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。

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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。

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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。

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The individual procrastinators were still expected to pay all they owed on time--without budget gimmicks.

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Last, but perhaps most important: Learn how to be less annoying to the non-procrastinators around you.

WSJ: How to Be a Better Procrastinator

Also and this is the part that procrastinators need to be wary of, the acknowledgement must be contemporaneous.

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