Procrastination and passivity

1-Procrastination

Procrastination affects schizoids in different levels.

According to the dictionary ‘to procrastinate’ means ‘to defer, to postpone’.

The phenomenon consists in the tendency to postpone the tasks that the individual has to accomplish often until the very moment in which the completion of the task becomes urgent.

Pessoa put it in these words: "Do not do today what you can leave until tomorrow.”

Trivial actions as sequencing the activities of the day; do the shopping, deal to tell someone something, go to some meeting, go for a walk, buy a newspaper or magazine, or even wake up in the morning! ...., anything can be questioned and the unmet ‘musts’ accumulate.

At the beginning of every action and every project there is an emotion.

The lack of emotion, characteristic of the schizoid, is the responsible of this apathy, of this passivity

of this lack of motivation to do so many things…

Any task means an over effort

The affected person will be usually without initiative.

Moreover he prefers that the people around him take decisions on his behalf.

The affected person resigns himself with what life brings him and doesn’t try to change his conditions:

that would be ‘too much’ effort…

Sometimes the affected begins some things, but, because of his short motivation, he abandons

what he begins : his motivation lasts a short time.

In the most severe cases the inactivity can leave the affected person even without fantastic thoughts,

or in a state of total apathy, in which he/she does nothing at all.

2-Non active people

There is classification for people according an introversion-extraversion criterion,

And there is also other classification according to

Active people-Non active people

Active people

Are those that act for the sake of it, without an objective rationally proponed.

They love to do things, they find early motivation.

If tired they don’t need much time to have rest and recover strength:

they are soon ready for action.

They seem granted with a special energy. They don’t like to think much about things.

Non active people

We don’t consider so to those people that don’t do anything

but those that don’t have so much energy for action.

These people can trace their plans and follow them eagerly.

They haven’t got this unlimited energy so common in active people

and are more prone to tiredness.

They prefer for leisure “passive” activities such as reading, watching TV or reflecting.

If you ask a climber why he does this he could answer that

he doesn’t know really why, but he just do it.

That would be an active person.

Schizoids are non active people.

Their lack of action is balanced with a tendency to fantastic thoughts.

Is this passivity the reason of some of their problems.

{This ACTIVE-NON ACTIVE concept was followed by Heymans-Le Senne group, to tell just one)

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