第一篇：ted演講：如何擺脫“拖延癥”,你真的需要看看

TED演講：如何擺脫“拖延癥”，你真的需要看看。

你有拖延癥嗎? 拖延癥者的內心是怎么想的?他們的大腦是怎樣運作的? 本次TED演講者Tim Urban先生將用詼諧的語言，貼切的比喻和貼近你我生活的故事來為我們剖析這些問題的答案。這是一個令所有人都會感同身受又倍受啟發(fā)的TED演講，不容錯過。TED演講英文文稿: 00:11 So in college, I was a government major, which means I had to write a lot of papers.Now, when anormal student writes a paper, they might spread the work out a little like this.So, you know--00:25 you get started maybe a little slowly, but you get enough done in the first week that, with someheavier days later on, everything gets done, things stay civil.00:33(Laughter)00:34 And I would want to do that like that.That would be the plan.I would have it all ready to go, butthen, actually, the paper would come along, and then I would kind of do this.00:45(Laughter)00:47 And that would happen every single paper.00:50 But then came my 90-page senior thesis, a paper you're supposed to spend a year on.And I knewfor a paper like that, my normal work flow was not an option.It was way too big a project.So Iplanned things out, and I decided I kind of had to go something like this.This is how the yearwould go.So I'd start off light, and I'd bump it up in the middle months, and then at the end, Iwould kick it up into high gear just like a little staircase.How hard could it be to walk up thestairs? No big deal, right? 01:22 But then, the funniest thing happened.Those first few months? They came and went, and Icouldn't quite do stuff.So we had an awesome new revised plan.01:30(Laughter)01:31 And then--01:32(Laughter)01:34 But then those middle months actually went by, and I didn't really write words, and so we werehere.And then two months turned into one month, which turned into two weeks.And one day Iwoke up with three days until the deadline, still not having written a word, and so I did the onlything I could: I wrote 90 pages over 72 hours, pulling not one but two all-nighters--humans arenot supposed to pull two all-nighters--sprinted across campus, dove in slow motion, and got it injust at the deadline.02:10 I thought that was the end of everything.But a week later I get a call, and it's the school.Andthey say, 'Is this Tim Urban?' And I say, 'Yeah.' And they say, 'We need to talk about yourthesis.' And I say, 'OK.' And they say, 'It's the best one we've ever seen.' 02:28(Laughter)02:31(Applause)02:35 That did not happen.02:37(Laughter)02:39 It was a very, very bad thesis.02:42(Laughter)02:44 I just wanted to enjoy that one moment when all of you thought, 'This guy is amazing!' 02:50(Laughter)02:51 No, no, it was very, very bad.Anyway, today I'm a writer-blogger guy.I write the blog Wait ButWhy.And a couple of years ago, I decided to write about procrastination.My behavior has alwaysperplexed the non-procrastinators around me, and I wanted to explain to the non-procrastinatorsof the world what goes on in the heads of procrastinators, and why we are the way we are.Now, Ihad a hypothesis that the brains of procrastinators were actually different than the brains of otherpeople.And to test this, I found an MRI lab that actually let me scan both my brain and the brainof a proven non-procrastinator, so I could compare them.I actually brought them here to showyou today.I want you to take a look carefully to see if you can notice a difference.I know that ifyou're not a trained brain expert, it's not that obvious, but just take a look, OK? So here's thebrain of a non-procrastinator.03:42(Laughter)03:45 Now...here's my brain.03:49(Laughter)03:54 There is a difference.Both brains have a Rational Decision-Maker in them, but the procrastinator'sbrain also has an Instant Gratification Monkey.Now, what does this mean for the procrastinator?Well, it means everything's fine until this happens.04:08 [This is a perfect time to get some work done.] [Nope!] 04:11 So the Rational Decision-Maker will make the rational decision to do something productive, butthe Monkey doesn't like that plan, so he actually takes the wheel, and he says, 'Actually, let's readthe entire Wikipedia page of the Nancy Kerrigan/ Tonya Harding scandal, because I justremembered that that happened.04:27(Laughter)04:28 Then--04:29(Laughter)04:30 Then we're going to go over to the fridge, to see if there's anything new in there since 10 minutesago.After that, we're going to go on a YouTube spiral that starts with videos of Richard Feynmantalking about magnets and ends much, much later with us watching interviews with Justin Bieber'smom.04:46(Laughter)04:48 'All of that's going to take a while, so we're not going to really have room on the schedule for anywork today.Sorry!' 04:54(Sigh)04:57 Now, what is going on here? The Instant Gratification Monkey does not seem like a guy you wantbehind the wheel.He lives entirely in the present moment.He has no memory of the past, noknowledge of the future, and he only cares about two things: easy and fun.05:15 Now, in the animal world, that works fine.If you're a dog and you spend your whole life doingnothing other than easy and fun things, you're a huge success!05:24(Laughter)05:26 And to the Monkey, humans are just another animal species.You have to keep well-slept, well-fedand propagating into the next generation, which in tribal times might have worked OK.But, if youhaven't noticed, now we're not in tribal times.We're in an advanced civilization, and the Monkeydoes not know what that is.Which is why we have another guy in our brain, the RationalDecision-Maker, who gives us the ability to do things no other animal can do.We can visualize thefuture.We can see the big picture.We can make long-term plans.And he wants to take all of thatinto account.And he wants to just have us do whatever makes sense to be doing right now.Now,sometimes it makes sense to be doing things that are easy and fun, like when you're havingdinner or going to bed or enjoying well-earned leisure time.That's why there's an overlap.Sometimes they agree.But other times, it makes much more sense to be doing things that areharder and less pleasant, for the sake of the big picture.And that's when we have a conflict.Andfor the procrastinator, that conflict tends to end a certain way every time, leaving him spending alot of time in this orange zone, an easy and fun place that's entirely out of the Makes Sense circle.I call it the Dark Playground.06:41(Laughter)06:42 Now, the Dark Playground is a place that all of you procrastinators out there know very well.It'swhere leisure activities happen at times when leisure activities are not supposed to be happening.The fun you have in the Dark Playground isn't actually fun, because it's completely unearned, andthe air is filled with guilt, dread, anxiety, self-hatred--all of those good procrastinator feelings.And the question is, in this situation, with the Monkey behind the wheel, how does theprocrastinator ever get himself over here to this blue zone, a less pleasant place, but where reallyimportant things happen? 