第一篇：英語課堂演講 presentation 主題：拖延癥 procrastination

Asweallknow,LastTuesday,Iwasoneofthefivestudentsselectedtomakeapresentationinthefrontoftheclassroom.So madeaplanlikethis,thepowerpointwouldbedonestepbystep.“

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Perfect！thatisjustapieceofcake”Isaidtomyself.But,thingswerenotproceedingasplanned,astimewentby,actuallythepowerpointwasdonelikethis.Today,wewilldiscusssomethingaboutprocrastination.Oncewetalkaboutit,youwillsay “Iamsufferingfromit

:,whichmakesmesoupset.”Forexamples,stayuptoolate, vocabulary taskofCET6unfinished,weightlossprogramevennotstarted,andsoon.So,Today's

presentation

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divided

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two parts:Whyareweprocrastinators？And how to cope with procrastination？

Sometimes,procrastinationisadarkpenguinwholivesentirelyinthepresentmoment.Hehasnomemoryofthepast,noknowledgeofthefuture.Andheonlycaresabouttwothings:easyandfun.Aslongasyouarehappy,nothingisimportant.Whenhetakescontrolofyourmind,thingswillbedifferent.When I am busy with scientific research in the lab alone,the dark penguin shows up,he says to me“it is so boring,let us play LOL(League of Legends)for relax”or

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let

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watch Descendantsofthesun,itjustupdatedthefifteenthepisodelastnight ”,then the boat will turn over.Sometimes,procrastination

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an umbrellawhichprotectsyoufromthejudgementoffailure.Duringmyseniorhighschooltime,Iwasnotgoodatstudy,everytimewhentheteacher

announced therankandscoresofeveryexamintheclass,Istaredsharplyattheclassmatewhogotthefirstintheexamandtoldtomyself

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youarejustastudy

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machine,if

I hadstudiedlikeyou,gettingupatsix o'clock inthemorning and going to bed until eleven o'clock in the night,I would have got higher marks than you did.”Actually I wasalwaysapoorstudentacrossmyseniorhighschooltime.Thinkcarefully,Ijust feared that I would notgothighmarksevenif I hadstudiedlikethefirstdid,so I chosetoprocrastinateratherthanmakeachange,itseemsthatIamnotaloserbecause I didnottrymybest.What can we do？here are some tips on how to cope with procrastination.1.Acceptthatnoonecanachievefullyperfect,weallareprocrastinators.Thingswouldbeworsewhenyoublame yourself.2.Beawareofthedarkpenguinthatbringuinstantgratification,remindyourselfof what youreallywant.You're doing the activity(exercise, language learning)possibly because you want to do it.When we stop doing something, it's because we've forgotten that we wanted it.We start to fear it for some reason, and try not to think about it.Instead, think about it, but remind yourself of why you started doing it in the first place.3.（Could u find the differences between two balls？The Balloon is big and empty，the shot put is small and solid，in the other word）Setarealisticandspecificgoalratherthanavague,globalone.NOT:“Iwanttoloseweight!”INSTEAD:“Iwillrunforonehoureverynightifweatherconditionpermits.”

4.Watch out for your excuses.Instead of using your excuse as an automatic reason to procrastinate,use your excuse as a reward for taking a step.NOT:“Where does the energy come from to lose weight if I don't eat enough?”INSTEAD:“Iwilleat a small piece of cookie as a reward forrunning an hour.”

5.（Aha..it is a slogan of Nike sport,but now I am not a salesman for Nike company，I just want to remind you）Donotfeartobealoser,just do it.Instead of trying to do the whole project at once, just take one small step.Remember:“The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”

Finally,IwillshareyouguysonebookabouthowtodefeatProcrastination boughtittwoyearsagoanduntilrecentlyIhavejustfinishedit.DonotaskmewhyYou know it..I ？

