ted演讲：如何摆脱“拖延症”,你真的需要看看（5篇）

第一篇：ted演讲：如何摆脱“拖延症”,你真的需要看看

TED演讲：如何摆脱“拖延症”，你真的需要看看。

你有拖延症吗? 拖延症者的内心是怎么想的?他们的大脑是怎样运作的? 本次TED演讲者Tim Urban先生将用诙谐的语言，贴切的比喻和贴近你我生活的故事来为我们剖析这些问题的答案。这是一个令所有人都会感同身受又倍受启发的TED演讲，不容错过。TED演讲英文文稿: 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演讲中英对照 拖延症

TED演讲——拖延症

拖延症者的思维方式到底是什么样的？为什么有些人非要到deadline来的时候才知道打起精神做事情？是否存在执行力强的人或是说人人都有一定程度的拖延症？Tim Urban从一个被deadline赶着走的拖延症者的角度带你走进拖延症的神奇思维世界。

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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.在大学，我读的是政府专业。也就是说，我需要写很多的论文。一般的学生写论文时，他们可能会这样安排：(看图)你可能开头会慢一点，但第一周有这些已经足够。后期再一点点的增加，最后任务完成，非常的有条理。我也想这么做，所以一开始也是这么计划的。我做了完美的安排(看图)，但后来，实际上论文任务一直出现，我就只能这样了(看图)。

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?

我的每一篇论文都是这种情况，直到我长达90页的毕业论文任务，这篇论文理应花一年的时间来做，我也知道这样的工作，我先前的工作方式是行不通的，这个项目太大，所以我制定了计划。决定按照这样的方式工作，这样来安排我这一年。(看图)开头我会轻松一点，中期任务逐渐增加，到最后，我再全力冲刺一下。整体是这种阶梯式安排，一层一层走楼梯有多难?所以没什么大不了的，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.但后来，好笑的事情出现了，头几个月时光匆匆而逝，我还没有来得及动工，所以我们明智的调整了计划。然后，中间的几个月也过去了，我还是一个字也没有动，眨眼就到了这里，然后两个月变成了一个月，再变成了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.一天我醒来，发现离交稿日期只剩3天了，但我还一个字都没写。我别无选择，只能在接下来的72小时里，连续通宵两个晚上赶论文——一般人不应连续通宵两个晚上。90页赶出来后，我飞速冲过校园，像电影中的特写慢镜头一样，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.我以为事情就这么完了，但一周后，我接到一个电话，是学校打来的。他们说：“你是Tim Urban吗?”我说：“是。”他们说：“我们要说一说你的毕业论文。”我说：“好啊。”他们说：“这是我见过最棒的论文。”……当然不可能。论文非常非常的差劲。我只想享受下你们对我的崇拜，想听你们说：“这老兄太厉害了。”没有，其实写的非常差劲。

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.不管怎样，我现在成为了一个博客写手，经营着“wait but why”这个博客。几年前，我决定写写拖延这件事。我的行为方式总让身边非拖延者感到不能理解。我很想对世界上非拖延者的人解释一下，我们拖延症患者的脑子是什么样的，为什么我们会拖延。

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.首先我假设，拖延症患者的大脑实际上和其他人的大脑不一样。为了验证这一点，我找了家核磁共振实验室，给我和另一个确定是非拖延症的人，进行了脑部扫描，我好将二者进行对比，今天我带到现场，给大家展示一下。我希望大家仔细观察，看能不能注意到差异。我知道大家并非专业的大脑专家，较难看出他们的差异，但大家不妨先看一眼，如何?这张是非拖延者的大脑，这张是我的大脑。

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.两张是有一点不同，两个大脑都有一个理性决策人，但在拖延症患者的大脑里，还有一个及时行乐的猴子。那这对拖延症患者来说意味着什么呢? 这意味着平时没什么异样，但一旦发生了以下的情况，理性的决策人做出理性的决策，要去做一些实际的工作，但猴子不喜欢这个计划，所以他抢过方向盘，说道：“说实话，我们还是去维基百科上查一查NKTH的丑闻吧。”因为我刚想起来还发生过这件事。

