（完整版）TED演讲procastination英⽂⽂稿
TED演讲英⽂⽂稿Procrastination/ prkr?st?'ne??n/(拖延症)
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So in college, I was a government major(主修⾏政管理专业的学⽣), which means I had to write a lot of papers. Now, when a normal student writes a paper, they might spread the work out a little(⼀点点地展开⼯作) like this. So, you know --职业素养论文
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you get started(=start) maybe a little slowly, but you get enough done in the first week that, with some heavier(=busier) days later on(infml后来), everything gets done, things stay civil/?s?vl/(⽂明的).
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And 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 come along(出现), and then I would kind of(⽤于表⽰不确定，“有点，可以这么说”) do this.
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00:47And that would happen every single paper.
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But then came my 90-page nior thesis(/?θi:s?s/毕业论⽂), a paper you're suppod to spend a year on. And I knew for a paper like that, my normal work flow(⼯作流程) was not an option(/??p?n/选择). It was way(ud with prep or adv.⾮常) too big a project. So I planned things out(精⼼安排，筹划), and I decided I kind of had to go something like this. This is how the year would go. So I'd start off(开始) light(ad.轻松地), and I'd bump it up(to increa sth.) in the middle months, and then at the end, I would kick it up into high gear(/g??(r)/全⼒冲刺) just like a little stairca. How hard could it be to walk up the stairs? No big deal(没什么⼤不了的), right?
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But then, the funniest thing happened. Tho first few months? They came and went, and I
couldn't quite(=really) do stuff /st?f/. So we had an awesome(/s?m/very good) new revid(/r??va?z/改变，调整) plan. 01:30(Laughter)
01:31And then --
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But then tho middle months actually went by, and I didn't really write words, and so we were here. And then two months turned into one month, which turned into two weeks. And one day I woke up with three days until(在…之前) the deadline, still not having written a word, and so I did the only thing I could: I wrote 90 pages over 72 hours, pulling not one but two all-nighters -- humans are not suppod to pull two all-nighters(开两晚夜车) – sprinted(/spr?nt/飞跑，冲刺)
across campus(/?k?mp?s/校园), dove(dive，扑向，冲向) in slow motion(/?mn/移动，运动), and got it in(--manage to do sth.) just at the deadline.
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I thought that was the end of everything. But a week later I get a call, and it's the school. And they say, "Is this Tim Urban?" And I say, "Yeah." And they say, "We need to talk about your thesis(/?θi:s?s/毕业论⽂)." And I say, "OK." And they say, "It's the best one we've ever en." 02:28(Laughter)
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02:35That did not happen.
02:39It was a very, very bad thesis.
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I just wanted to enjoy that one moment when all of you thought, "This guy is amazing!"
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No, no, it was very, very bad. Anyway(不管怎么说), today I'm a writer-blogger guy. I write the blog W
ait But Why. And a couple of years ago, I decided to write about procrastination (/prkr?st?'ne??n/拖延症). My behavior has always perplexed(/p??pleks/使迷惑) the non-procrastinators(/pro??kr?s.t?.ne?.t??/拖延者) around me, and I wanted to explain to the non-procrastinators of the world what goes on in the heads of procrastinators, and why we are the way we are. Now, I had a hypothesis(/ha??p?θ?s?s/假设) that the brains of procrastinators
were actually different than the brains of other people. And to test this, I found an MRI(核磁共振成像) lab that actually let me scan(/sk?n/扫描) both my brain and the brain of a proven non-procrastinator, so I could compare them. I actually brought them here to show you today. I want you to take a look carefully to e if you can notice a difference. I know that if you're not a trained brain expert, it's not that(=so) obvious(/??bvi?s /明显的), but just take a look, OK? So here's the brain of a non-procrastinator.
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03:45Now ... here's my brain.
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There is a difference. Both brains have a Rational(/?r??n?l/理智的) Decision-Maker in them, but the procrastinator's brain also has an Instant Gratification(/?gr?t?f??ke??n/满⾜) Monkey. Now, what does this mean for the procrastinator? Well, it means everything's fine until this happens.
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[This is a perfect time to get some work done.] [Nope!]
