Why do we procrastinate?

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nezroy

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Oct 3, 2008
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Procrastination is not always just laziness and last-minute-efforts. It depends on your line of work, of course, but in my case, if I had immediately jumped onto every single assignment I've been handed, I would have done a ton of wasted work. I can't count the number of times I have had something due on day 14, only to have the requirements change completely by the end of day 8. Had I actually spent any time working on said assignment prior to the changes, it would have been a complete waste.

Procrastination is one approach to dealing with the reality of uncertainty. To complete the adage; why put off until tomorrow what you can do today? Because you may not know until tomorrow if it actually needs to be done.
 

Twilight_guy

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Because starting means that we have to work to get to the end. Not beginning means that we don't have to work(At least not yet).