How Can I Overcome Procrastination and Improve My Work Ethic?

[gimpy]

I stopped slacking off when i found something i liked doing. When i entered university i started studying computers, which i totally love to study. I'm also taking mathematics and physics courses as electives. I know that sounds crazy but it interests me and i study it a lot more that some crappy other course like business that would totally bore the hell out of me.

Just find something you like to do and stick with it and your slacker habits will die.

 

[Vosh]

The problem is schools don't work the way human beings work. Growth and learning and the inspiration to seek is a human trait. School is a jobs creation program. In life, you are drawn naturally to those things that interest you (why would you gravitate towards something that did not interest you!?). When this happens, you go after it in a manner that naturally leads to growth. School is a place where this doesn't happen; in school you have to force it. You may find a class that most closely matches your natural inclinations, but even the classroom structure isn't based on how humans work, so you still have to *force it* at times. The thing to remember is that schools weren't invented as a result of someone thinking about growth and learning and how to enhance it or create it or whatever. There is no scientific theory of learning; never mind one that schooling rests on for its validity. School is just a way to preempt normal childhood development in order to extend childhood into the teens, twenties and thirties. Immature and bored people are the best consumers! College is a way to further separate management from the riff raff and a way to create jobs for administration types.

So you either have to force it (which can drive you mad in a number of ways; some of which go unnoticed by most but which is evidenced in the absurd, slap hand to forehead, world we live in) or quit school and go after what interests you as directly as possible (which more ppl. do than you might have heard -- including scientists!)

Prepare for indignance...