07:16 Well, turns out the procrastinator has a guardian angel, someone who's always looking down onhim and watching over him in his darkest moments--someone called the Panic Monster.07:27(Laughter)07:33 Now, the Panic Monster is dormant most of the time, but he suddenly wakes up anytime adeadline gets too close or there's danger of public embarrassment, a career disaster or some otherscary consequence.And importantly, he's the only thing the Monkey is terrified of.Now, hebecame very relevant in my life pretty recently, because the people of TED reached out to meabout six months ago and invited me to do a TED Talk.08:00(Laughter)08:06 Now, of course, I said yes.It's always been a dream of mine to have done a TED Talk in the past.08:11(Laughter)08:15(Applause)But in the middle of all this excitement, the Rational Decision-Maker seemed to havesomething else on his mind.He was saying, 'Are we clear on what we just accepted? Do we getwhat's going to be now happening one day in the future? We need to sit down and work on thisright now.' And the Monkey said, 'Totally agree, but let's just open Google Earth and zoom in tothe bottom of India, like 200 feet above the ground, and scroll up for two and a half hours til weget to the top of the country, so we can get a better feel for India.' 08:48(Laughter)08:54 So that's what we did that day.08:55(Laughter)08:59 As six months turned into four and then two and then one, the people of TED decided to releasethe speakers.And I opened up the website, and there was my face staring right back at me.Andguess who woke up? 09:12(Laughter)09:16 So the Panic Monster starts losing his mind, and a few seconds later, the whole system's inmayhem.09:21(Laughter)09:26 And the Monkey--remember, he's terrified of the Panic Monster--boom, he's up the tree!Andfinally, finally, the Rational Decision-Maker can take the wheel and I can start working on the talk.09:36 Now, the Panic Monster explains all kinds of pretty insane procrastinator behavior, like howsomeone like me could spend two weeks unable to start the opening sentence of a paper, andthen miraculously find the unbelievable work ethic to stay up all night and write eight pages.Andthis 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 response.Literally thousands of emails came in, from all differentkinds of people from all over the world, doing all different kinds of things.These are people whowere nurses, bankers, painters, engineers and lots and lots of PhD students.10:23(Laughter)10:25 And they were all writing, saying the same thing: 'I have this problem too.' But what struck mewas the contrast between the light tone of the post and the heaviness of these emails.Thesepeople 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 theprocrastinator's system works, then what's going on? Why are all of these people in such a darkplace? 10:54 Well, it turns out that there's two kinds of procrastination.Everything I've talked about today, theexamples I've given, they all have deadlines.And when there's deadlines, the effects ofprocrastination are contained to the short term because the Panic Monster gets involved.Butthere's a second kind of procrastination that happens in situations when there is no deadline.So ifyou wanted a career where you're a self-starter--something in the arts, somethingentrepreneurial--there's no deadlines on those things at first, because nothing's happening, notuntil you've gone out and done the hard work to get momentum, get things going.There's alsoall kinds of important things outside of your career that don't involve any deadlines, like seeingyour family or exercising and taking care of your health, working on your relationship or gettingout of a relationship that isn't working.11:38 Now if the procrastinator's only mechanism of doing these hard things is the Panic Monster, that'sa problem, because in all of these non-deadline situations, the Panic Monster doesn't show up.Hehas nothing to wake up for, so the effects of procrastination, they're not contained;they justextend outward forever.And it's this long-term kind of procrastination that's much less visible andmuch less talked about than the funnier, short-term deadline-based kind.It's usually sufferedquietly and privately.And it can be the source of a huge amount of long-term unhappiness, andregrets.And I thought, that's why those people are emailing, and that's why they're in such a badplace.It's not that they're cramming for some project.It's that long-term procrastination hasmade them feel like a spectator, at times, in their own lives.The frustration is not that theycouldn't achieve their dreams;it's that they weren't even able to start chasing them.12:35 So I read these emails and I had a little bit of an epiphany--that I don't think non-procrastinatorsexist.That's right--I think all of you are procrastinators.Now, you might not all be a mess, likesome of us, 12:52(Laughter)12:53 and some of you may have a healthy relationship with deadlines, but remember: the Monkey'ssneakiest trick is when the deadlines aren't there.13:02 Now, I want to show you one last thing.I call this a Life Calendar.That's one box for every weekof a 90-year life.That's not that many boxes, especially since we've already used a bunch of those.So I think we need to all take a long, hard look at that calendar.We need to think about whatwe're really procrastinating on, because everyone is procrastinating on something in life.We needto stay aware of the Instant Gratification Monkey.That's a job for all of us.And because there'snot that many boxes on there, it's a job that should probably start today.13:44 Well, maybe not today, but...13:47(Laughter)13:48 You know.Sometime soon.—————

