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Procrastination is an ugly concept. Not simply because I can attribute countless failures in my life to it, but because I hasten to accept the culturally pejorative nature that the term insinuates.

At some point, I must do something about my procrastination habit,” is a thought I’ve had at periodic intervals, before deciding to do something else instead. It was last year that I first began to ...

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You squint at your computer screen and punch out a few more words on the keyboard. You lost your ability to write coherently a long time ago; now you’re just trying to reach the essay’s required word ...

Daniel Willingham, a cognitive scientist and author of How To Outsmart Your Brain and Why Don't Students Like School? has some tips for procrastinators. I am going to summarize them here — and add a ...

High-IQ women who procrastinate until right before something must be done aren't always lazy. In many cases, it's tied to ...

Can you only start a boring admin task once your house is clean? Do you leave the trickiest emails to the end of the day? Delaying a goal or task, usually to do something less important instead, is ...