Chronic Procrastion: Life Beyond Effective Time Management

The SQ3R strategy is similar and different to the way I read. How it is similar to how I read is survey. I skim headings, subheadings, chapter summaries, charts, tables, and texts. I also read to find answers to questions. I highlight information that I think is important and I take notes. I review by reading over notes and highlighted information to make sure I am understanding nd remembering what I am learning.

Both passages do not support Procrastination. Passage 1 “A Stitch In Time” is mainly explaining how to redirect Procrastination, and how it is caused. For example, it says in the passage “Low motivation is another culprit that can cause procrastination”.

The Ted Talk “Inside The Mind of A Master Procrastination,” by Tim Urban, explain how he claims that everyone procrastinates even if they don't know it. He uses evidence to prove his point such, as his personal experience and refers back to his blog to prove his idea. He claims that there are two types of precaution when there is a short-term effect of procrastination and a long-term of procrastination.

The topic I chose to do my project on is “The Dreaded P Word”, procrastination. This topic interests me the most out of the course because it is a huge problem in my life and I want this project to teach me not to be a procrastinator.

One of the biggest problems in modern day society is procrastination. Procrastination is delaying a task until the very last minute to try to avoid doing it. In the passage “Structured Procrastination,” the author describes how to harmlessly procrastinate. In the passage “A Stitch in Time,” the author describes how horrible procrastination is. These are the different takes on the habit.

Synopsis: Do you ever find yourself overwhelmed and stressed about assignments? Are you rushing to finish full paper the night before they are due? Do you have no self-control against your procrastination and fear it will soon get the better of you? How badly would you actually not have to worry when a paper is due the next day because you already did it. Procrastinators everywhere, trust me, I hear yeah, I have been there, but stop complaining and start helping yourself. No, I cannot do your assignment for you, but this book can surely help plan your time wisely to help stop your procrastination. I promise it will not take that long to read unless you procrastinate.

American playwright Maxwell Anderson once stated in his essay, Off Broadway, that, “the story of a play must be a conflict, and specifically, a conflict between the forces of good and evil within a single person.” The most memorable characters in literature have dealt with struggles both internal and external, in terms of either heroic or cowardly means. In William Shakespeare’s play Hamlet, the title character uses either procrastination or impulse to deal with conflicts resulting in devastating consequences. The protagonist’s urge to act upon impulse and the resulting deadly outcomes speaks to Hamlet’s lack of forethought and even his fleeting madness. In contrast, Hamlet’s continued procrastination draws on many of his conflicts eventually resulting in an overabundance of spilled blood.

The focus of this Single-System Evaluation on TC’s problem of procrastinating when working on his artwork, the use of the A-B-A design, and music as an intervention for this evaluation shows that it was effective for him from first-person and second-person observation. When observing the participant, and the information that is shown from the graph, music used as an intervention for TC over his procrastination seemed as effective for him to focus on his artwork. The intervention was a choice from TC on what he knows will help him to focus. He was involved in the “shared decision making,” by determining what his intervention would be, and to see what results would develop from it (Lindhiem et al., 2014, p. 9).

The research article, Identifying the Neural Substrates of Procrastination: a Resting-State fMRI study, was written by Wenwen Zhang, Xiangpeng Wang & Tingyong Feng. This research was conducted in order to see what neurologically causes procrastination. It is known that millions of people across the world tend to procrastinate on projects, and these researchers were interested to see what causes it neurologically. The idea of procrastination is becoming a phenomenon among researchers and more and more are trying to study it. The experiments took place at Southwest University in China and approved by the Institutional Review Board of the Faculty of Psychology. The participants were 95 female students and 37 male students who were all around the age of 21 (Zhang, W. et al. 2016).

When talking about this quarter I feel I have demonstrated perseverance. The reason I feel that way is I have a huge procrastination problem. I find myself often pushing things off until the last minute. This is a very unhealthy and trouble causing issue. I feel that I have demonstrated perseverance in the way I'm trying to knock the habit of procrastination.For instance, so far in history I haven't been letting things get overdue. Although, I still seem to wait until the day something is due to do it, I'm trying to change. I feel that this demonstrates perseverance because although this is hard for me, I keep trying. I really do hope to get rid of this habit soon.

First year seminar was a very useful tool. I learned a lot of valuable things that I believe I will be able to utilize while I am a student and also in life. I am very lucky that this course is a part of the curriculum at West Coast University and I plan on utilizing the tools learned to assist me in getting through the nursing problem.

Procrastination: to be slow or late about doing something that should be done; to delay doing something until a later time because you don’t want to do it because you are lazy, etc. (Merriam-Webster’s Learner’s Dictionary). First off I’d like to give this book a thumbs up on calling out on every excuse we make or everything we say to talk ourselves out of doing something we need to get done right now. I also loved the comics throughout the chapters. At first when I flipped through the book I read all the comics first. I related to them so much, especially the ones with the reading and having to try and cram a lot of reading in and the ones about working better under pressure. In the introduction I took an immediate

Procrastinating is one of my weakness. I tend to do things last minute and find it harder to remember things that are needed at times. As discussed in chapter 8, I found four tips that would help me do well in this course and that is rehearsing repeatedly, make the material more meaningful, sleep more, and testing my knowledge. As a procrastinator, I realized that I don’t have enough time to rehearse repeatedly. I will change my studying days from two to approximately six days or more to see how well I do on my test. I usually write word for word while taking notes in class. I believe in making the material more meaningful will help me if I took notes in my own words. It will be easier for me to understand my own words instead of others. I

I also believe that the SQ3R reading strategy is a great way of tackling reading assignments, especially if you’re not a strong reader. Keeping reading fun, having ambition and using the SQ3R strategy can develop your reading skills. I can relate on skimming over reading material, I often look things over quickly to see what catches my eye; unfortunately it doesn’t always work well especially with class assignments, but I have learned to do it efficiently using the SQ3R strategy. Taking notes is something I have always been horrible with, I rely on just re-reading to find the information I need, which can be time consuming. Without writing notes an individual isn’t really learning, the SQ3R strategy will allow us all to use our memory to its

Every student sets goals and deadlines to get their work done on time, but some wait until the last minute. As the grade level increases, the work load and difficulty increases, leading to more procrastination. Most students in high school procrastinate, and the question is, why? Is the work too hard? Do their teacher’s leniency cause them to? Do students not have enough time? Do extra-curricular activities take up too much of their time? There has been many other research studies on this topic, but I wanted to see if the students in my survey and interviews had any different correlations.