I am ready to study.

Readiness is the most respectable form of delay. The desk gets tidied. New pens are bought. A revision timetable is colour-coded in a way that takes ninety minutes and teaches nothing.

None of it is laziness, which is the confusing part. It is all effort, carefully aimed at everything except the chapter.

The uncomfortable shortcut is that readiness turns up after you start, not before. Open the book at the wrong page and read badly for six minutes. That is the entire ritual, and it works.