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第二篇：ted演講中英對照 拖延癥

TED演講——拖延癥

拖延癥者的思維方式到底是什么樣的？為什么有些人非要到deadline來的時候才知道打起精神做事情？是否存在執(zhí)行力強的人或是說人人都有一定程度的拖延癥？Tim Urban從一個被deadline趕著走的拖延癥者的角度帶你走進拖延癥的神奇思維世界。

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So in college, I was a government major, 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 like this.So, you know--you get started maybe a little slowly, but you get enough done in the first week that, with some heavier days later on, everything gets done, things stay civil.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, and then I would kind of do this.在大學，我讀的是政府專業(yè)。也就是說，我需要寫很多的論文。一般的學生寫論文時，他們可能會這樣安排：(看圖)你可能開頭會慢一點，但第一周有這些已經足夠。后期再一點點的增加，最后任務完成，非常的有條理。我也想這么做，所以一開始也是這么計劃的。我做了完美的安排(看圖)，但后來，實際上論文任務一直出現，我就只能這樣了(看圖)。

And that would happen every single paper.But then came my 90-page senior thesis, a paper you're supposed to spend a year on.And I knew for a paper like that, my normal work flow was not an option.It was way too big a project.So I planned things out, and I decided I kind of had to go something like this.This is how the year would go.So I'd start off light, and I'd bump it up in the middle months, and then at the end, I would kick it up into high gear just like a little staircase.How hard could it be to walk up the stairs? No big deal, right?

我的每一篇論文都是這種情況，直到我長達90頁的畢業(yè)論文任務，這篇論文理應花一年的時間來做，我也知道這樣的工作，我先前的工作方式是行不通的，這個項目太大，所以我制定了計劃。決定按照這樣的方式工作，這樣來安排我這一年。(看圖)開頭我會輕松一點，中期任務逐漸增加，到最后，我再全力沖刺一下。整體是這種階梯式安排，一層一層走樓梯有多難?所以沒什么大不了的，是吧?

But then, the funniest thing happened.Those first few months? They came and went, and I couldn't quite do stuff.So we had an awesome new revised plan.And then--But then those 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.但后來，好笑的事情出現了，頭幾個月時光匆匆而逝，我還沒有來得及動工，所以我們明智的調整了計劃。然后，中間的幾個月也過去了，我還是一個字也沒有動，眨眼就到了這里，然后兩個月變成了一個月，再變成了2周。

And one day I woke up with three days until 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 supposed to pull two all-nighters--sprinted across campus, dove in slow motion, and got it in just at the deadline.一天我醒來，發(fā)現離交稿日期只剩3天了，但我還一個字都沒寫。我別無選擇，只能在接下來的72小時里，連續(xù)通宵兩個晚上趕論文——一般人不應連續(xù)通宵兩個晚上。90頁趕出來后，我飛速沖過校園，像電影中的特寫慢鏡頭一樣，恰好在截止日期前的最后一刻交上。

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.” And I say, “OK.” And they say, “It's the best one we've ever seen.” That did not happen.It was a very, very bad thesis.I just wanted to enjoy that one moment when all of you thought, “This guy is amazing!” No, no, it was very, very bad.我以為事情就這么完了，但一周后，我接到一個電話，是學校打來的。他們說：“你是Tim Urban嗎?”我說：“是?！彼麄冋f：“我們要說一說你的畢業(yè)論文?！蔽艺f：“好啊?！彼麄冋f：“這是我見過最棒的論文?！薄斎徊豢赡?。論文非常非常的差勁。我只想享受下你們對我的崇拜，想聽你們說：“這老兄太厲害了?！睕]有，其實寫的非常差勁。

Anyway, today I'm a writer-blogger guy.I write the blog Wait But Why.And a couple of years ago, I decided to write about procrastination.My behavior has always perplexed the non-procrastinators around me, and I wanted to explain to the non-procrastinators of the worldwhat goes on in the heads of procrastinators, and why we are the way we are.不管怎樣，我現在成為了一個博客寫手，經營著“wait but why”這個博客。幾年前，我決定寫寫拖延這件事。我的行為方式總讓身邊非拖延者感到不能理解。我很想對世界上非拖延者的人解釋一下，我們拖延癥患者的腦子是什么樣的，為什么我們會拖延。

Now, I had a hypothesisthat the brains of procrastinators were actually different than the brains of other people.And to test this, I found an MRI lab that actually let me scan 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 see if you can notice a difference.I know that if you're not a trained brain expert, it's not that obvious, but just take a look, OK? So here's the brain of a non-procrastinator.Now...here's my brain.首先我假設，拖延癥患者的大腦實際上和其他人的大腦不一樣。為了驗證這一點，我找了家核磁共振實驗室，給我和另一個確定是非拖延癥的人，進行了腦部掃描，我好將二者進行對比，今天我?guī)У浆F場，給大家展示一下。我希望大家仔細觀察，看能不能注意到差異。我知道大家并非專業(yè)的大腦專家，較難看出他們的差異，但大家不妨先看一眼，如何?這張是非拖延者的大腦，這張是我的大腦。

There is a difference.Both brains have a Rational Decision-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.[This is a perfect time to get some work done.] [Nope!] 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.兩張是有一點不同，兩個大腦都有一個理性決策人，但在拖延癥患者的大腦里，還有一個及時行樂的猴子。那這對拖延癥患者來說意味著什么呢? 這意味著平時沒什么異樣，但一旦發(fā)生了以下的情況，理性的決策人做出理性的決策，要去做一些實際的工作，但猴子不喜歡這個計劃，所以他搶過方向盤，說道：“說實話，我們還是去維基百科上查一查NKTH的丑聞吧。”因為我剛想起來還發(fā)生過這件事。

Then--Then we're going to go over to the fridge, to see if there's anything new in there since 10 minutes ago.After that, we're going to 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.然后我們會去翻冰箱，看看和十分鐘前相比有沒有什么新的東西。然后我們去youtobe看一連串的視頻，從Richard Feynman談論磁鐵開始，一直到很久很久之后看到一個Justin Bieber媽媽的訪談才結束。以上這些事情都得花時間，所以我們今天沒有時間再來工作了。

”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!“ Now, what is going on here? The Instant Gratification Monkey does not seem like a guy you want behind the wheel.He lives entirely in the present moment.He has no memory of the past, no knowledge of the future, and he only cares about two things: easy and fun.5:15Now, in the animal world, that works fine.If you're a dog and you spend your whole life doing nothing other than easy and fun things, you're a huge success!

