Fuschia Sirois: So when you're in those moments, time just seems to stop.

Fuschia Sirois：所以当你身处那些时刻时， 时间似乎停止了。

Fuschia Sirois: There's a tension, right, because we want change, right?

Fuschia Sirois：有一种紧张， 对吧，因为我们想要改变， 对吧？

Fuschia Sirois: We look at our memories of the past and who we are in the past.

Fuschia Sirois：我们审视我们对过去的记忆以及过去的我们。

Fuschia Sirois: – that you'll be better able to do it later.

Fuschia Sirois：- 以后你会做得更好。

Fuschia Sirois: Well, you're not gonna die from procrastinating, right?

Fuschia Sirois：好吧， 你不会因为拖延而死， 对吧？

Fuschia Sirois: So that hopefully we're able to reach our hopes and dreams and goals and wishes of the future.

Fuschia Sirois：希望我们能够实现我们的希望、梦想、目标和未来的愿望。

Dr. Sirois has a theory about why procrastinators are so locked in the present and disconnected from their future selves.

Rebecca：Sirois 博士有一个理论可以解释为什么拖延者如此专注于当下，与未来的自己脱节。

Fuschia Sirois: People who see other people procrastinate, they want to get on them.

Fuschia Sirois：看到别人拖延的人， 他们想赶上他们。

Fuschia Sirois: Just getting them to imagine their future self made them feel closer to that future self.

Fuschia Sirois：让他们想象未来的自己会让他们感觉更接近未来的自己。

Fuschia Sirois: So one of the things that happens when you're stressed is it changes the way you engage with time.

Fuschia Sirois：所以当你感到压力时，会发生的事情之一就是它会改变你与时间打交道的方式。

Fuschia Sirois: You're actively engaging in something, and maybe it's painting a painting or, you know, running a race or what have you playing a piece of music.

Fuschia Sirois：你正在积极地从事某事，也许是画一幅画，或者，你知道，跑一场比赛， 或者你播放一段音乐。

Fuschia Sirois: So the definition of procrastination is unnecessarily and voluntarily delaying the start or completion of an important and necessary task, despite knowing you'll be worse off for doing so.

Fuschia Sirois：所以拖延的定义是不必要地和自愿地延迟开始或完成一项重要且必要的任务，尽管你知道这样做会更糟。

Fuschia Sirois: You need to be able to think in an expansive manner, in an abstract manner to consider the future, because it is a really abstract construct.

Fuschia Sirois：你需要能够以一种扩展的方式思考，以一种抽象的方式来考虑未来，因为它是一个真正抽象的结构。

This last study shows us how to do that. The procrastination expert Dr. Sirois asked participants to imagine their future selves. What she found surprised her and her fellow researchers.

丽贝卡：最后一项研究向我们展示了如何做到这一点。拖延症专家 Sirois 博士要求参与者想象未来的自己。她的发现让她和她的研究人员感到惊讶。