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Thesis About Procrastination

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People often relate procrastination to lazy people, adamantly believing that it leads to inevitable failure. With Countless of articles , books & guides on how to get over procrastination , The Author John Rampton in his article “Procrastination or Contemplation?” chose to spark off a debate by issuing his ideas on how procrastination can actually be fruitful. Rampton states the bright side of procrastination and how it can lead to success rather than the common negative myths about this issue. As much as I was convinced by Mr.Rampton’s ideas, I still refuse to believe in them. Mr. Rampton, you give me no guarantees.

In this article John Rampton listed some of the positive aspects of procrastination, although some of them were both logical and relatable but the non-credibility of the sources weakened them & made them less convincible. What made his article engaging is that the ideas he introduced were relatable to the majority. As a procrastinator myself , i found his definition of Procrastination quite interesting where he said “procrastination is using fear as a motivator” , its actually true that we finish some tasks on time only out of fear. Besides, the reasons we delay doing a certain task is usually because it’s either a boring task or a stressful one , which is what the author stated to let readers …show more content…

Firstly he mentioned that “some scientists have argued….”, Rampton didn’t mention the name of the scientists or from where he got this information . Then he wrote a quote for unknown “Perry”, we don’t know who Perry is or what makes her words credible. Neither her profession nor her identity was mentioned. In the last place, Rampton mentioned scientific information without a source, claiming that biology is one of the reasons we procrastinate, which is the reason I’m mistrusting Rampton on every other information mentioned in the

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