TED演讲：你为什么干不成一番大事业

第一篇：TED演讲：你为什么干不成一番大事业

TED演讲：你为什么干不成一番大事业

难度：容易 作者：沪江英语 来源：网络评论：6

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

今天下午我想和你们讨论一下，你为什么不会成就伟业。（笑声）

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.我是个经济学家。我让人心情低落。一天过完了，准备好听听让人心情低落的评论。我只想和你们想要成就伟业的那些人谈。我知道你们有些人已经决定了，你们想要一个成功的事业。你们也会失败的——（笑声）——，因为－天呐，你们听到失败都这么高兴。（笑声）无疑是加拿大人。（笑声）想事业有成的人会失败，因为，真的，现在好工作都在消失。有好工作，和好事业，也有工作量大，压力大，吸食血液，侵蚀灵魂的那种工作，而且几乎没有工作能好点的。

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会失败。我谈谈那些寻找伟业的人，你们为什么要寻找，为什么会失败。第一个原因是不管多少次别人告诉你，“如果你想成就伟业，你就必须追随你的热忱，你必须追随你的梦想，你必须追随，你人生中最大的吸引，“ 你听过这句话一遍又一遍，然后你决定，不去这样做。不管你下载多少次，Steven J在斯坦福大学的开学演讲，你还是看看然后决定不去做。

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.我不太确定你为什么决定不去做。你太懒了。这事太难。你害怕如果你去寻找梦想然后找不到，你会觉得你像个白痴，所以你给自己找借口，为什么你不去追寻你的梦想。这些都是借口，女士们先生们。我们要列一个长单子，你的创造力，想想你不去做成就伟业该做的事情的借口。

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，举例来说，你众多借口之一是，“嗯，伟业实际上对于大多数人来说，只是运气问题，所以我就在这待着，我就试试做那个幸运的人，然后如果我真幸运的话，我就能成就伟业。如果不能，我就找个还不错的事业。” 但是没有还不错的事业，所以这个行不通。

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，你还有其他借口：“是的，有那些与众不同的人，追寻自己的梦想，但是他们是天才。他们是Steven J.我不是天才。我五岁的时候以为自己是天才，但是我的教授们早就把这个念头，打消了。”（笑声）嗯？ “然后现在我知道自己完全有能力。” 现在你看，如果这是在1950年，完全有能力，就能让你成就伟业。但是你知道么？现在几乎是2012年了，对世界说“我完全，绝对，有能力，”就是用最无力的称赞谴责你自己。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，当然，另外一个借口：“嗯，我会做这个，我会做这个，但是，但是，嗯，毕竟，我不是个怪人。每个人都知道那些追寻自己梦想的人，都多少有点强迫症。有点奇怪？嗯？嗯？好吧？你知道的，疯子和天才一线之隔。我不是个怪人。我读过Steven J的传记。我的天呐。我不是那种人。我是好人。我是正常人。我是正常的好人，而且正常的好人，没有梦想。啊。但是我还是想要成就伟业。我还没准备好去追寻梦想，所以我知道，我要做什么，因为我有办法，我有策略。就是爸爸妈妈告诉过我的那个。爸爸妈妈告诉我说如果我努力工作，我会有个不错的事业。所以，如果你努力工作，而且有个不错的事业，如果你工作特别特别特别努力，你就能成就伟业。这在数学上不是也成立么？”嗯...不是的。（笑声）但是你还是让自己信了这话。

