Taking a long time to do something not worth doing, that is, doing it inefficiently, seems even more useless.

- John Perry

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…

- John Perry

While procrastinating is not a flaw, being a structured procrastinator is actually one way of being pretty productive.

- John Perry

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…

- John Perry

Hope provides comfort, and hope does not always require probability.

- John Perry

You may lack will power, but that doesn't mean you can't take a lot of steps to make yourself more productive.

- John Perry

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…

- John Perry

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…

- John Perry

Plan your day with an eye to your tendency to procrastinate, and put in safeguards to keep it to a minimum.

- John Perry