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1、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:00:11So in college, I was a government major, which means I had to write a lot of papers. Now, when anormal student writes a

2、paper, they might spread the work out a little like this. So, you know -00:25you 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)00:34And I would want to do that like that. That

3、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)00:47And that would happen every single paper.00:50But then came my 90-page senior thesis, a paper youre supposed to spend a year on. And I knewfor a pap

4、er 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 Id start off light, and Id bump it up in the middle months, and then at the end, Iwould kick it up into h

5、igh gear just like a little staircase. How hard could it be to walk up thestairs? No big deal, right?01:22But then, the funniest thing happened. Those first few months? They came and went, and Icouldnt quite do stuff. So we had an awesome new revised plan.01:30(Laughter)01:31And then -01:32(Laughter

6、)01:34But then those middle months actually went by, and I didnt 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 coul

7、d: 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.02:10I thought that was the end of everything. But a week later I get a call, and its the school.

8、 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, Its the best one weve ever seen.02:28(Laughter)02:31(Applause)02:35That did not happen.02:37(Laughter)02:39It was a very, very bad thesis.02:42(Laughter)02:44I just wanted t

9、o enjoy that one moment when all of you thought, This guy is amazing!02:50(Laughter)02:51No, no, it was very, very bad. Anyway, today Im 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-pr

10、ocrastinators 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 f

11、ound 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 ifyoure not a trained brain expert, its

12、not that obvious, but just take a look, OK? So heres thebrain of a non-procrastinator.03:42(Laughter)03:45Now . heres my brain.03:49(Laughter)03:54There is a difference. Both brains have a Rational Decision-Maker in them, but the procrastinatorsbrain also has an Instant Gratification Monkey. Now, wh

13、at does this mean for the procrastinator?Well, it means everythings fine until this happens.04:08This is a perfect time to get some work done. Nope!04:11So the Rational Decision-Maker will make the rational decision to do something productive, butthe Monkey doesnt like that plan, so he actually take

14、s the wheel, and he says, Actually, lets readthe entire Wikipedia page of the Nancy Kerrigan/ Tonya Harding scandal, because I justremembered that that happened.04:27(Laughter)04:28Then -04:29(Laughter)04:30Then were going to go over to the fridge, to see if theres anything new in there since 10 min

15、utesago. After that, were going to go on a YouTube spiral that starts with videos of Richard Feynmantalking about magnets and ends much, much later with us watching interviews with Justin Biebersmom.04:46(Laughter)04:48All of thats going to take a while, so were not going to really have room on the

16、schedule for anywork today. Sorry!04:54(Sigh)04:57Now, what is going on here? The Instant Gratification Monkey does not seem like a guy you wantbehind the wheel. He lives entirely in the present moment. He has no memory of the past, noknowledge of the future, and he only cares about two things: easy

17、 and fun.05:15Now, in the animal world, that works fine. If youre a dog and you spend your whole life doingnothing other than easy and fun things, youre a huge success!05:24(Laughter)05:26And to the Monkey, humans are just another animal species. You have to keep well-slept, well-fedand propagating

18、into the next generation, which in tribal times might have worked OK. But, if youhavent noticed, now were not in tribal times. Were in an advanced civilization, and the Monkeydoes not know what that is. Which is why we have another guy in our brain, the RationalDecision-Maker, who gives us the abili

19、ty to do things no other animal can do. We can visualize thefuture. We can see the big picture. We can make long-term plans. And he wants to take all of thatinto account. And he wants to just have us do whatever makes sense to be doing right now. Now,sometimes it makes sense to be doing things that

20、are easy and fun, like when youre havingdinner or going to bed or 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 areharder and less pleasant, for the sake of the big picture. And thats when we hav

21、e a conflict. Andfor the procrastinator, that conflict tends to end a certain way every time, leaving him spending alot 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.06:41(Laughter)06:42Now, the Dark Playground is a plac

22、e that all of you procrastinators out there know very well. Itswhere leisure activities happen at times when leisure activities are not supposed to be happening.The fun you have in the Dark Playground isnt actually fun, because its completely unearned, andthe air is filled with guilt, dread, anxiety

23、, self-hatred - all of those good procrastinator feelings.And the question is, in this situation, with the Monkey behind the wheel, how does theprocrastinator ever get himself over here to this blue zone, a less pleasant place, but where reallyimportant things happen?07:16Well, turns out the procras

24、tinator has a guardian angel, someone whos always looking down onhim and watching over him in his darkest moments - someone called the Panic Monster.07:27(Laughter)07:33Now, the Panic Monster is dormant most of the time, but he suddenly wakes up anytime adeadline gets too close or theres danger of p

25、ublic embarrassment, a career disaster or some otherscary consequence. And importantly, hes the only thing the Monkey is terrified of. Now, hebecame very relevant in my life pretty recently, because the people of TED reached out to meabout six months ago and invited me to do a TED Talk.08:00(Laughte

26、r)08:06Now, of course, I said yes. Its always been a dream of mine to have done a TED Talk in the past.08:11(Laughter)08:15(Applause) But in the middle of all this excitement, the Rational Decision-Maker seemed to havesomething else on his mind. He was saying, Are we clear on what we just accepted?

27、Do we getwhats going to be now happening one day in the future? We need to sit down and work on thisright now. And the Monkey said, Totally agree, but lets just open Google Earth and zoom in tothe bottom of India, like 200 feet above the ground, and scroll up for two and a half hours til weget to th

28、e top of the country, so we can get a better feel for India.08:48(Laughter)08:54So thats what we did that day.08:55(Laughter)08:59As six months turned into four and then two and then one, the people of TED decided to releasethe speakers. And I opened up the website, and there was my face staring rig

29、ht back at me. Andguess who woke up?09:12(Laughter)09:16So the Panic Monster starts losing his mind, and a few seconds later, the whole systems inmayhem.09:21(Laughter)09:26And the Monkey - remember, hes terrified of the Panic Monster - boom, hes up the tree! Andfinally, finally, the Rational Decisi

30、on-Maker can take the wheel and I can start working on the talk.09:36Now, the Panic Monster explains all kinds of pretty insane procrastinator behavior, like howsomeone like me could spend two weeks unable to start the opening sentence of a paper, andthen miraculously find the unbelievable work ethi

31、c to stay up all night and write eight pages. Andthis entire situation, with the three characters - this is the procrastinators system. Its not pretty,but in the end, it works. This is what I decided to write about on the blog a couple of years ago.10:08When I did, I was amazed by the response. Lite

32、rally thousands of emails came in, from all differentkinds of people from all over the world, doing all different kinds of things. These are people whowere nurses, bankers, painters, engineers and lots and lots of PhD students.10:23(Laughter)10:25And they were all writing, saying the same thing: I have this problem too. But what struck mewas the contrast between the