Chapter 3: Good and Bad Procrastination by Paul Graham

In this section instead of providing advice on how not to procrastinate, Graham offers advice on how to do it well. Graham starts of by saying that there are three variants of procrastination. He states “ you could work on (a) nothing, (b) something less important, or (c) something more  important. The last type, I’d argue, is good procrastination.”  I agree with Paul's statement because it is human nature that forces us to be lazy, so finding a cure for procrastination is basically impossible. Therefore we need to be a type (c) procrastinator, this procrastinator he calls the “absent minded professor.” This is the professor who forgets to shave, or eat, or even perhaps look where he is going while he is thinking about some interesting question. His mind is absent from the everyday world because it's hard at work in another. He writes that the most impressive people he knows are all type (c) procrastinators: they put off working on small stuff to work on big stuff. “Small stuff” as he calls it, is any work that has zero chance of being mentioned in your obituary, for example doing your laundry, shaving, cleaning the house- basically anything that might be called an errand. To sum it all up, good procrastination is avoiding errands to do real work.