If you’ve ever put off an important task by, say, alphabetizing your spice drawer, you know it wouldn’t be fairto describe yourself as lazy. After all, alphabetizing requires focus and effort. And it’s not like you’re hanging outwith friends or watching Netflix. You’re cleaning. This isn’t laziness or bad time management. This isprocrastination.       Etymologically, “procrastination” is derived from the Latin verb procrastinare—to put off until tomorrow. Butit’s more than just voluntarily delaying. Procrastination is also derived from the ancient Greek word akrasia—doingsomething against our better judgment. That self-awareness is a key part of why procrastinating makes us feel sorotten. When we procrastinate, we’re not only aware that we’re avoiding the task in question, but also that doing sois probably a bad idea. And yet, we do it anyway.       Procrastination isn’t a character flaw or a curse on your ability to manage time, but a way of coping withchallenging emotions and negative moods induced by certain tasks—boredom, anxiety, insecurity, frustration,resentment, self-doubt and beyond. It is about being more focused on the immediate urgency of managing negativemoods than getting on with the task. The particular nature of our aversion depends on the given task or situation. Itmay be due to something inherently unpleasant about the task itself—having to clean a dirty bathroom or organizinga long, boring spreadsheet for your boss. But it might also result from deeper feelings related to the task, such asself-doubt, low self-esteem, anxiety or insecurity. Staring at a blank document, you might be thinking, I’m not smartenough to write this. Even if I am, what will people think of it? Writing is so hard. What if I do a bad job? All ofthis can lead us to think that putting the document aside and cleaning that spice drawer instead is a pretty good idea.But, of course, this only compounds the negative associations we have with the task, and those feelings will still bethere whenever we come back to it, along with increased stress and anxiety, feelings of low self-esteem and selfblame.       At its core, procrastination is about emotions, not productivity. The solution doesn’t involve downloading atime management app or learning new strategies for self-control. ________. “Our brains are always looking forrelative rewards. If we have a habit loop around procrastination but we haven’t found a better reward, our brain isjust going to keep doing it over and over until we give it something better to do,” said psychiatrist and neuroscientistDr. Judson Brewer, Director of Research and Innovation at Brown University’s Mindfulness Center. To rewire anyhabit, we have to give our brains what Dr. Brewer called the “Bigger Better Offer” or “B.B.O.” In the case ofprocrastination, we have to find a better reward than avoidance—one that can relieve our challenging feelings in thepresent moment without causing harm to our future selves. The difficulty with breaking the addiction toprocrastination in particular is that there is an infinite number of potential substitute actions that would still be formsof procrastination, Dr. Brewer said. That’s why the solution must therefore be internal, and not dependent onanything but ourselves.
【題組】11. What is implied in the second paragraph?
(A) Procrastination is essentially irrational.
(B)Procrastination is based on unawareness.
(C) When we procrastinate, we do it involuntarily.
(D) We don’tmake a judgment when we procrastinate.