Do you consider procrastination to be lazy?

[Chiropteran]

I do. If you procrastinate, you are putting off something that could be done right now, and instead doing it later. Isn't that pretty much the definition of being lazy?

I even take things a step further. "Planning" is really just another word for "procrastinating". A plan is just procrastination in an orderly format. So I am never going to plan anything. Each day, I'll do what I do and if I want to do something I'll do it right away, no more of this useless "planning" where you procrastinate doing something a number of hours, days, or weeks.

 

[newnameman]

Yes.

 

[S Freud]

I think it a sub category of being lazy.



EDIT: That's the second OP I've warped. According to this I posted before the thread was created.

 

[SonnyDaze]

Let me think about this and plan out my answer. I'll get back to this thread later.


Edit: Ah!!! I had an answer but then started doing something that I had been putting off and now I have forgotten the answer I came up with.

 

[Kalmah]

What if you are 'procrastinating' by cleaning the house to avoid doing something else? They you aren't being lazy, since you are cleaning the house.

 

[Chiropteran]

Originally posted by: SonnyDaze
Let me think about this and plan out my answer. I'll get back to this thread later.

Lazy!

 

[Chiropteran]

Originally posted by: S Freud
I think it a sub category of being lazy.



EDIT: That's the second OP I've warped. According to this I posted before the thread was created.

This is the most anti-lazy you can possibly be. It's the opposite of procrastination- you posted BEFORE you decided to do it.

 

[xanis]

Procrastination doesn't mean that you're lazy... it just means that you work better on a deadline.

 

[Perknose]

Originally posted by: Chiropteran

Originally posted by: S Freud
That's the second OP I've warped. According to this I posted before the thread was created.

This is the most anti-lazy you can possibly be. It's the opposite of procrastination-

Anticrastination!

 

[zinfamous]

Originally posted by: Chiropteran
I do. If you procrastinate, you are putting off something that could be done right now, and instead doing it later. Isn't that pretty much the definition of being lazy?

I even take things a step further. "Planning" is really just another word for "procrastinating". A plan is just procrastination in an orderly format. So I am never going to plan anything. Each day, I'll do what I do and if I want to do something I'll do it right away, no more of this useless "planning" where you procrastinate doing something a number of hours, days, or weeks.

Good thing then, that GW, Cheney, and Rummy didn't procrastinate and waste all that time "planning" before they dragged us all into Iraq.

Straight shooters, them fellas.

 

[Farang]

Originally posted by: Chiropteran
I do. If you procrastinate, you are putting off something that could be done right now, and instead doing it later. Isn't that pretty much the definition of being lazy?

I even take things a step further. "Planning" is really just another word for "procrastinating". A plan is just procrastination in an orderly format. So I am never going to plan anything. Each day, I'll do what I do and if I want to do something I'll do it right away, no more of this useless "planning" where you procrastinate doing something a number of hours, days, or weeks.

Planning is a part of work--organization. Procrastination promotes effective time usage--instead of doing work when you may not be most efficient, you do it while in a state of mind that provides high efficiency. Since time moves in only one direction, that means every answer of when is the effective time usage will always be in the future.

 

[SpunkyJones]

Originally posted by: newnameman
Yes.

This.

 

[Jeff7]

Originally posted by: Farang
Planning is a part of work--organization. Procrastination promotes effective time usage--instead of doing work when you may not be most efficient, you do it while in a state of mind that provides high efficiency. Since time moves in only one direction, that means every answer of when is the effective time usage will always be in the future.

Interesting...they say that time is that which keeps everything from happening at once.
However, if you continue on that slope of continually pushing off actions until a time when you will be more efficient, that could be useful. Procrastination strives to condense all unpleasant events into a temporal singularity, thus getting them all done at the same "time."

Procrastinators are trying to rescue the entire timeline from tedium. Stop daring to call their noble work "lazy!"

 

[her209]

Am I procrastinating if I don't pay a bill off that isn't due for another 3 weeks?

 

[Red Squirrel]

I'll have to think about an answer to that question. I'll edit this post tomorrow.

 

[Mr Smiley]

y

 

[911paramedic]

Not if you get the work done. You just used a different time line to accomplish a same task.

Lazy people just never, or don't, want to finish a task.

 

[yhelothar]

Not necessarily. There are a lot of reasons people procrastinate. Yes there's laziness(aka lack of motivation), but a few other reasons include perfectionism(causes one to overthink and overplan without acting), ADD/ADHD. The latter is often put in the laziness category too. However ADD people rely on procrastination to get the stimulants they need to focus. Your body's sympathetic effect parallels any ADD medication.

 

[mrrman]

YES>>>>its avoiding the issue or the task to be done

 

[hans030390]

Originally posted by: Chiropteran
I do. If you procrastinate, you are putting off something that could be done right now, and instead doing it later. Isn't that pretty much the definition of being lazy?
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What about what you're doing WHILE procrastinating? If you DIDN'T procrastinate, you'd be putting THAT off until another time when it could be done right now. :Q

 

[eplebnista]

Yes

 

[rh71]

I don't think it's the same thing. I'm not even close to being a lazy person in general but I will have 'projects' to do but decide to browse a couple websites to satisfy my need for a little bit more freedom before I dive in... so I feel like I've had my play time before my work time.

 

[dainthomas]

Everyone reading this thread is lazy, since they're putting off doing something productive.

 

[Fingolfin269]

I work better when my back is against the wall. Also just because you procrastinate on one thing doesn't mean you're doing nothing else. So, no.

 

[LS21]

i am the ultimate procrastinator. but i do get the shit done