http://counseling.uoregon.edu/dnn/SelfhelpResources/StressandAnxiety/ProcrastinationTimeManagement/tabid/385/Default.aspx
Above is a wonderful link to an article which outlines some of the common justifications, and by extension causes, for and of procrastination.
I don't subscribe to any one of the "causes" listed in the article, because I know I'm guilty of each one on multiple levels.
Let's begin in 1 dimension - all things being equal.
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I am, at times, a perfectionist. This quality, on it's own, may paralyze me, leading, eventually, to the postponement of my work.
<--[Perfectionism]----------------------------------------->
Perfectionism in this sense refers to a need to create something which is to it's creator perfect. In short, making something that will satisfy you... Back to me. Working within a group and/or working to complete a project for consumption outside of myself, I begin to project my perfectionism onto my audience. In effect, I mentally raise my audience's importance from casual observers to invested adjudicators.
<--[Perfectionism----------------Fear-of-Evaluation]-->
If this axis were a dog, I'd name it the axis of perceived investment...
then I'd get a cat.
To assume that one's actions could be ascribed to the description of their position along any one measurable axis is naive, and so, paraphrasing inversely, it is naive to subscribe to the notion that any person's actions are in response to any particular "cause of procrastination," rather everyone is in some degree afflicted by each one.
However, this can only be true with the assumption that the people in question are "invested in" or in some other way "care about" the project that needs completing.
... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLexgOxsZu0
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