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.然后我们会去翻冰箱，看看和十分钟前相比有没有什么新的东西。然后我们去youtobe看一连串的视频，从Richard Feynman谈论磁铁开始，一直到很久很久之后看到一个Justin Bieber妈妈的访谈才结束。以上这些事情都得花时间，所以我们今天没有时间再来工作了。

”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，到底发生了什么?这个及时行乐的猴子并非你，希望是控制方向的人，他完全生活在当下，没有过去的记忆，也没有未来的概念。他只关注两件事情：简单和开心。在动物界，这两点完全没有问题。如果你是一条狗，一辈子只追求一些简单和快乐的事，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.但对猴子来说，人类是另外一个物种，你得正常睡眠、规律饮食、繁衍后代。在原始部落时代，这也没太大问题。但你注意到没有，现在并非原始部落时代，我们生活在一个现代文明社会中，而猴子完全不能理解这是什么意思，这也是为什么我们大脑中会有另外一个，理性的决策者，他使人类有能力做到其他动物无法做到的事情。我们能设想未来，可以从大局出发，制定长期计划，他可以把所有这些事考虑在内。希望让我们做出最合理的事情.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.有时，做一些简单开心的事情是很合理的，比如吃饭睡觉、享受赢得的休闲时光，所以二者也有重叠的部分。有时二者是一致的，但有些时候，从长远的角度来看，一些更困难不开心的事情，才是合理的事情，所以就出现了冲突。对拖延症患者来说，每次这种冲突到最后的结果都一样，都让他在这片橙色区域里耗费大量时间，这里很简单很开心，但完全不在合理圈的范围内，我将这个区域称为黑暗操场。

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?

这个黑暗操场，所有的拖延者患者都应该很熟悉，在这里发生了许多，本不应该在此时进行的休闲活动。你在黑暗操场获得的乐趣，实际并不有趣，因为这并非你应得的。这里的空气充满了内疚、恐惧、焦虑和自我憎恨——这些都是拖延症患者常有的情绪。所以问题是，在猴子掌握方向盘的情况下，拖延症患者如何进入这边的蓝色区域呢?这里虽然没有这么舒适，但进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?

他们都在写同一句话：“我也有这个问题。”但真正让我感到触动的，是我博客的轻描淡写，和邮件的沉重文风之间的强烈对比。这些读者以非常沮丧的语言，告诉我拖延对他们的生活造成了哪些影响，告诉我猴子对他们都做了些什么。我思考了一下，问道，既然拖延症患者的系统是有效果的，那到底哪不对呢?为什么这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.原来，拖延分为两种，我今天所说的拖延和所举的例子，都是有截止日期的。一旦有了截止日期，拖延的影响会被限制在一定时期内，因为后期惊慌怪兽会出现，但还有第二种拖延，这种拖延是没有截止日期的，所以如果你想在一些领域内自学成才——比如学个艺术或者创个业——这些事情开始都是没有截止日期的，因为开始不会有什么变化，直到你拼尽全力，辛勤投入，才会有一点起色，你才能看到进展。

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，还有很多其他重要的事情，也是没有截止日期的，比如看望家人、锻炼身体、保持健康、维系感情，或者从一段不合适的感情中抽身。如果说拖延症患者处理这些困难的唯一机制，是惊慌怪兽的话，那就有问题了，因为在这些没有截止日期的情况下，惊慌怪兽是不会现身的，没有唤醒他的条件，所以这一类拖延的后果是没有限制的，他们会不断地肆意延伸。

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，这种长时期的拖延，更不易被人察觉，也更少被谈论到，他常常在无声无息中折磨着人们，可以说是大部分长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，这也是为什么这些人会写信，为什么状态这么差的原因吧。他们并非在为某个项目临时抱佛脚，这种长期拖延使他们有时感觉，自己只是生活的旁观者，让他们沮丧的不是他们没有实现梦想，而是他们甚至还没有开始追寻梦想。

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.我读着这些来信，忽然有一种顿悟——我觉得非拖延者是不存在的，没错，我认为你们所有人都是拖延者，当然你们可能不像，我们有些人这么混乱。你们有些人可能与截止日期保持着良性的关系。但记住：猴子最狡猾的伎俩，发生在没有截止日期的时候。

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.最后我想给大家看一个东西，我称之为“生命日历”。这里的每一个格子都代表90年生命中的一周，格子数并不是很多，尤其我们已经用掉了许多。我想我们需要好好花时间，认真看看这个日历。我们需要想一下，我们真正在拖延的是什么，因为每个人在生命中都有拖延一些东西，我们需要警惕及时行乐的猴子，这是我们所有人的任务。因为这里的格子数并不多，所以或许我们今天就应该行动起来，或许不一定是今天，而是尽快。Thank you.

