Psychology Today | 18.09.2026 05:42Procrastination, from the Latin word for “tomorrow” (as in, “I’ll get to it tomorrow”), is perhaps the most common behavioral affliction in the modern world. As example, around 90% of college students report some procrastination tendencies and around 25% have procrastination tendencies severe enough to make it very difficult for them to ever attain a degree. In the everyday (as opposed to academic) world, an almost universal form of procrastination involves inability to get rid of clutter, with the most severe manifestation qualifying as hoarding. Other everyday forms of procrastination involve such things as putting off potentially difficult conversations, delaying paying bills, not completing job assignments, etc.
