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1、懂你英语level7文档精校版懂你英语原文Level7Unit1So 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. So, you know -you get started maybe a little slowly, but you get enough done in the first

2、 week that, with some heavier days later on, everything gets done, things stay civil.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.在大学，我读的是政府专业。也就是说，我需要写很多的论文。一般的学生写论文时，

3、他们可能会这样安排：(看图)你可能开头会慢一点，但第一周有这些已经足够。后期再一点点的增加，最后任务完成，非常的有条理。我也想这么做，所以一开始也是这么计划的。我做了完美的安排(看图)，但后来，实际上论文任务一直出现，我就只能这样了(看图)。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

4、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. So Id start off light, and Id bump it up in the middle months, and then at the end, I would kick it up into high gear just like a little sta

5、ircase. How hard could it be to walk up the stairs? No big deal, right?我的每一篇论文都是这种情况，直到我长达90页的毕业论文任务，这篇论文理应花一年的时间来做，我也知道这样的工作，我先前的工作方式是行不通的，这个项目太大，所以我制定了计划。决定按照这样的方式工作，这样来安排我这一年。(看图)开头我会轻松一点，中期任务逐渐增加，到最后，我再全力冲刺一下。整体是这种阶梯式安排，一层一层走楼梯有多难?所以没什么大不了的，是吧?But then, the funniest thing happened. Those first f

6、ew months? They came and went, and I couldnt quite do stuff. So we had an awesome new revised plan.And then -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.但后来，好笑的事情出现了，头几个月时光匆匆

7、而逝，我还没有来得及动工，所以我们明智的调整了计划。然后，中间的几个月也过去了，我还是一个字也没有动，眨眼就到了这里，然后两个月变成了一个月，再变成了2周。And one day I woke up with 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 - humans are not supposed

8、 to pull two all-nighters - sprinted across campus, dove in slow motion, and got it in just at the deadline.一天我醒来，发现离交稿日期只剩3天了，但我还一个字都没写。我别无选择，只能在接下来的72小时里，连续通宵两个晚上赶论文一般人不应连续通宵两个晚上。90页赶出来后，我飞速冲过校园，像电影中的特写慢镜头一样，恰好在截止日期前的最后一刻交上。I thought that was the end of everything. But a week later I get a call, a

9、nd its the school. And they say, Is this Tim Urban? And I say, Yeah. And they say, We need to talk about your thesis. And I say, OK. And they say, Its the best one weve ever seen. That did notHappen S.r.l. Official Web Site NEWwas a very, very bad thesis. I just wanted to enjoy that one moment when

10、all of you thought, This guy is amazing! No, no, it was very, very bad.我以为事情就这么完了，但一周后，我接到一个电话，是学校打来的。他们说：“你是Tim Urban吗?”我说：“是。”他们说：“我们要说一说你的毕业论文。”我说：“好啊。”他们说：“这是我见过最棒的论文。”当然不可能。论文非常非常的差劲。我只想享受下你们对我的崇拜，想听你们说：“这老兄太厉害了。”没有，其实写的非常差劲。Anyway, today Im a writer-blogger guy. I write the blog Wait But Why.A

11、nd a couple of years ago, I decided to write about procrastination. My behavior has always perplexed the non-procrastinators around me, and I wanted to explain to the non-procrastinators of the world what goes on in the heads of procrastinators, and why we are the way we are.不管怎样，我现在成为了一个博客写手，经营着“wa

12、it but why”这个博客。几年前，我决定写写拖延这件事。我的行为方式总让身边非拖延者感到不能理解。我很想对世界上非拖延者的人解释一下，我们拖延症患者的脑子是什么样的，为什么我们会拖延。Now, I had a hypothesis that the brains of procrastinators were actually different than the brains of other people. And to test this, I found an MRI lab that actually let me scan both my brain and the brai

13、n of a proven non-procrastinator,so I could compare them. I actually brought them here to show you today. I want you to take a look carefully to see if you can notice a difference. I know that if youre not a trained brain expert, its not that obvious, but just take a look, OK? So heres the brain of

14、a non-procrastinator. Now . heres my brain.首先我假设，拖延症患者的大脑实际上和其他人的大脑不一样。为了验证这一点，我找了家核磁共振实验室，给我和另一个确定是非拖延症的人，进行了脑部扫描，我好将二者进行对比，今天我带到现场，给大家展示一下。我希望大家仔细观察，看能不能注意到差异。我知道大家并非专业的大脑专家，较难看出他们的差异，但大家不妨先看一眼，如何? 这张是非拖延者的大脑，这张是我的大脑。There is a difference. Both brains have a Rational Decision-Maker in them, but th

15、e procrastinators brain also has an Instant Gratification Monkey. Now, what does this mean for the procrastinator? Well, it means everythings fine until this happens. This is a perfect time to get some work done. Nope! So the Rational Decision-Maker will make the rational decision to do something pr

16、oductive, but the Monkey doesnt like that plan, so he actually takes the wheel, and he says, Actually, lets read the entire Wikipedia page of the Nancy Kerrigan/ Tonya Harding scandal, because I just remembered that that happened.两张是有一点不同，两个大脑都有一个理性决策人，但在拖延症患者的大脑里，还有一个及时行乐的猴子。那这对拖延症患者来说意味着什么呢? 这意味着平

