Inside the mind of a procrastinator - Tim Urban

 Tim Urban's insight on why people procrastinate. This Ted Talk claims the individual has no control over it. That a procrastionator suffers from it the same way an obsese person can't stop eating or how an depressed person couldn't stop feeling depressed.  It quickly grabbed my attention, it had the right amount of humor but at the same time still was very serious. It brought up great points some of  which I could relate to, had funny diagrams which made following easier and while it was short hit home why people procrastinate.

Here is Tim's humorous diagram of how a Non-Procrastionator's brain works. This person's brain is pretty much always focusing on the topic. The brain is pretty much held together by something called the Rational Decison Maker. 

In contrast we have a Procrastionator's brain. 

In this example we see something called the Instant Gratification Monkey(IGM), which veers the Rational decison maker of course. The IGM pretty much lives for the moment and while it knows your 1000 word essay has to be done in 24 hours, but  instead it wants to watch youtube videos about The Walking Dead or spend 3 hours browsing tvtropes hopping link to link  of your favorite game of thrones character. It doesn't understand the concept of hard work, don't do something if it's difficult is the monkey's motto. It unreliable and even worst the Rational Decison-Maker doesn't know how to fight it. Luckly it has a champion.

While inactive most of the time the panic monster shows up when a deadline is coming up or some nasty consquence.  It can easily scare off the monkey and it very effective. Which is why someone who couldn't write an 1000 word essay is suddenly on track. 

All in all easily one of the best Teds Take's which explained why I waited a day before this assignment was due to start and also why I'm watching Empire while I type out this blog.