The negative "early disease" of procrastination: 1 month before the deadline, I stayed up late to complete the report!

"Time is still early, what are you doing so?" You asked him.

"I don't have a good time, it's not good to play with it."

Indeed, your roommate is a person who quickly completes everything. You think he is just standing on the opposite side of procrastination. That's right, there is a word to describe people like them, called precrastination.

Action giant, lazy people

It is well known that the delayed people have not died in the Yellow River, and they always drag things to the last moment. However, it is rarely known to the corresponding symptoms. People with early symptoms have a tendency to complete them in advance. Even if they need to pay additional efforts for this, they even stay up late and sacrifice normal entertainment. Emergency task.

There are similar concepts as "Mere-Urge 13": When people realize that a trivial task has a deadline, they may sacrifice more important things to complete this trivial task.

Syndrome was first discovered and named for the first time in 2014. In this study, the researchers set the following situations: two buckets were placed in a long corridor, nearly a long distance from the end, and the subjects needed to choose a barrel to mention the end point. According to different experimental conditions, there may be no water in the two barrels. Both have 3.5 pounds of water or 7 pounds of water (about 0.45 kg).

Experimental Figure 丨 References 7

It was found in the experiment that some people would rather take the bucket for a longer time and choose a bucket that is farther away from the end point, and this tendency will not change due to the importance of the barrel, which is only related to the convenience of taking the bucket: the barrel on the left hand side is left at the point side of the barrel side side. The closer, the more people tend to take this barrel that needs to pay more manual labor.

In response to this phenomenon, the researchers made an example: "This is like going to the supermarket. You put the apples at the entrance into the basket and dragged them away while shopping, although you know that they will pass them on the way back. "

To complete something that attracts your attention first, you can reduce the cognitive efforts to pay for this matter. For example, if you have cut off a certain matter, you don't have to think about it anymore.

In this case, starting work in advance does not necessarily mean that this person has stronger ability. On the contrary, it may be related to the small work memory capacity. Small work memory capacity indicates that the ability of transaction storage is not strong in the short term, and the "memory" of the human brain is not enough. Since there is no way to remember and plan something, it is better to do it as soon as possible.

In 2021, some researchers did some similar experiments as the above bucket experiments, but they changed some settings: the water capacity of the water on both sides became different.

Experimental Figure 丨 References 5

Studies have found that for people with high work memory capacity, they will make more efficient flexible choices under different conditions. But for people with a lower memory capacity, they picked up more water cups that attracted them closer and first attracted their attention, and did not make much thinking on the task, especially efficiency.

In other words, people with early symptoms are actually active giants and lazy people.

Early symptoms may cause some troubles

After all, life will never be done

As mentioned above, the occurrence of early symptoms may be related to the energy consumption. From a cognitive perspective, existing tasks will occupy our work memory, and some people may even experience a bad psychological state, while "early completion" can allow people to get rid of this cognitive burden as soon as possible and remove the brain storage. For those who have early symptoms, the reason why they choose not to delay and finish things early, mainly because they can't stand the cognitive burden that stay in the brain.

Some personality traits are also related to stable early symptoms. Studies have found that the early symptoms are positively correlated with due responsibility, which means that people with a high degree of responsibility may want to complete the work as soon as possible; there is also positive correlation between the early symptoms and pleasant. Those who complete the group task may be to make others feel at ease.

Procrastination will be envious of early symptoms. I feel that doing things in advance is high. If you do n’t have to do anything, you do n’t have to bear the anxiety before the deadline.

Early characteristics will actually cause a lot of trouble.丨 pixabay

First of all, the efficient price may be "scribble". Compared with quality, people with early symptoms pay more attention to "things to complete", and they are easy to make mistakes because of this psychology, and even the main order of the primary and secondary. For example, because you must return to the email in seconds, the attachment may not be brought and the person who copys the low -level leakage, and the reply of important emails has not been thoughtfully.

Some failures are not because they are dragged to DDL, but because they put DDL too much in advance -some tasks take 9 hours to achieve 60 points, far less than 60 days of 90 points.

Secondly, it seems to save time and may waste time. For example, people who are worried about emergencies often go to the airport for several hours in advance, and always arrive in advance for a long time, but may not do anything to do it; if the task is changed early, if the process changes, the previous efforts are also all of them. Wait.

Finally, people with early symptoms may sacrifice the necessary social and life quality because of the tasks in their hands. Because they always remember things in their hearts, they are not happy to play, they do n’t eat fragrant, they do n’t sleep, they do n’t sleep well. As long as the task is not completed, leisure and entertainment may stand side by side. Those who are early symptoms will always want to rest again after they are busy, but in fact they have always been on the road. After all, the work in the world will never be done, and there will be the next incident after doing this.

Find your own rhythm

The good thing is that most of the time is not a condition that needs to be treated. As Li Chuxi, a registered psychologist of the Chinese Psychological Society's clinical registration system, said in an interview with the China Youth Daily: "Whether it is 'procrastination' or 'early disease', these two states are not psychological obstacles. Some kind of 'illness', they are a way to respond to anxiety, and have their own advantages and disadvantages in terms of adaptability. "

But what should I do if the troubles brought by advanced symptoms are far greater than the benefits?

First of all, the complex and huge work can be split into multiple small parts, and each time it is completed, instead of rushing to finish the whole thing.

Secondly, before formulating first, pay attention to the importance of importance and delete unnecessary tasks.

You can also consciously train yourself not to be overwhelmed by anxiety, accept and bear your own ideological load, and give your body some chances of breathing.

When you feel anxious, do n’t always solve it by completing the completion of staying up late and sacrificing the quality of life. You can also try to choose other venting methods, such as listening to some relaxed music, walking out of the room to see the beauty outside, or talking to yourself. I started unnecessary anxiety again, and there would be no problems to do step by step, as well as others. "

Delays and advances are acceptable. As long as it does not affect life too much, I hope that everyone in the world can find the most suitable rhythm of life.

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Author: Shi Zhizhi

Edit: Emeria, Li Xiaoqiu

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