Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Pocrastination?

My girlfriend is working on her undergrad for education. She wants to teach. More specifically, she wants to teach history or science to middle-schoolers (subject subject to change). She was telling me about an article that she had read about learning habits, which I have beside me and will read in a few. Additionally, she mentioned that her teacher had asked the class about procrastination. Who was guilty of it and who was not. It turns out that studies have shown that procrastinators have a tendency towards perfection. They say that you put things off because you do not have the addequate time to get them done correctly in one sitting. Pretty neat, but that is not why I chose to write on the matter.

What has happened to me and the good old days of being a procrastinator? I used to view myself as the few, the proud, the procrastinator. I would claim that my best work came when I was stressed out and under sever time constraints. The validity of this is highly debatable and is probably false if put under a microscope. In fact, I had the troubling woe that I would go full-tilt in this program for about two weeks, but inevitably go back to my old ways. But I have not, can not, and will not. Nowadays, I never have to ask myself, "what in the world is my classmate talking about." I have already read it too! Wait a minute, am I turning into an adult here...

On a more serious note, I try not to let myself be proud of improvements that I have made too often However, this is a great sign. This realization may actually confirm that this is my true passion. Of course there are times when I go, "ugh, 15 minutes is over. I had better pick the book back up." I do pick the text up, and to me there is not another option. I love having minor epiphanies. Well, at least positive ones. 

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