Procrastination In I Ll Do It Tomorrow By Tim Urban

I’ll Do It Tomorrow Procrastinators are known as being lazy and unmotivated, while overachievers are celebrated for their unwavering work ethic. These two categories of people are often shown in extremes. “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.” Tim Urban, known for his blog “Wait But Why”, shares his personal experiences with procrastination in his Ted Talk, “Inside the mind of a master procrastinator.” Urban shows his plan for getting the paper done by showing the audience a graph. It displays his work per day until the assignment is done. It is a light work load in the beginning, and then it graduates

“Well, it turns out the procrastinator has a guardian angel, someone who’s always looking down on him and watching over him in the darkest moments. –Someone called the panic monster.” The panic monster, has been present in most peoples lives. For example, pulling an all nightery to finish a paper, or drinking six cups of coffee cramming to finish your presentation before work. The instant gratification monkey is absolutely scared by the panic monster, because the monkey doesn’t know how to remedy the panic it feels. Then your whole brain starts to go into panic mode. “The panic monster explains all kinds of pretty insane procrastinator behavior, like how someone like me, could spend two weeks unable to start the opening sentence of a pater, and then miraculously find the unbelievable work ethic to stay up all night and write eight pages. And this entire situation, with the three characters—this is the procrastinators

The procrastinators process may be different for everyone, buy without fail it has those same three characters that drive the brain. Urban got a large response from his blog, receiving emails from many readers. Urban described these emails with having an intense frustration about what procrastination had done to their lives, although some emails had a very light tone as well. Urban comes to the result that there are two types of procrastination. One, where there are deadlines and causes short term procrastination, and the second kind is where there is procrastination with no deadlines. The first kind, is temporary, and that is what Urban discussed before. For example, doing a paper the night before it’s due. The second kind, the long-term procrastination, is quite different. For example, “If you wanted a career where you are a self-starter—something in the arts, something entrepreneurial, --there’s no deadlines on those things at first, because nothings happening, not until you’ve gone out and done hard work to get momentum, to get things