【正文】 d to talk about your thesis. And I say, OK. And they say, It39。s the best one we39。ve ever seen. That did not was a very, very bad thesis. I just wanted to enjoy that one moment when all of you thought, This guy is amazing! No, no, it was very, very bad. 我以為事情就這么完了，但一周后，我接到一個電話，是學校打來的。他們說：“你是Tim Urban嗎?”我說：“是?！彼麄冋f：“我們要說一說你的畢業(yè)論文?！蔽艺f：“好啊?！彼麄冋f：“這是我見過最棒的論文?！薄斎徊豢赡?。論文非常非常的差勁。我只想享受下你們對我的崇拜，想聽你們說：“這老兄太厲害了?！睕]有，其實寫的非常差勁。 Anyway, today I39。m a writerblogger guy. I write the blog Wait But a couple of years ago, I decided to write about procrastination. My behavior has always perplexed the nonprocrastinators around me, and I wanted to explain to the nonprocrastinators of the worldwhat goes on in the heads of procrastinators, and why we are the way we are. 不管怎樣，我現(xiàn)在成為了一個博客寫手，經營著“wait but why”這個博客。幾年前，我決定寫寫拖延這件事。我的行為方式總讓身邊非拖延者感到不能理解。我很想對世界上非拖延者的人解釋一下，我們拖延癥患者的腦子是什么樣的，為什么我們會拖延。 Now, I had a hypothesisthat 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 brain of a proven nonprocrastinator,so I could pare 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 you39。re not a trained brain expert, it39。s not that obvious, but just take a look, OK? So here39。s the brain of a nonprocrastinator. Now ... here39。s my brain. 首先我假設，拖延癥患者的大腦實際上和其他人的大腦不一樣。為了驗證這一點，我找了家核磁共振實驗室，給我和另一個確定是非拖延癥的人，進行了腦部掃描，我好將二者進行對比，今天我?guī)У浆F(xiàn)場，給大家展示一下。我希望大家仔細觀察，看能不能注意到差異。我知道大家并非專業(yè)的大腦專家，較難看出他們的差異，但大家不妨先看一眼，如何?這張是非拖延者的大腦，這張是我的大腦。 There is a difference. Both brains have a Rational DecisionMaker in them, but the procrastinator39。s brain also has an Instant Gratification Monkey. Now, what does this mean for the procrastinator? Well, it means everything39。s fine until this happens. [This is a perfect time to get some work done.] [Nope!] So the Rational DecisionMaker will make the rational decision to do something productive, but the Monkey doesn39。t like that plan, so he actually takes the wheel, and he says, Actually, let39。s read the entire Wikipedia page of the Nancy Kerrigan/ Tonya Harding scandal, because I just remembered that that happened. 兩張是有一點不同，兩個大腦都有一個理性決策人，但在拖延癥患者的大腦里，還有一個及時行樂的猴子。那這對拖延癥患者來說意味著什么呢? 這意味著平時沒什么異樣，但一旦發(fā)生了以下的情況，理性的決策人做出理性的決策，要去做一些實際的工作，但猴子不喜歡這個計劃，所以他搶過方向盤，說道：“說實話，我們還是去維基百科上查一查NKTH的丑聞吧。”因為我剛想起來還發(fā)生過這件事。 Then Then we39。re going to go over to the fridge, to see if there39。s anything new in there since 10 minutes ago. After that, we39。re going to go on a YouTube spiral that starts with videos of Ri