The pleasure of procrastinating | France Inter

In Robert, procrastinating means having a tendency to procrastinate until tomorrow. A rare word with Latin roots, which defines a behavior that we all experience to varying degrees. Emmanuel Villin discovered that the word procrastination had been the most searched word in 2018 and 2019 in France.

Emmanuel Villin has just been released A little praise for procrastination published by Les Pérégrine. For him, we must distinguish procrastination from laziness and cowardice, because the procrastinator does not do nothing, he does something else.

With

• Emmanuel Villin: author of A little praise for procrastination (Les Pérégrines, 2024).
• Sylvie Chokron : neuropsychologist, research director at the CNRS and the University of Paris. Author of In the brain of…. (Les Presses de la Cité, 2024).

Chronicles

• Guillemette Odicino : Procrastinate, princess of Notnow
• Christilla Pellé-Douël: America: Writers in Majesty Jean-Luc Bertin and Alexandre Thiltges (Albin Michel, 2024).
• Thibaut de Saint Maurice: Can urgency do us any good?
• Sandra Colombo : Things you can procrastinate on and things you can't.
• Angèle Ferreux-Maeght’s recipe: Overnight porridge