第二篇：拖延癥英語演講Procrastination

Fpg Before I start my topic，I want to show you a picture，which show us a common phenomenon，or a problem that everyone sit here may have.Look，the picture is here，about efficiency and time.This is the work efficiency and this is time line.This point stand for the day you got your assignment or work.The truth is，only at the day before DDL，can you achieve the highest efficiency.And we always call that “procrastination”，which means “willingly” deferring something even though you expect the delay to make you worse.In my word，it is although you have known you have do it now，but still，youdon’t move on until last time.So，as you see，today my topic is How to solve “procrastination”，I divide my topic into 3 parts.First，disadvantages of procrastination.Second，reasons of procrastination.Last，methods to solve this problem.In this part I will bring you an interesting practice about time control andsome suggestions，believe me，it is very practical.Now，the disadvantagesof procrastination.First，you cannot achieve your goal.For example： Girls always say：“ oh I’m on diet，I want to put out my weight” But one problem is that few people can do this fitness plan，for Fpg

Fpg many reasons：today I feel depressed，only eating can cure me/I’m really tired now，so just do some exercise tomorrow~ you always have various excuses to take action，and then，your goals become dreams，you can never achieve it.Second，procrastination makes you in hurry，so you cannot do things better.For example，you have a date in the evening，but you browsed micro blog again and again，chatted with your friends，thinking about you still have time to prepare.But at last，you have to make up in a short time.So this is the appearance you should have had，but

this

is

the

reality.It cut down the quality of work.You should have done you better，don’t you？

Last，procrastination does harm to mental health.Some people don’t start to deal with their work until the last minute，so once they start，they usually become extremely nervous，because so much work put a lot of pressure on them.Sometimes, when

people faced with much work to be done, they may become anxious and upset.There is no doubt that these negative emotion anFpg

Fpg d great pressure can make people feel depressed，and less confident.In a nutshell, putting things off has so many bad influences on people’s life, so it is very essential for those delayers to try to get rid of this bad habit.So let us find the reasons of procrastination： 1lack of managing time Time treats everyone fairly that we all have 24 hours per day.Some of us are capable to make good use of time while some find it hard to do so.The vital reason of procrastination is you cannot control your time correctly，and you put too much time on non-essential things.2 find too many excuses.When you face a problem or some work，you always can find lots of excuses

to

avoid

them.You chat with your friends through QQ, surf the Internet and go shopping on taobao as if they are essential，but they are not，you know it，you just find some excuse to delay your work.Fpg

Fpg After this analysis，I have some ideas that maybe can help you.First is a method of time-control.I kept on trying this method for a long time.It really benefits me and helps me reduce the symptoms of procrastination.So listening carefully~： List 3 most important things you want to do or you have to do when you wake up in the morning，then record them on paper or on your webpage.There should be attention：

1，Choose only 3 things which you must finish today.2，you can also plan to do other things too，but you can forget them today if you want.3，the thing can be formal，such as I should finish my paper today.The things can be small and secret：I will sent a message to my dream lover.This method can make you know what you should do today clearly and exactly.It makes you realize where should your time spend on，why you should do them without hesitation，and then，you cannot find any other reason to delay them.Fpg

Fpg And my second suggestion，about people find too many excuses when procrastination.It is quite simple：when you have known what you should do，just do it，and when you prepare to work，Don’t touch your mobile phone！Stay away from Internet！Never open We chat or micro blog！find all your excuses you have talked，and next time，they cannot be reasons to procrastination.Procrastination has bad impacts on our lives and we should eliminate it as much as possible.I hope my advicewill help you！

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Fpg Outline Disadvantages of procrastination.? You cannot achieve your goal 1.Girls on diet ? Procrastination makes you in hurry，so you cannot do things better.1.Makeup ? Procrastination does harm to mental health.Reasons of procrastination.? Lack of managing time ? Find too many excuses.Methods to solve this problem.? Time control method ? Excuse control method

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第三篇：英語課前演講稿procrastination拖延癥

