TED演讲：如何高效利用你的碎片时间？
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| 时间 | 英文 | 中文 |
|---|---|---|
| 0:13 | When people find out I write about time management, | 当人们发现 我写的时间管理, |
| 0:16 | they assume two things. | 他们假设两件事 |
| 0:20 | One is that I'm always on time. | 第一,我总是准时。 |
| 0:23 | And I'm not. | 我没有。 |
| 0:25 | I have four small children, | 我有四个小孩 |
| 0:26 | and I would like to blame them for my occasional tardiness, | 我想怪罪他们 我偶尔迟到, |
| 0:29 | but sometimes it's just not their fault. | 但有时不是他们的错 |
| 0:32 | I was once late to my own speech on time management. | 我曾经迟到 自己的演讲 关于时间管理。 |
| 0:36 | We all had to just take a moment together and savor that irony. | 我们都得花点时间 一起保护这个讽刺 |
| 0:41 | The second thing they assume is that I write about time management | 他们假设的第二件事是 我写的时间管理 |
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| 1 | When people find out I write about time management, | 当人们发现 我写的时间管理, |
| 2 | they assume two things. | 他们假设两件事 |
| 3 | One is that I'm always on time. | 第一,我总是准时。 |
| 4 | And I'm not. | 我没有。 |
| 5 | I have four small children, | 我有四个小孩 |
| 6 | and I would like to blame them for my occasional tardiness, | 我想怪罪他们 我偶尔迟到, |
| 7 | but sometimes it's just not their fault. | 但有时不是他们的错 |
| 8 | I was once late to my own speech on time management. | 我曾经迟到 自己的演讲 关于时间管理。 |
| 9 | We all had to just take a moment together and savor that irony. | 我们都得花点时间 一起保护这个讽刺 |
| 10 | The second thing they assume is that I write about time management | 他们假设的第二件事是 我写的时间管理 |
| 11 | because I have lots of tips and tricks for saving bits of time here and there. | 因为我有很多小费和技巧 用来节省这里和那里的时间 |
| 12 | Sometimes I'll hear from magazines that are doing a story along these lines, | 有时候我会从杂志上听到 他们正在做一个故事 按照这些思路, |
| 13 | generally on how to help their readers find an extra hour in the day. | 通常在白天帮助读者多找一个小时 |
| 14 | And the idea is that we'll shave bits of time off everyday activities, | 而想法是,我们将刮去 一点点时间的日常活动, |
| 15 | add it up, and we'll have time for the good stuff. | 加起来,我们会有时间 做好的东西。 |
| 16 | And I question the entire premise of this piece, | 我质疑这个作品的整个前提, |
| 17 | but I'm always interested in hearing what they've come up with before they call me. | 但我总是感兴趣 听到他们想出什么 在他们叫我之前。 |
| 18 | So some of my favorites. | 所以一些我最喜欢的。 |
| 19 | Doing errands in a way where you only have to make right-hand turns, | 在你只需要右转的地方做事 |
| 20 | being extremely judicious in microwave usage, | 在微波器使用方面非常明智, |
| 21 | so it says three to three and a half minutes on the package, | 包裹上写着3到3分钟半 |
| 22 | we were totally getting in on the bottom side of that. | 我们完全进入了最底层。 |
| 23 | And my personal favorite, which makes sense on some level, | 我个人最喜欢的,这在某种程度上是有道理的, |
| 24 | is to DVR your favorite shows so you can fast-forward through the commercials. | 给DVR你最喜欢的节目 这样你就可以快速通过广告。 |
| 25 | And that way you save about eight minutes every half hour. | 这样你每半小时节省8分钟 |
| 26 | So in the course of two hours of watching TV, | 所以在看电视的两小时里 |
| 27 | you find 32 minutes to exercise, | 你找32分钟锻炼, |
