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点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容Excerpt from commencement speech by President Barack Obama at Worcester Technical High SchoolI want to talk about three of those lessons, a couple of which have already been mentioned by the previous speakers. First of all, I want you to remember that each of us is only here because somebody somewhere invested in our success. Somebody invested in us. I know that’s true for me. I was raised by a single mom with the help of my grandparents. We didn’t have a lot of money growing up. At times, we struggled. When my mom was going to school at the same time as she was raising my sister and me, we had to scrape to get by.……A lot of people made an investment in you. I can't imagine a better investment. But as you experience your success and as you experience setbacks, you need to remember everything that's been put into making sure that you had opportunity. Which brings me to the second thing I hope you remember when you leave here: You’re going to also have to give back. This community invested in you. You’ve got to make sure that you use those gifts. ……My final point is I hope you leave here today believing that if you can make it, then there shouldn’t be any kid out here who can’t make it. ……I tell you all this not just because you stand to benefit from changes in laws, but because you’re going to have to be a part of helping to shape the law. You’re going to have to shape public opinion. You’re going to have remember everybody who invested in you. You’re going to have to remember the experience of being part of this incredible community. And then, when you go out into the world, whether you are a businessperson, or you are in the military, or you are an academic, or a doctor, or whatever it is that you’re doing, you’re also going to be a citizen. You’re also going to be somebody who has a voice in how this country operates. And you’ve got to push so that others get the same chance you did.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容Excerpt from commencement speech by President Barack Obama at Worcester Technical High SchoolI want to talk about three of those lessons, a couple of which have already been mentioned by the previous speakers. First of all, I want you to remember that each of us is only here because somebody somewhere invested in our success. Somebody invested in us. I know that’s true for me. I was raised by a single mom with the help of my grandparents. We didn’t have a lot of money growing up. At times, we struggled. When my mom was going to school at the same time as she was raising my sister and me, we had to scrape to get by.……A lot of people made an investment in you. I can't imagine a better investment. But as you experience your success and as you experience setbacks, you need to remember everything that's been put into making sure that you had opportunity. Which brings me to the second thing I hope you remember when you leave here: You’re going to also have to give back. This community invested in you. You’ve got to make sure that you use those gifts. ……My final point is I hope you leave here today believing that if you can make it, then there shouldn’t be any kid out here who can’t make it. ……I tell you all this not just because you stand to benefit from changes in laws, but because you’re going to have to be a part of helping to shape the law. You’re going to have to shape public opinion. You’re going to have remember everybody who invested in you. You’re going to have to remember the experience of being part of this incredible community. And then, when you go out into the world, whether you are a businessperson, or you are in the military, or you are an academic, or a doctor, or whatever it is that you’re doing, you’re also going to be a citizen. You’re also going to be somebody who has a voice in how this country operates. And you’ve got to push so that others get the same chance you did.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

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点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容Three New Fish Species Found in Pacific OceanBy Hai DoScientists say they have discovered three new species of fish in one of the deepest places on Earth.All three species were found in the Pacific Ocean, off the coast of Chile and Peru. They were deep in the Atacama Trench -- 7,500 meters below the surface.Researchers from Britain's Newcastle University say the new species have been given temporary names based on their coloring. They are known as ‘the pink, the blue and the purple Atacama Snailfish.'The three snailfish species are different from most other fish. Their unusual bodies are built to deal with the cold water and extreme pressure deep in the ocean.All three are small and translucent, meaning light can pass through their skin. They also have no scales on the skin for protection.Thomas Linley is with Newscastle University. He said in a statement, "the hardest structures in their bodies are the bones in their inner ear which give them balance and their teeth. Without the extreme pressure and cold to support their bodies they are extremely fragile and melt rapidly when brought to the surface."A team of 40 scientists from 17 nations captured video of the fish in their natural environment.Other scientists say the "blue" Atacama Snailfish appeared to be a rare "winged" snailfish. But it has long fin and big head similar to the Ethereal Snailfish off the coast of Mariana Islands.The "pink" was closer in appearance to the Mariana Snailfish, a species found in the deepest part of Mariana Trench on the other side of the Pacific.The third species is a small purple snailfish. It is similar to fish living at the depth of 3,500 meters. One of the purple snailfish, about 9 centimeters long, was brought to the surface for further study.In addition to the discovery of the new species of snailfish, scientists also captured rare video of long-legged isopods, known as Munnopsids. The shellfish has a small body, about the size of a human hand. It can swim backwards and upside down using its extremely long legs.The scientists say what they have found in the deep sea is an environment rich with many species in large numbers.From the video shot by the Newcastle scientists, Linley said, "There is something about the snailfish that allows them to adapt to living very deep. Beyond the reach of other fish they are free of competitors and predators."He added, "they seem to be quite active and look very well-fed."I'm Anna Matteo.Hai Do adapted this story for Learning English based on The Conversation. George Grow was the editor.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容Three New Fish Species Found in Pacific OceanBy Hai DoScientists say they have discovered three new species of fish in one of the deepest places on Earth.All three species were found in the Pacific Ocean, off the coast of Chile and Peru. They were deep in the Atacama Trench -- 7,500 meters below the surface.Researchers from Britain's Newcastle University say the new species have been given temporary names based on their coloring. They are known as ‘the pink, the blue and the purple Atacama Snailfish.'The three snailfish species are different from most other fish. Their unusual bodies are built to deal with the cold water and extreme pressure deep in the ocean.All three are small and translucent, meaning light can pass through their skin. They also have no scales on the skin for protection.Thomas Linley is with Newscastle University. He said in a statement, "the hardest structures in their bodies are the bones in their inner ear which give them balance and their teeth. Without the extreme pressure and cold to support their bodies they are extremely fragile and melt rapidly when brought to the surface."A team of 40 scientists from 17 nations captured video of the fish in their natural environment.Other scientists say the "blue" Atacama Snailfish appeared to be a rare "winged" snailfish. But it has long fin and big head similar to the Ethereal Snailfish off the coast of Mariana Islands.The "pink" was closer in appearance to the Mariana Snailfish, a species found in the deepest part of Mariana Trench on the other side of the Pacific.The third species is a small purple snailfish. It is similar to fish living at the depth of 3,500 meters. One of the purple snailfish, about 9 centimeters long, was brought to the surface for further study.In addition to the discovery of the new species of snailfish, scientists also captured rare video of long-legged isopods, known as Munnopsids. The shellfish has a small body, about the size of a human hand. It can swim backwards and upside down using its extremely long legs.The scientists say what they have found in the deep sea is an environment rich with many species in large numbers.From the video shot by the Newcastle scientists, Linley said, "There is something about the snailfish that allows them to adapt to living very deep. Beyond the reach of other fish they are free of competitors and predators."He added, "they seem to be quite active and look very well-fed."I'm Anna Matteo.Hai Do adapted this story for Learning English based on The Conversation. George Grow was the editor.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

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点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容Excerpt from commencement speech by David Brooks at Dartmouth CollegeMaking commitments sounds intimidating, but it’s not. Making a commitment simply means falling in love with something, and then building a structure of behavior around it that will carry you through when your love falters. When you make a commitment to something you truly love, whether it’s a spouse, a job, a company, or a school, it won’t feel like you are putting on an uncomfortable lobster shell. It will feel like you are taking off the shell and becoming the shape you were meant to be.When you’re making a commitment, you won’t be paralyzed by self-focus because you’ll have something besides yourself to think about.Specifically, as you go through your 30s, you will make four major commitments, and your life depends on how you do with these four things.First, a commitment to your spouse and to your family. Second, a commitment to a career and a vocation. Third, a commitment to your faith or philosophy. Fourth, a commitment to a community and a village.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容Excerpt from commencement speech by David Brooks at Dartmouth CollegeMaking commitments sounds intimidating, but it’s not. Making a commitment simply means falling in love with something, and then building a structure of behavior around it that will carry you through when your love falters. When you make a commitment to something you truly love, whether it’s a spouse, a job, a company, or a school, it won’t feel like you are putting on an uncomfortable lobster shell. It will feel like you are taking off the shell and becoming the shape you were meant to be.When you’re making a commitment, you won’t be paralyzed by self-focus because you’ll have something besides yourself to think about.Specifically, as you go through your 30s, you will make four major commitments, and your life depends on how you do with these four things.First, a commitment to your spouse and to your family. Second, a commitment to a career and a vocation. Third, a commitment to your faith or philosophy. Fourth, a commitment to a community and a village.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容How to get richBy Derek Sivers1. Live where luck strikes.Live where everything is happening,where the money is flowing,where careers are being made,where your role models live.Once there, be as in the game as anyone can be.Be right in the middle of everything.2. Say yes to everything.Meet everyone.Pursue every opportunity.Nothing is too small. Do it all.Like lottery tickets, you never know which one will win. So the more, the better.Follow-up and keep in touch with everyone.3. Learn the multiplying skills.Speaking, writing, psychology, design, conversation, 2nd language, persuasion, programming, meditation/focus.Not pursued on their own, they’re skills that multiply the success of your main pursuit.(A pilot who’s also a great writer and public speaker.)(A chef with a mastery of psychology, persuasion, and design.)These skills multiply the results of your efforts, and give you an edge over others in your field.4. Pursue market value not personal value.Do what pays well.Do not be the starving artist, working on things that have great personal value to you, but little market value.Follow the money. It tells you where you’re most valuable.Don’t try to make a career out of everything you love. For example, sex.5. Shamelessly imitate success.Imitate the best strategies of your competitors.The market doesn’t care about your personal need to be unique.It’s selfless and humble to use the best ideas regardless of source, to create the best service or product for your clients.Get great at executing other people’s ideas as well as your own.6. Be the owner, not just inventor.It’s tempting to try to be the ideas person, having someone else do the dirty work of making those ideas happen.Ideas don’t make you rich. Great execution of ideas does.A rule of capitalism: whoever takes the most financial risk gets the rewards.The biggest rewards will always go to those that fund it and own it.To get rich, be the owner. Own as close to 100% as possible.7. Benefit from human nature.Instead of complaining about the downside of human nature, find ways to benefit from it.Instead of complaining about the rules, just learn the game, then play it.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容How to get richBy Derek Sivers1. Live where luck strikes.Live where everything is happening,where the money is flowing,where careers are being made,where your role models live.Once there, be as in the game as anyone can be.Be right in the middle of everything.2. Say yes to everything.Meet everyone.Pursue every opportunity.Nothing is too small. Do it all.Like lottery tickets, you never know which one will win. So the more, the better.Follow-up and keep in touch with everyone.3. Learn the multiplying skills.Speaking, writing, psychology, design, conversation, 2nd language, persuasion, programming, meditation/focus.Not pursued on their own, they’re skills that multiply the success of your main pursuit.(A pilot who’s also a great writer and public speaker.)(A chef with a mastery of psychology, persuasion, and design.)These skills multiply the results of your efforts, and give you an edge over others in your field.4. Pursue market value not personal value.Do what pays well.Do not be the starving artist, working on things that have great personal value to you, but little market value.Follow the money. It tells you where you’re most valuable.Don’t try to make a career out of everything you love. For example, sex.5. Shamelessly imitate success.Imitate the best strategies of your competitors.The market doesn’t care about your personal need to be unique.It’s selfless and humble to use the best ideas regardless of source, to create the best service or product for your clients.Get great at executing other people’s ideas as well as your own.6. Be the owner, not just inventor.It’s tempting to try to be the ideas person, having someone else do the dirty work of making those ideas happen.Ideas don’t make you rich. Great execution of ideas does.A rule of capitalism: whoever takes the most financial risk gets the rewards.The biggest rewards will always go to those that fund it and own it.To get rich, be the owner. Own as close to 100% as possible.7. Benefit from human nature.Instead of complaining about the downside of human nature, find ways to benefit from it.Instead of complaining about the rules, just learn the game, then play it.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容How eBooks lost their shine: 'Kindles now look clunky and unhip'Just a few years ago, the Kindle was being blamed for the death of the traditional book. But the latest figures show a dramatic reversal of fortunes, with sales of ebooks plunging. So what’s behind this resurgence?By Paula CocozzaHere are some things that you can’t do with a Kindle. You can’t turn down a corner, tuck a flap in a chapter, crack a spine (brutal, but sometimes pleasurable) or flick the pages to see how far you have come and how far you have to go. You can’t remember something potent and find it again with reference to where it appeared on a right- or left-hand page. You often can’t remember much at all. You can’t tell whether the end is really the end, or whether the end equals 93% followed by 7% of index and/or questions for book clubs. You can’t pass it on to a friend or post it through your neighbour’s door.A few years ago, I was given a Kindle. I had become a student again. I was reading lots of books and I needed them cheap and light. But now the Kindle has slipped to the back of the desk drawer behind the Blu-Tack that comes out only at Christmas. Meanwhile, the stack of hardbacks and paperbacks on the bedside table has grown so tall it has spawned sub-stacks on the floor; when I get into bed at night, it is like looking down on a miniature book city. I don’t want to speculate about what goes on in other people’s bedrooms but I suspect it might be something similar, because figures published today by the Publishing Association show that sales of consumer ebooks have dropped by 17%, while sales of physical books are up 8%. Consumer spending on books was up £89m across the board last year, compared with 2015. So why is the physical book winning through?968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容How eBooks lost their shine: 'Kindles now look clunky and unhip'Just a few years ago, the Kindle was being blamed for the death of the traditional book. But the latest figures show a dramatic reversal of fortunes, with sales of ebooks plunging. So what’s behind this resurgence?By Paula CocozzaHere are some things that you can’t do with a Kindle. You can’t turn down a corner, tuck a flap in a chapter, crack a spine (brutal, but sometimes pleasurable) or flick the pages to see how far you have come and how far you have to go. You can’t remember something potent and find it again with reference to where it appeared on a right- or left-hand page. You often can’t remember much at all. You can’t tell whether the end is really the end, or whether the end equals 93% followed by 7% of index and/or questions for book clubs. You can’t pass it on to a friend or post it through your neighbour’s door.A few years ago, I was given a Kindle. I had become a student again. I was reading lots of books and I needed them cheap and light. But now the Kindle has slipped to the back of the desk drawer behind the Blu-Tack that comes out only at Christmas. Meanwhile, the stack of hardbacks and paperbacks on the bedside table has grown so tall it has spawned sub-stacks on the floor; when I get into bed at night, it is like looking down on a miniature book city. I don’t want to speculate about what goes on in other people’s bedrooms but I suspect it might be something similar, because figures published today by the Publishing Association show that sales of consumer ebooks have dropped by 17%, while sales of physical books are up 8%. Consumer spending on books was up £89m across the board last year, compared with 2015. So why is the physical book winning through?968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容Time Zone of LifeAuthor unknownNew York is 3 hours ahead of CaliforniaBut it does not make California slowSomeone graduated at the age of 22But waited 5 years before securing a good jobSome became a CEO at 25 and died at 50While another became a CEO at 50 and lived to 90 yearsSomeone is still singleSomeone got married and 'waited' 10 years before having a childThere is another who had a baby within a year of marriageObama retired at 55 but Trump starts at 70People around you might seem to go ahead of youSome might seem to be behind youBut everyone is running their own RACE, in their own TIMEDon't envy them or mock themThey are in their time zone, and you are in yoursLife is about waiting for the right moment to actSo relaxYou are not lateYou are not earlyYou are very much on timeYou are in your time zone968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容Time Zone of LifeAuthor unknownNew York is 3 hours ahead of CaliforniaBut it does not make California slowSomeone graduated at the age of 22But waited 5 years before securing a good jobSome became a CEO at 25 and died at 50While another became a CEO at 50 and lived to 90 yearsSomeone is still singleSomeone got married and 'waited' 10 years before having a childThere is another who had a baby within a year of marriageObama retired at 55 but Trump starts at 70People around you might seem to go ahead of youSome might seem to be behind youBut everyone is running their own RACE, in their own TIMEDon't envy them or mock themThey are in their time zone, and you are in yoursLife is about waiting for the right moment to actSo relaxYou are not lateYou are not earlyYou are very much on timeYou are in your time zone968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容How Online Shopping Makes Suckers of Us AllWill you pay more for those shoes before 7 p.m.? Would the price tag be different if you lived in the suburbs? Standard prices and simple discounts are giving way to far more exotic strategies, designed to extract every last dollar from the consumer.By Jerry UseemAs christmas approached in 2015, the price of pumpkin-pie spice went wild. It didn’t soar, as an economics textbook might suggest. Nor did it crash. It just started vibrating between two quantum states. Amazon’s price for a one-ounce jar was either $4.49 or $8.99, depending on when you looked. Nearly a year later, as Thanksgiving 2016 approached, the price again began whipsawing between two different points, this time $3.36 and $4.69.We live in the age of the variable airfare, the surge-priced ride, the pay-what-you-want Radiohead album, and other novel price developments. But what was this? Some weird computer glitch? More like a deliberate glitch, it seems. “It’s most likely a strategy to get more data and test the right price,” Guru Hariharan explained, after I had sketched the pattern on a whiteboard.The right price—the one that will extract the most profit from consumers’ wallets—has become the fixation of a large and growing number of quantitative types, many of them economists who have left academia for Silicon Valley. It’s also the preoccupation of Boomerang Commerce, a five-year-old start-up founded by Hariharan, an Amazon alum. He says these sorts of price experiments have become a routine part of finding that right price—and refinding it, because the right price can change by the day or even by the hour. (Amazon says its price changes are not attempts to gather data on customers’ spending habits, but rather to give shoppers the lowest price out there.)968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容How Online Shopping Makes Suckers of Us AllWill you pay more for those shoes before 7 p.m.? Would the price tag be different if you lived in the suburbs? Standard prices and simple discounts are giving way to far more exotic strategies, designed to extract every last dollar from the consumer.By Jerry UseemAs christmas approached in 2015, the price of pumpkin-pie spice went wild. It didn’t soar, as an economics textbook might suggest. Nor did it crash. It just started vibrating between two quantum states. Amazon’s price for a one-ounce jar was either $4.49 or $8.99, depending on when you looked. Nearly a year later, as Thanksgiving 2016 approached, the price again began whipsawing between two different points, this time $3.36 and $4.69.We live in the age of the variable airfare, the surge-priced ride, the pay-what-you-want Radiohead album, and other novel price developments. But what was this? Some weird computer glitch? More like a deliberate glitch, it seems. “It’s most likely a strategy to get more data and test the right price,” Guru Hariharan explained, after I had sketched the pattern on a whiteboard.The right price—the one that will extract the most profit from consumers’ wallets—has become the fixation of a large and growing number of quantitative types, many of them economists who have left academia for Silicon Valley. It’s also the preoccupation of Boomerang Commerce, a five-year-old start-up founded by Hariharan, an Amazon alum. He says these sorts of price experiments have become a routine part of finding that right price—and refinding it, because the right price can change by the day or even by the hour. (Amazon says its price changes are not attempts to gather data on customers’ spending habits, but rather to give shoppers the lowest price out there.)968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容PurgingBy Steve PavlinaMy wife and I spent this past three-day weekend cleaning out our garage and purging many unwanted items. This was a project that was long overdue, and we finally set aside the time for it. It seemed a daunting project at first, but it felt really good to sort through and purge those old items. We donated several carloads of stuff to charity.As aggressive as I am about staying organized and purging what I don’t need, I noticed that time plays a big role in determining whether or not an item is worth keeping. Some items seem like they were worth keeping at the time we stored/archived them, and perhaps they were, but years later those same items may be seen as worthless junk. In many cases our needs had changed, and so did the items that we thought might be helpful in filling those needs.There are a few rules that have served me well whenever I go through a purge cycle:When in doubt, throw it out.Ask, “What would be the worst-case outcome if I threw this item out by mistake?” If the answer is little or nothing, throw it out.Could someone else benefit from this item more than I would?This is in contrast to the rules that many other people seem to use when deciding what they’ll keep vs. what they’ll toss out. I think the rules most people follow are these:When in doubt, keep it. I might need this someday.Ask, “What would be the best-case outcome if I kept this item?” If the answer seems moderately good, keep it.Could I possibly benefit from keeping this item?I think this second rule set is one reason certain people have a serious problem with clutter. By setting your default to “keep” instead of “purge,” you’re obviously going to keep a lot more items. And over time it would be very easy to outstrip your capacity to effectively utilize and enjoy every item you keep. Eventually your home becomes filled with items you rarely ever look at, and you have to devote more space to storing them and more time to managing them.I’m not suggesting you need to be so severe that you junk everything you might want, but perhaps if you haven’t touched an item in two or more years, you may be able to live without it.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容PurgingBy Steve PavlinaMy wife and I spent this past three-day weekend cleaning out our garage and purging many unwanted items. This was a project that was long overdue, and we finally set aside the time for it. It seemed a daunting project at first, but it felt really good to sort through and purge those old items. We donated several carloads of stuff to charity.As aggressive as I am about staying organized and purging what I don’t need, I noticed that time plays a big role in determining whether or not an item is worth keeping. Some items seem like they were worth keeping at the time we stored/archived them, and perhaps they were, but years later those same items may be seen as worthless junk. In many cases our needs had changed, and so did the items that we thought might be helpful in filling those needs.There are a few rules that have served me well whenever I go through a purge cycle:When in doubt, throw it out.Ask, “What would be the worst-case outcome if I threw this item out by mistake?” If the answer is little or nothing, throw it out.Could someone else benefit from this item more than I would?This is in contrast to the rules that many other people seem to use when deciding what they’ll keep vs. what they’ll toss out. I think the rules most people follow are these:When in doubt, keep it. I might need this someday.Ask, “What would be the best-case outcome if I kept this item?” If the answer seems moderately good, keep it.Could I possibly benefit from keeping this item?I think this second rule set is one reason certain people have a serious problem with clutter. By setting your default to “keep” instead of “purge,” you’re obviously going to keep a lot more items. And over time it would be very easy to outstrip your capacity to effectively utilize and enjoy every item you keep. Eventually your home becomes filled with items you rarely ever look at, and you have to devote more space to storing them and more time to managing them.I’m not suggesting you need to be so severe that you junk everything you might want, but perhaps if you haven’t touched an item in two or more years, you may be able to live without it.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容Introduction to Montessori MethodThe Montessori Method of education, developed by Dr. Maria Montessori, is a child-centered educational approach based on scientific observations of children from birth to adulthood. Dr. Montessori’s Method has been time tested, with over 100 years of success in diverse cultures throughout the world.It is a view of the child as one who is naturally eager for knowledge and capable of initiating learning in a supportive, thoughtfully prepared learning environment. It is an approach that values the human spirit and the development of the whole child—physical, social, emotional, cognitive.Hallmarks of MontessoriComponents necessary for a program to be considered authentically Montessori include multiage groupings that foster peer learning, uninterrupted blocks of work time, and guided choice of work activity. In addition, a full complement of specially designed Montessori learning materials are meticulously arranged and available for use in an aesthetically pleasing environment.The teacher, child, and environment create a learning triangle. The classroom is  prepared by the teacher to encourage independence, freedom within limits, and a sense of order. The child, through individual choice, makes use of what the environment offers to develop himself, interacting with the teacher when support and/or guidance is needed.Multiage groupings are a hallmark of the Montessori Method: younger children learn from older children; older children reinforce their learning by teaching concepts they have already mastered. This arrangement also mirrors the real world, where individuals work and socialize with people of all ages and dispositions.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容Introduction to Montessori MethodThe Montessori Method of education, developed by Dr. Maria Montessori, is a child-centered educational approach based on scientific observations of children from birth to adulthood. Dr. Montessori’s Method has been time tested, with over 100 years of success in diverse cultures throughout the world.It is a view of the child as one who is naturally eager for knowledge and capable of initiating learning in a supportive, thoughtfully prepared learning environment. It is an approach that values the human spirit and the development of the whole child—physical, social, emotional, cognitive.Hallmarks of MontessoriComponents necessary for a program to be considered authentically Montessori include multiage groupings that foster peer learning, uninterrupted blocks of work time, and guided choice of work activity. In addition, a full complement of specially designed Montessori learning materials are meticulously arranged and available for use in an aesthetically pleasing environment.The teacher, child, and environment create a learning triangle. The classroom is  prepared by the teacher to encourage independence, freedom within limits, and a sense of order. The child, through individual choice, makes use of what the environment offers to develop himself, interacting with the teacher when support and/or guidance is needed.Multiage groupings are a hallmark of the Montessori Method: younger children learn from older children; older children reinforce their learning by teaching concepts they have already mastered. This arrangement also mirrors the real world, where individuals work and socialize with people of all ages and dispositions.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容梦想与责任：奥巴马开学演讲Hello, everybody! ……I am here with students at Wakefield High School in Arlington, Virginia. And we’ve got students tuning in from all across America, from kindergarten through 12th grade. And I am just so glad that all could join us today. ……I know that for many of you, today is the first day of school. And for those of you in kindergarten, or starting middle or high school, it’s your first day in a new school, so it’s understandable if you’re a little nervous. ……And no matter what grade you’re in, some of you are probably wishing it were still summer and you could’ve stayed in bed just a little bit longer this morning.……I know that feeling. When I was young, my family lived overseas. I lived in Indonesia for a few years. And my mother, she didn’t have the money to send me where all the American kids went to school, but she thought it was important for me to keep up with an American education. So she decided to teach me extra lessons herself, Monday through Friday. But because she had to go to work, the only time she could do it was at 4:30 in the morning.……Now, as you might imagine, I wasn’t too happy about getting up that early. And a lot of times, I’d fall asleep right there at the kitchen table. But whenever I’d complain, my mother would just give me one of those looks and she’d say, “This is no picnic for me either, buster.” ……So I know that some of you are still adjusting to being back at school. But I’m here today because I have something important to discuss with you. I’m here because I want to talk with you about your education and what’s expected of all of you in this new school year.……Maybe you could be a great writer -- maybe even good enough to write a book or articles in a newspaper -- but you might not know it until you write that English paper -- that English class paper that’s assigned to you. Maybe you could be an innovator or an inventor -- maybe even good enough to come up with the next iPhone or the new medicine or vaccine -- but you might not know it until you do your project for your science class. Maybe you could be a mayor or a senator or a Supreme Court justice -- but you might not know that until you join student government or the debate team.