When you procrastinate, your brain is sending you a message. It’s telling you that it has already solved the problem, or that it knows how to solve it. Only the

When you procrastinate, your brain is sending you a message. It’s telling you that it has already solved the problem, or that it knows how to solve it. Only the execution remains. It will deliver when time comes; till then, there are more interesting things to do. My experience is quite the opposite. Most of the time procrastination means two things: either it is a task with a lot of stress and fear attached to it, or it is a task that the back of my brain knows damn well has some pre-requisites that need to be taken care of first, but the front of my brain doesn't want to admit that. These can combine. Stuff that has an unadmitted pre-requisite task that is also full of stress and fear is never gonna get done until the absolute last moment, with a lot of stress and pain and swearing. If it is ever done at all.