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Mazzarins Demise
Profit Development and Research Association
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Posted - 2009.05.03 21:51:00 -
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After all my years of schooling, starting from Kindergarten all the way to College, Masters, job, and eventually my Ph.D, I have always waited until the very last minute to get my work done. For many years, I've tried to curb my urge to procrastinate, but to no avail. Even while I write this, I should be writing my final chapter for my thesis. Regrettably, these last-minute Harry antics still earn positive remarks for my work from teachers and peers alike, as I do not rush and still take the ample amount of time necessary to ensure my works are of the utmost quality, even if I hand it in an hour after I finish.
I have come to a point now though where I tire of it. I'm sick of having work looming over my head because I'd rather play a video game or two or hit the bar for a "healthy" dose of alcohol and good company, yet I cannot figure out how to stop. Procrastinating is just so ingrained.
What do you guys do to move past this, or are you dealing with the issue yourselves?
Thanks for your thoughts.
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goodby4u
Valor Inc.
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Posted - 2009.05.03 21:58:00 -
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If its working for your why change it?
But if you really want to change it then my advice(though I do the same thing often) is just turn off the computer(unless you need it in which case shut off your internet)sit down put your head down and just keep working.
Having the work looming over you is a hundred times worse then the work itself.
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Bestofworst
Gallente Double Eagle Enterprises
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Posted - 2009.05.03 22:05:00 -
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Ya I procrastinate way too much as well. I think the work I had to finish today was the first work I have ever finished afterschool and before 12 AM
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Danton Marcellus
Nebula Rasa Holdings
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Posted - 2009.05.03 22:07:00 -
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You just do it.
Should/would/could have, HAVE you chav!
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JitaBum
Gallente Center for Advanced Studies
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Posted - 2009.05.03 22:11:00 -
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I'm exactly the same. Got uni exams next week, have been off for three weeks where I should have been studying. But it's impossible for me to do it. Literally IMPOSSIBLE, so I'll leave it to the last minute and will be stupidly stressed out. Some say it's laziness, but I'm not a lazy person at all. So I do something else, like distract myself by posting ****e on the Eve forums. Ultimately it's damaging behaviour, but I think subconsciously procrasntinaters get something out of it - they may work better under extreme stress or may somehow enjoy it
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Onus Mian
Amarr Kingfisher Industries
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Posted - 2009.05.03 22:14:00 -
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Hehe yeah I'm the same. I have to rearrange my room at least three times befores its set up right to start diong my work and then I notice my DVD's aren't in any particular order. Typically its fear that gets me motivated. Wrote my BSc independent project up in two days and my MSc Thesis in about two weeks. ----
Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too? - Douglas Adams
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Bestofworst
Gallente Double Eagle Enterprises
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Posted - 2009.05.03 22:17:00 -
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I'm always posting on a forum, refreshing a page every minute. Listening to music (or atm George Carlin). Playing Eve or play Guitar. Or maybe think about "This s*** is important.. until standard tests are done"
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Xen Gin
Solar Excavations Ultd. Black Sun Alliance
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Posted - 2009.05.03 22:20:00 -
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Originally by: JitaBum I'm exactly the same. Got uni exams next week, have been off for three weeks where I should have been studying. But it's impossible for me to do it. Literally IMPOSSIBLE, so I'll leave it to the last minute and will be stupidly stressed out. Some say it's laziness, but I'm not a lazy person at all. So I do something else, like distract myself by posting ****e on the Eve forums. Ultimately it's damaging behaviour, but I think subconsciously procrasntinaters get something out of it - they may work better under extreme stress or may somehow enjoy it
That is me also.
I tend to stop procrastination post coital.
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Jacob Mei
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Posted - 2009.05.03 22:35:00 -
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I procastinate myself and as the OP get very high marks. I have come to believe that the stigma of procastinating is just something teachers and the like came up with under the assumption that if you have more time then already good work will be even better. I feel that alot of gifted individuals perform much better under pressure and thus naturally wait until the proper level of pressure to perform is achived ().