……And no matter what you want to do with your life, I guarantee that you’ll need an education to do it. You want to be a doctor, or a teacher, or a police officer? You want to be a nurse or an architect, a lawyer or a member of our military? You’re going to need a good education for every single one of those careers. You cannot drop out of school and just drop into a good job. You’ve got to train for it and work for it and learn for it.……And this isn’t just important for your own life and your own future. What you make of your education will decide nothing less than the future of this country. The future of America depends on you. What you’re learning in school today will determine whether we as a nation can meet our greatest challenges in the future.……We need every single one of you to develop your talents and your skills and your intellect so you can help us old folks solve our most difficult problems. If you don’t do that -- if you quit on school -- you’re not just quitting on yourself, you’re quitting on your country.……That’s why today I’m calling on each of you to set your own goals for your education -- and do everything you can to meet them. Your goal can be something as simple as doing all your homework, paying attention in class, or spending some time each day reading a book. Maybe you’ll decide to get involved in an extracurricular activity, or volunteer in your community. Maybe you’ll decide to stand up for kids who are being teased or bullied because of who they are or how they look, because you believe, like I do, that all young people deserve a safe environment to study and learn. Maybe you’ll decide to take better care of yourself so you can be more ready to learn. And along those lines.……Don’t be afraid to ask questions. Don’t be afraid to ask for help when you need it. I do that every day. Asking for help isn’t a sign of weakness, it’s a sign of strength because it shows you have the courage to admit when you don’t know something, and that then allows you to learn something new. So find an adult that you trust -- a parent, a grandparent or teacher, a coach or a counselor -- and ask them to help you stay on track to meet your goals.……Now, your families, your teachers, and I are doing everything we can to make sure you have the education you need to answer these questions. I’m working hard to fix up your classrooms and get you the books and the equipment and the computers you need to learn. But you’ve got to do your part, too. So I expect all of you to get serious this year. I expect you to put your best effort into everything you do. I expect great things from each of you. So don’t let us down. Don’t let your family down or your country down. Most of all, don’t let yourself down. Make us all proud.……968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容梦想与责任：奥巴马开学演讲Hello, everybody! ……I am here with students at Wakefield High School in Arlington, Virginia. And we’ve got students tuning in from all across America, from kindergarten through 12th grade. And I am just so glad that all could join us today. ……I know that for many of you, today is the first day of school. And for those of you in kindergarten, or starting middle or high school, it’s your first day in a new school, so it’s understandable if you’re a little nervous. ……And no matter what grade you’re in, some of you are probably wishing it were still summer and you could’ve stayed in bed just a little bit longer this morning.……I know that feeling. When I was young, my family lived overseas. I lived in Indonesia for a few years. And my mother, she didn’t have the money to send me where all the American kids went to school, but she thought it was important for me to keep up with an American education. So she decided to teach me extra lessons herself, Monday through Friday. But because she had to go to work, the only time she could do it was at 4:30 in the morning.……Now, as you might imagine, I wasn’t too happy about getting up that early. And a lot of times, I’d fall asleep right there at the kitchen table. But whenever I’d complain, my mother would just give me one of those looks and she’d say, “This is no picnic for me either, buster.” ……So I know that some of you are still adjusting to being back at school. But I’m here today because I have something important to discuss with you. I’m here because I want to talk with you about your education and what’s expected of all of you in this new school year.……Maybe you could be a great writer -- maybe even good enough to write a book or articles in a newspaper -- but you might not know it until you write that English paper -- that English class paper that’s assigned to you. Maybe you could be an innovator or an inventor -- maybe even good enough to come up with the next iPhone or the new medicine or vaccine -- but you might not know it until you do your project for your science class. Maybe you could be a mayor or a senator or a Supreme Court justice -- but you might not know that until you join student government or the debate team.……And no matter what you want to do with your life, I guarantee that you’ll need an education to do it. You want to be a doctor, or a teacher, or a police officer? You want to be a nurse or an architect, a lawyer or a member of our military? You’re going to need a good education for every single one of those careers. You cannot drop out of school and just drop into a good job. You’ve got to train for it and work for it and learn for it.……And this isn’t just important for your own life and your own future. What you make of your education will decide nothing less than the future of this country. The future of America depends on you. What you’re learning in school today will determine whether we as a nation can meet our greatest challenges in the future.……We need every single one of you to develop your talents and your skills and your intellect so you can help us old folks solve our most difficult problems. If you don’t do that -- if you quit on school -- you’re not just quitting on yourself, you’re quitting on your country.……That’s why today I’m calling on each of you to set your own goals for your education -- and do everything you can to meet them. Your goal can be something as simple as doing all your homework, paying attention in class, or spending some time each day reading a book. Maybe you’ll decide to get involved in an extracurricular activity, or volunteer in your community. Maybe you’ll decide to stand up for kids who are being teased or bullied because of who they are or how they look, because you believe, like I do, that all young people deserve a safe environment to study and learn. Maybe you’ll decide to take better care of yourself so you can be more ready to learn. And along those lines.……Don’t be afraid to ask questions. Don’t be afraid to ask for help when you need it. I do that every day. Asking for help isn’t a sign of weakness, it’s a sign of strength because it shows you have the courage to admit when you don’t know something, and that then allows you to learn something new. So find an adult that you trust -- a parent, a grandparent or teacher, a coach or a counselor -- and ask them to help you stay on track to meet your goals.……Now, your families, your teachers, and I are doing everything we can to make sure you have the education you need to answer these questions. I’m working hard to fix up your classrooms and get you the books and the equipment and the computers you need to learn. But you’ve got to do your part, too. So I expect all of you to get serious this year. I expect you to put your best effort into everything you do. I expect great things from each of you. So don’t let us down. Don’t let your family down or your country down. Most of all, don’t let yourself down. Make us all proud.……968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.A peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked.If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers,Where's the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.A peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked.If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers,Where's the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容The case for being grumpy at workBy Meredith Bennet-SmithOn my birthday this year, my coworkers planned an elaborate surprise. When I came into work, several dozen colleagues had dressed up as me, donning my trademark accessories: a flannel shirt, a baseball cap—and a scowl.There are two takeaways from this anecdote. The first is that I have truly thoughtful and quirky colleagues. The second is that my habitually grumpy demeanor is so noticeable in the workplace that it has become a hallmark of my persona.Part of me is a little bit embarrassed by this. After all, I grew up, like so many junior employees, understanding that the way to get and keep a good job was through hard work and unflappable politeness. I can’t remember who first expressed the idea that I should endeavor always to come to work with a smile, but it feels very much in keeping with a whole host of social mores that young people—especially women—are taught from an early age.For several years, I bought into the idea that emotional honesty was a quality better left at home. But as my career progressed, and with it my self-confidence, I began to realize that holding in my true feelings was both exhausting and unnecessary. I’m not saying that people should be rude or mean to one another at work, of course. But I do feel that there is something sinister about the corporate cult of positivity.  Employers may think a room full of smiling employees is a sign of a productive, successful office. But research shows that forcing workers to appear more pleasant and more cheerful than they actually feel can lead to a whole host of negative consequences—from emotional exhaustion to withdrawal. And women in particular suffer from the expectation that they should constantly demonstrate happiness.In 2017, there’s no reason for us to grin and bear it. For one thing, researchers from Munich’s Technische Universitaet have found that women were less likely to be promoted to management positions if they appeared too cheerful. (Welcome to another great example of the catch-22s that women face in the workplace everyday.) And research has also shown that a pessimistic outlook can lead to higher productivity, fewer mistakes, and better communication skills. In other words: Grumpy workers of the world, unite.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容The case for being grumpy at workBy Meredith Bennet-SmithOn my birthday this year, my coworkers planned an elaborate surprise. When I came into work, several dozen colleagues had dressed up as me, donning my trademark accessories: a flannel shirt, a baseball cap—and a scowl.There are two takeaways from this anecdote. The first is that I have truly thoughtful and quirky colleagues. The second is that my habitually grumpy demeanor is so noticeable in the workplace that it has become a hallmark of my persona.Part of me is a little bit embarrassed by this. After all, I grew up, like so many junior employees, understanding that the way to get and keep a good job was through hard work and unflappable politeness. I can’t remember who first expressed the idea that I should endeavor always to come to work with a smile, but it feels very much in keeping with a whole host of social mores that young people—especially women—are taught from an early age.For several years, I bought into the idea that emotional honesty was a quality better left at home. But as my career progressed, and with it my self-confidence, I began to realize that holding in my true feelings was both exhausting and unnecessary. I’m not saying that people should be rude or mean to one another at work, of course. But I do feel that there is something sinister about the corporate cult of positivity.  Employers may think a room full of smiling employees is a sign of a productive, successful office. But research shows that forcing workers to appear more pleasant and more cheerful than they actually feel can lead to a whole host of negative consequences—from emotional exhaustion to withdrawal. And women in particular suffer from the expectation that they should constantly demonstrate happiness.In 2017, there’s no reason for us to grin and bear it. For one thing, researchers from Munich’s Technische Universitaet have found that women were less likely to be promoted to management positions if they appeared too cheerful. (Welcome to another great example of the catch-22s that women face in the workplace everyday.) And research has also shown that a pessimistic outlook can lead to higher productivity, fewer mistakes, and better communication skills. In other words: Grumpy workers of the world, unite.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容Over-compensate to compensateBy Derek SiversYou have something you want to change: a thought process or habit you want to fix.Let’s use the metaphor of a bunch of bricks on a seesaw. Right now all the bricks are stacked on one side. This is the way you have been.To make a change, most people don’t do enough.If you do something small and sensible, it’s like moving one brick. You’re still unbalanced.You think you made the change, but it’s not accounting for:a lifetime of doing it the other wayyour environment that made you that waythe pressure from friends to stay that wayand the undertow of old habits.So, to make a change, you have to be extreme. Go all the way the other way. It will feel like over-compensating, but you have to stack a huge pile of bricks on the other side.This new you sounds extreme and exciting. You will think you’re going to be completely changed.But actually the old stuff is still there. So really this is what you needed to do to balance, to compensate for that cultural baggage, self-identity, habit, and history.Once balanced, it will sink in, and become your new normal.Example:You have a tendency to blame others for your situation. We all do this.You realize this is hurting your life. You think, “I shouldn’t do that so much. I should take some responsibility.”So you try to make some changes.Nope. That’s not good enough. Still unbalanced. You need to go to a further extreme, in a way that will feel like over-compensating.You need to think, “Absolutely everything is my fault. All of it. It’s my fault the world is the way it is. It’s my fault the government isn’t exactly to my liking. It’s my responsibility to fix everything I don’t love. It’s my fault that others act the way they do towards me.”Sounds extreme, right?You try to think this new way. Sometimes you really can.But you still can’t help feeling that some things are not your fault.That’s OK. Now you’re balanced. This sinks in and becomes your new normal way of thinking.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容Over-compensate to compensateBy Derek SiversYou have something you want to change: a thought process or habit you want to fix.Let’s use the metaphor of a bunch of bricks on a seesaw. Right now all the bricks are stacked on one side. This is the way you have been.To make a change, most people don’t do enough.If you do something small and sensible, it’s like moving one brick. You’re still unbalanced.You think you made the change, but it’s not accounting for:a lifetime of doing it the other wayyour environment that made you that waythe pressure from friends to stay that wayand the undertow of old habits.So, to make a change, you have to be extreme. Go all the way the other way. It will feel like over-compensating, but you have to stack a huge pile of bricks on the other side.This new you sounds extreme and exciting. You will think you’re going to be completely changed.But actually the old stuff is still there. So really this is what you needed to do to balance, to compensate for that cultural baggage, self-identity, habit, and history.Once balanced, it will sink in, and become your new normal.Example:You have a tendency to blame others for your situation. We all do this.You realize this is hurting your life. You think, “I shouldn’t do that so much. I should take some responsibility.”So you try to make some changes.Nope. That’s not good enough. Still unbalanced. You need to go to a further extreme, in a way that will feel like over-compensating.You need to think, “Absolutely everything is my fault. All of it. It’s my fault the world is the way it is. It’s my fault the government isn’t exactly to my liking. It’s my responsibility to fix everything I don’t love. It’s my fault that others act the way they do towards me.”Sounds extreme, right?You try to think this new way. Sometimes you really can.But you still can’t help feeling that some things are not your fault.That’s OK. Now you’re balanced. This sinks in and becomes your new normal way of thinking.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容What’s in your backpack?Monologue from Up in the AirScreenplay by Jason Reitman Sheldon TurnerHow much does your life weigh? Imagine for a second that you're carrying a backpack. I want you to feel the straps on your shoulders. Feel 'em? Now I want you to pack it with all the stuff that you have in your life. You start with the little things. The things on shelves and in drawers, the knick-knacks, the collectibles. Feel the weight as that adds up. Then you start adding larger stuff, clothes, table-top appliances, lamps, linens, your TV.The backpack should be getting pretty heavy now. And you go bigger. Your couch, bed, your kitchen table. Stuff it all in there. Your car, get it in there. Your home, whether it's a studio apartment or a two bedroom house. I want you to stuff it all into that backpack. Now try to walk. It's kind of hard, isn't it? This is what we do to ourselves on a daily basis. We weigh ourselves down until we can't even move. And make no mistake, moving is living.Now, I'm gonna set that backpack on fire. What do you want to take out of it? What do you want to take out of it? Photos? Photos are for people who can't remember. Drink some ginkgo and let the photos burn. In fact, let everything burn and imagine waking up tomorrow with nothing. It's kind of exhilarating, isn't it?968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容What’s in your backpack?Monologue from Up in the AirScreenplay by Jason Reitman Sheldon TurnerHow much does your life weigh? Imagine for a second that you're carrying a backpack. I want you to feel the straps on your shoulders. Feel 'em? Now I want you to pack it with all the stuff that you have in your life. You start with the little things. The things on shelves and in drawers, the knick-knacks, the collectibles. Feel the weight as that adds up. Then you start adding larger stuff, clothes, table-top appliances, lamps, linens, your TV.The backpack should be getting pretty heavy now. And you go bigger. Your couch, bed, your kitchen table. Stuff it all in there. Your car, get it in there. Your home, whether it's a studio apartment or a two bedroom house. I want you to stuff it all into that backpack. Now try to walk. It's kind of hard, isn't it? This is what we do to ourselves on a daily basis. We weigh ourselves down until we can't even move. And make no mistake, moving is living.Now, I'm gonna set that backpack on fire. What do you want to take out of it? What do you want to take out of it? Photos? Photos are for people who can't remember. Drink some ginkgo and let the photos burn. In fact, let everything burn and imagine waking up tomorrow with nothing. It's kind of exhilarating, isn't it?968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容An Hour of Running May Add 7 Hours to Your LifeBy Gretchen ReynoldsRunning may be the single most effective exercise to increase life expectancy, according to a new review and analysis of past research about exercise and premature death. The new study found that, compared to non-runners, runners tended to live about three additional years, even if they run slowly or sporadically and smoke, drink or are overweight. No other form of exercise that researchers looked at showed comparable impacts on life span.The findings come as a follow-up to a study done three years ago, in which a group of distinguished exercise scientists scrutinized data from a large trove of medical and fitness tests conducted at the Cooper Institute in Dallas. That analysis found that as little as five minutes of daily running was associated with prolonged life spans.After that study was released, the researchers were inundated with queries from fellow scientists and the general public, says Duck-chul Lee, a professor of kinesiology at Iowa State University and a co-author of the study. Some people asked if other activities, such as walking, were likely to be as beneficial as running for reducing mortality risks.High-mileage runners wondered if they could be doing too much, and if at some undefined number of miles or hours, running might become counterproductive and even contribute to premature mortality.And a few people questioned whether running really added materially to people’s life spans. Could it be, they asked rather peevishly, that in order to reduce your risk of dying by a year, you had to spend the equivalent of a year’s worth of time on the trails or track, producing no discernible net gain?968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容An Hour of Running May Add 7 Hours to Your LifeBy Gretchen ReynoldsRunning may be the single most effective exercise to increase life expectancy, according to a new review and analysis of past research about exercise and premature death. The new study found that, compared to non-runners, runners tended to live about three additional years, even if they run slowly or sporadically and smoke, drink or are overweight. No other form of exercise that researchers looked at showed comparable impacts on life span.The findings come as a follow-up to a study done three years ago, in which a group of distinguished exercise scientists scrutinized data from a large trove of medical and fitness tests conducted at the Cooper Institute in Dallas. That analysis found that as little as five minutes of daily running was associated with prolonged life spans.After that study was released, the researchers were inundated with queries from fellow scientists and the general public, says Duck-chul Lee, a professor of kinesiology at Iowa State University and a co-author of the study. Some people asked if other activities, such as walking, were likely to be as beneficial as running for reducing mortality risks.High-mileage runners wondered if they could be doing too much, and if at some undefined number of miles or hours, running might become counterproductive and even contribute to premature mortality.And a few people questioned whether running really added materially to people’s life spans. Could it be, they asked rather peevishly, that in order to reduce your risk of dying by a year, you had to spend the equivalent of a year’s worth of time on the trails or track, producing no discernible net gain?968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容Becoming Addiction-FreeBy Steve PavlinaHow many addictions do you currently have? Are you addicted to smoking, caffeine, sugar, alcohol, any other drugs, the Internet, porn, masturbation, sex, orgasm, gambling, shopping, work, TV, movies, social media, video games, food, or anything else? What behaviors do you perform compulsively, even though they don’t really serve you in the long run?The insidious thing about addictions is that all addictions weaken the prefrontal cortex, which is the part of your brain associated with self-discipline and willpower. The more addictions you have, the weaker your self-regulation abilities become, which increases your susceptibility to further addictions. One addiction tends to invite others, and pretty soon you find yourself with a half-dozen addictions, although you may only be consciously aware of one or two of them.Addictions get conditioned when certain behaviors trigger a dopamine response. Dopamine is a neurotransmitter that helps to solidify desired behaviors, such as eating and sex. Initially we experience a reward (a feeling of pleasure) to reinforce a new behavior, and as the pattern gets conditioned, the reward is gradually reduced. The behavior becomes automatic, even if the reward is stopped. If we want to feel the same level of pleasure we did when we first started, we have to keep increasing the dosage.Unfortunately for us, our dopamine reward circuitry evolved during a much simpler time, when the triggers for addiction-prone behaviors were scarce. In a world of overabundant triggers, we see an overabundance of addictions. Our brains over-reward us, thereby over-conditioning short-term pleasures that often work against our long-term happiness and fulfillment. What’s even worse is that many companies deliberately target these neurological shortcomings to sell more products and services. Walk into a grocery store, and notice all the items on the shelves with added sugar, oil, or salt. One of the main reasons these items are added is because they make food more addictive than it would otherwise be.These addictions have consequences for us. For instance, the latest Gallup polls report that 28.3% of adult Americans are now obese, an increase of 2.8 percentage points since 2008. That translates into more cancer, more heart attacks, more strokes, more diabetes, and a lot more money spent on healthcare (which is really sickcare).968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容Becoming Addiction-FreeBy Steve PavlinaHow many addictions do you currently have? Are you addicted to smoking, caffeine, sugar, alcohol, any other drugs, the Internet, porn, masturbation, sex, orgasm, gambling, shopping, work, TV, movies, social media, video games, food, or anything else? What behaviors do you perform compulsively, even though they don’t really serve you in the long run?The insidious thing about addictions is that all addictions weaken the prefrontal cortex, which is the part of your brain associated with self-discipline and willpower. The more addictions you have, the weaker your self-regulation abilities become, which increases your susceptibility to further addictions. One addiction tends to invite others, and pretty soon you find yourself with a half-dozen addictions, although you may only be consciously aware of one or two of them.Addictions get conditioned when certain behaviors trigger a dopamine response. Dopamine is a neurotransmitter that helps to solidify desired behaviors, such as eating and sex. Initially we experience a reward (a feeling of pleasure) to reinforce a new behavior, and as the pattern gets conditioned, the reward is gradually reduced. The behavior becomes automatic, even if the reward is stopped. If we want to feel the same level of pleasure we did when we first started, we have to keep increasing the dosage.Unfortunately for us, our dopamine reward circuitry evolved during a much simpler time, when the triggers for addiction-prone behaviors were scarce. In a world of overabundant triggers, we see an overabundance of addictions. Our brains over-reward us, thereby over-conditioning short-term pleasures that often work against our long-term happiness and fulfillment. What’s even worse is that many companies deliberately target these neurological shortcomings to sell more products and services. Walk into a grocery store, and notice all the items on the shelves with added sugar, oil, or salt. One of the main reasons these items are added is because they make food more addictive than it would otherwise be.These addictions have consequences for us. For instance, the latest Gallup polls report that 28.3% of adult Americans are now obese, an increase of 2.8 percentage points since 2008. That translates into more cancer, more heart attacks, more strokes, more diabetes, and a lot more money spent on healthcare (which is really sickcare).968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容How Social Isolation Is Killing UsBy Dhruv KhullarMy patient and I both knew he was dying.Not the long kind of dying that stretches on for months or years. He would die today. Maybe tomorrow. And if not tomorrow, the next day. Was there someone I should call? Someone he wanted to see?Not a one, he told me. No immediate family. No close friends. He had a niece down South, maybe, but they hadn’t spoken in years.For me, the sadness of his death was surpassed only by the sadness of his solitude. I wondered whether his isolation was a driving force of his premature death, not just an unhappy circumstance.Every day I see variations at both the beginning and end of life: a young man abandoned by friends as he struggles with opioid addiction; an older woman getting by on tea and toast, living in filth, no longer able to clean her cluttered apartment. In these moments, it seems the only thing worse than suffering a serious illness is suffering it alone.Social isolation is a growing epidemic — one that’s increasingly recognized as having dire physical, mental and emotional consequences. Since the 1980s, the percentage of American adults who say they’re lonely has doubled from 20 percent to 40 percent.About one-third of Americans older than 65 now live alone, and half of those over 85 do. People in poorer health — especially those with mood disorders like anxiety and depression — are more likely to feel lonely. Those without a college education are the least likely to have someone they can talk to about important personal matters.A wave of new research suggests social separation is bad for us. Individuals with less social connection have disrupted sleep patterns, altered immune systems, more inflammation and higher levels of stress hormones. One recent study found that isolation increases the risk of heart disease by 29 percent and stroke by 32 percent.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容How Social Isolation Is Killing UsBy Dhruv KhullarMy patient and I both knew he was dying.Not the long kind of dying that stretches on for months or years. He would die today. Maybe tomorrow. And if not tomorrow, the next day. Was there someone I should call? Someone he wanted to see?Not a one, he told me. No immediate family. No close friends. He had a niece down South, maybe, but they hadn’t spoken in years.For me, the sadness of his death was surpassed only by the sadness of his solitude. I wondered whether his isolation was a driving force of his premature death, not just an unhappy circumstance.Every day I see variations at both the beginning and end of life: a young man abandoned by friends as he struggles with opioid addiction; an older woman getting by on tea and toast, living in filth, no longer able to clean her cluttered apartment. In these moments, it seems the only thing worse than suffering a serious illness is suffering it alone.Social isolation is a growing epidemic — one that’s increasingly recognized as having dire physical, mental and emotional consequences. Since the 1980s, the percentage of American adults who say they’re lonely has doubled from 20 percent to 40 percent.About one-third of Americans older than 65 now live alone, and half of those over 85 do. People in poorer health — especially those with mood disorders like anxiety and depression — are more likely to feel lonely. Those without a college education are the least likely to have someone they can talk to about important personal matters.A wave of new research suggests social separation is bad for us. Individuals with less social connection have disrupted sleep patterns, altered immune systems, more inflammation and higher levels of stress hormones. One recent study found that isolation increases the risk of heart disease by 29 percent and stroke by 32 percent.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容Wanting Someone Else to Fulfill Our LivesBy Leo BabautaI have a friend who is lonely, who has such a good heart and desperately wants to find a partner who appreciates that goodness, to share a life with.We have all felt this, I’m guessing: this desire for a deep connection, this hope that another person will just get us and want an intimate relationship with us, the idea that if we could just find this person and merge with them, we’d be fulfilled.What if we tossed that idea out on its head?What if everything we need for happiness and fulfillment is within us?What if all the requirements for fulfillment were in this very moment, not in some imagined ideal future?What if the idea of a romantic partner who is perfect (because of their imperfections!) and who fills our every need is just a fantasy that isn’t helping us?The truth is that even those of us who have partners know that it’s not all honeymoon, and in fact a long-term relationship contains a lot of struggle. The fulfillment that we get in life ends up (mostly) not coming from the other person, but from ourselves.What would it be like if we let go of this fantasy of a fulfilling partner, this fantasy of a better future … and instead focused on finding fulfillment in the here and now, within ourselves?Where We Get FulfillmentAnother person isn’t going to fulfill us — at best, they’ll make us feel better about ourselves, and listen to us. The listening part is great, but we can get that from friends or family as well. The feeling better about ourselves is a function we can fulfill on our own as well. I’m not saying a partner is useless, but I am saying that a partner isn’t needed for fulfillment.So how can we fulfill ourselves, by ourselves?Well, what brings fulfillment? In my experience, focusing on pleasures like food, entertainment, online distractions, sex, drugs, alcohol, and thrills … these only bring temporary pleasure, but in the end you’re left wanting more.Fulfillment comes from something deeper — finding meaning in life, finding appreciation for the fleeting beauty of every moment, being in service of others, loving.But we don’t need a partner for those things. We can find meaning by searching within ourselves and in the world around us. We can start to appreciate the impermanence and joyful moments around us all the time. We can be in service of others in our community. We can love anyone, from those already in our lives (even if they don’t know we’re doing it) to strangers on the street, to all living beings.