第三篇：ted拖延症演讲稿

拖延症是指在能够预料后果有害的情况下，仍然把计划要做的事情往后推迟的一种行为。拖延时间是世界上最省力的事情，但后果不堪设想。一起来看看ted拖延症演讲稿5篇，欢迎查阅!

ted拖延症演讲稿1

昨天，破天荒的拿出自己上次踏过泥洼坑的鞋子洗了起来。是那么的可怜，又是那么的罪有应得。

明明已经不是七八岁的孩子，却还是免不了不小心的时候。现在想想也觉得很气，所以当时回家，根本就没有想要洗。出门遇上台风，买了雨伞也没有什么用，回到家一身湿透就算了，还在离家不远的地方，因为天色有些黑，根本没注意，就不幸地踏入泥坑，论谁都会觉得倒霉吧。那天回家后，就脱了身上的衣服，洗了热水澡，还把白运动鞋，给收了起来。当然，当时已经不是白色运动鞋了，而是泥色运动鞋。

所以，一直都没有拿出来洗。今天，收拾床底的时候，忽然想起来。才发现自己已经忘了那么久。于是，终于把鞋子放入水里，拿起自己的小鞋刷，开始洗涮涮了。过程和往日一样，费力不讨好，消耗了不少的时间。不过，因为每次洗鞋都是这样讨厌，所以我也算有些习惯了。自然，也是没有什么抱怨的洗完了。

然而，没有放过我的是。在我收拾鞋盒子的时候，发现我的另一双白色球鞋，还没有洗。是前几天我出门弄脏的，因为刚下过雨，所以地面潮湿，在外表和朋友说说笑笑，所以回家就觉得明天再洗。结果，自然是说一时，忘记一阵子。于是，我又只好拿着这双鞋子去洗涮涮。因为已经洗过一双，所以洗第二双让我觉得更加不悦了。好在是球鞋，好洗。但是，喜欢白色的我，鞋子也常常买白色，对于污渍总是过度计较。于是，就把自己吃力的劲给用上了，才收拾完毕。好在洗完之后就可以休息吃饭，不然，我又不知道要抱怨多久了。

可是现在想想，不都是自己太懒惰了，才会有这样的后果嘛。明明最开始的自己，就是把不喜欢的事情先做掉，然后再去做别的事情，结果现在，越来越会拖延了。不是玩手机，就是做些有的没的，根本就没有做什么正经事过。的确，很多不想做的事情，越放只会变成，遗忘的事情。最后在一个不凑巧的时间，才会终于感到有些不好意思，不情不愿的去做。既然这样，何不像从前一样，小心一点，注意一点，尽量不要被其他的事情耽误，好好盘算天气和穿着，也不要拖延放置讨厌的事情，尽快去做。

有些事情，拖延还可以解决，可是有些时候，你一但有了这样的心思，就会变得麻烦了。从前看过一句话，“把今天的事情拖到明天去做，你的余生都不够用”。古话不是也说嘛“明日复明日，明日何其多，我生待明日，万事成蹉跎。”所以，不要给自己理由浪费时间。

ted拖延症演讲稿2

今天，我想和大家来说一说在现代社会中，十分普遍的一种“绝症”——拖延症。

拖延症是指自我调节失败，在能够预料后果有害的情况下，仍然把计划要做的事情往后推迟的一种行为。

相信大家在平时生活中都有这样的体验：下周要月考，英语单词还没有背熟，但还是不能翻开英语书好好地背单词，总想着“还有一个礼拜”、早着呢;或者语文要看的古文字词义还没记牢，明明手上没有什么事，宁可翻开小说看几眼，或者拿起手机玩一会儿游戏，都不愿意翻开课本。总要拖到最后几天、甚至最后一天才翻开书，嘴里念叨着“来不及了来不及了”、一边后悔为什么没有提前复习。这样临时抱佛脚、很有可能被佛一脚踢开。考试结束之后，痛定思痛、下定决心，下次考试一定要好好复习;然后呢?然后下一次还是被拖延症扯断了后腿。如此循环、周而复始。