第二篇：读懂这十个故事 足够你成就一番事业

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读懂这十个故事，足够你成就一番事业

第一个故事：困境即是赐予

有一天，素有森林之王之称的狮子，来到了天神面前：“我很感谢你赐给我如此雄壮威武的体格、如此强大无比的力气，让我有足够的能力统治这整座森林。”天神听了，微笑地问：“但是这不是你今天来找我的目的吧！看起来你似乎为了某事而困扰呢！”狮子轻轻吼了一声，说：“天神真是了解我啊！我今天来的确是有事相求。因为尽管我的能力再好，但是每天鸡鸣的时候，我总是会被鸡鸣声给吓醒。神啊！祈求您，再赐给我一个力量，让我不再被鸡鸣声给吓醒吧！”天神笑道：“你去找大象吧，它会给你一个满意的答复的。”狮子兴匆匆地跑到湖边找大象，还没见到大象，就听到大象跺脚所发出的“砰砰”响声。狮子加速地跑向大象，却看到大象正气呼呼地直跺脚。狮子问大象：“你干嘛发这么大的脾气？”大象拼命摇晃着大耳朵，吼着：“有只讨厌的小蚊子，总想钻进我的耳朵里，害我都快痒死了。”狮子一边走，一边回头看着仍在跺脚的大象，心想：“天神要我来看看大象的情况，应该就是想告诉我，谁都会遇上麻烦事，而它并无法帮助所有人。既然如此，那我只好靠自己了！反正以后只要鸡鸣时，我就当做鸡是在提醒我该起床了，如此一想，鸡鸣声对我还算是有益处呢？”

提示：一个障碍，就是一个新的已知条件，只要愿意，任何一个障碍，都会成为一个超越自我的契机。在人生的路上，无论我们走得多么顺利，但只要稍微遇上一些不顺的事，就会习惯性地抱怨老天亏待我们，进而祈求老天赐给我们更多的力量，帮助我们度过难关。但实际上，老天是最公平的，就像它对狮子和大象一样，每个困境都有其存在的正面价值。

第二个故事：成功并不像你想像的那么难

1965年，一位韩国学生到剑桥大学主修心理学。在喝下午茶的时候，他常到学校的咖啡厅或茶座听一些成功人士聊天。这些成功人士包括诺贝尔奖获得者，某一些领域的学术权威和一些创造了经济神话的人，这些人幽默风趣，举重若轻，把自己的成功都看得非常自然和顺理成章。时间长了，他发现，在国内时，他被一些成功人士欺骗了。那些人为了让正在创业的人知难而退，普遍把自己的创业艰辛夸大了，也就是说，他们在用自己的成功经历吓唬那些还没有取得成功的人。作为心理系的学生，他认为很有必要对韩国成功人士的心态加以研究。1970年，他把《成功并不像你想像的那么难》作为毕业论文，提交给现代经济心理学的创始人威尔;布雷登教授。布雷登教授读后，大为惊喜，他认为这是个新发现，这种现象虽然在东方甚至在世界各地普遍存在，但此前还没有一个人大胆地提出来并加以研究。惊喜之余，他写信给他的剑桥校友当时正坐在韩国政坛第一把交椅上的人朴正熙。他在信中说，“我不敢说这部著作对你有多大的帮助，但我敢肯定它比你的任何一个政令都能产生震动。”后来这本书果然伴随着韩国的经济起飞了。这本书鼓舞了许多人，因为他们从一个新的角度告诉人们，成功与“劳其筋骨，饿其体肤”、“三更灯火五更鸡”、“头悬梁，锥刺股”没有必然的联系。只要你对某一事业感兴趣，天长地久坚持下去就会成功，因为上帝赋予你的时间和智慧够你圆满做完一件事情。后来，这位青年也获得了成功，他成了韩国泛业汽车公司的总裁。

提示：并不是因为事情难我们不敢做，而是因为我们不敢做事情才难的。人世中的许多事，只要想做，都能做到，该克服的困难，也都能克服。只要一个人还在朴实而饶有兴趣地生活着，他终究会发现，造物主对世事的安排，都是水到渠成的。

第三个故事：追求忘我

1858年，瑞典的一个富豪人家生下了一个女儿。然而不久，孩子染患了一种无法解释的瘫痪症，丧失了走路的能力。一次，女孩和家人一起乘船旅行。船长的太太给孩子讲，船长有一只天堂鸟，她被这只鸟的描述迷住了，极想亲自看一看。于是保姆把孩子留在甲板上，合其客奶吧加盟http://www.xiexiebang.com

自己去找船长。孩子耐不住性子等待，她要求船上的服务生立即带她去看天堂鸟。那服务生并不知道她的腿不能走路，而只顾带着她一道去看那只美丽的小鸟。奇迹发生了，孩子因为过度地渴望，竟忘我地拉住服务生的手，慢慢地走了起来。从此，孩子的病便痊愈了。女孩子长大后，又忘我地投入到文学创作中，最后成为第一位荣获诺贝尔文学奖的女性，也就是茜尔玛拉格萝芙。

