
Rationally Speaking #178 - Tim Urban on "Trying to live well, as semi-rational animals"
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The Silver Lining of Procrastination
Sometimes a completely kind of mindless, irrational tribal impulse happens to coincide with something that your rational being would have in that moment decided to do anyway because it had a productive purpose. The rational is not sitting there completely separate from the animal and can say, you know what? The animal feels tired. Let's go to sleep. It'll be better for everything if we work right now. That's an intelligent break. You don't work because the instant gratification monkey at that point takes,. well, that's when you're procrastinating, which is irrational breaks.
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