TheStar.com - sciencetech - When manana is too soon: "A psychologist in Calgary thinks he knows why we procrastinate
No other anguish is quite like that of the procrastinator. He knows that the job has to get done, that putting it off just makes it harder, that the worry is worse than the work. And yet he can't ... quite ... get ... started.
Procrastination seems built into human nature -- the ancient Roman orator Cicero fretted about it, as did the Greek historian Thucydides.
Today, 95 per cent of people say that they sometimes procrastinate.
The real problem, though, is the 20 per cent of us who qualify as chronic procrastinators. These are people who procrastinate so routinely that their work, finances or personal relationships suffer because of it."
