control. These two emotional and cognitive states in turn predicted the urge to procrastinate.

Next, the researchers used a statistical technique to analyze the brain scans from the participants in the discovery group. They searched the entire brain to find specific patterns of neural connectivity that could predict the severity of a participant’s childhood trauma. Their models successfully identified a set of brain connections that correlated with the initial survey scores. To ensure their computer model was reliable, they tested it on the brain scans of the students in the validation group. The model accurately predicted trauma scores in this independent group based solely on their resting neural connectivity.

The neural connections identified by the model primarily involved several major brain networks. These included the frontoparietal network, which is responsible for goal-directed behavior, and the salience network, which helps the brain detect and react to emotional stimuli. The researchers observed weaker connectivity in areas related to top-down cognitive control, such as the prefrontal cortex. At the same time, they saw stronger connections between visual processing areas and the cerebellum. These latter regions are highly active when processing emotional cues and learning fear responses.

The researchers noted that these brain patterns align with a recognized framework called the triple-network model of procrastination. In this model, chronic delay arises from an imbalance between brain networks that manage self-control, emotion regulation, and future planning. The weaker connectivity in the prefrontal cortex suggests a diminished capacity to stay focused on long-term goals. The stronger connections between the salience network and visual areas suggest a hyperactive threat-detection system. Under these conditions, visual inputs are more readily interpreted as threatening or stressful, which elevates anxiety.

The researchers then merged the neurological data with the behavioral data. They found that the exact brain network patterns associated with childhood trauma predicted higher procrastination scores. Just as with the survey data, this relationship was bridged by the participants’ levels of trait anxiety and self-control. The altered brain connectivity predicted higher anxiety and lower self-control, which ultimately mapped onto higher procrastination.

The study relies on a cross-sectional design, meaning all data was collected at a single point in time. This approach prevents researchers from proving that childhood trauma directly causes brain changes or procrastination later in life. The researchers noted that longitudinal studies, which track the same individuals over many years, are required to confirm the direction of these effects.

The observed associations between the brain networks and behavioral traits were also relatively modest in size. Modest effects are common in brain imaging research, partly due to the limits of current scanning technology and the natural variations in how human brains are wired. The reliance on self-reported questionnaires for assessing childhood trauma can also introduce memory biases or measurement errors.

The research team recommended that future studies test more diverse populations, as the current data came exclusively from healthy college students. Including physiological markers and specific behavioral tests could also refine our understanding of how early life stress changes the brain.

The study, “Early Wounds, Delayed Consequences: Brain-Behavior Modeling Reveals Neural Pathways Linking Childhood Trauma to Procrastination,” was authored by Luo Xu, Yao Yin, Xueke Wang, Ting Xu, Xi Zhang, and Tingyong Feng.

URL: https://www.psypost.org/brain-imaging-links-childhood-trauma-to-chronic-procrastination-in-adulthood/

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I published “I No Longer Tell People I Probably Have ADHD or AuDHD” at
https://www.ii.com/not-telling-i-have-audhd/
#adhd #audhd #neurodiversity #asd #autismspectrumdisorder #procrastination #health #life
#InfiniteInk #Byℵ #ByNM

⏳ Why Do We Procrastinate?
We often know what needs to be done, yet somehow find ourselves scrolling, watching videos or telling ourselves we'll start later.
Procrastination isn't necessarily just laziness. Psychology suggests that emotions, motivation, task perception and the appeal of immediate rewards can all play a role.
🧠 Our latest Curiosity Sphere article explores why we procrastinate and what can help us break the cycle.
#Procrastination #Psychology #Productivity #mindset

Psychotherapist explains a possible childhood reason you always procrastinate, and how to fix it

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/psychotherapist-explains-a-possible-childhood-reason-you-always-procrastinate-and-how-to-fix-it-ex1/

#meme #humor #funny #procrastination

15 Key Lessons from Unmasking the Hidden Threats in Your Life by Dotty Wise (2024)

https://dottywise.wordpress.com/2026/08/07/15-key-lessons-from-unmasking-the-hidden-threats-in-your-life-by-dotty-wise-2024-2/

Ah, the digital hoarding Olympics! 🏅 Apparently, open tabs are your life's unresolved soap opera, not just the bookmarks you were too lazy to sort. Because who doesn't love a browser slow dance with procrastination? 😂
https://gettably.tech/articles/open-tabs-are-unfinished-decisions/ #digitalhoarding #procrastination #open-tabs #browserlife #humor #HackerNews #ngated

One of the weird things about #ADHD is how you relate to #time.

