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An entertaining, fact-filled security of the almost universal propensity to procrastinate, attracting on the experiences of history's biggest delayers, and on the work of psychologists, philosophers, and behavioral economists to explain why we defer what we're supposed to be doing and just why we shouldn't feel so very bad about it. Like so many of us, including almost all of America's workforce, and almost two-thirds of most university students, Andrew Santella procrastinates. Concerned about his habit, however, not quite ready to cease, he set out to learn all he could about the real human tendency to hold off. He researched history's biggest procrastinators to gain insights into real human patterns, and also, he creates, to get rid of time, "research being the best way to avoid real work." He spoken with psychologists, philosophers, and priests. He been to New Orleans' French Quarter, home to a shrine to the patron saint of procrastinators. With the house of Charles Darwin outside London, he learned why the great naturalist postponed writing his masterwork for more than 2 decades. Pulling on an eclectic mix of historical case studies in procrastination - from Leonardo da Vinci to Frank Lloyd Wright, and from Old Testament prophets to Civil Warfare generals - Santella offers a sympathetic take on habitual postponement. He questions our devotion to "the cult of efficiency" and suggests that wait and deferral can help us know very well what truly issues to us. Being attentive to our procrastination, Santella creates, means asking, "whether the things the entire world desires us to do are really well worth doing."
