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Daniel Pink separates procrastination into two types: productive delays that let ideas develop, and harmful procrastination driven by emotion regulation problems, where avoiding discomfort wins out over the task itself.
Daniel Pink separates procrastination into two types: productive delays that let ideas develop, and harmful procrastination driven by emotion regulation problems, where avoiding discomfort wins out over the task itself.
Procrastination is not always bad. Sometimes you're procrastinating for a reason because you haven't worked it out, because you're still incubating an idea. So it's not inherently bad. It's not like all procrastination is bad. Second big idea here is that procrastination is basically in general, the downside, the negative procrastination is just an emotion regulation problem. It has nothing to do with time. It means that something is so disturbing to you that you would rather actually sabotage yourself than confront it. That in some ways you're making a quasi-rational decision that the pain of confronting, man, can I really write this, is greater than actually not writing it in the first place.
