ted演讲：如何摆脱“拖延症”,你真的需要看看

TED演讲：如何摆脱“拖延症”，你真的需要看看。

你有拖延症吗? 拖延症者的内心是怎么想的?他们的大脑是怎样运作的? 本次TED演讲者Tim Urban先生将用诙谐的语言，贴切的比喻和贴近你我生活的故事来为我们剖析这些问题的答案。这是一个令所有人都会感同身受又倍受启发的TED演讲，不容错过。TED演讲英文文稿: 00:11

So in college, I was a government major, which means I had to write a lot of papers. Now, when anormal student writes a paper, they might spread the work out a little like this. So, you know -- 00:25

you get started maybe a little slowly, but you get enough done in the first week that, with someheavier days later on, everything gets done, things stay civil. 00:33 (Laughter) 00:34

And I would want to do that like that. That would be the plan. I would have it all ready to go, butthen, actually, the paper would come along, and then I would kind of do this.

00:45 (Laughter) 00:47

And that would happen every single paper. 00:50

But then came my 90-page senior thesis, a paper you're supposed to spend a year on. And I knewfor a paper like that, my normal work flow was not an option. It was way too big a project. So Iplanned things out, and I decided I kind of had to go something like this. This is how the yearwould go. So I'd start off light, and I'd bump it up in the middle months, and then at the end, Iwould kick it up into high gear just like a little staircase. How hard could it be to walk up thestairs? No big deal, right? 01:22

But then, the funniest thing happened. Those first few months? They came and went, and Icouldn't quite do stuff. So we had an awesome new revised plan. 01:30 (Laughter) 01:31 And then --

01:32 (Laughter) 01:34

But then those middle months actually went by, and I didn't really write words, and so we werehere. And then two months turned into one month, which turned into two weeks. And one day Iwoke up with three days until the deadline, still not having written a word, and so I did the onlything I could: I wrote 90 pages over 72 hours, pulling not one but two all-nighters -- humans arenot supposed to pull two all-nighters -- sprinted across campus, dove in slow motion, and got it injust at the deadline. 02:10

I thought that was the end of everything. But a week later I get a call, and it's the school. Andthey say, 'Is this Tim Urban?' And I say, 'Yeah.' And they say, 'We need to talk about yourthesis.' And I say, 'OK.' And they say, 'It's the best one we've ever seen.' 02:28 (Laughter) 02:31 (Applause)

02:35

That did not happen. 02:37 (Laughter) 02:39

It was a very, very bad thesis. 02:42 (Laughter) 02:44

I just wanted to enjoy that one moment when all of you thought, 'This guy is amazing!' 02:50 (Laughter) 02:51

No, no, it was very, very bad. Anyway, today I'm a writer-blogger guy. I write the blog Wait ButWhy. And a couple of years ago, I decided to write about

procrastination. My behavior has alwaysperplexed the non-procrastinators around me, and I wanted to explain to the non-procrastinatorsof the world what goes on in the heads of procrastinators, and why we are the way we are. Now, Ihad a hypothesis that the brains of procrastinators

were actually different than the brains of otherpeople. And to test this, I found an MRI lab that actually let me scan both my brain and the brainof a proven non-procrastinator, so I could compare them. I actually brought them here to showyou today. I want you to take a look carefully to see if you can notice a difference. I know that ifyou're not a trained brain expert, it's not that obvious, but just take a look, OK? So here's thebrain of a non-procrastinator. 03:42 (Laughter) 03:45

Now ... here's my brain. 03:49 (Laughter) 03:54

There is a difference. Both brains have a Rational Decision-Maker in them, but the procrastinator'sbrain also has an Instant Gratification Monkey. Now, what does this mean for the procrastinator?Well, it means everything's fine until this happens. 04:08

[This is a perfect time to get some work done.] [Nope!]