Explore the surprising roots of self-sabotage as Dr. Charlie Heriot-Maitland reveals how our brain's survival instincts can ...

Self-harming and self-sabotaging behaviors, from skin picking to ghosting people, all stem from evolutionary survival ...

A clinical psychologist has explained why so many people succumb to self-sabotaging behaviours such as procrastination, ...

That’s why I decided to try dopamine pairing, a simple way to hack your brain to make chores easier, which links a task you ...

Most of us have experienced it: a deadline approaches, the task is perfectly doable, yet instead of starting, we suddenly ...

Contrary to popular opinion, procrastination is a valid strategy that can help us access our motivation and our creativity.

Do you procrastinate? You're not alone: almost everyone does to one degree or another. To use myself as an example, one item ...

Procrastination isn’t laziness. It is overwhelm, avoidance, and the human brain trying to dodge discomfort. With tiny steps, ...

That’s why this kind of anxiety often shows up as being constantly distracted from your main task. You might sweep your room ...

I believe that the very first step to having a more productive life starts with a complete acknowledgement of the power that procrastination has over us. We praise the smoker and the alcoholic for ...

Abstract: University students engaged in online learning often exhibit high levels of academic procrastination. Thus, various studies have investigated this phenomenon to provide solutions to mitigate ...

You know that assignment, message or email you keep avoiding — the one that lingers in the back of your mind even as you scroll, tidy or “just check one more thing”? New research from UC Santa Barbara ...