dr. roni cohen-sandler, hi. - it's great to be here. - why do we procrastinate? - you know, it's human nature to procrastinate when we're tired or we're distracted, or we wanna avoid something that's annoying, or boring, or frustrating, say, like homework. then we wanna take a nap, or do anything else, maybe go online, so we can stop thinking about what we have to do. - of course there's a real downside here because by the time you finally get around to doing whatever it is you've been avoiding, you have even less time to complete the work. - that's very true, and not only that, but all that pressure that you were putting off comes back with a vengeance, and so then when you have less time and you're anxious, it's even harder to concentrate. plus, while you were avoiding everything you have to do, those assignments were hanging over your head, so you really weren't getting to relax and enjoy yourself, that's why it's probably better to get it over with and then you can do what you wanna do and enjoy it. - is procrastinating in our genes? something we have no cont