Good morning, ladies and gentlemen.Today, our topic is about procrastination.Well, what is procrastination? Generally speaking, procrastination is an act of putting of an essential task until a later time.And there is no doubt that procrastination will do harm to our study and health.Let’s see some behavior of a procrastinator.When the deadline is set, he will think there is one week until the assignment is due.So he has the false sense of security.I have plenty of time.As time passes, he will think that I will get started soon because I can only work under great pressure.And when the last day is coming, he hurries to do his work panickily and under great pressure.And the case of us is often that.Today I must write my paper, so I haven’t to be online.Well, I need to search some statistics, so I must use computer.And the tragedy happens on us.An evening is killed by our entertainment.And let’s see its four reasons.First, perfectionism.Everything you want to do should be done at a high level.You want to succeed by one time and don’t want to repeat again.Second, resistance and hostility.The teacher’s attitude towards me is so bad, so I don’t want to do his homework.Third, be easy to be decadence.The task is so difficult.Why other people needn’t do but I have to do? I can’t tolerate doing that.Maybe I will do it tomorrow.Last, self-depreciation.My ability becomes lower and lower gradually as I usually can’t finish my tasks well.Maybe everybody have procrastination to some degree.But how do to deal with it? Let’s see some measures.First, realize it's no need to procrastinate

Second, write down the reason why you will procrastinate piece by piece Third, overcome

And then, take action right now.If you want to finish your homework, if you want to get a high score for TEM4, if you want to do reading, if you want to keep fit, or if you want to show your love to your relatives or a special person.Don’t procrastinate any more.What make you the most happy is be able to do what you want to do.That’s all.Thank you.

第四篇：關于拖延癥的演講

今天，我想和大家來說一說在現代社會中，十分普遍的一種“絕癥”——拖延癥。

拖延癥是指自我調節失敗，在能夠預料后果有害的情況下，仍然把計劃要做的事情往后推遲的一種行為。

相信大家在平時生活中都有這樣的體驗：下周要月考，英語單詞還沒有背熟，但還是不能翻開英語書好好地背單詞，總想著“還有一個禮拜”、早著呢；或者語文要看的古文字詞義還沒記牢，明明手上沒有什么事，寧可翻開小說看幾眼，或者拿起手機玩一會兒游戲，都不愿意翻開課本。總要拖到最后幾天、甚至最后一天才翻開書，嘴里念叨著“來不及了來不及了”、一邊后悔為什么沒有提前復習。這樣臨時抱佛腳、很有可能被佛一腳踢開。考試結束之后，痛定思痛、下定決心，下次考試一定要好好復習；然后呢？然后下一次還是被拖延癥扯斷了后腿。如此循環、周而復始。

對于這樣的事我深有體會。就比如這次演講，在半個月前我就開始想講什么，但是總想著這周是男生講，有一個周末的時間來準備，沒有關系；或者就算這周是女生講，但是輪不到我，還有時間。就這樣一直拖拖拖，直到昨天我才決定，用自己血淋淋的教訓，作為今天演講的話題。

我們都知道拖延癥有多么嚴重的后果，那有什么解決的方法呢？一位心理學家尼爾·菲奧里有一本書叫《戰勝拖拉》，書中提到這樣一個方法，叫“逆向日程表”法。簡單來說，就是從最終完成任務的那個日期算起，往前推，到哪一天該完成哪一階段，一直逆推到當下。這樣就不會沒有緊迫感；同樣，一個巨大的任務被分割成小部分，看起來也會輕松一些、人的畏難心理也會減輕。

還有一種方法被叫做“番茄工作法”，這個方法來源于一個番茄計時器，這個計時器每30分鐘會報一次時。實驗者在這30分鐘內分配休息和工作的時間，每30分鐘被稱為一個“番茄時間”。經過很多次實驗后，人們發現，25分鐘工作和5分鐘休息是比較合理、容易被人接受的；也可以讓人專心工作、不被誘惑分散注意力。

那到現在，我的演講也基本結束了。希望可以給大家、同樣也是給自己一些克服拖延癥的好的建議；也希望下次輪到我演講時，別再準備得如此倉促。謝謝。

第五篇：ted演講中英對照 拖延癥

TED演講——拖延癥

拖延癥者的思維方式到底是什么樣的？為什么有些人非要到deadline來的時候才知道打起精神做事情？是否存在執行力強的人或是說人人都有一定程度的拖延癥？Tim Urban從一個被deadline趕著走的拖延癥者的角度帶你走進拖延癥的神奇思維世界。

