My personal notes for Inside the Mind of a Master Procrastinator
A talk by Tim Urban from TED
There are two kinds of procrastination:
- The kind with deadlines. This type of procrastination isn’t so bad because it’s contained. Eventually, you hit your deadline and either get your shit done or not.
- The kind without deadlines. This is much harder to deal with. If you don’t do anything, nothing will happen. This is the kind of procrastination that’s deadly to entrepreneurs. “It’s usually suffered quietly and privately and it can be the source of a huge amount of long-term unhappiness and regret.”
Long-term procrastination has made [procrastinators] feel like a spectator in their own lives. The frustration was not that they couldn’t achieve their dreams, it’s that they weren’t even able to start chasing them.
Non-procrastinators don’t exist. Some people handle it better than others, but everyone has a monkey mind.