Analysis Of Inside The Mind Of A Master Procrastination

In the TED Talk, “Inside The Mind of a Master Procrastinator” by Tim Urban he enthusiastically explains the mind of a procrastinator and why we procrastinate. For this essay, the main topic is whether procrastinating is natural, if we naturally learn about procrastinating from other people or if it’s embedded in us from the start. I believe that procrastination is natural in a way that we learn about from watching other people and from ourselves. For example, when I first came to Arrowhead I wasn’t used to the teachers not accepting late work, I would sometimes turn in late work in middle school and this change made me even more “lazier” than before. Now let me say that those were probably the worst type of essays I have ever written in my entire life and being forced to do something that isn’t really fun makes me want to put it off even more. I learned to procrastinate from my friends that were around me, I would rather go home and play video games or show them funny videos of cats getting scared over cucumbers. See? Getting off topic again! There’s a reason as to how we procrastinate though and one of them is because we may not think that it’ll come out right so we give up, just …show more content…
I can see where they’re coming from because some people believe that it’s embedded in our genes. Something that we don’t learn but already do from the start, but then there’s evidence such as from Marano (2016) et. al, “Procrastinators are made not born. Procrastination is learned in the family milieu, but not directly.” There are some people that I know when I first came to Arrowhead that always focused prioritized their work first rather than anything else. Maybe they grew up differently than me and that’s how they’ve become so focused on what’s important first rather than giving up. I used to be like that until things became harder, or is that just another excuse for me to