Hayden Finch

Sometimes it's easy to draw that straight line and sometimes it's harder.

And so that's the difficulty here is like it can be difficult to know all of the problems that are caused by your procrastination.

And also sometimes the problems caused by your procrastination don't actually impact you so much, but maybe it's impacting your coworkers because you're always responding to emails at the last minute or the projects that you turn in aren't the highest quality and it doesn't really affect you all that much, but your coworkers or your boss cares more than you do.

Yeah.

One of the things that I've discovered in my career in the last few years is that even people who don't think of themselves as procrastinators, for example, I'm one of those.

It's not something that I've personally ever really struggled with.

I realized that even those people are procrastinating on something.

And that's been a really interesting exercise for me professionally is to see

Oh, me, right?

Personally, I don't procrastinate on the typical things like work stuff or school stuff or even my chores, but I'm procrastinating on a whole lot of other things so that I can make sure that I get all of those things done in a timely manner.

And when I look at procrastination through that lens, it seems like basically everybody I come into contact with is procrastinating somewhere in their lives to be able to make space for the other things that they're not procrastinating on.

An interesting thing about procrastination is that people who procrastinate habitually tend to be pretty poor at estimating how much time a task will take, which is part of what influences procrastination.

And that's related here because if I think I can squeeze it into an hour,

And that would be like the right amount of time to really do a good job, but to not waste too much time.

I could be off on my estimate.

So I really have to start watching time in my life and getting pretty good at estimating what is the right amount of time to dedicate to a project.

I think the second might be truer than the first.

People who struggle with punctuality tend to also struggle with timeliness in other parts of their lives.

It's just a difficulty with perceiving time in general.

But people who are procrastinators don't necessarily struggle with punctuality necessarily.