对于这样的事我深有体会。就比如这次演讲，在半个月前我就开始想讲什么，但是总想着这周是男生讲，有一个周末的时间来准备，没有关系;或者就算这周是女生讲，但是轮不到我，还有时间。就这样一直拖拖拖，直到昨天我才决定，用自己血淋淋的教训，作为今天演讲的话题。

我们都知道拖延症有多么严重的后果，那有什么解决的方法呢?一位心理学家尼尔·菲奥里有一本书叫《战胜拖拉》，书中提到这样一个方法，叫“逆向日程表”法。简单来说，就是从最终完成任务的那个日期算起，往前推，到哪一天该完成哪一阶段，一直逆推到当下。这样就不会没有紧迫感;同样，一个巨大的任务被分割成小部分，看起来也会轻松一些、人的畏难心理也会减轻。

还有一种方法被叫做“番茄工作法”，这个方法来源于一个番茄计时器，这个计时器每30分钟会报一次时。实验者在这30分钟内分配休息和工作的时间，每30分钟被称为一个“番茄时间”。经过很多次实验后，人们发现，25分钟工作和5分钟休息是比较合理、容易被人接受的;也可以让人专心工作、不被诱惑分散注意力。

那到现在，我的演讲也基本结束了。希望可以给大家、同样也是给自己一些克服拖延症的好的建议;也希望下次轮到我演讲时，别再准备得如此仓促。谢谢。

ted拖延症演讲稿3

我想先问大家一个问题，那就是世界上最苦的'水果是什么?答案是“当初如果”。虽然这只是一个脑筋急转弯，但这是一个大家都感同身受的问题，因为几乎每个人都不同程度患有一种病，叫做拖延症。拖延症的定义自然不用多说，大家患病那么久，应该接触过各种不同的病发症状。

但是也不要因为拖延症而对生活失去信心，因为每个人都是在有选择地拖延。比如你会在一个无聊的会议上迟到，却不会在跟男神女神的约会上迟到;对于你不想做的事情，你有排山倒海的理由拖延它，事关重要的事情，刻意创造困难你也在所不辞。还有的时候一件事情拖着拖着，我们就干脆不做了。其实这也不错，你能够通过它，来区别事情的重要性和必要性。

我自己本身是一个拖延症十分严重的人。我相信班里有很多同学都和我有着相同的困扰。一到放假的时候，之前明明做好了许多的计划，计划今天做什么，明天做什么，在这个时间段做什么，我要几点起床之类的杂事。可一到实行的时候，就变成了：现在才几点几点，我还可以再多睡一会。今天是放假第一天，要不就给自己放松一天吧。这个时间段应该用来休息啊，还是待会再做吧。这样的情况下，结果往往是，哪怕坐在地上发呆一整天，也不愿意去执行原本的计划。

在表面上看来，拖延的时候我们完全没有做和任务相关的事情，我们刷朋友圈吃零食聊天，忙里偷闲中，潜意识里必定会不时地想起还没完成的事情，这种焦虑感会让我们慢慢开始计划起来，哪怕只是不靠谱的一些设想，也是行动前的蓄力过程，至少在你开始做的时候不会毫无头绪。

更令人开心的是，拖延有时候会带来价值。

而且，拖延还能带来创造力!很多作家会常常拖了一周没有写稿，却在最后期限突然引发头脑风暴或是灵感爆棚。广告圈里面也有句话说，牛逼的创意，都在最后一秒出现的。

听到这里，大家大概已经开始原谅自己的拖延症了，那么，我只能说你们真的是资深拖延症爱好者。如果没有强大的头脑风暴和整理信息的能力，那还是着手开始治疗吧。

毕竟很多人都爱说，当初如果早点准备，我一定能做的更好。其实你已经尽了你所有的努力，你耗费了大量精力在逃避和焦虑上面，也花费了大量精力在截止前不久的行动力爆棚。无论怎样，是你自己选择，要现在的结果。

