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  Why You Procrastinate (with Leading Expert Piers Steel) Recently, I published my Complete Guide to Motivation . The guide covers the research landscape on motivation from psychological, neuroscientific and economic perspectives. One of the key researchers I highlighted was Piers Steel , a leading expert on procrastination. Since I found his research findings so helpful in my own understanding of procrastination, I invited him to sit down with me to chat about it. What follows is our deeper look into the research behind motivation and procrastination. Listen to this article Below I’ve highlighted a few parts of our conversation: Why Do We Procrastinate? On why we can’t seem to motivate ourselves: At the simplest level, it’s three factors and one of them is the most important. … Your self-confidence or self-efficacy. Your feeling that I have the ability to do this. If you feel like “Yeah, I got this,” that really helps. … If you find the task unpleasant...