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容Wanting Someone Else to Fulfill Our LivesBy Leo BabautaI have a friend who is lonely, who has such a good heart and desperately wants to find a partner who appreciates that goodness, to share a life with.We have all felt this, I’m guessing: this desire for a deep connection, this hope that another person will just get us and want an intimate relationship with us, the idea that if we could just find this person and merge with them, we’d be fulfilled.What if we tossed that idea out on its head?What if everything we need for happiness and fulfillment is within us?What if all the requirements for fulfillment were in this very moment, not in some imagined ideal future?What if the idea of a romantic partner who is perfect (because of their imperfections!) and who fills our every need is just a fantasy that isn’t helping us?The truth is that even those of us who have partners know that it’s not all honeymoon, and in fact a long-term relationship contains a lot of struggle. The fulfillment that we get in life ends up (mostly) not coming from the other person, but from ourselves.What would it be like if we let go of this fantasy of a fulfilling partner, this fantasy of a better future … and instead focused on finding fulfillment in the here and now, within ourselves?Where We Get FulfillmentAnother person isn’t going to fulfill us — at best, they’ll make us feel better about ourselves, and listen to us. The listening part is great, but we can get that from friends or family as well. The feeling better about ourselves is a function we can fulfill on our own as well. I’m not saying a partner is useless, but I am saying that a partner isn’t needed for fulfillment.So how can we fulfill ourselves, by ourselves?Well, what brings fulfillment? In my experience, focusing on pleasures like food, entertainment, online distractions, sex, drugs, alcohol, and thrills … these only bring temporary pleasure, but in the end you’re left wanting more.Fulfillment comes from something deeper — finding meaning in life, finding appreciation for the fleeting beauty of every moment, being in service of others, loving.But we don’t need a partner for those things. We can find meaning by searching within ourselves and in the world around us. We can start to appreciate the impermanence and joyful moments around us all the time. We can be in service of others in our community. We can love anyone, from those already in our lives (even if they don’t know we’re doing it) to strangers on the street, to all living beings.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容Soon We Won’t Program Computers. We’ll Train Them Like DogsBy Jason TanzBEFORE THE INVENTION of the computer, most experimental psychologists thought the brain was an unknowable black box. You could analyze a subject’s behavior—ring bell, dog salivates—but thoughts, memories, emotions? That stuff was obscure and inscrutable, beyond the reach of science. So these behaviorists, as they called themselves, confined their work to the study of stimulus and response, feedback and reinforcement, bells and saliva. They gave up trying to understand the inner workings of the mind. They ruled their field for four decades.Then, in the mid-1950s, a group of rebellious psychologists, linguists, information theorists, and early artificial-intelligence researchers came up with a different conception of the mind. People, they argued, were not just collections of conditioned responses. They absorbed information, processed it, and then acted upon it. They had systems for writing, storing, and recalling memories. They operated via a logical, formal syntax. The brain wasn’t a black box at all. It was more like a computer.The so-called cognitive revolution started small, but as computers became standard equipment in psychology labs across the country, it gained broader acceptance. By the late 1970s, cognitive psychology had overthrown behaviorism, and with the new regime came a whole new language for talking about mental life. Psychologists began describing thoughts as programs, ordinary people talked about storing facts away in their memory banks, and business gurus fretted about the limits of mental bandwidth and processing power in the modern workplace.This story has repeated itself again and again. As the digital revolution wormed its way into every part of our lives, it also seeped into our language and our deep, basic theories about how things work. Technology always does this. During the Enlightenment, Newton and Descartes inspired people to think of the universe as an elaborate clock. In the industrial age, it was a machine with pistons. (Freud’s idea of psychodynamics borrowed from the thermodynamics of steam engines.) Now it’s a computer. Which is, when you think about it, a fundamentally empowering idea. Because if the world is a computer, then the world can be coded.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容Soon We Won’t Program Computers. We’ll Train Them Like DogsBy Jason TanzBEFORE THE INVENTION of the computer, most experimental psychologists thought the brain was an unknowable black box. You could analyze a subject’s behavior—ring bell, dog salivates—but thoughts, memories, emotions? That stuff was obscure and inscrutable, beyond the reach of science. So these behaviorists, as they called themselves, confined their work to the study of stimulus and response, feedback and reinforcement, bells and saliva. They gave up trying to understand the inner workings of the mind. They ruled their field for four decades.Then, in the mid-1950s, a group of rebellious psychologists, linguists, information theorists, and early artificial-intelligence researchers came up with a different conception of the mind. People, they argued, were not just collections of conditioned responses. They absorbed information, processed it, and then acted upon it. They had systems for writing, storing, and recalling memories. They operated via a logical, formal syntax. The brain wasn’t a black box at all. It was more like a computer.The so-called cognitive revolution started small, but as computers became standard equipment in psychology labs across the country, it gained broader acceptance. By the late 1970s, cognitive psychology had overthrown behaviorism, and with the new regime came a whole new language for talking about mental life. Psychologists began describing thoughts as programs, ordinary people talked about storing facts away in their memory banks, and business gurus fretted about the limits of mental bandwidth and processing power in the modern workplace.This story has repeated itself again and again. As the digital revolution wormed its way into every part of our lives, it also seeped into our language and our deep, basic theories about how things work. Technology always does this. During the Enlightenment, Newton and Descartes inspired people to think of the universe as an elaborate clock. In the industrial age, it was a machine with pistons. (Freud’s idea of psychodynamics borrowed from the thermodynamics of steam engines.) Now it’s a computer. Which is, when you think about it, a fundamentally empowering idea. Because if the world is a computer, then the world can be coded.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容Think like a bronze medalist, not silverBy Derek SiversImagine the Olympics, where you have the three winners of a race standing on the podium: the gold, the silver, and the bronze.Imagine what it’s like to be the silver medalist. If you were just one second faster, you could have won the gold! Damn! So close! Damn damn damn! You would keep comparing yourself to the gold winner, full of envy.Now imagine what it’s like to be the bronze medalist. If you were just one second slower, you wouldn’t have won anything! Whoo-hoo! You would be thrilled that you are officially an Olympic medalist, and got to stand on the winner’s podium at all.Comparing up versus comparing down.Your happiness depends on where you’re focusing.The metaphor is easy to understand, but hard to remember in regular life. If you catch yourself burning with envy or resentment, think like the bronze medalist, not the silver. Change your focus.Instead of comparing up to the next-higher situation, compare down to the next-lower.Examples:Buying:If you aim to buy “the best” thing, you may feel like gold, but when the new “best” comes out next year, you’ll feel like silver.Instead, if you aim to buy the “surprisingly good” thing, it will keep you in the bronze mindset. Since you’re not comparing to the best, you’ll feel no need to keep up with the newest thing.Career:I’ve met a lot of famous musicians.The miserable ones were upset they weren’t more famous, bitterly comparing themselves to the superstars.The happiest ones were thrilled to be able to make a living making music.Marketplace:Anything that has a varying price, like real estate, the stock market, or even salaries.If you catch yourself comparing your deal to the best possible deal, and upset at the difference, try comparing to the worst possible deal, and feel grateful for the difference.Counter-example:When you’re being ambitious, trying to be the best at a specific skill, it’s good to be dis-satisfied, like that silver medalist focusing on the gold. Use that to practice and improve.But most of the time, you need to be more grateful for what you’ve got, for how much worse it could have been, and how nice it is to have anything at all.Ambition versus gratitude.Looking up versus looking how far you’ve come.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容Think like a bronze medalist, not silverBy Derek SiversImagine the Olympics, where you have the three winners of a race standing on the podium: the gold, the silver, and the bronze.Imagine what it’s like to be the silver medalist. If you were just one second faster, you could have won the gold! Damn! So close! Damn damn damn! You would keep comparing yourself to the gold winner, full of envy.Now imagine what it’s like to be the bronze medalist. If you were just one second slower, you wouldn’t have won anything! Whoo-hoo! You would be thrilled that you are officially an Olympic medalist, and got to stand on the winner’s podium at all.Comparing up versus comparing down.Your happiness depends on where you’re focusing.The metaphor is easy to understand, but hard to remember in regular life. If you catch yourself burning with envy or resentment, think like the bronze medalist, not the silver. Change your focus.Instead of comparing up to the next-higher situation, compare down to the next-lower.Examples:Buying:If you aim to buy “the best” thing, you may feel like gold, but when the new “best” comes out next year, you’ll feel like silver.Instead, if you aim to buy the “surprisingly good” thing, it will keep you in the bronze mindset. Since you’re not comparing to the best, you’ll feel no need to keep up with the newest thing.Career:I’ve met a lot of famous musicians.The miserable ones were upset they weren’t more famous, bitterly comparing themselves to the superstars.The happiest ones were thrilled to be able to make a living making music.Marketplace:Anything that has a varying price, like real estate, the stock market, or even salaries.If you catch yourself comparing your deal to the best possible deal, and upset at the difference, try comparing to the worst possible deal, and feel grateful for the difference.Counter-example:When you’re being ambitious, trying to be the best at a specific skill, it’s good to be dis-satisfied, like that silver medalist focusing on the gold. Use that to practice and improve.But most of the time, you need to be more grateful for what you’ve got, for how much worse it could have been, and how nice it is to have anything at all.Ambition versus gratitude.Looking up versus looking how far you’ve come.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容Harvard’s PresidentDrew Gilpin Faust is the 28th president of Harvard University and the Lincoln Professor of History in Harvard's Faculty of Arts and Sciences.As president of Harvard, Faust has expanded financial aid to improve access to Harvard College for students of all economic backgrounds and advocated for increased federal funding for scientific research. She has broadened the University's international reach, raised the profile of the arts on campus, embraced sustainability, launched edX, the online learning partnership with MIT, and promoted collaboration across academic disciplines and administrative units as she guided the University through a period of significant financial challenges.A historian of the Civil War and the American South, Faust was the founding dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard, guiding its transformation from a college into a wide-ranging institute for scholarly and creative enterprise, distinctive for its multidisciplinary focus and the exploration of new knowledge at the crossroads of traditional fields.Previously, Faust served as the Annenberg Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania, where she was a member of the faculty for 25 years.Raised in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley, Faust went on to attend Concord Academy in Massachusetts. She received her bachelor's degree from Bryn Mawr College in 1968, magna cum laude with honors in history, and her master's degree (1971) and doctoral degree (1975) in American civilization from the University of Pennsylvania.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容Harvard’s PresidentDrew Gilpin Faust is the 28th president of Harvard University and the Lincoln Professor of History in Harvard's Faculty of Arts and Sciences.As president of Harvard, Faust has expanded financial aid to improve access to Harvard College for students of all economic backgrounds and advocated for increased federal funding for scientific research. She has broadened the University's international reach, raised the profile of the arts on campus, embraced sustainability, launched edX, the online learning partnership with MIT, and promoted collaboration across academic disciplines and administrative units as she guided the University through a period of significant financial challenges.A historian of the Civil War and the American South, Faust was the founding dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard, guiding its transformation from a college into a wide-ranging institute for scholarly and creative enterprise, distinctive for its multidisciplinary focus and the exploration of new knowledge at the crossroads of traditional fields.Previously, Faust served as the Annenberg Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania, where she was a member of the faculty for 25 years.Raised in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley, Faust went on to attend Concord Academy in Massachusetts. She received her bachelor's degree from Bryn Mawr College in 1968, magna cum laude with honors in history, and her master's degree (1971) and doctoral degree (1975) in American civilization from the University of Pennsylvania.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容How to Bypass ResistanceBy Steve PavlinaYou may have heard this quote from German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer:All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.Here’s a variation on this idea that we can use for personal growth transitions:All growth passes through three stages. First, you’ll be ridiculed. Second, your efforts will meet with serious opposition. Third, you’ll be accepted as the new person you’ve become.Have you seen this pattern show up in your life? I’ve run through it many times. Lots of readers have run this pattern. It happens with career transitions, relationships transitions, lifestyle changes, health improvements, and more.Schopenhauer was a pessimist. In fact, his worldview is called philosophical pessimism.If we apply Schopenhauer’s model to personal growth, aren’t we being a little pessimistic then? Pessimism isn’t truth. Pessimism is just one of many lenses we can use, and if we go into a growth experience with a pessimistic lens, aren’t we more likely to create a journey that looks like Schopenhauer’s stages?Are these three stages really necessary? Is the ridicule necessary? Is the violent opposition necessary? Do we really have to go through those first two stages to get to the third stage? Can’t we just skip to the end?…Blogging about my personal growth journey since 2004 has given me a lot of feedback. For many years I basically ran Schopenhauer’s script. It was there from day one. What! You’re quitting the computer gaming industry? What the heck is blogging? You’ll never make any money doing that!After many years of such transitions, the script became all too predictable, and because of its predictability, I got faster at running it. Instead of taking weeks or months to play out, I’d be at stage three within days. Eventually I’d get there within 1-2 days. The criticism and resistance would blow up and then burn out within 24-48 hours. It was Schopenhauer’s script running on Internet time.…That led to me to ask:What if I stopped expecting resistance in areas where I’d previously expected it? Would the criticism still happen?And that spawned more questions:Were people criticizing me because they objectively didn’t like my ideas? Or were they criticizing me because I was broadcasting incongruence, defensiveness, or the expectation of criticism?So I began to experiment.…968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容How to Bypass ResistanceBy Steve PavlinaYou may have heard this quote from German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer:All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.Here’s a variation on this idea that we can use for personal growth transitions:All growth passes through three stages. First, you’ll be ridiculed. Second, your efforts will meet with serious opposition. Third, you’ll be accepted as the new person you’ve become.Have you seen this pattern show up in your life? I’ve run through it many times. Lots of readers have run this pattern. It happens with career transitions, relationships transitions, lifestyle changes, health improvements, and more.Schopenhauer was a pessimist. In fact, his worldview is called philosophical pessimism.If we apply Schopenhauer’s model to personal growth, aren’t we being a little pessimistic then? Pessimism isn’t truth. Pessimism is just one of many lenses we can use, and if we go into a growth experience with a pessimistic lens, aren’t we more likely to create a journey that looks like Schopenhauer’s stages?Are these three stages really necessary? Is the ridicule necessary? Is the violent opposition necessary? Do we really have to go through those first two stages to get to the third stage? Can’t we just skip to the end?…Blogging about my personal growth journey since 2004 has given me a lot of feedback. For many years I basically ran Schopenhauer’s script. It was there from day one. What! You’re quitting the computer gaming industry? What the heck is blogging? You’ll never make any money doing that!After many years of such transitions, the script became all too predictable, and because of its predictability, I got faster at running it. Instead of taking weeks or months to play out, I’d be at stage three within days. Eventually I’d get there within 1-2 days. The criticism and resistance would blow up and then burn out within 24-48 hours. It was Schopenhauer’s script running on Internet time.…That led to me to ask:What if I stopped expecting resistance in areas where I’d previously expected it? Would the criticism still happen?And that spawned more questions:Were people criticizing me because they objectively didn’t like my ideas? Or were they criticizing me because I was broadcasting incongruence, defensiveness, or the expectation of criticism?So I began to experiment.…968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容Microsoft: Mission and cultureEmpower every person and organization on the planet to achieve more. That’s what inspires us, drives our work and pushes us to challenge the status quo every day. At Microsoft we also work to empower our employees so they can achieve more. We believe we should each find meaning in our work and we ensure employees have the freedom and the reach to help make a difference in the world.Growth mindset: At Microsoft, we’re insatiably curious and always learning. We ask questions, take risks and build on each other’s ideas, because we are better together. We lean in to uncertainty, take risks and move quickly when we make mistakes, because we know that failure happens along the way to innovation and breakthrough.Customer obsessed: We are passionate about helping our customers achieve more, and that means we really listen and learn from them. We bring solutions that don’t just meet the needs of customers and their businesses, they often surprise and delight them. Then we innovate further to give them even more.Diversity and inclusion: We don’t just value differences, we seek them out. We invite them in. Microsoft is a place where employees can be who they are. We value diverse perspectives. And as a result, we have better ideas, better products and happier customers.One Microsoft: We are a family of individuals at a truly global company, united by a single mission. We work together, building on each other’s ideas and collaborating across boundaries to bring the best of Microsoft to our customers and the world.Making a difference: Our employees have access to the latest technology and tools, the power to build on the company’s far-reaching momentum and the drive to change the world. We can make a difference. Together, we can help billions of people around the globe use digital technology to achieve amazing things.We know where we’re going as a company and how we’ll get there. We are committed to reinvent productivity and business processes, build the intelligent cloud platform and create more personal computing. These three goals are interconnected, they’re bold—and they’re why we are always looking to bring even more brilliant and creative people to our team.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容Microsoft: Mission and cultureEmpower every person and organization on the planet to achieve more. That’s what inspires us, drives our work and pushes us to challenge the status quo every day. At Microsoft we also work to empower our employees so they can achieve more. We believe we should each find meaning in our work and we ensure employees have the freedom and the reach to help make a difference in the world.Growth mindset: At Microsoft, we’re insatiably curious and always learning. We ask questions, take risks and build on each other’s ideas, because we are better together. We lean in to uncertainty, take risks and move quickly when we make mistakes, because we know that failure happens along the way to innovation and breakthrough.Customer obsessed: We are passionate about helping our customers achieve more, and that means we really listen and learn from them. We bring solutions that don’t just meet the needs of customers and their businesses, they often surprise and delight them. Then we innovate further to give them even more.Diversity and inclusion: We don’t just value differences, we seek them out. We invite them in. Microsoft is a place where employees can be who they are. We value diverse perspectives. And as a result, we have better ideas, better products and happier customers.One Microsoft: We are a family of individuals at a truly global company, united by a single mission. We work together, building on each other’s ideas and collaborating across boundaries to bring the best of Microsoft to our customers and the world.Making a difference: Our employees have access to the latest technology and tools, the power to build on the company’s far-reaching momentum and the drive to change the world. We can make a difference. Together, we can help billions of people around the globe use digital technology to achieve amazing things.We know where we’re going as a company and how we’ll get there. We are committed to reinvent productivity and business processes, build the intelligent cloud platform and create more personal computing. These three goals are interconnected, they’re bold—and they’re why we are always looking to bring even more brilliant and creative people to our team.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容Amazon, the world’s most remarkable firm, is just getting startedAmazon has the potential to meet the expectations of investors. But success will bring a big problemAMAZON is an extraordinary company. The former bookseller accounts for more than half of every new dollar spent online in America. It is the world’s leading provider of cloud computing. This year Amazon will probably spend twice as much on television as HBO, a cable channel. Its own-brand physical products include batteries, almonds, suits and speakers linked to a virtual voice-activated assistant that can control, among other things, your lamps and sprinkler.Yet Amazon’s shareholders are working on the premise that it is just getting started. Since the beginning of 2015 its share price has jumped by 173%, seven times quicker than in the two previous years (and 12 times faster than the S&P 500 index). With a market capitalisation of some $400bn, it is the fifth-most-valuable firm in the world. Never before has a company been worth so much for so long while making so little money: 92% of its value is due to profits expected after 2020.That is because investors anticipate both an extraordinary rise in revenue, from sales of $136bn last year to half a trillion over the next decade, and a jump in profits. The hopes invested in it imply that it will probably become more profitable than any other firm in America. Ground for scepticism does not come much more fertile than this: Amazon will have to grow faster than almost any big company in modern history to justify its valuation. Can it possibly do so?It is easy to tick off some of the pitfalls. Rivals will not stand still. Microsoft has cloud-computing ambitions; Walmart already has revenues nudging $500bn and is beefing up online. If anything happened to Jeff Bezos, Amazon’s founder and boss, the gap would be exceptionally hard to fill. But the striking thing about the company is how much of a chance it has of achieving such unprecedented goals .968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容Amazon, the world’s most remarkable firm, is just getting startedAmazon has the potential to meet the expectations of investors. But success will bring a big problemAMAZON is an extraordinary company. The former bookseller accounts for more than half of every new dollar spent online in America. It is the world’s leading provider of cloud computing. This year Amazon will probably spend twice as much on television as HBO, a cable channel. Its own-brand physical products include batteries, almonds, suits and speakers linked to a virtual voice-activated assistant that can control, among other things, your lamps and sprinkler.Yet Amazon’s shareholders are working on the premise that it is just getting started. Since the beginning of 2015 its share price has jumped by 173%, seven times quicker than in the two previous years (and 12 times faster than the S&P 500 index). With a market capitalisation of some $400bn, it is the fifth-most-valuable firm in the world. Never before has a company been worth so much for so long while making so little money: 92% of its value is due to profits expected after 2020.That is because investors anticipate both an extraordinary rise in revenue, from sales of $136bn last year to half a trillion over the next decade, and a jump in profits. The hopes invested in it imply that it will probably become more profitable than any other firm in America. Ground for scepticism does not come much more fertile than this: Amazon will have to grow faster than almost any big company in modern history to justify its valuation. Can it possibly do so?It is easy to tick off some of the pitfalls. Rivals will not stand still. Microsoft has cloud-computing ambitions; Walmart already has revenues nudging $500bn and is beefing up online. If anything happened to Jeff Bezos, Amazon’s founder and boss, the gap would be exceptionally hard to fill. But the striking thing about the company is how much of a chance it has of achieving such unprecedented goals .968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容Survival of the FriendliestIt’s time to give the violent metaphors of evolution a break.By Kelly Clancy“Violence has been the sire of all the world’s values,” wrote poet Robinson Jeffers in 1940. “What but the wolf’s tooth whittled so fine the fleet limbs of the antelope? What but fear winged the birds, and hunger jeweled with such eyes the great goshawk’s head?”We’ve taken these metaphors for evolution to heart, reading them to mean that life is a race to kill or be killed. “Darwinian” stands in for “cutthroat,” “survival of the fittest” signifies survival of the ruthless. We see selective pressures that hone each organism for success and drive genetic innovation as the natural order of things.But we know now that that picture is incomplete. Evolutionary progress can be propelled both by the competitive struggle to adapt to an environment, and by the relaxation of selective forces. When natural selection on an organism is relaxed, the creative powers of mutation can be unshackled and evolution accelerated. The relief of an easier life can inspire new biological forms just as powerfully as the threat of death.One of the best ways to relax selective forces is to work together, something that mathematical biologist Martin Nowak has called the “snuggle for survival.” New research has only deepened and broadened the importance of cooperation and lifting of selective pressures. It’s a big, snuggly world out there.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容Survival of the FriendliestIt’s time to give the violent metaphors of evolution a break.By Kelly Clancy“Violence has been the sire of all the world’s values,” wrote poet Robinson Jeffers in 1940. “What but the wolf’s tooth whittled so fine the fleet limbs of the antelope? What but fear winged the birds, and hunger jeweled with such eyes the great goshawk’s head?”We’ve taken these metaphors for evolution to heart, reading them to mean that life is a race to kill or be killed. “Darwinian” stands in for “cutthroat,” “survival of the fittest” signifies survival of the ruthless. We see selective pressures that hone each organism for success and drive genetic innovation as the natural order of things.But we know now that that picture is incomplete. Evolutionary progress can be propelled both by the competitive struggle to adapt to an environment, and by the relaxation of selective forces. When natural selection on an organism is relaxed, the creative powers of mutation can be unshackled and evolution accelerated. The relief of an easier life can inspire new biological forms just as powerfully as the threat of death.One of the best ways to relax selective forces is to work together, something that mathematical biologist Martin Nowak has called the “snuggle for survival.” New research has only deepened and broadened the importance of cooperation and lifting of selective pressures. It’s a big, snuggly world out there.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容Obvious to you. Amazing to others.By Derek SiversAny creator of anything knows this feeling:You experience someone else’s innovative work. It’s beautiful, brilliant, breath-taking. You’re stunned.Their ideas are unexpected and surprising, but perfect.You think, “I never would have thought of that. How do they even come up with that? It’s genius!”Afterwards, you think, “My ideas are so obvious. I’ll never be as inventive as that.”I get this feeling often. Amazing books, music, movies, or even amazing conversations. I’m in awe at how the creator thinks like that. I’m humbled.But I continue to do my work. I tell my little tales. I share my point of view. Nothing spectacular. Just my ordinary thoughts.One day someone emailed me and said, “I never would have thought of that. How did you even come up with that? It’s genius!”Of course I disagreed, and explained why it was nothing special.But afterwards, I realized something surprisingly profound:Everybody’s ideas seem obvious to them.I’ll bet even John Coltrane or Richard Feynman felt that everything they were playing or saying was pretty obvious.So maybe what’s obvious to me is amazing to someone else?Hit songwriters often admit that their most successful hit song was one they thought was just stupid, even not worth recording.We’re clearly a bad judge of our own creations. We should just put it out and let the world decide.Are you holding back something that seems too obvious to share?968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容Obvious to you. Amazing to others.By Derek SiversAny creator of anything knows this feeling:You experience someone else’s innovative work. It’s beautiful, brilliant, breath-taking. You’re stunned.Their ideas are unexpected and surprising, but perfect.You think, “I never would have thought of that. How do they even come up with that? It’s genius!”Afterwards, you think, “My ideas are so obvious. I’ll never be as inventive as that.”I get this feeling often. Amazing books, music, movies, or even amazing conversations. I’m in awe at how the creator thinks like that. I’m humbled.But I continue to do my work. I tell my little tales. I share my point of view. Nothing spectacular. Just my ordinary thoughts.One day someone emailed me and said, “I never would have thought of that. How did you even come up with that? It’s genius!”Of course I disagreed, and explained why it was nothing special.But afterwards, I realized something surprisingly profound:Everybody’s ideas seem obvious to them.I’ll bet even John Coltrane or Richard Feynman felt that everything they were playing or saying was pretty obvious.So maybe what’s obvious to me is amazing to someone else?Hit songwriters often admit that their most successful hit song was one they thought was just stupid, even not worth recording.We’re clearly a bad judge of our own creations. We should just put it out and let the world decide.Are you holding back something that seems too obvious to share?968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容The Sugar WarsScience can’t prove it and the industry denies it, but Gary Taubes is convinced that the sweet stuff kills.By Daniel Engber“I hope that when you have read this book I shall have convinced you that sugar is really dangerous,” wrote John Yudkin in his foghorn-sounding treatise on nutrition from 1972, Pure, White and Deadly. Sugar’s rapid rise to prominence in the Western diet, starting in the mid-19th century, had coincided with a sudden outbreak of heart disease, diabetes, and obesity. Yudkin, one of the United Kingdom’s most prominent nutritionists at the time, believed that one had caused the other.Then, as now, there was no decisive test of his idea—no perfect way to make the case that sugar kills. It’s practically impossible to run randomized, controlled experiments on human diets over many years, so the brief against sugar, like the case against any other single foodstuff, must be drawn from less reliable forms of testimony: long-term correlations, animal experiments, evolutionary claims, and expert judgments. In Pure, White and Deadly, Yudkin offered all of these as “circumstantial evidence rather than absolute proof” of his assertion. But so many suspicious facts had already accumulated by 1972, he claimed, that it would be foolish to ignore them. Even based on circumstantial evidence, readers should be convinced “beyond reasonable doubt” of sugar’s crime against humanity.The story of what happened next may be familiar, not just in its particulars but in the broader pattern that it represents. In the 1970s, Yudkin’s enemies, chief among them the influential American nutritionist Ancel Keys, ridiculed and buried his idea. On the basis of research sponsored by the sugar industry, Keys and others created and enshrined a different dietary bogeyman as the source of heart disease and other chronic ills: not sugar, but saturated fat. Yudkin’s book went out of print. Low-fat diets went mainstream. Sugar got a pass.Now Yudkin’s case has been reopened. In the past few years, the dangers of dietary fat have begun to look as though they were overstated, and the risks of sugar underplayed. Among the leading advocates for this reappraisal is Gary Taubes, an investigative journalist who has been reporting on nutrition since the late 1990s. His third book on the topic of diet and health, The Case Against Sugar, is a prosecutor’s brief, much like Yudkin’s own, but fleshed out with four decades’ worth of extra science and a deeper look at both the history of that science and the commercial, economic, and political forces that helped shape it.