Santella, Andrew,

Soon : an overdue history of procrastination, from Leonardo and Darwin to you and me / Andrew Santella. - New York : Dey St., [2018] - 197 pages ; 24 cm.

Includes a selected bibliography.

Barnacles -- Madness to defer -- Saints, crows, poets, priests -- A brief history of the to-do list -- On the clock -- Seeds -- Therefore bind me -- Not yet.

An entertaining, fact-filled defense of the nearly universal tendency to procrastinate, drawing on the stories of historys greatest delayers, and on the work of psychologists, philosophers, and behavioral economists to explain why we put off what were supposed to be doing and why we shouldnt feel so bad about it.

9780062491589 (hbk.) 006249158X (hbk.)

bl2018001221


Procrastination.

BF637 .P76 / S26 2018

179.8