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Business. Advice. Psychology. Taleb. The 37signals Manifesto (our original site from 1999) Procrastinating Again? How to Kick the Habit: Scientific America. Raymond, a high-powered attorney, habitually put off returning important business calls and penning legal briefs, behaviors that seriously threatened his career.

Procrastinating Again? How to Kick the Habit: Scientific America

Raymond (not his real name) sought help from clinical psychologist William Knaus, who practices in Longmeadow, Mass. As a first step, Knaus gave Raymond a two-page synopsis of procrastination and asked him to read it “and see if the description applied.” Raymond agreed to do so on a flight to Europe. Things I wish I’d known when I was younger - Stepcase Lifehack.