Next, evaluate the arguments on the “Point” and “Counterpoint” pages using the critical reading and thinking skills you have learned in this class so far. Answer the following questions:
What is the issue these two authors are debating?
Summarize each author’s argument in your own words.
Does one author “win” the argument, in your opinion? Why or why not?
Does one author achieve better clarity of argument and/or clarity of expression than the other? Why or why not?
In your evaluation of these arguments, what barriers to critical thinking do you think you have encountered? Explain.
Use quotations from the articles as evidence for your answers. Every time you use a quote from the article, put quotes around it and then the author’s name and date in parenthesis after the quote, “like this” (Smith, 2021).
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NEW AWARENESS ON PROCRASTINATION 2 Running Head: NEW AWARENESS ON PROCRASTINATION 1
NEW AWARENESS ON PROCRASTINATION 2
Running Head: NEW AWARENESS ON PROCRASTINATION 1
New Awareness on Procrastination
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New Awareness on Procrastination
I have long thought that procrastination and laziness was the same thing only to realize that even the most diligent people were not safe from it. I had viewed procrastination as a time management problem when in actual sense, it is more than that. While in school, I noticed that there are assignments that I would do as soon as they were issued. Those assignments belonged to subjects that I really liked. On the other hand, there were assignments which I could keep postponing attending to until the last minute. Assignments that were victims of procrastination had to do with subjects I did not prefer. Procrastination is a love issue not a time management problem.
There are things that everybody does every day. Some things are done out duty and as part of the routine, on the other hand, there are things that we do daily because we enjoy them. Mostly, what we enjoy doing we end up calling hobbies. Hobbies vary from person to person depending on their preference. For instance, reading may be someone’s hobby but a grueling task to another person. One person may love listening to lectures while another completely loathes them.
I have never found myself postponing hobbies; in fact, I look forward to the next time I will do them. I love music a lot; to me, it is not just a subject but also a hobby. People say that music is difficult and demanding but a keen observation will show you that whatever we do not love we find difficult and demanding. When we are given music assignments, some students will delay doing them until the deadline day. The same students are not so sluggish when it comes to other subjects that they are interested in more than music.
When we love a thing there is always a passion that motivates us to do it; even when our schedules are so tight we find ourselves creating time for it. I do not enjoy every subject in class. I find that I always postpone reading and working on assignments of subjects I do not like. Everybody by nature will tend to do something that makes him or her happy. Only the things we love can make us happy or we can know how much we love something by how much it makes us happy. A person will rarely postpone doing something that makes them happy.
Before I came to this realization, I thought that procrastination was laziness in expression. Now I understand that procrastination is not a measure of diligence but of slothfulness. Slothfulness is not laziness; it is doing things without a passion because you do not love them. If men loved what they do, adjournment would be a very rare phenomenon. As long as institutions and culture keep forcing people to do things they do not love, procrastination will be by no means cured.
Finally, we need to reconsider our stand about procrastination. If you think you are a chronic procrastinator look at the things you do consistently in your life. You will notice that there are things you attend to without delay, in most cases those are things you love. If you could build your life more on things you like you would not be a bad procrastinator as you think you are. Procrastination goes deeper than poor time management. It is an issue of love, passion, and interest.