I don't just mean #TimeBlindness, #procrastination, being late, and other typical things.

I have an insane long-term memory, can recall and categorize events by year, as long as they were at least a decade ago. But last week?
No idea.

Tomorrow? What the heck is tomorrow? No idea, whatsoever. No plans, other than things I need to do for work.

Laundry? Housework? I do those things when I have to, I never schedule them in my head in the least.

But here's another one:

My #FloofDaughter (#cat) #Mira has been growing. I never quite knew her age: at the city shelter, they said they thought she was 2 years old (judged based on the teeth), but she was quite small when I first got her, and she's a very sizeable cat, now.

But I could really only tell when she'd grown when comparing her to previous pictures, or by feeling her weight, or noticing things like how tall she stood when she was on my lap. But just by looking at her, I could barely tell the difference.

My aunt had been telling me that she had been growing for the past few months, but I said it wasn't possible, that I've had her for nearly 2 years, and I didn't think she was all that young when I first got her.

But when I got adopted by #FloofSon #Sunny (who's about three months old), I looked at Mira, and my eyes bugged out! Is that really Mira? Did someone replace my cat with a Racoon? She's suddenly HUGE to me.

When did she grow this much? I have no idea. It's like she grew by 25% overnight. Some of that might be due to being annoyed at having another cat in the house now (poofy fur), some of it might be due to overfeeding (she stays with my aunt most of the time, and she's not as measured with feeding as I am), but either way, she looks like a pretty big cat to me, suddenly.

The funny thing is that I weighed her, and I don't think she's actually any heavier. Maybe a pound, max. 🤷‍♂️

(I will say that the method of weighing is very imprecise, as I'm stepping onto a scale while holding her, then stepping off, letting her go, then stepping on again. I'm also comparing weights made by two different scales)

#ThisCouldHaveBeenABlogPost, really ;)

A quotation from Bill Watterson

   CALVIN: (building a snowman) I should be doing my homework now. But the way I look at it, playing in the snow is a lot more important. Out here I’m learning real skills that I can apply throughout the rest of my life.
   HOBBES: Such as?
   CALVIN: Procrastinating and rationalizing.

Bill Watterson (b. 1958) American cartoonist
Calvin and Hobbes (1993-02-15)

More about this quote: wist.info/watterson-bill/85252…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #billwatterson #calvinandhobbes #education #excuse #homework #procrastination #rationalization #realworld #selfrationalization #skills #training

Beware: learning more is a smart person’s favorite form of procrastination.

#procrastination #productivity

Activité de #procrastination du jour, voici tous les noms de domaine en .fr avec "2027" dedans. Je vous laisse vous amuser à piocher dedans et mettre vos trouvailles en commentaire.
#presidentielles2027

Le fichier texte : http://gyroi.de/ipfs/QmZfSGswCgDbnuKGFdyaqJ6Abip2sg3kApuD9eVxZe3wQL

I don't want to go....to bed. That means it becomes Monday faster.

#doctorwho #procrastination #bedtime #monday

GitHub introduces the ✨MIRACULOUS✨ ability to overflow your cursor subscription with endless code, as if anyone needed yet another reason to procrastinate using #AI. Forget building secure apps; let's just spam our IDEs with #bots and call it #innovation. 🚀💻
https://github.com/hkc5/cursor-bridge #GitHub #Procrastination #Coding #HackerNews #ngated

O medo angustia a alma

O medo angustia a alma

Adiando o sucesso de hoje
Desejos no papel são só desejos
Luz fraca no caminho.

