第一篇：TED演講：你為什么干不成一番大事業

TED演講：你為什么干不成一番大事業

難度：容易 作者：滬江英語 來源：網絡評論：6

I want to discuss with you this afternoon why you're going to fail to have a great career.(Laughter)

今天下午我想和你們討論一下，你為什么不會成就偉業。（笑聲）

I'm an economist.I do dismal.End of the day, it's ready for dismal remarks.I only want to talk to those of you who want a great career.I know some of you have already decided you want a good career.You're going to fail, too-(Laughter)-because-Goodness, you're all cheery about failing.(Laughter)Canadian group, undoubtedly.(Laughter)Those trying to have good careers are going to fail, because, really, good jobs are now disappearing.There are great jobs and great careers, and then there are the high-workload, high-stress, bloodsucking, soul-destroying kinds of jobs, and practically nothing in between.我是個經濟學家。我讓人心情低落。一天過完了，準備好聽聽讓人心情低落的評論。我只想和你們想要成就偉業的那些人談。我知道你們有些人已經決定了，你們想要一個成功的事業。你們也會失敗的——（笑聲）——，因為－天吶，你們聽到失敗都這么高興。（笑聲）無疑是加拿大人。（笑聲）想事業有成的人會失敗，因為，真的，現在好工作都在消失。有好工作，和好事業，也有工作量大，壓力大，吸食血液，侵蝕靈魂的那種工作，而且幾乎沒有工作能好點的。

So the people looking for good jobs are going to fail.I'm going to talk about those looking for great jobs, great careers, and why you're going to, why you're going to fail.First reason is that no matter how many times people tell you, “If you want a great career, you have to pursue your passion, you have to pursue your dreams, you have to pursue, the greatest fascination in your life,” you hear it again and again and then you decide not to do it.It doesn't matter how many times you download Steven J.'s Stanford commencement address, you still look at it and decide not to do it.所以想找好工作的人會失敗。我談談那些尋找偉業的人，你們為什么要尋找，為什么會失敗。第一個原因是不管多少次別人告訴你，“如果你想成就偉業，你就必須追隨你的熱忱，你必須追隨你的夢想，你必須追隨，你人生中最大的吸引，“ 你聽過這句話一遍又一遍，然后你決定，不去這樣做。不管你下載多少次，Steven J在斯坦福大學的開學演講，你還是看看然后決定不去做。

I'm not quite sure why you decide not to do it.You're too lazy to do it.It's too hard.You're afraid if you look for your passion and don't find it, you'll feel like you're an idiot, so then you make excuses about why you're not going to look for your passion.And they are excuses, ladies and gentlemen.We're going to go through a whole long list, your creativity, and thinking of excuses not to do what you really need to do if you want to have a great career.我不太確定你為什么決定不去做。你太懶了。這事太難。你害怕如果你去尋找夢想然后找不到，你會覺得你像個白癡，所以你給自己找借口，為什么你不去追尋你的夢想。這些都是借口，女士們先生們。我們要列一個長單子，你的創造力，想想你不去做成就偉業該做的事情的借口。

So, for example, one of your great excuses is, “Well, great careers are really and truly, for most people, just a matter of luck, so I'm going to stand around, I'm going to try to be lucky, and if I'm lucky, I'll have a great career.If not, I'll have a good career.” But a good career is an impossibility, so that's not going to work.所以，舉例來說，你眾多借口之一是，“嗯，偉業實際上對于大多數人來說，只是運氣問題，所以我就在這待著，我就試試做那個幸運的人，然后如果我真幸運的話，我就能成就偉業。如果不能，我就找個還不錯的事業。” 但是沒有還不錯的事業，所以這個行不通。

