【正文】 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 pages. And this entire situation, with the three characters this is the procrastinator39。s in mayhem. 9:21 (Laughter) 9:26 And the Monkey remember, he39。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 always been a dream of mine to have done a TED Talk in the past. 8:11 (Laughter) 8:15 (Applause) But in the middle of all this excitement, the Rational DecisionMaker seemed to have something else on his mind. He was saying, Are we clear on what we just accepted? Do we get what39。s danger of public embarrassment, a career disaster or some other scary consequence. And importantly, he39。s pletely unearned, and the air is filled with guilt, dread, anxiety, selfhatred all of those good procrastinator feelings. And 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 where leisure activities happen at times when leisure activities are not supposed to be happening. The fun you have in the Dark Playground isn39。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。s why there39。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 picture. We 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. Now, sometimes it makes sense to be doing things that are easy and fun, like when you39。t noticed, now we39。re a dog and you spend your whole life doing nothing other than easy and fun things, you39。s going to take a while, so 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。re going to go over to the fridge, to see if there39。t like that plan, so he a