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Procrastination

Alizta Marduama (K2220007)

Video Title: Why you procrastinate even when it feels bad

Date: 4 November 2022

  1. What is being discussed in the video? Explain your answer.
    The video discussed about why we still procrastinate even we know that it is bad for us. From the video I found that people who procrastinate are not always lazy people. Procrastination is the result of our bodies trying to protect us by avoiding a task we see as threatening. Laziness is marked by no energy and general apathy for example sitting around and doing nothing. People procrastinate because they care too much and they have a high fear of failure, putting things odd because they are afraid that the result of their work is not the same as their standards. Besides, I found that procrastinating can temporarily reduce our stress levels because reinforcing it as a bodily response for coping with stressful tasks.
  2. What is the speaker’s main purpose? Explain your answer.
    The main purpose of the speaker is to inform the viewer about procrastination related to the reason why we procrastinate and give some tips on how to overcome procrastination.
  3. How trustworthy is this video? Who is the speaker? What is the source? Do you think the source and the speaker are trustworthy?
    The speaker and the video are from TED-Ed channel youtube and I think the speaker and the source are not really trustworthy because even it is from the well-known channel that is TED-Ed, they do not mention the sources or research to support their statement.
  4. What the speaker’s attitude or tone towards the subject? Does he/she seem to agree or disagree with it? Explain your answer.
    The speaker tend to disagree that procrastination is a bad thing because he mentioned that by procrastinating, it can help us to reduce our stress level.
  5. Does the speaker put forward valid or strong arguments? How does he/she support the key points? Explain your answer.
    Yes, the speaker put strong argument, he also mentioned the finding of research related to procrastination, but he just mentioned generally, not mention the spesific or the sources of the research he have mentioned.
  6. Explain how this article will help contribute to your larger group project.
    This video will help contribute to my project because it reveals what actually procrastination is and it helps me to have a better understanding of procrastination

Video Title: The reason you procrastinate (It’s not what you think)

Date: 11 November 2022

  1. What is being discussed in the video? Explain your answer.
    Procrastination is a form of relieving stress.When we already have a lot of burdens then we get an assignment, we feel like the task is stressful and seems like we need a break. Procrastination is taking a little break from our work. The research says that procrastination is not the issue, but it’s the stress that is the issue. We procrastinate to give ourselves a little break. Procrastinating is a habit, we get triggered by stress so the habit is to procrastinate. We need to forgive ourselves for being stressed and procrastinating and we also need to push ourselves to start the work.
  2. What is the speaker’s main purpose? Explain your answer.
    The main purpose of the main speaker is to inform the audience about some facts of procrastination. Besides, she also give some suggestions about how we should feel when we procrastinate.
  3. How trustworthy is this video? Who is the speaker? What is the source? Do you think the source and the speaker are trustworthy?
    The speaker is Mel Robbins. She is an American lawyer, television host, author, and motivational speaker. She is trustworthy because she is interested in this topic and she try to find the research regarding to this topic that is procrastination.
  4. What the speaker’s attitude or tone towards the subject? Does he/she seem to agree or disagree with it? Explain your answer.
    She disagrees about the stigma that there is no good in procrastinating because she figures out the problem of procrastination. Turns out, the problem is the stress, not the procrastinating.
  5. Does the speaker put forward valid or strong arguments? How does he/she support the key points? Explain your answer.
    The speaker gives a strong argument to support the key point by giving a statement from the research that reveals facts about procrastination.
  6. Explain how this article will help contribute to your larger group project.
    I was wondering why procrastinating can reduce stress level, so I search an article about it and I find in solvingprocrastination.com. It said that procrastinating to reduce the stress often means that the procrastinator is really only postponing that stress, and is actually just “borrowing” temporary peace of mind, which their future self has to pay back with interest in the long term. DIfferent when someone is fine with postponing things indefinitely, or until the deadlines for those things pass and they no longer need to be done; this can allow the procrastinator to reduce the total stress that they feel, but can cause other serious issues, such as a continuous failure to achieve goals.

Video Title: 5 Types of Procrastination and How to Stop

Date: 18 November 2022

  1. What is being discussed in the video? Explain your answer.
    The video discussed the types of procrastination. They are: 1. Procrastination by fear Procrastinators fear the outcomes of their actions as well as the process of them reaching the outcomes, so they end up avoiding any type of decision whatsoever. 2. Procrastination by regret In this kind of procrastination, people regret their past decisions and believe there’s no point in doing something. In other words, they think it’s too late to start and care about it. 3. Procrastination by lack of energy Person feels too tired all the time to do his/her assignment 4. Procrastination by confusion People do not know where to start, how to tackle the problem, or don’t know what kind of way we should use to complete the task or do not have an action plan 5. Procrastination by apathy Person who doesn’t care at all about the work.
  2. What is the speaker’s main purpose? Explain your answer.
    The main purpose of the speaker is to inform about the types of procrastination.
  3. How trustworthy is this video? Who is the speaker? What is the source? Do you think the source and the speaker are trustworthy?
    Mariana is a youtube content creator, the founder and manager of Mariana’s Study Corner – a small community of people focused on studying, learning and self-development. This video is pretty not trustworthy since it doesn’t mention the source of what speaker said, but I try to find in the article and there are many types of procrastination. The types that mentioned in the video also appear in the article that I have found.
  4. What the speaker’s attitude or tone towards the subject? Does he/she seem to agree or disagree with it? Explain your answer.
    She seems to have a negative opinion of procrastination as the types of procrastination she mentioned there were no kind of positive types of procrastination. Besides, the description of the video written that procrastinating is a negative habit which means she has insight that she agree that procrastination is a bad thing.
  5. Does the speaker put forward valid or strong arguments? How does he/she support the key points? Explain your answer.
    I think she is not putting forward a strong argument because she is just mentioning the types of procrastination without giving the references.
  6. Explain how this article will help contribute to your larger group project.
    This video will help me in my project because now I know that procrastination is not only procrastination. It has some types depending on where it comes from.