| 28 | which is true. | 这是真的。 |
| 29 | You know another way to find 32 minutes to exercise? | 你知道另外一种方法 找到32分钟的锻炼? |
| 30 | Don't watch two hours of TV a day, right? | 不要每天看两小时电视,对不对? |
| 31 | Anyway, the idea is we'll save bits of time here and there, | 总之,这个想法是,我们会节省 一点点的时间在这里和那里, |
| 32 | add it up, we will finally get to everything we want to do. | 加上这个,我们终于可以做到我们想做的事了。 |
| 33 | But after studying how successful people spend their time | 但经过研究 人们如何花时间成功 |
| 34 | and looking at their schedules hour by hour, | 看着他们的计时表, |
| 35 | I think this idea has it completely backward. | 我觉得这个想法完全落后了 |
| 36 | We don't build the lives we want by saving time. | 我们不通过节省时间来建立我们想要的生活. |
| 37 | We build the lives we want, | 我们建立我们想要的生活, |
| 38 | and then time saves itself. | 然后时间会拯救自己 |
| 39 | Here's what I mean. | 这就是我的意思。 |
| 40 | I recently did a time diary project | 我最近做了一个时间日记项目 |
| 41 | looking at 1,001 days in the lives of extremely busy women. | 在极其繁忙的妇女生活中,有1 001天。 |
| 42 | They had demanding jobs, sometimes their own businesses, | 他们有要求的工作, 有时自己的企业, |
| 43 | kids to care for, maybe parents to care for, | 孩子们要照顾, 也许父母要照顾, |
| 44 | community commitments, | 社区承诺; |
| 45 | busy, busy people. | 忙着忙着的人 |
| 46 | I had them keep track of their time for a week | 我让他们跟踪他们一周的时间 |
| 47 | so I could add up how much they worked and slept, | 所以我可以加起来 他们的工作和睡觉, |
| 48 | and I interviewed them about their strategies for my book. | 我采访了他们 关于他们的策略 我的书。 |
| 49 | One of the women whose time log I studied, | 我研究过时间记录的女人之一 |
| 50 | she goes out for a Wednesday night for something. | 她周三晚上出去买东西 |
| 51 | She comes home to find that her water heater has broken, | 她回家发现她的热水器坏了 |
| 52 | and there is now water all over her basement. | 现在她地下室到处都是水 |
| 53 | If you've ever had anything like this happen to you, | 如果你曾经有过这种事 |
| 54 | you know it is a hugely damaging, frightening, sopping mess. | 你知道这是一个巨大的破坏, 可怕的,苏普混乱。 |
| 55 | So she's dealing with the immediate aftermath at night. | 所以她就在夜里处理紧接着的事 |
| 56 | Next day, she's got plumbers coming in. | 第二天 她有水管工进来了 |
| 57 | Day after that, professional cleaning crew dealing with the ruined carpet. | 之后的一天,专业的清洁人员 处理被破坏的地毯。 |
| 58 | All this is being recorded on her time log, | 所有这一切都被记录在她的时光日志上, |
| 59 | winds up taking seven hours of her week. | 她一周要花七个小时 |
| 60 | Seven hours? | 七小时? |
| 61 | That's like finding an extra hour in the day. | 这就像在白天找到一个额外的小时。 |
| 62 | But I'm sure if you had asked her at the start of the week, | 但我敢肯定,如果你已经问 她在这个星期初, |
| 63 | could you find seven hours to train for triathlon? | 你能找七个小时去训练三思龙吗? |
| 64 | Could you find seven hours to mentor seven-worthy people? | 你能找7个小时来指导7个人吗? |
| 65 | I'm sure she would have said what most of us would have said, | 我肯定她会说出我们大多数人会说的话 |
| 66 | which is, no. | 这是,没有。 |
| 67 | Can't you see how busy I am? | 你看不出我有多忙吗? |
| 68 | Yet when she had to find seven hours, | 然而当她不得不找到七个小时时 |
| 69 | because there is water all over her basement, | 因为她的地下室到处都是水 |
| 70 | she found seven hours. | 她发现了七个小时。 |