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容The Sugar WarsScience can’t prove it and the industry denies it, but Gary Taubes is convinced that the sweet stuff kills.By Daniel Engber“I hope that when you have read this book I shall have convinced you that sugar is really dangerous,” wrote John Yudkin in his foghorn-sounding treatise on nutrition from 1972, Pure, White and Deadly. Sugar’s rapid rise to prominence in the Western diet, starting in the mid-19th century, had coincided with a sudden outbreak of heart disease, diabetes, and obesity. Yudkin, one of the United Kingdom’s most prominent nutritionists at the time, believed that one had caused the other.Then, as now, there was no decisive test of his idea—no perfect way to make the case that sugar kills. It’s practically impossible to run randomized, controlled experiments on human diets over many years, so the brief against sugar, like the case against any other single foodstuff, must be drawn from less reliable forms of testimony: long-term correlations, animal experiments, evolutionary claims, and expert judgments. In Pure, White and Deadly, Yudkin offered all of these as “circumstantial evidence rather than absolute proof” of his assertion. But so many suspicious facts had already accumulated by 1972, he claimed, that it would be foolish to ignore them. Even based on circumstantial evidence, readers should be convinced “beyond reasonable doubt” of sugar’s crime against humanity.The story of what happened next may be familiar, not just in its particulars but in the broader pattern that it represents. In the 1970s, Yudkin’s enemies, chief among them the influential American nutritionist Ancel Keys, ridiculed and buried his idea. On the basis of research sponsored by the sugar industry, Keys and others created and enshrined a different dietary bogeyman as the source of heart disease and other chronic ills: not sugar, but saturated fat. Yudkin’s book went out of print. Low-fat diets went mainstream. Sugar got a pass.Now Yudkin’s case has been reopened. In the past few years, the dangers of dietary fat have begun to look as though they were overstated, and the risks of sugar underplayed. Among the leading advocates for this reappraisal is Gary Taubes, an investigative journalist who has been reporting on nutrition since the late 1990s. His third book on the topic of diet and health, The Case Against Sugar, is a prosecutor’s brief, much like Yudkin’s own, but fleshed out with four decades’ worth of extra science and a deeper look at both the history of that science and the commercial, economic, and political forces that helped shape it.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容Tapping the Promise of Personal GrowthBy Steve PavlinaThe nice thing about working on your personal growth is that when you make a concerted, dedicated effort to improve some part of your life, there’s an excellent chance that you will succeed in the long run. You may have a lot of gunk to clear out in terms of limiting beliefs, and you may be starting from a disadvantaged position, but given enough time, it’s entirely possible to completely rework some part of your life for the better.For example, you have the potential to go from rags to riches, from shy to socially confident, or from unhealthy to vibrant and fit. It may not be easy to make such transitions, but there are numerous successes to model. These are transitions that many, many people have already succeeded at, and they’re often more than happy to help out people who are interested in taking similar journeys. You certainly don’t have to stumble forward blindly.This, of course, is the grand promise of personal development — that you can consciously remake some part of your life, re-sculpting it from what it is now to what you desire it to be.But there are two very common problems that prevent many people from receiving the full delivery of this promise.Getting Clear About What You WantFirst, most people never get clear about what they want.Since they don’t decide, there’s nothing for them to move towards. Moving away from where you are now is not a specific heading. An “away from” mindset is like a bunch of crazy, chaotic arrows pointing off in all different directions, but in most cases that isn’t enough to get moving with any consistency. “Not here” isn’t a goal.When I ask people what they want out of life, most of the time I get a very vague answer. They can’t tell me. So of course their lives aren’t going to change much. They have no direction. If someone asks you what you want out of life, offer up a clear and specific answer.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容Tapping the Promise of Personal GrowthBy Steve PavlinaThe nice thing about working on your personal growth is that when you make a concerted, dedicated effort to improve some part of your life, there’s an excellent chance that you will succeed in the long run. You may have a lot of gunk to clear out in terms of limiting beliefs, and you may be starting from a disadvantaged position, but given enough time, it’s entirely possible to completely rework some part of your life for the better.For example, you have the potential to go from rags to riches, from shy to socially confident, or from unhealthy to vibrant and fit. It may not be easy to make such transitions, but there are numerous successes to model. These are transitions that many, many people have already succeeded at, and they’re often more than happy to help out people who are interested in taking similar journeys. You certainly don’t have to stumble forward blindly.This, of course, is the grand promise of personal development — that you can consciously remake some part of your life, re-sculpting it from what it is now to what you desire it to be.But there are two very common problems that prevent many people from receiving the full delivery of this promise.Getting Clear About What You WantFirst, most people never get clear about what they want.Since they don’t decide, there’s nothing for them to move towards. Moving away from where you are now is not a specific heading. An “away from” mindset is like a bunch of crazy, chaotic arrows pointing off in all different directions, but in most cases that isn’t enough to get moving with any consistency. “Not here” isn’t a goal.When I ask people what they want out of life, most of the time I get a very vague answer. They can’t tell me. So of course their lives aren’t going to change much. They have no direction. If someone asks you what you want out of life, offer up a clear and specific answer.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容Want to live past 100? These centenarians share their secretsBy Sharon JaysonGertrude Siegel is 101 and hears it all the time. “Everyone says ‘I want to be just like you.’ I tell them to get in line,” she said.John and Charlotte Henderson, 104 and 102, often field questions from wannabes eager to learn their secrets.“Living in moderation,” he said. “We never overdo anything. Eat well. Sleep well. Don’t overdrink. Don’t overeat. And exercise regularly.”Mac Miller, who is 102, has a standard reply.“People ask me ‘What is the secret?’ The answer is simple. Choose the right grandparents. They were in their 80s. My mother was 89, and my father was 93,” he said.Genetics and behaviors do play roles in determining why some people live to be 100 or older while others don’t, but they aren’t guarantees. And now, as increasing numbers are reaching triple digits, figuring out the mysteries of longevity has taken on new importance among researchers.Although those 100 and older make up a tiny segment of America’s population, U.S. Census reports show that centenarian ranks are growing. Between 1980 and 2010, the numbers rose from 32,194 to 53,364, an increase of almost 66 percent. The latest population estimate, released in July 2015, reflects 76,974 centenarians.“The number of centenarians in the U.S. and other countries has been doubling roughly every eight years,” said James Vaupel, founding director of the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Rostock, Germany.“When the baby boomers hit, there’s going to be acceleration, and it might be doubling every five or six years,” he said.Henderson and his wife of 77 years live in Austin in the independent living section of Longhorn Village, a community of more than 360 seniors, many of whom have ties to the University of Texas at Austin. Henderson is UT’s oldest-living former football player, arriving in 1932 as a freshman. They’re the only centenarians in the complex and are a rare breed: married centenarians.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容Want to live past 100? These centenarians share their secretsBy Sharon JaysonGertrude Siegel is 101 and hears it all the time. “Everyone says ‘I want to be just like you.’ I tell them to get in line,” she said.John and Charlotte Henderson, 104 and 102, often field questions from wannabes eager to learn their secrets.“Living in moderation,” he said. “We never overdo anything. Eat well. Sleep well. Don’t overdrink. Don’t overeat. And exercise regularly.”Mac Miller, who is 102, has a standard reply.“People ask me ‘What is the secret?’ The answer is simple. Choose the right grandparents. They were in their 80s. My mother was 89, and my father was 93,” he said.Genetics and behaviors do play roles in determining why some people live to be 100 or older while others don’t, but they aren’t guarantees. And now, as increasing numbers are reaching triple digits, figuring out the mysteries of longevity has taken on new importance among researchers.Although those 100 and older make up a tiny segment of America’s population, U.S. Census reports show that centenarian ranks are growing. Between 1980 and 2010, the numbers rose from 32,194 to 53,364, an increase of almost 66 percent. The latest population estimate, released in July 2015, reflects 76,974 centenarians.“The number of centenarians in the U.S. and other countries has been doubling roughly every eight years,” said James Vaupel, founding director of the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Rostock, Germany.“When the baby boomers hit, there’s going to be acceleration, and it might be doubling every five or six years,” he said.Henderson and his wife of 77 years live in Austin in the independent living section of Longhorn Village, a community of more than 360 seniors, many of whom have ties to the University of Texas at Austin. Henderson is UT’s oldest-living former football player, arriving in 1932 as a freshman. They’re the only centenarians in the complex and are a rare breed: married centenarians.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容Beginner’s Mind: Why It MattersBy Leo BabautaWhen you practice beginner’s mind with an activity:Better experiences: You aren’t clouded by prejudgments, preconceptions, fantasies about what it should be or assumptions about how you already know it will be. When you don’t have these, you can’t be disappointed or frustrated by the experience, because there’s no fantasy or preconception to compare it to.Better relationships: If you are talking to someone else, instead of being frustrated by them because they aren’t meeting your ideal, you can see them with fresh eyes and notice that they’re just trying to be happy, that they have good intentions (even if they’re not your intentions), and they are struggling just like you are. This transforms your relationship with the person.Less procrastination: If you’re procrastinating on a big work task, you could look at it with beginner’s mind and instead of worrying about how hard the task will be or how you might fail at it … you can be curious about what the task will be like. You can notice the details of doing the task, instead of trying to get away from them.Less anxiety: If you have an upcoming event or meeting that you’re anxious about … instead of worrying about what might happen, you can open yourself up to being curious about what will happen, let go of your preconceived ideas about the outcome and instead embrace not knowing, embrace being present and finding gratitude in the moment for what you’re doing and who you’re meeting.As you can see, the practice of beginner’s mind can transform any activity, get rid of a lot of our difficulties, allow us to be more flexible, open, curious, grateful, present.I’m not saying all of this happens automagically. It takes practice, but it’s worth the practice.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容Beginner’s Mind: Why It MattersBy Leo BabautaWhen you practice beginner’s mind with an activity:Better experiences: You aren’t clouded by prejudgments, preconceptions, fantasies about what it should be or assumptions about how you already know it will be. When you don’t have these, you can’t be disappointed or frustrated by the experience, because there’s no fantasy or preconception to compare it to.Better relationships: If you are talking to someone else, instead of being frustrated by them because they aren’t meeting your ideal, you can see them with fresh eyes and notice that they’re just trying to be happy, that they have good intentions (even if they’re not your intentions), and they are struggling just like you are. This transforms your relationship with the person.Less procrastination: If you’re procrastinating on a big work task, you could look at it with beginner’s mind and instead of worrying about how hard the task will be or how you might fail at it … you can be curious about what the task will be like. You can notice the details of doing the task, instead of trying to get away from them.Less anxiety: If you have an upcoming event or meeting that you’re anxious about … instead of worrying about what might happen, you can open yourself up to being curious about what will happen, let go of your preconceived ideas about the outcome and instead embrace not knowing, embrace being present and finding gratitude in the moment for what you’re doing and who you’re meeting.As you can see, the practice of beginner’s mind can transform any activity, get rid of a lot of our difficulties, allow us to be more flexible, open, curious, grateful, present.I’m not saying all of this happens automagically. It takes practice, but it’s worth the practice.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容How Successful People Network with Each OtherBy Dorie ClarkAs you advance in your career, you have more experience and more connections to draw on for networking. But chances are you’ve also become a lot busier — as have the really successful people you’re now trying to meet. How do you get the attention of people who get dozens of invitations per week and hundreds of emails per day? And how do you find time to network with potential new clients or to recruit new employees when your calendar is packed?The typical advice that’s given to entry-level employees — Invite people to coffee! Connect with them on LinkedIn! — simply doesn’t work for people at the top of their careers. Instead, you need to leverage an entirely different strategy, something I call “inbound networking.”In the online world, “inbound marketing” is a term that was popularized about a decade ago by HubSpot cofounders Brian Halligan and Dharmesh Shah. It refers to the practice of creating valuable content, such as articles or podcasts, that draws customers to you directly (as opposed to spending a lot of time on cold calls or paying for advertising to lure them in).Networking is facing a similar inflection point. Most professionals are constantly bombarded with Facebook and LinkedIn connection requests, not to mention endless requests to “pick their brain.” Trying to stand out in the midst of that noise is a losing battle, and you probably don’t have time to send a bunch of cold emails anyway.Instead, you can successfully network with the most prominent people by doing something very different from everyone else: attracting them to you with inbound networking. In other words, make yourself interesting enough that they choose to seek you out. Here are three ways to do it.Identify what sets you apart. …Become a connoisseur. …Become the center of the network.The world is competing for the attention of the most successful people. If you want to meet them — and break through and build a lasting connection — the best strategy is to make them come to you. Identifying what’s uniquely interesting about you and becoming a connoisseur and a hub are techniques that will ensure you’re sought after by the people you’d most like to know.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容How Successful People Network with Each OtherBy Dorie ClarkAs you advance in your career, you have more experience and more connections to draw on for networking. But chances are you’ve also become a lot busier — as have the really successful people you’re now trying to meet. How do you get the attention of people who get dozens of invitations per week and hundreds of emails per day? And how do you find time to network with potential new clients or to recruit new employees when your calendar is packed?The typical advice that’s given to entry-level employees — Invite people to coffee! Connect with them on LinkedIn! — simply doesn’t work for people at the top of their careers. Instead, you need to leverage an entirely different strategy, something I call “inbound networking.”In the online world, “inbound marketing” is a term that was popularized about a decade ago by HubSpot cofounders Brian Halligan and Dharmesh Shah. It refers to the practice of creating valuable content, such as articles or podcasts, that draws customers to you directly (as opposed to spending a lot of time on cold calls or paying for advertising to lure them in).Networking is facing a similar inflection point. Most professionals are constantly bombarded with Facebook and LinkedIn connection requests, not to mention endless requests to “pick their brain.” Trying to stand out in the midst of that noise is a losing battle, and you probably don’t have time to send a bunch of cold emails anyway.Instead, you can successfully network with the most prominent people by doing something very different from everyone else: attracting them to you with inbound networking. In other words, make yourself interesting enough that they choose to seek you out. Here are three ways to do it.Identify what sets you apart. …Become a connoisseur. …Become the center of the network.The world is competing for the attention of the most successful people. If you want to meet them — and break through and build a lasting connection — the best strategy is to make them come to you. Identifying what’s uniquely interesting about you and becoming a connoisseur and a hub are techniques that will ensure you’re sought after by the people you’d most like to know.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容How to be useful to othersBy Derek Sivers1. Get famous.Do everything in public and for the public.The more people you reach, the more useful you are.The opposite is hiding, which is of no use to anyone.2. Get rich.Money is neutral proof you’re adding value to people’s lives.So, by getting rich, you’re being useful as a side-effect.Once rich, spend the money in ways that are even more useful to others.Then getting rich is double-useful.3. Share strong opinions.Strong opinions are very useful to others.Those who were undecided or ambivalent can just adopt your stance.But those who disagree can solidify their stance by arguing against yours.Even if you invent an opinion for the sole sake of argument, boldly sharing a strong opinion is very useful to others.4. Be expensive.People given a placebo pill were twice as likely to have their pain disappear when told the pill was expensive.People who paid more for tickets were more likely to attend the performance.People who spend more for a product or service value it more, and get more use out of it.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容How to be useful to othersBy Derek Sivers1. Get famous.Do everything in public and for the public.The more people you reach, the more useful you are.The opposite is hiding, which is of no use to anyone.2. Get rich.Money is neutral proof you’re adding value to people’s lives.So, by getting rich, you’re being useful as a side-effect.Once rich, spend the money in ways that are even more useful to others.Then getting rich is double-useful.3. Share strong opinions.Strong opinions are very useful to others.Those who were undecided or ambivalent can just adopt your stance.But those who disagree can solidify their stance by arguing against yours.Even if you invent an opinion for the sole sake of argument, boldly sharing a strong opinion is very useful to others.4. Be expensive.People given a placebo pill were twice as likely to have their pain disappear when told the pill was expensive.People who paid more for tickets were more likely to attend the performance.People who spend more for a product or service value it more, and get more use out of it.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容Are Your Friends an Elevator or a Cage?By Steve PavlinaLet’s explore the role of the people in your life. Are they elevating you to be the best person you can be, or are they holding you back?We’ve all gone through periods where the people in our lives have changed — graduation, moving to a new city, getting a new job, joining a new club, etc. I don’t think I need to convince you just how much influence other people can have over your identity. If you’ve ever experienced a major shift in your people environment, then you know that you change as well.Most people don’t make these choices consciously though. You might consciously decide to spend more time with a certain friend, or you may ask someone out on a date to begin a new relationship. But few people choose the bulk of their existing friendships deliberately. Chance meetings may be out of your control, but the strength or weakness of your existing connections is largely under your control.Think for a moment about the 5-10 people with whom you spend the most time. Even include online communities if you spend a lot of time reading them — which individuals are having the most influence over your thinking right now? Actually write out the list — it should only take a minute. And this includes family members.Now look at the list. It’s been said that this list will give you a glimpse into your future.Do you want to become more like these people? Yes or no. Is anyone on the list a bad influence that causes you to backslide? Is anyone on the list a shining light that encourages you to reach new heights?Now have you ever thought about consciously changing this list? Do you realize that you have the ability to populate this list by choice instead of by chance? You’re free to say no to having certain people in your life, and you’re also free to make the effort to introduce new people you want in your life. Sometimes there are serious consequences, such as with family members and bosses, but it’s still a choice.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容Are Your Friends an Elevator or a Cage?By Steve PavlinaLet’s explore the role of the people in your life. Are they elevating you to be the best person you can be, or are they holding you back?We’ve all gone through periods where the people in our lives have changed — graduation, moving to a new city, getting a new job, joining a new club, etc. I don’t think I need to convince you just how much influence other people can have over your identity. If you’ve ever experienced a major shift in your people environment, then you know that you change as well.Most people don’t make these choices consciously though. You might consciously decide to spend more time with a certain friend, or you may ask someone out on a date to begin a new relationship. But few people choose the bulk of their existing friendships deliberately. Chance meetings may be out of your control, but the strength or weakness of your existing connections is largely under your control.Think for a moment about the 5-10 people with whom you spend the most time. Even include online communities if you spend a lot of time reading them — which individuals are having the most influence over your thinking right now? Actually write out the list — it should only take a minute. And this includes family members.Now look at the list. It’s been said that this list will give you a glimpse into your future.Do you want to become more like these people? Yes or no. Is anyone on the list a bad influence that causes you to backslide? Is anyone on the list a shining light that encourages you to reach new heights?Now have you ever thought about consciously changing this list? Do you realize that you have the ability to populate this list by choice instead of by chance? You’re free to say no to having certain people in your life, and you’re also free to make the effort to introduce new people you want in your life. Sometimes there are serious consequences, such as with family members and bosses, but it’s still a choice.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容Kids adore their new robot siblings.By Michael S. RosenwaldAs millions of American families buy robotic voice assistants to turn off lights, order pizzas and fetch movie times, children are eagerly co-opting the gadgets to settle dinner table disputes, answer homework questions and entertain friends at sleepover parties.Many parents have been startled and intrigued by the way these disembodied, know-it-all voices — Amazon’s Alexa, Google Home, Microsoft’s Cortana — are impacting their kids’ behavior, making them more curious but also, at times, far less polite.In just two years, the promise of the technology has already exceeded the marketing come-ons. The disabled are using voice assistants to control their homes, order groceries and listen to books. Caregivers to the elderly say the devices help with dementia, reminding users what day it is or when to take medicine.For children, the potential for transformative interactions are just as dramatic — at home and in classrooms. But psychologists, technologists and linguists are only beginning to ponder the possible perils of surrounding kids with artificial intelligence, particularly as they traverse important stages of social and language development.“How they react and treat this nonhuman entity is, to me, the biggest question,” said Sandra Calvert, a Georgetown University psychologist and director of the Children’s Digital Media Center. “And how does that subsequently affect family dynamics and social interactions with other people?”With an estimated 25 million voice assistants expected to sell this year at $40 to $180 — up from 1.7 million in 2015 — there are even ramifications for the diaper crowd.Boosters of the technology say kids typically learn to acquire information using the prevailing technology of the moment — from the library card catalogue, to Google, to brief conversations with friendly, all-knowing voices. But what if these gadgets lead children, whose faces are already glued to screens, further away from situations where they learn important interpersonal skills?It’s unclear whether any of the companies involved are even paying attention to this issue.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容Kids adore their new robot siblings.By Michael S. RosenwaldAs millions of American families buy robotic voice assistants to turn off lights, order pizzas and fetch movie times, children are eagerly co-opting the gadgets to settle dinner table disputes, answer homework questions and entertain friends at sleepover parties.Many parents have been startled and intrigued by the way these disembodied, know-it-all voices — Amazon’s Alexa, Google Home, Microsoft’s Cortana — are impacting their kids’ behavior, making them more curious but also, at times, far less polite.In just two years, the promise of the technology has already exceeded the marketing come-ons. The disabled are using voice assistants to control their homes, order groceries and listen to books. Caregivers to the elderly say the devices help with dementia, reminding users what day it is or when to take medicine.For children, the potential for transformative interactions are just as dramatic — at home and in classrooms. But psychologists, technologists and linguists are only beginning to ponder the possible perils of surrounding kids with artificial intelligence, particularly as they traverse important stages of social and language development.“How they react and treat this nonhuman entity is, to me, the biggest question,” said Sandra Calvert, a Georgetown University psychologist and director of the Children’s Digital Media Center. “And how does that subsequently affect family dynamics and social interactions with other people?”With an estimated 25 million voice assistants expected to sell this year at $40 to $180 — up from 1.7 million in 2015 — there are even ramifications for the diaper crowd.Boosters of the technology say kids typically learn to acquire information using the prevailing technology of the moment — from the library card catalogue, to Google, to brief conversations with friendly, all-knowing voices. But what if these gadgets lead children, whose faces are already glued to screens, further away from situations where they learn important interpersonal skills?It’s unclear whether any of the companies involved are even paying attention to this issue.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容Want to Be More Productive? Sit Next to Someone Who IsBy Jason Corsello and Dylan MinorTo increase worker performance, employers often invest in a number of things, from rewards and incentives to education and training. These traditional approaches develop employees’ skills and enrich their work experience. But we discovered a surprisingly simple way to increase productivity, one that was low-cost and had immediate impact: better office seating arrangements.Research we conducted suggests that who an employee sits next to affects how they perform — and grouping the right types of coworkers together can improve productivity and work quality.We analyzed two years’ worth of data on more than 2,000 employees of a large technology company with several locations in the U.S. and Europe. (The company is a client of Cornerstone OnDemand, which one of us, Jason, works for.) ...For every performance measure, we looked at “spillover,” a measure of the impact that office neighbors had on an employee’s performance. Assume a worker has three coworkers: one sits next to her, one sits 25 feet away, and another sits 50 feet away. We looked at the performance of the three coworkers along with their distance from the worker, and through various data modeling techniques we measured the average spillover of their performance on the worker.We saw that neighbors have a significant impact on an employee’s performance, and it can be either positive or negative. In terms of magnitude, we found that approximately 10% of a worker’s performance spills over to her neighbors. Replacing an average performer with one who is twice as productive results in his or her neighboring workers increasing their own productivity by about 10%, on average.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容Want to Be More Productive? Sit Next to Someone Who IsBy Jason Corsello and Dylan MinorTo increase worker performance, employers often invest in a number of things, from rewards and incentives to education and training. These traditional approaches develop employees’ skills and enrich their work experience. But we discovered a surprisingly simple way to increase productivity, one that was low-cost and had immediate impact: better office seating arrangements.Research we conducted suggests that who an employee sits next to affects how they perform — and grouping the right types of coworkers together can improve productivity and work quality.We analyzed two years’ worth of data on more than 2,000 employees of a large technology company with several locations in the U.S. and Europe. (The company is a client of Cornerstone OnDemand, which one of us, Jason, works for.) ...For every performance measure, we looked at “spillover,” a measure of the impact that office neighbors had on an employee’s performance. Assume a worker has three coworkers: one sits next to her, one sits 25 feet away, and another sits 50 feet away. We looked at the performance of the three coworkers along with their distance from the worker, and through various data modeling techniques we measured the average spillover of their performance on the worker.We saw that neighbors have a significant impact on an employee’s performance, and it can be either positive or negative. In terms of magnitude, we found that approximately 10% of a worker’s performance spills over to her neighbors. Replacing an average performer with one who is twice as productive results in his or her neighboring workers increasing their own productivity by about 10%, on average.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容This is only a test. See what happens.By Derek SiversGrowing up in America in the 1970s, the TV or radio would sometimes turn into a long warning BEEEEEP. At the end, an announcer would say, “This is a test. This is only a test.”Remember that phrase when pursuing your career.It often feels like everything is so serious - that if you make one mistake, it will all end in disaster. But really everything you do is just a test: an experiment to “see what happens”.My favorite times in life have often started with a “see what happens” spirit.Let’s see what happens if I run my vocals through my guitar pedals.See what happens if I invite that famous producer out to lunch.See what happens if I call that radio station to ask their advice.There is no failure. There can’t be, if your only mission was to “see what happens”.This is a test. This is only a test. There is no downside. Try everything.