You are allotted a task or you allot it to someone else, you become lax and wait for the deadline to mount on your head like that Japanese movie in which the protagonist is haunted by a female ghost sitting on his head(shutter if my memory serves right) and then you wait some more after pleading for some more hours , with excuses as obvious as ; the grandparents coming over. Some innapropriate number of days later, you present your hush-hush work to be evaluated.You and the team are fully aware that even you would scratch your fingernails if asked to judge it on a regular afternoon. The Deadline is more of like a gunshot that actually triggers the race rather than ending it.
Procrastination has been imbibed into the core of the humanity from the beginning of the rationale thought. It was considered just natural to wait for the right time to act. Even in the Aesop fables were seen the "Hare-tortoise" tale criticizing procrastination. But the fact that in real life many more players come into the fold apart from the Hares and Tortoises make the transition into the analogy more complex. Today we can't just classify people into fast or slow. There are people who take their time and shell out pristine work. So what does someone who is to make a call , do?
Well the answers may be more trivial than we thought. Instead of giving a wide berth , the whole period might be constrained into smaller deadlines for completing portions of the assignment. We all have practiced it while dieting. Instead of eating a whole lot in a single sitting ; the dietitian often advises us to have small portions at regular intervals which will keep the metabolism in check and be more beneficial than fasting or going all green suddenly. That way the subjects might not feel the as much pressure and be a bit more motivated than when a mountain load of stuff is dropped on them from wilderness.
Procrastination has been imbibed into the core of the humanity from the beginning of the rationale thought. It was considered just natural to wait for the right time to act. Even in the Aesop fables were seen the "Hare-tortoise" tale criticizing procrastination. But the fact that in real life many more players come into the fold apart from the Hares and Tortoises make the transition into the analogy more complex. Today we can't just classify people into fast or slow. There are people who take their time and shell out pristine work. So what does someone who is to make a call , do?
Well the answers may be more trivial than we thought. Instead of giving a wide berth , the whole period might be constrained into smaller deadlines for completing portions of the assignment. We all have practiced it while dieting. Instead of eating a whole lot in a single sitting ; the dietitian often advises us to have small portions at regular intervals which will keep the metabolism in check and be more beneficial than fasting or going all green suddenly. That way the subjects might not feel the as much pressure and be a bit more motivated than when a mountain load of stuff is dropped on them from wilderness.