Most Procrastinators Fall Into One Of 6 Types – These 27 Questions Reveal Yours

Overthinker... Let me think about that for a bit.

Avoider...only because my answers weren't there. Hard to pick a song, film or TV show when I haven't heard of most of them - we're not all 22 and glued to social media you know.

7. None of the above. I get the boring thing out of the way immediately.

Yes, this is me. The Avoider You have developed a truly impressive relationship with the art of not dealing with things. You're not lazy - far from it - you're someone who has learned that sometimes, if you leave something long enough, it either sorts itself out or becomes someone else's problem. Avoidance is your preferred coping mechanism, and your brain is a world-class expert at steering you toward literally anything else. The emails, the forms, the calls - they're all there, patient, waiting, like old magazines in a dentist's waiting room. The thing is, you usually feel better once you've actually done the thing. That's the annoying part.

Pretty accurate: " The Thrill-Seeker You're not really procrastinating - you're optimizing for peak performance conditions, and those conditions happen to arrive at 11:47 PM. Deadlines don't stress you out; they wake you up. You genuinely believe, with some evidence, that you do your best work when the clock is practically ticking out loud. Other people plan in advance; you plan in real time, at speed, with everything on the line. It's exhilarating - until it isn't. The problem isn't that this strategy fails you; it's that it works just often enough to keep you hooked."

Avoider, which is strangely correct. But I blame OCD with ADHD for it.

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#1 "It's Sunday evening and you have a big task due Monday. What are you doing?" My answer "Rlelaxing because I finished the task last week. I don't do paid work on weekends." That pretty much set the tone for the rest of the list. Apparently I'd make a lousy procrastinator.🤷

"The Thrill-Seeker. You're not really procrastinating - you're optimizing for peak performance conditions, and those conditions happen to arrive at 11:47 PM. Deadlines don't stress you out; they wake you up. You genuinely believe, with some evidence, that you do your best work when the clock is practically ticking out loud. Other people plan in advance; you plan in real time, at speed, with everything on the line. It's exhilarating - until it isn't. The problem isn't that this strategy fails you; it's that it works just often enough to keep you hooked." Well, that's semi-accurate. When I was employed I was known for powering through tasks and always getting things done well before any deadline.