This is not a good skill to have - Page 2

smoothmoniker · 10-16-2008, 12:35 AM

clear your schedule, cancel other things, go to a nearby coffee shop, and devour it. I read it 4 times in 3 days.

Tulip · 10-16-2008, 01:49 AM

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Originally Posted by Bullitt

I am a terrible procrastinator. I mean so bad that I will wait until the night before staying up till 4am to get 3 papers written for classes the next day. The icing on the cake, is that I'm great at it. I've done this once already this semester, and received high marks and praising comments on said papers from the professors. A's all around, "excellent, good point, strong argument, etc". I need to quit this habit but I can't when I'm so frickin good at it. Ugh.

/rant

No I'm not on 30 mg Adderall daily anymore. I'm free-ballin baby.

wow...cool on the great grades. I was wondering, how long have you been doing this and still get good grades? I used to do that when I was still in school. Grades were okay for 2 semesters. Then my body couldn't take staying up late anymore, so the grades dropped. So, yeah, procrastinating is baaaaaaaaaaad.

Ibby · 10-16-2008, 05:13 AM

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Originally Posted by Sundae Girl

It possibly killed Douglas Adams.

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Originally Posted by Douglas Adams

I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make when they go by.

monster · 10-16-2008, 06:52 AM

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Originally Posted by smoothmoniker

clear your schedule, cancel other things, go to a nearby coffee shop, and devour it. I read it 4 times in 3 days.

I guess I should have added a

I like running this way, why would I cancel a life I enjoy to read a book that "will change" the life I enjoy?

I think I'd rather have my toenails yanked out by a rabid dog. No offence.

Self help books are for when it stops working for you.

Perry Winkle · 10-16-2008, 08:22 AM

I'm a world class procrastinator myself. I've found I can feel the same "almost sexual" release after completing each task instead feeling it by putting those tasks off.

smoothmoniker · 10-16-2008, 10:43 AM

That's fine - if you're still enjoying it.

My creativity, my productivity, AND my enjoyment of life shot up when I quit floating by on sheer brainpower and last minute rushes, and started pacing my life and confronting resistance and procrastination.

Now, those extra gaps that used to be filled up with procrastination are filled up with new projects, new clients, and more music. That's a good thing, for me.

kerosene · 10-16-2008, 01:08 PM

Bullitt I use to do the same thing in college...got good grades, when I did, too. Then I quit college thinking I could just wait until later to do that, too.

glatt · 10-16-2008, 01:15 PM

Trouble for me with procrastinating is that a lot of my assignments have no deadlines. Which means you don't know how long you can get away with putting stuff off. Then one day somebody asks for the work and you haven't done it. That sucks. You slap it together at that point, and even if you do a good job, they know you slapped it together. Bad habit.

TheMercenary · 10-16-2008, 02:10 PM

I am a master-procastinator as well. It got me some awesome grades in college both times times I went.

10-16-2008, 12:35 AM	#16
smoothmoniker to live and die in LA Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Los Angeles Posts: 2,090	clear your schedule, cancel other things, go to a nearby coffee shop, and devour it. I read it 4 times in 3 days. __________________ to live and die in LA

10-16-2008, 10:43 AM	#21
smoothmoniker to live and die in LA Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Los Angeles Posts: 2,090	That's fine - if you're still enjoying it. My creativity, my productivity, AND my enjoyment of life shot up when I quit floating by on sheer brainpower and last minute rushes, and started pacing my life and confronting resistance and procrastination. Now, those extra gaps that used to be filled up with procrastination are filled up with new projects, new clients, and more music. That's a good thing, for me. __________________ to live and die in LA

10-16-2008, 02:10 PM	#24
TheMercenary “Hypocrisy: prejudice with a halo” Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Savannah, Georgia Posts: 21,393	I am a master-procastinator as well. It got me some awesome grades in college both times times I went. __________________ Anyone but the this most fuked up President in History in 2012!

10-16-2008, 08:22 AM	#20
Perry Winkle Esnohplad Semaj Ton Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: A little south of sanity Posts: 2,259	I'm a world class procrastinator myself. I've found I can feel the same "almost sexual" release after completing each task instead feeling it by putting those tasks off.

10-16-2008, 01:08 PM	#22
kerosene Touring the facilities Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: The plains of Colorado Posts: 3,476	Bullitt I use to do the same thing in college...got good grades, when I did, too. Then I quit college thinking I could just wait until later to do that, too.

10-16-2008, 01:15 PM	#23
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	Trouble for me with procrastinating is that a lot of my assignments have no deadlines. Which means you don't know how long you can get away with putting stuff off. Then one day somebody asks for the work and you haven't done it. That sucks. You slap it together at that point, and even if you do a good job, they know you slapped it together. Bad habit.

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