Voltaire was a smart cookie.

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

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.

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.

Voltaire was a smart cookie.

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