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I participated in competition and therefore I was asked to do a lot of written works. Many people do it this way (показывается на график). To prepare for the next year in every month doing a little work. You understand, I hope. So, it was the last time I participated in the competition named “English Language”. I prepared very hard. I have been doing everything that people have been doing for whole year. I wrote this work very hard. I thought that was the end of it. The next week my English teacher wrote me. “Valeriya, you have the first place in this competition!” the best result! (пауза) That did not happen. I had the twentieth place out of seventy people. I just want to see thaqt one moment, when all of you thought “This girl is so cool” Well, now I’m standing in front of you and speaking TED. I made a work about procrastination. My behavior has always puzzled the people around. I thought that the brains of procrastinators were actually different than the brains of other people. To test this, I scanned the brain of a non-procrastinator and my brain in MRI lab/ I actually brought them to show you today. Here’s the brain of non-procrastinator. Rational Decision-Maker. Here’s my brain… it’s Instant Gratification Monkey. This monkey requires momentary pleasure. Rational Decision-Maker decides to work, but Monkey doesn’t like this solution. “Let’s go to this channel and watch video about cute cats!” sounds great!” Then we’ll watch something, read something. And there will be no time for work at all. Sorry. Monkey has no memory of past; no knowledge of the future and he cares about two things: easy and fun. Now, in the animal world that works fine I know. Which is why, we have another guy in our brain, the Rational Decision -Marker who gives us the ability to do things. No other animal can do. We can use the big picture. Sometimes Monkey and this guy are friends, but more often they conflict. This conflict ends the same way. The procrastinator spends more time in the green zone. Where it’s easy and fun. But how to get the procrastinator out of the green zone? Procrastinator has his own guardian angel. His name is Panic. Panic sleeps more time, but when the deadline for public disgrace expires, he wakes up. This story is the scheme of procrastinator’s work. The monkey is afraid of Panic and hides on a tree, and Rational Decision-Maker is working at this time. Many people complain about procrastinator. Why are all these people so upset? There are two types of procrastinator: when there are deadlines – Thanks to Panic! But there is procrastinator without deadlines. In such cases no panic will come. Because nothing is emitted. People just watch as life passes by. Remember: 1) The biggest trick it’s the lack of deadlines. Make no mistake! You will not have a lot of time to make a life like in your dreams. 2) If there are deadlines, think about of work. Start doing earlier an quality is higher. 3) Do not forget to relax, but remember about work. Start doing! Well, maybe not today. You know, sometime soon. Thank you.
