Overcome procrastination and passiveness
In China, people show high respect to men of knowledge and going to schools is regarded as a main way to achieve success,so parents from peasants to scholars all attach much importance to children’s education. Much as all of us yearn for high grades, poor habits often fail some students.As far as I’m concerned ,procrastination and passiveness are among the most serious habits and some measures must be taken to tackle them. First of all,procrastination is a common phenomenon , especially in university.According to a survey conducted by psychological experts in Hunan Normal University, 95% students are inclined to put off tasks and the number of students who often delay study even accounts for 70%.That’s really astonishing.Due to procrastination, the time to complete tasks is not sufficient so that we have to hurriedly finish papers without careful consideration, or even download information needed directly on the Internet.It’s not surprising that those papers are in low quality.After all,more haste,less speed.What’s more,new knowledge cann’t be taken in or put into practice in time ,even may be forgotten as time slips by. Passiveness can also contribute to bad performance in academic study.Compared to western education,Chinese students heavily depend on teachers.A class sometimes is just like a lecture where teacher picks
out the important points and students take notes,let alone raise questions.Besides, merely 20% students will preview and review lessons and most students simply do the compulsory homework.Unable to mark out necessary parts, we have to write down each detail and can’t make full use of classes. In addition, a class just lasts 45 minutes ,which is so short that teachers give a brief account.If we are passive and simply absorb lessons in classes,what we learn is too super-facial and narrow to perform well. There are some methods to deal with those poor habits. Firstly, Gold Coins, a way to manage time, will be a helper. You use gold coins to represent the hours that you plan to use for study.An hour represents two coins and record what you are doing at that time by Excel.Before sleeping, you need to color the tables red if you waste this time and green if not. Looking at the diagrams, you can clearly recognize how much time do you dissipate.Just as Peter.F Drucker, a management specialist writes in Effective
Excutive:“The
greatest
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self-management;self-management starts from time management; time management starts form the recording and analyzing the time.”I believe Gold Coins will be an practical approach to address procrastination and it will change you gradually. When green prevail, a sense of achievement will appear. Moreover, please stay away form distraction while study,for example computers, magazines.When you are not certain that you can
restrain yourselves ,the best way is to keep distractions out of your sights. To correct passive study, the pivotal part is to find your goals .Aims are to people what heads to flies, like lanterns that illuminate ways and help us avert getting lost.People ascribe the situation that student squander valuable school life, to some degree to the lack of targets. Without aims, students simply meet teachers’ basic requirements and follow teachers’ space.However, cherishing goals, we will actively make great efforts to achieve them, for there are goals, there are motivations. As the saying goes, interest is the best teacher,on the one hand ,we should do something interesting to develop our interests. For an English major,you can watch wonderful movies and enjoy music so as to arouse you interests.On the other hand, teachers can employ various methods ,such as showing pictures ,offering music to attract students’ attention, .
In a nut shell,getting high scores isn’t a pushover and we must get rid of procrastination and passiveness.Time management of Gold Coins, keeping away from distractions, along with finding targets and developing interest may not guarantee the success,but the pay-off will be worth of the efforts.
