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Butterflies taste with their feet as their taste sensors are located there. They can taste it by just standing on their food. They don't have mouths that allow them to bite or chew, instead they have a long straw-like structure called a proboscis which they use to drink nectar and juices.

According to Tim Urban at waitbutwhy. com, "For a real procrastinator, procrastination isn't an option - it's something they don't know how to not do."

Tim says this is how a Non-Procrastinator's Brain looks like :
Whereas this is how a Procrastinator's Brain looks like :
Tim further explains that, the rational decision-maker in a procrastinator's brain is coexisting with a pet - the Instant Gratification Monkey.

This Instant Gratification Monkey is the last creature who should be in charge of decisions — he thinks only about the present, ignoring lessons from past and disregarding the future altogether, and he concerns himself entirely with maximizing the ease and pleasure of the current moment.

Given this predicament, how does the procrastinator ever manage to accomplish anything?

As it turns out, there's one thing that scares the shit out of the Instant Gratification Monkey :
The Panic Monster.
The Panic Monster is dormant most of the times, but he suddenly wakes up when a deadline gets too close or when there's danger of public embarrassment, a career disaster, or some other scary consequences.

So, which one are you — a rational decision-maker or procrastinator?

Source : Tim Urban at waitbutwhy. com