Then, your other excuse is, “Yes, there are special people who pursue their passions, but they are geniuses.They are Steven J.I'm not a genius.When I was five, I thought I was a genius, but my professors have beaten that idea out of my head long since.”(Laughter)Mm? “And now I know I am completely competent.” Now, you see, if this was 1950, being completely competent, that would have given you a great career.But guess what? This is almost 2012, and saying to the world, “I am totally, completely competent,” is damning yourself with the faintest of praise.然后，你還有其他借口：“是的，有那些與眾不同的人，追尋自己的夢想，但是他們是天才。他們是Steven J.我不是天才。我五歲的時候以為自己是天才，但是我的教授們早就把這個念頭，打消了。”（笑聲）嗯？ “然后現在我知道自己完全有能力。” 現在你看，如果這是在1950年，完全有能力，就能讓你成就偉業。但是你知道么？現在幾乎是2012年了，對世界說“我完全，絕對，有能力，”就是用最無力的稱贊譴責你自己。And then, of course, another excuse: “Well, I would do this, I would do this, but, but, well, after all, I'm not weird.Everybody knows that people who pursue their passions are somewhat obsessive.A little strange? Mm? Mm? Okay? You know, a fine line between madness and genius.I'm not weird.I've read Steven J.'s biography.Oh my goodness.I am not that person.I am nice.I am normal.I'm a nice, normal person, and nice, normal people don't have passion.Ah.But I still want a great career.I'm not prepared to pursue my passion, so I know what I'm going to do, because I have, I have a solution, I have a strategy.It's the one Mommy and Daddy told me about.Mommy and Daddy told me that if I worked hard, I'd have a good career.So, if you work hard and have a good career, if you work really, really, really hard, you'll have a great career.Doesn't that, like, mathematically make sense?” Hmm.Not.(Laughter)But you've managed to talk yourself into that.然后，當然，另外一個借口：“嗯，我會做這個，我會做這個，但是，但是，嗯，畢竟，我不是個怪人。每個人都知道那些追尋自己夢想的人，都多少有點強迫癥。有點奇怪？嗯？嗯？好吧？你知道的，瘋子和天才一線之隔。我不是個怪人。我讀過Steven J的傳記。我的天吶。我不是那種人。我是好人。我是正常人。我是正常的好人，而且正常的好人，沒有夢想。啊。但是我還是想要成就偉業。我還沒準備好去追尋夢想，所以我知道，我要做什么，因為我有辦法，我有策略。就是爸爸媽媽告訴過我的那個。爸爸媽媽告訴我說如果我努力工作，我會有個不錯的事業。所以，如果你努力工作，而且有個不錯的事業，如果你工作特別特別特別努力，你就能成就偉業。這在數學上不是也成立么？”嗯...不是的。（笑聲）但是你還是讓自己信了這話。

第二篇：讀懂這十個故事 足夠你成就一番事業

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讀懂這十個故事，足夠你成就一番事業

第一個故事：困境即是賜予

有一天，素有森林之王之稱的獅子，來到了天神面前：“我很感謝你賜給我如此雄壯威武的體格、如此強大無比的力氣，讓我有足夠的能力統治這整座森林。”天神聽了，微笑地問：“但是這不是你今天來找我的目的吧！看起來你似乎為了某事而困擾呢！”獅子輕輕吼了一聲，說：“天神真是了解我啊！我今天來的確是有事相求。因為盡管我的能力再好，但是每天雞鳴的時候，我總是會被雞鳴聲給嚇醒。神啊！祈求您，再賜給我一個力量，讓我不再被雞鳴聲給嚇醒吧！”天神笑道：“你去找大象吧，它會給你一個滿意的答復的。”獅子興匆匆地跑到湖邊找大象，還沒見到大象，就聽到大象跺腳所發出的“砰砰”響聲。獅子加速地跑向大象，卻看到大象正氣呼呼地直跺腳。獅子問大象：“你干嘛發這么大的脾氣？”大象拼命搖晃著大耳朵，吼著：“有只討厭的小蚊子，總想鉆進我的耳朵里，害我都快癢死了。”獅子一邊走，一邊回頭看著仍在跺腳的大象，心想：“天神要我來看看大象的情況，應該就是想告訴我，誰都會遇上麻煩事，而它并無法幫助所有人。既然如此，那我只好靠自己了！反正以后只要雞鳴時，我就當做雞是在提醒我該起床了，如此一想，雞鳴聲對我還算是有益處呢？”

提示：一個障礙，就是一個新的已知條件，只要愿意，任何一個障礙，都會成為一個超越自我的契機。在人生的路上，無論我們走得多么順利，但只要稍微遇上一些不順的事，就會習慣性地抱怨老天虧待我們，進而祈求老天賜給我們更多的力量，幫助我們度過難關。但實際上，老天是最公平的，就像它對獅子和大象一樣，每個困境都有其存在的正面價值。

