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Why Procrastinators Procrastinate: Staying Engaged in the "New Normal" of COVID

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In college, Tim Urban’s procrastination problem got so bad that he found himself writing the first word of his 90-page senior thesis only 72 hours before it was due. After spending years trying to understand how his own mind worked, he finally put his thoughts down on paper, creating three cartoon stick drawings—the Rational Decision-Maker, the Instant Gratification Monkey, and the Panic Monster—to represent the major “players” in his head that battled over the steering wheel.

This 45 minute session addresses challenges Adults as well as Kids are facing each day as we navigate learning, engagement, and inspiration after COVID. It builds on Tim's hilarious presentation that consistently delights and inspires audiences as the #7 most-watched TED talk with over 43 million views all time.
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Why Procrastinators Procrastinate: Staying Engaged in the "New Normal" of COVID
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In college, Tim Urban’s procrastination problem got so bad that he found himself writing the first word of his 90-page senior thesis only 72 hours before it was due. After spending years trying to understand how his own mind worked, he finally put his thoughts down on paper, creating three cartoon stick drawings—the Rational Decision-Maker, the Instant Gratification Monkey, and the Panic Monster—to represent the major “players” in his head that battled over the steering wheel.

This 45 minute session addresses challenges Adults as well as Kids are facing each day as we navigate learning, engagement, and inspiration after COVID. It builds on Tim's hilarious presentation that consistently delights and inspires audiences as the #7 most-watched TED talk with over 43 million views all time.

Note: There is overwhelming interest for this session. To help all interested guests attend, we will be hosting this session on Zoom as well as live streaming it on YouTube Live. Both links will be available on this page 15 minutes before the session is scheduled to begin.
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Why Procrastinators Procrastinate: Staying Engaged in the "New Normal" of COVID
In college, Tim Urban’s procrastination problem got so bad that he found himself writing the first word of his 90-page senior thesis only 72 hours before it was due. After spending years trying to understand how his own mind worked, he finally put his thoughts down on paper, creating three cartoon stick drawings—the Rational Decision-Maker, the Instant Gratification Monkey, and the Panic Monster—to represent the major “players” in his head that battled over the steering wheel.

This 45 minute session addresses challenges Adults as well as Kids are facing each day as we navigate learning, engagement, and inspiration after COVID. It builds on Tim's hilarious presentation that consistently delights and inspires audiences as the #7 most-watched TED talk with over 43 million views all time.

Note: There is overwhelming interest for this session. To help all interested guests attend, we will be hosting this session on Zoom as well as live streaming it on YouTube Live. Both links will be available on this page 15 minutes before the session is scheduled to begin.
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Tim Urban
Tim Urban is the co-founder of online tutoring company ArborBridge and the writer/illustrator and co-founder of Wait But Why, a long-form, stick-figure-illustrated website with over 600,000 subscribers and a monthly average of half a million visitors.

Tim's 2016 TED main stage talk was the first TED video to ever reach 10 million views in its first year and now ranks in the top ten most-watched TED talks of all time. He has produced dozens of viral articles on a wide range of topics, from artificial intelligence to social anxiety to humans becoming a multi-planetary species.