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  • So in college, I had to write a lot of papers. Now, when a normal student writes a paper,

    在大學時代,我必須要寫許多報告。現在,如果一個普通學生要寫報告

  • they might spread the work out a little like this: You get started a little bit slowly

    他的工作規劃大概會像是這樣:開始的進度會有點慢

  • but you get enough done in the first week that with some heavier days later on, everything

    不過在第一周結束時,已經有了足夠的進展;然後接下來有幾天負擔稍微重一點

  • gets done and things stay civil. I would have it all ready to go but then actually the paper

    最後在時間安排尚可的情況下完成它。我已經規劃好要這麼完成我的報告了,但事實上

  • would come along and I would kind of do this. And that would happen every single paper.

    當這份報告真的被指派下來後,我就會做出這樣的事,這件事發生在我的每份報告上

  • But then came my 90 page senior thesis. Those first few months, they came and went and I

    接下來我迎來了我的90頁畢業論文。在頭幾個月,日子來了又去

  • couldn't quite do stuff. And one day I woke up with 3 days until the deadline, not having

    我根本無法做任何事。然而當我在截止日前三天的早上醒來,發現我一個字都還沒寫

  • written a word, I wrote 90 pages over 72 hours, pulling not one but two all nighters. Now

    我便在72小時內寫完了90頁,期間開了兩個晚上的夜車。

  • I had a hypothesis- that the brains of procrastinators were actually different from the brains of

    現在我有一個假設─拖延者的頭腦事實上和其他人是不一樣的

  • other people. So, here's the brain of a non-procrastinator. Now, here's my brain: Both brains have a rational

    所以,現在我們看到的是一個非拖延者的腦袋。而這個則是我的腦袋:兩個腦袋裡都有一個決策人

  • decision maker in them, but the procrastinator's brain also has an instant gratification monkey.

    不過拖延者的腦袋多了一隻想要及時行樂的猴子

  • So the rational decision maker will make the rational decision to do something productive,

    所以這位理性的決策人會做一些維持生產力的理性決定

  • but the monkey doesn't like that plan. And he says "Actually let's read the entire wikipedia

    可是猴子不喜歡這個計畫,牠還說:「事實上我們先來看看關於

  • page of the Nancy Kerrigan Tonya Harding Scandal cause I just remembered that happened." The

    坦雅·哈定的醜聞的維基百科頁面吧,我記得最近剛發生這件事呢。」

  • instant gratification monkey does not seem like a guy you would want behind the wheel,

    及時行樂的猴子看起來並不是你所希望掌舵的傢伙

  • he lives entirely in the present moment, he only cares about two things: easy and fun.

    牠僅僅完全的活在當下,而且牠只在意兩件事:輕鬆和有趣

  • How does the procrastinator ever get himself over to this blue zone? A less pleasant place

    拖延者究竟如何克服這個藍色區塊的呢? 這個讓拖延者們覺得不開心的區塊裡

  • but where really important things happen. The procrastinator has a guardian angel, someone

    有件重要的事發生了,拖延者都擁有一個「保護天使」,有些人

  • called the "Panic Monster". The Panic Monster suddenly wakes up anytime a deadline gets

    稱他為「恐慌怪獸」。恐慌怪獸會在任何截止日太靠近、或是在

  • too close or there's danger of public embarassment or some other scary consequence. This entire

    人們有可能在大庭廣眾下丟臉的情形,以及其它可怕結果下甦醒。

  • situation with the three characters, this is the procrastinator's system. It's not pretty,

    剛剛提到的三個角色構成了拖延者的決策系統,或許我的比喻不貼切

  • but in the end it works. Everything I've talked about today, the examples I've given, they

    但最後,它們都會起作用的。到目前為止,我談到的拖延和相關的例子

  • all have deadlines. And when there's deadlines, the effects of procrastination are contained

    全都是有截止日的類型。如果有截止日的話,拖延造成的影響

  • because the panic monster gets involved. But there's a second kind of procrastination:

    會因為有恐慌怪獸的介入而被抑制。但還有第二種拖延模式:

  • when there is no deadline. So, if you wanna have a career where you wanna be a self starter:

    就是沒有截止日的情況。例如現在,你想要當個自動自發的人來獲取一些經驗─

  • something in the arts, something entrepreneurial, or exercising and taking care of your health.

    像是藝術方面,或是創業,或是維持運動的健康行為等等

  • There's no deadlines on those things at first. All of these non-deadline situations, the

    首先,這些事情是沒有截止日的。在所有這些無截止日的情況下

  • panic monster doesn't show up. So the effects of procrastination, they're not contained,

    恐慌怪獸是不會露面的。所以這種拖延情況的影響不會被抑制

  • they just extend outward forever. And it's this long-term kind of procrastination that's

    而會永遠持續下去。再者,這種長期的拖延

  • much less visible. It's usually suffered quietly and privately and it can be the source of

    是不明顯的。它會暗地裡默默的傷害你,最後可能會變成你

  • a huge amount of long term unhappiness. Now I wanna show you one last thing. I call this

    大量長期不幸的來源。現在我要給大家看最後一個東西。我叫它

  • a "Life Calendar" That's one box for every week of a 90 year life. We need to think about

    「生命日程表」,每一格代表你90年人生中的每個星期。我們必須想想

  • what we're really procrastinating on. We need to stay aware of the instant gratification

    我們事實上到底在什麼事情上拖延。我們也需要注意那隻及時享樂的猴子

  • monkey. That's a job for all of us. And, because there's not that many boxes on there, it's

    這是我們所有人的功課。最後,因為表格的格子其實沒有大家想像得多

  • a job you should probably start today. Thank you.

    所以各位今天就該開始實行這份功課,謝謝大家。

So in college, I had to write a lot of papers. Now, when a normal student writes a paper,

在大學時代,我必須要寫許多報告。現在,如果一個普通學生要寫報告

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