所以，到底發(fā)生了什么?這個及時行樂的猴子并非你，希望是控制方向的人，他完全生活在當下，沒有過去的記憶，也沒有未來的概念。他只關注兩件事情：簡單和開心。在動物界，這兩點完全沒有問題。如果你是一條狗，一輩子只追求一些簡單和快樂的事，那就是巨大的成功了。

And to the Monkey, humans are just another animal species.You have to keep well-slept, well-fed and propagating into the next generation, which in tribal times might have worked OK.But, if you haven't noticed, now we're not in tribal times.We're in an advanced civilization, 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 the future.We can see the big picture.We can make long-term plans.And he wants to take all of that into account.And he wants to just have us do whatever makes sense to be doing right now.但對猴子來說，人類是另外一個物種，你得正常睡眠、規(guī)律飲食、繁衍后代。在原始部落時代，這也沒太大問題。但你注意到沒有，現在并非原始部落時代，我們生活在一個現代文明社會中，而猴子完全不能理解這是什么意思，這也是為什么我們大腦中會有另外一個，理性的決策者，他使人類有能力做到其他動物無法做到的事情。我們能設想未來，可以從大局出發(fā)，制定長期計劃，他可以把所有這些事考慮在內。希望讓我們做出最合理的事情.Now, sometimes it makes sense to be doing things that are easy and fun, like when you're having dinner or going to bed or enjoying well-earned leisure time.That's why there's an overlap.Sometimes they agree.But other times, it makes much more senseto be doing things that are harder and less pleasant, for the sake of 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, an easy and fun place that's entirely out of the Makes Sense circle.I call it the Dark Playground.有時，做一些簡單開心的事情是很合理的，比如吃飯睡覺、享受贏得的休閑時光，所以二者也有重疊的部分。有時二者是一致的，但有些時候，從長遠的角度來看，一些更困難不開心的事情，才是合理的事情，所以就出現了沖突。對拖延癥患者來說，每次這種沖突到最后的結果都一樣，都讓他在這片橙色區(qū)域里耗費大量時間，這里很簡單很開心，但完全不在合理圈的范圍內，我將這個區(qū)域稱為黑暗操場。

Now, the Dark Playground is a place that all of you procrastinators out there know very well.It's where leisure activities happen at times when leisure activities are not supposed to be happening.The fun you have in the Dark Playground isn't actually fun, because it's completely unearned, and the air is filled with guilt, dread, anxiety, self-hatred--all of those good procrastinator feelings.And the question is, in this situation, with the Monkey behind the wheel, how does the procrastinator ever get himself over here to this blue zone, a less pleasant place, but where really important things happen?

這個黑暗操場，所有的拖延者患者都應該很熟悉，在這里發(fā)生了許多，本不應該在此時進行的休閑活動。你在黑暗操場獲得的樂趣，實際并不有趣，因為這并非你應得的。這里的空氣充滿了內疚、恐懼、焦慮和自我憎恨——這些都是拖延癥患者常有的情緒。所以問題是，在猴子掌握方向盤的情況下，拖延癥患者如何進入這邊的藍色區(qū)域呢?這里雖然沒有這么舒適，但進行的事情都非常重要。

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 procrastinator's system works, then what's going on? Why are all of these people in such a dark place?

他們都在寫同一句話：“我也有這個問題。”但真正讓我感到觸動的，是我博客的輕描淡寫，和郵件的沉重文風之間的強烈對比。這些讀者以非常沮喪的語言，告訴我拖延對他們的生活造成了哪些影響，告訴我猴子對他們都做了些什么。我思考了一下，問道，既然拖延癥患者的系統(tǒng)是有效果的，那到底哪不對呢?為什么這些人都置身黑暗之中呢?

Well, it turns out that there's two kinds of procrastination.Everything I've talked about today, the examples I've given, they all have deadlines.And when there's deadlines, the effects of procrastination are contained to the short term because the Panic Monster gets involved.But there's a second kind of procrastination that happens in situations when there is no deadline.So if you wanted a career where you're a self-starter--something in the arts, something entrepreneurial--there's no deadlines on those things at first, because nothing's happening, not until you've gone out and done the hard work to get momentum, get things going.原來，拖延分為兩種，我今天所說的拖延和所舉的例子，都是有截止日期的。一旦有了截止日期，拖延的影響會被限制在一定時期內，因為后期驚慌怪獸會出現，但還有第二種拖延，這種拖延是沒有截止日期的，所以如果你想在一些領域內自學成才——比如學個藝術或者創(chuàng)個業(yè)——這些事情開始都是沒有截止日期的，因為開始不會有什么變化，直到你拼盡全力，辛勤投入，才會有一點起色，你才能看到進展。

There's also all kinds of important things outside of your career that don't involve any deadlines, like seeing your family or exercising and taking care of your health, working on your relationship or getting out of a relationship that isn't working.Now if the procrastinator's only mechanism of doing these hard things is the Panic Monster, that's a problem, because in all of these 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 just extend outward forever.除了工作之外，還有很多其他重要的事情，也是沒有截止日期的，比如看望家人、鍛煉身體、保持健康、維系感情，或者從一段不合適的感情中抽身。如果說拖延癥患者處理這些困難的唯一機制，是驚慌怪獸的話，那就有問題了，因為在這些沒有截止日期的情況下，驚慌怪獸是不會現身的，沒有喚醒他的條件，所以這一類拖延的后果是沒有限制的，他們會不斷地肆意延伸。

