How many times have you been faced with a monotonous weekend and you stopped performing some activity because the delivery deadline would only be the following Friday, leaving to do everything running, turning into the dawn, on Thursday? If you have identified yourself or know someone with this habit, know that you are not alone in the world. In fact, procrastination is much more common than we think.
O act of procrastinating it is simply putting off something that can be done in the present moment. Although it doesn't seem like a big deal, studies say that procrastination can cause stress, guilt and lost productivity. Calm down, dear reader, who never left something to do at the last minute? This becomes a problem when it starts to harm the person, that is, they cannot program themselves and end up suffering from it.
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In addition to the possibility of being a habit of the individual, procrastination can also be linked to psychological or physiological problems. The habit of procrastinating has been growing in today's society. There are many distractions that we have in the modern world and there is also an excess of needs considered urgent, directly impacting the loss of focus on what is really important and what can be done in advance.
The term procrastination derives from the Latin: procrastinatus. In this case, it is a combination of the words that mean “ahead of tomorrow”. In literature, the term appears for the first time in Edward Hall's work entitled “The union of the two noble and illustre famelies of Lancestre and Yorke”. The fact that the book was published in 1548 reveals that modern distractions cannot be solely responsible for the act of procrastination, after all in the XNUMXth century there was no smartphone or television series.
Psychologically speaking, procrastination can be linked to several factors, mainly anxiety and low self-esteem.
That is, this person tends to aspire to their dreams and desires for future accomplishments, instead of starting the immediate construction of this objective. In the case of physiology, this problem is usually linked to the prefrontal cortex, the area of ​​the brain responsible for planning and impulse control.
It's no use, there are people who leave everything to the last minute, especially students, because the pleasurable activities are closely linked to the immediate, resulting in the postponement of obligations as much as possible. First of all, who has the ability to measure whether it is a harmful habit is the individual who procrastinates. If this is holding you back, maybe it's time to rethink new ways of organizing and planning. If not, specialized medical help can help with this habit, which, in this situation, ends up being a serious problem.
Text written by Diego Rennan from the Eu Sem Fronteiras Team.
