Occupation: Professor Birth: January 16, 1943
The anceints devoted a lifetime to the study of arithmetic; it required days to extract a square root or to multiply two numbers together. Is there a….
Voltaire was a smart cookie..
While procrastinating is not a flaw, being a structured procrastinator is actually one way of being pretty productive..
Hope provides comfort, and hope does not always require probability..
Task triage is the habit of making a realistic assessment of what degree of perfection is required for a task at the point of accepting it, so one do….
The essence is that many procrastinators are "structured procrastinators," people who, like me, get a lot done as a way of not working on what they s….
I was surprised by how many people think of themselves as procrastinators, but, like me, seem to get a lot done anyway..
Taking a long time to do something not worth doing, that is, doing it inefficiently, seems even more useless..
Plan your day with an eye to your tendency to procrastinate, and put in safeguards to keep it to a minimum..
You may lack will power, but that doesn't mean you can't take a lot of steps to make yourself more productive..
Nothing focuses attention like a real deadline. If you are in a field where life and death, or having a job or not having a job, depends on not missi….
The fantasy of doing a task perfectly is common with procrastinators; they set the bar for success very high. Then they are afraid to approach it. As….