January 18, 2007

Why you procrastinate.
posted by HawthorneWingo 17 years ago
  • No, that's why YOU procrastinate. The reason I do is...well... I'm kinda busy right now, I'll post the reason tomorrow.
  • Why does it say? I don't have time to click the link right now...
  • I'll read it later.
  • His research contradicts one major theory, which is that procrastinators suffer from anxiety and so have a harder time facing a difficult task. Steel looked at the literature and found that statistically there's very little correlation between anxiety and a tendency to procrastinate. What he did find is that procrastinators are less confident that they can handle a given task. OK, so HOW is that different from anxiety?
  • Gotta say that I always did better on school projects/reports that I did the night before than those I began well in advance.
  • Huh? The more confident I am in my ability to do something the less likely I am to do it nooowww, when there's other things to be done.
  • What LordSludge said. Nunia too.
  • Oh, those beer mugs look so heavy. I'll pass. *snore*
  • I'm with the Sludger.
  • I'd stick some bass porn in, but I procrastinate on that too. Too slack to practice.
  • what suits you doesn't suit me your shoes are not my size I cannot follow in your steps or those of other guys procrastination's not my thing I have no common sense of time and the damn thing's always on the wing so how could I count the seconds and stay well-versed in rhyme? anyhow I just prioritize and does the things I have to reckon are best suited to a fool like I'm
  • Pleggy, you meant to link to Monkeyfilter - right?
  • HWingo internal monologue: "Cool link, thanks Plegmund! Oh, look, there's an online tool here that'll assess my procrastination level! Lemme bookmark that and come back to it some other time." Pathetic.
  • From Pleg's link (results of my test): Your score is 50 out of a possible 100 Moderate Procrastinator You rank in the middle 50% in terms of procrastination. That is, when it comes to putting things off, you do so at times even though you know you shouldn’t. Likely, you are about average in conscientiousness and self discipline. I couldn't bear the entire seven minutes of the reaction time test. I caved in after four!
  • There are legit reasons to procrastinate -- oftentimes, by the time you get around to doing the task, either it's no longer necessary, somebody else has already done it, or the requirements have changed so that any effort would have been wasted anyhow. For example, Wolof could have posted some bass porn, but by putting it off somebody else did it. Just call me your enabler.
  • You're my enabler.
  • Well, OK, Mofi is why I do it. There, what else did you want to hear? *adjusts pajamas, hits F5*
  • Excellent. Now go forth and be slack!
  • Steel combined hyperbolic discounting with a theory of motivation called expectancy theory, and came up with something he calls temporal motivational theory (TMT). It boils down to this: Utility = E x V / Gamma D Utility is the desirability of getting something done. E is expectancy, or confidence. V is the value of the job, and includes not only its importance but also its unpleasantness. Gamma stands for how prone a person is to delay doing things. And D means delay, or how far away the consequences of doing, or not doing, the task are. Ha! See, it's all math! I am math, you are math, we are all math.
  • *locks, loads*
  • My gamma is HUGE!
  • I still cant see it.
  • I don't procrastinate. The Roman Catholic Church says it's wonrg.
  • Which is why I procrastinate, Skriksters. And I do it wearing my birth-control tee-shirt.
  • I'm really afraid to envision a birth-control tee-shirt.
  • AW, HELL. Is it too late for me to comment in this thread?
  • Dude, I tried to call you...
  • I'm really afraid to envision a birth-control tee-shirt. This one is about as close as you'll get.
  • I have a birth control T-shirt from these folks. But I'm not smokin' in it like Skrik's li'l hottie there.
  • And I do it wearing my birth-control tee-shirt. How do you get the stains out?
  • I use your toothbrush.
  • But, that's not my toothbrush! It's the dogs!! *blinks at RTD*
  • So, you think batting your eyes at me will pull me into this thread? I don't think so.
  • *blinks at nunia* mission accomplished