Sunday, November 24, 2019

#7 TED Talk ( Inside the mind of a master procrastinator )

🔆Keywords

1. procrastination (n.) 耽擱;拖延
Definition: to delay doing something that you ought to do, usually because you do not want to do it

Ex: This is no time for procrastination - we need decisive action.

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2. perplex (v.) 使複雜化;使困惑
Definition: to confuse and worry someone slightly by being difficult to understand or solve

Ex: The symptoms of the disease have continued to perplex her doctors.

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3. hypothesis (n.) 假設;前提

Definition: an idea or explanation for something that is based on known facts but has not yet been proved

Ex: Several hypothesis for global warming have been suggested.

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🔆Summarize the talk

     The speaker explaind why the procrastinators was procrastinating. When things are coming to the deadline, the rational decision-makers in the mind will remind us to do things, but when there is no deadline, the procrastinators will continue to delay, causing it to regret. Therefore, we need to think about what we're really procrastinating on, because many things are not always delayed.

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🔆Video 

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