中英對照翻譯

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.So, you know--you get started maybe a little slowly, but you get enough done in the first week that, with some heavier days later on, everything gets done, things stay civil.And I would want to do that like that.That would be the plan.I would have it all ready to go, but then, actually, the paper would come along, and then I would kind of do this.在大學，我讀的是政府專業。也就是說，我需要寫很多的論文。一般的學生寫論文時，他們可能會這樣安排：(看圖)你可能開頭會慢一點，但第一周有這些已經足夠。后期再一點點的增加，最后任務完成，非常的有條理。我也想這么做，所以一開始也是這么計劃的。我做了完美的安排(看圖)，但后來，實際上論文任務一直出現，我就只能這樣了(看圖)。

And that would happen every single paper.But then came my 90-page senior thesis, a paper you're supposed to spend a year on.And I knew for a paper like that, my normal work flow was not an option.It was way too big a project.So I planned things out, and I decided I kind of had to go something like this.This is how the year would go.So I'd start off light, and I'd bump it up in the middle months, and then at the end, I would kick it up into high gear just like a little staircase.How hard could it be to walk up the stairs? No big deal, right?

我的每一篇論文都是這種情況，直到我長達90頁的畢業論文任務，這篇論文理應花一年的時間來做，我也知道這樣的工作，我先前的工作方式是行不通的，這個項目太大，所以我制定了計劃。決定按照這樣的方式工作，這樣來安排我這一年。(看圖)開頭我會輕松一點，中期任務逐漸增加，到最后，我再全力沖刺一下。整體是這種階梯式安排，一層一層走樓梯有多難?所以沒什么大不了的，是吧?

But then, the funniest thing happened.Those first few months? They came and went, and I couldn't quite do stuff.So we had an awesome new revised plan.And then--But then those middle months actually went by, and I didn't really write words, and so we were here.And then two months turned into one month, which turned into two weeks.但后來，好笑的事情出現了，頭幾個月時光匆匆而逝，我還沒有來得及動工，所以我們明智的調整了計劃。然后，中間的幾個月也過去了，我還是一個字也沒有動，眨眼就到了這里，然后兩個月變成了一個月，再變成了2周。

And one day I woke up with three days until the deadline, still not having written a word, and so I did the only thing I could: I wrote 90 pages over 72 hours, pulling not one but two all-nighters--humans are not supposed to pull two all-nighters--sprinted across campus, dove in slow motion, and got it in just at the deadline.一天我醒來，發現離交稿日期只剩3天了，但我還一個字都沒寫。我別無選擇，只能在接下來的72小時里，連續通宵兩個晚上趕論文——一般人不應連續通宵兩個晚上。90頁趕出來后，我飛速沖過校園，像電影中的特寫慢鏡頭一樣，恰好在截止日期前的最后一刻交上。

I thought that was the end of everything.But a week later I get a call, and it's the school.And they say, “Is this Tim Urban?” And I say, “Yeah.” And they say, “We need to talk about your thesis.” And I say, “OK.” And they say, “It's the best one we've ever seen.” That did not happen.It was a very, very bad thesis.I just wanted to enjoy that one moment when all of you thought, “This guy is amazing!” No, no, it was very, very bad.我以為事情就這么完了，但一周后，我接到一個電話，是學校打來的。他們說：“你是Tim Urban嗎?”我說：“是。”他們說：“我們要說一說你的畢業論文。”我說：“好啊。”他們說：“這是我見過最棒的論文。”……當然不可能。論文非常非常的差勁。我只想享受下你們對我的崇拜，想聽你們說：“這老兄太厲害了。”沒有，其實寫的非常差勁。

