Is Procrastination a Character Flaw?

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I think most people think procrastination is a character flaw, but you see it a little bit differently. I will say that the spatcaste was listned to gave me an idiomatic expression i was able to use the next day. It was so exciting i tossed it into a conversation in hebrew. And i felt, ah, boy, this is fun. And that, youknow, i need to find a few more of those and start speaking in this weird sort of conversational style full of idioms,. useng all these words i've just learned"

Why do people eat too much even when they don't want to? Why are there so many bad managers? And why might anti-vaxxers be useful? Luca Dellanna, author of The Control Heuristic, thinks the answers to all of these questions are in our heads, or rather in our basal ganglia. Dellanna talks to EconTalk's Russ Roberts about why both brains and employees need immediate feedback, why we're wired to believe our best guesses, and why addiction is just our brain's way of making sure we survive.