Before we get into the details of procrastination, let’s look at the science behind procrastination. Some of us have struggle with this habit for many years, but don’t know the full story. It is fair to say that procrastination can produce both positive and negative outcomes.
Psychological researchers now recognize that there’s far more to procrastination than simply putting something off until tomorrow. True procrastination is a complicated failure of self-regulation: experts define it as the voluntary delay of some important task that we intend to do, despite knowing that we’ll suffer as a result.
