How To: Stop procrastination (Dan Ariely)

It's a bit of a misleading title, it's not all about procrastination and it's not much of a howto either.

It's about how you can do many things better than standard economics would indicated if you take into account the irrationality of human beings.

For example, everyone leaves reports to the last minute. Commiting to earlier deadlines makes no sense to a 'rational' human being, but can help actual human beings.

Here's a link to his research paper on this topic: http://www.predictablyirrational.com/pdfs/deadlines.pdf

And his book site: http://www.predictablyirrational.com/

How to stop procrastination, step 1:

Watch a video on how to stop procrastination.

Oh, wait...

Actually, does not tell how to stop procrastination, just how they might help people stop their procrastination in the lecture (offer early deadlines). How am I supposed to translate this to my real life (where's no professor who'll punish me if I don't keep my early deadline?).

Besides, made me procrastinate my work further by watching the video...

Since the website is down, here's a research paper from him that I assume gives you the info from the video (probably more substantive as well)

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&ct=res&...

We'll look at it shortly...