NOTE TAKING CHECK Inside The Mind of A Master Procrastinator TED HS171546 Tran Thu Hoai

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My notes:

About Tim Urban

Tim runs the blog Wait But Why where he writes about his “psychological
shortcomings”. He’s also a co-founder of ArborBridge, an educational
services firm.

The Procrastinator’s System

Tim wanted to explain what goes on in the heads of procrastinators.

So he built a framework to represent the procrastinator’s system, which


consists of three characters:

• the Rational Decision-Maker


• the Instant Gratification Monkey
• the Panic Monster

Two kinds of procrastination

There are two types of procrastination:

• Procrastination on hard things with deadlines


• Procrastination on hard things without deadlines

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