第二個故事：成功并不像你想像的那么難

1965年，一位韓國學生到劍橋大學主修心理學。在喝下午茶的時候，他常到學校的咖啡廳或茶座聽一些成功人士聊天。這些成功人士包括諾貝爾獎獲得者，某一些領域的學術權威和一些創造了經濟神話的人，這些人幽默風趣，舉重若輕，把自己的成功都看得非常自然和順理成章。時間長了，他發現，在國內時，他被一些成功人士欺騙了。那些人為了讓正在創業的人知難而退，普遍把自己的創業艱辛夸大了，也就是說，他們在用自己的成功經歷嚇唬那些還沒有取得成功的人。作為心理系的學生，他認為很有必要對韓國成功人士的心態加以研究。1970年，他把《成功并不像你想像的那么難》作為畢業論文，提交給現代經濟心理學的創始人威爾;布雷登教授。布雷登教授讀后，大為驚喜，他認為這是個新發現，這種現象雖然在東方甚至在世界各地普遍存在，但此前還沒有一個人大膽地提出來并加以研究。驚喜之余，他寫信給他的劍橋校友當時正坐在韓國政壇第一把交椅上的人樸正熙。他在信中說，“我不敢說這部著作對你有多大的幫助，但我敢肯定它比你的任何一個政令都能產生震動。”后來這本書果然伴隨著韓國的經濟起飛了。這本書鼓舞了許多人，因為他們從一個新的角度告訴人們，成功與“勞其筋骨，餓其體膚”、“三更燈火五更雞”、“頭懸梁，錐刺股”沒有必然的聯系。只要你對某一事業感興趣，天長地久堅持下去就會成功，因為上帝賦予你的時間和智慧夠你圓滿做完一件事情。后來，這位青年也獲得了成功，他成了韓國泛業汽車公司的總裁。

提示：并不是因為事情難我們不敢做，而是因為我們不敢做事情才難的。人世中的許多事，只要想做，都能做到，該克服的困難，也都能克服。只要一個人還在樸實而饒有興趣地生活著，他終究會發現，造物主對世事的安排，都是水到渠成的。

第三個故事：追求忘我

1858年，瑞典的一個富豪人家生下了一個女兒。然而不久，孩子染患了一種無法解釋的癱瘓癥，喪失了走路的能力。一次，女孩和家人一起乘船旅行。船長的太太給孩子講，船長有一只天堂鳥，她被這只鳥的描述迷住了，極想親自看一看。于是保姆把孩子留在甲板上，合其客奶吧加盟http://www.tmdps.cn

自己去找船長。孩子耐不住性子等待，她要求船上的服務生立即帶她去看天堂鳥。那服務生并不知道她的腿不能走路，而只顧帶著她一道去看那只美麗的小鳥。奇跡發生了，孩子因為過度地渴望，竟忘我地拉住服務生的手，慢慢地走了起來。從此，孩子的病便痊愈了。女孩子長大后，又忘我地投入到文學創作中，最后成為第一位榮獲諾貝爾文學獎的女性，也就是茜爾瑪拉格蘿芙。

溫馨提示：不要把自己當做鼠，否則肯定被貓吃。忘我是走向成功的一條捷徑，只有在這種環境中，人才會超越自身的束縛，釋放出最大的能量。

第四個故事：斷箭-不相信自己的意志，永遠也做不成將軍。

春秋戰國時代，一位父親和他的兒子出征打戰。父親已做了將軍，兒子還只是馬前卒。又一陣號角吹響，戰鼓雷鳴了，父親莊嚴地托起一個箭囊，其中插著一只箭。父親鄭重對兒子說：“這是家襲寶箭，配帶身邊，力量無窮，但千萬不可抽出來。”那是一個極其精美的箭囊，厚牛皮打制，鑲著幽幽泛光的銅邊兒，再看露出的箭尾。一眼便能認定用上等的孔雀羽毛制作。兒子喜上眉梢，貪婪地推想箭桿、箭頭的模樣，耳旁仿佛嗖嗖地箭聲掠過，敵方的主帥應聲折馬而斃。果然，配帶寶箭的兒子英勇非凡，所向披靡。當鳴金收兵的號角吹響時，兒子再也禁不住得勝的豪氣，完全背棄了父親的叮囑，強烈的欲望驅趕著他呼一聲就拔出寶箭，試圖看個究竟。驟然間他驚呆了。一只斷箭，箭囊里裝著一只折斷的箭。我一直刳著只斷箭打仗呢！兒子嚇出了一身冷汗，仿佛頃刻間失去支柱的房子，轟然意志坍塌了。結果不言自明，兒子慘死于亂軍之中。拂開蒙蒙的硝煙，父親揀起那柄斷箭，沉重地啐一口道：“不相信自己的意志，永遠也做不成將軍。”