Carlos de Campos 

Toda as traduções são feitas pela IA

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🇺🇸 Inglês

Fear Torments the Soul

Postponing today's success
Desires on paper are only desires
A faint light along the way.

Carlos de Campos

All translations are made by AI.

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 🇪🇸 Espanhol

El miedo angustia el alma

Posponiendo el éxito de hoy
Los deseos en el papel son solo deseos
Una luz tenue en el camino.

Carlos de Campos

Todas las traducciones son realizadas por IA.

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 🇮🇳 Hindi

भय आत्मा को व्याकुल करता है

आज की सफलता को टालते हुए
कागज़ पर लिखी इच्छाएँ बस इच्छाएँ हैं
राह में मंद रोशनी।

Carlos de Campos

सभी अनुवाद AI द्वारा किए गए हैं।

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🇨🇳 Chinês simplificado

恐惧使灵魂焦虑

推迟今天的成功
纸上的愿望终究只是愿望
路上微弱的光。

Carlos de Campos

所有翻译均由人工智能完成。

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 🇮🇩 Indonésio

Ketakutan Menggelisahkan Jiwa

Menunda keberhasilan hari ini
Keinginan di atas kertas hanyalah keinginan
Cahaya redup di jalan.

Carlos de Campos

Semua terjemahan dibuat oleh AI.

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 🇷🇺 Russo

Страх тревожит душу

Откладывая сегодняшний успех
Желания на бумаге — лишь желания
Слабый свет на пути.

Carlos de Campos

Все переводы выполнены с помощью ИИ.

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Avalie isto:

🚀 Behold the dazzling spectacle of the Kimi Work 'NextGen' desktop #AI circus! 🤹‍♂️ With a plethora of mismatched buzzwords and a feature list that could rival a kitchen sink catalog, this AI agent promises to revolutionize the way you procrastinate at your digital desk. 🖥️✨
https://www.kimi.com/products/kimi-work #KimiWork #NextGen #Circus #DigitalDesk #Procrastination #Innovation #HackerNews #ngated

Procrastination Linked to Sleep Disturbance Through Eveningness in Large Japanese Study

Like and share if you enjoyed this.

https://1ban.news/procrastination-eveningness-sleep-problems-2026/

#1ban #procrastination #eveningness #sleep #problems #neuroscience

🚨 ALERT: The latest groundbreaking invention in human #productivity is... drumroll, please... another word game! 🥳 Because clearly, what the world needs right now is one more way to procrastinate with a daily letter shuffle. 🙄 Get ready to revolutionize your life by guessing words like it's 1999. 😆
https://playonemoreletter.com/ #wordgames #procrastination #innovation #humor #HackerNews #ngated

Oh, great! 🤡 Another paper on coding agents overthinking in endless loops of reasoning and testing—basically, machines showcasing their inner procrastinators. 🤖 So cutting-edge, it might just revolutionize... well, napping through software engineering tasks. 💤
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.05188 #codingagents #procrastination #machinelearning #softwareengineering #techhumor #HackerNews #ngated

Ah, the glamorous world of knot enthusiasts 🌟—where every tangled mess is a triumph and a "Zeppelin Bend" is not an airline's new seating arrangement ✈️. Clearly, this riveting 2016 list of notorious knots is the pinnacle of procrastination—because who doesn't love to spend their time getting tied up in the past! 🪢
https://knots.neocities.org/knotindex #knotenthusiasts #ZeppelinBend #procrastination #knottyfun #2016list #HackerNews #ngated

When you've pretty much entered a fugue state and started writing 2 substack articles in one go.

All because you're procrastinating.

(Anyways keep an eye out for my published newsletters coming out soon!)

#tifftalks #writing #substack #substackarticle #newsletter #procrastination

I should write a blurb about this study of procrastination, but I'll do it later.

https://neurosciencenews.com/9-procrastination-types-31038/

#Procrastination