{"id":4206,"date":"2014-12-09T12:44:24","date_gmt":"2014-12-09T17:44:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/esp\/?p=4206"},"modified":"2025-03-20T09:43:27","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T13:43:27","slug":"brain-loves-procrastination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/esp\/2014\/brain-loves-procrastination\/","title":{"rendered":"Why your brain loves procrastination"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Why your brain loves procrastination\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>Most people procrastinate from time to time. And most of the time it&#8217;s not so harmful: putting off doing the laundry for a few days or 15 minutes here and there, lost in Facebook.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But procrastination can also create huge problems for many people \u2014&nbsp;at work, at school, and at home. Consider all the people who keep meaning to start&nbsp;saving for retirement, for example, but never do it. Or people with obesity or diabetes who constantly tell themselves: &#8220;I&#8217;ll start eating right tomorrow&#8221; \u2014&nbsp;but never do it.&nbsp;Roughly 5 percent of the population has such a problem with chronic procrastination that it seriously affects their lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vox.com\/2014\/12\/8\/7352833\/procrastination-psychology-help-stop\" target=\"_blank\">Continue reading&#8230;. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most people procrastinate from time to time. And most of the time it&#8217;s not so harmful: putting off doing the laundry for a few days or 15 minutes here and there, lost in Facebook. But procrastination can also create huge problems for many people \u2014&nbsp;at work, at school, and at home. Consider all the people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4209,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":"null"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/esp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/esp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/esp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/esp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/esp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4206"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/esp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4211,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/esp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4206\/revisions\/4211"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/esp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/esp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/esp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/esp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}