Okay, so I'm kind of disappointed you clicked on this video because you're probably procrastinating from doing something much more important right now, but I'm just gonna go ahead and talk about what the science says about why our brains do this.
So if you're anything like me, you've probably been in a position where you have this very, very important deadline coming up and what you choose to do instead is delete old contacts for your phone or scroll Instagram for two and a half hours and just completely avoid this thing that you know you have to do you know no one else can do for you, and you know you're making so much more painful for yourself in the future.
And we talk a lot about this thing called procrastination online, I've done it multiple times before, but I was actually thinking, what does it mean and why scientifically do our brains do this?
Because it seemingly makes absolutely no sense.
And so I went to the literature and I read a couple of studies on how our brains work in this way and how they are hardwired to actually procrastinate in the first place and therefore what we can do to avoid it, perhaps.
So that's what I found.
It was quite interesting, I'm not going to lie, and I'm just going to get straight into it right now.
There's one study that highlights this, which I really, really love, in which participants were put in this very large room and they were asked to take a heavy bucket of water from one end to the other.
this is all they had to do.
But they could pick which bucket to use.