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So the Rational Decision-Maker will make the rational decision to do something productive(/pr??d?kt?v /富有成效的), but the Monkey doesn't like that plan, so he actually takes the wheel(/wi:l/⽅向盘), and he says, "Actually, let's read the entire(/?n? ta??(r)/整个，全部) Wikipedia(维基百科) page of the Nancy Kerrigan/ Tonya Harding scandal(/?s k?ndl/丑闻), becau I just remembered that that happened.
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04:28Then --
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Then we're going to go over to the fridge(/fr?d?/冰箱), to e if there's anything new in there since 10 minutes ago. After that, we're going to go on a YouTube spiral(/?spa?r?l /) that starts with videos of Richard Feynman talking about magnets(/?m? gn?t/磁铁) and ends much, much later with us watching interviews with Justin Bieber's mom.
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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 any work today. Sorry!"
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Now, what is going on here? The Instant Gratification Monkey does not em like a guy you want behind the wheel. He lives entirely(=completely) in the prent moment. He has no memory of the past, no knowledge of the future, and he only cares about two things: easy and fun.
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Now, in the animal world, that works fine. If you're a dog and you spend your whole life doing nothing other than(除了) easy and fun things, you're a huge success!
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And to the Monkey, humans are just another animal species(/?spi:?i:z/物种). You have to keep well-slept, well-fed and propagating(/?pr?p?ge?t/繁衍) into the next generation, which in tribal(/?tra?bl/部落的) times(时代) might have worked OK. But, if you haven't noticed, now we're not in tribal times. We're in an advanced civilization(/?s?v?la??ze??n/⽂明), and the Monkey does not know what that is. Which is why we have another guy in our brain, the Rational Decision-Maker, who gives us the ability to do things no other animal can do. We can visualize(/?v??u?la?z/设想) the future. We can e the big picture. We can make long-term plans. And he wants to take all of that into account/??ka?nt/(把…考虑在内). And he wants to just have us do whatever makes n(有意义，合理) to be doing right now. Now, sometimes it makes n to be doing things that are easy and fun, like when you're having dinner or going to bed or enjoying well-earned leisure(/?le??(r)/闲暇) time. That's why there's an
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overlap(/v??l?p/重叠). Sometimes they agree(⼀致). But other times, it makes much more n to be doing things that are harder and less pleasant, for the sake of(为了，因为) the big picture. And that'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(/z?? n/区域), an easy and fun place that's entirely out of the Makes Sen circle. I call it the Dark
Playground.
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Now, the Dark Playground is a place that all of you procrastinators out there know very well.
It's where 休闲活动) happen at times(=sometimes) when leisure activities are not suppod to be happening. The fun you have in the Dark Playground isn't actually fun, becau it's completely unearned(不应得的), and the air is filled with guilt, dread(/dred/忧虑，恐惧), anxiety(/za??ti/焦虑), lf-hatred(/?he?tr?d/⾃我憎恨) -- all of tho good procrastinator feelings. And the question is, in thi
s situation, with the Monkey behind the wheel, how does the procrastinator ever get himlf over here to this blue zone, a less pleasant place, but where really important things happen?
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Well, turns out the procrastinator has 守护天使), someone who's always looking down on(俯瞰) him and watching over(照看) him in his darkest moments -- someone called the Panic(/?p?n?k/恐慌) Monster(怪物).
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Now, the Panic Monster is dormant(/?d?:m?nt/蛰伏的) most of the time, but he suddenly wakes up anytime a deadline gets too clo or there's danger of public embarrassment(/?m?b?r?sm?nt/难堪), a career disaster or some other scary(/?ske?r i/使⼈恐慌的) conquence(/?k?ns?kw?ns/结果).
⾮常害怕). Now, he became very relevant(/?rel?v?nt/密切相关的) in my life pretty(=quite) recently, becau the people of TED reached out to me(=contact联系到我) about six months ago and invited me to do a TED Talk.
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Now, of cour, I said yes. It's always been a dream of mine to have done a TED Talk in the past.
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(Applau) But in the middle of all this excitement, the Rational Decision-Maker emed to
have something el on his mind. He was saying, "Are we clear on what we just accepted? Do we get what'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 let's just open Google Earth and
zoom in(拉近镜头
up(向上) for two and a half hours till we get to the top of the country, so we can get a better feel(总体印象) for India."
