Overcoming procrastination & the fear of making decision.

Question

I wanted to know any philosopher who addresses procrastination. & who deals with the overcoming fears such as decision making ? Much appreciated.

Answer 1

As @Virmaior suggested, the existentialists, particularly Kierkegaard and Sartre, are the philosophers who probably most directly wrestled with the subject --not procrastination, per se, but decision-making, and overcoming fear of commitment.

You might read Kierkegaard's Either/Or, Fear and Trembling, and Repetition, and also look into his concept of "the leap of faith." Walker Percy's well-known novel The Moviegoer provides a dramatization of some of these same ideas.

For Sartre, you might read his classic play No Exit which depicts existentialist hell as a place where no one is capable of making any decisions.