Anyway, today I'm a writer-blogger guy.I write the blog Wait But Why.And a couple of years ago, I decided to write about procrastination.My behavior has always perplexed the non-procrastinators around me, and I wanted to explain to the non-procrastinators of the worldwhat goes on in the heads of procrastinators, and why we are the way we are.不管怎樣，我現在成為了一個博客寫手，經營著“wait but why”這個博客。幾年前，我決定寫寫拖延這件事。我的行為方式總讓身邊非拖延者感到不能理解。我很想對世界上非拖延者的人解釋一下，我們拖延癥患者的腦子是什么樣的，為什么我們會拖延。

Now, I had a hypothesisthat the brains of procrastinators were actually different than the brains of other people.And to test this, I found an MRI lab that actually let me scan both my brain and the brain of a proven non-procrastinator,so I could compare them.I actually brought them here to show you today.I want you to take a look carefully to see if you can notice a difference.I know that if you're not a trained brain expert, it's not that obvious, but just take a look, OK? So here's the brain of a non-procrastinator.Now...here's my brain.首先我假設，拖延癥患者的大腦實際上和其他人的大腦不一樣。為了驗證這一點，我找了家核磁共振實驗室，給我和另一個確定是非拖延癥的人，進行了腦部掃描，我好將二者進行對比，今天我帶到現場，給大家展示一下。我希望大家仔細觀察，看能不能注意到差異。我知道大家并非專業的大腦專家，較難看出他們的差異，但大家不妨先看一眼，如何?這張是非拖延者的大腦，這張是我的大腦。

There is a difference.Both brains have a Rational Decision-Maker in them, but the procrastinator's brain also has an Instant Gratification Monkey.Now, what does this mean for the procrastinator? Well, it means everything's fine until this happens.[This is a perfect time to get some work done.] [Nope!] So the Rational Decision-Maker will make the rational decision to do something productive, but the Monkey doesn't like that plan, so he actually takes the wheel, and he says, “Actually, let's read the entire Wikipedia page of the Nancy Kerrigan/ Tonya Harding scandal, because I just remembered that that happened.兩張是有一點不同，兩個大腦都有一個理性決策人，但在拖延癥患者的大腦里，還有一個及時行樂的猴子。那這對拖延癥患者來說意味著什么呢? 這意味著平時沒什么異樣，但一旦發生了以下的情況，理性的決策人做出理性的決策，要去做一些實際的工作，但猴子不喜歡這個計劃，所以他搶過方向盤，說道：“說實話，我們還是去維基百科上查一查NKTH的丑聞吧。”因為我剛想起來還發生過這件事。

Then--Then we're going to go over to the fridge, to see if there's anything new in there since 10 minutes ago.After that, we're going to go on a YouTube spiral that starts with videos of Richard Feynman talking about magnets and ends much, much later with us watching interviews with Justin Bieber's mom.然后我們會去翻冰箱，看看和十分鐘前相比有沒有什么新的東西。然后我們去youtobe看一連串的視頻，從Richard Feynman談論磁鐵開始，一直到很久很久之后看到一個Justin Bieber媽媽的訪談才結束。以上這些事情都得花時間，所以我們今天沒有時間再來工作了。

”All of that's going to take a while, so we're not going to really have room on the schedule for any work today.Sorry!“ Now, what is going on here? The Instant Gratification Monkey does not seem like a guy you want behind the wheel.He lives entirely in the present moment.He has no memory of the past, no knowledge of the future, and he only cares about two things: easy and fun.5:15Now, in the animal world, that works fine.If you're a dog and you spend your whole life doing nothing other than easy and fun things, you're a huge success!

