【正文】 ot 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 week that, with some heavier days later on, everything gets done, things stay 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 e along, and then I would kind of do this.在大學(xué)，我讀的是政府專業(yè)。re 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. So I39。然后，中間的幾個月也過去了，我還是一個字也沒有動，眨眼就到了這里，然后兩個月變成了一個月，再變成了2周。我以為事情就這么完了，但一周后，我接到一個電話，是學(xué)校打來的。”沒有，其實寫的非常差勁。s not that obvious, but just take a look, OK? So here39。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。s anything new in there since 10 minutes ago. After that, we39。re a dog and you spend your whole life doing nothing other than easy and fun things, you39。re 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 DecisionMaker, who gives us the ability to do things no other animal can do. We can visualize the future. We can see the big can make longterm plans. And he wants to take all of that into account. And he wants to just have us do whatever makes sense to be doing right now.但對猴子來說，人類是另外一個物種，你得正常睡眠、規(guī)律飲食、繁衍后代。s 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 that39。你在黑暗操場獲得的樂趣，實際并不有趣，因為這并非你應(yīng)得的。我思考了一下，問道，既然拖延癥患者的系統(tǒng)是有效果的，那到底哪不對呢?為什么這些人都置身黑暗之中呢?Well, it turns out that there39。s happening, not until you39。s a problem, because in all of these nondeadline situations, the Panic Monster doesn39。s usually suffered quietly and privately. And it can be the source of a huge amount of longterm unhappiness, and regrets. 和有截止日期的好笑的短期拖延相比，這種長時期的拖延，更不易被人察覺，也更少被談?wù)摰?，他常常在無聲無息中折磨著人們，可以說是大部分長期抑郁和悔恨的根源。t achieve their dreams。s sneakiest trick is when the deadlines aren39。re really procrastinating on, because everyone is procrastinating on something in life. We need to stay aware of the Instant Gratification Monkey. That39。Thank you.(Applause)內(nèi)容總結(jié)（1）這個黑暗操場，所有的拖延者患者都應(yīng)該很熟悉，在這里發(fā)生了許多，本不應(yīng)該在此時進行的休閑活動