What kind of procrastinator are you?
This is post 8 of my series: Inside the Mind of a Procrastinator.
There’s more than one flavour of procrastination. People procrastinate for different reasons. Dr. Ferrari identifies three basic types of procrastinators:
- arousal types, or thrill-seekers, who wait to the last minute for the euphoric rush.
- avoiders, who may be avoiding fear of failure or even fear of success, but in either case are very concerned with what others think of them; they would rather have others think they lack effort than ability.
- decisional procrastinators, who cannot make a decision. Not making a decision absolves procrastinators of responsibility for the outcome of events. —Psychology Today
I’ve procrastinated for any number of reasons, the above three included:
- being butt-lazy, just didn’t want to exert myself. Something not important enough to interfere with my television watching.
- wanting control, unhappy with the person in charge, feeling I should have been the boss, so give procrastination a kind of passive-aggressive twist.
- just to be irritating, a variation on the previous reason. I’m annoyed at being asked to complete a task, so I take it out on the person responsible by procrastinating.
- not being able to say no. Having a tendency to want to please, even when my schedule is full.
There are likely as many reasons or variations on reasons as there are procrastinators. You need to be able to identify the source(s) of your procrastination before you can begin to address the problem.
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Nice. One of the most common type of of procrastinators would be avoiders. I think it’s common to most students to study the night before the exam because they are afraid of forgetting what they have studied if they did it earlier.