CHAPTER I: Valuable Lesson
I learned valuable lesson today: do not leave something that needs to be done until the very deadline time.
I passed my G2 test! Yahoo!!!
However, I waited with the test for so long that today was my last chance to pass it. I drove to the examination center with already invalid driving license. My license expired two month ago. If I would have failed today's road test I could wave bye-bye to my car for the next one or two, or three months. It would mean that I would be stuck in this city of ours without a car for the whole winter. Do you hear me? -- For the entire winter, entire CANADIAN WINTER!!! The very thought scares the be-jesus out of me. Those who have hiked with me during cold times know how much I dislike (a tremendous understatement) chilling winds and the temperatures below negative twenty Celsius.
Who can answer me, why do we, humans, procrastinate? What drives us to perform this self-damaging behavior? I read books... I read some psychology books... Psychology doesn't know. Psychology deals with human errors. They (psychologists) told me, they can help me, but they told me they lack theories to explain to me why I act the way I act. They still partially rely on the great theoretician, Freud. Forget psychology. I read some cognitive science books. Now, CS guys (not computer science geeks), do ask themselves why this and that happens. They do have theories about why I procrastinate. They asked me questions. They told me at the end that it must be because I'm punishing myself for the lost love that was deported and to stay on this coast had to marry some fat dude and find refuge in Cuba. I refuse to believe it. But, heck, who knows may be for once those CS guys are right? (Screw them anyway!) Can anybody answer me, why humans procrastinate?
I passed my G2 test! Yahoo!!!
However, I waited with the test for so long that today was my last chance to pass it. I drove to the examination center with already invalid driving license. My license expired two month ago. If I would have failed today's road test I could wave bye-bye to my car for the next one or two, or three months. It would mean that I would be stuck in this city of ours without a car for the whole winter. Do you hear me? -- For the entire winter, entire CANADIAN WINTER!!! The very thought scares the be-jesus out of me. Those who have hiked with me during cold times know how much I dislike (a tremendous understatement) chilling winds and the temperatures below negative twenty Celsius.
Who can answer me, why do we, humans, procrastinate? What drives us to perform this self-damaging behavior? I read books... I read some psychology books... Psychology doesn't know. Psychology deals with human errors. They (psychologists) told me, they can help me, but they told me they lack theories to explain to me why I act the way I act. They still partially rely on the great theoretician, Freud. Forget psychology. I read some cognitive science books. Now, CS guys (not computer science geeks), do ask themselves why this and that happens. They do have theories about why I procrastinate. They asked me questions. They told me at the end that it must be because I'm punishing myself for the lost love that was deported and to stay on this coast had to marry some fat dude and find refuge in Cuba. I refuse to believe it. But, heck, who knows may be for once those CS guys are right? (Screw them anyway!) Can anybody answer me, why humans procrastinate?