Procrastination: Where does it come from?

Broseph Monday 11 Jul 2011

The Procrastinating Caveman: What Human Evolution Teaches Us About Why We Put Off Work and How to Stop

Survivor: Paleolithic Edition
Rewind time 100,000 years ago: several different species of humans co-exist on earth.There was, of course, our own species, Homo sapien, but we were joined by our more athletic siblings from the Tree of Life, Homo erectus, who had left Africa and colonized Asia long before we ventured beyond the mother continent, all the while another sibling, the stocky Neanderthal, was hunkered down in a European ice age.
Advance another 90,000 years, however, and our species is the only game left in town.
Scientists have worked hard to figure out why we survived while other early humans did not. The answer to this question lies at the core of our species’ story, but it also provides insight into a topic of significantly less importance on the grand scale, but nonetheless one that haunts many of us in our everyday lives: procrastination.

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Broseph Monday 11 Jul 2011

This has, what I consider, good insight. It makes a lot of sense, and it helps me better understand why I don't have the drive to do some things I'd like to do.

Bob Dylan Roof Monday 11 Jul 2011

Procrastination: Where does it come from?

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