When weighing career paths one can’t help but hear Confucius’s aphorism echo in their brain: “Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.” But there are many convincing counterarguments to turning passions into paychecks. 

Treating procrastination as a symptom of idleness is problematic and harmful. We have to stop stigmatizing procrastination and dig deeper into the underlying, neurological roots of what’s actually causing us to respond — or not — to our responsibilities.