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As a composer, Trevor Yuile contemplates and works with procrastination all the time. He is an advocate for choosing to wait for the moment to be right before putting in the required work. Procrastination however, requires a certain amount of discipline and a good assessment of your own abilities. You must know the point where you can no longer wait to put something off. There is a big difference between being irresponsible and knowing what you are capable of.
There are various claims of the benefits of procrastination online, here are some of them:
1. When you procrastinate, you are more likely to let your mind wander. This gives you a better chance of stumbling on a better idea than your first and more conventional one. You have the time to think in more divergent ways allowing you to make unexpected leaps.
2. When you actually get going on a task, it makes you hyper focused on the task at hand. You have less time to second-guess yourself. You are forced to make decisions, commit to something and follow through.
3. The task might disappear or change by the time you work on it. Did you get started and the instructions changed? Was the task no longer needed after a few days? Sometimes if you set yourself to work straight away, you are opening yourself up to doubling your work or doing work that isn’t needed by trying to do it immediately.
Trevor’s advice?
Watch his V-Log on procrastination:
Readers Digest Article on Procrastination
Harvard University Article on Procrastination
New York Times Article on Procrastination
A Mantra For The Creative Spirit
Gemini Nominated, Multi-Canadian Screen Award winner, and Juno award winning composer/arranger/song-writer Trevor Yuile practically thinks in music. For him, music provides the emotional glue that connects the inner world of each character with the audience. Thus, a great music soundtrack is all about communicating the heart of the story in as efficient, but artful way as possible. A few of his TV credits include Into The Badlands (AMC), Orphan Black (Space, BBC America, CTV, BBC Three), King (Showcase), Being Erica (CBC, BBC, ABC Soapnet, in 27 countries), Stella & Sam (Disney), and Billable Hours (Showcase). As a songwriter for Universal EMI/BMI and Maple Records, Trevor has had songs featured on Greys Anatomy, and The Ghost Whisperer. He also has writing credits for Disney Canada's Harriet the Spy, and CBC's How do you Solve a Problem Like Maria. His sound is often characterized by innovative pairings of instruments, and beautiful melody lines. He boldly integrates differing styles and genres of music to achieve exciting new results and has arranged for practically every kind of ensemble, real or virtual.
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