Structured Procrastination. Steve Pavlina Reader. iProcrastinate Podcast. The Procrastinating Caveman: What Human Evolution Teaches Us About Why We Put Off Work and How to Stop. July 10th, 2011 · 60 comments Survivor: Paleolithic Edition Rewind time 100,000 years ago: several different species of humans co-exist on earth.There was, of course, our own species, Homo sapien, but we were joined by our more athletic siblings from the Tree of Life, Homo erectus, who had left Africa and colonized Asia long before we ventured beyond the mother continent, all the while another sibling, the stocky Neanderthal, was hunkered down in a European ice age.
Advance another 90,000 years, however, and our species is the only game left in town. Scientists have worked hard to figure out why we survived while other early humans did not. The answer to this question lies at the core of our species’ story, but it also provides insight into a topic of significantly less importance on the grand scale, but nonetheless one that haunts many of us in our everyday lives: procrastination.
Procrastination. The art of writing is the art of applying the seat of the pants to the seat of the chair.
—Mary Heaton Vorse What this handout is about This handout will help you understand why you procrastinate and offer strategies and to combat this common writer’s ailment.