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Comment author: entirelyuseless 30 August 2015 03:23:17PM 3 points [-]

It seems like most procrastination is just feeling that working right now would be painful. But it is true that there are times when you know that finishing one task will just give you several new tasks, so you put off finishing the one task in order to avoid the work of the new tasks.