ted演讲：如何摆脱“拖延症”,你真的需要看看

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So the Rational Decision-Maker will make the rational decision to do something productive, butthe Monkey doesn't like that plan, so he actually takes the wheel, and he says, 'Actually, let's readthe entire Wikipedia page of the Nancy Kerrigan/ Tonya Harding scandal, because I justremembered that that happened. 04:27 (Laughter) 04:28 Then -- 04:29 (Laughter) 04:30

Then we're going to go over to the fridge, to see if there's anything new in there since 10 minutesago. After that, we're going to go on a YouTube spiral that starts with videos of Richard Feynmantalking about magnets and ends much, much later with us watching interviews with Justin Bieber'smom. 04:46 (Laughter)

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'All of that's going to take a while, so we're not going to really have room on the schedule for anywork today. Sorry!' 04:54 (Sigh) 04:57

Now, what is going on here? The Instant Gratification Monkey does not seem like a guy you wantbehind the wheel. He lives entirely in the present moment. He has no memory of the past, noknowledge of the future, and he only cares about two things: easy and fun. 05:15

Now, in the animal world, that works fine. If you're a dog and you spend your whole life doingnothing other than easy and fun things, you're a huge success! 05:24 (Laughter) 05:26

And to the Monkey, humans are just another animal species. You have to keep well-slept, well-fedand propagating into the next generation, which in tribal times

might have worked OK. But, if youhaven't noticed, now we're not in tribal times. We're in an advanced civilization, and the Monkeydoes not know what that is. Which is why we have another guy in our brain, the

RationalDecision-Maker, who gives us the ability to do things no other animal can do. We can visualize thefuture. We can see the big picture. We can make long-term plans. And he wants to take all of thatinto 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 you're havingdinner or going to bed or enjoying well-earned leisure time. That's why there's an overlap.Sometimes they agree. But other times, it makes much more sense to be doing things that areharder and less pleasant, for the sake of the big picture. And that's when we have a conflict. Andfor the procrastinator, that conflict tends to end a certain way every time, leaving him spending alot of time in this orange zone, an easy and fun place that's entirely out of the Makes Sense circle.I call it the Dark Playground. 06:41 (Laughter)

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Now, the Dark Playground is a place that all of you procrastinators out there know very well. It'swhere leisure activities happen at times when leisure activities are not supposed to be happening.The fun you have in the Dark Playground isn't actually fun, because it's completely unearned, andthe 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 behind the wheel, how does theprocrastinator ever get himself over here to this blue zone, a less pleasant place, but where reallyimportant things happen? 07:16

Well, turns out the procrastinator has a guardian angel, someone who's always looking down onhim and watching over him in his darkest moments -- someone called the Panic Monster. 07:27 (Laughter) 07:33

Now, the Panic Monster is dormant most of the time, but he suddenly wakes up anytime adeadline gets too close or

there's danger of public embarrassment, a career disaster or some otherscary consequence. And importantly, he's the only thing the Monkey is terrified of. Now, hebecame very relevant in my life pretty recently, because the people of TED reached out to meabout six months ago and invited me to do a TED Talk. 08:00 (Laughter) 08:06

Now, of course, I said yes. It's always been a dream of mine to have done a TED Talk in the past. 08:11 (Laughter) 08:15

(Applause) But in the middle of all this excitement, the Rational Decision-Maker seemed to havesomething else on his mind. He was saying, 'Are we clear on what we just accepted? Do we getwhat's going to be now happening one day in the future? We need to sit down and work on thisright now.' And the Monkey said, 'Totally agree, but let's just open Google Earth and zoom in tothe bottom of India, like 200 feet above the ground, and scroll up for two and a