Procrastination: Passage Analysis

The dictionary definition of Procrastination is the act of “carrying out less urgent tasks in preference to more urgent ones, or doing more pleasurable things in place of less pleasurable ones, and thus putting off impending tasks to a later time, sometimes to the "last minute" before the deadline.” In other words, doing what you want to do, instead of what you should be doing. At times, it could also be something we don’t mind doing; that science homework, packing our lunch for tomorrow to just taking a shower, these are many things people just don’t feel like doing,

Tim Urban’s Ted talk on procrastination was attention grabbing. His speaking style was successful because of many factors. His actual speech was not as well put together as it could have been, but through his personality, tone, and use of visuals, he successfully grabbed the attention of the viewers.

Of course it is sometimes necessary and wise to postpone a decision or an action; but procrastination usually means putting things aside for tomorrow that should have been done yesterday. Procrastination is a thief of time; time is valuable and it is one thing in life you can not get back nor reverse. Another thing I have realized is everyone has the same amount of hours in a day. What does one do differently with his time from to be much more successful? Rationalizing, planning, and dedication are the ingredients that individual may have that another is lacking. If I want to be better as a writer, I have to stop being a procrastinator and construct more anticipation within

     Procrastination is something that you don’t naturally have an innate ability to do. It is often brought on by finding ways

People procrastinate because they are afraid to fail, they have poor time management, they avoid things that seem difficult or they feel depressed or they feel guilty. Some people believe that other procrastinate out of laziness or lack of discipline, but I know there are perfectionists that often procrastinate as well. For example, a perfectionist may put off writing a paper until the night before it is due and then they will have an excuse saying, “I restarted because I didn’t like what I had written.”. Another example is that some philosophers and scientists, such that Aristotle questioned if time even exists, and Einstein believed that time was a muddle in which the past, present and future were only illusions.

So a couple of weeks ago on a Wednesday night, I had just finished my homework. Which lead me to think about the fact that I was able to successfully procrastinate on a project for three weeks finishing it the night before it was due. So I grabbed a celebratory box of doughnuts from the kitchen then I sat down on my couch. Let me tell you, I was TOTALLY prepared to watch keeping up with the Kardashians until I fell into a sugar coma. Yeaaahh, plot twist! About halfway through my second doughnut, a Victoria's Secret commercial came on. There stood women in beautiful underwear with flat stomachs and tan skin. I looked at my celebratory box of doughnuts - my coffee speckled skin, and the pouch the fat around my waist that some idiot decided to name "love handles" when there was nothing to love about them. Needless to say, I was disappointed. I was disappointed because I believed that this was society's way of saying "you're not good enough" Within the recent years the controversy upon what the average human being should look like, what they should weigh, and how they should act has grown due to the influence of

Procrastination is a tendency to postpone, put off, delay, reschedule, take a rain check on, put on ice, hold off, or to defer what is necessary to reach a particular goal.(Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition. Philip Lief Group 2009.) While attending College some students find it hard to juggle work, family, and friends. Leading most students down a dangerous path to procrastination; that negative impact affect students from their physical health, mental health, and social health.

First, he took himself as an example, telling us that how he was doing as a procrastination when facing writing due. Then he using a rational decision maker, an instant gratification and a panic monster to explain how the brain works in a procrastination. At the end, he pointed out that there are some important things in our life, which is no deadline, such as starting career and working on relationship. If the procrastination happened in these situations, it will ruin people’s life. Actually, I once was a serious procrastination. I always do my homework at the last minutes before due time. Every time when the due date was coming, I felt a lot of stress and frustrate with my assignments. And of course, I cannot get a high grade for my assignment which done in very short time. But finally, when I missed some assignments, which leaded me to a bad grade, I began to reflection on my own. I found the effects of being procrastination make me unhappy and unhealthy. So, I tried to do start assignments when I get the assignments. And I found this can make me more effective, and make my life

Procrastination is the act or habit of putting tasks on hold. It is the unnecessary postponement of starting or finishing an undertaking, which eventually leads to distress (Solomon & Rothblum, 1984). The intentional delay of due tasks is very common among students and lately, it has become prevalent in college settings (Rabin, Fogel & Nutter-Upham, 2011).

“A Dictionary of the English Language” written by Dr. Samuel Johnson, defined procrastination as “delay.” This common issue mostly around everyone. Many people struggle with deadlines every day. It is one of the largest problems seen in college counseling centers. (Grohol, Psy.D.)

According to dictionary.com, the meaning of procrastination is “the act or habit of procrastinating, or putting off or delaying, especially something requiring immediate attention”.

In this article procrastination was discussed I do not agree with some of the points of the article. For say “Reset the timer and repeat. For every four 25 minute “pomodori” you complete, you get a longer 30 minute break”(Laura Tucker page 1 paragraph 11). If you do homework long enough every night then you could get distracted on long breaks and take even longer to get back to work. Another reason is you could end up going to bed at 3 am because every single one of your teachers gave you homework. That is why taking a longer break every time cannot always work out for the best. Another reason why I would not incorporate any of these tips into my life is because of the stress of knowing you could be doing something, but you’re messing around

According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, to procrastinate is “to put off intentionally the doing of something that should be done.” Another way of putting it is “to wait until the last minute.” Procrastination is a very bad habit. Even though

Many people believe that procrastination is derived completely from laziness but the culprit could be multiple things, including perfectionism. This can become a huge problem for perfectionists, especially perfectionist students. They most likely will overthink projects and put off getting started because they’re afraid they won’t be able to make them as perfect as they want them to be. Luckily this is a common issue among students and there are many different techniques to cope with it. Students can overcome procrastination due to perfectionism by setting S.M.A.R.T goals, creating detailed to-do lists, and by just getting started.

The questionnaire was posted online for psyc121 students of Victoria University of Wellington. “Please read each statement, and select the option that best describes how much you agree or disagree with each one” was the instruction given to the participants when completing a Pure Procrastination Scale (PPS) which was developed by Steel (2010). It had 12 items and on a one to five scale where one is strongly disagree and 5 is strongly agree. A statement “I generally delay before starting on work I have to do”. Higher scores meant higher levels of procrastination.