Tim Urban runs the blog Wait But Why, where he uses stick-figure illustrations to explain everything from procrastination to artificial intelligence.

The study of 3,525 Swedish university students analyzed the participants at three different points in time to “assess whether procrastination was associated with worse health outcomes nine ...

(I always did it again, like clockwork, two weeks later.) Procrastination is also becoming much more common; one study by Canadian professor Piers Steel found that the number of people who ...

Maybe they’re waiting just one more day to study for that test. Procrastination is “putting off to later what you know you should be doing now,” even if you’ll be worse off, says Steel ...

Is procrastination such a bad thing? The conventional wisdom is that procrastination is something that should be avoided at all costs. And indeed, I have written plenty of articles about the ...

Procrastination is the act of putting something off regardless of the negative consequences. We might delay starting a project despite the looming deadline, or worse, we might postpone pursuing ...

Sound familiar? This phenomenon is called “revenge bedtime procrastination” or "sleep procrastination". Basically, folks with packed schedules delay going to sleep to give themselves more ...

Studies have found a link between procrastination and poor health. It is associated with higher levels of stress, unhealthier lifestyles, and delays in seeing a doctor about health problems.