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,单击此处编辑母版标题样式,单击此处编辑母版文本样式,第二级,第三级,第四级,第五级,*,单击此处编辑母版标题样式,单击此处编辑母版文本样式,第二级,第三级,第四级,第五级,*,单击此处编辑母版标题样式,单击此处编辑母版文本样式,第二级,第三级,第四级,第五级,*,单击此处编辑母版标题样式,单击此处编辑母版文本样式,第二级,第三级,第四级,第五级,*,单击此处编辑母版标题样式,单击此处编辑母版文本样式,第二级,第三级,第四级,第五级,*,单击此处编辑母版标题样式,单击此处编辑母版文本样式,第二级,第三级,第四级,第五级,*,单击此处编辑母版标题样式,单击此处编辑母版文本样式,第二级,第三级,第四级,第五级,*,单击此处编辑母版标题样式,单击此处编辑母版文本样式,第二级,第三级,第四级,第五级,*,Procrastination,TED,Tim Urban,In college,I was a government major,which means I had to write a lot of papers.Now,when a normal student writes a paper,they might spread the work out a little like this.,And I would want to do that like that.That would be the plan.I would have it all ready to go,but then,actually,the paper would come along,and then I would kind of do this.,And that would happen every single paper.But then came my 90-page senior thesis,a paper youre supposed to spend a year on.And I knew for a paper like that,my normal work flow was not an option.It was way too big a project.,So I planned things out,and I decided I kind of had to go something like this.This is how the year would go.,But then,the funniest thing happened.Those first few months?They came and went,and I couldnt quite do stuff.,So we had an awesome new revised plan.But then those middle months actually went by,and I didnt really write words,and so we were here.,And then two months turned into one month,which turned into two weeks.And one day I woke upwith three days until the deadline,still not having written a word,and so I did the only thing I could:I wrote 90 pages over 72 hours,pulling not one but two all-nighters-got it in just at the deadline.,Anyway,today Im a writer-blogger guy.And a couple of years ago,I decided to write about procrastination,.,Now,I had a hypothesis that the brains of procrastinators were actually differentthan the brains of other people.,I actually brought them here to show you today.,So heres the brain of a non-procrastinator,Now.heres my brain.There is a difference.Both brains have a Rational Decision-Maker in them,but the procrastinators brainalso has an Instant Gratification Monkey.,Now,what does this mean for the procrastinator?,Well,it means everythings fine until this happens.,So the Rational Decision-Maker will make the rational decisionto do something productive,but the Monkey doesnt like that plan,so he actually takes the wheel,Then were going to go over to the fridge,to see if theres anything new in there since 10 minutes ago.After that,were going to go on a YouTube spiralthat starts with videos of Richard Feynman talking about magnetsand ends much,much later with us watching interviewswith Justin Biebers mom.,All of thats going to take a while,so were not going to really have room on the schedule for any work today.,Now,what is going on here?The Instant Gratification Monkey does not seem like a guyyou want behind the wheel.He lives entirely in the present moment.He has no memory of the past,no knowledge of the future,and he only cares about two things:easy and fun.Now,in the animal world,that works fine.,And to the Monkey,humans are just another animal species.You have to keep well-slept,well-fed and propagating into the next generation,which in tribal times might have worked OK.,But,if you havent noticed,now were not in tribal times.Were in an advanced civilization,and the Monkey does not know what that is.Which is why we have another guy in our brain,the Rational Decision-Maker,who gives us the ability to do things no other animal can do.We can make long-term plans.And he wants to take all of that into account.,And he wants to just have us dowhatever makes sense to be doing right now.Now,sometimes it makes senseto be doing things that are easy and fun,like when youre having dinner or going to bedor enjoying well-earned leisure time.Thats why theres an overlap.,Sometimes they agree.But other times,it makes much more sense to be doing things that are harder and less pleasant,for the sake of the big picture.,And thats when we have a conflict.And for the procrastinator,that conflict tends to end a certain way every time,leaving him spending a lot of time in this orange zone,an easy and fun place thats entirely out of the Makes Sense circle.,I call it the Dark Playground.,Now,the Dark Playground is a placethat all of you procrastinators out there know very well.,Its where leisure activities happenat times when leisure activities are not supposed to be happening.The fun you have in the Dark Playgroundisnt actually fun,because its completely unearned,and the air is filled with guilt,dread,anxiety,self-hatred-all of those good procrastinator feelings.And the question is,in this situation,with the Monkey behind the wheel,how does the procrastinator ever get himself over here to this blue zone,a less pleasant place,but where really important things happen?Well,turns out the procrastinator has a guardian angel,someone whos always looking down on him and watching over himin his darkest moments,someone called the Panic Monster.,Now,the Panic Monster is dorma