I seem to procrastinate alot and it occured to me that TeamLiquid had some mightly scholarly people. How is it that you DONT procrastinate... i do it soo much and i get like no sleep. Whenever i feel like doing my school work i somehow zone out and go on the computer and do stuff (like TeamLiquid w00t) or just loaf around doing nothing.

I'll throw in a question i want answered...

Since procrastination is the cause of not doing (rather than merely the lack of action), simply doing that which is being procrastinated may not be psychologically possible while the mental obstacle or technical problem causing the procrastination is in place. Right?
Anybody have good tips that you can use to get over these mental obsacles?

LaSt)ChAnCe

United States2179 Posts

October 31 2005 06:55 GMT

don't be lazy, willpower is your friend

Manifesto7

Osaka27118 Posts

October 31 2005 07:09 GMT

I just did an experiment for two weeks. I made sure I got everything done as soon as possible, with no procrastination. Afterwards, I still found I had time to fuck around, and that time was much more pleasurable because I didnt have the stress of knowing I needed to do something. So, I just continued.

In summary:

Enjoyable fucking around > Stress and lack of sleep.

Also, I found the quality of my work was better.

Raging.BuLL

Brazil101 Posts

October 31 2005 07:15 GMT

i think rekrul should ban you..

thanks

look.. its simple.. procrastination is a result of a bad childhood with no discipline, no respect and no accountability.. realize that your parents did not do the right job.. once you figure that out.. do things by your self and change your friggin life style.. i mean you already know you procrastinate.. so define what is procrastination and do the opposite!

so easy eh?

distant_voice

Germany2521 Posts

October 31 2005 07:17 GMT

mitsy

United States1792 Posts

October 31 2005 07:53 GMT

i tried manifesto7's experiment too, except i found that i still had to slack off just to get things done by the deadline because the amount of assigned work is such that you can work on it indefinitely and my grades are the same regardless of the quality of work because my college is a piece of shit.

so like, if i do it the day before, at least i don't spend as much time on it for my B+. if i spend the whole week reading the assignments and shit it doesn't matter anyways and my profs can't tell the difference.

mr2hot4u15

United States210 Posts

October 31 2005 07:57 GMT

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baal

10502 Posts

October 31 2005 08:00 GMT

mitsy thats totally stupid, if your teachers dont really give a flying fuck about the assignment quality, just do a crappy assignment as soon as possible, you will get the same grade plus a relaxed free time with nothing to do later.

i procastrinate a lot, but atleast i dont bullshit myself like you are doing to justify yourself.

mitsy

United States1792 Posts

October 31 2005 08:02 GMT

its harder to do such a shitty job IMO unless its forced by a deadline + procrastination combo. if i try to do things ahead of time i just dont have the balls to produce such shitty work and try to pass it off

Manifesto7

Osaka27118 Posts

October 31 2005 08:08 GMT

#10

That being said, I spent 5 years at university doing essays on the last possible day. By the last year, it was so bad that I would start an essay at 6am the day it was due to hand it in by 4pm. Mitsy is right, in the end I still got the same B+ I would have if I had done it the week before. (Seriously I wrote 4500 words in 12 hours, it was so clutch)

However, I find that my attitude totally changed once I started working on something I consider my career. I get everything done miles ahead of time... maybe it is the whole paycheaque thing I dont know.

dronebabo

10866 Posts

October 31 2005 08:10 GMT

#11

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0_0

United States2090 Posts

October 31 2005 08:19 GMT

#12

I've always procrastinated... I don't really know anyone that doesn't :-/.

oPtioNaLk

Korea (South)564 Posts

October 31 2005 08:43 GMT

#13

I always procrastinate and I find myself doing much better work during crunch time. Whenever I put in the effort to get things done early I find myself doing shittier work probably because I know I can go back and edit it but I never do. If I do it the last minute I concentrate much more on the task at hand and therefore do much better. My GPA has steadily gone up with the amount of procrastination I do. I used to be a non procrastinator in 10th grade with a 3.7 GPA. Now I'm a 12th grade procrastinator with 3.9 GPA.

On a side note, I'm currently doing my Early Action University of Chicago essay (the app is due Nov 1st which is abut 3 and 1/2 hours away). Procrastinating on a life making or breaking essay feels great.

Suicide

United States475 Posts

October 31 2005 08:50 GMT

#14

Procrastination really only tends to happen on things that you'll have trouble doing in the first place, so the time frame you do them doesn't really matter. The point brought up earlier is correct though, in the sense that I can decide to do a paper in 4 hours instead of bullshitting with my dorm mates, and then get more sleep, and have a better quality of life in the time i do have to have fun, as oppose to hanging out tired and groggy all the time from procrastinating until midnight to start assignments.

~AreS]

Canada2170 Posts

October 31 2005 08:59 GMT

#15

On October 31 2005 16:15 Raging.BuLL wrote:
look.. its simple.. procrastination is a result of a bad childhood with no discipline, no respect and no accountability.. realize that your parents did not do the right job.. once you figure that out.. do things by your self and change your friggin life style.. i mean you already know you procrastinate.. so define what is procrastination and do the opposite!

so easy eh?

Bullshit. I was brought up well, decently disciplined, respectful to everyone and I held my self accountable for everything. I procrastinate like there's no tomorrow. Just this morning I pulled an oral presentation out of my ass that was supposed to be done two weeks prior. I mean, my grades hardly suffer, but like Manifesto said, it's stressful sometimes.

mitsy

United States1792 Posts

October 31 2005 09:01 GMT

#16

its sad tho, i wanted to take my work seriously this semester. these are things i would like to make my career, but the schedule really doesn't allow me to take anything seriously and the grading doesn't reward it at all. it would be its own reward except we work about 24 times too quickly to get any of the depth that would matter.

orzhady

Sweden180 Posts

October 31 2005 09:12 GMT

#17

in sweden we have a project at school which we are expected to work with for 100h.. i did it at the last night, just got it printed in time before i had to go back to school again and hand it in. i got the top grade too, procrawhatever owns
i dont think ive ever written something for school before the last day

Rs-FaKe

United States134 Posts

October 31 2005 10:38 GMT

#18

I love this thread! May or may not have anything to do with the fact that I am procrastinating as I write this response.

ad0

Canada113 Posts

October 31 2005 10:46 GMT

#19

i have procrastination problems too but i also seem to overcome them most of the time. To get work done i pretty much force myself to go somewhere where i'm isolated (like the library) from distractions like my computer, tv, and even leave my cell phone at home for a couple of hours. The only thing i have with me are my assignments and some coffee. I dont know if it works for u but i get some work done by trying to set a few hours during the week between work and classes to try to do this

DreamOfVision

Poland318 Posts

October 31 2005 10:46 GMT

#20

ill give you a response tommorrow...

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