It is a human weakness to put things off.

把事情拖延下去是人的弱点。

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Problem with that is you end up screwing yourself if you put things off until later.

问题在于如果你推迟这些问题最终你自己的问题会螺旋式上升。

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We have a tendency to put things off endlessly, because we're afraid of imperfections.

由于我们害怕不完美，而有了一个将事情无止尽地延期的倾向。

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So, if you compartmentalize things in your brain in certain ways, put that off into the end of the exam 1 part of your brain, and now we're going to move on to exam 2.

如果你喜欢以自己的方式将信息在大脑中分开储存，这就是你大脑里对第一次考试的分区所存储的全部内容，而接下来我们将继续将第二次考试的内容。

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He wrote once that, "The chief thing is to know your duties and our edicts by heart and not put off things until tomorrow, like his son did.

他曾经这样写道,"最要紧的事就是牢记我们的职责和法令,并且不把今天能做的事拖延到明天去做",他儿子就是这么拖沓的

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People with this mindset either throw up their arms and give up when faced with obstacles, or they put things off.

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We need to unsettle them, rattle their scrum, steal line-outs, things that could put them off their game.

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