I did a study several years ago, asking procrastinators to finish a task in a certain period of time.
几年前我做过一项研究，要求拖延者在特定时间完成一项任务。
They did worse than non-procrastinators: they made more mistakes and they took longer. But they thought they did better.
他们比不拖延的人做得更糟糕：他们犯的错误更多，花的时间更长。但是他们认为自己做得更好。
Procrastinators like to find excuses to justify their behavior.
拖延症患者喜欢找借口为自己的行为辩解。
"Procrastinators tend to live for today rather than tomorrow, they tend to live for short-term gain and long term pain," he writes.
他写道，“拖延者倾向于活在今天而不是明天，他们倾向于短期的受益和长期的受累中。”
Some people are born procrastinators.
一些人天生就是老拖。
Procrastinators tell lies to themselves.
拖拉者会对自己撒谎。
All procrastinators put off things they have to do.
拖延者都把他们需做之事推迟。
Procrastinators often follow exactly the wrong tack.
通常，拖拉者的做法恰恰与此相反。
College, for example, makes procrastinators of many people.
例如，大学使很多人成为拖拉者。
Dr. Ferrari identifies three basic types of procrastinators.
Ferrari指出了拖延者的三种基本类型。
Perfectionists can waste just as much time as procrastinators.
追求完美的人与那些爱拖延的人浪费的时间一样多。
We found that between 20 and 25 percent of the population are procrastinators.
我们发现，20%到25%的人可以归类为拖拉者。
In a 1978 survey, 5 percent of the population defined themselves as procrastinators.
1978年的一项调查显示，5%的人认为自己是拖拉者。
The chronic procrastinators I know have spent years of their life looped in this cycle.
我所知道的习惯性的拖拉者数年来都是在这样的怪圈中打转。
Procrastinators can change their behavior — but doing so consumes a lot of psychic energy.
拖拖拉拉会改变他们的行为—但是这么做会消耗很多精神能量。
But in fact, the book store is plenty busy with forms already filed by non-procrastinators.
事实上，书店已经被非拖延者填写的书单忙得焦头烂额。
Not making a decision absolves procrastinators of responsibility for the outcome of events.
他们做不了决定。不能做出决定即是拖拉症的结果，又使拖拉者不能下定决心摆脱拖拉症。
You want things to be "great," but save absolute perfection for the procrastinators, not you!
想要把每件事变得“伟大”，但是，却在等待绝对完美的中浪费了时间，你是这样吗？
This is not a problem, because virtually all procrastinators have excellent self-deceptive skills also.
这不成问题，因为几乎所有的拖延者都有相当高超的自我欺骗术。
But now that the extra minute is public, true procrastinators know they have one more minute to push it.
但是，现在公开了这额外一分钟的秘密，真正的拖拉者便知道他们还有一分钟可以推后。
Sure, this was a purely unscientific sample of people, but how did I come to dwell around so many procrastinators?
当然，这是纯粹是一个非学术的行外人的例子，但我怎样开始仔细研究这么多的拖拉者呢？
Procrastinators are not different in their ability to estimate time, although they are more optimistic than others.
尽管拖拉症患者比常人乐观，但他们并非无能估量时间。
First, don't listen to most of the advice offered to procrastinators by people who don't have this particular flaw.
第一，不要理会那些没有办事拖拉毛病的人所提的大多数建议。
Researchers have come up with a playbook of strategies to help procrastinators turn mood repair to their advantage.
研究人员设计了一本策略手册，帮助拖延症患者将情绪修补转化为对自己有利的方面。
Perry notes that procrastinators rarely do nothing; they do marginally useful things as a way of avoiding more important things.
佩里注意到，拖延者很少什么都不做，他们避开更重要的事情，而做一些相对无关的事。
Perry notes that procrastinators rarely do nothing; they do marginally useful things as a way of avoiding more important things.
佩里注意到，拖延者很少什么都不做，他们避开更重要的事情，而做一些相对无关的事。
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