Meet my cousin Martin. His parents and teachers think he is lazy and unambitious as he ____ to make decisions and waits until the last minute to complete a ____. In fact, Martin is a typical procrastinator. According ____ psychologists, whenever we face a new task or have to make ____ our minds, we experience the unpleasant feelings of stress, fear and ____. Procrastination, the mechanism of delaying things, is used to ____ these negative emotions. It is said that procrastination happens to people with low ____ who tend to act impulsively. They look at a task and find ____ not to deal with it here and now. Frequently, they either decide the task is too small to ____ their time on or, on the contrary, find it too big to control and ____ up on it in fear. Scientists ____ there are two kinds of procrastinators. My cousin is the relaxed type who ____ taking responsibility and ____ puts all his energy into enjoyable tasks. He won’t ____ his homework, but he will definitely find time to meet his friends. Because Martin is always doing something ____, everyone thinks he never worries. In fact, my cousin is afraid to ____ difficult situations or make important decisions, so he avoids them. Paradoxically, the more Martin procrastinates, the more ____ and stressed out he becomes. He also ____ feeling guilty about delaying things. His girlfriend Eva, on ____ other hand, is the tense-afraid type who can ____ manage her time nor emotions. As a perfectionist, she lives ____ pressure. Eva thinks she doesn’t have enough time to complete her work ____, so she promises herself to relax first: ‘I’d better take it easy now and start working tomorrow morning.’ She keeps ____ unrealistic plans, and when the time runs ____, she panics and feels guilty. Eva gets depressed when she looks ____ people who are ____ and confident in achieving their goals. Strangely enough, she also gets very critical ____ other procrastinators and doesn’t approve of those who don’t ____ deadlines or avoid responsibility. It’s one of the reasons why she has no social life and often feels lonely. A recent ____ shows that about three-quarters of college students in the US consider ____ procrastinators. There is even a special form of procrastination typical of students ____ as student syndrome. Haven’t you ____ started to prepare for an exam just at the last possible moment before the ____, anxious and stressed out? Haven’t you asked teachers to ____ tests to a later date hoping you will have more time to prepare? Even ____ the test happens a week later, there will be so many new tasks to do at the same time that you will be ____ too stressed or too busy to prepare better for the test. The techniques known as student syndrome, just like other procrastination mechanisms, won’t be the ____ to your problems.

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