温馨提示：不要把自己当做鼠，否则肯定被猫吃。忘我是走向成功的一条捷径，只有在这种环境中，人才会超越自身的束缚，释放出最大的能量。

第四个故事：断箭-不相信自己的意志，永远也做不成将军。

春秋战国时代，一位父亲和他的儿子出征打战。父亲已做了将军，儿子还只是马前卒。又一阵号角吹响，战鼓雷鸣了，父亲庄严地托起一个箭囊，其中插着一只箭。父亲郑重对儿子说：“这是家袭宝箭，配带身边，力量无穷，但千万不可抽出来。”那是一个极其精美的箭囊，厚牛皮打制，镶着幽幽泛光的铜边儿，再看露出的箭尾。一眼便能认定用上等的孔雀羽毛制作。儿子喜上眉梢，贪婪地推想箭杆、箭头的模样，耳旁仿佛嗖嗖地箭声掠过，敌方的主帅应声折马而毙。果然，配带宝箭的儿子英勇非凡，所向披靡。当鸣金收兵的号角吹响时，儿子再也禁不住得胜的豪气，完全背弃了父亲的叮嘱，强烈的欲望驱赶着他呼一声就拔出宝箭，试图看个究竟。骤然间他惊呆了。一只断箭，箭囊里装着一只折断的箭。我一直刳着只断箭打仗呢！儿子吓出了一身冷汗，仿佛顷刻间失去支柱的房子，轰然意志坍塌了。结果不言自明，儿子惨死于乱军之中。拂开蒙蒙的硝烟，父亲拣起那柄断箭，沉重地啐一口道：“不相信自己的意志，永远也做不成将军。”

温馨提示：不相信自己的意志，永远也做不成将军。自己才是一只箭，若要它坚韧，若要它锋利，若要它百步穿杨，百发百中，磨砺它，拯救它的都只能是自己。

第五个故事：再试一次

有个年轻人去微软公司应聘，而该公司并没有刊登过招聘广告。见总经理疑惑不解，年轻人用不太娴熟的英语解释说自己是碰巧路过这里，就贸然进来了。总经理感觉很新鲜，破例让他一试。面试的结果出人意料，年轻人表现糟糕。他对总经理的解释是事先没有准备，总经理以为他不过是找个托词下台阶，就随口应道：“等你准备好了再来试吧”。一周后，年轻人再次走进微软公司的大门，这次他依然没有成功。但比起第一次，他的表现要好得多。而总经理给他的回答仍然同上次一样：“等你准备好了再来试。”就这样，这个青年先后5次踏进微软公司的大门，最终被公司录用，成为公司的重点培养对象。

提示：什么东西比石头还硬，或比水还软？然而软水却穿透了硬石，坚持不懈而已。也许，我们的人生旅途上沼泽遍布，荆棘丛生；也许我们追求的风景总是山重水复，不见柳暗花明；也许，我们前行的步履总是沉重、蹒跚；也许，我们需要在黑暗中摸索很长时间，才能找寻到光明；也许，我们虔诚的信念会被世俗的尘雾缠绕，而不能自由翱翔；也许，我们高贵的灵魂暂时在现实中找不到寄放的净土„„那么，我们为什么不可以以勇敢者的气魄，坚定而自信地对自己说一声“再试一次！”再试一次，你就有可能达到成功的彼岸！坚持就是胜利。

第六个故事：为生命画一片树叶

美国作家欧;亨利在他的小说《最后一片叶子》里讲了个故事：病房里，一个生命垂危的病人从房间里看见窗外的一棵树，在秋风中一片片地掉落下来。病人望着眼前的萧萧落叶，身体也随之每况愈下，一天不如一天。她说：“当树叶全部掉光时，我也就要死了。”一位老画家得知后，用彩笔画了一片叶脉青翠的树叶挂在树枝上。最后一片叶子始终没掉下来。只因为生命中的这片绿，病人竟奇迹般地活了下来。

