Why you procrastinate on things you actually want to do

Below, Dr. Itamar Shatz shares five key insights from his new book, Solving Procrastination: The Science of Why We Put Things Off and How to (Finally!) Stop. Itamar is an Affiliated Lecturer at Cambridge University. He helps people understand why they procrastinate and how to stop, using a practical system that he developed from more than 500 scientific studies. What’s the Big Idea? Procrastination isn’t a failure of time management or a sign that we don’t care. It’s a psychological tug...