PROCRASTINATION
I Need a Deadline To Get Anything Done, Ever
I’ve written a Master’s thesis, earned a Doctorate in Physical Therapy, and published almost two hundred blog posts. But I could never have done any of it without a deadline.
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6 min readJun 7, 2020
Whenever I’m working on anything, I have a tendency to let my instant gratification monkey take full control. A few hours later, I’m left wondering where my time went, and why I didn’t make any progress.
This is a universal experience, and deadlines are my solution.
What is an instant gratification monkey?
Tim Urban defines the instant gratification monkey in his excellent TED talk on procrastination (skip ahead to 3:50 to get to the punchline).
As Tim defines so well, the instant gratification monkey loves to wrest control from the rational decision maker part of our brains.