And it's this long-term kind of procrastination that's much less visible and much less talked about than the funnier, short-term deadline-based kind.It's usually suffered quietly and privately.And it can be the source of a huge amount of long-term unhappiness, and regrets.和有截止日期的好笑的短期拖延相比，這種長時期的拖延，更不易被人察覺，也更少被談論到，他常常在無聲無息中折磨著人們，可以說是大部分長期抑郁和悔恨的根源。

And I thought, that's why those people are emailing, and that's why they're in such a bad place.It's not that they're cramming for some project.It's that long-term procrastination has made them feel like a spectator, at times, in their own lives.The frustration is not that they couldn't achieve their dreams;it's that they weren't even able to start chasing them.我想，這也是為什么這些人會寫信，為什么狀態(tài)這么差的原因吧。他們并非在為某個項目臨時抱佛腳，這種長期拖延使他們有時感覺，自己只是生活的旁觀者，讓他們沮喪的不是他們沒有實現夢想，而是他們甚至還沒有開始追尋夢想。

So I read these emails and I had a little bit of an epiphany--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, like some of us, and some of you may have a healthy relationship with deadlines, but remember: the Monkey's sneakiest trick is when the deadlines aren't there.我讀著這些來信，忽然有一種頓悟——我覺得非拖延者是不存在的，沒錯，我認為你們所有人都是拖延者，當然你們可能不像，我們有些人這么混亂。你們有些人可能與截止日期保持著良性的關系。但記?。汉镒幼罱苹募總z，發(fā)生在沒有截止日期的時候。

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 many boxes, especially since we've already used a bunch of those.So I think we need to all take a long, hard look at that calendar.We need to think about what we're really procrastinating on, because everyone is procrastinating on something in life.We need to stay aware of the Instant Gratification Monkey.That's a job for all of us.And because there's not that many boxes on there, it's a job that should probably start today.Well, maybe not today, but...You know.Sometime soon.最后我想給大家看一個東西，我稱之為“生命日歷”。這里的每一個格子都代表90年生命中的一周，格子數并不是很多，尤其我們已經用掉了許多。我想我們需要好好花時間，認真看看這個日歷。我們需要想一下，我們真正在拖延的是什么，因為每個人在生命中都有拖延一些東西，我們需要警惕及時行樂的猴子，這是我們所有人的任務。因為這里的格子數并不多，所以或許我們今天就應該行動起來，或許不一定是今天，而是盡快。Thank you.

第三篇：ted拖延癥演講稿

拖延癥是指在能夠預料后果有害的情況下，仍然把計劃要做的事情往后推遲的一種行為。拖延時間是世界上最省力的事情，但后果不堪設想。一起來看看ted拖延癥演講稿5篇，歡迎查閱!

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昨天，破天荒的拿出自己上次踏過泥洼坑的鞋子洗了起來。是那么的可憐，又是那么的罪有應得。

明明已經不是七八歲的孩子，卻還是免不了不小心的時候?，F在想想也覺得很氣，所以當時回家，根本就沒有想要洗。出門遇上臺風，買了雨傘也沒有什么用，回到家一身濕透就算了，還在離家不遠的地方，因為天色有些黑，根本沒注意，就不幸地踏入泥坑，論誰都會覺得倒霉吧。那天回家后，就脫了身上的衣服，洗了熱水澡，還把白運動鞋，給收了起來。當然，當時已經不是白色運動鞋了，而是泥色運動鞋。

所以，一直都沒有拿出來洗。今天，收拾床底的時候，忽然想起來。才發(fā)現自己已經忘了那么久。于是，終于把鞋子放入水里，拿起自己的小鞋刷，開始洗涮涮了。過程和往日一樣，費力不討好，消耗了不少的時間。不過，因為每次洗鞋都是這樣討厭，所以我也算有些習慣了。自然，也是沒有什么抱怨的洗完了。

然而，沒有放過我的是。在我收拾鞋盒子的時候，發(fā)現我的另一雙白色球鞋，還沒有洗。是前幾天我出門弄臟的，因為剛下過雨，所以地面潮濕，在外表和朋友說說笑笑，所以回家就覺得明天再洗。結果，自然是說一時，忘記一陣子。于是，我又只好拿著這雙鞋子去洗涮涮。因為已經洗過一雙，所以洗第二雙讓我覺得更加不悅了。好在是球鞋，好洗。但是，喜歡白色的我，鞋子也常常買白色，對于污漬總是過度計較。于是，就把自己吃力的勁給用上了，才收拾完畢。好在洗完之后就可以休息吃飯，不然，我又不知道要抱怨多久了。

可是現在想想，不都是自己太懶惰了，才會有這樣的后果嘛。明明最開始的自己，就是把不喜歡的事情先做掉，然后再去做別的事情，結果現在，越來越會拖延了。不是玩手機，就是做些有的沒的，根本就沒有做什么正經事過。的確，很多不想做的事情，越放只會變成，遺忘的事情。最后在一個不湊巧的時間，才會終于感到有些不好意思，不情不愿的去做。既然這樣，何不像從前一樣，小心一點，注意一點，盡量不要被其他的事情耽誤，好好盤算天氣和穿著，也不要拖延放置討厭的事情，盡快去做。

有些事情，拖延還可以解決，可是有些時候，你一但有了這樣的心思，就會變得麻煩了。從前看過一句話，“把今天的事情拖到明天去做，你的余生都不夠用”。古話不是也說嘛“明日復明日，明日何其多，我生待明日，萬事成蹉跎。”所以，不要給自己理由浪費時間。

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今天，我想和大家來說一說在現代社會中，十分普遍的一種“絕癥”——拖延癥。

