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In college,?I was a government major,?which means I had to write a lot of papers.?Now, when a normal student writes a paper,?they might spread the work out a little like this.? ; And I would want to do that like that.?That would be the plan.?I would have it all ready to go,?but then, actually, the paper would come along,?and then I would kind of do this. And that would happen every single paper. But then came my 90senior thesis,?a paper youre supposed to spend a year on.?And I knew for a paper like that, my normal work flow was not an option.?It was way too big a project.?; So I planned things out,?and I decided I kind of had to go something like this.?This is how the year would go.? But then, the funniest thing happened.?Those first few months??They came and went,?and I couldnt quite do stuff.?; So we had an awesome new revised plan. But then those middle months actually went by,?and I didnt really write words,;?and so we were here.; And then two months turned into one month,?which turned into two weeks.?And one day I woke up?with three days until the deadline,? ;still not having written a word,?and so I did the only thing I could:?I wrote 90 pages over 72 hours,?pulling not one but two all-nighters --?got it in just at the deadline. ? ?; Anyway, today Im a writer-blogger guy. And a couple of years ago, I decided to write about procrastination.? ?Now, I had a hypothesis that the brains of procrastinators were actually different?than the brains of other people.? I actually brought them here to show you today.;So heres the brain of a non-procrastinator; Now ...?heres my brain. There is a difference.?Both brains have a Rational Decision-Maker in them,?but the procrastinators brain?also has an Instant Gratification Monkey.? Now, what does this mean for the procrastinator??; Well, it means everythings fine until this happens . So the Rational Decision-Maker will make the rational decision?to do something productive,?but t