Are you a procrastinator (拖延者)? It's a common problem. And it can be harmful, as previous research has shown that people who procrastinate have higher levels of stress and lower well­being, reported the Association for Psychological Science in the US.  But a new study has found a way to deal with this problem: Be more connected to your future self.

Psychologists think that each person believes that they are really two people ：“Present Me” and “Future Me”. “People act  as if they prefer their current selves' needs and desires to those of their future selves，”  wrote psychologists Neil Lewis and Daphna Oyserman.

Oyserman and Lewis decided to try to find a way to make “Present Me” imagine exactly how “Future Me” would feel the night before a big paper was due, though “Present Me” hadn't started yet. They made “Present Me” think about a far­off event a number of days away, not months or years.