“Since
procrastination is a message from our natural willpower via low motivation, the
cure is changing the environment, or one’s profession, by selecting one in
which one does not have to fight one’s impulses. Few can grasp the logical
consequence that, instead, one should lead a life in which procrastination is
good, as a naturalistic-risk-based form of decision making….Using my ecological
reasoning, someone who procrastinates is not irrational; it is his environment
that is irrational. And the psychologist or economist calling him irrational is
the one who is beyond irrational….In fact we humans are very bad at filtering
information, particularly short-term information, and procrastination can be a
way for us to filter better, to resist the consequences of jumping on
information…” –Nassim Taleb, Antifragile
