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

TED · talk · Watch on YouTube

Productivity & self-improvementPsychology & human behavior

What it is

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 recommends it

Recommended as a funny, empathetic take on procrastination and the origin of the life calendar concept.

  • 5 people recommended it
  • 5 different months
  • 1 strong recommendations
  • first 2016, last 2023

What HN commenters said

  1. “absolutely legendary TedX talk that humanizes procrastination”

    Humanizes procrastination and builds empathy for procrastinators.

    akhayam, 2023-05 · Strong recommendation · in “Taxonomy of Procrastination”

  2. “following video is very informational and entertaining”

    Informative, entertaining talk ending with life calendar.

    nu2ycombinator, 2016-06 · Recommendation · in “Imagine yourself starting, not finishing”

  3. “Watch this video. It sometimes helps me.”

    Helps the commenter with procrastination.

    foxhop, 2017-09 · Recommendation · in “Ask HN: How to be curious about last uninteresting 20% of a task?”

  4. “Talk on procrastination shared from a psychology course.”

    uppsalax, 2021-01 · Recommendation · in “The Reason We Procrastinate and How to Stop”

  5. “Tim Urban's TED talk accompanying his illustrated guide.”

    awb, 2022-01 · Recommendation · in “Effortless personal productivity (or how I learned to love my monkey mind)”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: tim urban, ted, productivity, life calendar, psychology

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