Sorry but no, procrastinating will not boost your creativity
Excuse the impertinent question, but why are you reading this column? Is it because you’ve made a considered decision to spend time with the Financial Times today, or are you looking for a way not to have to do the thing — you know, that thing — that you’re meant to be doing?
If it’s the latter then it is possible that you, like me — and about 20 per cent of the population, according to the American Psychological Association — are a procrastinator.
Because of the fact that everyone procrastinates at least to some extent, you will find many people who claim this label: inglorious though it may be, it appears to have some kind of humble-braggy social capital. But it is only a select group of us for whom the condition is chronic, who are tormented sufficiently by the malady to have really earned the badge.
This story originally appeared on: Financial Times - Author:Jemima Kelly
