英语课堂演讲 presentation 主题：拖延症 procrastination

第一篇：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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divided

into

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

us

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

is

an umbrellawhichprotectsyoufromthejudgementoffailure.Duringmyseniorhighschooltime,Iwasnotgoodatstudy,everytimewhentheteacher

announced therankandscoresofeveryexamintheclass,Istaredsharplyattheclassmatewhogotthefirstintheexamandtoldtomyself

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youarejustastudy

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machine,if

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 ？

第二篇：拖延症英语演讲Procrastination

Fpg Before I start my topic，I want to show you a picture，which show us a common phenomenon，or a problem that everyone sit here may have.Look，the picture is here，about efficiency and time.This is the work efficiency and this is time line.This point stand for the day you got your assignment or work.The truth is，only at the day before DDL，can you achieve the highest efficiency.And we always call that “procrastination”，which means “willingly” deferring something even though you expect the delay to make you worse.In my word，it is although you have known you have do it now，but still，youdon’t move on until last time.So，as you see，today my topic is How to solve “procrastination”，I divide my topic into 3 parts.First，disadvantages of procrastination.Second，reasons of procrastination.Last，methods to solve this problem.In this part I will bring you an interesting practice about time control andsome suggestions，believe me，it is very practical.Now，the disadvantagesof procrastination.First，you cannot achieve your goal.For example： Girls always say：“ oh I’m on diet，I want to put out my weight” But one problem is that few people can do this fitness plan，for Fpg

Fpg many reasons：today I feel depressed，only eating can cure me/I’m really tired now，so just do some exercise tomorrow~ you always have various excuses to take action，and then，your goals become dreams，you can never achieve it.Second，procrastination makes you in hurry，so you cannot do things better.For example，you have a date in the evening，but you browsed micro blog again and again，chatted with your friends，thinking about you still have time to prepare.But at last，you have to make up in a short time.So this is the appearance you should have had，but

this

is

the

reality.It cut down the quality of work.You should have done you better，don’t you？

Last，procrastination does harm to mental health.Some people don’t start to deal with their work until the last minute，so once they start，they usually become extremely nervous，because so much work put a lot of pressure on them.Sometimes, when

people faced with much work to be done, they may become anxious and upset.There is no doubt that these negative emotion anFpg

Fpg d great pressure can make people feel depressed，and less confident.In a nutshell, putting things off has so many bad influences on people’s life, so it is very essential for those delayers to try to get rid of this bad habit.So let us find the reasons of procrastination： 1lack of managing time Time treats everyone fairly that we all have 24 hours per day.Some of us are capable to make good use of time while some find it hard to do so.The vital reason of procrastination is you cannot control your time correctly，and you put too much time on non-essential things.2 find too many excuses.When you face a problem or some work，you always can find lots of excuses

to

avoid

them.You chat with your friends through QQ, surf the Internet and go shopping on taobao as if they are essential，but they are not，you know it，you just find some excuse to delay your work.Fpg

Fpg After this analysis，I have some ideas that maybe can help you.First is a method of time-control.I kept on trying this method for a long time.It really benefits me and helps me reduce the symptoms of procrastination.So listening carefully~： List 3 most important things you want to do or you have to do when you wake up in the morning，then record them on paper or on your webpage.There should be attention：

1，Choose only 3 things which you must finish today.2，you can also plan to do other things too，but you can forget them today if you want.3，the thing can be formal，such as I should finish my paper today.The things can be small and secret：I will sent a message to my dream lover.This method can make you know what you should do today clearly and exactly.It makes you realize where should your time spend on，why you should do them without hesitation，and then，you cannot find any other reason to delay them.Fpg

Fpg And my second suggestion，about people find too many excuses when procrastination.It is quite simple：when you have known what you should do，just do it，and when you prepare to work，Don’t touch your mobile phone！Stay away from Internet！Never open We chat or micro blog！find all your excuses you have talked，and next time，they cannot be reasons to procrastination.Procrastination has bad impacts on our lives and we should eliminate it as much as possible.I hope my advicewill help you！

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Fpg Outline Disadvantages of procrastination. You cannot achieve your goal 1.Girls on diet  Procrastination makes you in hurry，so you cannot do things better.1.Makeup  Procrastination does harm to mental health.Reasons of procrastination. Lack of managing time  Find too many excuses.Methods to solve this problem. Time control method  Excuse control method

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第三篇：英语课前演讲稿procrastination拖延症

Good morning, ladies and gentlemen.Today, our topic is about procrastination.Well, what is procrastination? Generally speaking, procrastination is an act of putting of an essential task until a later time.And there is no doubt that procrastination will do harm to our study and health.Let’s see some behavior of a procrastinator.When the deadline is set, he will think there is one week until the assignment is due.So he has the false sense of security.I have plenty of time.As time passes, he will think that I will get started soon because I can only work under great pressure.And when the last day is coming, he hurries to do his work panickily and under great pressure.And the case of us is often that.Today I must write my paper, so I haven’t to be online.Well, I need to search some statistics, so I must use computer.And the tragedy happens on us.An evening is killed by our entertainment.And let’s see its four reasons.First, perfectionism.Everything you want to do should be done at a high level.You want to succeed by one time and don’t want to repeat again.Second, resistance and hostility.The teacher’s attitude towards me is so bad, so I don’t want to do his homework.Third, be easy to be decadence.The task is so difficult.Why other people needn’t do but I have to do? I can’t tolerate doing that.Maybe I will do it tomorrow.Last, self-depreciation.My ability becomes lower and lower gradually as I usually can’t finish my tasks well.Maybe everybody have procrastination to some degree.But how do to deal with it? Let’s see some measures.First, realize it's no need to procrastinate

Second, write down the reason why you will procrastinate piece by piece Third, overcome

And then, take action right now.If you want to finish your homework, if you want to get a high score for TEM4, if you want to do reading, if you want to keep fit, or if you want to show your love to your relatives or a special person.Don’t procrastinate any more.What make you the most happy is be able to do what you want to do.That’s all.Thank you.

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：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。

中英对照翻译

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.