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 doesn't need to rely on one's habit of procrastinating to lower the… — John Perry Copy Share Image
Nothing focuses attention like a real deadline. If you are in a field where life and death, or having a job or not having… — John Perry Copy Share Image
Taking a long time to do something not worth doing, that is, doing it inefficiently, seems even more useless. — John Perry Copy Share Image
The essence is that many procrastinators are "structured procrastinators," people who, like me, get a lot done as a way of not working on… — John Perry Copy Share Image
The fantasy of doing a task perfectly is common with procrastinators; they set the bar for success very high. Then they are afraid to… — John Perry Copy Share Image
I was surprised by how many people think of themselves as procrastinators, but, like me, seem to get a lot done anyway. — John Perry Copy Share Image
“Procrastinators often follow exactly the wrong tack. They try to minimize their commitments, assuming that if they have only a few things to do,… — John Perry Copy Share Image
The anceints devoted a lifetime to the study of arithmetic; it required days to extract a square root or to multiply two numbers together.… — John Perry Copy Share Image
“The philosopher Ernst Mach once got on a bus, and saw a scruffy unkempt bookish-looking person at the far end. He thought to himself… — John Perry Copy Share Image
While procrastinating is not a flaw, being a structured procrastinator is actually one way of being pretty productive. — John Perry Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