提示：为生命画一片永不凋零的树叶吧,这是生命不会湮灭的希望。树叶不落，生命不止。

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第七个故事：跨越自己

有一天，龙虾与寄居蟹在深海中相遇，寄居蟹看见龙虾正把自己的硬壳脱掉，只露出娇嫩的身躯。寄居蟹非常紧张地说：“龙虾，你怎可以把唯一保护自己身躯的硬壳也放弃呢？难道你不怕有大鱼一口把你吃掉吗？以你现在的情况来看，连急流也会把你冲到岩石去，到时你不死才怪呢？”龙虾气定神闲地回答：“谢谢你的关心，但是你不了解，我们龙虾每次成长，都必须先脱掉旧壳，才能生长出更坚固的外壳，现在面对的危险，只是为了将来发展得更好而作出准备。”寄居蟹细心思量一下，自己整天只找可以避居的地方，而没有想过如何令自己成长得更强壮，整天只活在别人的护荫之下，难怪永远都限制自己的发展。

提示：对于那些害怕危险的人，危险无处不在。每个人都有一定的安全区，你想跨越自己目前的成就，请不要划地自限，勇于接受挑战充实自我，你一定会发展得比想像中更好。如果只生活在自己划定的界限里，你将一辈子固步自封，无所成就。

第八个故事：永远的一课 那天的风雪真暴，外面像是有无数发疯的怪兽在呼啸厮打。雪恶狠狠地寻找袭击的对象，风呜咽着四处搜索。大家都在喊冷，读书的心思似乎已被冻住了。一屋的跺脚声。鼻头红红的欧阳老师挤进教室时，等待了许久的风席卷而入，墙壁上的《中学生守则》一鼓一顿，开玩笑似的卷向空中，又一个跟头栽了下来。乱哄哄的教室静了下来，我们惊异地望着欧阳老师。“请同学们穿上胶鞋，我们到操场上去。”几十双眼睛在问。“因为我们要在操场上立正五分钟”。即使欧阳老师下了“不上这堂课，永远别上我的课”的恐吓之词，还是有几个娇滴滴的女生和几个很横的男生没有出教室。操场在学校的东北角，北边是空旷的菜园，再北是一口大塘。那天，操场、菜园和水塘被雪连成了一个整体。矮了许多的篮球架被雪团打得“啪啪”作响，卷地而起的雪粒雪团呛得人睁不开眼张不开口。脸上像有无数把细窄的刀在拉在划，厚实的衣服像铁块冰块，脚像是踩在带冰碴的水里。我们挤在教室的屋檐下，不肯迈向操场半步。谁也没有吭声，我们老老实实地到操场排好了三列纵队。瘦削的欧阳老师只穿一件白衬褂，衬褂紧裹着的他更显单薄。后来，我们规规矩矩地在操场站了五分多钟。在教室时，同学们都以为自己敌不过那场风雪，事实上，叫他们站半个小时，他们顶得住，叫他们只穿一件衬衫，他们也顶得住。

提示：面对困难，许多人戴了放大镜，但和困难拼搏一番，你会觉得，困难不过如此。正如生命中的许多伤痛一样，其实并不如自己想像的那么严重。如果不把它当回事，它是不会很痛的。你觉得痛，那是因为你自以为伤口在痛，害怕伤口的痛。

第九个故事：永远的坐票

有一个人经常出差，经常买不到对号入坐的车票。可是无论长途短途，无论车上多挤，他总能找到座位。他的办法其实很简单，就是耐心地一节车厢一节车厢找过去。这个办法听上去似乎并不高明，但却很管用。每次，他都做好了从第一节车厢走到最后一节车厢的准备，可是每次他都用不着走到最后就会发现空位。他说，这是因为像他这样锲而不舍找座位的乘客实在不多。经常是在他落座的车厢里尚余若干座位，而在其他车厢的过道和车厢接头处，居然人满为患。

提示：生活真是有趣：如果你只接受最好的，你经常会得到最好的。如果你甘于现状，你就永远不会有进步。自信、执着、富有远见、勤于实践，会让你握有一张人生之旅永远的坐票。

第十个故事：心中的顽石吓住了你

从前有一户人家的菜园摆着一颗大石头，宽度大约有四十公分，高度有十公分。到菜园的人，不小心就会踢到那一颗大石头，不是跌倒就是擦伤。儿子问：“爸爸，那颗讨厌的石头，为什么不把它挖走？”爸爸这么回答：“你说那颗石头喔？从你爷爷时代，就一直放到现在了，它的体积那么大，不知道要挖到到什么时候，没事无聊挖石头，不如走路小心一点，合其客奶吧加盟http://www.xiexiebang.com