所以，到底發生了什么?這個及時行樂的猴子并非你，希望是控制方向的人，他完全生活在當下，沒有過去的記憶，也沒有未來的概念。他只關注兩件事情：簡單和開心。在動物界，這兩點完全沒有問題。如果你是一條狗，一輩子只追求一些簡單和快樂的事，那就是巨大的成功了。

And to the Monkey, humans are just another animal species.You have to keep well-slept, well-fed and propagating into the next generation, which in tribal times might have worked OK.But, if you haven't noticed, now we're not in tribal times.We're in an advanced civilization, and the Monkey does not know what that is.Which is why we have another guy in our brain, the Rational Decision-Maker, who gives us the ability to do things no other animal can do.We can visualize the future.We can see the big picture.We can make long-term plans.And he wants to take all of that into account.And he wants to just have us do whatever makes sense to be doing right now.但對猴子來說，人類是另外一個物種，你得正常睡眠、規律飲食、繁衍后代。在原始部落時代，這也沒太大問題。但你注意到沒有，現在并非原始部落時代，我們生活在一個現代文明社會中，而猴子完全不能理解這是什么意思，這也是為什么我們大腦中會有另外一個，理性的決策者，他使人類有能力做到其他動物無法做到的事情。我們能設想未來，可以從大局出發，制定長期計劃，他可以把所有這些事考慮在內。希望讓我們做出最合理的事情.Now, sometimes it makes sense to be doing things that are easy and fun, like when you're having dinner or going to bed or enjoying well-earned leisure time.That's why there's an overlap.Sometimes they agree.But other times, it makes much more senseto be doing things that are harder and less pleasant, for the sake of the big picture.And that's when we have a conflict.And for the procrastinator, that conflict tends to end a certain way every time, leaving him spending a lot of time in this orange zone, an easy and fun place that's entirely out of the Makes Sense circle.I call it the Dark Playground.有時，做一些簡單開心的事情是很合理的，比如吃飯睡覺、享受贏得的休閑時光，所以二者也有重疊的部分。有時二者是一致的，但有些時候，從長遠的角度來看，一些更困難不開心的事情，才是合理的事情，所以就出現了沖突。對拖延癥患者來說，每次這種沖突到最后的結果都一樣，都讓他在這片橙色區域里耗費大量時間，這里很簡單很開心，但完全不在合理圈的范圍內，我將這個區域稱為黑暗操場。

Now, the Dark Playground is a place that all of you procrastinators out there know very well.It's where leisure activities happen at times when leisure activities are not supposed to be happening.The fun you have in the Dark Playground isn't actually fun, because it's completely unearned, and the air is filled with guilt, dread, anxiety, self-hatred--all of those good procrastinator feelings.And the question is, in this situation, with the Monkey behind the wheel, how does the procrastinator ever get himself over here to this blue zone, a less pleasant place, but where really important things happen?

這個黑暗操場，所有的拖延者患者都應該很熟悉，在這里發生了許多，本不應該在此時進行的休閑活動。你在黑暗操場獲得的樂趣，實際并不有趣，因為這并非你應得的。這里的空氣充滿了內疚、恐懼、焦慮和自我憎恨——這些都是拖延癥患者常有的情緒。所以問題是，在猴子掌握方向盤的情況下，拖延癥患者如何進入這邊的藍色區域呢?這里雖然沒有這么舒適，但進行的事情都非常重要。

And they were all writing, saying the same thing: ”I have this problem too." But what struck me was the contrast between the light tone of the post and the heaviness of these emails.These people were writing with intense frustration about what procrastination had done to their lives, about what this Monkey had done to them.And I thought about this, and I said, well, if the procrastinator's system works, then what's going on? Why are all of these people in such a dark place?

他們都在寫同一句話：“我也有這個問題。”但真正讓我感到觸動的，是我博客的輕描淡寫，和郵件的沉重文風之間的強烈對比。這些讀者以非常沮喪的語言，告訴我拖延對他們的生活造成了哪些影響，告訴我猴子對他們都做了些什么。我思考了一下，問道，既然拖延癥患者的系統是有效果的，那到底哪不對呢?為什么這些人都置身黑暗之中呢?

