From the Ted Talk by Tim Urban: Inside the mind of a master procrastinator
Unscramble the Blue Letters
Now, the Panic Monster epxinlas all kinds of pretty insane procrastinator behavior, like how someone like me could spend two weeks unable to start the opening stencnee of a paper, and then miraculously find the unbelievable work ethic to stay up all nihgt and write eight pages. And this entire situation, with the three characters — this is the procrastinator's system. It's not pretty, but in the end, it works. This is what I decided to write about on the blog a cpoule of yreas ago.
When I did, I was amazed by the response. laitelrly thousands of emails came in, from all different kinds of people from all over the world, doing all different kinds of things. These are people who were nurses, brkaens, parneits, engineers and lots and lots of PhD students.
Open Cloze
Now, the Panic Monster ________ all kinds of pretty insane procrastinator behavior, like how someone like me could spend two weeks unable to start the opening ________ of a paper, and then miraculously find the unbelievable work ethic to stay up all _____ and write eight pages. And this entire situation, with the three characters — this is the procrastinator's system. It's not pretty, but in the end, it works. This is what I decided to write about on the blog a ______ of _____ ago.
When I did, I was amazed by the response. _________ thousands of emails came in, from all different kinds of people from all over the world, doing all different kinds of things. These are people who were nurses, _______, ________, engineers and lots and lots of PhD students.
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bankers
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painters
Original Text
Now, the Panic Monster explains all kinds of pretty insane procrastinator behavior, like how someone like me could spend two weeks unable to start the opening sentence of a paper, and then miraculously find the unbelievable work ethic to stay up all night and write eight pages. And this entire situation, with the three characters — this is the procrastinator's system. It's not pretty, but in the end, it works. This is what I decided to write about on the blog a couple of years ago.
When I did, I was amazed by the response. Literally thousands of emails came in, from all different kinds of people from all over the world, doing all different kinds of things. These are people who were nurses, bankers, painters, engineers and lots and lots of PhD students.