My plan when rereading this is to plan ahead and not wait until the last minute. When I wait to the last minute I feel I don’t fully understand the text or grasp on to what’s being stated because I’m rushing to finish.
Also I find reading is easier when I’m listening to calming music so I’ll get a playlist ready for this text and future text I’ll receive in college

After reading Later by James Surowiecki it made me analyze myself even deeper. And knowing for sure I’m a huge procrastinator, which is a huge step in fixing it just by acknowledging it’s a problem for yourself. Writing this paper late is a prime  example of me being a procrastinator. Surowiecki talks about how a person knows they have to get something important done but tend to but their time into something that’s more pleasing or fun. He explains part of being a procrastinator is “ignorance”, which leads to an idea Surowiecki connected “planning fallacy” is what human being may do. We may think everything will be fine and slack off what needs to be done , but have no clue in the future that may lead you to more lost time to finish whatever needed to be done. Students & my self tend to section assignments that would be easier to finish and put the assignments thats “harder” for later. Overthinking correlates to procrastination that we may think an assignment may be done wrong and with this thought you might not want to do it at all. Me personally when an assignment that i felt was to time consuming i would push it back until I really feel motivated to do it. Now in college I know no one is going to hold your hand or stay on top of you o make sure you do your work ; like I mean your paying for school you got to stay locked in or it’ll be a waste of money. Surowiecki added this phrase from a philosopher Mark Kingswell “ Procrastinators most often arises from a sense that there is to much to do, and hence no single aspect of the to-do worth doing” this is such a true statement and feel like I have to break out of this mindset.

The article “Later.” It was an excellent essay to read. I like the part where he said you are fighting with different versions of yourself. I think I procrastinate a lot, leading me to stay up late at night to do my work and wake up tired. There was a table on the Amazon list for my construction drawing class for me to do my construction drawings. I didn’t buy it and kept saying I would, but I still have yet to. So last week I stayed at school to do my work till nine-thirty to ten o’clock so that I could do my job.
I would do my work but get distracted, so I decided to put a show on the paper. That way, I would only be focused on those two things. I would do my work slowly, but I would get serious once I realized it was about eight o’clock. I went home, and it was the weekend. I only had to put the words in because I did all the drawings, but I never got to do it. I told myself I would stay and do it Monday, but something came up. Tuesday came, and we were on a new lesson, and I was still trying to put in the words. She was getting ready to leave, and I still wasn’t done so I asked her should I turn it in and she said that I only would be getting seventy point’s because I have things missing or I could turn it in one week and lose ten points I decided to turn it in next week. I could have done it in the one hour and thirty minutes when she was there, but I still procrastinated. I stayed till ten and finished it; I’m on Project Four this week because I decided to stay Tuesday and Wednesday to get over with it, and I chose not to do what I did last week. The article says that procrastinating will be a repeating cycle. I want to stop that. Because I stayed those two days, I didn’t get time to work on this assignment, but I read it while on my way to school, and I’m now turning it in 35 minutes before it’s due. After reading that, I would like to listen to what he said, and I think I can change one essay at a time.