Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. author of Chained to the Desk in a Hybrid World: A Guide to Balance. You have ambition and drive, but you find yourself stalling ...

Here’s how to overcome self-criticism, fear of failure and the need for perfection. Imagine Benny, a recently hired software engineer who grapples with persistent self-doubt about his capacity to ...

It’s an average Wednesday afternoon—arguably my least favorite day of the week. I find myself staring at the laptop screen, rotating between my empty Google doc, half-written emails, and multiple ...

You may have already been criticized for some of your behaviors: your tendency to procrastinate, your apparent disorder or your pronounced taste for solitude. But did you know that these character ...

Procrastination is one of the most common challenges people face in their personal and professional lives. Almost everyone has experienced the feeling of delaying an important task, even when they ...

Just again in the media, and from a colleague, I heard “we are procrastinating more today than a couple of decades ago.” I could not disagree more. True, 2020 brought us a global pandemic and it ...

Annemieke Apergis-Schoute received funding from The Wellcome Trust for previous OCD research. Most of us have experienced it: a deadline approaches, the task is perfectly doable, yet instead of ...