Hey, welcome to another walk and talk. I got a good one for you today.

procrastinate. You know, I wanted to do this video, but I kept putting it off, but I'm

ching. Now that I got the old man joke out of the way, this is all of us, okay?

And if you're not among us, good for you, but you're maybe kidding yourself. Why do we

procrastinate? First of all, this is as old a behavior as dirt, okay? It comes from a Latin

verb pro-forward, a crust anatus, so something like that, a crust an crust anot, that deals

with putting off until tomorrow. This belongs to tomorrow. So, you know, since the ancient

days people have been delaying. Question of course is why. The more important question

for me is what to do about it. Why? Because sometimes knowing why something is is overrated,

sometimes better just to not do it or to do it again or to whatever it is, sometimes

it's better to just try to work your way out of it than to dominate yourself with the

reasons that you're doing it in the first place, but to the extent that we care. If you do

the research, you'll see that psychologists are divided on it really depends. You know,

it can be self-regulation, it can be dealing with your own behavior, even if you know that

they're negative consequences. It's not doing what it is and you can get into your feelings

about yourself and punishing yourself. It can be a reflection of how you process in general,

executive function as a new space that psychology is exploring about how people decide to do

tasks and when and in what manner and what process is best to activate them. But I got

three ways that you can deal with procrastination and I totally do. If you ever had that situation

where you're walking around the house and you keep walking past things that either need

to be picked up or fixed or painted or changed or thrown out, looking at the garbage and

you get angry because somebody else was supposed to take it out or whatever it is, I do this

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