After reading through the text “Later” I can give my personal opinion and reply on the given to us question which is, what about that passage is , boring or otherwise difficult to understand. If to be fully honest throughout reading the text I personally blurred out a lot and had to bring back my focus, maybe it’s because I am not the person interested in reading “research paper style” texts. I wouldn’t state that I found reading this text difficult, but it was sort of on and off for me. One of the examples could be last paragraph on page 10 “A few years ago, Dan Ariely, a psychologist at M.I.T., did a fascinating experiment examining one of the most basic external tools for dealing with procrastination: deadlines…” The whole idea of this passage could be described briefly as the sentence I provided but no, it went on to describing the details and background which was quite interesting but the amount of a little harder language and a bunch of information that could have been shorter, makes it more difficult and confusing rather than straight to the point. The overall my understanding of the passage was that James Surowiecki wanted to address the issue to us, his readers so we can compare ourselves and remember / bring up the moments where we put things off until later instead of doing them right away . – Julia K