有些人觉得，我没有拖延症啊，我一直都在做和工作相关的事情，这类人有一种情况也很可怕。他会先花十分钟挑一支最想用的笔，然后思考写在哪个位置比较好看，最后慢慢地把一天的计划列出清单，结果根本没有按清单去做，这种看似强迫症的行为就是标准的花式拖延时间。

拖延症是害怕完成一件事，是不知道什么时候该结束一件事，是不知道如何完成这件事。其实根本不需要考虑太多，我们熟知的电影《阿甘正传》中，阿甘看到一个目标就走过去了，别人却是看见目标先订一个作战计划，然后匍匐前进，往左闪，往右躲，再弄个掩体折腾了半天最后哪儿也没到达。对于拖延症来说，最糟糕的，是在拖延的时候，憧憬忙碌的状态，在忙碌的时候，去悔恨当初自己的拖延。

加拿大卡尔加里大学的皮尔斯·斯蒂尔教授曾提出了一个著名的“拖延公式”是否拖延，其实本质上来讲，就是你愿意付出的代价，和你的获得之间，你做一个选择。

我的演讲结束了，谢谢大家!

ted拖延症演讲稿4

马尔顿说，拖延的最能损坏和降低人们做事的努力。我觉得这句话说得很对，拖延几乎成了我们每一个人的恶习，心理学家说，到了50还能改掉一桩坏习惯就是奇迹。

今天我读了一篇文章叫《拖延恶习》，文章主要讲了：作者从小就有拖延的恶习，而且，为了拖延还差点失业。可是就在他50岁的时候，却改掉了这种要命的恶习。

以前，爸爸妈妈叫我做一些事情，我都会说，等一下在去做，每次听到这句话，爸爸就会严厉的批评我，说，如果你以后在工作上，也对领导说一句，等一下再去做的话，那么你就会失业。于是，我只好不耐烦的去做事了。

可读了这篇文章以后，我才觉得爸爸说的是对的，不管做什么事情说就要马上去做，不能拖延。

记得有一年放寒假。老师布置的作业特别少。我心里想：作业这么少不如明天在做。可到了第二天，我又想在拖到明天再做。快要上课了，我才想起我的作业，于是我赶紧补。现在放假我都记住那次教训，早早的就把作业写完。

“明日复明日，明日何其多。”我一定要改掉这恶习，不能让他成为人人的笑柄。

ted拖延症演讲稿5

学校最具有特色的冲锋号在凌晨6点10分准时响起，也不知学校怎么想的，会把冲锋号当做起床铃声。

我翻了身，把被子裹得更严实了，我在起床和不起床之间纠结，然后再告诉自己再睡一下下，等下一定要起床，整个宿舍楼在铃响的那刻显得格外嘈杂，我最终还是没能起床就在被窝里，然后暗自希望主任今天没来，虽然这机率与在游戏中打极品装备一样全靠人品，机率几乎为零。

有人说赖床是“拖延症”的初始症，“拖延症”，简单点说就是懒，懒到了一定的境界，而且心里有一个无比坚定的信念，不死的心，谁也不能阻止我拖稿，拖工资，拖后腿，至于拖后腿嘛，说得难听点，引用别人的一句话，班级又不是狗，分什么前腿后腿的。

最不爽的就是所到别人说我拖后腿了，虽然这是事实，“拖延症”的主要特征就是习惯把今年的事拖到明年，今天的事拖到明天这一刻的事拖到下一刻，这辈子的事拖到下辈子，有没有下辈子，这事儿就无从可知了，我同桌就是一位深受此症毒害的患者，他会花上一节晚自修的时间，给自己订下冠冕堂皇的大纲计划，下定了决心明天开始一定完成，哪怕教室倒了，哪怕校长办公室倒了，哪怕学校被堕天使，黑月铁骑给推了，也不能阻止，当天晚上同桌计划得心血来潮，满面红光，我在旁边打击他，让他别写什么计划大纲了，浪费时间又不实用，计划永远赶不上变化，他本着一个无比坚定的信念，不理我，第二天，他是坚持了一个上午，安分地得很，下午就开始症状出现了，然后他的“拖延症”又显露出来了，就这样，日复一日，估计现在那张被用来写大纲的纸在哪个角落也不知道了。

