Procrastination

[Gil galad]

Under the busy outside shell where people see me working, there lurks a lazy person waiting to get out!

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Release your inner laziness Gil Galad.

Haha, good answers folks. Laziness isn't really an answer either though...why are we lazy? Part of my own problem is that I just hate having to do things. I hate having to deal with people, explain myself, make plans, all that sort of thing. And like MsMary, I distract myself easily to avoid it until tomorrow...or the next day...you get the picture.

I also see we've got an 80% ratio of procrastinators...is there no common denominator? (I'm the oldest by the way.)

Why your mom Syl? Is she the same? Mine is the exact opposite, (and man, did she give me greif about it when I was growing up...dind't help at all though.)

--A

[Spring]

I'm not a procrastinator, I'm just distracted eaily.

[lucimay]

yes, me too. birth order? oldest of three, all of us procrastinators, and all adult children of procrastinators. i got the boot on my car for procrastinating. i got in a fender bender back in KY and didn't have proof of insurance, and kept procrastinating about taking the proof of insurance (which I HAD) to the county clerk and ended up having to go to PROCRASTINATION CLASSES in lieu of paying a fine. it didn't take. i'm BETTER than i used to be because my HUSBAND is far lazier and a MUCH worse procrastinator than myself...he just, somehow, never gets CAUGHT procrastinating.


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I'm not a procrastinator, I'm just distracted eaily.

me too.

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PROCRASTINATION CLASSES? Are you serious? There really is such a thing?

My god, maybe it's a psychological condition. Maybe we should start a support group some day.

--A

[lucimay]

this ISN'T the procrastinators support group?

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Well, not in the way that you'd think.

--A

[Revan]

This topic is stupid. I'll lock it tomorrow.

-jay

Jay! You rule!

I procrastinate. In fact I'm a massive procrastinator. One time that spring to mind is when I had two piece's of coursework that were supposed to be in for the day after - one on Macbeth, another one a story I had to write myself). It was a holiday for students by then, but the teachers where marking it that day) They were worth 20% of my grade... I had to do it all night before...



Sadly however, I neglected to do so... and while I was fasxt asleep at home, the phone rang - it was my teacher. "Martin, are you coming in today to give me your coursework? it has to be in by 3 hours time."

Quite naturally, I was closed to uritnation at this time. So I had three hours to do two pieces of homework, including the hour it could for me to travel to school, otherwise I'd get an F.

So I did it, in a massive rush, but sure not to make silly mistakes and go through points that I needed to go through, and I pratically ran to school...



I got two A*

[Marv]

i do pretty much everything on time...im kinda weird like that.

[Spring]

I procrastinate. In fact I'm a massive procrastinator. One time that spring to mind is when I had two piece's of coursework that were supposed to be in for the day after - one on Macbeth, another one a story I had to write myself). It was a holiday for students by then, but the teachers where marking it that day) They were worth 20% of my grade... I had to do it all night before...



Sadly however, I neglected to do so... and while I was fasxt asleep at home, the phone rang - it was my teacher. "Martin, are you coming in today to give me your coursework? it has to be in by 3 hours time."

Quite naturally, I was closed to uritnation at this time. So I had three hours to do two pieces of homework, including the hour it could for me to travel to school, otherwise I'd get an F.

So I did it, in a massive rush, but sure not to make silly mistakes and go through points that I needed to go through, and I pratically ran to school...



I got two A*

Thankfully, I'm not that bad. I usually have at least a week to do it.

If I have two months to do it, that is.

[Revan]

I'm not that bad either... it was just this once... honestly.

[Lord Mhoram]

I'm a procrastinator. I don't do half my homework, and the half I do, I do late at night or in the car or at lunch. Any questions?

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Haha Darth. I must admit not going that far...but I've never, ever, done anything until the day (OK, the night), before it was due.

95% of the time at University I did nothing. The other 5% was a mad last-minute rush.

Like so many of the rest of you, I do better under pressure. *shrug*

--A

[sgt.null]

I've been putting off making this thread for days, but I finally had to talk about it.

What the hell is up with the whole procrastination thing? I know we've got some champion procrastinators here at the Watch, so maybe we can all get together and figure it out.

I'm a procrastinator. I'm a terrible procrastinator. I put things off 'til the last minute. Everything. I leave things so late that it sometimes hurts me because I left it so late. (As in it creates an additional disadvantage.)

I know I do it. I know that there is no reason to do it. I know that if I just did whatever it was straight away, my life would be so much easier. And I know it's nobodies fault but my own.

So why the hell can't I get over it? No matter how often I tell myself, this time, I'm just gonna do it and get it done, (whatever it may be), I still end up thinking, "Oh, I'll do it later. Just now. When I finish this book/post/cigarette/whatever." And so it goes.

Is it like some phobia about actually doing things? I don't know. Let's put our collective heads to this one, because I find it not only irritating, (because it often leads to even more work for no purpose), but inexplicable.

Why do we procrastinate? Seriously.

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[Revan]

Haha Darth. I must admit not going that far...but I've never, ever, done anything until the day (OK, the night), before it was due.

95% of the time at University I did nothing. The other 5% was a mad last-minute rush.

Like so many of the rest of you, I do better under pressure. *shrug*

--A

That's because you have the right motivation.

[CovenantJr]

I'm a procrastinator, and the reason is simple. Instant gratification. I can do something I want to do right now, or I can do something I don't want to do right now. I don't think it through that rationally, but that's what it boils down to. Relax later or relax now? Later is too far away.

And if you leave something long enough, occasionally - just occasionally - it actually does go away.

[sgt.null]

Tazz: 14 I think.

damn i should have replied earlier?

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Relax later or relax now? Later is too far away.

And if you leave something long enough, occasionally - just occasionally - it actually does go away.

Well said Cj.

--A

[Revan]

Relax later or relax now? Later is too far away.

And if you leave something long enough, occasionally - just occasionally - it actually does go away.

Yeah, well said!

Nah, I think the reason we leave things is because any consequences of not doing that thing are purely abstract... we care nothing for them because in many ways they aren't real to us... yet.

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An interesting possibility I guess, but using that logic, nothing is real 'til it happens to us. I mean, we know it's going to happen, but until it does, it's like it's not going to? I agree in a sense I guess, because it's the difference between knowing something theoretically, and actually being able to do it, but it doesn't say much for us does it?

--A