溫馨提示：不相信自己的意志，永遠也做不成將軍。自己才是一只箭，若要它堅韌，若要它鋒利，若要它百步穿楊，百發百中，磨礪它，拯救它的都只能是自己。

第五個故事：再試一次

有個年輕人去微軟公司應聘，而該公司并沒有刊登過招聘廣告。見總經理疑惑不解，年輕人用不太嫻熟的英語解釋說自己是碰巧路過這里，就貿然進來了。總經理感覺很新鮮，破例讓他一試。面試的結果出人意料，年輕人表現糟糕。他對總經理的解釋是事先沒有準備，總經理以為他不過是找個托詞下臺階，就隨口應道：“等你準備好了再來試吧”。一周后，年輕人再次走進微軟公司的大門，這次他依然沒有成功。但比起第一次，他的表現要好得多。而總經理給他的回答仍然同上次一樣：“等你準備好了再來試。”就這樣，這個青年先后5次踏進微軟公司的大門，最終被公司錄用，成為公司的重點培養對象。

提示：什么東西比石頭還硬，或比水還軟？然而軟水卻穿透了硬石，堅持不懈而已。也許，我們的人生旅途上沼澤遍布，荊棘叢生；也許我們追求的風景總是山重水復，不見柳暗花明；也許，我們前行的步履總是沉重、蹣跚；也許，我們需要在黑暗中摸索很長時間，才能找尋到光明；也許，我們虔誠的信念會被世俗的塵霧纏繞，而不能自由翱翔；也許，我們高貴的靈魂暫時在現實中找不到寄放的凈土??那么，我們為什么不可以以勇敢者的氣魄，堅定而自信地對自己說一聲“再試一次！”再試一次，你就有可能達到成功的彼岸！堅持就是勝利。

第六個故事：為生命畫一片樹葉

美國作家歐;亨利在他的小說《最后一片葉子》里講了個故事：病房里，一個生命垂危的病人從房間里看見窗外的一棵樹，在秋風中一片片地掉落下來。病人望著眼前的蕭蕭落葉，身體也隨之每況愈下，一天不如一天。她說：“當樹葉全部掉光時，我也就要死了。”一位老畫家得知后，用彩筆畫了一片葉脈青翠的樹葉掛在樹枝上。最后一片葉子始終沒掉下來。只因為生命中的這片綠，病人竟奇跡般地活了下來。

提示：為生命畫一片永不凋零的樹葉吧,這是生命不會湮滅的希望。樹葉不落，生命不止。

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第七個故事：跨越自己

有一天，龍蝦與寄居蟹在深海中相遇，寄居蟹看見龍蝦正把自己的硬殼脫掉，只露出嬌嫩的身軀。寄居蟹非常緊張地說：“龍蝦，你怎可以把唯一保護自己身軀的硬殼也放棄呢？難道你不怕有大魚一口把你吃掉嗎？以你現在的情況來看，連急流也會把你沖到巖石去，到時你不死才怪呢？”龍蝦氣定神閑地回答：“謝謝你的關心，但是你不了解，我們龍蝦每次成長，都必須先脫掉舊殼，才能生長出更堅固的外殼，現在面對的危險，只是為了將來發展得更好而作出準備。”寄居蟹細心思量一下，自己整天只找可以避居的地方，而沒有想過如何令自己成長得更強壯，整天只活在別人的護蔭之下，難怪永遠都限制自己的發展。