也就是这样，我们错过了很多，错过了读书的最好光阴，错过了自己喜欢的女孩儿。

问女生借书看，无一不是惊异地告诉我这是言情，我当时就特郁了，怎么，男生就不可以看言情么。

正是从言情中，我了解到不少苦逼的情感故事，一对悲催的男女，互有好感，但是一直拖延下去，最终年华逝去，终成陌路，这一直是悲剧言情的主打剧情，如此剧情在电影界里也久经不衰，如《情书》再到最近的《那些年，我们一起追的女孩》，其中都是男女之间有种种莫名的情愫，最终因为种种原因而一拖再拖，错过，我也一直相信在沈佳宜心中，对柯景腾是有好感的，只是时间没有允许她说出来。

说到底就是“拖延症”害人害已，正是因为拖，男的女的把时间拖没了，然后我就会一个人在臆想，如果我不拖的话，我是不是就不会错过，是不是就不会错过读书的光阴，不会错过自己喜欢的女孩儿，是不是现在就会鱼和熊掌兼得，当然了，一切都是在臆想之中，也只是臆想而已。

我前桌的同桌，常侃调“曾经有一份感情放在我的面前，我没有去珍惜”。觉得和我很像哎，唯一不同的就是曾经从来就没有一份感情放在我的面前，虽然我一直信奉某人说的一句话，“高中，大学不谈，还指望大学毕业后凭空蹦出一个要才有才，要貌有貌的女孩。”我归根结底，还是因为“拖延症”害的。

每次放学，羡慕嫉妒恨地看着别人搂着女孩从自己身边走过，同样是人，差距咋这样大呢，他们一点也不体谅我这个单身的雄性生物，回头想想自己，学习差得只能拖后腿。

唉，明天一定痛改前非，佛曰：大彻大悟，至于今天，还是先洗洗脸睡了吧。

ted拖延症演讲稿5篇

第四篇：关于拖延症的演讲

今天，我想和大家来说一说在现代社会中，十分普遍的一种“绝症”——拖延症。

拖延症是指自我调节失败，在能够预料后果有害的情况下，仍然把计划要做的事情往后推迟的一种行为。

相信大家在平时生活中都有这样的体验：下周要月考，英语单词还没有背熟，但还是不能翻开英语书好好地背单词，总想着“还有一个礼拜”、早着呢；或者语文要看的古文字词义还没记牢，明明手上没有什么事，宁可翻开小说看几眼，或者拿起手机玩一会儿游戏，都不愿意翻开课本。总要拖到最后几天、甚至最后一天才翻开书，嘴里念叨着“来不及了来不及了”、一边后悔为什么没有提前复习。这样临时抱佛脚、很有可能被佛一脚踢开。考试结束之后，痛定思痛、下定决心，下次考试一定要好好复习；然后呢？然后下一次还是被拖延症扯断了后腿。如此循环、周而复始。

对于这样的事我深有体会。就比如这次演讲，在半个月前我就开始想讲什么，但是总想着这周是男生讲，有一个周末的时间来准备，没有关系；或者就算这周是女生讲，但是轮不到我，还有时间。就这样一直拖拖拖，直到昨天我才决定，用自己血淋淋的教训，作为今天演讲的话题。

我们都知道拖延症有多么严重的后果，那有什么解决的方法呢？一位心理学家尼尔·菲奥里有一本书叫《战胜拖拉》，书中提到这样一个方法，叫“逆向日程表”法。简单来说，就是从最终完成任务的那个日期算起，往前推，到哪一天该完成哪一阶段，一直逆推到当下。这样就不会没有紧迫感；同样，一个巨大的任务被分割成小部分，看起来也会轻松一些、人的畏难心理也会减轻。

还有一种方法被叫做“番茄工作法”，这个方法来源于一个番茄计时器，这个计时器每30分钟会报一次时。实验者在这30分钟内分配休息和工作的时间，每30分钟被称为一个“番茄时间”。经过很多次实验后，人们发现，25分钟工作和5分钟休息是比较合理、容易被人接受的；也可以让人专心工作、不被诱惑分散注意力。

那到现在，我的演讲也基本结束了。希望可以给大家、同样也是给自己一些克服拖延症的好的建议；也希望下次轮到我演讲时，别再准备得如此仓促。谢谢。

第五篇：英语课堂演讲 presentation 主题：拖延症 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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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 ？