Saturday, November 11, 2006

What sort of procrastinator are you?

According to Wikipedia, there are two types of procrastinators:

The relaxed type
"The relaxed type of procrastinators feels negatively towards their work and blow it off, commonly forgetting it, by doing something else. In a child, one would often see that the child would abandon his schoolwork, but not his socialization. This denial-based person would try their best to avoid stress caused by their work by not doing this challenging item, and focusing on having fun, or other easier work. This would give them a happy life."

The tense-afraid type
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The Tense-Afraid Type of procrastinators would usually feel "overwhelmed with pressure, unrealistic about time, uncertain about goals" and many other negative feelings. This person would therefore feel they are lacking some ability to do this work, and would try to escape this stress by relaxing. This temporary escape would then fall away, leading to an even more stress to this over-worked person. This would lead to this person feeling guilty, and therefore more apprehensive. It can also have a debilitating effect on their personal life and relationships. Since they are uncertain about their goals they can often feel awkward when with people who are confident and self-aware; in turn they can often fall into depression. They tend to withdraw from social life and they may often avoid contact, even with close friends."

Btw, today I:
-attended the briefing for next week's evangelistic carwash cafe
-mowed the lawn (front and back)
-played the guitar
-did all the little things not related to study (email, youtubing, fiddling with my Fantasy NBA teams, writing this blog etc)

5 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

I'd say i'm the first one ... XD

how about you? You post a blog on it but you leave no clues to what kind of procrastinator you are =S

11/12/2006 9:31 PM  
Blogger Jeff said...

Hmmm, I'm prolly a bit of both but leaning more to the 2nd type

11/12/2006 10:26 PM  
Blogger Pete said...

There has to be other types, I am neither...

Something about a need to be working, having nothing much actually needing doing, and ending up just wasting vast amounts of time on the net, because of limited social outlets when they have massive amounts of time.


(Not relaxed, but definately not tense afraid)

11/12/2006 11:41 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

jeff mate, maybe u r still procrastinating on what type u r..? =P

and is 'youtubing' fast becoming the next internet-speak catchword just like 'googling' was a coupla yrs ago..?

11/12/2006 11:56 PM  
Blogger youna said...

lol
i think im both in different circumstances :)
i need to have a break sometimes but the break i take is too big compared to study/work.. then i feel guilty...
i can also be blinded by relaxation and forget about time and work .. and then stress later

11/14/2006 12:11 PM  

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