Graduation season is here again, and how many students have been putting off writing their thesis for several months before hurriedly writing it before the defense.
A tutor said to a student who had put off his graduation thesis for a long time without writing a word: "Don't worry about how bad the paper you write will be, just write it to the worst standard. Maybe you will have unexpected gains. "
The student followed the instructor's method, and the paper he thought was the worst turned out to be very satisfying.
Procrastination is a behavior that many people try their best to eliminate, but they cannot find an effective way to overcome procrastination.
Porridge Zorro said in "Learning to Write": "Writers all have procrastination. The reason why they suffer from procrastination is because they just want to stop writing. The best way to treat procrastination in writing is to write the first sentence and write When you write the first sentence, there will be the first paragraph, and when you write the first paragraph, there will be the second paragraph. "
His solution to writer's procrastination is not to wait.
Because writing ideas are inherently divergent and fragmented, it is impossible to complete the creation in your mind first, so you cannot think clearly before writing, because you simply cannot think clearly.
Each of us has a tendency to be perfectionist to some extent, and we all want to do things well and be impeccable. However, if we pursue perfection too much, some problems may arise.
A perfectionist, when he needs to do something difficult, he will feel that he must be fully prepared before doing it, and consider all aspects carefully before doing it.
To do something, you must have a good start, a good process and a good result are the most perfect.
This pursuit of perfection makes us wait for a state of "everything is ready" when we first do something, hoping to find the right time, right place, and right people, so that once we take action, the matter can be solved perfectly.
But in fact, there is no such thing as a state where everything is ready. Therefore, when a perfectionist does anything, he will feel that something is missing, and constantly choose not to start, and procrastination begins.
Procrastination is the normal state of human beings. Cases abound in ancient and modern times at home and abroad.
Scholar Qian Hetan of the late Ming Dynasty once wrote a song about tomorrow: "Tomorrow comes tomorrow, there are so many tomorrows. I live to wait for tomorrow, everything will be in vain. If the world is tired of tomorrow, spring will pass and autumn will come, and old age will come. Chao Watch the water flow eastward, watch the sun fall in the west. How long will it take for a hundred years to come? Please listen to my song of tomorrow. "
The original intention of this poem is to tell people to know how to seize today's time and finish today's things. If you keep looking forward to tomorrow, time will be wasted in waiting.
It seems now that Qian Hetan is also suffering from procrastination.
The literal translation of the Latin word "procrastination" is "to put off until tomorrow."
to After the industrial revolution , "procrastination" is usually regarded as a trait or behavioral tendency to avoid performing tasks or making decisions by delaying it. It is a self-impeding and dysfunctional behavior.
Darwin has been researching the origin of species for more than 20 years, but he has not started to organize his results. It was not until the young Wallace showed his paper to Darwin that he discovered that others had already achieved the same results. With the same success, he hurriedly started writing "The Origin of Species".
For us ordinary people, procrastination also appears in real life all the time.
Sometimes procrastination is due to the fear of making mistakes.
When we make up our minds to do something, we worry about making mistakes. The best way not to make mistakes is not to do it.
We will give ourselves this kind of inner comfort: The reason why I did not complete this thing is not because I am not capable, just because I did not do it.
It turns out that the reason for procrastination is that I cannot accept the fact that my abilities are limited.
But in fact, everyone’s abilities are limited, and it is impossible to handle everything flawlessly.
If you feel that you can do anything, but you underestimate yourself when you encounter difficult things, and think that once you start doing it, problems will definitely occur, you will start to be cautious.
Don't start, wait and see, it is an escape in this ambivalent state of mind.
On the surface, procrastination does not face much pressure, and taking a step back can alleviate psychological conflicts.
But in fact, procrastination brings more psychological torture and offsets our happiness.
Leonardo da Vinci was a perfectionist, which made his creation speed very slow. It took him four years to paint " Mona Lisa " and three years to paint " The Last Supper ". It seriously affected his relationships with clients at the time.
Before his death, he left only about 20 paintings that have been handed down to people, and more are his unfinished manuscripts and the genius ideas hidden in the manuscripts. These have become Leonardo da Vinci, and even all mankind. regret.
When facing procrastination, the most important thing is to start doing it. There is no need to wait until everything is ready, that state does not exist at all. Whatever you do, now is the best time to start.
For a writer, writing is a dynamic process. We can only think clearly during the writing process. If we don't write, we don't know what problems we will encounter during the writing process.
There are no perfect people and no perfect things in the world. We don’t have to ask ourselves to be perfect either. In the face of procrastination, lower your standards and start doing it. You will find that the development of things is not in line with your prediction.
On the surface, procrastination does not face much pressure, and taking a step back can alleviate psychological conflicts.
But in fact, procrastination brings more psychological torture and offsets our happiness.
Leonardo da Vinci was a perfectionist, which made his creation speed very slow. It took him four years to paint " Mona Lisa " and three years to paint " The Last Supper ". It seriously affected his relationships with clients at the time.
Before his death, he left only about 20 paintings that have been handed down to people, and more are his unfinished manuscripts and the genius ideas hidden in the manuscripts. These have become Leonardo da Vinci, and even all mankind. regret.
When facing procrastination, the most important thing is to start doing it. There is no need to wait until everything is ready, that state does not exist at all. Whatever you do, now is the best time to start.
For a writer, writing is a dynamic process. We can only think clearly during the writing process. If we don't write, we don't know what problems we will encounter during the writing process.
There are no perfect people and no perfect things in the world. We don’t have to ask ourselves to be perfect either. In the face of procrastination, lower your standards and start doing it. You will find that the development of things is not in line with your prediction.
