Why we just can’t wait to stop procrastinating | Brief letters
TheGuardian
NOVEMBER 17, 2024
Samuel Johnson’s wisdom | Rachel Reeves’s big gamble | Christmas trees | Weather forecasters | Ex-X I meant to write this yesterday but didn’t get round to it ( Deadlines may be vital, but so is procrastination. I’ll tell you why … soon, 13 November ). I was too busy rereading Samuel Johnson – a famous procrastinator. Never one to mince his words, he nails it in his Rambler essay of 1751 : “Idleness never can secure tranquillity; the call of reason and of conscience will pierce the closest pavil
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