This Is What Procrastination and Precrastination Mean

This is what procrastination means?

Procrastination is a part of our lives , now every time we work or indulged in something we tend to leave things or sometimes abandon things by dealing with them .Procrastination is too much into our lives that many a times we leave Your task for later and don't even know that they are been procrastinated.

As the effect of procrastination is at a high verge that we have started considering it as a force that averts you from doing something you have thought to do.

Can we consider procrastination as a mental illness?

Many people delay things so much that they are unable to complete their important daily task. They do have a strong inclination towards their work but feel they can not do so.

But all these thoughts and our habits are not permanent and cannot be considered as mental illness or any disorder and can be prevented in some very easy ways.

Minimize distractions

Reinforce yourself

Do not be too hard on yourself on the basis of your past.

Fix Targets everyday, and try your best to do more on self upliftment.

But this does not mean that you should do your task as soon as possible because then it will be called as precrastination and it can be unhealthy as well.

Understanding Precrastination

It is a tendency to complete the work very hastily even the unimportant work. This can be co-related with patience; basically lack of patience. Some very common examples of precrastination can be traced from daily lives as well, like- cleaning utensils as soon as they get dirty or responding to work before the deadline and people tend to do these only for getting the work done.

But What do you think is rare? No it is not an uncommon phenomenon, It is a desire to keep a check on the things, so that it does not trouble us later. This can be directly associated with a psychological term anxiety. Just to stop making ourselves anxious we precrastinate.

Precrastination - Positive or a Negative Trait

It may seem that precrastination is a positive trait but as soon as it will go out of control, it has an aptness to become negative. So, to understand the effect; in 2014 an experiment was conducted at Pennsylvania State University by psychologist David Rosenbaum.

In his study he asked college students to carry a bucket to the finishing line in the easiest way possible. The students were given two options- either to carry the bucket placed halfway down the path. Or to carry the bucket that was farthest from them, towards the finishing line.

What was observed was that most participants chose the former to save themselves from assiduity. In short they chose to work harder than work smart, and this is what happens when we precrastinate things.

Making out an Inference

Both these terms precrastination and procrastination comes from people who have traits of finding shortcuts and who are highly energized, people who are eager to be pleased.

Being pressured or stressed can affect people in very different ways like for some stress may help them reach their highest potential and for someone else it may give a decline in hardship.

Written By - Vanshu Verma