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容This is only a test. See what happens.By Derek SiversGrowing up in America in the 1970s, the TV or radio would sometimes turn into a long warning BEEEEEP. At the end, an announcer would say, “This is a test. This is only a test.”Remember that phrase when pursuing your career.It often feels like everything is so serious - that if you make one mistake, it will all end in disaster. But really everything you do is just a test: an experiment to “see what happens”.My favorite times in life have often started with a “see what happens” spirit.Let’s see what happens if I run my vocals through my guitar pedals.See what happens if I invite that famous producer out to lunch.See what happens if I call that radio station to ask their advice.There is no failure. There can’t be, if your only mission was to “see what happens”.This is a test. This is only a test. There is no downside. Try everything.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容Purpose = FreedomBy Steve PavlinaIt’s fair to say that if you don’t know your purpose in life, you won’t be spending much time working on it. So what will you end up doing with your working time instead?Three things: 1) Working on your needs, 2) Working on other people needs, 3) Working on other people’s purposes.If you don’t know your purpose, the limit of the work you do for yourself will be stuck at the level of need, which at best has the potential to grow into greed. Not particularly fulfilling spending your whole working life this way… Try it yourself for a few decades if you don’t believe me, and then look at the passionless shell that stares back at you from your mirror.As you work with/for other people, most likely you’ll be putting lots of effort into satisfying other people’s needs and greeds: your boss, your customers, your company’s investors, etc. Even in your free time, you’ll be working to fulfill the desires of advertisers who want you to watch TV and buy stuff. Again, not particularly satisfying, although you may be thrown a few bones by your benefactors, such as the “gift” of working on some interesting projects. This kind of life will ultimately make you want to stand up and shout, “What exactly is the point of all of this?” But if you actually do that, you’ll only get blank stares in return. There is no point.Now if you’re very lucky, you may get the chance to work for someone or some organization which is itself focused on achieving a conscious purpose. However, there’s no telling what that purpose might be. If you don’t know your own purpose, you can’t consciously choose to work for someone whose purpose aligns with yours except by accident or chance, and the odds of alignment are low. So there’s a good chance you’ll be working hard to achieve a purpose you don’t agree with. For example, if you join the military, you may be put to use to achieve some big purpose, but what exactly will it be? Most likely, in such situations you’ll be given a purpose to achieve that isn’t what you’d choose consciously for yourself. Fulfilling to spend your whole life this way? Not likely, but it’s at least a decent path for people who don’t like to think much — others will take care of all the thinking for you (and benefit greatly from all your thoughtless doing).968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容Purpose = FreedomBy Steve PavlinaIt’s fair to say that if you don’t know your purpose in life, you won’t be spending much time working on it. So what will you end up doing with your working time instead?Three things: 1) Working on your needs, 2) Working on other people needs, 3) Working on other people’s purposes.If you don’t know your purpose, the limit of the work you do for yourself will be stuck at the level of need, which at best has the potential to grow into greed. Not particularly fulfilling spending your whole working life this way… Try it yourself for a few decades if you don’t believe me, and then look at the passionless shell that stares back at you from your mirror.As you work with/for other people, most likely you’ll be putting lots of effort into satisfying other people’s needs and greeds: your boss, your customers, your company’s investors, etc. Even in your free time, you’ll be working to fulfill the desires of advertisers who want you to watch TV and buy stuff. Again, not particularly satisfying, although you may be thrown a few bones by your benefactors, such as the “gift” of working on some interesting projects. This kind of life will ultimately make you want to stand up and shout, “What exactly is the point of all of this?” But if you actually do that, you’ll only get blank stares in return. There is no point.Now if you’re very lucky, you may get the chance to work for someone or some organization which is itself focused on achieving a conscious purpose. However, there’s no telling what that purpose might be. If you don’t know your own purpose, you can’t consciously choose to work for someone whose purpose aligns with yours except by accident or chance, and the odds of alignment are low. So there’s a good chance you’ll be working hard to achieve a purpose you don’t agree with. For example, if you join the military, you may be put to use to achieve some big purpose, but what exactly will it be? Most likely, in such situations you’ll be given a purpose to achieve that isn’t what you’d choose consciously for yourself. Fulfilling to spend your whole life this way? Not likely, but it’s at least a decent path for people who don’t like to think much — others will take care of all the thinking for you (and benefit greatly from all your thoughtless doing).968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容Attachment to placesBy Andrew Sullivan…I’ve always been unusually attached to places. It’s one reason I still call myself a conservative. Travel doesn’t attract me. I’ve now lived in the same loft in D.C. since I bought it, in 1991 (apart from an ill-fated year and a half in New York City); I’ve spent 20 consecutive summers in the same little town at the end of Cape Cod, and have no desire to go anyplace else. Even when I go home to England, I tend to spend around half my time near where I grew up.I wouldn’t go so far as Malcolm Muggeridge, who famously said: “Travel, of course, narrows the mind.” (Don’t you love that “of course”?) But I would say that the reverse can also be true. Staying put allows you to really get to know a place deeply at different times and in different seasons, to capture, often serendipitously, a small detail you’d never seen before, or arrive at a street corner and suddenly remember that this was where you first met an old friend.But staying home brings grief with it as well. Everything changes, and when your beloved tree at the end of the street is cut down, or a new Safeway replaces the corner baker, or, more fatally, the factory that used to be the linchpin of the place lies empty and crumbling, it stings and wounds and demoralizes. When I’ve visited my own hometown in England, so much is the same. And yet, on closer inspection, many of the once-vibrant shops are selling secondhand clothes, or given over to real estate offices. My old church has a broken window where the rain comes in. The services have dwindled to near nothing. Maybe it’s being away for so long, but it seems familiar and yet a little empty, as if something in it has somehow died, a continuity somehow lost.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容Attachment to placesBy Andrew Sullivan…I’ve always been unusually attached to places. It’s one reason I still call myself a conservative. Travel doesn’t attract me. I’ve now lived in the same loft in D.C. since I bought it, in 1991 (apart from an ill-fated year and a half in New York City); I’ve spent 20 consecutive summers in the same little town at the end of Cape Cod, and have no desire to go anyplace else. Even when I go home to England, I tend to spend around half my time near where I grew up.I wouldn’t go so far as Malcolm Muggeridge, who famously said: “Travel, of course, narrows the mind.” (Don’t you love that “of course”?) But I would say that the reverse can also be true. Staying put allows you to really get to know a place deeply at different times and in different seasons, to capture, often serendipitously, a small detail you’d never seen before, or arrive at a street corner and suddenly remember that this was where you first met an old friend.But staying home brings grief with it as well. Everything changes, and when your beloved tree at the end of the street is cut down, or a new Safeway replaces the corner baker, or, more fatally, the factory that used to be the linchpin of the place lies empty and crumbling, it stings and wounds and demoralizes. When I’ve visited my own hometown in England, so much is the same. And yet, on closer inspection, many of the once-vibrant shops are selling secondhand clothes, or given over to real estate offices. My old church has a broken window where the rain comes in. The services have dwindled to near nothing. Maybe it’s being away for so long, but it seems familiar and yet a little empty, as if something in it has somehow died, a continuity somehow lost.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容What happened when one school banned homework — and asked kids to read and play insteadBy Valerie StraussMark Trifilio, principal of the public pre-K-5th grade Orchard School in Vermont, sat down with the school’s 40 educators last summer to discuss the soon-to-start new school year and homework — how much kids were getting and whether it was helping them learn.Trifilio had been pondering the issue for some time, he said, concerned that there seemed to be an uneven homework load for students in different classrooms within the same grade and that the differences from grade to grade didn’t make sense. He had looked up research on homework effectiveness and learned that, generally, homework in elementary school isn’t linked to better academic performance — except for after-school reading.So at that meeting with teachers, he proposed an experiment: stopping all homework in every grade and asking students to read on their own at home — or, if they were not ready to read on their own, to do it with a parent or guardian. He said he was surprised when every one of them — classroom teachers as well as those who work with special-education students and English-language learners — signed on to the idea.“All 40 voted yes,” he said, “and not just yes, but a passionate yes. When do you get 40 people to agree on something?”So they instituted the policy, as this page on the school website shows (https://www.sbschools.net/domain/311):No Homework PolicyOrchard School Homework InformationStudent’s Daily Home Assignment1. Read just-right books every night —(and have your parents read to you too).2. Get outside and play —that does not mean more screen time.3. Eat dinner with your family —and help out with setting and cleaning up.4. Get a good night’s sleep.What’s the result?Six months into the experiment, Trifilio says it has been a big success: Students have not fallen back academically and may be doing better, and now they have “time to be creative thinkers at home and follow their passions.”968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容What happened when one school banned homework — and asked kids to read and play insteadBy Valerie StraussMark Trifilio, principal of the public pre-K-5th grade Orchard School in Vermont, sat down with the school’s 40 educators last summer to discuss the soon-to-start new school year and homework — how much kids were getting and whether it was helping them learn.Trifilio had been pondering the issue for some time, he said, concerned that there seemed to be an uneven homework load for students in different classrooms within the same grade and that the differences from grade to grade didn’t make sense. He had looked up research on homework effectiveness and learned that, generally, homework in elementary school isn’t linked to better academic performance — except for after-school reading.So at that meeting with teachers, he proposed an experiment: stopping all homework in every grade and asking students to read on their own at home — or, if they were not ready to read on their own, to do it with a parent or guardian. He said he was surprised when every one of them — classroom teachers as well as those who work with special-education students and English-language learners — signed on to the idea.“All 40 voted yes,” he said, “and not just yes, but a passionate yes. When do you get 40 people to agree on something?”So they instituted the policy, as this page on the school website shows (https://www.sbschools.net/domain/311):No Homework PolicyOrchard School Homework InformationStudent’s Daily Home Assignment1. Read just-right books every night —(and have your parents read to you too).2. Get outside and play —that does not mean more screen time.3. Eat dinner with your family —and help out with setting and cleaning up.4. Get a good night’s sleep.What’s the result?Six months into the experiment, Trifilio says it has been a big success: Students have not fallen back academically and may be doing better, and now they have “time to be creative thinkers at home and follow their passions.”968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容The Practice of One Thing at a TimeBy Leo BabautaThere’s a Japanese term, “ichigyo-zammai,” that basically means full concentration on a single act.Sunryu Suzuki described this practice in his book, Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind, and said this practice of being fully in the moment with the activity is enlightened activity.“So instead of having some object of worship, we just concentrate on the activity which we do in each moment,” Suzuki Roshi wrote. “When you bow, you should just bow; when you sit, you should just sit; when you eat, you should just eat.”He said when we just do that one activity, we express our true nature.What a beautiful idea, that when we aren’t present, our true nature cannot fully express itself … but when we are truly just doing whatever we’re doing, we start to express our true selves.But it’s easier said than done. How often are we not in the moment?Think about times when we are:Jumping between tasks in a browserChecking our phones while doing other things throughout the dayIn a rush to do the next thing while still doing the current thingThinking about other things when someone is talking to usIrritated by someone when they interrupt whatever we’re doingTaking whatever we’re doing for granted, because it’s dull or routineIt turns out, we are very rarely fully in the moment with any single activity. How can we try this enlightened activity of full concentration on one act?How to Do One Thing at a TimeThese are as much reminders to myself as they are reminders for you, but here’s what I’ve been practicing with:When you start an activity, turn to it with your full attention and set an intention to be present with the act, to do nothing but this activity. You might think, “Just walk” or “Just read” or “Just drink tea.”You might open up a wide-open, sky-like panoramic awareness as you do the activity, being fully engaged with the entire moment.When you notice yourself thinking about something else, or getting your attention pulled elsewhere, or starting down a pattern of judgment, resentment, etc. … just notice. Then return to being fully present with the activity.Empty your mind of preconceived ideas about the activity, and just be curious about what the activity is actually like, right now, as it unfolds. Allow yourself to be surprised.Treat every object with reverence, as if it were your own eyesight.See the brilliance of each moment, of each activity, that underlies everything around us.Just write. Just shower. Just give someone your full attention.As we give each activity our full loving attention, we start to appreciate each person, each object, everything around us as something worthy of respect, love, and gratitude.We start to take life up on the opportunity to fully engage with it, with a smile and a bow.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容The Practice of One Thing at a TimeBy Leo BabautaThere’s a Japanese term, “ichigyo-zammai,” that basically means full concentration on a single act.Sunryu Suzuki described this practice in his book, Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind, and said this practice of being fully in the moment with the activity is enlightened activity.“So instead of having some object of worship, we just concentrate on the activity which we do in each moment,” Suzuki Roshi wrote. “When you bow, you should just bow; when you sit, you should just sit; when you eat, you should just eat.”He said when we just do that one activity, we express our true nature.What a beautiful idea, that when we aren’t present, our true nature cannot fully express itself … but when we are truly just doing whatever we’re doing, we start to express our true selves.But it’s easier said than done. How often are we not in the moment?Think about times when we are:Jumping between tasks in a browserChecking our phones while doing other things throughout the dayIn a rush to do the next thing while still doing the current thingThinking about other things when someone is talking to usIrritated by someone when they interrupt whatever we’re doingTaking whatever we’re doing for granted, because it’s dull or routineIt turns out, we are very rarely fully in the moment with any single activity. How can we try this enlightened activity of full concentration on one act?How to Do One Thing at a TimeThese are as much reminders to myself as they are reminders for you, but here’s what I’ve been practicing with:When you start an activity, turn to it with your full attention and set an intention to be present with the act, to do nothing but this activity. You might think, “Just walk” or “Just read” or “Just drink tea.”You might open up a wide-open, sky-like panoramic awareness as you do the activity, being fully engaged with the entire moment.When you notice yourself thinking about something else, or getting your attention pulled elsewhere, or starting down a pattern of judgment, resentment, etc. … just notice. Then return to being fully present with the activity.Empty your mind of preconceived ideas about the activity, and just be curious about what the activity is actually like, right now, as it unfolds. Allow yourself to be surprised.Treat every object with reverence, as if it were your own eyesight.See the brilliance of each moment, of each activity, that underlies everything around us.Just write. Just shower. Just give someone your full attention.As we give each activity our full loving attention, we start to appreciate each person, each object, everything around us as something worthy of respect, love, and gratitude.We start to take life up on the opportunity to fully engage with it, with a smile and a bow.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容Should you learn programming? Yes.By Derek SiversWhen I was 14 years old, my guitar teacher told me something important:“You need to learn to sing. Because if you don’t, you’re always going to be at the mercy of some asshole singer.”His point was about self-reliance. If you ever have any ideas, whether for songs or apps, you need to have some basic skills to turn those ideas into reality.One of the most common things I hear from aspiring entrepreneurs is, “I have this idea for an app or site. But I’m not technical, so I need to find someone who can make it for me.”I point them to my advice about how to hire a programmer, but most programmers are already busy and expensive.Imagine if someone said, “I have this idea for a song. But I’m not musical, so I need to find someone who will write, perform, and record it for me.”You’d probably advise them to just learn enough guitar or piano so they can play their song.It’s like learning to drive or make dinner. You only need to learn enough so you’re not helpless.So, yes, you should learn some programming. Basic HTML, CSS, and JavaScript are enough to start.I recommend Head First HTML and CSS first, then Head First HTML5 Programming. Those are very fun, visual books where you need to see the detailed illustrations, so get the paper book or PDF.If you prefer a course and community, use Free Code Camp. Ideally, do those books and this course at the same time, to really reinforce what you’re learning.You could go through those books or courses in a few weeks, and you’d already know as much as half of the people that call themselves web developers.It’s a really amazing feeling. The mystery is lifted. You’ll look at all websites in a new way. You’ll understand what’s going on behind the scenes. You’ll know how to do it yourself. It’s really empowering. (It’s definitely been the most rewarding thing I’ve ever learned.)968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容Should you learn programming? Yes.By Derek SiversWhen I was 14 years old, my guitar teacher told me something important:“You need to learn to sing. Because if you don’t, you’re always going to be at the mercy of some asshole singer.”His point was about self-reliance. If you ever have any ideas, whether for songs or apps, you need to have some basic skills to turn those ideas into reality.One of the most common things I hear from aspiring entrepreneurs is, “I have this idea for an app or site. But I’m not technical, so I need to find someone who can make it for me.”I point them to my advice about how to hire a programmer, but most programmers are already busy and expensive.Imagine if someone said, “I have this idea for a song. But I’m not musical, so I need to find someone who will write, perform, and record it for me.”You’d probably advise them to just learn enough guitar or piano so they can play their song.It’s like learning to drive or make dinner. You only need to learn enough so you’re not helpless.So, yes, you should learn some programming. Basic HTML, CSS, and JavaScript are enough to start.I recommend Head First HTML and CSS first, then Head First HTML5 Programming. Those are very fun, visual books where you need to see the detailed illustrations, so get the paper book or PDF.If you prefer a course and community, use Free Code Camp. Ideally, do those books and this course at the same time, to really reinforce what you’re learning.You could go through those books or courses in a few weeks, and you’d already know as much as half of the people that call themselves web developers.It’s a really amazing feeling. The mystery is lifted. You’ll look at all websites in a new way. You’ll understand what’s going on behind the scenes. You’ll know how to do it yourself. It’s really empowering. (It’s definitely been the most rewarding thing I’ve ever learned.)968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容You’re a completely different person at 14 and 77, the longest-running personality study ever has foundBy Olivia GoldhillLook at a photo of yourself as a teenager and, mistaken fashion choices aside, it’s likely you see traces of the same person with the same personality quirks as you are today. But whether or not you truly are the same person over a lifetime—and what that notion of personhood even means—is the subject of ongoing philosophical and psychology debate.The longest personality study of all time, published in Psychology and Aging and recently highlighted by the British Psychological Society, suggests that over the course of a lifetime, just as your physical appearance changes and your cells are constantly replaced, your personality is also transformed beyond recognition.The study begins with data from a 1950 survey of 1,208 14-year-olds in Scotland. Teachers were asked to use six questionnaires to rate the teenagers on six personality traits: self-confidence, perseverance, stability of moods, conscientiousness, originality, and desire to learn. Together, the results from these questionnaires were amalgamated into a rating for one trait, which was defined as “dependability.” More than six decades later, researchers tracked down 635 of the participants, and 174 agreed to repeat testing.This time, aged 77 years old, the participants rated themselves on the six personality traits, and also nominated a close friend or relative to do the same. Overall, there was not much overlap from the questionnaires taken 63 years earlier. “Correlations suggested no significant stability of any of the 6 characteristics or their underlying factor, dependability, over the 63-year interval,” wrote the researchers. “We hypothesized that we would find evidence of personality stability over an even longer period of 63 years, but our correlations did not support this hypothesis,” they later added.The findings were a surprise to researchers because previous personality studies, over shorter periods of time, seemed to show consistency. Studies over several decades, focusing on participants from childhood to middle age, or from middle age to older age, showed stable personality traits. But the most recent study, covering the longest period, suggests that personality stability is disrupted over time. “The longer the interval between two assessments of personality, the weaker the relationship between the two tends to be,” the researchers write. “Our results suggest that, when the interval is increased to as much as 63 years, there is hardly any relationship at all.”968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容You’re a completely different person at 14 and 77, the longest-running personality study ever has foundBy Olivia GoldhillLook at a photo of yourself as a teenager and, mistaken fashion choices aside, it’s likely you see traces of the same person with the same personality quirks as you are today. But whether or not you truly are the same person over a lifetime—and what that notion of personhood even means—is the subject of ongoing philosophical and psychology debate.The longest personality study of all time, published in Psychology and Aging and recently highlighted by the British Psychological Society, suggests that over the course of a lifetime, just as your physical appearance changes and your cells are constantly replaced, your personality is also transformed beyond recognition.The study begins with data from a 1950 survey of 1,208 14-year-olds in Scotland. Teachers were asked to use six questionnaires to rate the teenagers on six personality traits: self-confidence, perseverance, stability of moods, conscientiousness, originality, and desire to learn. Together, the results from these questionnaires were amalgamated into a rating for one trait, which was defined as “dependability.” More than six decades later, researchers tracked down 635 of the participants, and 174 agreed to repeat testing.This time, aged 77 years old, the participants rated themselves on the six personality traits, and also nominated a close friend or relative to do the same. Overall, there was not much overlap from the questionnaires taken 63 years earlier. “Correlations suggested no significant stability of any of the 6 characteristics or their underlying factor, dependability, over the 63-year interval,” wrote the researchers. “We hypothesized that we would find evidence of personality stability over an even longer period of 63 years, but our correlations did not support this hypothesis,” they later added.The findings were a surprise to researchers because previous personality studies, over shorter periods of time, seemed to show consistency. Studies over several decades, focusing on participants from childhood to middle age, or from middle age to older age, showed stable personality traits. But the most recent study, covering the longest period, suggests that personality stability is disrupted over time. “The longer the interval between two assessments of personality, the weaker the relationship between the two tends to be,” the researchers write. “Our results suggest that, when the interval is increased to as much as 63 years, there is hardly any relationship at all.”968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容Amazon Leadership PrinciplesOur Leadership Principles aren’t just a pretty inspirational wall hanging. These Principles work hard, just like we do. Amazonians use them, every day, whether they’re discussing ideas for new projects, deciding on the best solution for a customer’s problem, or interviewing candidates. It’s just one of the things that makes Amazon peculiar.Customer ObsessionLeaders start with the customer and work backwards. They work vigorously to earn and keep customer trust. Although leaders pay attention to competitors, they obsess over customers.OwnershipLeaders are owners. They think long term and don’t sacrifice long-term value for short-term results. They act on behalf of the entire company, beyond just their own team. They never say “that’s not my job". Invent and SimplifyLeaders expect and require innovation and invention from their teams and always find ways to simplify. They are externally aware, look for new ideas from everywhere, and are not limited by “not invented here". As we do new things, we accept that we may be misunderstood for long periods of time.Are Right, A LotLeaders are right a lot. They have strong judgment and good instincts. They seek diverse perspectives and work to disconfirm their beliefs.Learn and Be CuriousLeaders are never done learning and always seek to improve themselves. They are curious about new possibilities and act to explore them.Hire and Develop the BestLeaders raise the performance bar with every hire and promotion. They recognize exceptional talent, and willingly move them throughout the organization. Leaders develop leaders and take seriously their role in coaching others. We work on behalf of our people to invent mechanisms for development like Career Choice.Insist on the Highest StandardsLeaders have relentlessly high standards - many people may think these standards are unreasonably high. Leaders are continually raising the bar and driving their teams to deliver high quality products, services and processes. Leaders ensure that defects do not get sent down the line and that problems are fixed so they stay fixed.Think BigThinking small is a self-fulfilling prophecy. Leaders create and communicate a bold direction that inspires results. They think differently and look around corners for ways to serve customers.Bias for ActionSpeed matters in business. Many decisions and actions are reversible and do not need extensive study. We value calculated risk taking. FrugalityAccomplish more with less. Constraints breed resourcefulness, self-sufficiency and invention. There are no extra points for growing headcount, budget size or fixed expense.Earn TrustLeaders listen attentively, speak candidly, and treat others respectfully. They are vocally self-critical, even when doing so is awkward or embarrassing. Leaders do not believe their or their team’s body odor smells of perfume. They benchmark themselves and their teams against the best.Dive DeepLeaders operate at all levels, stay connected to the details, audit frequently, and are skeptical when metrics and anecdote differ. No task is beneath them.Have Backbone; Disagree and CommitLeaders are obligated to respectfully challenge decisions when they disagree, even when doing so is uncomfortable or exhausting. Leaders have conviction and are tenacious. They do not compromise for the sake of social cohesion. Once a decision is determined, they commit wholly.Deliver ResultsLeaders focus on the key inputs for their business and deliver them with the right quality and in a timely fashion. Despite setbacks, they rise to the occasion and never settle.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容Amazon Leadership PrinciplesOur Leadership Principles aren’t just a pretty inspirational wall hanging. These Principles work hard, just like we do. Amazonians use them, every day, whether they’re discussing ideas for new projects, deciding on the best solution for a customer’s problem, or interviewing candidates. It’s just one of the things that makes Amazon peculiar.Customer ObsessionLeaders start with the customer and work backwards. They work vigorously to earn and keep customer trust. Although leaders pay attention to competitors, they obsess over customers.OwnershipLeaders are owners. They think long term and don’t sacrifice long-term value for short-term results. They act on behalf of the entire company, beyond just their own team. They never say “that’s not my job". Invent and SimplifyLeaders expect and require innovation and invention from their teams and always find ways to simplify. They are externally aware, look for new ideas from everywhere, and are not limited by “not invented here". As we do new things, we accept that we may be misunderstood for long periods of time.Are Right, A LotLeaders are right a lot. They have strong judgment and good instincts. They seek diverse perspectives and work to disconfirm their beliefs.Learn and Be CuriousLeaders are never done learning and always seek to improve themselves. They are curious about new possibilities and act to explore them.Hire and Develop the BestLeaders raise the performance bar with every hire and promotion. They recognize exceptional talent, and willingly move them throughout the organization. Leaders develop leaders and take seriously their role in coaching others. We work on behalf of our people to invent mechanisms for development like Career Choice.Insist on the Highest StandardsLeaders have relentlessly high standards - many people may think these standards are unreasonably high. Leaders are continually raising the bar and driving their teams to deliver high quality products, services and processes. Leaders ensure that defects do not get sent down the line and that problems are fixed so they stay fixed.Think BigThinking small is a self-fulfilling prophecy. Leaders create and communicate a bold direction that inspires results. They think differently and look around corners for ways to serve customers.Bias for ActionSpeed matters in business. Many decisions and actions are reversible and do not need extensive study. We value calculated risk taking. FrugalityAccomplish more with less. Constraints breed resourcefulness, self-sufficiency and invention. There are no extra points for growing headcount, budget size or fixed expense.Earn TrustLeaders listen attentively, speak candidly, and treat others respectfully. They are vocally self-critical, even when doing so is awkward or embarrassing. Leaders do not believe their or their team’s body odor smells of perfume. They benchmark themselves and their teams against the best.Dive DeepLeaders operate at all levels, stay connected to the details, audit frequently, and are skeptical when metrics and anecdote differ. No task is beneath them.Have Backbone; Disagree and CommitLeaders are obligated to respectfully challenge decisions when they disagree, even when doing so is uncomfortable or exhausting. Leaders have conviction and are tenacious. They do not compromise for the sake of social cohesion. Once a decision is determined, they commit wholly.Deliver ResultsLeaders focus on the key inputs for their business and deliver them with the right quality and in a timely fashion. Despite setbacks, they rise to the occasion and never settle.