The smart guide to procrastination - BBC - Capital

Learning the liberating art of making a daily ‘un-schedule’ and how it may keep you on track.

"Mozart was out drinking one day when his friends became uneasy. It was 3 November, 1787 in Prague and the next day was the premiere of his latest opera, ‘Don Giovanni’. It was set to become one of the most acclaimed musical works in history, a true masterpiece that’s still doing the rounds in opera houses across the globe centuries later.

There was just one problem: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart hadn’t written the introduction yet. Evidently, the master composer was also an expert procrastinator, since he had actually been working that day – just on something else...

Learning the liberating art of making a daily ‘un-schedule’ and how it may keep you on track.

"Mozart was out drinking one day when his friends became uneasy. It was 3 November, 1787 in Prague and the next day was the premiere of his latest opera, ‘Don Giovanni’. It was set to become one of the most acclaimed musical works in history, a true masterpiece that’s still doing the rounds in opera houses across the globe centuries later.

There was just one problem: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart hadn’t written the introduction yet. Evidently, the master composer was also an expert procrastinator, since he had actually been working that day – just on something else...