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A synthesis of the research on why goal pursuit fails in predictable ways. Procrastination is not a moral flaw but a structural mismatch between how humans weight immediate costs against distant rewards. "False hope" is not optimism gone slightly awry but a reliable cycle in which failed change attempts feel good in the planning phase and worse in the execution phase, producing repeat attempts that get worse over time. This article draws on Steel's meta-analysis of procrastination, Ariely and Wertenbroch's deadlines experiment, McCrea et al.'s construal-level account of procrastination, Polivy…

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