Seriously though if you find that you do good work after waiting until the last minute why change things? Genius rarely conforms to the norm. -------------------------------- To borrow a phrase:
Players who post are like stars, there are bright ones and those who are dim.
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Elliot Reid
Silver Snake Enterprise Systematic-Chaos
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Posted - 2009.05.03 22:45:00 -
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How do I stop procrastinating? I usually get round to stop doing it eventually.
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JitaBum
Gallente Center for Advanced Studies
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Posted - 2009.05.03 22:46:00 -
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Was going to reply, but it can wait
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JitaBum
Gallente Center for Advanced Studies
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Posted - 2009.05.03 22:47:00 -
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Originally by: Jacob Mei Seriously though if you find that you do good work after waiting until the last minute why change things? Genius rarely conforms to the norm.
Even though he's getting great marks, he probably wants to avoid it because it can produce inordinate amount of stress, which cannot be good for your body and can even affect family members, in my case it has.
But when you've finished, you vow 'i'll never leave it to the last minute again, that was ****in awful'. But it doesn't change a thing
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NanDe YaNen
The Funkalistic Imperial Republic Of the North
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Posted - 2009.05.03 22:47:00 -
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Most stress mechanisms work in cycles.
Being unable to sleep can happen when you really need to get some sleep. Basically you can tell you're still conscious, you get stressed about not being asleep, and this stress prevents you from relaxing enough to get to sleep.
If you plan on staying up all night, you stop worrying about going to sleep, and if there was no reason to stay up, your mind quickly wanders off in random directions and you can dream about popcorn volcanoes and things
The same is almost true of procrastination. If you try to snap yourself out of the stress of procrastinating, you'll most likely get stressed out about doing anything except the task that you need to be accomplishing.
The thing that people don't often understand about stress cycles is that the concept of being unstressed completely slips your mind. It's like it no longer exists. It's definitely the individual's own doing, but that doesn't help the fact that once in a stress cycle, it's hard to snap out of it.
The logical choice is just to start working on whatever, but again the problem is that people are not inherently logical, especially not when it comes to bad habits. Stress is not a logical feeling either. The conscious part of you head already knows A) that stress doesn't fundamentally address anything B) you have a bad habit and repeatedly express it.
The problem isn't in the logical part of your brain and neither is the solution. In the care-bear depths of your touchy-feely brain that is emotionally responsive to the people around you, you have to understand that people who don't procrastinate aren't working ahead of deadlines because they have consciously decided to. Consciously, there's no difference between procrastinators and non-procrastinators when it comes to what they think of waiting until deadlines.
They do it because work feels good. Accomplishment is the anti-thesis of the stress cycles of procrastination. Once you make the association, it's easy to get addicted. This is because, surprise surprise, dopamine and all that **** is really good.
The reason why stress is repetitive is because our heads tend to realize the situations in which stress occurred and we like to believe that the next time we're in the situation, we will be able to cope with it better. What this in fact leads us to do is put ourselves in the exact same circumstances that caused us to be stressed the first time.
It's a lot of just human nature. ---------------------------------------
Originally by: Red Raider A happy gamer isnt on the forums, they are playing the game unless they have an idea that they honestly think is helping out.
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Jacob Mei
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Posted - 2009.05.03 22:56:00 -
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Originally by: JitaBum
Originally by: Jacob Mei Seriously though if you find that you do good work after waiting until the last minute why change things? Genius rarely conforms to the norm.
Even though he's getting great marks, he probably wants to avoid it because it can produce inordinate amount of stress, which cannot be good for your body and can even affect family members, in my case it has.
But when you've finished, you vow 'i'll never leave it to the last minute again, that was ****in awful'. But it doesn't change a thing
Thats why God invented cooping mechanisms like beer, sex, smokes and Eve online. -------------------------------- To borrow a phrase:
Players who post are like stars, there are bright ones and those who are dim.
