It’s About Time!: The Six Styles of Procrastination and How to Overcome Them<\/a> Dr. Linda Sapadin with Jack Maguire.<\/p>\nAs it says in the title, she breaks chronic, pervasive, and deeply-rooted procrastination into 6 styles: perfectionist, dreamer, worrier, defier, crisis-maker, and the overdoer. She provides a quiz so you can figure out which type or types are your personal style. The quiz focuses on the 6 types with 10 questions where you answer the questions with 1 of 3 possible choices: frequently, sometimes, and rarely or never. There\u2019s an easy formula for calculating your scores and where you get a score of 10 or more, this makes that type of procrastination a major style for you. When your score in a type is 9 or less, this is a minor style for you.<\/p>\n
Each type then gets a chapter with examples of people who\u2019ve struggled with this type of procrastination and why. She spends most of the chapter addressing 3 areas that will make a difference in changing this type of procrastination: changing how you think, changing how you speak, and changing how you act. For the changing how you think, she has a visualization for each of the 6 types.<\/p>\n
I took the quiz, twice, actually! I took it as I started the book, and scored 10 or above in 4 of the 6 procrastination styles. Later I was talking to various people about how I had read this book and how I scored high in several areas (a case when scoring high is not such a good thing!). I decided to retake the quiz, mostly just out of curiosity. That time my highest score was a 6 in one type. My conclusion is that the test is not statistically valid, since I could get wildly different scores and is a reflection of my own state of mind. (For those of you who don\u2019t know me, you might not realize that I have a self-critical nature. \u263a) It\u2019s completely plausible to me that I would get different results, and the truth is that my procrastination probably also ties in with my state of mind in the moment.<\/p>\n
I appreciate that she focuses on the idea of helping the reader to find ways that work for them \u2013 she\u2019s not implying that there\u2019s a \u201cright\u201d way to be, so she\u2019s \u201cinviting you to change from your personal path of avoidance \u2013 the BUT path\u2014to your personal path of resolution\u2014the AND path.\u201d The number of case studies, examples of others who\u2019ve struggled is varied and was easy for me to relate to the styles. People\u2019s behaviors vary greatly within each of the types of procrastination.<\/p>\n
The visualizations for each type of procrastination are interesting, and create some major repetition since the directions are included in each chapter. I\u2019ve never been one for visualizations, so this did not speak to me much. I could see how the visualizations could be helpful for people though.<\/p>\n
From what I can tell, from looking within myself, to working with various people, to friends and family \u2013 procrastination is a highly complex behavior. As a whole, breaking procrastination into 6 styles seems too limiting. There are too many other possible issues involved with why we procrastinate. Nevertheless, it\u2019s an interesting look at procrastination as it relates to our personality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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