1. From your own view, what is procrastination?

Procrastination is a form of emotional, mental and behavioral inertia. From physics the word "inertia" represents the tendency for an object to remain at rest or resist being moved. Procrastination is the inertia an individual experiences when they need to accomplish a given task. It can manifest as an inability to think about the task clearly, the inability to summon up any desire to undertake the task and an inability to actually accomplish the task physically.

Another way of putting it is that the individual feels they must put more energy into doing something than they are willing to put into it, hence it doesn't get done. As a result there is a sort of energy threshold that must be overcome by the individual.

In cases (Case (A)) of procrastination often the task has to do with something that the individual themselves really, in their heart of hearts, doesn't want to do themselves rather which is being expected or imposed by others. More commonly (Case (B)) it is a resistance to doing something that they truly want themselves to achieve. I will label theses two as separate cases (A) and (B) respectively.

2. What do you think the (main) factors that cause it are? How?

In Case (A) the main factors causing procrastination result from the unwillingness of the individual to do something that is not desired by them internally. Hence the procrastination is a way of the individual attempting to assert control over a situation in the only way they can. It is very much like saying to the "powers that be" "No I Don