Psychology: procrastination

Self-tutoring about ways of life: the tutor mentions procrastination.

“We can’t just keep procrastinating and putting things off,” my social studies 9 teacher gently proclaimed to the class back in ’84. They wanted to delay the test. A kind man by nature, he wanted to comply. However, the course schedule didn’t allow it; the test needed to be written by a certain date.

Procrastination is something we probably all do, in varying degrees. My untrained point of view about it I can share as a few thoughts, based on my own experience:

Someone’s motive is important when procrastinating. One should beware those people whose go-to strategy is just to put off something so long that it becomes impractical to wait for them. That’s very common nowadays: many people will argue that, if they did nothing, then they did nothing wrong.

If procrastination is motivated by the idea that the task seems too big, it seems important to approach it on a small scale. An example might be a yard full of weeds. One might know they will never get it under control even in a weekend, but just an hour’s labour on it might give perspective as to what to do next.

It seems that, often, procrastination surrounds tasks that aren’t transparent: the person doesn’t quite know what they’re in for. It’s understandable the person is nervous, since they might try, but fail. It seems to me, however, that failure can be underrated, and success, overrated. I’ve seen many successes that actually went nowhere, and many failures that later on became appreciated.

If, while reading this article, you’re actually procrastinating, perhaps it’s not a bad momentary compromise:)

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