I find this video entertaining and brilliant, and I plan on inflicting it on the freshmen in my academic mentoring discussion group in the fall. (Insert evil laugh here?) Officially, I'm supposed to discourage procrastination. (And this video has some great tips for reducing it.) But in real life, I think procrastination can be useful. Taking a break can lead to more creative thinking. I get some of my best ideas for my assignments when I'm avoiding them. (Which I sometimes do by doing research for other assignments. . .)
For me, the trick was acknowledging my procrastination habits and figuring out how to work with them. (In other words, I actually make time to chase rabbits and get off task.) I also know that, when I plan to cut assignments close, I'm playing with fire. A bazillion things could go wrong that I don't have time to fix: the printer might malfunction, I might misplace all my pencils, etc. But, because I work best by taking up all the time I have to work on something instead of finishing it super early, I regularly accept these risks.
How do you feel about procrastination? Is it worthless or potentially useful?
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I'm a procrastinator, but I'm the kind who procrastinates by working on something else. I tend to do my best work under pressure.
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