Video Title: Procrastination is the key to problem solving

Date: 25 November 2022

  1. What is being discussed in the video? Explain your answer.
    Procrastination is actually important to creativity. It is not an enemy of success and achievement because when we want to be more innovative, we need to spend more time indulging in productive procrastination. Productive procrastination is about using procrastination wisely as a tool that can get us better results if we’ve got a problem to solve or a creative task to do. enable the person to be more flexible, innovative, and agile than staying fixed on a more conservative linear path. When we put off doing something, we feel guilty, and that guilt makes sure the tasks stays on our mind which activates the supersonic jigsaw puzzle. This puzzle process happens in our brains at supersonic speed. Everything we see, hear, and read becomes a potential piece of that jigsaw. then it turns into a piece that we looking for to fill our puzzle. I thinks it is like looking for inspiration and find something that relate to our problems of our work or assignment. In the back of our minds were rapidly examine every little piece, turning them around and trying to find some common shapes or themes that might fit our puzzle some pieces might be thrown away as irrelevant others might be set aside in case they fit a part of the puzzle somehow until at last, we find a crucial piece and once that piece slots into our puzzle all of a sudden we start the entire picture in the perform of a new idea or a strategy or maybe just the perfect turn of phrase and from there all the pieces of our supersonic jigsaw puzzle start to come together. supersonic jigsaw puzzle makes our works have a great/better results as we finish it til the last minute of deadline. There are two types of procrastinators: 1. Accidental procrastinators they come up with incredibly creative solutions. they take a time to find something (such as information) to help them build the ideas. 2. Deliberate procrastinator In this modern world, some companies provide environments to encourage productive procrastination through games. How to activate a supersonic jigsaw puzzle: – Put off procrastinating for a little while (make a small start) – Distract yourself (watching ted talks, cleaning, playing games) – Have firm deadlines to achieve a goals.
  2. What is the speaker’s main purpose? Explain your answer.
    The main purpose of the speaker is to inform about the positivity of procrastination.
  3. How trustworthy is this video? Who is the speaker? What is the source? Do you think the source and the speaker are trustworthy?
    The video is trustworthy as she mentions that she is interested in neuroscience and she has spent her time researching her favourite topic. Andrea Jackson is well-known as an American journalist, anchor, and reporter.
  4. What the speaker’s attitude or tone towards the subject? Does he/she seem to agree or disagree with it? Explain your answer.
    She disagrees that procrastination is bad for us. She believes that procrastination can be good for us because when we have a lot of tasks we can take a little while time to think, gain information, or search for inspiration to complete the task.
  5. Does the speaker put forward valid or strong arguments? How does he/she support the key points? Explain your answer.
    Yes, she put forward strong arguments as she also learns from neurologists and gives examples in real life about productive procrastination.
  6. Explain how this article will help contribute to your larger group project.
    This video will help contribute to my project because it shows a new fact that procrastination has benefits and it gives me a new insight into procrastination.

Video Title: Jordan Peterson on how to deal with PROCRASTINATION

Date: 2 December 2022

  1. What is being discussed in the video? Explain your answer.
    The point of the video is procrastination can be an obstacle for us to get a bright future because weare just have fun and not sacrifying our lives. If we want to stop procrastinating, we need to ask ourselves what we want to achieve in the future, then detail those things, and if we want to achieve them we also have to sacrifice in our lives including not gratifying /pleasing ourselves.
  2. What is the speaker’s main purpose? Explain your answer.
    The speaker’s main purpose is to persuade the audience to deal with procrastination
  3. How trustworthy is this video? Who is the speaker? What is the source? Do you think the source and the speaker are trustworthy?
    Jordan Bernt Peterson is a Canadian media personality, clinical psychologist, author, and professor emeritus at the University of Toronto. The video can be trusted because he is a psychologist and procrastination can be studied in psychology because it is related to the human brain, emotions, and so on.
  4. What the speaker’s attitude or tone towards the subject? Does he/she seem to agree or disagree with it? Explain your answer.
    He seems like disagree with procrastination because he mentions that gratification and procrastination are obstacles for him to aiming his goals.
  5. Does the speaker put forward valid or strong arguments? How does he/she support the key points? Explain your answer.
    Yes, he is putting a strong argument by providing his personal experience and what he knows as a psychologist.
  6. Explain how this article will help contribute to your larger group project.
    This video will help contribute to my project because it presents another insight into procrastination from other speakers, which gives me another insight.