Remember when you were in school and your teachers gave you all this homework , and then you put it off until the last minute? You're procrastinating. Procrastination is very, very common. There is no one in this world that has not procrastinated at least once in their life. In Amy Swanson's article, " The real reasons why you procrastinate -- and how to stop ", she explains the theories of Tim Urban's Ted Talk . The article explains why we procrastinate, and frequently refers back to Urban. As a matter of fact, while I was reading the article myself, I went off topic and procrastinated from reading the rest of it. At the beginning of the article, Swanson refers to the Chernobyl accident, and I have always wanted to know more about it. I copied and pasted the word Chernobyl into a Google search and spent the rest of my class (about half an hour) reading articles about the Chernobyl incident. I still haven't finished reading the rest of Swanson's arti