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Garron Hillaire

What we can learn from procrastination : The New Yorker - 2 views

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shared by Garron Hillaire on 06 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • even Nobel-winning economists procrastinate!
  • “each morning for over eight months I woke up and decided that the next morning would be the day to send the Stiglitz box.”
  • Academics, who work for long periods in a self-directed fashion, may be especially prone to putting things off: surveys suggest that the vast majority of college students procrastinate
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  • dragging our heels is “as fundamental as the shape of time and could well be called the basic impulse.”
  • Most of the contributors to the new book agree that this peculiar irrationality stems from our relationship to time—in particular, from a tendency that economists call “hyperbolic discounting.”
  • Viewed this way, procrastination starts to look less like a question of mere ignorance than like a complex mixture of weakness, ambition, and inner conflict.
  • instead of trusting themselves, the students relied on an outside tool to make themselves do what they actually wanted to do.
  • Garron Hillaire on 06 Nov 10
     
    an interesting article on procrastination. Perhaps worth reading to better understand our own behavior and the behavior of future students we attempt to engage. There is a not a direct technology angle here, but it would be important to think about this topic when looking at technologies for the classroom.
Tomoko Matsukawa

A Bias for Action: How Effective Managers Harness Their Willpower, Achieve ... - Heike ... - 1 views

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multitasking attention procrastination behavior business

shared by Tomoko Matsukawa on 24 Nov 12 - No Cached
  • Tomoko Matsukawa on 24 Nov 12
     
    This is not necessarily related to technology but think is relevant to the concern presented by Dr Turkle on 'multitasking'. Many of us and current management have fostered the bad habit of multitasking, responding to the expectation that we will respond immediately, seek to keep ourselves busy to reward our brain... This famous book by Ghoshal introduces the concept of 'active non-action'. Figure 2-1 provides 4 types of managerial behaviors (the detached, procrastinators, frenzied and the purposeful). how many of us are being 'the purposeful' today? 
Tomoko Matsukawa

Coping with Email Overload - Peter Bregman - Harvard Business Review - 0 views

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email technology divided attention procrastination productivity

shared by Tomoko Matsukawa on 24 Nov 12 - No Cached
  • Tomoko Matsukawa on 24 Nov 12
     
    "But it's become a serious problem. When we don't control our email habit, we are controlled by it. " - somewhat related to the YouTube by dr. Sherry Turkle. I read this article when it was published (working life totally controlled by email I must say).. and sadly I am still addicted...
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