还可以训练你的反应能力。”过了几年，这颗大石头留到下一代，当时的儿子娶了媳妇，当了爸爸。有一天媳妇气愤地说：“爸爸，菜园那颗大石头，我越看越不顺眼，改天请人搬走好了。”爸爸回答说：“算了吧！那颗大石头很重的，可以搬走的话在我小时候就搬走了，哪会让它留到现在啊？”媳妇心底非常不是滋味，那颗大石头不知道让她跌倒多少次了。十几分钟以后，媳妇用锄头把大石头四周的泥土搅松。媳妇早有心理准备，可能要挖一天吧，谁都没想到几分钟就把石头挖起来，看看大小，这颗石头没有想像的那么大，都是被那个巨大的外表蒙骗了。

温馨提示：外表看似强大的困难，往往并不可怕，可怕只是你心中的设想而已，他们常常是没有根基的。只要你做，就能克服困难，往往比想象的容易得多。

第三篇：为班干伸冤 演讲

眼线

雪魇

亲爱的同学们：

你们好！

或许大家很疑惑，今天，我为什么要站在这个舞台上，我凭什么站在这个舞台上以及我到底想和大家说些什么。相信小部分同学已经听说过，最近几天我们班班级QQ群上发生了一件“恐怖事件”：有几位同学“胆大包天”地上传了地理答案，得知事情败露之后，却又谴责班干们出卖他们。

说到这里，同学们应该知道我这次演讲的主题。是的，这次，我想跟大家谈谈“眼线”。

我知道，一说到眼线啊，很多人就会将目光瞥向那些班干们，咬牙切齿。“间谍”！“老师的走狗”！“卑鄙小人”……虽然我知道我们班的大多数同学不会如此，但是在这里，我还是要为班干们报报不公。班干。一个闪亮的称谓。大家看到的都是他们的威风凛凛，光鲜亮丽，殊不知他们付出了多少。你们可曾想过，你们课间玩耍时，班干们在干嘛？你们早晨早读时，班干们在干嘛？你们放学回家时，班干们又在干嘛……班干们牺牲了他们学习、玩耍的时间，在为你们！在为你们服务着！他们竭尽心力，不顾自己，只是单纯地希望我们这个大集体是团结的，是优秀的，是积极向上的！

你们不知道！你们不知道纪律部长阚天颜曾经为了管纪律差点把

嗓子喊哑。你们不知道！因为你们一个简单的“作业太多了”，让各科课代表来回跑了多少趟。你们不知道！各个部门每周一中午会议的内容。你们不知道……

前几天看到几位同学在群上对班干的声讨，我的怒火由心而上。不说什么冠冕堂皇的大道理。我只想问问那几位同学几句话。

第一，你们做的事情是否正确？身正不怕影子斜，如果你们没有做对集体不益的事，班干们有必要费那个心那个力去告诉老师么？

第二，扪心自问，你们凭什么指责班干？班干为的是什么？为的是我们这个集体。你以为一时抄答案抄得快活，对你的将来有什么好处么?更何况，就算你们不体谅班干的辛勤，你们可以坠落自己，但不要影响他人。

身为七（4）班的一员，我为我们班那么多尽职尽责的班干感到不公。他们的辛勤付出，却背负上了一个“卑鄙无耻小人”的称号。在这里，我想真心诚意地代表全班同学对你们说：“谢谢！你们辛苦了！。无关乎职位大小，你们的付出值得敬佩！”

我不期待这次的演说能改变所有人。只是希望有一部分人能够听进去，多体谅，多关心、帮助班干。他们也是人，他们也希望得到大家的理解。他们，也会灰心，也会累……

最后，请全体起立，跟我喊出七（4）的口号：

“七四精英，敢闯敢拼。齐心协力，争创佳绩！”

我的演讲结束，谢谢大家。

第四篇：TED演讲--如何掌控你的自由时间

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（绩效评估）,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英文演讲)为球鞋疯狂——观后感

“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.