提示：對于那些害怕危險的人，危險無處不在。每個人都有一定的安全區，你想跨越自己目前的成就，請不要劃地自限，勇于接受挑戰充實自我，你一定會發展得比想像中更好。如果只生活在自己劃定的界限里，你將一輩子固步自封，無所成就。

第八個故事：永遠的一課 那天的風雪真暴，外面像是有無數發瘋的怪獸在呼嘯廝打。雪惡狠狠地尋找襲擊的對象，風嗚咽著四處搜索。大家都在喊冷，讀書的心思似乎已被凍住了。一屋的跺腳聲。鼻頭紅紅的歐陽老師擠進教室時，等待了許久的風席卷而入，墻壁上的《中學生守則》一鼓一頓，開玩笑似的卷向空中，又一個跟頭栽了下來。亂哄哄的教室靜了下來，我們驚異地望著歐陽老師。“請同學們穿上膠鞋，我們到操場上去。”幾十雙眼睛在問。“因為我們要在操場上立正五分鐘”。即使歐陽老師下了“不上這堂課，永遠別上我的課”的恐嚇之詞，還是有幾個嬌滴滴的女生和幾個很橫的男生沒有出教室。操場在學校的東北角，北邊是空曠的菜園，再北是一口大塘。那天，操場、菜園和水塘被雪連成了一個整體。矮了許多的籃球架被雪團打得“啪啪”作響，卷地而起的雪粒雪團嗆得人睜不開眼張不開口。臉上像有無數把細窄的刀在拉在劃，厚實的衣服像鐵塊冰塊，腳像是踩在帶冰碴的水里。我們擠在教室的屋檐下，不肯邁向操場半步。誰也沒有吭聲，我們老老實實地到操場排好了三列縱隊。瘦削的歐陽老師只穿一件白襯褂，襯褂緊裹著的他更顯單薄。后來，我們規規矩矩地在操場站了五分多鐘。在教室時，同學們都以為自己敵不過那場風雪，事實上，叫他們站半個小時，他們頂得住，叫他們只穿一件襯衫，他們也頂得住。

提示：面對困難，許多人戴了放大鏡，但和困難拼搏一番，你會覺得，困難不過如此。正如生命中的許多傷痛一樣，其實并不如自己想像的那么嚴重。如果不把它當回事，它是不會很痛的。你覺得痛，那是因為你自以為傷口在痛，害怕傷口的痛。

第九個故事：永遠的坐票

有一個人經常出差，經常買不到對號入坐的車票。可是無論長途短途，無論車上多擠，他總能找到座位。他的辦法其實很簡單，就是耐心地一節車廂一節車廂找過去。這個辦法聽上去似乎并不高明，但卻很管用。每次，他都做好了從第一節車廂走到最后一節車廂的準備，可是每次他都用不著走到最后就會發現空位。他說，這是因為像他這樣鍥而不舍找座位的乘客實在不多。經常是在他落座的車廂里尚余若干座位，而在其他車廂的過道和車廂接頭處，居然人滿為患。

提示：生活真是有趣：如果你只接受最好的，你經常會得到最好的。如果你甘于現狀，你就永遠不會有進步。自信、執著、富有遠見、勤于實踐，會讓你握有一張人生之旅永遠的坐票。

第十個故事：心中的頑石嚇住了你

從前有一戶人家的菜園擺著一顆大石頭，寬度大約有四十公分，高度有十公分。到菜園的人，不小心就會踢到那一顆大石頭，不是跌倒就是擦傷。兒子問：“爸爸，那顆討厭的石頭，為什么不把它挖走？”爸爸這么回答：“你說那顆石頭喔？從你爺爺時代，就一直放到現在了，它的體積那么大，不知道要挖到到什么時候，沒事無聊挖石頭，不如走路小心一點，合其客奶吧加盟http://www.tmdps.cn

還可以訓練你的反應能力。”過了幾年，這顆大石頭留到下一代，當時的兒子娶了媳婦，當了爸爸。有一天媳婦氣憤地說：“爸爸，菜園那顆大石頭，我越看越不順眼，改天請人搬走好了。”爸爸回答說：“算了吧！那顆大石頭很重的，可以搬走的話在我小時候就搬走了，哪會讓它留到現在啊？”媳婦心底非常不是滋味，那顆大石頭不知道讓她跌倒多少次了。十幾分鐘以后，媳婦用鋤頭把大石頭四周的泥土攪松。媳婦早有心理準備，可能要挖一天吧，誰都沒想到幾分鐘就把石頭挖起來，看看大小，這顆石頭沒有想像的那么大，都是被那個巨大的外表蒙騙了。

