AN ACADEMIC IN AMERICA

Productive Procrastination

Avoidance can be highly fruitful, provided you have plenty to do while postponing the most dreaded task

By THOMAS H. BENTON

For the last 10 years, everything I've done that was worth doing has been done when I should have been doing something else.

Academics are often asked to admire the kind of writer who, after finishing...

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