The science of procrastination and how to beat it

Everyone's guilty of procrastinating sometimes—even the ancient Greeks and Romans did it.

That said, it's one thing to put off a task for a little while. It's another to chronically avoid doing things until the absolute last minute. Wysa researched the psychology behind procrastination, what makes people do it, and how they can work to overcome it.

According to the Association for Psychological Science, procrastination comes in two forms: habitual and situational. The latter happens when we're faced with a task we're not interested in accomplishing, from boring administrative work, like filing...