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容The Wisdom of GarbageResearchers are digging into heaps of discarded food to uncover clues about why we throw so much of it away—and how cities can cut the waste.By Jessica Leigh HesterClumps of congealed pasta tumble out of tangled plastic bags, the noodles gone gray and fuzzy around the edges. In a loading dock a few blocks from Manhattan’s Union Square, bags of garbage spew their contents across white plastic folding tables littered with desiccated orange peels, egg shells, and the occasional shard of glass.Throngs of pedestrians trundle by outside, clomping along in winter boots and holding cups of quickly-cooling coffee. The January afternoon is tingly, prickly cold, and Belinda Li yanks down her respirator to say that was a welcome change. It had been considerably balmier a few months earlier, when Li and her band of fellow garbage sleuths were tearing into trash in Nashville. “Some of the stuff was really stinky,” she says. A few of the bags, cooked in the sun, had been wriggling with maggots. Tyvek suits, steel-toed boots, safety goggles, gloves, and respirators insulated the team against close contact. But they’ve spent months wrist-deep in kitchen scraps.Li, a project engineer at Tetra Tech, has been dispatched by the Natural Resources Defense Council to excavate hundreds of samples of trash in Nashville, Denver, and New York City—three cities where the NRDC has rooting or established relationships with local organizations. The bin digs are a quest to exhume data from detritus—and from there, to glean information about consumer behavior and food waste.Trashed food exacts an enormous environmental and economic toll: By some estimates, each American family spends some $1,600 each year on uneaten eats. “Imagine walking out of a grocery store, leaving one bag in the parking lot, and driving home—that’s essentially what you’re doing,” says Zia Khan, vice president of initiatives and strategy at the Rockefeller Foundation.Researchers and advocates know that the general scope of wasted food is unsustainable: It has environmental ripples across the supply chain, slurping up valuable water and then emitting greenhouse gases as it clogs landfills. But the nitty-gritty details are harder to come by. In order to help implement policy interventions, researchers and organizations needed to know exactly what was rotting away. One way to do that is to grab the trashed items before they end up in a heap.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容You Have the Right to Be WrongBy Steve Pavlina“You have the right to be wrong” was a common expression of an old high school history teacher of mine. Some students hated this teacher because they thought he was lazy and a bit sadistic. He never lectured, nor did he ever seem to have a lesson plan prepared. He’d just sit back in his chair, sometimes putting his feet up on his desk, and then he’d ask probing questions and insult whoever attempted to answer them (usually for their lack of individual thought).For homework he’d assign us lots of dry reading material, and then we’d have to write very brief papers on complex subjects, like a two-page, double-spaced paper about the causes of the Civil War. Believe me — this is a lot harder than writing a 5-10 page paper on the subject because you have to choose your words very carefully. Otherwise you’ll run out of space before you make a dent in the topic. Two pages was the maximum you’d be allowed to write. If you wrote 2.1 pages, you’d fail the assignment. “Verbal flabbiness” wasn’t allowed.Despite his lack of popularity, this teacher had the stated goal of teaching students to think for themselves instead of merely regurgitating information we learned elsewhere. This is tough to do with 17-year olds, especially with a subject like U.S. history.I thought the expression, “you have the right to be wrong,” while usually meant as a joke in this class, was good advice. It’s not in the Bill of Rights, but perhaps it can be considered a basic human right. You have the right to be wrong. You have the right to make mistakes. You have the right to fail.Many people don’t see the value in exercising this right, however. I think this is also a major component in the fear of public speaking. What if you take a stand on something, and you’re shot down, proven utterly wrong?What’s so terrible about being wrong? If you’re never wrong, to me that indicates you aren’t growing. I hope that five years from now, I’ll look back on some of my blog posts from this year and disagree with myself. Otherwise it would mean that either I haven’t grown or that I was too timid in expressing myself.Don’t be afraid to take stabs at the edges of your certainty. That’s one of the best ways to learn. Let others react to your ideas. Sometimes they’ll help provide new facts that can allow you to refine your ideas. Other times they’ll merely react emotionally which can help you become more resilient in weathering other people’s emotions. Don’t be afraid to put forth your ideas in a conversation, a speech, an article, a blog entry, a forum post — any communication where you can get feedback from others.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容WHY EVER STOP PLAYING VIDEO GAMESMANY AMERICANS have replaced work hours with game play — and ENDED UP HAPPIER. Which wouldn’t surprise most gamers.By Frank GuanOn the evening of November 9, having barely been awake to see the day, I took the subway to Sunset Park. My objective was to meet a friend at the arcade Next Level.In size, Next Level resembles a hole-in-the-wall Chinese restaurant. It does indeed serve food — free fried chicken and shrimp were provided that night, and candy, soda, and energy drinks were available at a reasonable markup — but the sustenance it provides is mostly of a different nature. Much of Next Level’s space was devoted to brilliant banks of monitors hooked up to video-game consoles, and much of the remaining space was occupied by men in their 20s avidly facing them. It cost us $10 each to enter.I had bonded with Leon, a graphic designer, musician, and Twitter magnate, over our shared viewership of online broadcasts of the Street Fighter tournaments held every Wednesday night at Next Level. It was his first time attending the venue in person and his first time entering the tournament. I wasn’t playing, but I wanted to see how he’d do, in part because I had taken to wondering more about video games lately — the nature of their appeal, their central logic, perhaps what they might illuminate about what had happened the night before. Like so many others, I played video games, often to excess, and had done so eagerly since childhood, to the point where the games we played became, necessarily, reflections of our being.To the uninitiated, the figures are nothing if not staggering: 155 million Americans play video games, more than the number who voted in November’s presidential election. And they play them a lot: According to a variety of recent studies, more than 40 percent of Americans play at least three hours a week, 34 million play on average 22 hours each week, 5 million hit 40 hours, and the average young American will now spend as many hours (roughly 10,000) playing by the time he or she turns 21 as that person spent in middle- and high-school classrooms combined. Which means that a niche activity confined a few decades ago to preadolescents and adolescents has become, increasingly, a cultural juggernaut for all races, genders, and ages. How had video games, over that time, ascended within American and world culture to a scale rivaling sports, film, and television? Like those other entertainments, video games offered an escape, of course. But what kind?968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容WHY EVER STOP PLAYING VIDEO GAMESMANY AMERICANS have replaced work hours with game play — and ENDED UP HAPPIER. Which wouldn’t surprise most gamers.By Frank GuanOn the evening of November 9, having barely been awake to see the day, I took the subway to Sunset Park. My objective was to meet a friend at the arcade Next Level.In size, Next Level resembles a hole-in-the-wall Chinese restaurant. It does indeed serve food — free fried chicken and shrimp were provided that night, and candy, soda, and energy drinks were available at a reasonable markup — but the sustenance it provides is mostly of a different nature. Much of Next Level’s space was devoted to brilliant banks of monitors hooked up to video-game consoles, and much of the remaining space was occupied by men in their 20s avidly facing them. It cost us $10 each to enter.I had bonded with Leon, a graphic designer, musician, and Twitter magnate, over our shared viewership of online broadcasts of the Street Fighter tournaments held every Wednesday night at Next Level. It was his first time attending the venue in person and his first time entering the tournament. I wasn’t playing, but I wanted to see how he’d do, in part because I had taken to wondering more about video games lately — the nature of their appeal, their central logic, perhaps what they might illuminate about what had happened the night before. Like so many others, I played video games, often to excess, and had done so eagerly since childhood, to the point where the games we played became, necessarily, reflections of our being.To the uninitiated, the figures are nothing if not staggering: 155 million Americans play video games, more than the number who voted in November’s presidential election. And they play them a lot: According to a variety of recent studies, more than 40 percent of Americans play at least three hours a week, 34 million play on average 22 hours each week, 5 million hit 40 hours, and the average young American will now spend as many hours (roughly 10,000) playing by the time he or she turns 21 as that person spent in middle- and high-school classrooms combined. Which means that a niche activity confined a few decades ago to preadolescents and adolescents has become, increasingly, a cultural juggernaut for all races, genders, and ages. How had video games, over that time, ascended within American and world culture to a scale rivaling sports, film, and television? Like those other entertainments, video games offered an escape, of course. But what kind?968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容The Wisdom of GarbageResearchers are digging into heaps of discarded food to uncover clues about why we throw so much of it away—and how cities can cut the waste.By Jessica Leigh HesterClumps of congealed pasta tumble out of tangled plastic bags, the noodles gone gray and fuzzy around the edges. In a loading dock a few blocks from Manhattan’s Union Square, bags of garbage spew their contents across white plastic folding tables littered with desiccated orange peels, egg shells, and the occasional shard of glass.Throngs of pedestrians trundle by outside, clomping along in winter boots and holding cups of quickly-cooling coffee. The January afternoon is tingly, prickly cold, and Belinda Li yanks down her respirator to say that was a welcome change. It had been considerably balmier a few months earlier, when Li and her band of fellow garbage sleuths were tearing into trash in Nashville. “Some of the stuff was really stinky,” she says. A few of the bags, cooked in the sun, had been wriggling with maggots. Tyvek suits, steel-toed boots, safety goggles, gloves, and respirators insulated the team against close contact. But they’ve spent months wrist-deep in kitchen scraps.Li, a project engineer at Tetra Tech, has been dispatched by the Natural Resources Defense Council to excavate hundreds of samples of trash in Nashville, Denver, and New York City—three cities where the NRDC has rooting or established relationships with local organizations. The bin digs are a quest to exhume data from detritus—and from there, to glean information about consumer behavior and food waste.Trashed food exacts an enormous environmental and economic toll: By some estimates, each American family spends some $1,600 each year on uneaten eats. “Imagine walking out of a grocery store, leaving one bag in the parking lot, and driving home—that’s essentially what you’re doing,” says Zia Khan, vice president of initiatives and strategy at the Rockefeller Foundation.Researchers and advocates know that the general scope of wasted food is unsustainable: It has environmental ripples across the supply chain, slurping up valuable water and then emitting greenhouse gases as it clogs landfills. But the nitty-gritty details are harder to come by. In order to help implement policy interventions, researchers and organizations needed to know exactly what was rotting away. One way to do that is to grab the trashed items before they end up in a heap.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容You Have the Right to Be WrongBy Steve Pavlina“You have the right to be wrong” was a common expression of an old high school history teacher of mine. Some students hated this teacher because they thought he was lazy and a bit sadistic. He never lectured, nor did he ever seem to have a lesson plan prepared. He’d just sit back in his chair, sometimes putting his feet up on his desk, and then he’d ask probing questions and insult whoever attempted to answer them (usually for their lack of individual thought).For homework he’d assign us lots of dry reading material, and then we’d have to write very brief papers on complex subjects, like a two-page, double-spaced paper about the causes of the Civil War. Believe me — this is a lot harder than writing a 5-10 page paper on the subject because you have to choose your words very carefully. Otherwise you’ll run out of space before you make a dent in the topic. Two pages was the maximum you’d be allowed to write. If you wrote 2.1 pages, you’d fail the assignment. “Verbal flabbiness” wasn’t allowed.Despite his lack of popularity, this teacher had the stated goal of teaching students to think for themselves instead of merely regurgitating information we learned elsewhere. This is tough to do with 17-year olds, especially with a subject like U.S. history.I thought the expression, “you have the right to be wrong,” while usually meant as a joke in this class, was good advice. It’s not in the Bill of Rights, but perhaps it can be considered a basic human right. You have the right to be wrong. You have the right to make mistakes. You have the right to fail.Many people don’t see the value in exercising this right, however. I think this is also a major component in the fear of public speaking. What if you take a stand on something, and you’re shot down, proven utterly wrong?What’s so terrible about being wrong? If you’re never wrong, to me that indicates you aren’t growing. I hope that five years from now, I’ll look back on some of my blog posts from this year and disagree with myself. Otherwise it would mean that either I haven’t grown or that I was too timid in expressing myself.Don’t be afraid to take stabs at the edges of your certainty. That’s one of the best ways to learn. Let others react to your ideas. Sometimes they’ll help provide new facts that can allow you to refine your ideas. Other times they’ll merely react emotionally which can help you become more resilient in weathering other people’s emotions. Don’t be afraid to put forth your ideas in a conversation, a speech, an article, a blog entry, a forum post — any communication where you can get feedback from others.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

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点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容Why You Should Stop Caring What Other People ThinkBy Tim UrbanThe first day I was in second grade, I came to school and noticed that there was a new, very pretty girl in the class—someone who hadn’t been there the previous two years. Her name was Alana and within an hour, she was everything to me.When you’re seven, there aren’t really any actionable steps you can take when you’re in love with someone. You’re not even sure what you want from the situation. There’s just this amorphous yearning that’s a part of your life, and that’s that.But for me, it became suddenly relevant a few months later, when during recess one day, one of the girls in the class started asking each of the boys, “Who do youuu want to marry?” When she asked me, it was a no-brainer. “Alana.”Disaster.I was still new to being a human and didn’t realize that the only socially acceptable answer was, “No one.”The second I answered, the heinous girl ran toward other students, telling each one, “Tim said he wants to marry Alana!” Each person she told covered their mouth with uncontrollable laughter. I was finished. Life was over.The news quickly got back to Alana herself, who stayed as far away from me as possible for days after. If she knew what a restraining order was, she’d have taken one out.This horrifying experience taught me a critical life lesson—it can be mortally dangerous to be yourself, and you should exercise extreme social caution at all times.Now this sounds like something only a traumatized second grader would think, but the weird thing, and the topic of this post, is that this lesson isn’t just limited to me and my debacle of a childhood—it’s a defining paranoia of the human species. We share a collective insanity that pervades human cultures throughout the world:968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容Everything is my faultBy Derek SiversI hardly ever get mad, but I spent a few years being really mad at my ex-employees.They corrupted the culture of the company. They tried to stage a mutiny. They focused on their benefits instead of our clients.They this. They that. Do you hear the pattern?When someone upsets you, it's human nature to feel it's entirely their fault.But one day I started thinking maybe it was all my fault.I created the environment that let the rotten apples spoil the barrel.I ignored problems instead of nipping them in the bud.I was aloof and away instead of managing or training managers.(I could list many more examples, but you get the idea.)It felt so good to decide it was all my fault!This is way better than forgiving. When you forgive, you’re still assuming they’re wrong and you're the victim. You’re just charitably pardoning their horrible deeds.But to decide it’s your fault feels amazing! Now you weren’t wronged. They were just playing their part in the situation you created. They’re just delivering the punch-line to the joke you set up.What power! Now you’re like a new super-hero, just discovering your strength. Now you’re the powerful person that made things happen, made a mistake, and can learn from it. Now you’re in control and there’s nothing to complain about.This philosophy feels so good that I’ve playfully decided to apply this “EVERYTHING IS MY FAULT” rule to the rest of my life.It’s one of those base rules like “people mean well” that’s more fun to believe, and have a few exceptions, than to not believe at all.The guy that stole $9000 from me? My fault. I should have verified his claims.The love of my life that suddenly dumped me after six years? My fault. I let our relationship plateau.Don’t like my government? My fault. I could get involved and change it.See what power it is?Yes, the word “responsibility” is more accurate, but to me that's such a somber serious word, whereas “everything’s my fault” is a fun rule-of-thumb.Try it on.Think of every bad thing that happened to you, and imagine you happened to it.Cool, huh?That power looks good on you.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容This MomentBy Leo BabautaWe all suffer, every day: worry, procrastination, anxiety, feeling overwhelmed, irritated, angry, frustrated, wishing things were different, comparing ourselves to others, worried we’re missing out, wishing other people would be different, feeling offended, loneliness, fear of failure, not wanting to do something, wishing we had less fat or bigger boobs or bigger muscles, angry at being controlled, wanting to find the perfect someone, wishing our partner was more perfect, stressed about finances, not wanting to think about problems, not knowing how to fix things, uncertain about choices, rushing from one task to the next, not liking our jobs.And yet, these problems are self-created.They’re real, but our tricky minds have created them. The problems are in our heads, created by some ideal/fantasy/expectation of how we wished the world would be, or hope it will be but fear it won’t be. It exists in our heads.Try this, for a minute: let all of that go for a moment, and just pay attention to the physical things around you right now. Your body, the light, sounds, the thing you’re sitting on, the things moving or sitting still around you. Don’t judge them against what they should be, but just observe what they actually are.See this moment as it is, without all the things you’re worried/frustrated/angry about. Let go of all of those things, and just see this moment.It is perfect, as it is.Accept this moment. Cherish it. This is real, and it is wonderful.You can go back to worrying about everything else in a moment.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容This MomentBy Leo BabautaWe all suffer, every day: worry, procrastination, anxiety, feeling overwhelmed, irritated, angry, frustrated, wishing things were different, comparing ourselves to others, worried we’re missing out, wishing other people would be different, feeling offended, loneliness, fear of failure, not wanting to do something, wishing we had less fat or bigger boobs or bigger muscles, angry at being controlled, wanting to find the perfect someone, wishing our partner was more perfect, stressed about finances, not wanting to think about problems, not knowing how to fix things, uncertain about choices, rushing from one task to the next, not liking our jobs.And yet, these problems are self-created.They’re real, but our tricky minds have created them. The problems are in our heads, created by some ideal/fantasy/expectation of how we wished the world would be, or hope it will be but fear it won’t be. It exists in our heads.Try this, for a minute: let all of that go for a moment, and just pay attention to the physical things around you right now. Your body, the light, sounds, the thing you’re sitting on, the things moving or sitting still around you. Don’t judge them against what they should be, but just observe what they actually are.See this moment as it is, without all the things you’re worried/frustrated/angry about. Let go of all of those things, and just see this moment.It is perfect, as it is.Accept this moment. Cherish it. This is real, and it is wonderful.You can go back to worrying about everything else in a moment.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容Why You Should Stop Caring What Other People ThinkBy Tim UrbanThe first day I was in second grade, I came to school and noticed that there was a new, very pretty girl in the class—someone who hadn’t been there the previous two years. Her name was Alana and within an hour, she was everything to me.When you’re seven, there aren’t really any actionable steps you can take when you’re in love with someone. You’re not even sure what you want from the situation. There’s just this amorphous yearning that’s a part of your life, and that’s that.But for me, it became suddenly relevant a few months later, when during recess one day, one of the girls in the class started asking each of the boys, “Who do youuu want to marry?” When she asked me, it was a no-brainer. “Alana.”Disaster.I was still new to being a human and didn’t realize that the only socially acceptable answer was, “No one.”The second I answered, the heinous girl ran toward other students, telling each one, “Tim said he wants to marry Alana!” Each person she told covered their mouth with uncontrollable laughter. I was finished. Life was over.The news quickly got back to Alana herself, who stayed as far away from me as possible for days after. If she knew what a restraining order was, she’d have taken one out.This horrifying experience taught me a critical life lesson—it can be mortally dangerous to be yourself, and you should exercise extreme social caution at all times.Now this sounds like something only a traumatized second grader would think, but the weird thing, and the topic of this post, is that this lesson isn’t just limited to me and my debacle of a childhood—it’s a defining paranoia of the human species. We share a collective insanity that pervades human cultures throughout the world:968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容Everything is my faultBy Derek SiversI hardly ever get mad, but I spent a few years being really mad at my ex-employees.They corrupted the culture of the company. They tried to stage a mutiny. They focused on their benefits instead of our clients.They this. They that. Do you hear the pattern?When someone upsets you, it's human nature to feel it's entirely their fault.But one day I started thinking maybe it was all my fault.I created the environment that let the rotten apples spoil the barrel.I ignored problems instead of nipping them in the bud.I was aloof and away instead of managing or training managers.(I could list many more examples, but you get the idea.)It felt so good to decide it was all my fault!This is way better than forgiving. When you forgive, you’re still assuming they’re wrong and you're the victim. You’re just charitably pardoning their horrible deeds.But to decide it’s your fault feels amazing! Now you weren’t wronged. They were just playing their part in the situation you created. They’re just delivering the punch-line to the joke you set up.What power! Now you’re like a new super-hero, just discovering your strength. Now you’re the powerful person that made things happen, made a mistake, and can learn from it. Now you’re in control and there’s nothing to complain about.This philosophy feels so good that I’ve playfully decided to apply this “EVERYTHING IS MY FAULT” rule to the rest of my life.It’s one of those base rules like “people mean well” that’s more fun to believe, and have a few exceptions, than to not believe at all.The guy that stole $9000 from me? My fault. I should have verified his claims.The love of my life that suddenly dumped me after six years? My fault. I let our relationship plateau.Don’t like my government? My fault. I could get involved and change it.See what power it is?Yes, the word “responsibility” is more accurate, but to me that's such a somber serious word, whereas “everything’s my fault” is a fun rule-of-thumb.Try it on.Think of every bad thing that happened to you, and imagine you happened to it.Cool, huh?That power looks good on you.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容The Difference Between Rationality and IntelligenceBy David Z. Hambrick and Alexander P. BurgoyneAre you intelligent — or rational? The question may sound redundant, but in recent years researchers have demonstrated just how distinct those two cognitive attributes actually are.It all started in the early 1970s, when the psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky conducted an influential series of experiments showing that all of us, even highly intelligent people, are prone to irrationality. Across a wide range of scenarios, the experiments revealed, people tend to make decisions based on intuition rather than reason.In one study, Professors Kahneman and Tversky had people read the following personality sketch for a woman named Linda: “Linda is 31 years old, single, outspoken and very bright. She majored in philosophy. As a student, she was deeply concerned with issues of discrimination and social justice, and also participated in antinuclear demonstrations.” Then they asked the subjects which was more probable: (A) Linda is a bank teller or (B) Linda is a bank teller and is active in the feminist movement. Eighty-five percent of the subjects chose B, even though logically speaking, A is more probable. (All feminist bank tellers are bank tellers, though some bank tellers may not be feminists.)In the Linda problem, we fall prey to the conjunction fallacy — the belief that the co-occurrence of two events is more likely than the occurrence of one of the events. In other cases, we ignore information about the prevalence of events when judging their likelihood. We fail to consider alternative explanations. We evaluate evidence in a manner consistent with our prior beliefs. And so on. Humans, it seems, are fundamentally irrational.But starting in the late 1990s, researchers began to add a significant wrinkle to that view. As the psychologist Keith Stanovich and others observed, even the Kahneman and Tversky data show that some people are highly rational. In other words, there are individual differences in rationality, even if we all face cognitive challenges in being rational. So who are these more rational people? Presumably, the more intelligent people, right?Wrong.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容The Difference Between Rationality and IntelligenceBy David Z. Hambrick and Alexander P. BurgoyneAre you intelligent — or rational? The question may sound redundant, but in recent years researchers have demonstrated just how distinct those two cognitive attributes actually are.It all started in the early 1970s, when the psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky conducted an influential series of experiments showing that all of us, even highly intelligent people, are prone to irrationality. Across a wide range of scenarios, the experiments revealed, people tend to make decisions based on intuition rather than reason.In one study, Professors Kahneman and Tversky had people read the following personality sketch for a woman named Linda: “Linda is 31 years old, single, outspoken and very bright. She majored in philosophy. As a student, she was deeply concerned with issues of discrimination and social justice, and also participated in antinuclear demonstrations.” Then they asked the subjects which was more probable: (A) Linda is a bank teller or (B) Linda is a bank teller and is active in the feminist movement. Eighty-five percent of the subjects chose B, even though logically speaking, A is more probable. (All feminist bank tellers are bank tellers, though some bank tellers may not be feminists.)In the Linda problem, we fall prey to the conjunction fallacy — the belief that the co-occurrence of two events is more likely than the occurrence of one of the events. In other cases, we ignore information about the prevalence of events when judging their likelihood. We fail to consider alternative explanations. We evaluate evidence in a manner consistent with our prior beliefs. And so on. Humans, it seems, are fundamentally irrational.But starting in the late 1990s, researchers began to add a significant wrinkle to that view. As the psychologist Keith Stanovich and others observed, even the Kahneman and Tversky data show that some people are highly rational. In other words, there are individual differences in rationality, even if we all face cognitive challenges in being rational. So who are these more rational people? Presumably, the more intelligent people, right?Wrong.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

