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Why You Procrastinate (And What Your Brain Has to Do with It)

34 min · 17. okt. 2025
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It’s not you—it’s your brain. Procrastination isn’t a flaw or failure of willpower. It’s a deeply human coping mechanism hardwired into our evolutionary past. Join us as we explore five counterintuitive insights from behavioral psychology and neuroscience that explain why we delay, why guilt makes it worse, and what it really takes to break the cycle.

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