| 71 | And what this shows us is that time is highly elastic. | 这向我们表明,时间具有高度弹性。 |
| 72 | We cannot make more time, | 我们不能再浪费时间了 |
| 73 | but time will stretch to accommodate what we choose to put into it. | 但时间会延长 以适应 我们的选择投入。 |
| 74 | And so the key to time management | 所以时间管理的关键 |
| 75 | is treating our priorities | 处理我们的优先事项 |
| 76 | as the equivalent of that broken water heater. | 相当于那个破碎的热水器 |
| 77 | And to get at this, I like to use some language | 为了得到这个,我喜欢使用一些语言 |
| 78 | from one of the busiest people I ever interviewed. | 我见过最忙的人 |
| 79 | By busy, I mean she was running a small business | 我是说她忙着做生意 |
| 80 | with 12 people on the payroll, | 有12个人在工资单上, |
| 81 | she had six children in her spare time. | 她有六个孩子在业余时间。 |
| 82 | I was getting in touch with her to set up an interview | 我跟她联系,准备面试 |
| 83 | on how she had it all, that phrase. | 关于她是怎么有这一切, 这句话。 |
| 84 | I remember it was a Thursday morning, | 我记得是星期四早上 |
| 85 | and she was not available to speak with me, of course, right? | 当然她没空跟我说话 对吧? |
| 86 | But the reason she was unavailable to speak with me | 但她不能跟我说话的原因 |
| 87 | is that she was out for a hike, | 是因为她出去散步了 |
| 88 | because it was a beautiful spring morning, | 因为它是一个美丽的春天早晨, |
| 89 | and she wanted to go for a hike. | 她想去远足 |
| 90 | So of course, this makes me even more intrigued. | 当然,这让我更感兴趣。 |
| 91 | And when I finally do catch up with her, she explains it like this. | 当我终于追上她时 她会这样解释 |
| 92 | She says, listen, Laura, everything I do, | 她说,听着,劳拉,我所做的一切 |
| 93 | every minute I spend, is my choice. | 我花费的每一分钟,是我的选择。 |
| 94 | And rather than say, I don't have time to do X, Y or Z, | 而不是说,我没有时间做X,Y或Z, |
| 95 | she'd say, I don't do X, Y or Z, because it's not a priority. | 她会说,我不做X,Y或Z, 因为这不是一个优先事项。 |
| 96 | I don't have time often means it's not a priority. | 我没有时间 常常意味着这不是一个优先事项。 |
| 97 | If you think about it, that's really more accurate language. | 如果你考虑一下,那真的是更准确的语言。 |
| 98 | I mean, I could tell you I don't have time to dust my blinds, | 我的意思是,我可以告诉你 我没有时间 粉尘我的百叶窗, |
| 99 | but that's not true. | 但这不是真的。 |
| 100 | If you offered to pay me $100,000 to go dust my blinds, | 如果你愿意付我10万块去擦我的百叶窗 |
| 101 | I would get to it pretty quickly. | 我很快就会搞定的 |
| 102 | Since that is not going to happen, | 既然这不会发生 |
| 103 | I can acknowledge this is not a matter of lacking time. | 我可以承认,这不是一个缺乏时间的问题。 |
| 104 | It's that I don't want to do it. | 谓不欲作. |
| 105 | Using this language reminds us that time is a choice. | 使用这种语言提醒我们,时间是一个选择。 |
| 106 | And granted, there may be horrible consequences | 当然,可能会有可怕的后果 |
| 107 | for making different choices, I will give you that. | 为了做出不同的选择,我会给你这个。 |
| 108 | But we are smart people, | 但我们是聪明人, |
| 109 | and certainly over the long run, | 并且从长远来看, |
| 110 | we have the power to fill our lives with the things that deserve to be there. | 我们有力量 充满我们的生活 的东西,应该在那里。 |
| 111 | So how do we do that? | 那么,我们如何做到这一点? |
| 112 | How do we treat our priorities as the equivalent of that broken water heater? | 我们如何把我们的优先事项视为相当于破碎的热水器? |
