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How I Made My Laziness and Procrastination Productive, and Used It To Read Over 250 Books In the Last 5 Years?

Jul 20, 2020 | Deploy Yourself | 1 comment

The dictionary defines procrastination as “the action of delaying or postponing something”. There was a time when I used to believe that procrastination is a bad habit and that only bad or weak people procrastinate. However, after reading a lot of psychology and...

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