Anyone - young or old, brilliant or average, unemployed or professionally successful - can be a procrastinator
Book Procrastination
Author Jane Burka and Lenora Yuen
Publisher Da Capo Long Life
In the deeply divided world we live in, it is comforting to know that some things are universal. Procrastinating, or the practice of putting off things people find unpleasant to do, is one such universal characteristic, according to American psychologists Jane Burka and Lenora Yuen.
They point out in their book Procrastination that hesitating and putting off things until the last minute does not discriminate on the basis of race, creed, sex, or ethnic origin. The reasons for hesitating until all is almost lost - and the awful problems created by this delaying tactic - have exercised literary minds for centuries, they say. After all, one of the most famous dramatic works of all time, William Shakespeare's Danish tragedy Hamlet, strips bare the eponymous prince's indecision, hesitation and delay in reacting to the murder of his royal father.