"All procrastinators put off things they have to do. Structured procrastination is the art of making this bad trait work for you. The key idea is that procrastinating does not mean doing absolutely nothing. Procrastinators seldom do absolutely nothing; they do marginally useful things, such as gardening or sharpening pencils or making a diagram of how they will reorganize their files when they find the time. Why does the procrastinator do these things? Because accomplishing these tasks is a way of not doing something more important."
How to Procrastinate and Still Get Things Done - Archives - The Chronicle of Higher Education
How to Procrastinate and Still Get Things Done - Archives - The Chronicle of Higher Education:
