LOL, so me

I know I am. Been one since childhood.

I'm a procrastinator, but I feel it works for me most of the time. I like to do things when I'm moved to, and if that's because of a deadline, so be it. I do it quicker that way.

If I didn't procrastinate, I wouldn't be enjoying my free (or you might say borrowed) time as fully and as pleasantly. I like to do the fun stuff first.

Once in a while I'll get something done way ahead of time, and then poof the reason to have done it disappears, wasting my time, so I remain a procrastinator. Not proud of it, but that's who I am, I'm aware, I've accepted it, and I feel I know when I need to light a fire under myself.

I do know that I don't like being nagged to do things on my "to do" list by people close to me who have no reason to nag me, except to try to make me feel bad about myself. Perhaps that is why I'm adamant about being fine with my personal procrastination. It's a defense for the prior nagging from others. Now, I decide when it's time for me to do something. Period.

To a big degree, he was describing me. In graduate school, I would do the reading and academic research I needed to do for a paper all along. Then I would spend weeks both wasting time and mentally digesting the information I had accumulated. Then, when the last few days were there I would start writing. I once wrote a 70 page pater on "Values and the Self-system" in four days and got an A on it,

In my professional career things were somewhat different. First, with multiple activities going on, deadlines were always impinging. Also, when I go a "big idea" for a new program, the image of that completed and functioning program drove me -- and I would work 60 to 80 hour weeks, 6 to 7 days a week until I had it up and going. Then I would get bored, and start looking for a new "big idea."

Very interesting talk. TED’s are very interesting

I’m a Grand Master when it comes to procrastination