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The DUST model of procrastination - Ness Labs

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Created by Graham Allcott, the founder of Think Productive, DUST is a simple method to identify why you may be procrastinating.

You have a deadline. You know you should get to work. But instead of focusing on what’s urgent and important, you spend your time on something else. Despite the inner voice telling us to get started and the rising anxiety, you keep on procrastinating. Humans have always struggled with procrastination. Thousands of years ago, the Greek philosopher Socrates asked how it is possible that, if one judges an action to be the best, one would do anything other than this action. Why we act against our better judgement? Still, as irrational as it sounds, we do procrastinate. And when it happens, no amou

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