17、时没什么异样，但一旦发生了以下的情况，理性的决策人做出理性的决策，要去做一些实际的工作，但猴子不喜欢这个计划，所以他抢过方向盘，说道：“说实话，我们还是去维基百科上查一查NKTH的丑闻吧。”因为我刚想起来还发生过这件事。Then -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 spiral that starts with videos of Richa

18、rd Feynman talking about magnets and ends much, much later with us watching interviews with 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. Sorry!然后我们会去翻冰箱，看看和十分钟前相比有没有什么新的东西。然后我们去youtobe看一连串的视频，从Richard Feynman谈论磁铁开始，

19、一直到很久很久之后看到一个Justin Bieber妈妈的访谈才结束。以上这些事情都得花时间，所以我们今天没有时间再来工作了。3Now, what is going on here? The Instant Gratification Monkey does not seem like a guy you 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

20、two things: easy and fun. Now, in the animal world, that works fine. If youre a dog and you spend your whole life doing nothing other than easy and fun things, youre a huge success!所以，到底发生了什么?这个及时行乐的猴子并非你希望控制方向的人，他完全生活在当下，没有过去的记忆，也没有未来的概念。他只关注两件事情：简单和开心。在动物界，这两点没有问题。如果你是一条狗，一辈子只追求一些简单和快乐的事，那就是巨大的成功了

21、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 k

22、now 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 visualize the future. We can see the big picture.We can make long-term plans. And he wants to take all of that into account. And he wants

23、 to just have us do whatever makes sense to be doing right now.但对猴子来说，人类是另外一个物种，你得正常睡眠、规律饮食、繁衍后代。在原始部落时代，这也没太大问题。但你注意到没有，现在并非原始部落时代，我们生活在一个现代文明社会中，而猴子完全不能理解这是什么意思，这也是为什么我们大脑中会有另外一个，理性的决策者，他使人类有能力做到其他动物无法做到的事情。我们能设想未来，可以从大局出发，制定长期计划，他可以把所有这些事考虑在内。希望让我们做出最合理的事情.Now, sometimes it makes sense to be doin

24、g things that are easy and fun, like when youre having dinner 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 are harder and less pleasant, for the sake of the big picture. And

25、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.有时，做一些简单开心的事情是很合理的，比如吃饭睡觉、享受赢得的休闲时

26、光，所以二者也有重叠的部分。有时二者是一致的，但有些时候，从长远的角度来看，一些更困难不开心的事情，才是合理的事情，所以就出现了冲突。对拖延症患者来说，每次这种冲突到最后的结果都一样，都让他在这片橙色区域里耗费大量时间，这里很简单很开心，但完全不在合理圈的范围内，我将这个区域称为黑暗操场。Now, the Dark Playground is a place that all of you procrastinators out there know very well. Its where leisure activities happen at times when leisure act

27、ivities are not supposed to be happening. The fun you have in the Dark Playground isnt 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 beh

28、ind 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?这个黑暗操场，所有的拖延者患者都应该很熟悉，在这里发生了许多，本不应该在此时进行的休闲活动。你在黑暗操场获得的乐趣，实际并不有趣，因为这并非你应得的。这里的空气充满了内疚、恐惧、焦虑和自我憎恨这些都是拖延症患者常有的情绪。所以问题是，在猴子掌握方向盘的情况下，拖延症患者如何进入这边的蓝色区域呢

29、?这里虽然没有这么舒适，但进行的事情都非常重要。Well, turns out the procrastinator has a guardian angel, someone whos always looking down on him and watching over him in his darkest moments - someone called the Panic Monster. Now, the Panic Monster is dormant most of the time, but he suddenly wakes up anytime a deadline ge

30、ts too close or theres danger of public embarrassment, a career disaster or some other scary consequence. And importantly, hes the only thing the Monkey is terrified of.好吧, 原来拖拉者有一个守护天使, 一个总是低头看着他, 在他最黑暗的时刻看着他的人-有人叫这个惊慌的怪物。现在, 恐慌怪兽大部分时间都处于休眠状态, 但他突然在最后期限太近时醒来, 或者有公众困窘、职业灾难或其他可怕后果的危险。重要的是, 他是猴子唯一害怕的东

31、西。Now, he became very relevant in my life pretty recently, because the people of TED reached out to me about six months ago and invited me to do a TED Talk. Now, of course, I said yes. Its always been a dream of mine to have done a TED Talk in the past. But in the middle of all this excitement, the

32、Rational Decision-Maker seemed to have something else on his mind.最近, 惊慌在我的生活中变得非常重要, 因为 ted 的人在六月前联系了我，邀请我做 ted 演讲。当然, 我答应了。做次 TED 谈话过去一直是我的梦想。但在所有这些兴奋的中间, 理性的决策者似乎还有别的心事。He was saying, Are we clear on what we just accepted? Do we get whats going to be now happening one day in the future? We need to sit down and work on this right now. And the Monkey said, Totally agree, but lets just open Google Earth and zoom in to the bottom of India, like 200 feet above the ground, and scroll up for two and a half hours til we get to the top of the country