5 Root Causes Of Procrastination While we waste our time hesitating and postponing, life is slipping away." -- Seneca Procrastination happens when we feel negative emotions — anxiety, fatigue, disappointment, overwhelm — toward an assignment. Since these feelings are awkward (they in a real sense caused pain in our brains!), we attempt to keep away from them. Subsequently, we procrastinate. It's consistently a similar story. We need to accomplish something, however, but end up doing something else that feels better. All in all, we run away from our negative thoughts and emotions. At its very core, procrastination is an emotion management problem. It will consistently come down to that all-important moment of facing a task, encountering the negative feelings related to it, and doing the task despite those negative emotions. Here are the five main root causes I have identified: 1.The Fear Of A Perfectionist Procrastination is a subconscious fear of failure sometimes. You don