拖延癥是指自我調節(jié)失敗，在能夠預料后果有害的情況下，仍然把計劃要做的事情往后推遲的一種行為。

相信大家在平時生活中都有這樣的體驗：下周要月考，英語單詞還沒有背熟，但還是不能翻開英語書好好地背單詞，總想著“還有一個禮拜”、早著呢;或者語文要看的古文字詞義還沒記牢，明明手上沒有什么事，寧可翻開小說看幾眼，或者拿起手機玩一會兒游戲，都不愿意翻開課本?？傄系阶詈髱滋臁⑸踔磷詈笠惶觳欧_書，嘴里念叨著“來不及了來不及了”、一邊后悔為什么沒有提前復習。這樣臨時抱佛腳、很有可能被佛一腳踢開?？荚嚱Y束之后，痛定思痛、下定決心，下次考試一定要好好復習;然后呢?然后下一次還是被拖延癥扯斷了后腿。如此循環(huán)、周而復始。

對于這樣的事我深有體會。就比如這次演講，在半個月前我就開始想講什么，但是總想著這周是男生講，有一個周末的時間來準備，沒有關系;或者就算這周是女生講，但是輪不到我，還有時間。就這樣一直拖拖拖，直到昨天我才決定，用自己血淋淋的教訓，作為今天演講的話題。

我們都知道拖延癥有多么嚴重的后果，那有什么解決的方法呢?一位心理學家尼爾·菲奧里有一本書叫《戰(zhàn)勝拖拉》，書中提到這樣一個方法，叫“逆向日程表”法。簡單來說，就是從最終完成任務的那個日期算起，往前推，到哪一天該完成哪一階段，一直逆推到當下。這樣就不會沒有緊迫感;同樣，一個巨大的任務被分割成小部分，看起來也會輕松一些、人的畏難心理也會減輕。

還有一種方法被叫做“番茄工作法”，這個方法來源于一個番茄計時器，這個計時器每30分鐘會報一次時。實驗者在這30分鐘內分配休息和工作的時間，每30分鐘被稱為一個“番茄時間”。經過很多次實驗后，人們發(fā)現，25分鐘工作和5分鐘休息是比較合理、容易被人接受的;也可以讓人專心工作、不被誘惑分散注意力。

那到現在，我的演講也基本結束了。希望可以給大家、同樣也是給自己一些克服拖延癥的好的建議;也希望下次輪到我演講時，別再準備得如此倉促。謝謝。

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我想先問大家一個問題，那就是世界上最苦的'水果是什么?答案是“當初如果”。雖然這只是一個腦筋急轉彎，但這是一個大家都感同身受的問題，因為幾乎每個人都不同程度患有一種病，叫做拖延癥。拖延癥的定義自然不用多說，大家患病那么久，應該接觸過各種不同的病發(fā)癥狀。

但是也不要因為拖延癥而對生活失去信心，因為每個人都是在有選擇地拖延。比如你會在一個無聊的會議上遲到，卻不會在跟男神女神的約會上遲到;對于你不想做的事情，你有排山倒海的理由拖延它，事關重要的事情，刻意創(chuàng)造困難你也在所不辭。還有的時候一件事情拖著拖著，我們就干脆不做了。其實這也不錯，你能夠通過它，來區(qū)別事情的重要性和必要性。

我自己本身是一個拖延癥十分嚴重的人。我相信班里有很多同學都和我有著相同的困擾。一到放假的時候，之前明明做好了許多的計劃，計劃今天做什么，明天做什么，在這個時間段做什么，我要幾點起床之類的雜事?？梢坏綄嵭械臅r候，就變成了：現在才幾點幾點，我還可以再多睡一會。今天是放假第一天，要不就給自己放松一天吧。這個時間段應該用來休息啊，還是待會再做吧。這樣的情況下，結果往往是，哪怕坐在地上發(fā)呆一整天，也不愿意去執(zhí)行原本的計劃。

在表面上看來，拖延的時候我們完全沒有做和任務相關的事情，我們刷朋友圈吃零食聊天，忙里偷閑中，潛意識里必定會不時地想起還沒完成的事情，這種焦慮感會讓我們慢慢開始計劃起來，哪怕只是不靠譜的一些設想，也是行動前的蓄力過程，至少在你開始做的時候不會毫無頭緒。

更令人開心的是，拖延有時候會帶來價值。

而且，拖延還能帶來創(chuàng)造力!很多作家會常常拖了一周沒有寫稿，卻在最后期限突然引發(fā)頭腦風暴或是靈感爆棚。廣告圈里面也有句話說，牛逼的創(chuàng)意，都在最后一秒出現的。

聽到這里，大家大概已經開始原諒自己的拖延癥了，那么，我只能說你們真的是資深拖延癥愛好者。如果沒有強大的頭腦風暴和整理信息的能力，那還是著手開始治療吧。

畢竟很多人都愛說，當初如果早點準備，我一定能做的更好。其實你已經盡了你所有的努力，你耗費了大量精力在逃避和焦慮上面，也花費了大量精力在截止前不久的行動力爆棚。無論怎樣，是你自己選擇，要現在的結果。

有些人覺得，我沒有拖延癥啊，我一直都在做和工作相關的事情，這類人有一種情況也很可怕。他會先花十分鐘挑一支最想用的筆，然后思考寫在哪個位置比較好看，最后慢慢地把一天的計劃列出清單，結果根本沒有按清單去做，這種看似強迫癥的行為就是標準的花式拖延時間。

拖延癥是害怕完成一件事，是不知道什么時候該結束一件事，是不知道如何完成這件事。其實根本不需要考慮太多，我們熟知的電影《阿甘正傳》中，阿甘看到一個目標就走過去了，別人卻是看見目標先訂一個作戰(zhàn)計劃，然后匍匐前進，往左閃，往右躲，再弄個掩體折騰了半天最后哪兒也沒到達。對于拖延癥來說，最糟糕的，是在拖延的時候，憧憬忙碌的狀態(tài)，在忙碌的時候，去悔恨當初自己的拖延。

加拿大卡爾加里大學的皮爾斯·斯蒂爾教授曾提出了一個著名的“拖延公式”是否拖延，其實本質上來講，就是你愿意付出的代價，和你的獲得之間，你做一個選擇。

我的演講結束了，謝謝大家!

