“Science fiction is not predictive; it is descriptive.” ——– Ursula K. Le Guin

On Tuesday’s class, we tried to descript our project in fiction narriative. And here is my fiction:

In a parallel universe, if a person misses a deadline because of procrastination, they will be executed.

Character. 1:

1.Carrie. All of Carrie’s friends are dead. 

Three hours later, her deadline was up and her deadline was to build a 200-storey building.

But she chooses to build a starship and escape from this latitude of the universe.

2.Party A is the evil force that created the deadline. The human race is in great danger because of the deadline created by Party A.

3. Z, Carrie’s partner, is the only one who knows that Carrie is building a spaceship. She decides to help Carrie to stop the second deadline from hitting her. But at the critical moment she is bought off by A.

Plot:

The last hour of the deadline, Carrie is building the nuclear engine for the ship. All it takes is for Z to steal the assembly plans from the A. And the ship will be ready to travel across the stars. Carrie cannot build the universe, but the deadline to build 200 floors is about to expire. In desperation, the souls of Carrie’s dead friends materialise into a special building material, ultra-light quark electron tunneling membrane. This allowed Carrie to build a building in half an hour. Although the building was built and Carrie saved from death, the A.G. was furious that it was too fragile and Zuleika was found out for tipping Carrie off and was sanctioned by the A.G. At the last minute, she cries out that there are no plans for a spaceship and that everything is a lie! Only to find that the A’s appeared but didn’t stop them, and they all knelt down in front of me and said, “At last, Mother, I see you!

It turns out Carrie is an ant who only lays eggs and has been imprisoned in a capsule for 100 years, and these are the children he was given birth to, and the whole universe is an illusion.

This week’s tutorial tutor and I had a long discussion about how to ask new questions.
I had always had a somewhat unconfident attitude toward my projects before. One question I have always had was answered today and has changed my attitude toward my project. Because during my previous research, I didn’t think I could tackle procrastination at its source, and I knew in my heart that the problems would always be there. But today, Tutor told me that the use of research is not to solve problems but to understand them. My tutor made an analogy of how to cook a meal. For example, if I want to make a pot of beef soup, I need to go to the supermarket and buy meat. But sometimes I don’t have the necessary ingredients, so I use other ingredients instead, which is like improving my problem. When I cook these ingredients, it’s like doing an INTERVENTION to TEST my dish. I asked my Tutor if it is considered a delay for international students to miss the beginning of a question due to organising their language etc., when answering it. He told me, for this question, the overseas student was a filter to help me narrow down the user profile.

My task this week is to use the filter to determine my user profile.
From my observations, many content creators in this industry are procrastinators. So I did interviews with some content creators and adjusted my title.

In this week’s tutorial, the tutor and I discussed where to start looking for help from experts. the tutor gave me a good idea: NLP( Neuro-Linguistic Programming). NLP is the practice of understanding how people organize their thinking, feeling, language and behavior to produce the results they do. NLP provides people with a methodology to model outstanding performances achieved by geniuses and leaders in their fields.

I got an initial understanding of NLP by studying online materials. Unlike the videos on YouTube, NLP is promoted on Chinese social media platforms as a tool for family relationships, marital problems, and corporate HR issues. But in my studies, I realized that the swish pattern could be used as a means to help me with my project.
In this week’s study, I have found some new directions to narrow down my problems. I have never been clear on how to define procrastination, so I have not been able to design very effective tests, but this week, inspired by the swish pattern, I decided to start with some small procrastination events to discuss what is the trigger of the specific procrastination.