The Good, The Bad, The Ugly: Procrastination

David O'Hanlon
6 min readFeb 21, 2021

“The most pernicious aspect of procrastination is that it can become a habit. We don’t just put off our lives today; we put them off till our deathbed” (Pressfield 2002)

​Procrastination is a phenomenon that has afflicted mankind since at least the times of Cicero (Steele 2007). It is defined as ‘the experience of time characterised by habitually — and often counterproductively —

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David O'Hanlon

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