Slate's special issue on procrastination

May 13, 2008 20:53

Letter to a young procrastinator

On writer's block procrastination

"Avoidance procrastinators make their work the measure of their self-worth and so end up putting it off out of fear."

The promise of "another day" is the key to the word's origin. It derives from the Latin verb procrastinare, combining the prefix pro- "forward" with crastinus " ( Read more... )

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snybod May 14 2008, 15:38:11 UTC
Delightful. And so true!

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