U=EV/ID

Where: Desire to Complete Task (U) = Expectation of Success (E) * Value of Completion (V) / Immediacy of Task (I) * Personal Sensitivity to Delay (D)

Not my theory, but I’ll buy it. This theory comes from a psychologist who’s spent 10 years studying procrastination (or maybe 10 years putting off his eventual study and thesis on the subject, and a month working on it). “Real” Science doesn’t look much more professional than my style of Phở Science.

Boing Boing: Science of procrastination or go directly to Procrastination Central

P.S. You may notice this article is from January. I guess I just kept putting off posting this.

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