On creative procrastination and letting your ideas develop in your subconscious mind while you do other things.

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Sometimes it might feel like you’re the only one procrastinating, that you’re the only one who doesn’t start working in time. A look at the procrastination research shows that most people procrastinate to a degree and that procrastination is a major problem for a large part of the population.
academic procrastination
For many students procrastination is an [...]

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I try hard to identify my most dangerous patterns of thought, but since the most dangerous ones are by definition those difficult to detect or apt to masquerade as beneficial, progress is slow. By “dangerous”, I generally mean the ones that excuse mediocrity. Procrastination’s thousand guises provide ready, accessible examples: “I’ll work on the project [...]

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My  cross-country  trip had  been  based  on an assumption and a gamble. The  assumption was that  the borrower was going to stop payment  on  the  $15,000 check;  the  gamble was  that  he would make the mistake  of procrastinating and  not take care  of the matter until  the  bank opened  the next morning.
I grabbed  a couple  [...]

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