溫馨提示：外表看似強大的困難，往往并不可怕，可怕只是你心中的設想而已，他們常常是沒有根基的。只要你做，就能克服困難，往往比想象的容易得多。

第三篇：為班干伸冤 演講

眼線

雪魘

親愛的同學們：

你們好！

或許大家很疑惑，今天，我為什么要站在這個舞臺上，我憑什么站在這個舞臺上以及我到底想和大家說些什么。相信小部分同學已經聽說過，最近幾天我們班班級QQ群上發生了一件“恐怖事件”：有幾位同學“膽大包天”地上傳了地理答案，得知事情敗露之后，卻又譴責班干們出賣他們。

說到這里，同學們應該知道我這次演講的主題。是的，這次，我想跟大家談談“眼線”。

我知道，一說到眼線啊，很多人就會將目光瞥向那些班干們，咬牙切齒。“間諜”！“老師的走狗”！“卑鄙小人”……雖然我知道我們班的大多數同學不會如此，但是在這里，我還是要為班干們報報不公。班干。一個閃亮的稱謂。大家看到的都是他們的威風凜凜，光鮮亮麗，殊不知他們付出了多少。你們可曾想過，你們課間玩耍時，班干們在干嘛？你們早晨早讀時，班干們在干嘛？你們放學回家時，班干們又在干嘛……班干們犧牲了他們學習、玩耍的時間，在為你們！在為你們服務著！他們竭盡心力，不顧自己，只是單純地希望我們這個大集體是團結的，是優秀的，是積極向上的！

你們不知道！你們不知道紀律部長闞天顏曾經為了管紀律差點把

嗓子喊啞。你們不知道！因為你們一個簡單的“作業太多了”，讓各科課代表來回跑了多少趟。你們不知道！各個部門每周一中午會議的內容。你們不知道……

前幾天看到幾位同學在群上對班干的聲討，我的怒火由心而上。不說什么冠冕堂皇的大道理。我只想問問那幾位同學幾句話。

第一，你們做的事情是否正確？身正不怕影子斜，如果你們沒有做對集體不益的事，班干們有必要費那個心那個力去告訴老師么？

第二，捫心自問，你們憑什么指責班干？班干為的是什么？為的是我們這個集體。你以為一時抄答案抄得快活，對你的將來有什么好處么?更何況，就算你們不體諒班干的辛勤，你們可以墜落自己，但不要影響他人。

身為七（4）班的一員，我為我們班那么多盡職盡責的班干感到不公。他們的辛勤付出，卻背負上了一個“卑鄙無恥小人”的稱號。在這里，我想真心誠意地代表全班同學對你們說：“謝謝！你們辛苦了！。無關乎職位大小，你們的付出值得敬佩！”

我不期待這次的演說能改變所有人。只是希望有一部分人能夠聽進去，多體諒，多關心、幫助班干。他們也是人，他們也希望得到大家的理解。他們，也會灰心，也會累……

最后，請全體起立，跟我喊出七（4）的口號：

“七四精英，敢闖敢拼。齊心協力，爭創佳績！”

