Procrastination

     If you say you've never procrastinated something, anyone else would call you a lair. Everybody procrastinates sometimes, the ones who make a habit of it are the ones with the real troubles. This very minute I could be called a procrastinator, with my second blog entry that's due Sunday still not done on Sunday night at about 9:00, with Spanish and a bit of Physics homework still to go. Sigh. Well, I guess there's now a Theory of Procrastination by a Professor at Stanford. It states that there's two kinds of procrastinators, effective ones and useless ones. Effective ones spend their procrastinating time doing things that also have to get done but are apparently more enjoyable. Useless ones just do things like surf the interwebs. I think that's a irrelevant Theory really, because either way you aren't getting what you should be getting done over with, which leads to stress, and stress leads to a shorter life span. Effective or not, I think procrastination is what it is, that is to say a very bad habit which seems to be unbreakable.

         The author has a good idea about who her target audience is, which is her fellow procrastinators. I think the main purpose of this article is not really to make putting stuff off okay, but to make those "effective procrastinators" feel a bit better about themselves. The author gives the man who wrote the Theory of Structured Procrastination ethos by saying "...listen to Perry, after all he won a prize. And even though he was procrastinating his hardest, he still manages to be a professor of Philosophy at Stanford."


The article: http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/scicurious-brain/2011/10/02/ignobel-prize-winner-the-power-of-effective-procrastination/