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点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容No, you’re not entitled to your opinionBy Patrick StokesSenior Lecturer in Philosophy, Deakin UniversityEvery year, I try to do at least two things with my students at least once. First, I make a point of addressing them as “philosophers” – a bit cheesy, but hopefully it encourages active learning.Secondly, I say something like this: “I’m sure you’ve heard the expression ‘everyone is entitled to their opinion.’ Perhaps you’ve even said it yourself, maybe to head off an argument or bring one to a close. Well, as soon as you walk into this room, it’s no longer true. You are not entitled to your opinion. You are only entitled to what you can argue for.”A bit harsh? Perhaps, but philosophy teachers owe it to our students to teach them how to construct and defend an argument – and to recognize when a belief has become indefensible.The problem with “I’m entitled to my opinion” is that, all too often, it’s used to shelter beliefs that should have been abandoned. It becomes shorthand for “I can say or think whatever I like” – and by extension, continuing to argue is somehow disrespectful. And this attitude feeds, I suggest, into the false equivalence between experts and non-experts that is an increasingly pernicious feature of our public discourse.Firstly, what’s an opinion?Plato distinguished between opinion or common belief (doxa) and certain knowledge, and that’s still a workable distinction today: unlike “1+1=2” or “there are no square circles,” an opinion has a degree of subjectivity and uncertainty to it. But “opinion” ranges from tastes or preferences, through views about questions that concern most people such as prudence or politics, to views grounded in technical expertise, such as legal or scientific opinions.You can’t really argue about the first kind of opinion. I’d be silly to insist that you’re wrong to think strawberry ice cream is better than chocolate. The problem is that sometimes we implicitly seem to take opinions of the second and even the third sort to be unarguable in the way questions of taste are. Perhaps that’s one reason (no doubt there are others) why enthusiastic amateurs think they’re entitled to disagree with climate scientists and immunologists and have their views “respected.”968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容Go HuntingBy Steve PavlinaI think the best way for us to make sure our diets are in line with our morals is to stay connected with the end-to-end processes that we support through our food choices.For example, if you’re a meat eater, then I would strongly recommend that you go hunting once in a while and eat what you kill. I think it’s important to have that experience, so you can fully appreciate your choices. If you can’t personally kill an animal and prepare it for consumption, that would signal a major internal incongruency, so perhaps it would be wise to reevaluate your food choices.I wouldn’t say you need to do this every time you eat meat, but do it at least once a year to stay connected to the process from killing to consuming. For someone who only eats fish, then going fishing would suffice.…I see inner congruency as a matter of degree more than essence. Improving the congruency between our values and our decisions is a lifelong process. It’s not about achieving perfection. As soon as you complete one step, you may think you’ve achieved some new level of moral godhood for a while, but shortly thereafter the next steps will present themselves.I think about 9 billion farm animals are slaughtered for food each year in the USA. I wonder how many of those deaths would occur if the end consumers had to do the killing personally. I think we can all agree that it would be a lot less than 9 billion killings.If you eat meat but you’ve never personally and deliberately killed and eaten an animal, and you resist even making the attempt, does that make you a chicken? Yeah, I think it does. After all, if your values support eating meat, then surely they must support the most basic process that makes it possible to eat meat: to deliberately kill an animal and eat its flesh.There are lots of ways to extend the ideas in this article of course. Food choices are just one application. The overall point is that if you can’t bring yourself to participate in the processes you’re supporting right now through your choices, then do you really respect those processes?And if you continue to partake in processes you don’t respect, then do you really respect the choices you’re making?And if you continue to make choices you don’t respect, then do you really respect yourself?When you take steps to increase the congruency between your values and your choices, your self-respect increases. And with greater self-respect, you’re less likely to allow yourself to be trapped in abusive situations, and you’re more likely to maintain high standards for your life, both personally and professionally.If your values and your choices are out of sync, it means you don’t value yourself.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容Go HuntingBy Steve PavlinaI think the best way for us to make sure our diets are in line with our morals is to stay connected with the end-to-end processes that we support through our food choices.For example, if you’re a meat eater, then I would strongly recommend that you go hunting once in a while and eat what you kill. I think it’s important to have that experience, so you can fully appreciate your choices. If you can’t personally kill an animal and prepare it for consumption, that would signal a major internal incongruency, so perhaps it would be wise to reevaluate your food choices.I wouldn’t say you need to do this every time you eat meat, but do it at least once a year to stay connected to the process from killing to consuming. For someone who only eats fish, then going fishing would suffice.…I see inner congruency as a matter of degree more than essence. Improving the congruency between our values and our decisions is a lifelong process. It’s not about achieving perfection. As soon as you complete one step, you may think you’ve achieved some new level of moral godhood for a while, but shortly thereafter the next steps will present themselves.I think about 9 billion farm animals are slaughtered for food each year in the USA. I wonder how many of those deaths would occur if the end consumers had to do the killing personally. I think we can all agree that it would be a lot less than 9 billion killings.If you eat meat but you’ve never personally and deliberately killed and eaten an animal, and you resist even making the attempt, does that make you a chicken? Yeah, I think it does. After all, if your values support eating meat, then surely they must support the most basic process that makes it possible to eat meat: to deliberately kill an animal and eat its flesh.There are lots of ways to extend the ideas in this article of course. Food choices are just one application. The overall point is that if you can’t bring yourself to participate in the processes you’re supporting right now through your choices, then do you really respect those processes?And if you continue to partake in processes you don’t respect, then do you really respect the choices you’re making?And if you continue to make choices you don’t respect, then do you really respect yourself?When you take steps to increase the congruency between your values and your choices, your self-respect increases. And with greater self-respect, you’re less likely to allow yourself to be trapped in abusive situations, and you’re more likely to maintain high standards for your life, both personally and professionally.If your values and your choices are out of sync, it means you don’t value yourself.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容No, you’re not entitled to your opinionBy Patrick StokesSenior Lecturer in Philosophy, Deakin UniversityEvery year, I try to do at least two things with my students at least once. First, I make a point of addressing them as “philosophers” – a bit cheesy, but hopefully it encourages active learning.Secondly, I say something like this: “I’m sure you’ve heard the expression ‘everyone is entitled to their opinion.’ Perhaps you’ve even said it yourself, maybe to head off an argument or bring one to a close. Well, as soon as you walk into this room, it’s no longer true. You are not entitled to your opinion. You are only entitled to what you can argue for.”A bit harsh? Perhaps, but philosophy teachers owe it to our students to teach them how to construct and defend an argument – and to recognize when a belief has become indefensible.The problem with “I’m entitled to my opinion” is that, all too often, it’s used to shelter beliefs that should have been abandoned. It becomes shorthand for “I can say or think whatever I like” – and by extension, continuing to argue is somehow disrespectful. And this attitude feeds, I suggest, into the false equivalence between experts and non-experts that is an increasingly pernicious feature of our public discourse.Firstly, what’s an opinion?Plato distinguished between opinion or common belief (doxa) and certain knowledge, and that’s still a workable distinction today: unlike “1+1=2” or “there are no square circles,” an opinion has a degree of subjectivity and uncertainty to it. But “opinion” ranges from tastes or preferences, through views about questions that concern most people such as prudence or politics, to views grounded in technical expertise, such as legal or scientific opinions.You can’t really argue about the first kind of opinion. I’d be silly to insist that you’re wrong to think strawberry ice cream is better than chocolate. The problem is that sometimes we implicitly seem to take opinions of the second and even the third sort to be unarguable in the way questions of taste are. Perhaps that’s one reason (no doubt there are others) why enthusiastic amateurs think they’re entitled to disagree with climate scientists and immunologists and have their views “respected.”968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容Letting Go of DistractionsBy Leo BabautaToday I deleted several apps from my phone: Twitter, Reddit, Feedly, Snapchat, the N.Y. Times app, and more.I’m letting go of distractions, or at least learning to....Why? Because distractions are a crutch, a mental habit, a refuge for the mind.We procrastinate through distractions, of course, but we also use them to hide.Distractions help us hide from:• Boredom• Difficult emotions• Being present• Things about ourselves we don’t like• Other people• Discomfort and fear• Resentment• Our mental patterns• The fear of not being busy• Our worry that we aren’t content, that we aren’t enoughYou might be thinking, “Well, what’s wrong with having a place to rest from all of that? Who wants to face those horrible things?” I’ve found that hiding from these difficulties doesn’t make them go away, nor does it help the problem. The only thing that has helped me is to face difficulties with openness, courage, curiosity, and honesty. Giving a difficulty our loving attention actually helps the situation.So hiding isn’t what I want to do anymore. I’m being honest with myself and admitting that I’ve been using distractions to run, to hide. I have the intention of not hiding, but facing.You might be thinking, “What’s wrong with a little distraction, a little mental break?” I don’t think there’s anything wrong with letting our minds rest — I’m not trying to be productive all the time. I want to just notice why I’m trying to run to distractions, and get in touch with those fears instead. I plan to rest, to exercise, to get outside, to meditate, to be present — not to work all the time. Rest is important, but distractions aren’t the only way we can rest. Distractions aren’t the only way to have fun. Distractions are a crutch, if we’re honest with ourselves.I have no prescription for life here, nor am I judging others for their distraction habits — obviously I have my own to deal with, and I’m not in a position to judge. I thought only that I’d share my current intention and practice with the people I love. And let you know that I’m doing it with love.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容Letting Go of DistractionsBy Leo BabautaToday I deleted several apps from my phone: Twitter, Reddit, Feedly, Snapchat, the N.Y. Times app, and more.I’m letting go of distractions, or at least learning to....Why? Because distractions are a crutch, a mental habit, a refuge for the mind.We procrastinate through distractions, of course, but we also use them to hide.Distractions help us hide from:• Boredom• Difficult emotions• Being present• Things about ourselves we don’t like• Other people• Discomfort and fear• Resentment• Our mental patterns• The fear of not being busy• Our worry that we aren’t content, that we aren’t enoughYou might be thinking, “Well, what’s wrong with having a place to rest from all of that? Who wants to face those horrible things?” I’ve found that hiding from these difficulties doesn’t make them go away, nor does it help the problem. The only thing that has helped me is to face difficulties with openness, courage, curiosity, and honesty. Giving a difficulty our loving attention actually helps the situation.So hiding isn’t what I want to do anymore. I’m being honest with myself and admitting that I’ve been using distractions to run, to hide. I have the intention of not hiding, but facing.You might be thinking, “What’s wrong with a little distraction, a little mental break?” I don’t think there’s anything wrong with letting our minds rest — I’m not trying to be productive all the time. I want to just notice why I’m trying to run to distractions, and get in touch with those fears instead. I plan to rest, to exercise, to get outside, to meditate, to be present — not to work all the time. Rest is important, but distractions aren’t the only way we can rest. Distractions aren’t the only way to have fun. Distractions are a crutch, if we’re honest with ourselves.I have no prescription for life here, nor am I judging others for their distraction habits — obviously I have my own to deal with, and I’m not in a position to judge. I thought only that I’d share my current intention and practice with the people I love. And let you know that I’m doing it with love.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容Designing a Well-Lived LifeBy Leo Babauta Where I live, the weather has grown colder, and the trees are becoming barren — what I consider the perfect time for reflection and contemplation.It’s the perfect time of the year to reflect on what a well-lived life might be for you. And then start designing that life, mapping out some actions you might take to create it.What does a well-lived life mean to you? Is it necessary to shoot for some grand life purpose in order to live life well? Is living a well-lived life about maximizing pleasures and luxuries?Or can we live well and find contentment no matter what we’re doing?I’m a fan of going whole-heartedly after a life mission myself, but I don’t think everyone needs one. You can find contentment working in your garden, reading a good novel, being with your kids, having a meal with friends. You can find contentment doing the work you already do.I’m a fan of exploring the world, but you don’t need to travel or rack up incredible life experiences in order to live well. You can explore the world right where you are, going deeper instead of wider, learning and connecting to others and finding meaning in whatever you do.For me, a well-lived life might mean that we work towards:Creating mindfulness in your life, and learning to be more presentFinding compassion for yourself, and learning to love yourself moreCreating deeper connections to other peopleConnecting your daily actions to meaningCreating wellnessBut as we work towards these, we can find beauty and joy right now, in who we are, in what we’re doing. There isn’t a magical destination in the future where things are better. It’s always pretty much as good as it is right now — if we don’t like this moment, it’s because we’re selectively seeing the parts we don’t like. Instead, we can learn to appreciate everything (even the parts we don’t like) and find the wonder in each moment.I encourage you to spend some time this week thinking about what a well-lived life means for you — perhaps go for a walk, even in the cold, and contemplate what that might look like. The cold, I’ve found, is something we shrink from … but I now see it as a gift, reminding us we’re alive, helping us to eliminate frivolities and figure out what’s essential. When it’s cold, you are brought back to the present, and you have to focus. At least, that’s what I’ve been finding.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容Designing a Well-Lived LifeBy Leo Babauta Where I live, the weather has grown colder, and the trees are becoming barren — what I consider the perfect time for reflection and contemplation.It’s the perfect time of the year to reflect on what a well-lived life might be for you. And then start designing that life, mapping out some actions you might take to create it.What does a well-lived life mean to you? Is it necessary to shoot for some grand life purpose in order to live life well? Is living a well-lived life about maximizing pleasures and luxuries?Or can we live well and find contentment no matter what we’re doing?I’m a fan of going whole-heartedly after a life mission myself, but I don’t think everyone needs one. You can find contentment working in your garden, reading a good novel, being with your kids, having a meal with friends. You can find contentment doing the work you already do.I’m a fan of exploring the world, but you don’t need to travel or rack up incredible life experiences in order to live well. You can explore the world right where you are, going deeper instead of wider, learning and connecting to others and finding meaning in whatever you do.For me, a well-lived life might mean that we work towards:Creating mindfulness in your life, and learning to be more presentFinding compassion for yourself, and learning to love yourself moreCreating deeper connections to other peopleConnecting your daily actions to meaningCreating wellnessBut as we work towards these, we can find beauty and joy right now, in who we are, in what we’re doing. There isn’t a magical destination in the future where things are better. It’s always pretty much as good as it is right now — if we don’t like this moment, it’s because we’re selectively seeing the parts we don’t like. Instead, we can learn to appreciate everything (even the parts we don’t like) and find the wonder in each moment.I encourage you to spend some time this week thinking about what a well-lived life means for you — perhaps go for a walk, even in the cold, and contemplate what that might look like. The cold, I’ve found, is something we shrink from … but I now see it as a gift, reminding us we’re alive, helping us to eliminate frivolities and figure out what’s essential. When it’s cold, you are brought back to the present, and you have to focus. At least, that’s what I’ve been finding.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容What are the implications of believing it’s impossible to alter other people’s beliefs?By Alex FraderaWhat makes us stand up and advocate for what we believe? Whether denouncing the tyranny of taxation or making a plea for the necessity of universal health care, we’re surely driven by our conviction and the urgency of the situation. But how about what we believe about belief itself, whether it is fixed or malleable? Work in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology untangles the previously invisible effect of our belief in human certainty.This is a tricky topic to study. People who believe attitudes are set in stone are more likely be more motivated to stand up for their own, thanks to a heightened certainty and faith in their own position. But at the same time, believing attitudes are fixed means the views of your adversaries will be hard to shift, making it less worthwhile to try to change them. In other words, if there’s an effect of people’s beliefs about human certainty on their willingness to advocate (to attempt to persuade others), it’s likely to play out in opposing directions, making it difficult to uncover.Undaunted, Omair Akhtar, who works for Apple, and S. Christian Wheeler of Stanford University recruited 82 participants from Amazon Mechanical Turk and asked half to read a scientific article that reported that attitudes are fixed, and the others to read a different version that stated they are easily changeable. Next, the researchers surveyed the participants’ opinions about the death penalty.Those in the “attitudes are fixed” condition expressed both more certainty in their own attitude (whether pro or anti), and a stronger sense that others were unlikely to be persuadable. But they were no more or less likely to say they would try to persuade someone else about the death penalty – an apparently null effect on willingness to advocate, just as we suspected might happen.This might seem to imply that our beliefs about human certainty are irrelevant to our willingness to advocate. But that’s not the case. Akhtar and Wheeler were able to penetrate the fog using powerful advances in statistical analysis, showing that believing in the fixed nature of attitudes both tips us toward convincing others, thanks to increasing the certainty of our own attitudes, and also deters us from trying to convince them, thanks to increasing our belief in the non-persuadability of others. The two contrasting effects, normally invisible, were now apparent.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容What are the implications of believing it’s impossible to alter other people’s beliefs?By Alex FraderaWhat makes us stand up and advocate for what we believe? Whether denouncing the tyranny of taxation or making a plea for the necessity of universal health care, we’re surely driven by our conviction and the urgency of the situation. But how about what we believe about belief itself, whether it is fixed or malleable? Work in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology untangles the previously invisible effect of our belief in human certainty.This is a tricky topic to study. People who believe attitudes are set in stone are more likely be more motivated to stand up for their own, thanks to a heightened certainty and faith in their own position. But at the same time, believing attitudes are fixed means the views of your adversaries will be hard to shift, making it less worthwhile to try to change them. In other words, if there’s an effect of people’s beliefs about human certainty on their willingness to advocate (to attempt to persuade others), it’s likely to play out in opposing directions, making it difficult to uncover.Undaunted, Omair Akhtar, who works for Apple, and S. Christian Wheeler of Stanford University recruited 82 participants from Amazon Mechanical Turk and asked half to read a scientific article that reported that attitudes are fixed, and the others to read a different version that stated they are easily changeable. Next, the researchers surveyed the participants’ opinions about the death penalty.Those in the “attitudes are fixed” condition expressed both more certainty in their own attitude (whether pro or anti), and a stronger sense that others were unlikely to be persuadable. But they were no more or less likely to say they would try to persuade someone else about the death penalty – an apparently null effect on willingness to advocate, just as we suspected might happen.This might seem to imply that our beliefs about human certainty are irrelevant to our willingness to advocate. But that’s not the case. Akhtar and Wheeler were able to penetrate the fog using powerful advances in statistical analysis, showing that believing in the fixed nature of attitudes both tips us toward convincing others, thanks to increasing the certainty of our own attitudes, and also deters us from trying to convince them, thanks to increasing our belief in the non-persuadability of others. The two contrasting effects, normally invisible, were now apparent.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容The Subtle Way Most People Self-Sabotage – And How to Prevent ItBy Neil StraussThere’s a secret to the success I’ve had. And it is something I haven’t shared and haven’t seen anyone else directly discuss.Yet I’ve seen many, many people sabotage themselves in big and small ways by not doing this. It’s so simple, yet so hard for most people to do.The secret: Taking recommendations and advice immediately and correctly.I’m so passionate about this. It has led to not just to every book I’ve ever written, but to all of the greatest experiences and growth in my life.It is the reason why, when I start off learning a new skill, I’m usually the worst at it in the room, but tend to progress quickly to an advanced level.It is also the reason why I’ve been able to have great mentors: They see results.My obsession with taking advice ranges from small recommendations like books and restaurants to big recommendations around changing beliefs and behaviors.Most people think they take recommendations, but this isn’t true. They take advice only when hearing things they already agree with or that make sense to them or that don’t require any major changes–and that’s only if they remember the actual suggestions.Here’s the problem with that way of operating: If you are seeking advice, then clearly there is something you need help with in your life.And if you’re only acting on what “makes sense” or “is easy” or “sounds right” to you, then you’re not actually going to get out of the hole you’re in. You’ve been doing what “makes sense” all along on some level.I’ve found this to be especially true when it comes to human behavior: What “makes sense” and “is logical” is not always what’s actually effective.Or, on a personal level, to paraphrase The Truth: We’re too close to ourselves to see clearly enough to get out of our own way.It is the ideas that don’t make sense, the ideas that you resist, the ideas that seem stupid, the ideas that you mentally write-off, and especially the ideas that you form logical arguments against that will lead to your biggest breakthroughs.As the saying goes: What got you here won’t get you there.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容The Subtle Way Most People Self-Sabotage – And How to Prevent ItBy Neil StraussThere’s a secret to the success I’ve had. And it is something I haven’t shared and haven’t seen anyone else directly discuss.Yet I’ve seen many, many people sabotage themselves in big and small ways by not doing this. It’s so simple, yet so hard for most people to do.The secret: Taking recommendations and advice immediately and correctly.I’m so passionate about this. It has led to not just to every book I’ve ever written, but to all of the greatest experiences and growth in my life.It is the reason why, when I start off learning a new skill, I’m usually the worst at it in the room, but tend to progress quickly to an advanced level.It is also the reason why I’ve been able to have great mentors: They see results.My obsession with taking advice ranges from small recommendations like books and restaurants to big recommendations around changing beliefs and behaviors.Most people think they take recommendations, but this isn’t true. They take advice only when hearing things they already agree with or that make sense to them or that don’t require any major changes–and that’s only if they remember the actual suggestions.Here’s the problem with that way of operating: If you are seeking advice, then clearly there is something you need help with in your life.And if you’re only acting on what “makes sense” or “is easy” or “sounds right” to you, then you’re not actually going to get out of the hole you’re in. You’ve been doing what “makes sense” all along on some level.I’ve found this to be especially true when it comes to human behavior: What “makes sense” and “is logical” is not always what’s actually effective.Or, on a personal level, to paraphrase The Truth: We’re too close to ourselves to see clearly enough to get out of our own way.It is the ideas that don’t make sense, the ideas that you resist, the ideas that seem stupid, the ideas that you mentally write-off, and especially the ideas that you form logical arguments against that will lead to your biggest breakthroughs.As the saying goes: What got you here won’t get you there.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容Startup = GrowthBy Paul GrahamA startup is a company designed to grow fast. Being newly founded does not in itself make a company a startup. Nor is it necessary for a startup to work on technology, or take venture funding, or have some sort of "exit." The only essential thing is growth. Everything else we associate with startups follows from growth.If you want to start one it's important to understand that. Startups are so hard that you can't be pointed off to the side and hope to succeed. You have to know that growth is what you're after. The good news is, if you get growth, everything else tends to fall into place. Which means you can use growth like a compass to make almost every decision you face.Let's start with a distinction that should be obvious but is often overlooked: not every newly founded company is a startup. Millions of companies are started every year in the US. Only a tiny fraction are startups. Most are service businesses—restaurants, barbershops, plumbers, and so on. These are not startups, except in a few unusual cases. A barbershop isn't designed to grow fast. Whereas a search engine, for example, is.When I say startups are designed to grow fast, I mean it in two senses. Partly I mean designed in the sense of intended, because most startups fail. But I also mean startups are different by nature, in the same way a redwood seedling has a different destiny from a bean sprout.That difference is why there's a distinct word, "startup," for companies designed to grow fast. If all companies were essentially similar, but some through luck or the efforts of their founders ended up growing very fast, we wouldn't need a separate word. We could just talk about super-successful companies and less successful ones. But in fact startups do have a different sort of DNA from other businesses. Google is not just a barbershop whose founders were unusually lucky and hard-working. Google was different from the beginning.To grow rapidly, you need to make something you can sell to a big market. That's the difference between Google and a barbershop. A barbershop doesn't scale.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容Startup = GrowthBy Paul GrahamA startup is a company designed to grow fast. Being newly founded does not in itself make a company a startup. Nor is it necessary for a startup to work on technology, or take venture funding, or have some sort of "exit." The only essential thing is growth. Everything else we associate with startups follows from growth.If you want to start one it's important to understand that. Startups are so hard that you can't be pointed off to the side and hope to succeed. You have to know that growth is what you're after. The good news is, if you get growth, everything else tends to fall into place. Which means you can use growth like a compass to make almost every decision you face.Let's start with a distinction that should be obvious but is often overlooked: not every newly founded company is a startup. Millions of companies are started every year in the US. Only a tiny fraction are startups. Most are service businesses—restaurants, barbershops, plumbers, and so on. These are not startups, except in a few unusual cases. A barbershop isn't designed to grow fast. Whereas a search engine, for example, is.When I say startups are designed to grow fast, I mean it in two senses. Partly I mean designed in the sense of intended, because most startups fail. But I also mean startups are different by nature, in the same way a redwood seedling has a different destiny from a bean sprout.That difference is why there's a distinct word, "startup," for companies designed to grow fast. If all companies were essentially similar, but some through luck or the efforts of their founders ended up growing very fast, we wouldn't need a separate word. We could just talk about super-successful companies and less successful ones. But in fact startups do have a different sort of DNA from other businesses. Google is not just a barbershop whose founders were unusually lucky and hard-working. Google was different from the beginning.To grow rapidly, you need to make something you can sell to a big market. That's the difference between Google and a barbershop. A barbershop doesn't scale.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目 可以看到具体文稿内容 A Father's PrayerBy Douglas MacArthurBuild me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid; one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in vic­tory.Build me a son whose wishes will not take the place of deeds; a son who will know Thee—and that to know himself is the foundation stone of knowledge.Lead him, I pray, not in the path of ease and comfort, but under the stress and spur of difficulties and challenge. Here let him learn to stand up in the storm; here let him learn compassion for those who fail.Build me a son whose heart will be clear, whose goal will be high, a son who will master himself before he seeks to mas­ter other men, one who will reach into the future, yet never forget the past.And after all these things are his, add, I pray, enough of a sense of humor, so that he may always be serious, yet nev­er take himself too seriously. Give him humility, so that he may always remember the sim­plicity of true greatness, the open mind of true wisdom, and the meekness of true strength.Then I, his father, will dare to whisper, "I have not lived in vain." 968重庆之声 每周一至周五8点56分 每天三分钟 养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目 可以看到具体文稿内容 Beyond the DoorBy Philip K. DickPart 1That night at the dinner table he brought it out and set it down beside her plate. Doris stared at it, her hand to her mouth. "My God, what is it?" She looked up at him, bright-eyed."Well, open it."Doris tore the ribbon and paper from the square package with her sharp nails, her bosom rising and falling. Larry stood watching her as she lifted the lid. He lit a cigarette and leaned against the wall."A cuckoo clock!" Doris cried. "A real old cuckoo clock like my mother had." She turned the clock over and over. "Just like my mother had, when Pete was still alive." Her eyes sparkled with tears."It's made in Germany," Larry said. After a moment he ad- ded, "Carl got it for me wholesale. He knows some guy in the clock business. Otherwise I wouldn't have—" He stopped.Doris made a funny little sound."I mean, otherwise I wouldn't have been able to afford it." He scowled. "What's the matter with you? You've got your clock, haven't you? Isn't that what you want?"Doris sat holding onto the clock, her fingers pressed against the brown wood."Well," Larry said, "what's the matter?"He watched in amazement as she leaped up and ran from the room, still clutching the clock. He shook his head. "Never satisfied. They're all that way. Never get enough."He sat down at the table and finished his meal.The cuckoo clock was not very large. It was hand-made, however, and there were countless frets on it, little indentations and ornaments scored in the soft wood. Doris sat on the bed drying her eyes and winding the clock. She set the hands by her wristwatch. Presently she carefully moved the hands to two minutes of ten. She carried the clock over to the dresser and propped it up.Then she sat waiting, her hands twisted together in her lap—waiting for the cuckoo to come out, for the hour to strike. 968重庆之声 每周一至周五8点56分 每天三分钟 养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目 可以看到具体文稿内容 The Growth vs. Proficiency Debate and Why Al Franken Raised a Boring but Critical IssueAl Franken asked about student growth versus proficiency in the #DeVosHearing. Here’s why that mattersBy Matt Barnum …Franken’s position in favor of growth (how much students improve) over proficiency (how many students meet a certain score deemed proficient) appears to be on solid ground. A 2008 survey of education researchers found that more than two in three said that value-added metrics — which examine how much students grow from year to year — are a good way to measure school quality. Just 9 percent said that “raw test scores” — proficiency — made sense for evaluating schoolsWhy are researchers, at least in this survey, so in favor of growth measures?Perhaps the most basic reason is that there are many factors that affect what level a student achieves at and whether they hit the bar set at proficiency. Careful research finds that about 20 percent, and perhaps less, of the variation in student achievement is explained by differences in schools. That pales in comparison to out-of-school factors, like poverty, that have a significant effect on learning. Schools matter, but they aren’t the sole or even main driver of student outcomes.What that means for proficiency is that schools that take disadvantaged students — those in poverty, those who come in at low achievement levels — will look much worse. The school could be doing a great job helping kids improve, but if they start out at a very low level, that might not show up on proficiency measures.Put simply, proficiency rewards schools for the students they take in, but not necessarily for how they teach students once they’re there.Proficiency is also problematic not just because it is a score at one point in time — referred to as “status” by researchers — but because it sets an all-or-nothing bar for students to reach. That means it doesn’t matter if a student just missed proficiency or scores way below it.Franken argues, “With proficiency, teachers ignore the kids at the top who are not going to fall below proficiency, and they ignore the kid at the bottom who they know will never get to proficiency.” Indeed, there is research suggesting this phenomenon — sometimes called “educational triage” — is real, though other studies do not find evidence of it. The extent of such triage likely varies from place to place, but the incentives for it inevitably exist when proficiency is used. 968重庆之声 每周一至周五8点56分 每天三分钟 养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目 可以看到具体文稿内容 Pride & PrejudiceBy Jane AustenChapter 1 It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered the rightful property of some one or other of their daughters. "My dear Mr. Bennet," said his lady to him one day, "have you heard that Netherfield Park is let at last?" Mr. Bennet replied that he had not. "But it is," returned she; "for Mrs. Long has just been here, and she told me all about it." Mr. Bennet made no answer. "Do you not want to know who has taken it?" cried his wife impatiently. "You want to tell me, and I have no objection to hearing it." This was invitation enough. "Why, my dear, you must know, Mrs. Long says that Netherfield is taken by a young man of large fortune from the north of England; that he came down on Monday in a chaise and four to see the place, and was so much delighted with it, that he agreed with Mr. Morris immediately; that he is to take possession before Michaelmas, and some of his servants are to be in the house by the end of next week." "What is his name?" "Bingley." "Is he married or single?" "Oh! Single, my dear, to be sure! A single man of large fortune; four or five thousand a year. What a fine thing for our girls!" "How so? How can it affect them?" "My dear Mr. Bennet," replied his wife, "how can you be so tiresome! You must know that I am thinking of his marrying one of them." "Is that his design in settling here?" "Design! Nonsense, how can you talk so! But it is very likely that he may fall in love with one of them, and therefore you must visit him as soon as he comes." "I see no occasion for that. You and the girls may go, or you may send them by themselves, which perhaps will be still better, for as you are as handsome as any of them, Mr. Bingley may like you the best of the party." "My dear, you flatter me. I certainly have had my share of beauty, but I do not pretend to be anything extraordinary now. When a woman has five grown-up daughters, she ought to give over thinking of her own beauty." "In such cases, a woman has not often much beauty to think of." "But, my dear, you must indeed go and see Mr. Bingley when he comes into the neighbourhood." 