Is Procrastination Actually Good For You

Arton Demaku

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Feb 29, 2024

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During my life, I’ve met so many people that did great things at the age of 8 or 9, when at this age, most of the children (I don’t want to say, most of us!!!) are busy wondering how dirt tastes like. But something I noticed on these geniuses is that most of them are chronic procrastinators.

In tech, is common to find procrastinators, many of the DevOps engineers or developers I know are procrastinators.

I have a friend, and one night we went out for coffee, he told me that he has a project that is due tomorrow, not a small one, and until now, he did nothing about it.

But a night before, he sat on his desk, got the keyboard and finished the project. He told me that he had difficulties during the night, as he felt asleep here and there, but when the next day come, he presented his project in front of his team and his boss!

It was a masterpiece, not just some project that was done in a hurry that was barely holding up, but a masterpiece.

So my advice to you is to avoid starting that big and very essential project until the night before!

NO!

A big no! That would be a terrible advice, because we all know, neither I or you are the geniuses that my friend is. Also, Martin Luther King wrote his “I have a dream” speech the very last minute. But again, we should not fool ourselves into thinking that we can do the exact with our project that is due next week.

But we cannot avoid the procrastination, as we will all sink into it, the bigger the task ahead of us, the more likely we are going to start watching a movie or scrolling into our phones, because ate the end of the day, we can always do it tomorrow, and of course, we will tell ourselves the exact same lie the next day.

Germans even have a poem about procrastinators.

Morgen, morgen,
nur nicht heute,
sagen alle
faulen Leute.

Which means: Tomorrow, tomorrow, not today, all the lazy people say!

Anyway, some people even plan procrastination and they do not start on the project until the deadline, and the idea is that when one is under a supreme amount of…