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Inside the Mind of a Master Procrastinator | Tim Urban | TED

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So in college,

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I was a government major,

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which means I had to write a lot of papers.

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Now, when a normal student writes a paper,

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they might spread the work out a little like this.

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So, you know --

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(Laughter)

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you get started maybe a little slowly,

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but you get enough done in the first week

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that, with some heavier days later on,

00:32

everything gets done, things stay civil.

00:34

(Laughter)

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And I would want to do that like that.

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That would be the plan.

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I would have it all ready to go,

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but then, actually, the paper would come along,

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and then I would kind of do this.

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(Laughter)

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And that would happen every single paper.

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But then came my 90-page senior thesis,

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a paper you're supposed to spend a year on.

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And I knew for a paper like that, my normal work flow was not an option.

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It was way too big a project.

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So I planned things out,

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and I decided I kind of had to go something like this.

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This is how the year would go.

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So I'd start off light,

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and I'd bump it up in the middle months,

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and then at the end, I would kick it up into high gear

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just like a little staircase.

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How hard could it be to walk up the stairs?

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No big deal, right?

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But then, the funniest thing happened.

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Those first few months?

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They came and went,

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and I couldn't quite do stuff.

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So we had an awesome new revised plan.

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(Laughter)

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And then --

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(Laughter)

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But then those middle months actually went by,

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and I didn't really write words,

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and so we were here.

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And then two months turned into one month,

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which turned into two weeks.

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And one day I woke up

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with three days until the deadline,

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still not having written a word,

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and so I did the only thing I could:

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I wrote 90 pages over 72 hours,

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pulling not one but two all-nighters --

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humans are not supposed to pull two all-nighters --

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sprinted across campus,

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dove in slow motion,

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and got it in just at the deadline.

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I thought that was the end of everything.

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But a week later I get a call,

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and it's the school.

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And they say, "Is this Tim Urban?"

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And I say, "Yeah."

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And they say, "We need to talk about your thesis."

02:23

And I say, "OK."

02:25

And they say,

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