Procrastination refers to the avoidance of any task or its deferral to a later, often unspecified, time. For example, you may well know that you need to pay your tax bill or mail your passport ...

Humans are by nature rational animals. Our ability to reason is supposedly what sets us apart from other animals, so it seems we ought to be incredibly reasonable, basing each action on deliberation ...

I know this because in one of my great feats of procrastination genius, I installed a Facebook countdown application, in addition to doodling the countdown in the margins of my syllabus while I wasn't ...

Melting snow and fresh notebooks can mean only one thing: spring. While this fact would generally be a cause for celebration and the ceremonial storing of sweaters and burning of Uggs, the arrival of ...

Perhaps you are the kind of person that always waits until deadline to hand in a report. You might tend to put off a difficult conversation or be reluctant to start a piece of work because you don’t ...

Waas, semi-retired from the advertising business, has made procrastination an art, and he’s proud of it. "I’ve tried to make a living out of procrastinating for a long time," Waas says. "But I always ...

There is nothing quite like the sensation of soaring blood pressure and sleep deprivation that college students get in the last two weeks of the semester. While most of us — and I won’t claim all, ...

Call it, "procrastivity," or engaging in activities that amount to procrastination. After it gripped one Southland graduate student so tight that she ignored a looming deadline, she decided to turn ...