| 113 | Well, first we need to figure out what they are. | 首先,我们需要找出他们是什么。 |
| 114 | I want to give you two strategies for thinking about this. | 我想给你两个策略来考虑这个问题 |
| 115 | The first, on the professional side. | 第一,专业方面。 |
| 116 | I'm sure many people coming up to the end of the year | 我敢肯定,很多人来 到年底 |
| 117 | are giving or getting annual performance reviews. | 正在提供或接受年度业绩审查。 |
| 118 | You look back over your successes over the year, | 你回顾你一年来的成功 |
| 119 | your opportunities for growth, | 你成长的机会, |
| 120 | and this serves its purpose, | 这能达到它的目的, |
| 121 | but I find it's more effective to do this looking forward. | 但我觉得这样向前看会更有效 |
| 122 | So I want you to pretend it's the end of next year. | 所以我要你假装明年结束 |
| 123 | You're giving yourself a performance review, | 你给自己一个业绩审查, |
| 124 | and it has been an absolutely amazing year for you professionally. | 对你来说,今年是绝妙的一年 |
| 125 | What three to five things did you do | 你做了什么三到五个事情 |
| 126 | that made it so amazing? | 这使得它如此惊人? |
| 127 | So you can write next year's performance review now. | 这样你就可以写下年的业绩审查了 |
| 128 | And you can do this for your personal life, too. | 你也可以为了你的私生活做这个 |
| 129 | I'm sure many of you, like me, come December, | 我敢肯定,你们很多人, 像我一样,12月来, |
| 130 | get cards that contain these folded-up sheets of colored paper, | 获得包含这些折叠的彩色纸片的牌, |
| 131 | on which is written what is known as the family holiday letter. | 上面写着所谓的家庭假日信。 |
| 132 | Bit of a wretched genre of literature, really, | 有点像文学流派,真的 |
| 133 | going on about how amazing everyone in the household is, | 继续说家里每个人多么惊人, |
| 134 | or even more scintillating, how busy everyone in the household is. | 或更闪烁, 多么繁忙的家庭里每个人都是。 |
| 135 | But these letters serve a purpose, | 但是这些信有目的 |
| 136 | which is that they tell your friends and family | 就是他们告诉你的朋友和家人 |
| 137 | what you did in your personal life | 你个人生活中的所作所为 |
| 138 | that mattered to you over the course of the year. | 这对你来说很重要 在一年中。 |
| 139 | So this year's kind of done, | 所以,今年的样, |
| 140 | but I want you to pretend it's the end of next year. | 但我希望你假装明年要结束了 |
| 141 | And it has been an absolutely amazing year | 这年真是令人惊奇 |
| 142 | for you and the people you care about. | 为了你和你关心的人 |
| 143 | What three to five things did you do | 你做了什么三到五个事情 |
| 144 | that made it so amazing? | 这使得它如此惊人? |
| 145 | So you can write next year's family holiday letter now. | 所以,你可以写 明年的家庭节日信现在。 |
| 146 | Don't send it. | 别发. |
| 147 | Please, don't send it. | 请不要寄出去 |
| 148 | But you can write it. | 但你可以写出来。 |
| 149 | And now between the performance review and the family holiday letter, | 而现在在业绩审查 和家庭节日信, |
| 150 | we have a list of six to 10 goals we can work on in the next year. | 我们有一份清单,列出了明年可以实现的6至10个目标。 |
| 151 | And now we need to break these down into doable steps. | 现在我们需要把这些分解成可行的步骤。 |
| 152 | So maybe you want to write a family history. | 所以也许你想写一个家庭历史。 |
| 153 | Well, first you can read some other family histories, | 首先你可以读一些其他的家庭历史 |
| 154 | get a sense for the style, | 体会一下风格 |
