Take Steven McDermott‘s highlighter test: Pick the most recent story you have “finished.” Now, using three different colored highlighters, mark the “to be” verb forms in one color, the adverbs in another color, and all the remaining verbs with the third color. You know what the task is. Excise as many of the “to be” [...]
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Science has the answer! Over the years, psychologists have come up with a lot of ideas about what makes people procrastinate. In addition to anxiety and perfectionism, some suggested that procrastinators were self-sabotaging, hostile and rebellious, or depressed. But for Steel, procrastination can be explained by an insight borrowed from behavioural economics called hyperbolic discounting. [...]
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