In his new book, Wait: The Art and Science of Delay, Frank Partnoy claims that when faced with a decision, we should assess how long we have to make it, and then wait until the last possible moment to ...

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Procrastination silently sabotages your opportunities to learn to operate at higher levels of effectiveness. Preventing learning procrastination may be among your most important self-help improvement ...

Ironically, here’s a video about the science of procrastination that you can watch to avoid doing some other task. But it’s not quite the singularity that it could be, because it also gives you some ...

Most productivity apps quietly log your bad habits without actually changing them. I focus here on tools that interrupt procrastination in real time, forcing decisions, reshaping routines, and ...

Self-sabotaging actions like procrastination and perfectionism, though seemingly destructive, are actually survival instincts, according to psychologist Dr. Charlie Heriot-Maitland. His book reveals ...

Do you ever beat yourself up for procrastinating? You might be composing that message to a friend who you have to let down, or writing a big report for school or work, and doing your best to avoid it ...

Guest Post by Dan Gordon, Ph.D. The study of history offers two competing outlooks on human nature. On the one hand, the past reveals continuity in our psychological makeup. People thousands of years ...

(via Big Think) “Because of the efficiency worship that we have developed in our industrial age, we are now seeing procrastination as a character flaw rather than what it is, a signal that is worth ...