Inside the Mind of a Master Procrastinator | Tim Urban | TED

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 -- (Laughter) 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.

(Laughter) And I would want to do that like 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.

(Laughter) 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.