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02-15-2009, 04:00 AM
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 |  Procrastination
I have a new way of thinking about it, as of today. It makes me feel good. I've been calling myself a chronic procrastinator for a long time and I realized thats not an accurate way to put it. The truth is I'm a Crunch-Time Addict! I love the challenge of being forced to do something that most people are taking weeks to do in 3 hours. I've started to accept this and now I actually plan to procrastinate and leave my paper writing until 3AM the night before it's due, or even the morning-of. I did this last week, there was a spare before the class when my paper was due and I pumped it out right there. It turned out better than the ones I spent weeks on! This is what the working environment for most writing assignements is like anyway, i.e. journalism. It is mildly stressful, but once I get adapted to it I'll hopefully be able to set my own deadline and pump it out an hour after it's assigned instead of and hour before it's due. But until then! as long as it's deliberate, there's nothing wrong with it!  I think the biggest mistake you can make if you find yourself procrastinating is to deny it, or make excuses for it, or re-frame it, even saying stuff like "i am procrastinating because taking care of my kid isn't important to be" to scare yourself into working. No good. Last edited by dice; 02-15-2009 at 04:02 AM. |
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02-15-2009, 04:18 PM
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My faaaavorite explanation of Procrastination: YouTube - Procrastination... This was the first video of his I'd seen, soon enough I was hooked, brilliant guy.. absolutely brilliant. Heres an idea on papers.. Can you crank one out the day it is assigned in under 3 hours? Send it to your professor for review / advice, and then crank out a second version the night before it is due? Some other advice that really helped me get papers done was to crank out a purposely bad paper as fast as possible. Then I would feel less pressured to make the next one I wrote perfectly. Last edited by RRR; 02-15-2009 at 04:24 PM. |
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