我的演講結束，謝謝大家。

第四篇：TED演講--如何掌控你的自由時間

How to Manage Your Free Time When people find out I write about time management, Theyassume two things.One is that I'm always on time, and I'm not.I have four small children, and I would like to blame them for my occasional tardiness, but sometimes it's just not their fault.I was once late to my own speech on time management.We all had to just take a moment together and savor that irony.The second thing they assume is that I have lots of tips and tricks for saving bits of time here and there.Sometimes I'll hear from magazines that are doing a story along these lines, generally on how to help their readers find an extra hour in the day.And the idea is that we'll shave bits of time off everyday activities, add it up, and we'll have time for the good stuff.I question the entire premise of this piece, but I'm always interested in hearing what they've come up with before they call me.Some of my favorites: doing errands where you only have to make right-hand turns、Being extremely judicious in microwave usage: it says three to three-and-a-half minutes on the package, we're totally getting in on the bottom side of that.And my personal favorite, which makes sense on some level, is to DVR your favorite shows so you can fast-forward through the commercials.That way, you save eight minutes every half hour, so in the course of two hours of watching TV, you find 32 minutes to exercise.Which is true.You know another way to find 32 minutes to exercise? Don't watch two hours of TV a day, right? Anyway, the idea is we'll, save bits of time here and there, add it up, we will finally get to everything we want to do.But after studying how successful people spend their time and looking at their schedules hour by hour, I think this idea has it completely backward.We don't build the lives we want by saving time.We build the lives we want, and then time saves itself.Here's what I mean.I recently did a time diary project looking at 1,001 days in the lives of extremely busy women.They had demanding jobs, sometimes their own businesses, kids to care for, maybe parents to care for, community commitments...busy, busy people.I had them keep track of their time for a week, so I could add up how much they worked and slept, and I interviewed them about their strategies, for my book.One of the women whose time log I studied...she goes out on a Wednesday night for something.She comes home to find that her water heater has broken, and there is now water all over her basement.If you've ever had anything like this happen to you, you know it is a hugely damaging, frightening, sopping mess.So she's dealing with the immediate aftermath that night, next day she's got plumbers coming in, day after that, professional cleaning crew dealing with the ruined carpet.All this is being recorded on her time log.Winds up taking seven hours of her week.Seven hours.That's like finding an extra hour in the day.But I'm sure if you had asked her at the start of the week, “Could you find seven hours to train for a triathlon?” “Could you dind seven hours to mentor seven worthy people?” I'm sure she would've said what most of us would've said, which is, “No...can't you see how busy I am?” Yet when she had to find seven hours because there is water all over her basement, she found seven hours.And what this shows us is that time is highly elastic.We cannot make more time, but time will stretch to accommodate what we choose to put into it.And so the key to time management is treating our priorities as the equivalent of that broken water heater.To get at this, I like to use language from one of the busiest people I ever interviewed.By busy,I mean she was running a small business with 12 people on the payroll,she had six children in her spare time.I was getting in touch with her to set up an interview on how she “had it all”...that phrase.I remember it was a Thursday morning,and she was not available to speak with me.Of course,right? But the reason she was unavailable to speak with me is that she was out for a hike,because it was a beautiful spring morning,and she wanted to go for a hike.So of course this makes me even more intrigued,and when I finally do catch up with her,she explains it like this.She says,“Listen Laura,everything I do,every minute I spend,is my choice.”And rather than say,“I don't have time to do x,y or z,”she'd say,“I don't do x,y or z because it's not a priority.”“I don't have time,”often means“It's not a priority.”If you think about it,that's really more accurate language.I could tell you I don't have time to dust to dust my blinds,but that's not true.If you offered to pay me $100,000 to dust my blinds,I would get to it pretty quickly.Since that is not going to happen,I can acknowledge this is not a matter of lacking time,it's that I don't want to do it.Using this language reminds us that time is a choice.And granted,there may be horrible consequences for making different choices,I will give you that.But we are smart people,and certainly over the long run,we have the power to fill our lives with the things that deserve to be there.So how do we do that?How do we treat our priorities as the equivalent of that broken water heater? Well,first we need to figure out what they are.I want to give you two strategies for thinking about this.The first,on the professional side:I'm sure many people coming up to the end of the year are giving or getting annual performance reviews.You look back over your successes over the year,your “opportunities for growth.”And this serves its purpose,but I find it's more effective to do this looking forward.So I want you to pretend it's the end of next year.You're giving yourself a performance review（績效評估）,and it has been an absolutely amazing year for you professionally.Write next year's review:What 3-5 things would make it a great year for you professionally.So you can write next year's performance review now.And you can do this for your personal life,too.I'm