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馬爾頓說，拖延的最能損壞和降低人們做事的努力。我覺得這句話說得很對，拖延幾乎成了我們每一個人的惡習，心理學家說，到了50還能改掉一樁壞習慣就是奇跡。

今天我讀了一篇文章叫《拖延惡習》，文章主要講了：作者從小就有拖延的惡習，而且，為了拖延還差點失業(yè)。可是就在他50歲的時候，卻改掉了這種要命的惡習。

以前，爸爸媽媽叫我做一些事情，我都會說，等一下在去做，每次聽到這句話，爸爸就會嚴厲的批評我，說，如果你以后在工作上，也對領導說一句，等一下再去做的話，那么你就會失業(yè)。于是，我只好不耐煩的去做事了。

可讀了這篇文章以后，我才覺得爸爸說的是對的，不管做什么事情說就要馬上去做，不能拖延。

記得有一年放寒假。老師布置的作業(yè)特別少。我心里想：作業(yè)這么少不如明天在做。可到了第二天，我又想在拖到明天再做?？煲险n了，我才想起我的作業(yè)，于是我趕緊補?，F在放假我都記住那次教訓，早早的就把作業(yè)寫完。

“明日復明日，明日何其多?！蔽乙欢ㄒ牡暨@惡習，不能讓他成為人人的笑柄。

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學校最具有特色的沖鋒號在凌晨6點10分準時響起，也不知學校怎么想的，會把沖鋒號當做起床鈴聲。

我翻了身，把被子裹得更嚴實了，我在起床和不起床之間糾結，然后再告訴自己再睡一下下，等下一定要起床，整個宿舍樓在鈴響的那刻顯得格外嘈雜，我最終還是沒能起床就在被窩里，然后暗自希望主任今天沒來，雖然這機率與在游戲中打極品裝備一樣全靠人品，機率幾乎為零。

有人說賴床是“拖延癥”的初始癥，“拖延癥”，簡單點說就是懶，懶到了一定的境界，而且心里有一個無比堅定的信念，不死的心，誰也不能阻止我拖稿，拖工資，拖后腿，至于拖后腿嘛，說得難聽點，引用別人的一句話，班級又不是狗，分什么前腿后腿的。

最不爽的就是所到別人說我拖后腿了，雖然這是事實，“拖延癥”的主要特征就是習慣把今年的事拖到明年，今天的事拖到明天這一刻的事拖到下一刻，這輩子的事拖到下輩子，有沒有下輩子，這事兒就無從可知了，我同桌就是一位深受此癥毒害的患者，他會花上一節(jié)晚自修的時間，給自己訂下冠冕堂皇的大綱計劃，下定了決心明天開始一定完成，哪怕教室倒了，哪怕校長辦公室倒了，哪怕學校被墮天使，黑月鐵騎給推了，也不能阻止，當天晚上同桌計劃得心血來潮，滿面紅光，我在旁邊打擊他，讓他別寫什么計劃大綱了，浪費時間又不實用，計劃永遠趕不上變化，他本著一個無比堅定的信念，不理我，第二天，他是堅持了一個上午，安分地得很，下午就開始癥狀出現了，然后他的“拖延癥”又顯露出來了，就這樣，日復一日，估計現在那張被用來寫大綱的紙在哪個角落也不知道了。

也就是這樣，我們錯過了很多，錯過了讀書的最好光陰，錯過了自己喜歡的女孩兒。

問女生借書看，無一不是驚異地告訴我這是言情，我當時就特郁了，怎么，男生就不可以看言情么。

正是從言情中，我了解到不少苦逼的情感故事，一對悲催的男女，互有好感，但是一直拖延下去，最終年華逝去，終成陌路，這一直是悲劇言情的主打劇情，如此劇情在電影界里也久經不衰，如《情書》再到最近的《那些年，我們一起追的女孩》，其中都是男女之間有種種莫名的情愫，最終因為種種原因而一拖再拖，錯過，我也一直相信在沈佳宜心中，對柯景騰是有好感的，只是時間沒有允許她說出來。

說到底就是“拖延癥”害人害已，正是因為拖，男的女的把時間拖沒了，然后我就會一個人在臆想，如果我不拖的話，我是不是就不會錯過，是不是就不會錯過讀書的光陰，不會錯過自己喜歡的女孩兒，是不是現在就會魚和熊掌兼得，當然了，一切都是在臆想之中，也只是臆想而已。

我前桌的同桌，常侃調“曾經有一份感情放在我的面前，我沒有去珍惜”。覺得和我很像哎，唯一不同的就是曾經從來就沒有一份感情放在我的面前，雖然我一直信奉某人說的一句話，“高中，大學不談，還指望大學畢業(yè)后憑空蹦出一個要才有才，要貌有貌的女孩?！蔽覛w根結底，還是因為“拖延癥”害的。

每次放學，羨慕嫉妒恨地看著別人摟著女孩從自己身邊走過，同樣是人，差距咋這樣大呢，他們一點也不體諒我這個單身的雄性生物，回頭想想自己，學習差得只能拖后腿。

唉，明天一定痛改前非，佛曰：大徹大悟，至于今天，還是先洗洗臉睡了吧。

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第四篇：關于拖延癥的演講

今天，我想和大家來說一說在現代社會中，十分普遍的一種“絕癥”——拖延癥。

拖延癥是指自我調節(jié)失敗，在能夠預料后果有害的情況下，仍然把計劃要做的事情往后推遲的一種行為。

相信大家在平時生活中都有這樣的體驗：下周要月考，英語單詞還沒有背熟，但還是不能翻開英語書好好地背單詞，總想著“還有一個禮拜”、早著呢；或者語文要看的古文字詞義還沒記牢，明明手上沒有什么事，寧可翻開小說看幾眼，或者拿起手機玩一會兒游戲，都不愿意翻開課本?？傄系阶詈髱滋臁⑸踔磷詈笠惶觳欧_書，嘴里念叨著“來不及了來不及了”、一邊后悔為什么沒有提前復習。這樣臨時抱佛腳、很有可能被佛一腳踢開?？荚嚱Y束之后，痛定思痛、下定決心，下次考試一定要好好復習；然后呢？然后下一次還是被拖延癥扯斷了后腿。如此循環(huán)、周而復始。