| 155 | and then maybe think about the questions you want to ask your relatives, | 然后想想你想问的 问题,你的亲属, |
| 156 | or your classmates, to interview them. | 或者你的同学,采访他们。 |
| 157 | Or maybe you want to run a 5K. | 或者你想运行一个5K。 |
| 158 | So you need to find a race and sign up, | 所以,你需要找到 比赛和报名, |
| 159 | and figure out a training plan, | 并想出一个培训计划, |
| 160 | and dig those shoes out of the back of the closet. | 把鞋从衣柜的后面挖出来 |
| 161 | And then, this is key, | 然后,这是关键 |
| 162 | we treat our priorities as the equivalent of that broken water heater | 我们把我们的优先事项 视为相当于破碎的热水器 |
| 163 | by putting them into our schedules first. | 先把它们列入我们的日程 |
| 164 | And we do this by thinking through our weeks | 我们通过周而复始地思考 |
| 165 | before we are in them. | 在我们进入之前 |
| 166 | I find a really good time to do this is Friday afternoons. | 我发现一个非常好的时间 做这个是星期五下午。 |
| 167 | Friday afternoon is what an economist might call | 星期五下午是经济学家的称呼 |
| 168 | a low-opportunity-cost time. | 机会成本低的时间。 |
| 169 | Most of us are not sitting there on Friday afternoon | 我们多数人星期五下午不坐在那里 |
| 170 | saying, I am excited to make progress | 说,我很兴奋 取得进步 |
| 171 | toward my personal and professional priorities right now. | 我个人和专业上的优先事项,现在。 |
| 172 | But we are willing to think about what those should be. | 但我们愿意考虑这些应该是什么。 |
| 173 | So take a little bit of time Friday afternoon, | 所以星期五下午要花点时间 |
| 174 | make yourself a three-category priority list. | 让你自己成为一个三类优先列表。 |
| 175 | Career, relationships, self. | 事业 关系 自我 |
| 176 | Making a three-category list | 编制三类清单 |
| 177 | reminds us that there should be something in all three categories. | 提醒我们,所有这三类都应有所作为。 |
| 178 | Career, we think about. | 我们考虑的是事业 |
| 179 | Relationships, self, not so much. | 关系,自我,不是太多。 |
| 180 | But anyway, just a short list, two to three items in each. | 但无论如何,只是一份简短的清单,每份2到3个项目. |
| 181 | Then look out over the whole of the next week | 那下个礼拜就看清楚了 |
| 182 | and see where you can plan them in. | 看看你能计划什么 |
| 183 | Where you plan them in is up to you, | 你计划他们的地方由你决定 |
| 184 | and I know this is going to be more complicated for some people than others. | 我知道这对有些人来说比其他人更复杂 |
| 185 | I mean, some people's lives are just harder than others. | 有些人的生活比别人更艰难 |
| 186 | It is not going to be easy to find time to take that poetry class | 学诗不容易 |
| 187 | if you are caring for multiple children on your own. | 如果你独自照顾多个孩子 |
| 188 | I get that. | 我懂了,我懂你说什么 I get that. |
| 189 | And I don't want to minimize anyone's struggle. | 我不想把任何人的挣扎降到最低 |
| 190 | But I do think that the numbers I am about to tell you are empowering. | 但我确实认为,我要告诉你的数字正在增强能力。 |
| 191 | There are 168 hours in a week. | 每周有168小时. |
| 192 | 24 times seven is 168 hours. | 24乘以7是168小时. |
| 193 | That is a lot of time. | 这是很多时间。 |
| 194 | If you are working a full-time job, so 40 hours a week, | 如果你是全职工作 所以每周40小时 |
| 195 | sleeping eight hours a night, so 56 hours a week, | 晚上睡8小时,所以每周56小时, |
| 196 | that leaves 72 hours for other things. | 剩下的72小时 其他的事情。 |
| 197 | That is a lot of time. | 这是很多时间。 |