sure many of you,like me,come December,get cards that contain these folded up sheets of colored paper,on which written what is known as the family holiday letter.Bit of a wretched genre of literature,really,going on about how amazing everyone in the household is,or even more scintillating,how busy everyone in the household is.But these letters serve a purpose,which is that they tell your friends and family what you did in your personal life that mattered to you over the year.So this year's kind of done,but I want you to pretend it's the end of next year,and it has been an absolutely amazing year for you and the people you care about.Write the family hollday letter:What three to five things did you do that made it so amazing?So you can write next year's family holiday letter now.Don't send it.Please,don't send it.But you can write it.And now,between the performance review and the family holiday letter,we have a list of six to ten goals we can work on in the next year.And now we need to break these down into doable steps.So maybe you want to write a family history.First,you can read some other family histories,get a sense for the style.Then maybe think about the questions you want to ask your relatives,set up appointments to interview them.Or maybe you want to run a 5K.So you need to find a race and sign up,figure out a training plan,and dig those shoes out of the back of the closet.And then...this is key...we treat our priorities as the equivalent of that broken water heater,by putting them into our schedules first.We do this by thinking through our weeks before we are in them,I find a really good time to do this is Friday afternoons.Friday afternoon is what an economist might call a “low opportunity cost” time.Most of us are not sitting there on Friday afternoons saying,“I am excited to make progress toward my personal and professional priorities right now.”But we are willing to think about what those should be.So take a little bit of time Friday afternoon,make yourself a three-category priority list:career,relationships,self.Making a three-category list reminds us that there should be something in all three categories.Career,we think about;relationships,self...not so much.But anyway,just a short list,two to three items in each.Then look out over the whole of the next week,and see where you can plan them in.Where you plan them in is up to you.I know this is going to be more complicated for some people than others.I mean,some people's lives are just harder than others.It is not going to be easy to find time to take that poetry class if you are caring for multiple children on your own.I get that.And I don't want to minimize anyone's struggle.But I do think that the numbers I am about to tell you are empowering.There are 168 hours in a week.Twenty-four times seven is 168 hours.That is a lot of time.If you are working a full-time job,so 40 hours a week,sleeping eight hours a night,so 56 hours a week...that leaves 72 hours for other things.That is a lot of time.You say you're working 50 hours a week,maybe a main job and a side hustle.Well,that leaves 62 hours for other things.You say you're working 60 hours.Well,that leaves 52 hours for other things.You say you're working more than 60 hours.Well,are you sure?There was once a study comparing people's estimated work weeks with time diaries.They found that people claiming 75-plus-hour work weeks were off by about 25 hours.You can guess in which direction,right?Anyway,in 168 hours a week,I think we can find time for what matters to you.If you want to spend more time with your kids,you want to study more for a test you're taking,you want to exercise for three hours and volunteer for two,you can.And that's even if you're working way more than full-time hours.So we have plenty of time,which is great,because guess what? We don't even need that much time to do amazing things.But when most of us have bits of time,what do we do?Pull out the phone,right?Start deleting emails.Otherwise,we're puttering around the house or watching TV.But small moments can have great power.You can use your bits of time for bits of joy.Maybe it's choosing to read something wonderful on the bus on the way to work.I know when I had a job that required two bus rides and a subway ride every morning,I used to go to the library on weekends to get stuff to read.It made the whole experience almost,almost, enjoyable.Breaks at work can be used for meditating or praying.If family dinner is out because of your crazy work schedule,maybe family breakfast could be a good substitute.It's about looking at the whole of one's time and seeing where the good stuff can go.I truly believe this,there is time.Even if we are busy,we have time for what matters.And when we focus on what matters,we can build the lives we want in the time we've got.

第五篇：(TED英文演講)為球鞋瘋狂——觀后感

“Be Crazy about sneakers.”————Feedback Almost every basketball fan is dreaming about getting one pair of sneakers of famous brands, like Air Jordan series.Many of them are constantly dedicated to their collections of various sneakers.But through the speaker’s ideas, a clear marketing network emerged, which was seemingly invisible before.All of us who are fond of collecting limited-edition shoes may not realize that we are part of the market itself, although it isn’t a market at all.This is incredible, but it really exists.Basketball fans are enthusiastic about their beloved stars, and the sneakers endorsed by stars are to support their craze, which means a brilliant commercial opportunity to shoes’ industry.And the brand Nike was one of the biggest owners of profits from its sneakers, it is still earning money from us, and it will be as long as the devotion to basketball stars don’t fade away.In short, the intangible beneficial network is a successful example for sports industry.But what if they improve their commercial system? There will be more profits.Anyway, we can learn a lot from this and utilize what we got.