Procrastination Is Natural Essay
Is procrastination natural? Procrastination cannot be considered natural, because natural can be
define as something that people have become use to doing in their everyday live. In his recent Ted
Talk, Inside the Mind of a Master Procrastinator, Tim Urban, states that everybody is a
procrastinator, and honestly, I disagree with his idea. Not everybody is a procrastinator.
In the article, What we finally got around to learning at procrastination research conference , by
Heather Murphy, she states that at least one out five people are procrastinators. (Murphy, 2017) In
making this comment, Murphy (2017) argues his audience to believe that not everyone can be
considered to be a procrastinator. Now considering that one out five people are procrastinators in
their live, can there be any side effects to procrastination? Been a procrastinator can have side
effects, for example anxiety, stress, and tension. Personally, I believe that students go more
through this side effects because they are always being bombarded with due dates before the
semester has even started. As reported by, Erin Ben Moche from the Chicago Tribune
newspaper, Teens report that their stress level during the school year far exceeds what they
believe to be healthy (5.8 versus 3.9 on a 10 point scale) and tops adults average reported stress
levels (5.8 for teens versus 5.1 for adults) (Erin Ben Moche, 2017, par.3) In other words, Erin
believes that teen students stress more than adults because of school. As a student, I personally
haven t dealt with this kind of high stress, but in the other hand, I met teenagers who have dealt
with this kind of stress during mid terms
In the Ted Talk by Tim Urban, he touches the topic of anxiety and stress. He goes on by saying
that guilt, dread, anxiety, and self hatred can be a dark playground when people are doing last
minute paperwork or assignments. (Urban, 2016) Like I stated in the beginning of my essay,
procrastination is not something that everyone does, procrastination is more like a decision
someone decides to take when they are been lazy. According to Adam Grant s article, Why I
thought myself to procrastinate, For years, I believed that anything worth doing was worth doing
early. In
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