TED演讲-拖延症-.pptVIP

And the Monkey -- remember, hes terrified of the Panic Monster --?boom, hes up the tree!?And finally, finally, the Rational Decision-Maker can take the wheel?and I can start working on the talk. And this entire situation, with the three characters --?this is the procrastinators system.?Its not pretty, but in the end, it works.? This is what I decided to write about on the blog a couple of years ago. When I did, I was amazed by the response.?Literally thousands of emails came in,?from all different kinds of people from all over the world,?doing all different kinds of things. ?These are people who were nurses, bankers, painters, engineers?and lots and lots of PhD students. And they were all writing, saying the same thing:?I have this problem too.?But what struck me was the contrast between the light tone of the post?and the heaviness of these emails.?These people were writing with intense frustration?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 procrastinators system works, then whats going on??Why are all of these people in such a dark place? Well, it turns out that theres two kinds of procrastination.?Everything Ive talked about today, the examples Ive given,?they all have deadlines.? And when theres deadlines,?the effects of procrastination are contained to the short term?because the Panic Monster gets involved.?But theres a second kind of procrastination?that happens in situations when there is no deadline.?So if you wanted a career where youre a self-starter --?something in the arts, something entrepreneurial --?theres no deadlines on those things at first, because nothings happening,?not until youve gone out and done the hard work?to get momentum, get things going.?Now if the procrastinators only mechanism of doing these hard things?is the Panic Monster, thats a problem,?because in all of these non-deadline situations,?the Panic Monster doesnt show up.?He