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Procrastination: It’s the Age not the Size of the Monster

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Every time you run, it grows stronger.

Procrastination. Nearly everyone does it at least occasionally, ending with curses and empty promises. [1] Why is it so familiar yet idiosyncratic? You might procrastinate terribly on a task that takes 5 minutes, but then buckle down on some grueling project. Maybe you like the grueling project more? But then you’ll immediately do a 5-minute task but procrastinate on a nearly identical one. Were you in a more productive mood that day? But why didn’t you end up doing the other 5-minute task as soon as you were in a productive mood? We think of procrastination as just not wanting to do something

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