Procrastination — a 15 letter word for an eight-letter habit
I procrastinated the publishing of this article for over 3 months
We need buzzwords to realize something we’ve already known for centuries. One of these buzzwords I happened to stumble upon only about five years ago is procrastination.
I mean, it’s not a new phenomenon. Almost all of us must have known it for years. I’m sure most of you dear readers have experienced it. Postponing something was known to me since I was a kid. It had the same effect as it has now.
But there’s a slight, hardly noticeable difference. At the moment everybody talks about it. In every circumstance, whether it makes sense or not.
I don’t want to pretend that the psychological coaching or whatsoever industry creates such buzzwords. Certainly not, but buzzwords may make an industry.
Maybe some of you remember about 30 years ago. All of a sudden, very active kids suffered from ADD (attention deficit disorder). Later, experts added “hyperactivity.” ADHS (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder) was born. And this was the origin of an ever-growing industry in the psycho-medical sector.
And now, for a while, procrastination makes the headlines. Some days ago, the idea came into my mind that the importance we attribute to an expression can be a…
