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Good things come to those who procrastinate

By Catherine de Lange

27 June 2012

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In Wait, law and finance professor Frank Partnoy extols the benefits of putting things off until later

PUT reading Wait to the top of your to-do list and chances are you still won’t get around to it. Although we live in a society obsessed with productivity, as many as one in five adults are “chronic procrastinators”, says Frank Partnoy at the University of San Diego, California. Students spend a third of their time procrastinating, for example.…

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