We have become a nation of procrastinators, a ‘procrasti-nation’, if you like. So says Dr Itamar Shatz, a social scientist at Cambridge University, and who am I to argue? Or at least not until I’ve finished auditing my cutlery drawer.
Procrastination, we are always told, is not a laudable trait. And yet it seems it has become one of our most common habits.
Researchers estimate that one in five adults are chronic procrastinators, a figure consistent across the global population, and almost half of Britons say it negatively affects their lives. In certain academic circles it is being described as an ‘epidemic’.
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