In the person’s mind, they can rationalize that the reason they failed at the task was because they ran out of time to complete it, not that they were incapable of doing it in the first place. The los...In the person’s mind, they can rationalize that the reason they failed at the task was because they ran out of time to complete it, not that they were incapable of doing it in the first place. The loss of time as an effect of procrastination is the easiest to identify since the act of avoiding a task comes down to not using time wisely.