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Submission + - IT worker set to play Test Cricket for Australia

kandela writes: "It's not too late you could still play international sport for your country!

The Courier Mail is one of a slew of sources reporting that a 36 year old former IT worker, Bryce McGain, is about to get a call up to play Test Cricket for Australia. Until last year McGain had a successful job working in IT for the ANZ bank, before taking a significant pay cut to pursue the possibility of playing international cricket.

Previously McGain has indicated that his long IT career has left him in the ideal physical condition to play at the international level, "I'm feeling really fresh, physically," he said. "Most first-class cricketers at 35 have had the workload of ten years of cricket and I haven't. Hopefully I've got a lot of years to come.""
Math

Submission + - Formula for Procrastination Found

kandela writes: "Science Daily and the Universtiy of Calgary report that Calgary academic Dr. Piers Steel has published a paper titled "The Nature of Procrastination: A Meta-Analytic and Theoretical Review of Quintessential Self-Regulatory Failure." in The American Psychological Association's Psychological Bulletin. In it he reveals that most people's New Year's resolutions are doomed to failure, most self-help books have it completely wrong when they say perfectionism is at the root of procrastination, and procrastination can be explained by a single mathematical equation.

From the article "Essentially, procrastinators have less confidence in themselves, less expectancy that they can actually complete a task," Steel says. "Perfectionism is not the culprit. In fact, perfectionists actually procrastinate less, but they worry about it more."

The research is apparently the culmination of 10 years work, however no indication was given of how much time was spent putting it off before it was begun."

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