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Episode 5: Procrastination vs. Overfunctioning

Episode 5: Procrastination vs. Overfunctioning

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 Every week 'Generation What' talks about how to address common mental health struggles and the disconnect between the older and younger generations and how it affects relationships between teens and parents, young adults and their professors and bosses, friendships, self-esteem, and more.  This podcast gives insight and concrete takeaways on how to better manage mental health and how we can improve ourselves individually, come together and better understand one another.
  • In this episode, Janene and Doug discuss two common responses to anxiety: procrastinating vs overfunctioning.  Procrastinating is putting off tasks we don't feel like doing and tend to avoid.  Overfunctioning is putting in extra time on tasks because you are striving for perfection or what is best.  Which one do you identify with?  Both tendencies can be deceiving- procrastination seems like giving yourself extra free time, overfunctioning seems noble and hard working. Tune in to better understand the anxiety trends and how to create awareness of what contributes to anxiety and how to deal with it.
 
  • 1:00- Introduction-Anxiety causes a tendency to procrastinate or overfunction

 

  • 4:00-Personal examples of what procrastinating looks like

 

  • 10:00- Coping strategies for procrastination- activation energy

 

  • 15:00- What does overfunctioning mean

 

  • 20:00-Personal examples of overfunctioning

 

  • 25:00- It's not all about the grade- grades are subjective

 

  • 30:00-"Perfect, Best is the enemy of good"

 

  • 34:00- Main takeaways on how to avoid procrastination and overfunctioning
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