| 198 | You say you're working 50 hours a week, maybe a main job and a side hustle. | 你说你每周要工作50小时, 也许主要的工作 和边夹。 |
| 199 | Well, that leaves 62 hours for other things. | 好吧,这还有62小时 其他的事情。 |
| 200 | You say you're working 60 hours. | 你说你工作60小时 |
| 201 | Well, that leaves 52 hours for other things. | 剩下的52小时是其他的 |
| 202 | You say you're working more than 60 hours. | 你说你工作超过60小时 |
| 203 | Well, are you sure? | 你确定吗? |
| 204 | There was once a study comparing people's estimated work weeks | 曾经有一个研究 比较人们估计的工作周 |
| 205 | with time diaries, | 有时间日记, |
| 206 | found that people claiming 75-plus hour work weeks | 发现人们要求75小时以上工作周 |
| 207 | were off by about 25 hours. | 大约25小时前就下班了 |
| 208 | You can guess in which direction, right? | 你可以猜到哪个方向,对吧? |
| 209 | Anyway, in 168 hours a week, | 总之,每周168小时 |
| 210 | I think we can find time for what matters to you. | 我想我们可以找到时间 为你着想 |
| 211 | If you want to spend more time with your kids, | 如果你想多陪陪孩子们 |
| 212 | you want to study more for a test you're taking, | 你想多学习 测试你正在接受, |
| 213 | you want to exercise for three hours and volunteer for two, | 你想锻炼3小时 志愿工作2小时 |
| 214 | you can. | 你当然可以 |
| 215 | And that's even if you're working way more than full-time hours. | 即使你工作的时间比全职多 |
| 216 | So we have plenty of time, which is great, | 所以,我们有足够的时间, 这是伟大的, |
| 217 | because guess what? | 你猜怎么着? |
| 218 | We don't even need that much time to do amazing things. | 我们甚至不需要那么多时间来做奇妙的事 |
| 219 | But when most of us have bits of time, what do we do? | 但是,当我们大多数人有一点时间,我们该怎么办? |
| 220 | Pull out the phone, right? | 把电话拔出来,对吗? |
| 221 | Start deleting emails. | 开始删除邮件 。 |
| 222 | Otherwise, we're puttering around the house or watching TV. | 否则,我们把 周围的房子或看电视。 |
| 223 | But small moments can have great power. | 但小瞬间可以拥有巨大的力量. |
| 224 | You can use your bits of time for bits of joy. | 你可以利用你的时间来享受快乐 |
| 225 | Maybe it's choosing to read something wonderful on the bus on the way to work. | 也许它选择在上班的路上 在巴士上读一些美妙的东西 |
| 226 | I know when I had a job that required two bus rides | 我知道当我有工作需要两辆公交车 |
| 227 | and a subway ride every morning, | 每天早上搭地铁 |
| 228 | I used to go to the library on weekends to get stuff to read. | 我以前周末常去图书馆看书 |
| 229 | It made the whole experience almost ... almost ... enjoyable. | 这使整个经历几乎... 几乎... 享受。 |
| 230 | Breaks at work can be used for meditating or praying. | 工作休息可用于冥想或祈祷. |
| 231 | If family dinner is out because of your crazy work schedule, | 如果因为你的疯狂工作日程安排 家庭晚餐没了 |
| 232 | maybe family breakfast could be a good substitute. | 也许家庭早餐可以是一个很好的替代品。 |
| 233 | It's about looking at the whole of one's time | 这是关于看一个人的全部时间 |
| 234 | and seeing where the good stuff can go. | 看好东西能去哪 |
| 235 | I truly believe this. | 我真的相信这一点。 |
| 236 | There is time. | 还有时间 |
| 237 | Even if we are busy, | 即使我们很忙 |
| 238 | we have time for what matters. | 我们有时间处理一切 |
| 239 | And when we focus on what matters, | 而当我们专注于什么是重要的, |
| 240 | we can build the lives we want | 我们可以建立我们想要的生活 |
| 241 | in the time we've got. | 以我们的时间。 |
| 242 | Thank you. | 谢谢 |
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