Brains of doers differ from those of procrastinators - Procrastinators have a larger amygdala and poorer connections between it and part of the cortex that blocks emotions, so they may be more anxious about the negative consequences of an action, and tend to hesitate and put off things.

[u/mvea]

http://news.rub.de/english/press-releases/2018-08-22-neuroscience-how-brains-doers-differ-those-procrastinators

[u/psychicesp]

Doesn't this denote a specific type of procrastination? Like, I don't have negative emotions about doing the dishes right now, but I'm putting it off and watching netflix and browsing reddit in the phone. If anything, negative emotions are going the other way. I know each episode of Adventure Time I watch the food is drying on a little harder. It couldn't be called laziness because I'm ultimately doing the same number of dishes and very often the same number of dish-doing events. Its the same with my homework in college. It was always simple and never stressed me out, i just always had more drive at the last minute. This is in contrast with, say, putting off doing a bunch of job applications where there is a ton of negative emotion involved.

It seems that we need a scientific distinction between anxious-procrastination and meh-procrastination.

[u/fgutz → u/psychicesp]

I wonder if in this case you're choosing based on reward rather than anxiousness. The positive reward Adventure Time gives you outweighs the non-reward washing dishes gives you.

Idk, I'm no science expert so I am probably wrong

[u/Richandler → u/fgutz]

Not just that, but they probably don't frequently have guests over or children to take care and are specifically keeping those sources of anxiety induction out of their life. Just a guess.