Leonardo da Vinci was a hopeless procrastinator.

Re:Leonardo da Vinci was a hopeless procrastinator. by jhancock on Tuesday February 24, 2009 @02:21PM (#493442)

"The unambiguously negative idea of procrastination seems unique to the Western world"

As an American living in Shanghai for 9 years, I have had to confront this meme in its various forms on many occasions. My wife (Chinese) will simply tell me things like "Chinese people are not afforded the luxury of your behavior". It appears procrastination is something that must be "afforded".

Its not that procrastination is unique to us (modern-Western-middle-class++), but that it may have cultivated itself into an attribute that has reluctant value; otherwise da Vinci would have no merit in this context.

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Re:Leonardo da Vinci was a hopeless procrastinator. by pkaler on Wednesday February 25, 2009 @03:23AM (#494142)

Paraphrasing David Allen: Procrastination isn't about not getting things done. Procrastination is about not getting things done AND feeling bad about it.

I spent a month in India this year. It's a much slower lifestyle there. When something doesn't get done, they just don't feel bad about it.

(Obviously, huge generalizations in that last paragraph.)

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