Procrastination

Do you procrastinate?

Why do you think people procrastinate?

Is there any value in procrastinating?

Famousdebater: Do you procrastinate?
Yes - more than I like to admit.

Why do you think people procrastinate?
People often have better things to do and think that they still have time to do it and so they put it off until the latest time that they think that they can complete the task in.

Is there any value in procrastinating?
Most of the time, probably not. But even when I know I'm procrastinating and I know that it'd be much better if I wasn't, I find it difficult to actually stop procrastinating because I'm doing something that I'd consider to be preferable to the task.

Famousdebater: Do you procrastinate?
Sometimes.
Why do you think people procrastinate?
For many reasons. Maybe they are busy with other things, don't want to do what they need to do, or just do it regularly as a part of their schedule.
Is there any value in procrastinating?
Yes, there can be. If there are more important things to consider and maybe you have good reasons to do it.

Bi0Hazard: Would your answer be different as I defined procratination as:
the avoidance of doing a task that needs to be accomplished. It is the practice of doing more pleasurable things in place of less pleasurable ones, or carrying out less urgent tasks instead of more urgent ones, thus putting off impending tasks to a later time.

Bi0Hazard: If you put something off for a rational reason then it isn't procrastination. As behavioral psychologists Sabini and Silver said, procrastination requires postponement and irrationality. One or the other does not suffice for an act to be considered to be procrastination.

Famousdebater: Do you procrastinate?
Everybody does.

Why do you think people procrastinate?
Laziness. There's really no other reason.

Is there any value in procrastinating?
No. It's just a waste of time.

Famousdebater: Not really. What if someone has much work to be done and they put off some work to the end since they are piled?

Famousdebater: If you put something off for a rational reason then it isn't procrastination. As behavioral psychologists Sabini and Silver said, procrastination requires postponement and irrationality.
What makes something rational or irrational?

Bi0Hazard: What if someone has much work to be done and they put off some work to the end since they are piled
Well if your piled, then you need to get it done, not put it off to the end. And the reason they're piled is probably because they procrastinated before.

Krazy: If you have much work to be done (like assignments) and you do them in an order, there will be a last assignment done. This means, in a scenario with similar due dates between assignments, you will inevitably need to put some off while doing other work. Sometimes tight dead lines happen.

Bi0Hazard: That's not procrastination, that's prioritizing your work. Procrastination is saying "I'll do it later" so you can watch TV or something, and then it never gets done, or at the last minute.

I know your looking at this from the hard-core dictionary definition, but sometimes the connotation is more important than the denotation. And people commonly see procrastination as a negative thing because it's often associated with laziness.

Krazy: No. It's just a waste of time.

But surely if it's just a waste of time people wouldn't do it.

Bi0Hazard: What if someone has much work to be done and they put off some work to the end since they are piled?
That's not procrastination.

Bi0Hazard: What makes something rational or irrational?
It is rational to put something off if there is something more important for you to do or more logical to do in a particular order.
It is irrational if you put something off for no reason other than because you're lazy or because you're doing something else that you'd rather be doing (that is less important).

Krazy: I would say prioritizing your work by doing more pleasurable ones first and less pleasurable ones last is procrastination.

Famousdebater: That's not procrastination.
By your definition, it can count.
It is rational to put something off if there is something more important for you to do or more logical to do in a particular order.
It is irrational if you put something off for no reason other than because you're lazy or because you're doing something else that you'd rather be doing (that is less important).
You seem to be trying to define negativity into the word "procrastination".

Famousdebater: But surely if it's just a waste of time people wouldn't do it.
Gambling, watching porn, getting drunk are all a waste of time. Yet people do it.

Bi0Hazard: I would say prioritizing your work by doing more pleasurable ones first...
Lol like watching TV?

and less pleasurable ones last is procrastination.
Like actual work? Yep, it is.

Krazy: Lol like watching TV?
This proves you are trying to define a laziness negativity to it, because I can just say not TV, but doing productive work by prioritizing more pleasurable ones first and less pleasurable ones last.
It just is not always about laziness, and you cannot prove that it is unless you either go through every possible scenario of someone procrastinating and point out how they are being lazy (which is impossible) or point out how the definition implies only laziness as the possible reason.

For me this question depends on how much time I have.