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As I sit here trying to write an essay on Laughter within Literature I find myself bored and my mind wandering. Of course the biggest procrastination addiction is NSG. Which leads me to ask this question:

Why do we procrastinate? We know we'll feel better once we finish that essay/book/drawing/bear fight. So why do we do it NSG? Why?!

Poll Coming

because it feels good.

i too am procrastinating studying for two exams. :p

I would be an excellent procrastinator, but I can't quite be bothered right now...

I just finished an essay (on cognitive processes in relation to pitch perception in music), so am about to eat a lovely chocolate doughnut with some tea as a reward (despite me writing it in the 24 hours before it was due, but meh, that's normal).

As I sit here trying to write an essay on Laughter within Literature I find myself bored and my mind wandering. Of course the biggest procrastination addiction is NSG. Which leads me to ask this question:

Why do we procrastinate? We know we'll feel better once we finish that essay/book/drawing/bear fight. So why do we do it NSG? Why?!

Poll Coming


Lazyness, lack of will power, bordem?

As I sit here trying to write an essay on Laughter within Literature I find myself bored and my mind wandering. Of course the biggest procrastination addiction is NSG. Which leads me to ask this question:

Why do we procrastinate? We know we'll feel better once we finish that essay/book/drawing/bear fight. So why do we do it NSG? Why?!

Poll Coming

Laziness. There's other stuff we'd rather be doing.

Anxiety. We're afraid that we won't do a good job, so we put it off.

Lack of Anxiety. As you say, we'll feel better once it's done, but the anxiety tends to build as the job remains undone. A certain amount of anxiety helps some people focus. This was always the big one for me. I would sit down to write a paper 2-3 weeks before it was due, and wouldn't be able to write a word. Sometimes I'd make two or three false starts. Then the night before it was due I'd bang out 10 pages, turn it in the next day and get an A. That isn't really procrastination, because I was trying early. But eventually experience taught me that I wouldn't get anything done staring at a computer 2 weeks before the paper was due, so why bother? Do the reading early, then get anxious and pull an adrenaline fueled all-nighter (not to mention wine and non-drowsy cold medicine fueled.

Why do we procrastinate? We know we'll feel better once we finish that essay/book/drawing/bear fight. So why do we do it NSG? Why?!

I'll tell you later. *nod*

Seeing as you would all rather be doing something other than what you are working on - can anyone tell me if you can see reflections in a mirror when wearing night-vision goggles. I had insomnia the other night because of this question.

I'll tell you later. *nod*

Okay wise master...

I've already given up on this essay. So many theorists to read about, so little time.

I plan on making a career out of procrastinating

The only problem is, is that I can never seem to get around to doing it

Procrastinators of the World Unite!...later...

If I'm on here, I should be writing. The problem with the internet is that it can turn procrastination into full blown distraction.

I think Domici has it about right. Lazy/anxious/unpressured.

When I was younger, I put off essays because I simply didn't care enough although I guess that's not really the same as the frustrating procrastination a lot of us experience as much as it is prioritisation.

Now, a missed deadline could have serious ramifications on my career so the anxiety is very much there but, even still, if that deadline seems on the horizon it's very tempting to deal with it later.

But you learn that dealing with it later doesn't achieve anything - all it does is make you have to do the work sans margin for error. Yes, that pressure arguably does make you work harder ("I work well under pressure") but that is a very dangerous mindset to get into because once you start thinking that way you've got one mother fucking self fulfilling prophecy on yo hands and once you need some of that margin of error, you're screwed.

Of course, one way to deal with it is to artificially create your own pressure to work under. Por ejemplo, after I'd finally managed to gather together a group of people to play soccer with I gave my wife the keys to my car three hours before I was meant to go out and play and told her not to give them to me unless I had written ten pages. It worked arguably too well as I produced fifteen pages and was half an hour late.

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Because procrastinating is easier. Like right now, I'm procrastinating finishing my separations homework.

I'm procrastinating on my bioinformatics essay. I like bioinformatics, I just don't like essays :)

As I sit here trying to write an essay on Laughter within Literature I find myself bored and my mind wandering.

what is there to say about laughter in literature?

did you pick this awful topic or was it assigned to you?

As I sit here trying to write an essay on Laughter within Literature I find myself bored and my mind wandering. Of course the biggest procrastination addiction is NSG. Which leads me to ask this question:

Why do we procrastinate? We know we'll feel better once we finish that essay/book/drawing/bear fight. So why do we do it NSG? Why?!

Poll Coming

Some of the best work ever done was done under pressure. By procrastinating you will actually kick into high gear at the end as time ticks down and prodcue a much better essay than you would if you plan and methodically produce one.

That's my story and I am sticking to it. Btw I got through college that way and pretty much through life. :p

what is there to say about laughter in literature?

did you pick this awful topic or was it assigned to you?

It was assigned *sigh*

Quite a lot to say, quite a few theorists to talk about:

Aristotle
Thomas Hobbes
Freud
Kant

to name a few.

What causes us to procrastinate
May also seem to emasculate
Internet porn
Since we were born
Makes work as hard as getting a date