What is your definition of busy? Is being busy a good thing or bad thing? There are many definitions of busy floating around however, the Webster definition of busy is “actively doing something, and full of activity”. Tim Kreider, a cartoonist and essayist, redefines the term being busy. Tim Kreider states “life is too short to be busy” (384). Currently I’m a 19-year-old college student and I enjoy being busy, because I am developing myself in learning with every college course I take. I feel life is too short, not to be busy. This is my time to obtain my college education as well as work and maintain friendships before I gain additional responsibilities, such as having a family and achieving the career I desire. I feel being busy is important for this chapter of my life. Everyone has …show more content…
I agree with Kreider’s overall view on how people use the word busy too often. The type of people who say they are busy may or may not have it as bad as some people do. What I do not agree with is Tim’s personal view on how “life is too short to be busy”. With the accomplishments Kreider has made over his years he led a life that got him where he is today and he can now take in his free time that he has earned. I feel Kreider’s personal view on how life is too short to be busy could put the wrong impression on the younger generation who has not yet experience the adult work field. As a student I feel I am not obligated to make that decision as I am trying to build a path so I can reach my future career. My days are busy, consumed with school, homework, and a job. I do choose to be busy so that I will be able to support myself no matter where life takes me. Kreider explains how he wants to be able to spend time with the people he loves, how can Kreider do that if he was never busy doing school work or attending college to get a degree for
Many Bible loving people might be offended because “be fruitful” was written in Genesis prior to “the fall” of Adam, meaning that people believe that God created work for enjoyment but it was “the fall” of our first parents that caused the want for food and basic necessities. The entire argument should be removed in consciousness of the audience. I would have liked for Kreider to recognize that some people feel at their best when they are productive and busy and to note that the tug-o-war between what wants or needs may actually not be a tug-o-war for all people. Busy people squeeze in time to laugh amidst activity or nature walks during lunch or a time to create after dinner that is equally refreshing for them as well as the luxury that he had to write at an “Undisclosed Location.” People fill their life with the want to give back by volunteering or giving of themselves in some type of compacity, which can be more rewarding than “idleness.” Even the overscheduled children Kreider spoke of could be volunteering while learning critical life skills, making them less likely to engage in at-risk behaviors and live a balanced
Tugend goes over the impact of interruptions on work. She states that it takes a long time to get refocused after an interruption. Tugend notes that work gets done quicker when a person endures interruptions, but the work quality suffers greatly because of the increase in stress. She states that while other people are interruptions, the biggest interruption is ourselves (Tugend 717). Along with that, human attention spans are decreasing making interruption much more likely to happen. The time people spend on an activity before switching is not enough to really get into it (Tugend 717).
Kreider has made some bold conclusions or outcomes with little evidence to support other than his opinion. I think he is stereotyping groups of people and sharing his opinion of their definition of busy and others who read this article may feel the same way. A example of him committing this fallacy is when he he says “Even children are busy now, scheduled down to the half-hour with classes and extra-curricular activities. They come home at the end of the day as tired as grown ups” (Krieder, 983). This commits the hasty generalization fallacy because thats his point of view and only his. Also, what he said about the children being busy all the time makes me wonder where is he getting that information from and why doesn’t he provide any outside information supporting what he said. An opportunity could be to change some of the words on his opinion to ensure that it is allowing others to think about this population who think they are too busy and allow the reader to think about his own life to determine if they are victim to this scenario. I don’t think it allows others to think about it when it reads as if Kreider is an experts and what he is saying is the
A schedule of a student becomes very tight as they need to balance everything out in all ways they can. For example, this year due to me taking a College Now class I have needed to compromise my entire schedule, donating another hour of my life into school. Through the past years of high school my classes started at 8:00 AM, however, now my classes start at 7:00 AM. Along with this class I have regents based classes which I manage such as Physics, English, and U.S. History, yet I take Pre-Calc this year. As a student, I always hear other students around the school complaining about the amount of work they have to do, however, they don’t realize that this work is what leads to their future success. For me complaining is not a valid excuse, as I certainly believe that there should be a deadline for everything because we can manage everything as long as we are determined. A person like me, who receives an assignment, which may be due in the next two weeks will manage their time out and complete it in the next two days, thinking that what if I have more things to do. Throughout all the school years that I have attended, there has not been one assignment that I didn’t complete or didn’t hand it in on time. Where I come from and the teachings of my parents, have taught me that family time and family are two significant parts of your life, which no matter what happens
I feel that Tim Kreider made it very easy for any reader to really put themselves into the writing. I realized as I read it I was able to think of moments in my own life, and how I often say I am busy with work or school, and that I don’t have time for this or that. But in reality I do have time, I just choose to do other stuff with that time, and call myself busy. However, I feel society has put into people's heads that we need certain things in order to be successful in societal views. For example the highest paying job, the highest school degree, the best house or car, etc. With this in mind I feel like people have lost the true meaning of life. In addition Kreider says how being busy is usually because of our own ambition, and I truly feel that is true. Life is no longer how it once was; just hanging out with friends and family, or having a nice dinner with no phones or electronics. It’s now working with over packed schedules to achieve what society has implemented to us. In Laura McClellan's article, The Ability to Multitask Isn't All It's Cracked Up to Be, she points out that, "Overstuffed schedules and overlong to-do lists mean many people live those "lives of quiet desperation" where at any given time we are trying to do several things at once". With so much to do and such little time, people become desperate and try to multiple
...to be up and about, doing things” (BMS, “The Mechanic” par.6). I cannot think of a situation where I have nothing to do because I am always keeping or trying to keep myself active.
