This week, I read an
article that's called Why Procrastinating is good for
you? In the article, it says that there are two types
of procrastinators. The two types of procrastinators are called active
procrastinator and passive procrastinator. Active procrastination means
you realize that you are putting off mowing the lawn or cleaning your closet,
but you are doing something that is more valuable instead. Passive
procrastination is just sitting around on your sofa not doing anything.
The author of the book Wait says that he always procrastinates in every possible way and
he always have. In the book Wait say
that when faced with a decision, we should find out how long we have to make
it, and then wait until the last possible moment to do so.
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Before I read
this article I thought procrastination was not a good thing. Because I thought
that it was good to do things ahead of time so you won’t have to be worried about
it. But I have always procrastinated anyways. I always do things the last
minute. When I know I have a lot of time to do things, I always tell myself
that I’ll do it later. But the way that the article explains that
procrastination isn’t bad it made me change my minds about thinking it was bad.
But since there are two types of
procrastinators, it’s good to be an active procrastinator. That way you might be putting off something
but doing something more important. Some good advice to manage delay is just
take a breath, take more pauses. Stare off into the distance. Ask yourself
question like what the maximum amount I have to do this. Think before you do things.
I'm glad you got the distinction between procrastinating productively and procrastinating pointlessly!
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