The essence is that many procrastinators are "structured procrastinators," people who, like me, get a lot done as a way of not working on what they should ideally be working on.

The fantasy of doing a task perfectly is common with procrastinators; they set the bar for success very high. Then they are afraid to approach it. As the deadline approaches, they must set the bar lower.

While procrastinating is not a flaw, being a structured procrastinator is actually one way of being pretty productive.

Voltaire was a smart cookie.

I was surprised by how many people think of themselves as procrastinators, but, like me, seem to get a lot done anyway.

Taking a long time to do something not worth doing, that is, doing it inefficiently, seems even more useless.

Task triage is the habit of making a realistic assessment of what degree of perfection is required for a task at the point of accepting it, so one doesn't need to rely on one's habit of procrastinating to lower the bar.