Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week

Combine the Latin words pro- ("forward") and crastinus ("of tomorrow") and you get procrastinates. This became the English procrastination, which, along with serendipity, is one of my favourite words. If you keep leaving things you should do today until tomorrow, because you don't like doing them, you are procrastinating.

But instead of talking about the idea, let's watch it in action thanks to Lev Yilmaz, who lives in San Francisco. When he saw the 1956 film Le mystère Picasso, which showed the great artist's paintings appearing as if being drawn by an invisible hand, he was inspired to create a series of animated cartoons on YouTube. They have since been seen by millions of people — many of them procrastinators, probably.