Why We Trick Ourselves into Productive Procrastination

Terena Bell
5 min readJan 26, 2020

And is procrastination worse when you have ADHD?

Attention all procrastinators, there’s a new method for your madness: Procrastivation. No, that’s not a typo. A mashup of “procrastination” and “productivity,” procrastivation is what University of Pennsylvania psychologist Dr Russell Ramsey calls the act of putting off something long-term important by doing something else…

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Terena Bell

Reporter & fiction writer; series editor, Writing Through the Classics; short story editor for hire; sponsor more writing here: buymeacoffee.com/terenabell