Be able to know that you are a procrastinator in order to be helped. Have a commitment to yourself to get things done and making a to do list can help. Also, creating reminders through the day to help with what’s needed to get done. Write some of your goals so you can accomplish them. Having someone you can tell your goals, and how you plan to accomplish them is also good help. They can push you into making your goals. In order for you not to be distracted from social media you can use tools such as Rescue Time, Self-Control, and Focus to block those web sites while you do your work. Having an understanding of why you procrastinate will help you beat it. It will allow you to choose
Procrastination is a common problem with students. Students wait closer and closer to the due date to complete an assignment. Procrastinating is something that everyone has done at one point in his or her lives. All students such as elementary students, middle school students, high school students, and college students procrastinate. Students have many reasons why they seem to procrastinate. The reasons for procrastinating are simple such as students being too lazy to complete their work. Procrastination is a problem because students may not get their work done in time. The students’ work may not also be as well accomplished as it would be if they complete it before the due date. Simple solutions such as staying focused, setting goals and priorities,
Samuel corrects this outcome in her article by explaining, “Whether it’s an overflowing inbox, a backlog of unread articles or a Twitter feed that moves faster than we can read, most of us are suffering from an information overload.” By having multiple programs open at once, such as a web browser, word processor, and email application, people are overloading themselves with too much information, and are therefore less efficient. Richtel explains how multitasking has been scientifically proven to be less efficient by stating, “While many people say multitasking makes them more productive, research shows otherwise. Heavy multitaskers actually have more trouble focusing and shutting down irrelevant information, scientists say, and they cause more stress.” By only selecting one task at a time to complete, one can stop the information overload causing the loss of focus and the ability to let go of useless figures and programs. However, a loss of focus is not only the consequence of multitasking. A disorder, or as Sam Horn describes it, “. . . a distinctive type of brain organization,” called ADHD causes odd behaviors such as restlessness in children and impatience in adults (Restak 413-414). Restak describes ADHD’s involvement in the workplace by stating, “In order to be successful in today’s workplace you have to incorporate some elements of ADD/ADHD” (416). Multitasking has made the behaviors stated above normal in the workplace, but the symptoms from ADHD or ADD can be limited by reserving a person’s attention to one matter at a time. Though working on only one task at a time may seem less efficient at first, having to switch between programs could cause a loss of focus due to the many distractions such programs could bring
Is procrastination natural? In other words, is procrastination genetically or biologically inherited? There are two definitions or ways people define procrastination that includes “the practice of carrying out less urgent tasks in preference to more urgent ones, or doing more pleasurable things in place of less pleasurable ones, and thus putting off impending tasks to a later time. In order for a behavior to be classified as procrastination: it must be counterproductive, needless, and delaying” (Schraw, 2007) and “similarly, it is ‘to voluntarily delay an intended course of action despite expecting to be worse off for the delay’“(Steel, 2007). From these two definitions of procrastination, it is hinting that individuals have the choice to delay something due to how they feel about it, which leads to psychology holding a firm stance on the reason to why individuals tend to procrastinate. Furthermore, procrastination is not natural but instead, tends to be developed psychologically by
“in all of these non-deadline situations, the Panic Monster doesn't show up. He has nothing to wake up for, so the effects of procrastination, they're not contained; they just extend outward forever.” (Urban, 2016, par. 34) What he is saying is that people who have a deadline to meet have to deal with the anxiety, fear, public embarrassment, or other uncomfortable emotions compared to those who do not have a deadline won’t feel these emotions until they know it’s too late. The examples he gives are, “…like seeing your family or exercising and taking care of your health, working on your relationship or getting out of a relationship that isn’t working.” (Urban, 2016, par. 33) All of this can be compared to what teens have to deal
The behavior I would like to modify is the level of my procrastination. Procrastination was the first thing that came to my mind as something that I wanted to try to change. I push majority of the things I have to do until the day before it is due, making excuses and thinking to myself that it can wait and does not have to be done now, or there are important things to do or that think to myself that I can do something else at the time. My goal is to eliminate or decrease the level of procrastinating.
Among the stressed college students, the busy teachers, and the common people in the workforce, one question stands to be asked and asked again; is procrastination natural? Is that why it comes so easily to most people? It goes without saying that millions of people have stood awake in their beds at night contemplating if the habits that come with procrastination are normal. Another question that is likely to follow, is are they worse than average? Can anyone else in the entirety of the world relate to them? The fact that other people may be going through the same thing is reassuring to them.
How can procrastination lead to students getting bad grades? Procrastination can lead to getting bad grades in any of one’s classes. Procrastination is not only a problem, but a problem that needs to be resolved. One used to procrastinate so much to where one’s grades would began to fall. The more one kept procrastinating, the more one’s grades would continue to fall. Procrastination is not a good thing to play with. There are solutions that can help prevent students from procrastinating.
I'll Think Of A Title Tomorrow. Staying up until the late hours of the night, scurrying to finish the assignment due by sunrise. Cursing everyone, and their mothers, for not having enough time to complete the work necessary. Trucking through the assignment without a single iota of care or sense of quality control. These symptoms all fall under one diagnosis: procrastination.