Most of us have experienced it: a deadline approaches, the task is perfectly doable, yet instead of starting, we suddenly ...

Most productivity apps quietly log your bad habits without actually changing them. I focus here on tools that interrupt ...

If you thought your studying is going badly, here are some examples of how it could be going worse. From losing an 88-page senior thesis mere days before it’s due in the film “With Honors” to taking ...

Read more from Slate’s special issue on procrastination. Seth Stevenson chatted online with readers about this article. Read the transcript. Dear chronically procrastinating young person, Slate has ...

How often have you heard yourself say that you work better under pressure? Does working better under pressure explain why you frantically rush to catch up? Does that mean that you can only do better ...

Productive procrastination involves tricking the brain into thinking that you are doing lots of work Here’s what it means and ...

Procrastination has existed since the beginning of time. There will always be a deadline and, as humans, it’s in our nature to test the limits of these deadlines – by delaying for as long as possible.

How often have you heard yourself say that you work better under pressure? Does working better under pressure explain why you frantically rush to catch up? Does that mean that you can only do better ...

“I love deadlines,” English author Douglas Adams once wrote. “I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.” We’ve all had the experience of wanting to get a project done but putting it off for ...

At the end of July, when NPR's Robert Siegel set off on the longest vacation since his honeymoon 39 years ago, he packed a few books, including the new book The Art of Procrastination by John Perry, ...