Quote from Lucio Buffalmano on May 31, 2020, 5:20 pm

Kevin Dutton says there are three types of procrastinators:

1. Ruminators: not making a decision absolves from the responsibility of the outcomes of that decision
2. Avoidants: are avoiding the fear of failure (or fear of success). They fear what others think of them, and would rather people think they lack effort, than the ability
3. Perfectionists: they’d rather do nothing than having to measure up to their own unreachable standards

This was an interesting take on procrastination, and I think many people would fall in the avoidant category.
That links to a fixed or growth mindset.
Most people have a fixed mindset, so it makes sense they avoid doing anything because lack of talent is far worse than lack of work.

Dutton provides some suggestion on how to overcome procrastination, too:

1. Visualize yourself doing it: carrying it out successfully and overcoming the challenges
2. Find out exactly what you don’t like: once you know what it is, you can start working through them (this was very helpful for me, for example finding ways to cut down on the parts I disliked the most)
3. Focus on the future: the benefits it will bring, and how you will feel once you’ve done it
4. Plan and ring-fence the activity
5. Downsize your time: procrastinators wait for the perfect time and long stretches of free time. Instead, do whatever you can, in the little time you might have (this was also very helpful for me)
6. Destroy perfectionism (this is CBT)
   1. Find out your bullying voice that demands perfection
   2. Talk back to it
   3. Take appropriate action
   4. Celebrate doing it rather than doing it perfectly
   5. Do it repeatedly
   6. Sometimes set out with failure as your goal, just to realize that failure and rejections aren't the end of the world