I am up early and should be prepping for a lecture at 1pm, ironically on time management and procrastination, and I find myself procrastinating.

So, when someone (like me) procrastinates, we purposefully and needlessly defer actions or tasks to a later time.  In psychology this behaviour has been cited as a mechanism for coping with the anxiety associated with starting or completing any task or decision (Ferrari et al., 1995).  However, this is all too often to the detriment of of performance or learning.

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