 One of the things people don't really realize about procrastination is a major driver behind it is guilt So it's what I refer to as the defective story. There's something wrong with me. I'm a bad person I'm flawed somehow and this is on a cellular level. We see ourselves this way and What procrastination effectively is is because of this underlying story that there's something wrong with me unconsciously that story that I tell myself and I'm living with on a day-to-day basis calls for some form of punishment now Consciously we want to allow ourselves to do something really obvious to punish ourselves But procrastination is a low-level form of self punishment And we know this because it's like I know if I continue to procrastinate I will predictably feel negative emotion and it'll hurt me and we know it yet. We continue to do it anyway