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Comment author: steven0461 13 October 2010 08:13:22PM 8 points [-]

http://volokh.com/2010/10/11/is-procrastination-rational/

It seems that our brains sometimes aren’t wired for a world in which events far into the future are actually pretty predictable, leading us to procrastinate on things like exams, papers, doing our taxes, and the like.

I wonder if there are ways to make future events feel more certain.

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