Well, it turns out that there's two kinds of procrastination.Everything I've talked about today, the examples I've given, they all have deadlines.And when there's deadlines, the effects of procrastination are contained to the short term because the Panic Monster gets involved.But there's a second kind of procrastination that happens in situations when there is no deadline.So if you wanted a career where you're a self-starter--something in the arts, something entrepreneurial--there's no deadlines on those things at first, because nothing's happening, not until you've gone out and done the hard work to get momentum, get things going.原來，拖延分為兩種，我今天所說的拖延和所舉的例子，都是有截止日期的。一旦有了截止日期，拖延的影響會被限制在一定時期內，因為后期驚慌怪獸會出現，但還有第二種拖延，這種拖延是沒有截止日期的，所以如果你想在一些領域內自學成才——比如學個藝術或者創個業——這些事情開始都是沒有截止日期的，因為開始不會有什么變化，直到你拼盡全力，辛勤投入，才會有一點起色，你才能看到進展。

There's also all kinds of important things outside of your career that don't involve any deadlines, like seeing your family or exercising and taking care of your health, working on your relationship or getting out of a relationship that isn't working.Now if the procrastinator's only mechanism of doing these hard things is the Panic Monster, that's a problem, because in all of these non-deadline situations, the Panic Monster doesn't show up.He has nothing to wake up for, so the effects of procrastination, they're not contained;they just extend outward forever.除了工作之外，還有很多其他重要的事情，也是沒有截止日期的，比如看望家人、鍛煉身體、保持健康、維系感情，或者從一段不合適的感情中抽身。如果說拖延癥患者處理這些困難的唯一機制，是驚慌怪獸的話，那就有問題了，因為在這些沒有截止日期的情況下，驚慌怪獸是不會現身的，沒有喚醒他的條件，所以這一類拖延的后果是沒有限制的，他們會不斷地肆意延伸。

And it's this long-term kind of procrastination that's much less visible and much less talked about than the funnier, short-term deadline-based kind.It's usually suffered quietly and privately.And it can be the source of a huge amount of long-term unhappiness, and regrets.和有截止日期的好笑的短期拖延相比，這種長時期的拖延，更不易被人察覺，也更少被談論到，他常常在無聲無息中折磨著人們，可以說是大部分長期抑郁和悔恨的根源。

And I thought, that's why those people are emailing, and that's why they're in such a bad place.It's not that they're cramming for some project.It's that long-term procrastination has made them feel like a spectator, at times, in their own lives.The frustration is not that they couldn't achieve their dreams;it's that they weren't even able to start chasing them.我想，這也是為什么這些人會寫信，為什么狀態這么差的原因吧。他們并非在為某個項目臨時抱佛腳，這種長期拖延使他們有時感覺，自己只是生活的旁觀者，讓他們沮喪的不是他們沒有實現夢想，而是他們甚至還沒有開始追尋夢想。

So I read these emails and I had a little bit of an epiphany--that I don't think non-procrastinators exist.That's right--I think all of you are procrastinators.Now, you might not all be a mess, like some of us, and some of you may have a healthy relationship with deadlines, but remember: the Monkey's sneakiest trick is when the deadlines aren't there.我讀著這些來信，忽然有一種頓悟——我覺得非拖延者是不存在的，沒錯，我認為你們所有人都是拖延者，當然你們可能不像，我們有些人這么混亂。你們有些人可能與截止日期保持著良性的關系。但記住：猴子最狡猾的伎倆，發生在沒有截止日期的時候。

Now, I want to show you one last thing.I call this a Life Calendar.That's one box for every week of a 90-year life.That's not that many boxes, especially since we've already used a bunch of those.So I think we need to all take a long, hard look at that calendar.We need to think about what we're really procrastinating on, because everyone is procrastinating on something in life.We need to stay aware of the Instant Gratification Monkey.That's a job for all of us.And because there's not that many boxes on there, it's a job that should probably start today.Well, maybe not today, but...You know.Sometime soon.最后我想給大家看一個東西，我稱之為“生命日歷”。這里的每一個格子都代表90年生命中的一周，格子數并不是很多，尤其我們已經用掉了許多。我想我們需要好好花時間，認真看看這個日歷。我們需要想一下，我們真正在拖延的是什么，因為每個人在生命中都有拖延一些東西，我們需要警惕及時行樂的猴子，這是我們所有人的任務。因為這里的格子數并不多，所以或許我們今天就應該行動起來，或許不一定是今天，而是盡快。Thank you.