62.2M views · Apr 6, 2016 · 14:04 · 5 HN recommenders · 8 mentions · discussed 2016–2023
Tim Urban's TED talk on why people procrastinate, covering YouTube binges and Wikipedia rabbit holes. It ends with the life-calendar idea as a nudge to act before time runs out.
Why Hacker News points people here: Recommended as a funny, empathetic take on procrastination and the origin of the life calendar concept.
“absolutely legendary TedX talk that humanizes procrastination”HN comment, 2023
“absolutely legendary TedX talk that humanizes procrastination”
Humanizes procrastination and builds empathy for procrastinators.
Nicely written. Before taxonomies and remediation, I would watch Tim Urban's absolutely legendary TedX talk that humanizes procrastination--despite all its ills--and how to empathize with procrastinators (inside and around you): this video
“following video is very informational and entertaining”
Informative, entertaining talk ending with life calendar.
On similar topic, following video is very informational and entertaining. Especially last part the life calendar. Sometimes this life calendar motivates me procrastinate the procrastination :) this video .
“Watch this video. It sometimes helps me.”
Helps the commenter with procrastination.
this video Watch this video. It sometimes helps me. I've become a worst procrastinator as I have grown and have more and more responsibility. I like to get things done.
Talk on procrastination shared from a psychology course.
Thank you for sharing, procrastination is something very addictive. A way to deal with it is fundamental. I'd like to share with you a TEDx Talk a professor of mine shown us along a Behavioural Psychology course: this video
Tim Urban's TED talk accompanying his illustrated guide.
In the same vein, here’s a fun illustrated guide to procrastination (and fixing it) by Tim Urban: link And accompanying TED Talk: this video
Tim Urban's TED talk on procrastination.
For those that aren’t resonating with this take on productivity (and procrastination), check out Tim Urban. Illustrated guide: link And accompanying TED Talk: this video
“excellent TED talk about procrastination”
Source of the life calendar concept.
Might be useful for some readers. I originally saw the life calendar concept in Tim Urbans excellent TED talk about procrastination a few years back. I couldnt find one on his site so I simply used the ASCII square character on Word and printed out a box for every week from birth until I am 85. I decided I wanted the weeks bigger so I deleted the already passed weeks, and changed the end date to proposed retirement at 65. It's not fun. I've lost the file but easy enough The talk this video
“A lot of advices can be misleading too.”
I share the same problem for a very long time and the situation gets worse as I grow up. But recently at least I have more understanding of my problem on this. The most important thing I want to share with you is that: Not most of things online are not useful to people like me, because the people are different. A lot of advices can be misleading too.( this video ) this one especially. Because for different people, the procrastination experience is very different. If you have the same issue as me, the core problem is not actually about planning and decision making. It is about my ability to do things. It's a long essay but I will put the essence here: To some of the people (about half the population as I estimate), there are two way to obtain knowledge, one is learning, the other is training. People tends to acquired knowledge by learning and lack of training will be highly likely to have my kind of procrastination, especially on something we are not really trained on. The common experience of me doing things is plan things, make time estimates and do it. This sounds familiar but it is extremely different experience among people. As a "learner" although I made the time estimates, I don't really know them well. But with something that I am more comfortable with, I have a special feeling about the time estimates, that will have a strong confidence on that I can finish in a certain time frame. I tend to have no decision hesitations on tasks like this. This is usually the reason that
