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Hello, I'm Crown.
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Today let's talk about
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procrastination!
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Hello everyone! Welcome back to our channel.
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Today we're gonna talk about
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something that everybody is familiar with,
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procrastination!
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This video will be an English Corner – which we haven't done for a while.
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Yep. You haven't seen one in a long time huh.
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Yeahhhh~
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Okay, so let's just jump right into it
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Yes, I know it
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you know it
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everybody watching this video now knows it
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The art of procrastination
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The definition for procrastination is
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trying to avoid doing
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whatever you’re supposed to be doing
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Like, watching this video!
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Are you procrastinating right now?
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Now let’s break it down and take a look
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at the word "procrastination"
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The English word "procrastination"
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originated from the latin word
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“procrastinatus"
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with the prefix “pro-”
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meaning “forward, towards the future”
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and “crastinus” meaning “tomorrow”
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So, procrastination?
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"Until tomorrow."
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It’s Saturday
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and I have a paper due next Monday
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I should start writing it today
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so that I can have two days to finish it
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but I’m so tired right now
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Maybe...
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I’ll just do it tomorrow
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O--kay I’m up!
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I should definitely start working on that paper
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But wait...
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I’m feeling a little bit hungry
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Maybe I should go fill up my tummy first
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You know what they say
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“It’s never right to start working with an empty stomach!”
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Wait, no...
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actually...
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I said that
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Okay I’ve got all these snacks
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but I’d hate to eat them without any entertainment
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I guess I’ll just watch one episode of
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that TV series I like so much
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Oh, what a cliffhanger ending!
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I need to watch the next episode…
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the next episode…
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the next episode…
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Look at the time
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Wow, I need to go to sleep again
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I guess I’ll just do my paper tomorrow
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Wait…
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tomorrow's Monday!
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Everyone procrastinates, right?
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As for me?
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Yeah, of course I procrastinate.
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I do it all the time
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The excuse I give myself comes from the quote
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"Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time."
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Sounds legit, right?
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I know
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Back in college
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if a paper is due on Monday
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I would waste time
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until it’s the last day to work on it
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Anyone who tries to tell me otherwise
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I say to them
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"You underestimate me."
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YOU UNDERESTIMATE MY POWER
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I know it’s the same for most of us
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We procrastinate easily
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when we know we still have a lot of time
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Now, I’m actually quite some way away
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from my college life
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Things have now changed
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and I don’t have any assignment deadlines
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But still, I procrastinate
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Especially, sleeping
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Sleeping?
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Isn’t sleeping considered to be one of the most divine things in the world?
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But, I, procrastinate sleep?
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How could that even happen?
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I procrastinate sleeping
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Yes, I do
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and I procrastinate sleeping almost
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every single day
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Now you know where my dark circles come from
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I don’t know if any of you feel the same way
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but listen to this
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Every night
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after finally getting my shower
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I would start preparing to go to bed
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I would start drying my hair
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and after that, put on all my skin care products
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Then, I would shut the lights
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and lie in bed
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Do you think I would fall asleep so easily?
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No, because for no reason at all
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I would always feel the need to
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pick up my phone again
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In total darkness
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I would pull the brightness bar all the way down
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and turn on the night shift mode
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Good job, iPhone
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After all the settings
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I would start idling my time away
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First Facebook, then Instagram
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then YouTube, then Dcard
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then Line and Messenger and Gmail
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And at right about that time
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my brother would come check on me
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and I would have to pretend I’m sleeping
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and bury my phone under the sheets
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But after he’s gone
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I would go through Facebook and Instagram one more time
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Then I would look at the time
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It’s almost 2 am!
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Would any of you do this?
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Please tell me I’m not alone
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We’re all in this together
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We’re all in this together
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But that's just my example
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I know
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probably most of you procrastinate
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in various creative and um... weird ways?
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Although procrastination is not that healthy for you
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I’d like to think that
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cutting yourself some slack
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isn’t such a bad thing
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However
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if you want to stop procrastinating
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here I want to share two simple tricks with you
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First
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the hardest part of doing anything
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is getting started
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So why not just tell yourself
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just sit there and focus for five minutes
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Just five minutes
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Don’t think about finishing the whole paper
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Just focus on writing a few lines of it
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Don’t think about running for an hour
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Just focus on the first few steps
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For five minutes
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if you just get yourself going
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everything else comes naturally
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So, don’t put too much thought on “finishing” a task
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Just set a small goal
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and work on it for 5 minutes
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By doing this
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it'll feel easier to accomplish that
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and feel less pressure while doing it
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Second tip on helping you stop procrastination
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is setting rewards for yourself
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For example
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sometimes when I really don’t wanna work on something
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I’ll tell myself
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“Okay, Crown, write two paragraphs,"
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"and then you can go eat that strawberry ice cream in the fridge.”
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Here in this scenario
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the reward I set for myself is strawberry ice cream
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but you can set whatever reward you want
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And guess what
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my mind is so set on the reward
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I actually try my best to write two paragraphs
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as soon as I possibly can
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Yeah! Ice cream!
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Yeah~~~
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Okay, that's about all for today
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And I hope you find this topic interesting
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and relatable
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Do you procrastinate like me?
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When do you usually procrastinate?
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If you have any good tips on stopping procrastination
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please leave all those in the comment section down below!
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Okay. I hope everyone liked today's English Corner,
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and learned something from it!
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Don't forget that we upload videos every Monday and Thursday at 9 p.m.
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And that's a wrap
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Thanks for watching as always
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and I'll catch you guys next time
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See ya!