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Tim URBAN's TED Talk (2016) - Inside the Mind of a Master…
Tim URBAN's TED Talk (2016) - Inside the Mind of a Master Procrastinator
1)
Major government in college
(writing lots of articles)
Thinking about the division of work (what is to work slowly at the beginning, but it is also to do it early enough so that all the work be done. (things remain civil))
Tim would like to do :
It pushes everything away, and ends up doing everything at the last minute (for each item).
BUT : What it does :
2)
THEN
: comes his 90-pages thesis -> an article that lasts 1 year : - therefore workflow not an option because the project is too large
Tim decisions in his head :
unfolding of the year : beginning a little light, then increasing speed as the months come, staircase system
Real unfolding
Ironically the first few months went by, and he "couldn't" do these things ...
So awesome new plan = work on the middle of the months and speed up to the end.
BUT :
still not the solution. There were 2 months left, then one more, then two weeks, then three days = 0 words
LAST SOLUTION :
90 pages in 72 hours = 2 sleepless nights.
RESULT :
Very bad thesis
3)
TODAY :
Tim is blogger writer
Book name about procrastination
: "Wait but why" = explained to non-procrastinators what is going on in the minds of procrastinators.
Hypothesis
on why they are, what they are = that they have a different brain.
For that : He decided to do an
MRI in labo
scan of his brain, and him of a non-procrastinator to compare
Result :
Tim has a monkey on his brain. That's the difference between his brain and a normal brain. It is thus the little monkey that prevents the man from being unproductive (fridge, youtube ...) = no place to work today.
Monkey = no memories of the past and no knowledge of the future, they care about two things = easy and fun.
rational human = capacity not animal = to visualize the future, to project in the long term.
For conclude :
In the brain there are :
SO
: Sometimes the two agree but more often in conflict because the procrastinator: spends his time in the monkey area we can call that
"The dark playground."
4)
The dark playground
is undeserved leisure = guilt, anxiety, self-hatred...
The Question is
: How about that the procrastinator can go to the less pleasant
"hard things"
zone, but more important things.
Fom here : Panic monster :
borns and wakes up when a deadline is too close = it causes -> danger of public embarrassment. However, this is the only thing the monkey is afraid of
5)
The Ted channel called her Tim to talk about her work
In the head of Tim
: conflicts between rational and monkey in his head.
he postpones work 6 months, to 4 months, then 1 month.
After : TED unveiled our face.
- The monster reappeared
= panic monster loses his head and all the chaos appears = so rational decision maker is back.
Procrastinator system :
=
The panic monster explains that procrastinators are pretty insane --> doing nothing for weeks and then staying awake all night to write pages…
6)
ANSWERS
Tim writing blog
, he had thousands of responses from all types of people (bankers, painter ... many doctoral students)
They says "i have this problem too"
= these people write with great frustration about what procrastination and the monkey had done in their life.
Question?
Why is procrastination so dark for them?
2 types:
When there are delays = short-term procrastination because the "panic monster" is involved
When there is no deadline (independent work, family, relationship ...)
Conclusion
= the panic monster does not appear = no alarm clock. the procrastination problem runs forever -> long-term procrastination (little known and visible) = spectator of one's own life. Result of long-term woes and regret
7)
Revelation =
Life Timeline -> What we really procrastinate in life: Staying aware of the instant gratification monkey is a job for all of us.
