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This question: Why do humans procrastinate, and how can it be beat? prompted an excellent reply from Sneering.

"People overestimate the value of the reward if the reward is imminent, and increasingly discount the value of the reward, the further away it is in time."

Worth a read if are interested in neuroeconomics [who knew?].

http://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/mkwf2/why_do_hum...