The inability to see the future clearly leads individuals to procrastinate and delay the completion of goals due to singular "internal" perspectives that focus only on the task at hand and on the idealistic scenario in which it will be completed. The planning fallacy helps explain why people put off tasks for their future selves, using their positive expectations about the future to justify their present inaction. This becomes useful when trying to understand the future self, as it promotes the thesis that humans assume the future is bright and simple, free of stress and worrying situations; and that's exactly why leaving things for the future self makes sense in most minds. If the future self is assumed to be better controlled, in better health, and has more time and energy to contribute to the task at hand, this justifies for an individual his current inaction, since the longer a task is delayed, the better equipped he will be to perform. do it. face. Humans are optimistic when it comes time to plan for the future; only once we have overcome the initial judgment do we truly see situations for what they really are