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I stumbled across this interesting article (german) on spon, while reading the blog of Alex Draude a fellow artist of the daf-community. It’s about procrastination and how it affects your entire life. Until I read it I thought that it is totaly normal to procrastinate actions to a later date, I always wondered how someone could start doing something shortly aufter they got the task to do so, that seemed kind of weird to me.
So this article truely gave me a reality check. I noticed the fact, that I am not just procrastinating the unpleasant and annoying actions, but also actions I actually like and that are important to me, like drawing, coding, sewing or some other activity I like to do. So instead of doing this stuff, I am throwing my time away by checking some forums for new posts every 5 minutes or by doing other trivial stuff, though they wont run away some hours later. It almost makes me think of being addicted …

There are also two major procrastination types listed: the arousal procrastinator assures, that for him it is only possible to do something and be creative, when he feels the pressure and the avoidance procrastinator who is afraid of not being able to do the task in perfect quality, so he starts late to be able to affirm, that the time was to short to do so.
I would tell, that I’m mainly an arousal procrastinator, but I couldn’t deny, that there is also a fraction of an avoidance procrastinator inside of me.
This is nothing to be proud of, I guess, so I want to fight it. And I started right after I was finished reading the article. I opened the task for the bioinformatics homework and started coding it, though I couldn’t find some easy to understand informations on the net … but it actually was fun to think on and code an algorithm for local sequencealignment, I plan to post some algorithms in the near future.

Hope this fighting will continue … here some informations on procrastination on wikipedia, if you are interested in …