【文章內(nèi)容簡介】 inators were actually different than the brains of other 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 actually brought them here to show you want you to take a look carefully to see if you can notice a 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 :42(Laughter)3:45 Now...here39。s my :49(Laughter)3:54 There is a brains have a Rational DecisionMaker in them, but the procrastinator39。s brain also has an Instant Gratification , what does this mean for the procrastinator? Well, it means everything39。s fine until this :08 [This is a perfect time to get some work done.] [Nope!]4:11 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 :27(Laughter)4:28 Then4:29(Laughter)4:30 Then we39。re going to go over to the fridge, to see if there39。s anything new in there since 10 minutes that, we39。re going to go on a YouTube spiral that starts with videos of Richard Feynman talking about magnets and ends much, much later with us watching interviews with Justin Bieber39。s :46(Laughter)4:48 ”All of that39。s going to take a while, so we39。re not going to really have room on the schedule for any work !“ 4:54(Sigh)4:57 Now, what is going on here? The Instant Gratification Monkey does not seem like a guy you want behind the lives entirely in the present has no memory of the past, no knowledge of the future, and he only cares about two things: easy and :15 Now, in the animal world, that works you39。re a dog and you spend your whole life doing nothing other than easy and fun things, you39。re a huge success!5:24(Laughter)5:26 And to the Monkey, humans are just another animal have to keep wellslept, wellfed and propagating into the next generation, which in tribal times might have worked , if you haven39。t noticed, now we39。re not in tribal 39。re in an advanced civilization, and the Monkey does not know what that is why we have another guy in our brain, the Rational DecisionMaker, who gives us the ability to do things no other animal can can visualize the can see the big can make longterm he wants to take all of that into he wants to just have us do whatever makes sense to be doing right , sometimes it makes sense to be doing things that are easy and fun, like when you39。re having dinner or going to bed or enjoying wellearned leisure 39。s why there39。s an they other times, it makes much more sense to be doing things that are harder and less pleasant, for the sake of the big that39。s when we have a 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。s entirely out of the Makes Sense call it the Dark :41(Laughter)6:42 Now, the Dark Playground is a place that all of you procrastinators out there know very 39。s where leisure activities happen at times when leisure activities are not supposed to be fun you have in the Dark Playground isn39。t actually fun, because it39。s pletely unearned, and the air is filled with guilt, dread, anxiety, selfhatredall of those good procrastinator the question is, in this situation, with the Monkey behind 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?7:16 Well, turns out the procrastinator has a guardian angel, someone who39。s always looking down on him and watching over him in his darkest momentssomeone called the Panic :27(Laughter)7:33 Now, the Panic Monster is dormant most of the time, but he suddenly wakes up anytime a deadline gets too close or there39。s danger of public embarrassment, a career disaster or some other scary importantly, he39。s the only thing the Monkey is terrified , 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 :00(Laughter)8:06 Now, of course, I said 39。s always been a dream of mine to have done a TED Talk in the :11(Laughter)8:15(Applause)But in the middle of all this excitement, the Rational DecisionMaker seemed to have something else on his was saying, ”Are we clear on what we just accepted? Do we get what39。s 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 let39。s 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, so we can get a better feel for India.“ 8:48(Laughter)8:54 So that39。s what we did that :55(Laughter)8:59 As six months turned into four and then two and then one, the people of TED decided to release the I opened up the website, and there was my face staring right back at guess who woke up? 9:12(Laughter)9:16 So the Panic Monster starts losing his mind, and a few seconds later, the whole system39。s in :21(Laughter)9:26 And the Monkeyremember, he39。s terrified of the Panic Monsterboom, he39。s up the tree!And finally, finally, the Rational DecisionMaker can take the wheel and I can start working on the :36 Now, the Panic Monster explains all kinds of pretty insane procrastinator behavior, like how someone like me could spend two weeks unable to start the opening sentence of a paper, and then miraculously find the unbelievable work ethic to stay up all night and write eight this entire situation, with the three charactersthis is the procrastinator39。s 39。s not pretty, but in the end, it is what I decided to write about on the blog a couple of years :08 When I did, I was amazed by t