Procrastination: Is Your Future Self Getting a Bad Deal? The Response

The essential message that the author (Timothy A Pychyl) is trying to say is that procrastination is burdening you in the future. The explanation behind why we do this is that we, as humans, think that we will have something that we didn’t have the first time we thought to attempt this. An example of this is energy. She also links the reason to empathy. As human beings, Timothy P. says that we need empathy, not just for yourself, but for the people you interact with.

I personally think that this is a great understanding of the action of procrastination. It is also a very different way of looking at it. This document states that the fallacy of we have something more tomorrow is just that, a fallacy. This fallacy is because it is counteracted by the fact that you will have new roadblocks the next day. So, in theory, it is better to take action sooner than later. This concept that most people should take through their daily lives.

Week 6 Comments

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Ellen R: Elvis

Esports

I love video games. This is a fact, and nobody could ever change how I feel about this. I play some sports. I am an avid baseball player. There is something called Esports that combines these two passions into one love. Esports is basically video games as a sport. While some people would argue that video games aren’t a sport, they are so just don’t argue it. A video must become a sport and not all video games are made the same. The game must have Esports potential.

For a game to have the potential to be an Esport it must have a few things, it should require some team based mechanics and have a level of coordination, and it also must have a meta. I understand "meta" is a word that most people do not understand. That is understandable. A meta is what works in the game at what time in the game's life cycle. Now that we have that out of the way, I can give an example. Overwatch is a prominent example of these criteria. It has a meta and it requires a high degree of skill and coordination of you and your team. I would like to have some friends that would feel the same way I do about Esports and want to have an interest in this sport. I have a grand time in video games and they are always more fun with a competitive team.

Weekly Reading

The House of Hades has kicked up nicely. We have a conundrum of people being in two places at once. I  like the way Rick Riordan integrates the different scenes. I love the scenes he puts in my head as well. He describes his scenes in a very vivid fashion. It is very much like the short stories we read in class and at home.

I also have an appreciation for his character building skills as well. I can tell that he puts a lot of time in his characters. I honestly think that he spends hours upon hours on characters. The other thing that is cool is the fact that multiple characters in multiple different places. It is like a very delicate tango. You must calculate your steps it must flow freely and be precise. The fact is that is hard to do and I must applaud Mr. Riordan for this feat in his novel.