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TED conference by Tim Urban -What is the title of the conference?

Inside the Mind of a Master Procrastinator -Note down 2 main ideas of the conference and 2 examples used by the speaker in their presentation 

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  (If you do not know what to write, here are some questions you can use to note down some of the ideas/examples :  Sum up the way the mind of a procrastinator works.  What happened when he wrote about this on his blog? What jobs does he mention? And what is the common point between all these people?  What is the other type of procrastination he mentions? Why is this second type dangerous?  What is the Life Calendar? ) -Did you find this conference interesting? Why?

-Make a list of the useful vocabulary from this document (key words you can use if you sum it up in English) 

Ex : a long piece of writing that is the final part of an advanced university degree =

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Ex : a specific time or date by which you have to do something =

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Ex : a whole night that you spend studying while you are at university =

     -Note down 5 other useful words/ expressions that you learnt in this document (even if they are not essential to sum up the main ideas)

Summary : Fill out this summary with the following words: procrastinator - all-nighter - Instant Gratification - procrastination distractions - deadline - Rational Decision-Maker Tim talks about ________________________, or delaying doing something important. This often happens when a person knows they have a task to complete, but ________________________—easy and fun activities—get in the way. Inside the procrastinator's mind, the _______________ loses control when the ________________________

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