對于這樣的事我深有體會。就比如這次演講，在半個月前我就開始想講什么，但是總想著這周是男生講，有一個周末的時間來準備，沒有關系；或者就算這周是女生講，但是輪不到我，還有時間。就這樣一直拖拖拖，直到昨天我才決定，用自己血淋淋的教訓，作為今天演講的話題。

我們都知道拖延癥有多么嚴重的后果，那有什么解決的方法呢？一位心理學家尼爾·菲奧里有一本書叫《戰(zhàn)勝拖拉》，書中提到這樣一個方法，叫“逆向日程表”法。簡單來說，就是從最終完成任務的那個日期算起，往前推，到哪一天該完成哪一階段，一直逆推到當下。這樣就不會沒有緊迫感；同樣，一個巨大的任務被分割成小部分，看起來也會輕松一些、人的畏難心理也會減輕。

還有一種方法被叫做“番茄工作法”，這個方法來源于一個番茄計時器，這個計時器每30分鐘會報一次時。實驗者在這30分鐘內分配休息和工作的時間，每30分鐘被稱為一個“番茄時間”。經過很多次實驗后，人們發(fā)現，25分鐘工作和5分鐘休息是比較合理、容易被人接受的；也可以讓人專心工作、不被誘惑分散注意力。

那到現在，我的演講也基本結束了。希望可以給大家、同樣也是給自己一些克服拖延癥的好的建議；也希望下次輪到我演講時，別再準備得如此倉促。謝謝。

第五篇：英語課堂演講 presentation 主題：拖延癥 procrastination

Asweallknow,LastTuesday,Iwasoneofthefivestudentsselectedtomakeapresentationinthefrontoftheclassroom.So madeaplanlikethis,thepowerpointwouldbedonestepbystep.“

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Perfect！thatisjustapieceofcake”Isaidtomyself.But,thingswerenotproceedingasplanned,astimewentby,actuallythepowerpointwasdonelikethis.Today,wewilldiscusssomethingaboutprocrastination.Oncewetalkaboutit,youwillsay “Iamsufferingfromit

:,whichmakesmesoupset.”Forexamples,stayuptoolate, vocabulary taskofCET6unfinished,weightlossprogramevennotstarted,andsoon.So,Today's

presentation

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two parts:Whyareweprocrastinators？And how to cope with procrastination？

Sometimes,procrastinationisadarkpenguinwholivesentirelyinthepresentmoment.Hehasnomemoryofthepast,noknowledgeofthefuture.Andheonlycaresabouttwothings:easyandfun.Aslongasyouarehappy,nothingisimportant.Whenhetakescontrolofyourmind,thingswillbedifferent.When I am busy with scientific research in the lab alone,the dark penguin shows up,he says to me“it is so boring,let us play LOL(League of Legends)for relax”or

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let

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watch Descendantsofthesun,itjustupdatedthefifteenthepisodelastnight ”,then the boat will turn over.Sometimes,procrastination

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an umbrellawhichprotectsyoufromthejudgementoffailure.Duringmyseniorhighschooltime,Iwasnotgoodatstudy,everytimewhentheteacher

announced therankandscoresofeveryexamintheclass,Istaredsharplyattheclassmatewhogotthefirstintheexamandtoldtomyself

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youarejustastudy

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I hadstudiedlikeyou,gettingupatsix o'clock inthemorning and going to bed until eleven o'clock in the night,I would have got higher marks than you did.”Actually I wasalwaysapoorstudentacrossmyseniorhighschooltime.Thinkcarefully,Ijust feared that I would notgothighmarksevenif I hadstudiedlikethefirstdid,so I chosetoprocrastinateratherthanmakeachange,itseemsthatIamnotaloserbecause I didnottrymybest.What can we do？here are some tips on how to cope with procrastination.1.Acceptthatnoonecanachievefullyperfect,weallareprocrastinators.Thingswouldbeworsewhenyoublame yourself.2.Beawareofthedarkpenguinthatbringuinstantgratification,remindyourselfof what youreallywant.You're doing the activity(exercise, language learning)possibly because you want to do it.When we stop doing something, it's because we've forgotten that we wanted it.We start to fear it for some reason, and try not to think about it.Instead, think about it, but remind yourself of why you started doing it in the first place.3.（Could u find the differences between two balls？The Balloon is big and empty，the shot put is small and solid，in the other word）Setarealisticandspecificgoalratherthanavague,globalone.NOT:“Iwanttoloseweight!”INSTEAD:“Iwillrunforonehoureverynightifweatherconditionpermits.”

4.Watch out for your excuses.Instead of using your excuse as an automatic reason to procrastinate,use your excuse as a reward for taking a step.NOT:“Where does the energy come from to lose weight if I don't eat enough?”INSTEAD:“Iwilleat a small piece of cookie as a reward forrunning an hour.”

5.（Aha..it is a slogan of Nike sport,but now I am not a salesman for Nike company，I just want to remind you）Donotfeartobealoser,just do it.Instead of trying to do the whole project at once, just take one small step.Remember:“The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”

Finally,IwillshareyouguysonebookabouthowtodefeatProcrastination boughtittwoyearsagoanduntilrecentlyIhavejustfinishedit.DonotaskmewhyYou know it..I ？