Procrastination Lecture by Piers Steel
Come to this lecture if you wish to know more about what causes procrastination, why you shouldn’t feel guilty about it, and how to reduce your procrastination to levels that will improve your happiness as well as your productivity.
Date, time and location
Thursday 15 november 2018
13:00 - 15:00 at DeLaMar Theatre
Marnixstraat 402, Amsterdam
What is the lecture about?
Procrastination has plagued humanity since the earliest records and almost universally experienced as harmful. Almost 95% of people admit to procrastinating at least somewhat and have tried repeatedly and often unsuccessfully to combat it. Learn more about what causes procrastination and how to reduce it. Based on solid science and the bestselling book “The Procrastination Equation” (see link).
About Piers Steel
Dr. Piers Steel is the Brookfield Management Research Chair at the Haskayne School of Business in Alberta, Canada. Piers holds a Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota and works with selection, motivational and meta-analytic issues. He has authored over 50 papers, several winning awards, such as monograph status from the Journal of Applied Psychology and APA’s George A. Miller Award, given to the best psychological research published in the last five years. He is considered one of the premier experts on procrastination, author of the book The Procrastination Equation, and his research has been reported in hundreds of media outlets around the world including the Globe and Mail, the New York Times, CNN, USA Today, LATimes, Scientific American, and The New Yorker. He is a fellow of SIOP, APA and APS. As a receiver of SIOP’s Raymond A. Katzell Award in I-O Psychology (give to a member whose has been instrumental in demonstrating the importance of applied psychology work to the general public), he believes this field can make an even bigger impact.