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Two extreme cases that happened to me:

- "I have to get this done today, no matter how long it will take" -> procrastinate the whole day, waste the night to do the stuff in low quality, using "it's late now" as an excuse.

- "I have to leave early today" -> productive focuessed work to get some stuff done before the time runs out

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Case 1 happens to me when I don't completely understand the problem so I don't know where to start. This leads me to procrastinate. I lack a sense of direction in those cases.

I'll agree, but also add that taking the time to understand the problem is half of the work. If someone just said 'type this in' and gave you the code already formed, it would take a fraction of the time

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