Overcoming Your Procrastination! College Student Edition!

Advice for 6 Personality Styles

By: Dr. Linda Sapadin

Narrated by: Siobhan Hallinan

Length: 6 hrs and 8 mins

Publisher's summary

A must-have audiobook for college students. Does your daily diet consist of procrastination, self-flagellation, and empty promises to do better next time? Imagine the toll this is taking on your psyche - not to mention your grades. Want to change your pattern without becoming a no-fun study nerd? Of course, it's a no-brainer!

Yeah, I know it's hard to outsmart your procrastination with so many, accessible, appealing, addictive distractions everywhere. Beepers beckon. Entertainment entices. Social networks seduce. What's a person to do? If it were a simple matter, like "making resolutions" or "just doing it," surely your mom's nagging would have cured you of it years ago. But that didn't work. So, now it's time to learn the skills that will make it happen!

Buy a copy of this audiobook! Take a fun personality quiz! Once you know your style, head on over to the section dedicated to you. There you'll discover a treasure trove of tips and insights to help you curb your procrastination and ace your assignments.

Here are the six styles with their favorite "but" excuse!

• The Perfectionist: "...but it's not perfect!"
• The Dreamer: "...but I hate doing those dismal details!"
• The Worrier: "...but I like staying in my comfort zone!"
• The Crisis-Maker: "...but I only get motivated when I'm under the gun!"
• The Defier: " ...but why should I do it?"
• The Pleaser: "...but I have so much to do for others!"

Respecting our differences, I've created a customized change program for each style. If you have even an ounce of interest in working smarter, not harder - listen to this audiobook. You’ll get great insights into your personality that’ll help you do better in college and beyond. So, quit "wishing I could". Grab your copy of this helpful, entertaining audiobook and "make it happen"!

©2020 Dr. Linda Sapadin (P)2021 Dr. Linda Sapadin

Get ready for one friendly hour about you!

(As a disclaimer, I haven't been in the stated target demographic in many years--I had heard about Sapadin's other books about the 6 Procrastination Styles, but this is the only one was available on Audible . . . and indeed, it was not hard to abstract from all the mentions of papers and professors. I also feel like all the quotes from Eleanor Rosevelt and Ben Franklin were probably present in the other versions, because they seem like this target group might find them a little cringe.)

Anyway, the 6 Styles are both the strength and weakness of the book. Early on, you are directed to take 6 pretty casual quizzes asking you to assess yourself on a 3 point scale with questions that make it pretty clear which style it's talking about (which does create the possibility of self-reporting bias). From there, you are directed to a chapter about your particular style, which does help you feel like the advice is tailored to you . . . but also it means that there will be (if you're lucky enough to only procrastinate in only one way) at most an hour about your particular issues. (For "Worriers," Judy Ho's "Stop Self Sabotage" gives a lot more depth . . . but maybe also more to worry about?) I ended up just listening to all of the sections, and each offers a couple of different sub-styles, a more extended account of one patient's journey, suggestions for how to talk and think differently, and a short guided visualization (which didn't seem that useful to me, but your mileage may vary).

If you've listened to other books on procrastination, the advice itself is not that groundbreaking, but it is sound . . . even if a lot of it boils down to "That thing you're not doing? You need to grow up and do it . . . but here's how to make that a little more approachable" (rather than much about leveraging the specific strengths inherent in a particular style). I will say that, despite the friendly tone of the narration, I was caught off-guard when some of the characterizations of the sub-styles bordered on insultingly reductive, but overall, the book's heart is in the right place.

Finally, the eternal question, especially with self-help books: would this be more effective on the page? On the one hand, Siobhan Hallinan's narration does a GREAT job of sounding like a wise and canny friend--she reminded me of Mariner from "Lower Decks." On the other hand, as with any book on procrastination, the efficacy of this book is going to depend on you actually implementing and probably revisiting the strategies, which would be easier to do with the print version (though I guess you could argue that writing down for yourself the high-points of the advice might have a value in and of itself).