The Republic of Awesome

Damn I procrastinate way too much.

Apparently though, procrastination is not caused by genetics but rather by upbringing.

According to this article, procrastination is indirectly caused by authoritarian parents. The child never develops self regulatory abilities, as they are always being controlled by the parents. Thus, they never learn to fulfil their intentions by acting on them.

Alternatively, procrastination developed amongst such children as a form of rebellion against controlling parents. While they cannot disobey, but they sure as hell can put off what they’re told to do.

So there you go – next time you catch yourself in front of Facebook instead of doing your work, you can think back on daddy and mommy and freaking blame them.

Don’t you just love psychology?

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Alright so now for the $64,000 question:

How do you stop procrastinating??

I don’t know.

I believe if you do something for 21 days it’d stick as a habit and you’d do it the rest of your life.

Yes this is one of those posts where I pledge to do something in hopes that my crowd of readers will threaten to stone me to death if I don’t fulfil my promises.

Which means I’ll try to stop procrastinating for 21 days…

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…that is starting tomorrow. Or the day after…

…or the day after that…

I made this one. No stealing!