Inside the Mind of a Master Procrastinator | Tim Urban | TED _ part1

So, here is the brain of non-procrastinator.

 

Now... here's my brain.

There is a difference.

Both brains have a rational dicision-Maker in them,

but the procrastinator's brain also has an instant gratification monkey.

Now, what does this mean for the procrastinator?

Well, it means everything's fine until this happens.

So the Rational Decision-Maker will make the rational decision to do something productive,

but the monkey doesn't like that plan.

So he actually takes the wheel, and he says,

"Actually, let's read the entire Wikipedia page of the Nancy kerrigan/tonya Harding scandal

because I just remembered that that happened.

Then, then we're gonna go over the fridge , we gonna see if there's anything new in there since ten minutes ago.

After that, we're gonna 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 Bieber's mom

All that's gonna take a while so we're not gonna really have room on the schedule for any work today sorry."