18 May 2011

General Law of Procrastination

First, define procrastination as
"... the act of replacing high-priority actions with tasks of low-priority, and thus putting off important tasks to a later time."
General Law of Procrastination consists of five of the following proposition:

Proposition 1
"Productivity under procrastination is exponential with limit equal to infinity at time t = deadline time."
Proposition 2
"Marginal utility of being procrastinate reached its maximum at time t = deadline."
Proposition 3
"Procrastination is positively related with subject difficulty: the more difficult the subject is, the more procrastinate you are."

Proposition 4
"Procrastination is efficient as it pushed thinking capacity at its maximum allowed level as time t approached deadline."
Proposition 5
"Procrastination has hidden yet highly potential cost as the threshold of thinking capacity is thought to be fragile. Thus excess procrastination has the potential of making people stressed, deprive of spirit, lethargy, and in some rare cases, craziness."

2 comments:

Dharendra said...

Below is the note from Pak Haryo Aswicahyono (CSIS):

Newton's First Law of Graduation

Through famous for his seminal work in Mechanics, Isaac Newton theories on the prediction of a doctoral graduation formulated while still a grad student at Cambridge remain his most important contribution to academia:

1st Law: "A grad student in procrastination tends to stay in procrastination unless an external force is applied to it"

This postulate is known as the "Law of Inertia" and was originally discovered experimentally by Galileo four years before Newton was born when he threatened to cut his grad student's funding. This resulted in quickening of the student's research progress.

Galileo's observation were later perfected by Descrates through the application of "Weekly Meeting"

Before Galileo's time, it was wrongfully thought that grad students would rest only as long as no work required of them and that in the absence of external forces, they would graduate by themselves

Source: http://www.phdcomics.com/
Kindly find it on: http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=182555642702

alhayat said...

Procrastination diakibatkan karena APBN belum cair, jd lebih baik blogwalking :P ..... Nice post Bro