Workplace Delaying Is Hopeless. What Should I Do?

Mention Procrastination I think of an English joke. Question: Which nation in the world has the highest population? The answer is: Procrastination (procrastination). Although the joke is lost in Chinese, we can learn from it that there are many people with procrastination throughout the world. How high is the ratio, no statistics can be made, but some information seen by Mr. Zhao claims that individuals are more or less procrastinating.

What does Freud think? Procrastination is directly related to human nature. And the human nature here means that people always tend to give themselves Pleasure Principle rather than suffer. The more you feel guilty, the more comfortable you feel. Of course you can't say no, but you can't be a normal human being.

It is said that the biggest symptom of procrastination is to do "serious business" instead of doing it and spend a lot of time doing other things. Serious business here is often a matter of importance and priority. It is stressful and unpleasant, such as your daily work. And other things, often do not have pressure, and can get a lot of fun, such as playing games, brush micro-blog.

Many years ago, an American economist, George Akerlof, was a visiting scholar in India, and his colleague, Joseph Stiglitz (Joseph Stiglitz), visited India during the teacher's visit. They had been roommates for a while. Before returning home, Stiglitz commissioned acrov to send his suitcase to the United States. Ah, the teacher readily agreed, chest beat red, said no problem wrapped in brothers, you can rest assured that the road.

Guess how long has it been taken by teacher?

Nearly nine months.

A teacher later wrote: "when he left, every morning he told himself that he had to send the box clothes to him early in the morning. But busy every day and busy working with India's post office is not a pleasant thing. At last, brother himself was going to return home. He knew that it would be too late to do it again. It happened that another colleague would send something back to China. After that, the elder brother went straight to the airport. The brothers arrived first, and the boxes were worn for several weeks before they arrived.

In view of his famous behavioural economist, there is an economic explanation for any behavior. It inspired him very much. In 1991, he wrote an economic article called Procrastination and Obedience. Ten years later, acrov and Stiglitz won the Nobel prize in economics. Unfortunately, it is not because of the study of procrastination, otherwise it is really "perfect" in the words of the master.

You see, the Nobel laureates also have procrastination. Is everyone satisfied?

　　 Workplace On the procrastination sufferers, there were a lot of family members, and the most serious were two. One said, "I'll call you in half an hour." Then there was no news until he wanted to take the initiative to find you; another caller in the pager era had the habit of calling back two weeks later. He said, "what did you say to me half a month ago?" but think about it for two years. Perhaps this is just their work habit, not a real procrastination.

I think there are two kinds of things to do in the workplace and in life. One is what you have to do, one is what you want to do. On this basis, we can talk about the importance and priority. What you have to do is often the task that the boss has to give you, so it is stressful and the process may not be happy, and the result may not be what you want. But in Boss In his eyes, he (she) asked you to do something serious and important. The boss will not make a good impression on you when you delay this kind of thing.