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Inside the Mind of a Master Procrastinator | Tim Urban | TED
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 HN readers recommended it
Recommended as a funny, empathetic take on procrastination and the origin of the life calendar concept.
This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.
Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- TED
- Topic
- procrastination
- Format
- talk
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 5
- HN mentions in dataset
- 8
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2016–2023
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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Nicely written. Before taxonomies and remediation, I would watch Tim Urban's absolutely legendary TedX talk that humanizes procrastination--despite all its ills--and how to empathize with procrastinators (inside and around you): [VIDEO]
akhayam on Hacker News · 2023-05
In Taxonomy of ProcrastinationOn similar topic, following video is very informational and entertaining. Especially last part the life calendar. Sometimes this life calendar motivates me procrastinate the procrastination :) [VIDEO] .
nu2ycombinator on Hacker News · 2016-06
In Imagine yourself starting, not finishing[VIDEO] Watch this video. It sometimes helps me. I've become a worst procrastinator as I have grown and have more and more responsibility. I like to get things done.
foxhop on Hacker News · 2017-09
In Ask HN: How to be curious about last uninteresting 20% of a task?
Summaries, classifications and recommendation records are from the HackerTube source dataset. Read about this library and its limitations.