Procrastination

Hmmmmmm! I have to get back to you on that one. OK?

I know it's hard. Don't try to stress your brain over it though.

so the problem is keeping yourself motivated. i happen to hav the same problem too, i resolve by not thinking too hard. It's like not eating a whole piece of chocolate at once even though you know it's there. just nibble bit by bit and your interest can last you a long time. See, if you have enough time, you can write a lot. Also, my cousin writes stories by having a bunch of her friends write like 1 page a day each so that you can have 5 pages a day x 7 days = 35 pages...Hooray, a novel in a month without working hard at all!

If you don't think you have enough motivation then perhaps you know deep down that you don't really like that stuff.

1 other thing: find someone to look up to: if you follow someone else's footsteps then you know that you can continue on easily and you won't give up. For example, I love to play soccer and if you ask any of my classmates how much I have improved, they'll say a crap load! This is because I look up to the varsity captain and practice hard in the street in front of my house for hours. I never stopped and say that i lost interest or anything. If you have an author that you know that writes novels too, then just see how the person does it and follow their way.

Hope this helps ^^

Hello Community,

One source of procrastination is the planning fallacy, where we underestimate the time required to analyze research. Many students devote weeks to gathering research for a term paper, but are unable to finish writing it because they have left insufficient time for subsequent stages of the assignment. Similarly, students know better than anyone whether or not an assignment or task is feasible. Many students believe in the common method of cramming when studying for an exam or writing up a research paper in one sitting rather than spacing everything out. Despite the stress, lack of sleep, and inefficiency involved, students become trapped into a perpetual mode of procrastination. Student syndrome refers to the phenomenon where a student will only begin to fully apply themselves to a task immediately before a deadline. This negates the usefulness of any buffers built into individual task duration estimates. Study results indicate that many students are aware of procrastination and accordingly set costly binding deadlines long before the date for which the task is due. Furthermore, these self-imposed binding deadlines are correlated with a better performance than without binding deadlines, though performance is best for evenly-spaced external binding deadlines. Finally, students have difficulties optimally setting self-imposed deadlines, with results suggesting a lack of spacing before the date at which tasks are due.

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David Weekley