Disguise.

If you ask me, there are two ways in which you can procrastinate. One, you just procrastinate, you know, procrastinate the regular old way after which you feel guilty or otherwise but you understand that you've been wasting your time. This is what is widely observed in people. Now, what is the second?

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Well, you may not agree with me on this one, but it is true in many senses. You see, as people, we all do things that we know isn't going to be of any use, but we still do them, convincing our minds that what we are doing is anything but procrastination. This is the second way.
If you want an example to support my statement, I'll be more than happy to enlighten you with one.

Let's say you're interested in becoming a great linguist. You're planning to learn a lot of new languages. But without actually starting to learn an actual language, you pick up a book called "How to become a great linguist in 4000 easy ways!". Now this is a book that has four thousand pages. You read this book ten pages a day, completing it in four hundred days. Now, if you introspect the whole situation, you'll understand that your initial goal was to become a linguist. And you have just used up four hundred days of your journey to becoming a linguist, studying a book about becoming a linguist and not a single new word of a brand new language. But, you still feel like you've done something right, at the end of the day because now you apparently know four thousand easy ways to become a linguist afterall. This will simply make you blind. It'll strip you off of your vision of seeing yourself as a linguist, without you ever knowing that you are actually losing the vision.

This is what is generally called, "Procrastinating in disguise". You and I both know, that in four hundred days, had you started learning a language, you could have become more or less fluent in it. But you didn't and hence you haven't.
That really is the sad truth.

Lots of love, peace.