Three Basic Types Of Procrastination

Have you ever started working on an essay or research paper and instead finding yourself looking at YouTube videos on how to tie your shoes with no hands? Well, you’re procrastinating. We’ve all been victims of this temptation to put off stuff until the last minute. Believe it or not, procrastination has become a serious problem over the years, not only in teens but kids and adults as well. Ideally there are three basic types of procrastination, there are the arousal types, the avoiders, and the decisional procrastinators (Marano). We will be looking at how these three different types of people use procrastination to their advantage and how it affects their social abilities, mental state, and physical health. Arousal types that like to procrastinate do it for the rush, they find the adrenaline of stress to be quite the motivator (Marano). These type of procrastinators use putting things off until the last possible minute to their advantage. We all know that one student that

They see more than what they need to, which means they have so many options to complete a task that they do not decide in time and end up panicking towards the due date. We sometimes see this as an avoidable procrastination due to the fact that we do know how to accomplish something, but the amount of options available are actually limiting our true potential. This type of procrastination doesn 't affect your sleep as much as the other two, but it does indeed decrease the quality of your work. The most common problem found with this is that the person is afraid of “commitment to a choice and loss of other choices,” (Pillay) which means that they are worried about following a certain way because they feel as if another method might turn out with a better outcome. It 's understandable, but sometimes this leads to anxiety and stress levels to rise which can be harmful to the human brain and