08:48 (Laughter)
08:54 So that's what we did that day.
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As six months turned into four and then two and then one, the people of TED decided to普通的个人简历怎么写
relea(/r??li:s/公布) the speakers. And I opened up the website, and there was my face staring right back at me. And guess who woke up?
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So the Panic Monster starts losing his mind(发疯，抓狂), and a few conds later, the whole system'
s in mayhem(/?me?hem/混乱).
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And the Monkey -- remember, he's terrified of the Panic Monster – boom(吼叫), he's up the tree! And finally, finally, the Rational Decision-Maker can take the wheel and I can start working on the talk.
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Now, the Panic Monster explains all kinds of pretty insane(/?n??n/疯狂的，精神失常的) procrastinator behavior, like how someone like me could spend two weeks unable to start the
opening ntence of a paper, and then miraculously(/m?'r?kj?l?sl?/奇迹般地) find the
职业操守) to stay up all night and write eight pages. And this entire situation, with the three characters -- this is the procrastinator's system. It's not pretty, but in the end, it works. This is what I decided to write about on the blog a couple of years ago. 10:08
When I did, I was amazed by the respon. Literally(/?l?t?r?li/毫不夸张地) thousands of emails came in, from all different kinds of people from all over the world, doing all different kinds of
things. The are people who were nurs, bankers, painters, engineers and lots and lots of PhD students.
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tone(/t??n/语⽓) of the post(a piece of writing that forms part of a blog) and the heaviness of the
emails. The people were writing with inten(/?n?tens/强烈的) frustration(/fr??stre??n/挫败) about what procrastination had done to their lives, about what this Monkey had done to them. And I thought about this, and I said, well, if the procrastinator's system works, then what's going on? Why are all of the people in such a dark place?
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Well, it turns out that there's two kinds of procrastination. Everything I've talked about today, the exa
mples I've given, they all have deadlines. And when there's deadlines, the effects of procrastination are contained(/k?n?te?n/控制) to the short term becau the Panic Monster gets
involved(介⼊). But there's a cond kind of procrastination that happens in situations when
there is no deadline. So if you wanted a career where you're a lf-starter(主动做事的⼈) --
something in the arts, something entrepreneurial(/??ntr?pr??n??ri?l/创业的) -- there's no deadlines on tho things at first, becau nothing's happening, not until you've gone out and done the hard work to get momentum(/m??ment?m/推动⼒), get things going. There's also all kinds of important things outside of your career that don't involve any deadlines, like eing your family or exercising and taking care of your health, working on your relationship or getting out of a relationship that isn't working.
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Now if the procrastinator's only mechanism(/?mek?n?z?m/⾏为⽅式) of doing the hard things is the Panic Monster, that's a problem, becau in all of the non-deadline situations, the Panic Monster doesn't show up. He has nothing to wake up for, so the effects of procrastination,
they're not contained; they 扩及，波及) outward(向外地) forever. And it's
明显的) and much less talked about than the funnier, short-term deadline-bad kind. It's usually suffered quietly and privately(/'pra?v?tl?/私下地). And it can be the source of a huge amount of long-term
unhappiness, and regrets(后悔). And I thought, that's why tho people are emailing, and that's
急匆匆地做，突击学习) some project. It's that long-term procrastination has made them feel like a
spectator(/spek?te?t?(r)/旁观者), at times(=sometimes), in their own lives. The frustration
(/fr??stre??n/挫败) is not that they couldn't achieve their dreams; it's that they weren't even able
to start chasing(cha/t?e?s/追寻) them.
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So I read the emails and I had a little bit of an epiphany(/?'p?f?ni/顿悟，突然明⽩) -- that I don't think non-procrastinators exist. That's right -- I think all of you are procrastinators. Now, you might not all be a mess(/mes/⼀团糟的⼈，看上去邋遢的⼈), like some of us,
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and some of you may have a healthy relationship with deadlines, but remember: the Monkey's sneakiest(/?sni:ki/偷偷摸摸地) trick(/tr?k /诡计，花招) is when the deadlines aren't there.
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Now, I want to show you one last thing. I call this a Life Calendar. That's one box for every week of a 90-year life. That's not that(=so) many boxes, especially since we've already ud a /) of(=a number of) tho. So I think we need to all take a long,
