Most of us have experienced it: a deadline approaches, the task is perfectly doable, yet instead of starting, we suddenly ...

Check this out: J. K. Rowling, Bill Clinton, Nassim Taleb, and even Steve Jobs—all of these revolutionary personalities have struggled with procrastination but still made it. So, if you are dealing ...

Productive procrastination involves tricking the brain into thinking that you are doing lots of work Here’s what it means and ...

Most productivity apps quietly log your bad habits without actually changing them. I focus here on tools that interrupt ...

As readers of my blog will know (and as my editors have pointed out), I have been away from my blog for the past three months. It’s not that I haven’t been writing; it’s just that my co-editor and I ...

We define procrastination as not doing what needs to be done when we know we need to do it. But you already knew that, right? It feels to college students (and many of the rest of us) like a world of ...

It’s 11 p.m. on a Sunday night. You are hunched over your desk staring into the computer screen, and there it is: an assignment due at 11:59. You look at the clock — it just turned 11:01. You had all ...

While procrastination is generally deemed a self-inflicted practice of inaction and delay, there's a great deal of research, according to a Frontiers in Psychology study, that suggest it may actually ...

In a culture that celebrates constant productivity, slowing down is often mistaken for laziness. Yet, psychology shows that what looks like procrastination, avoidance, or lack of motivation often ...