# Can you delay procrastination? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 13, 2010, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-delay-procrastination/539343 "2010-05-13T20:47:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Oly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/oly/32/8255_2.png) [@Oly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oly)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2010, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-delay-procrastination/539343/1 "2010-05-13T20:47:57Z")
…Well, can you? ---
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2010, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-delay-procrastination/539343/2 "2010-05-13T20:55:39Z")
Later. ---
**Author:** ![may\_be\_ignorant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c5a1d2/32.png) [@may\_be\_ignorant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/may_be_ignorant)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2010, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-delay-procrastination/539343/3 "2010-05-13T20:59:49Z")
> [@](#): > > Later. I do it all the time, and I am the self-proclaimed worst procrastinator in the entire world. Seriously, I’m bad about it. I wish I wasn’t. ---
**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2010, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-delay-procrastination/539343/4 "2010-05-13T21:00:08Z")
Can I think about that tomorrow? My mind’s on other things today. ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2010, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-delay-procrastination/539343/5 "2010-05-13T21:04:05Z")
I can’t because I’m busy doing stuff. ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2010, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-delay-procrastination/539343/6 "2010-05-13T23:50:08Z")
I can’t and I ain’t doin’ shit. And I won’t be tomorrow either. ---
**Author:** ![Covered\_In\_Bees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ab992/32.png) [@Covered\_In\_Bees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Covered_In_Bees)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2010, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-delay-procrastination/539343/7 "2010-05-14T00:13:28Z")
> [@descamisado](#): > > I can’t and I ain’t doin’ shit. > > And I won’t be tomorrow either. Relatedly, I _can_ do it, I just don’t want to. And tomorrow I _really_ won’t want to do it, since it’s Friday and Friday is almost the weekend and you’re not supposed to do anything on the weekends. Therefore, my Friday is going to be a busy day of me sitting on my ass. Maybe next week. ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2010, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-delay-procrastination/539343/8 "2010-05-14T00:16:36Z")
You can. I can’t tell you how now though, I’ll get around to putting it off tomorrow. ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2010, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-delay-procrastination/539343/9 "2010-05-14T14:17:29Z")
Didn’t we clear this up like a month ago? ---
**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2010, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-delay-procrastination/539343/10 "2010-05-14T14:49:12Z")
> [@Hal\_Briston](#): > > Didn’t we clear this up like a month ago? I think we didn’t have time to do it last month, so we put it on this month’s agenda. Let’s think about again in two months’ time. (And hopefully by then the need to do anything will have gone away.) ---
**Author:** ![Oly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/oly/32/8255_2.png) [@Oly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oly)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2010, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-delay-procrastination/539343/11 "2010-05-14T15:18:12Z")
But aren’t allauall promptly procrastinating rather than delying procrastinating? ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2010, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-delay-procrastination/539343/12 "2010-05-14T15:24:48Z")
> [@Oly](#): > > But aren’t allauall promptly procrastinating rather than delying procrastinating? We’re promptly procrastinating here to push back procrastinating about other things until later. ---
**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2010, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-delay-procrastination/539343/13 "2010-05-14T15:28:36Z")
> [@Oly](#): > > But aren’t allauall promptly procrastinating rather than delying procrastinating? No, no, you don’t understand. I don’t want to procrastinate now: I have too many other things to do now. I want to start procrastinating at some time in the future. These are just delaying tactics, not the really serious procrastination. And if you want to discuss this further, let’s set up a meeting some time next week.