Procrastination

I just talked with a friend and he gave me some great insight. He pointed out that procrastination can be an addiction. But it's not the act of procrastination persay that we are addicted to but the rush we seem to feel when we get stressed out when an assignment is due in 4 hours. When we get to the point where we think we are entitled to feel absolutely freaked out, that's when we set to work like we have never worked before. It's almost as if we see ourselves as heroes when we finish that long paper 15 minutes before it is due.

If that sounds like you then I have some advice (from a fellow procrastinator). Learn to congratulate yourself when you study early. This will reinforce to yourself that you are good because you work early. Rather than bragging to your friends when you finish a 10 page paper in 4 hours, try pointing out to yourself that you could have done a better job and could have saved yourself some stress if you had started earlier. And for those who think that they do their best work under pressure, well all I have to say is that, unless you're Mozart (who composed scores without a second draft), you won't get your work done right the first time.