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Cipher7
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Posted - 2009.05.03 23:03:00 -
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Buy a marble notebook, at the top of the page write the date.
Write down things you THINK you can accomplish today. Break them down in very small pieces like "read page 33" "read page 34" "read page 35"
If you read page 33, you get to put a checkmark next to it. If not, no checkmark.
The checkmark is feeling of accomplishment. Small pieces give you feeling of accomplishment for doing easy things.
Soon you will get into the habit of producing "checkmarks" and you will be getting stuff done.
Like maybe you read page 33 but it's interesting so you keep reading.
Then you check off 33, 34, 35 etc on your marble notebook and go "wow half my to do list is gone."
I've been using the marble notebook for oh about 5-6 years now, helps me ALOT when I really don't feel like doing anything, I can just open the notebook and suddenly I feel like getting things done.
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Bestofworst
Gallente Double Eagle Enterprises
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Posted - 2009.05.03 23:18:00 -
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Originally by: Jacob Mei
Originally by: JitaBum
Originally by: Jacob Mei Seriously though if you find that you do good work after waiting until the last minute why change things? Genius rarely conforms to the norm.
Even though he's getting great marks, he probably wants to avoid it because it can produce inordinate amount of stress, which cannot be good for your body and can even affect family members, in my case it has.
But when you've finished, you vow 'i'll never leave it to the last minute again, that was ****in awful'. But it doesn't change a thing
Thats why God invented cooping mechanisms like beer, sex, smokes and Eve online.
Half the time that's the part of the problem.
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TraininVain
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Posted - 2009.05.03 23:30:00 -
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Sleep wearing boxing gloves.
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Coconut Joe
VIRTUAL LIFE VANGUARD Intrepid Crossing
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Posted - 2009.05.04 00:08:00 -
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Originally by: Mazzarins Demise
What do you guys do to move past this, or are you dealing with the issue yourselves?
Thanks for your thoughts.
Well, I've been working for a couple of years now and I've come too appreciate Parkinson's Law more and more as time passes. "Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion." Basically, it means that the earlier you start something the more time it will take to finish it.
Last year I started doing an MSc part time, and guess what, I'm always doing my assignments at the last minute, and I'm still getting good grades. As long as you're confident in your abilities to estimate how long it will take you to do something, then there isn't anything wrong with leaving it to the last minute. Having said that, try to take into account unforeseen events - I once managed to get a virus on my PC the very evening I was going to write an assignment due in the next day, so beware!
Can I ask you a question? I am intrigued that a procrastinator has managed to finish a phd. As a procrastinator myself who is thinking of doing a PHd, how did you get up to speed with the work load?
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Mazzarins Demise
Profit Development and Research Association
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Posted - 2009.05.04 00:30:00 -
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Edited by: Mazzarins Demise on 04/05/2009 00:32:02
Originally by: Coconut Joe Can I ask you a question? I am intrigued that a procrastinator has managed to finish a phd. As a procrastinator myself who is thinking of doing a PHd, how did you get up to speed with the work load?
Well, to be honest it was a rough road, and still is as I'm putting the finishing touches on everything in preparation for defending my thesis. My thesis, and subsequently my research, was based on something I love doing: technical communication and interaction. I personally believe that if I had done something that was more convenient, or less of a challenge both academically and effort-wise, I probably would not have finished or dropped the idea entirely due to boredom, or missed way too many deadlines due to procrastination because I really didn't enjoy doing it.
Procrastination played the biggest role in interpreting the results of my research, which the processes of collecting that data was affected by procrastination as well, and putting all my thoughts and ideas to paper. Because my undergrad and my Master's degrees were both in writing and composition, I knew I could spew quality writing and anything I might have needed in a short amount of time. I think that's another issue behind why I procrastinate. I know I can get work done quickly and easily, while also having a firm idea how much time it'll take to complete, so there's basically no difference between doing it a week early or an hour before handing it in.
