A monthly journey into to the weirder, wilder side of the TED archives. July 2016 – Tim Urban ‘Inside the mind of a procrastinator’
‘Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow!’ – it’s the rallying cry of slackers, stoners and idlers the world over. But it’s also a philosophy that can be reliably called upon to deliver remarkably poor results in almost all of life’s most important situations. So why do we it? Well according to Tim Urban, one of the web’s sharpest and most expansive bloggers and creator of the truly remarkable Waitbutwhy.com, it’s all down to the Instant Gratification Monkey and the Panic Monster. Just get these beasts under control and you can leave worrying about procrastination to another day!
This post was written by Dan Irwin