拖延症：我们都是及时行乐且无限拖延的猴子
Saturday
When a normal student writes a paper, they might spread the work out a little like this.
When you write a paper—
Teacher
We need to talk about your thesis.
You
OK.
Teacher
It’s the best one we’ve ever seen.
(That did not happen!)
Teacher
It was a very, very bad thesis.
TED
你有拖延症吗？
This entire situation, with the three characters—the procrastinator’s system.
拖延症患者的系统——三种角色。
1 Rational Decision-Maker 理性决策者
2 Instant Gratification Monkey 及时行乐猴子（决策者的敌人）
3 Panic Monster 惊恐怪兽（猴子的敌人，决策者的天使）
Here’s the brain of a non-procrastinator.
非拖延者的大脑
Here is your brain.
以下是拖延者的大脑，也就是你的大脑。
Now, what does this mean for the procrastinator?
非拖延者和拖延者意味着什么呢？
仅仅是一个大脑里是Rational Decision-Maker理性决策者，而另一个大脑里是Rational Decision-Maker理性决策者和Instant Gratification Monkey及时行乐猴子这么简单吗？
Well, it means everything’s fine until this happens.
其实，意味着平时非拖延者和拖延者都是一毛一样的，除非……有事情发生……
Rational Decision-Maker：
This is a perfect time to get some work done.
当理性决策者说：趁时光正好，我们一起欢乐地工作啊！
Instant Gratification Monkey:
Nope!
及时行乐猴子说:不！
So we’re not going to really have room on the schedule for any work today. Now, what is going on here?
所以，最后在及时行乐猴子的带动下，没有时间去完成日程表任何一件工作，最后呢？
PLAY!
玩耍起来！
Well, turns out the procrastinator has a guardian angel, someone who’s always looking down on him and watching over him—someone called the Panic Monster.
好吧，拖延症患者也并非无药可救，拖延者有一位天使守护，有些人叫它——惊恐怪兽！（这个名字很萌，不是吗？）
The Panic Monster is dormant most of the time, but he suddenly wakes up anytime a deadline gets too close or there’s danger of public embarrassment, a career disaster or some other scary consequence.
惊恐怪兽平时都是休眠ing，除非deadline将至，要在公开场合露怯，或者职业灾难要发生……它才会突然醒来！
And importantly, he’s the only thing the Monkey is terrified of.
惊恐怪兽可以吓走及时行乐猴子！
Finally, the Rational Decision-Maker can take the wheel.
最终，在惊恐怪物吓走及时行乐猴子后，理性决策人终于掌管大权。
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.
我相信，每个人都是拖延者。只是，有些拖延者并不慌乱，只是协调好了与deadline之间的关系。
It turns out that there’s two kinds of procrastination.
Deadline and non-deadline.
其实，拖延分为两种:有截止日期和无明确截止期限。
If you want 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.
比如，你希望自学成才，做个艺术达人，或者创个业什么的，这些是没有截止日期的。因为起初，是没有任何变化，除非你全情投入，拼尽全力，才有些许进展……
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 doesn’t work.
除了事业之外，还有很多重要的事情没有截止期限。比如，与家人一起共度美好时光，关心健康、锻炼身体，维系关系、交流情感，或者从一段关系中脱身……
And remember:
The Monkey’s sneakiest trick is when the deadlines aren’t there.
请一定记住：
及时行乐猴子的狡诈通常是体现在无明确截止期限的事情上。
Enhancement（拓 展）
Life Calendar
That’s one box for every week of a 75-year life.
(人生只有900个月。事实上，你可以画一个30×30的表格，每过一个月，就在一个格子里打钩。你全部的人生就在这张纸上。你会因此有一个清晰的概念：你的人生是如何度过的！)
There aren’t that many boxes, especially since we’ve already used a bunch of them. So I think we all need to 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.
这是你生命日历，尤其是，我们已经占用了其中一部分，甚至一大部分。因此，我们需要认真看下日历，需要思考一下——我们究竟拖延的是什么?警惕“及时行乐猴子”，刻不容缓！
That's a job for all of us. And because there aren’t that many boxes left, it's a job that should probably start today.
Well, maybe not today, but...You know. Sometime soon.
Let’s start to change now!
—共读书籍简介—
《无人生还》（And Then There Were None），原名《孤岛奇案》，是著名的英国侦探推理女王作家阿加莎·克里斯蒂的作品，也是她生涯中最著名的作品之一，被认为是历史上成就最高的推理小说之一，全球销量超过一亿册。被改编成多部影视、戏剧、漫画、游戏作品。小说巧妙地构思了八个素不相识的人受邀来到海岛印第安岛上，后来十个人都被谋害的精彩推理剧情，情节跌但起伏却毫不荒诞。该书出版于1939年。