Thankfully, to keep the process relatively manageable, you're given more than enough time to complete Thesis chapters, no matter how long they might be. Also, Ph.D programs can range from 2-4 years, depending on if you've already acquired your Master's degree or not, and within that time, you have plenty of opportunities to get the preliminary work accomplished, no matter how much you might procrastinate.
I hope this information was helpful to you.
Edit: Thanks for the replies guys.
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nahtoh
Caldari Fleet of the Damned Sc0rched Earth
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Posted - 2009.05.04 01:20:00 -
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Tell you tomorrow...
========= "I am not saying there should be capital punishment for stupidity, but why can`t we just take the safety labels off everything and let the problem fix its self |
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Draeca
Tharri and Co.
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Posted - 2009.05.04 10:35:00 -
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I... Don't
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kano donn
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Posted - 2009.05.04 10:51:00 -
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I have a view: my first year doing an computer engineering degree and looking back its the same thing. the work load is put off until the last second.
hearing these stories gives me a though.
we dont have enough work or we dont have any desire for it to be done.
for my classes we are given an assignment that is due in a week and the amount of work people put into it is only about a hour. Now this changes from person to person but not bu much. For those that really put the effort into it, it may only be a 4 hour difference.
another factor may be that your environment is allowing you to put it off. it is giving you more reason to not do the assignment then to sit down and do it.
sorry to the OP, i didnt really answer anything. just talked..
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Dralon
Black Hawk Armada
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Posted - 2009.05.04 11:40:00 -
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Edited by: Dralon on 04/05/2009 11:44:19 Do not worry my learned colleague, your'e still in the earlier stages.
Like me, you might get so lazy that you can't even bothered to do the work last minute, as it takes so much effort. At this point it works in your favour and you do it in small chunks, months in advance.
Embrace it.. It is your destiny!
Pineapple?
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Culmen
Caldari Macabre Votum Morsus Mihi
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Posted - 2009.05.04 11:44:00 -
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Edited by: Culmen on 04/05/2009 11:45:16 Its rather simple really Train a certain "workmode" in your brain.
It simple, dress up in something a bit more formal, like a collared shirt, maybe even a tie. Designate a certain area as a procrastination free zone, like a library, or a very specific desk.
If you ever feel the need to procrastinate, immediately move to another area.
After a while, you'll stop feeling the need to procrastinate in the designated no procrastination zone.
Machiavelli did this, it certainly worked for him. Even after retirement, if he wanted to do work, he'd get dressed and move to a study and further more why do i even need a sig? |
Zaiyo Modi
Minmatar Republic University
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Posted - 2009.05.04 11:46:00 -
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I have found out that my problem is precisely in regard to having become demotivated, due to being unable to finish what I have started for various reasons.
Solving problems seem important and I strongly suspect that having one or more healthy long term goals are a sensible way to keep a perspective and a focus on things.
Going "cold turkey" by stopping the use of internet browsing and whatnot would probably be a good idea. Making a list of a few things you could indulge in for a limited time seem like a good compromise.
I do not vote btw, not because I couldn't care, but because it seem clear and proven that there are ideologies among certain people, that I characterize as the proverbial evil, about which I probably cannot realistically make a difference and I will not simply abide by being content. Whatever abstractions modern life affect our lives, I will not simply tolerate it anymore and I want to reevaluated the views formerly held.
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sting122
SniggWaffe
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Posted - 2009.05.05 01:22:00 -
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took me ten minutes to reply to your thread.....
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Intense Thinker
Minmatar
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Posted - 2009.05.05 01:24:00 -
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I joined the Marines... did wonders for my work ethic
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Julius Rigel
House Rigel
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Posted - 2009.05.05 02:46:00 -
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Get a little pocket calendar book that has a page for every day with lines for the hours, then get a pack of different colored pens. Every time you do something productive, write it down on the appropriate hours. You can use the different colors for different types of projects.
The important thing is to only write something down once you are done.
Once you get into it, you will find yourself wanting to fill the calendar with more stuff, and thus you'll procrastinate less.
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