968重庆之声 每周一至周五8点56分 每天三分钟 养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目 可以看到具体文稿内容 The Best Way to Learn Anything: The Feynman Technique…There are only four short steps to implementing the Feynman Technique.Step 1: Choose a ConceptNow this can be anything from gravity to world history. It works for everything. Now take out a blank sheet of paper and write the subject you want to learn at the top.Step 2: Teach ItWrite out everything you know about the subject as if you were teaching it to someone else. Not your smart friend but rather a toddler. This may sound silly but this part is incredibly important and has worked wonders for me learning new things.When I used to learn new subjects I would explain them with complicated vocabulary and jargon. The problem with this approach is that I was fooling myself. I didn’t know that I didn’t understand. And often, because I was using the right vocabulary, my lack of understanding was obscured from my teachers.When you write out the idea from start to finish in simple language that a toddler can understand (tip: use only the most common words) you force yourself to understand the concept and you get a clear understanding of where you might have some gaps.Step 3: Go Back In step two you will inevitably encounter gaps in your knowledge where you’re forgetting something important, not able to explain it, or simply have trouble connecting an important concept. This is valuable feedback and where the learning starts to happen. When you get stuck go back to the source material and re-learn it. For example, if you’ve got a biology test coming up and you’re having problems explaining evolution in simple terms, open up the biology book and start re-reading the section on evolution. Now close the book, take out a new blank piece of paper and explain the sub-idea (in this case evolution) that you were having problems with using the Feynman Technique. Once you can do that return to your original sheet of paper and continue.Step 4: Review and SimplifyNow you have a set of hand-crafted notes. Review them to make sure you didn’t borrow any of the jargon from the source material. Read them out loud. If the explanation isn’t simple or sounds confusing that’s a good indication that you’re understanding in that area needs some work. Also try creating analogies. 968重庆之声 每周一至周五8点56分 每天三分钟 养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目 可以看到具体文稿内容 Breathe.By Leo BabautaBreathe.Breathing can transform your life.If you feel stressed out and overwhelmed, breathe. It will calm you and release the tensions.If you are worried about something coming up, or caught up in something that already happened, breathe. It will bring you back to the present.If you are discouraged and have forgotten your purpose in life, breathe. It will remind you about how precious life is, and that each breath in this life is a gift you need to appreciate. Make the most of this gift.If you have too many tasks to do, or are scattered during your workday, breathe. It will help bring you into focus, to concentrate on the most important task you need to be focusing on right now.If you are spending time with someone you love, breathe. It will allow you to be present with that person, rather than thinking about work or other things you need to do.If you are exercising, breathe. It will help you enjoy the exercise, and therefore stick with it for longer.If you are moving too fast, breathe. It will remind you to slow down, and enjoy life more.So breathe. And enjoy each moment of this life. They’re too fleeting and few to waste. 968重庆之声 每周一至周五8点56分 每天三分钟 养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目 可以看到具体文稿内容 I assume I’m below averageBy Derek Sivers96% of cancer patients in a hospital claim to be in better health than the average cancer patient.93% of motorists consider themselves to be safer-than-average drivers.90% students see themselves as more intelligent than the average student.94% of college professors said they are better-than-average teachers.Ironically, 92% said they are less biased than average, too.The psychology term for this is illusory superiority.To me, this was like finding out I’m in the Matrix. It’s hard to accept facts.At first, like almost everybody, I thought, “Yes, but I really am above average!” Then I realized I was doing it again.So I decided to gamble on the opposite:I now just assume I’m below average.It serves me well.I listen more. I ask a lot of questions.I’ve stopped thinking others are stupid. I assume most people are smarter than me.To assume you’re below average is to admit you’re a beginner. It puts you in student mind. It keeps your focus on present practice and future possibilities, and away from any past accomplishments.Most people are so worried about looking good that they never do anything great.Most people are so worried about doing something great that they never do anything at all.You destroy that paralysis when you think of yourself as such a beginner that just doing anything is an accomplishment.Or even better, an experiment. 968重庆之声 每周一至周五8点56分 每天三分钟 养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目 可以看到具体文稿内容 A Fixed Income Is a Sucker BetBy Steve PavlinaDo you live on a fixed income, earning the same amount of money paycheck after paycheck? Maybe you pick up a cost of living adjustment or a raise now and then (or suffer a pay cut or reduction in hours), but barring any major changes like getting promoted, fired, or laid off, is your income fairly stable and predictable? Do you have a good sense of what you’re going to earn during the next 3 months? Would it be exceedingly unlikely for you to earn double or triple – or half – of that anticipated amount?If this describes you, then who decided to fixify your income? Who made that decision?You made that decision, didn’t you? You decided to earn a fixed amount of money per month. You can trace your decisions back to some moment where you said yes to a fixed income.Are you aware that saying yes was entirely optional? In fact, if you give it some thought (which I’ll encourage you to do in this article), you should be able to see that accepting a fixed income is a rather stupid choice, all things considered. A fixed income is a sucker bet.How is that choice working out for you so far? Are you blissfully delighted with it? Do you like knowing that you’ll earn the same amount of money month after month? Does it feel comforting to know how much you’re going to make? Or is there some part of you that’s bored and frustrated beyond recognition?Do you like the stability of it? Is it truly stable, or is your feeling of security rooted in a hopeful illusion? If some individual can decide to turn off your income with the words “You’re fired,” it’s hardly stable. If that’s your situation, it’s safe to say your income is unstable and conditional rather than stable and secure. We can say that all income is conditional, but how stable are those conditions? Does someone else wield the power to turn off your income? 968重庆之声 每周一至周五8点56分 每天三分钟 养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目 可以看到具体文稿内容 Total recall: the people who never forgetAn extremely rare condition may transform our understanding of memoryBy Linda Rodriguez McRobbieIf you ask Jill Price to remember any day of her life, she can come up with an answer in a heartbeat. What was she doing on 29 August 1980? “It was a Friday, I went to Palm Springs with my friends, twins, Nina and Michelle, and their family for Labour Day weekend,” she says. “And before we went to Palm Springs, we went to get them bikini waxes. They were screaming through the whole thing.” Price was 14 years and eight months old.What about the third time she drove a car? “The third time I drove a car was January 10 1981. Saturday. Teen Auto. That’s where we used to get our driving lessons from.” She was 15 years and two weeks old.The first time she heard the Rick Springfield song Jessie’s Girl? “March 7 1981.” She was driving in a car with her mother, who was yelling at her. She was 16 years and two months old.Price was born on 30 December 1965 in New York City. Her first clear memories start from around the age of 18 months. Back then, she lived with her parents in an apartment across the street from Roosevelt Hospital in Midtown Manhattan. She remembers the screaming ambulances and traffic, how she used to love climbing on the living room couch and staring out of the window down 9th Avenue.When she was five years and three months old, her family – her father, a talent agent with William Morris who counted Ray Charles among his clients; her mother, a former variety show dancer, and her baby brother – moved to South Orange, New Jersey. They lived in a three-storey, red brick colonial house with a big backyard and huge trees, the kind of place people left the city for. Jill loved it.When she was seven years old, her father was offered a job with Columbia Pictures Television in Los Angeles. He spent a year commuting back and forth from California to New Jersey, until he and her mother decided to move the family out there in the spring of 1974. By 1 July 1974, when Jill was eight and a half, they were living in a rented house in Los Angeles. That was the day, she says, her “brain snapped”. 968重庆之声 每周一至周五8点56分 每天三分钟 养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目 可以看到具体文稿内容 The Growth vs. Proficiency Debate and Why Al Franken Raised a Boring but Critical IssueAl Franken asked about student growth versus proficiency in the #DeVosHearing. Here’s why that mattersBy Matt Barnum …Franken’s position in favor of growth (how much students improve) over proficiency (how many students meet a certain score deemed proficient) appears to be on solid ground. A 2008 survey of education researchers found that more than two in three said that value-added metrics — which examine how much students grow from year to year — are a good way to measure school quality. Just 9 percent said that “raw test scores” — proficiency — made sense for evaluating schoolsWhy are researchers, at least in this survey, so in favor of growth measures?Perhaps the most basic reason is that there are many factors that affect what level a student achieves at and whether they hit the bar set at proficiency. Careful research finds that about 20 percent, and perhaps less, of the variation in student achievement is explained by differences in schools. That pales in comparison to out-of-school factors, like poverty, that have a significant effect on learning. Schools matter, but they aren’t the sole or even main driver of student outcomes.What that means for proficiency is that schools that take disadvantaged students — those in poverty, those who come in at low achievement levels — will look much worse. The school could be doing a great job helping kids improve, but if they start out at a very low level, that might not show up on proficiency measures.Put simply, proficiency rewards schools for the students they take in, but not necessarily for how they teach students once they’re there.Proficiency is also problematic not just because it is a score at one point in time — referred to as “status” by researchers — but because it sets an all-or-nothing bar for students to reach. That means it doesn’t matter if a student just missed proficiency or scores way below it.Franken argues, “With proficiency, teachers ignore the kids at the top who are not going to fall below proficiency, and they ignore the kid at the bottom who they know will never get to proficiency.” Indeed, there is research suggesting this phenomenon — sometimes called “educational triage” — is real, though other studies do not find evidence of it. The extent of such triage likely varies from place to place, but the incentives for it inevitably exist when proficiency is used. 968重庆之声 每周一至周五8点56分 每天三分钟 养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目 可以看到具体文稿内容 I assume I’m below averageBy Derek Sivers96% of cancer patients in a hospital claim to be in better health than the average cancer patient.93% of motorists consider themselves to be safer-than-average drivers.90% students see themselves as more intelligent than the average student.94% of college professors said they are better-than-average teachers.Ironically, 92% said they are less biased than average, too.The psychology term for this is illusory superiority.To me, this was like finding out I’m in the Matrix. It’s hard to accept facts.At first, like almost everybody, I thought, “Yes, but I really am above average!” Then I realized I was doing it again.So I decided to gamble on the opposite:I now just assume I’m below average.It serves me well.I listen more. I ask a lot of questions.I’ve stopped thinking others are stupid. I assume most people are smarter than me.To assume you’re below average is to admit you’re a beginner. It puts you in student mind. It keeps your focus on present practice and future possibilities, and away from any past accomplishments.Most people are so worried about looking good that they never do anything great.Most people are so worried about doing something great that they never do anything at all.You destroy that paralysis when you think of yourself as such a beginner that just doing anything is an accomplishment.Or even better, an experiment. 968重庆之声 每周一至周五8点56分 每天三分钟 养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目 可以看到具体文稿内容 Pride & PrejudiceBy Jane AustenChapter 1 It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered the rightful property of some one or other of their daughters. "My dear Mr. Bennet," said his lady to him one day, "have you heard that Netherfield Park is let at last?" Mr. Bennet replied that he had not. "But it is," returned she; "for Mrs. Long has just been here, and she told me all about it." Mr. Bennet made no answer. "Do you not want to know who has taken it?" cried his wife impatiently. "You want to tell me, and I have no objection to hearing it." This was invitation enough. "Why, my dear, you must know, Mrs. Long says that Netherfield is taken by a young man of large fortune from the north of England; that he came down on Monday in a chaise and four to see the place, and was so much delighted with it, that he agreed with Mr. Morris immediately; that he is to take possession before Michaelmas, and some of his servants are to be in the house by the end of next week." "What is his name?" "Bingley." "Is he married or single?" "Oh! Single, my dear, to be sure! A single man of large fortune; four or five thousand a year. What a fine thing for our girls!" "How so? How can it affect them?" "My dear Mr. Bennet," replied his wife, "how can you be so tiresome! You must know that I am thinking of his marrying one of them." "Is that his design in settling here?" "Design! Nonsense, how can you talk so! But it is very likely that he may fall in love with one of them, and therefore you must visit him as soon as he comes." "I see no occasion for that. You and the girls may go, or you may send them by themselves, which perhaps will be still better, for as you are as handsome as any of them, Mr. Bingley may like you the best of the party." "My dear, you flatter me. I certainly have had my share of beauty, but I do not pretend to be anything extraordinary now. When a woman has five grown-up daughters, she ought to give over thinking of her own beauty." "In such cases, a woman has not often much beauty to think of." "But, my dear, you must indeed go and see Mr. Bingley when he comes into the neighbourhood." 968重庆之声 每周一至周五8点56分 每天三分钟 养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目 可以看到具体文稿内容 Beyond the DoorBy Philip K. DickPart 1That night at the dinner table he brought it out and set it down beside her plate. Doris stared at it, her hand to her mouth. "My God, what is it?" She looked up at him, bright-eyed."Well, open it."Doris tore the ribbon and paper from the square package with her sharp nails, her bosom rising and falling. Larry stood watching her as she lifted the lid. He lit a cigarette and leaned against the wall."A cuckoo clock!" Doris cried. "A real old cuckoo clock like my mother had." She turned the clock over and over. "Just like my mother had, when Pete was still alive." Her eyes sparkled with tears."It's made in Germany," Larry said. After a moment he ad- ded, "Carl got it for me wholesale. He knows some guy in the clock business. Otherwise I wouldn't have—" He stopped.Doris made a funny little sound."I mean, otherwise I wouldn't have been able to afford it." He scowled. "What's the matter with you? You've got your clock, haven't you? Isn't that what you want?"Doris sat holding onto the clock, her fingers pressed against the brown wood."Well," Larry said, "what's the matter?"He watched in amazement as she leaped up and ran from the room, still clutching the clock. He shook his head. "Never satisfied. They're all that way. Never get enough."He sat down at the table and finished his meal.The cuckoo clock was not very large. It was hand-made, however, and there were countless frets on it, little indentations and ornaments scored in the soft wood. Doris sat on the bed drying her eyes and winding the clock. She set the hands by her wristwatch. Presently she carefully moved the hands to two minutes of ten. She carried the clock over to the dresser and propped it up.Then she sat waiting, her hands twisted together in her lap—waiting for the cuckoo to come out, for the hour to strike. 968重庆之声 每周一至周五8点56分 每天三分钟 养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目 可以看到具体文稿内容 A Father's PrayerBy Douglas MacArthurBuild me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid; one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in vic­tory.Build me a son whose wishes will not take the place of deeds; a son who will know Thee—and that to know himself is the foundation stone of knowledge.Lead him, I pray, not in the path of ease and comfort, but under the stress and spur of difficulties and challenge. Here let him learn to stand up in the storm; here let him learn compassion for those who fail.Build me a son whose heart will be clear, whose goal will be high, a son who will master himself before he seeks to mas­ter other men, one who will reach into the future, yet never forget the past.And after all these things are his, add, I pray, enough of a sense of humor, so that he may always be serious, yet nev­er take himself too seriously. Give him humility, so that he may always remember the sim­plicity of true greatness, the open mind of true wisdom, and the meekness of true strength.Then I, his father, will dare to whisper, "I have not lived in vain." 968重庆之声 每周一至周五8点56分 每天三分钟 养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目 可以看到具体文稿内容 A Fixed Income Is a Sucker BetBy Steve PavlinaDo you live on a fixed income, earning the same amount of money paycheck after paycheck? Maybe you pick up a cost of living adjustment or a raise now and then (or suffer a pay cut or reduction in hours), but barring any major changes like getting promoted, fired, or laid off, is your income fairly stable and predictable? Do you have a good sense of what you’re going to earn during the next 3 months? Would it be exceedingly unlikely for you to earn double or triple – or half – of that anticipated amount?If this describes you, then who decided to fixify your income? Who made that decision?You made that decision, didn’t you? You decided to earn a fixed amount of money per month. You can trace your decisions back to some moment where you said yes to a fixed income.Are you aware that saying yes was entirely optional? In fact, if you give it some thought (which I’ll encourage you to do in this article), you should be able to see that accepting a fixed income is a rather stupid choice, all things considered. A fixed income is a sucker bet.How is that choice working out for you so far? Are you blissfully delighted with it? Do you like knowing that you’ll earn the same amount of money month after month? Does it feel comforting to know how much you’re going to make? Or is there some part of you that’s bored and frustrated beyond recognition?Do you like the stability of it? Is it truly stable, or is your feeling of security rooted in a hopeful illusion? If some individual can decide to turn off your income with the words “You’re fired,” it’s hardly stable. If that’s your situation, it’s safe to say your income is unstable and conditional rather than stable and secure. We can say that all income is conditional, but how stable are those conditions? Does someone else wield the power to turn off your income? 968重庆之声 每周一至周五8点56分 每天三分钟 养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目 可以看到具体文稿内容 Total recall: the people who never forgetAn extremely rare condition may transform our understanding of memoryBy Linda Rodriguez McRobbieIf you ask Jill Price to remember any day of her life, she can come up with an answer in a heartbeat. What was she doing on 29 August 1980? “It was a Friday, I went to Palm Springs with my friends, twins, Nina and Michelle, and their family for Labour Day weekend,” she says. “And before we went to Palm Springs, we went to get them bikini waxes. They were screaming through the whole thing.” Price was 14 years and eight months old.What about the third time she drove a car? “The third time I drove a car was January 10 1981. Saturday. Teen Auto. That’s where we used to get our driving lessons from.” She was 15 years and two weeks old.The first time she heard the Rick Springfield song Jessie’s Girl? “March 7 1981.” She was driving in a car with her mother, who was yelling at her. She was 16 years and two months old.Price was born on 30 December 1965 in New York City. Her first clear memories start from around the age of 18 months. Back then, she lived with her parents in an apartment across the street from Roosevelt Hospital in Midtown Manhattan. She remembers the screaming ambulances and traffic, how she used to love climbing on the living room couch and staring out of the window down 9th Avenue.When she was five years and three months old, her family – her father, a talent agent with William Morris who counted Ray Charles among his clients; her mother, a former variety show dancer, and her baby brother – moved to South Orange, New Jersey. They lived in a three-storey, red brick colonial house with a big backyard and huge trees, the kind of place people left the city for. Jill loved it.When she was seven years old, her father was offered a job with Columbia Pictures Television in Los Angeles. He spent a year commuting back and forth from California to New Jersey, until he and her mother decided to move the family out there in the spring of 1974. By 1 July 1974, when Jill was eight and a half, they were living in a rented house in Los Angeles. That was the day, she says, her “brain snapped”. 968重庆之声 每周一至周五8点56分 每天三分钟 养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目 可以看到具体文稿内容 Breathe.By Leo BabautaBreathe.Breathing can transform your life.If you feel stressed out and overwhelmed, breathe. It will calm you and release the tensions.If you are worried about something coming up, or caught up in something that already happened, breathe. It will bring you back to the present.If you are discouraged and have forgotten your purpose in life, breathe. It will remind you about how precious life is, and that each breath in this life is a gift you need to appreciate. Make the most of this gift.If you have too many tasks to do, or are scattered during your workday, breathe. It will help bring you into focus, to concentrate on the most important task you need to be focusing on right now.If you are spending time with someone you love, breathe. It will allow you to be present with that person, rather than thinking about work or other things you need to do.If you are exercising, breathe. It will help you enjoy the exercise, and therefore stick with it for longer.If you are moving too fast, breathe. It will remind you to slow down, and enjoy life more.So breathe. And enjoy each moment of this life. They’re too fleeting and few to waste. 968重庆之声 每周一至周五8点56分 每天三分钟 养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目 可以看到具体文稿内容 The Best Way to Learn Anything: The Feynman Technique…There are only four short steps to implementing the Feynman Technique.Step 1: Choose a ConceptNow this can be anything from gravity to world history. It works for everything. Now take out a blank sheet of paper and write the subject you want to learn at the top.Step 2: Teach ItWrite out everything you know about the subject as if you were teaching it to someone else. Not your smart friend but rather a toddler. This may sound silly but this part is incredibly important and has worked wonders for me learning new things.When I used to learn new subjects I would explain them with complicated vocabulary and jargon. The problem with this approach is that I was fooling myself. I didn’t know that I didn’t understand. And often, because I was using the right vocabulary, my lack of understanding was obscured from my teachers.When you write out the idea from start to finish in simple language that a toddler can understand (tip: use only the most common words) you force yourself to understand the concept and you get a clear understanding of where you might have some gaps.Step 3: Go Back In step two you will inevitably encounter gaps in your knowledge where you’re forgetting something important, not able to explain it, or simply have trouble connecting an important concept. This is valuable feedback and where the learning starts to happen. When you get stuck go back to the source material and re-learn it. For example, if you’ve got a biology test coming up and you’re having problems explaining evolution in simple terms, open up the biology book and start re-reading the section on evolution. Now close the book, take out a new blank piece of paper and explain the sub-idea (in this case evolution) that you were having problems with using the Feynman Technique. Once you can do that return to your original sheet of paper and continue.Step 4: Review and SimplifyNow you have a set of hand-crafted notes. Review them to make sure you didn’t borrow any of the jargon from the source material. Read them out loud. If the explanation isn’t simple or sounds confusing that’s a good indication that you’re understanding in that area needs some work. Also try creating analogies. 968重庆之声 每周一至周五8点56分 每天三分钟 养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容1 Corinthians 13Love Is the GreatestIf I could speak all the languages of earth and of angels, but didn’t love others, I would only be a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. If I had the gift of prophecy, and if I understood all of God’s secret plans and possessed all knowledge, and if I had such faith that I could move mountains, but didn’t love others, I would be nothing. If I gave everything I have to the poor and even sacrificed my body, I could boast about it; but if I didn’t love others, I would have gained nothing.Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud or rude. It does not demand its own way. It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged. It does not rejoice about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out. Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance.Prophecy and speaking in unknown languages and special knowledge will become useless. But love will last forever! Now our knowledge is partial and incomplete, and even the gift of prophecy reveals only part of the whole picture! But when the time of perfection comes, these partial things will become useless.When I was a child, I spoke and thought and reasoned as a child. But when I grew up, I put away childish things. Now we see things imperfectly, like puzzling reflections in a mirror, but then we will see everything with perfect clarity. All that I know now is partial and incomplete, but then I will know everything completely, just as God now knows me completely.Three things will last forever—faith, hope, and love—and the greatest of these is love.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容Your perfectionist parenting style may be detrimental to your childBy Ariana Eunjung ChaEven if you were horrified at the idea of hovering over your child as Amy Chua did in her polarizing 2011 bestseller "The Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother," I'm betting there was a part of you that looked at her perfect children with at least a tinge of envy. As portrayed in the book, Chua's magic formula of no playdates, no TV and always being No. 1 in everything (except for gym and drama, of course) ended up producing two girls who were straight-A students and who also were wildly talented in music. Oh, and they both ended up going to Harvard University.Critics predicted that daughters Sophia and Lulu would end up being "mentally ill, friendless robots," according to a recent "where are they now" profile in the Telegraph. Instead, they ended up being "polite, modest and thoughtful" as well as successful, the article says, and they remember their childhood as tough — but happy.But are the sisters the norm or exception to this type of parenting?A new study out of the notoriously high-pressure, high-performing Asian city-state of Singapore takes a stab at this question and comes to worrisome conclusions. The research, published in the Journal of Personality, involved 263 children in primary school who were 7 years old when it began and were followed for five years from 2010 to 2014.The work looks at the dark side of perfectionism — maladaptive perfectionism, in research parlance — and how this develops in schoolchildren.Scientists measured what they called "parental intrusiveness" in the first year of the study by asking the child to solve some puzzles while a parent — whichever one was more involved in care — was present. They told the parents that they should feel free to help the child whenever necessary and then secretly rated their behaviors. Their goal was to figure out whether the parents interfered with the child's problem-solving  and whether that help was needed.At the extreme end of the spectrum were parents with what they called highly intrusive behavior. These were the moms and dads who "took over the game to retract a move made by the child," the researchers said. Each of these attempts was logged and coded. Similar tests were repeated as the children aged — at 8, 9 and 11.The researchers then assessed aspects of the child's mental health from talking to both the child and parent.And here's the part where the study becomes alarming. The children with intrusive parents were more likely to be overly critical of themselves, and this tendency increased over the years. And that high or increased level of self-criticism was correlated to elevated levels of depression or anxiety.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容A Top Psychologist Says You Can Be Too Emotionally Intelligent. Here's Why He's WrongIt's not really intelligence unless you know how to use it.By Justin BarisoA few days ago, Thomas Chamorro-Premuzic, an accomplished psychologist and business professor, co-authored a piece in the Harvard Business Review entitled, The Downsides of Being Very Emotionally Intelligent.It begins with the story of Gemma, a hypothetical employee who most would describe as ideal. According to the authors, Gemma is:• extremely caring and sensitive• optimistic• reliable and dependable• organized• trustworthy and ethical• a beacon of calm, who never loses her cool, no matter the stress or pressure at work• Sounds like a great hire, right?But Dr. Chamorro-Premuzic concludes that Gemma's high EQ (emotional quotient) may reduce her effectiveness in certain roles, including those in senior leadership. He argues that people like Gemma are severely challenged when it comes time to make unpopular choices, bring about change, and "focus on driving results, even at the expense of sacrificing employee relations."I actually agree with much of what Dr. Chamorro-Premuzic has to say. There's only one problem.Most of the issues he describes aren't due to emotional intelligence. They come from a lack of it.Emotional vs. Emotional IntelligenceAs set out in my forthcoming book, emotional intelligence is a person's ability to identify emotions (in both themselves and others), to recognize the powerful effects of those emotions, and to use that information to inform and guide behavior. Emotional intelligence involves not only understanding how emotions work in a given situation, but the ability to manage a situation to attain a desired result.Put more simply, emotional intelligence is the ability to make emotions work for you, instead of against you.Gemma may be extremely caring and sensitive, and that's generally a good thing. But the moment that sensitivity prevents her from offering necessary feedback, it's no longer emotionally intelligent.It's just emotional.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容A Top Psychologist Says You Can Be Too Emotionally Intelligent. Here's Why He's WrongIt's not really intelligence unless you know how to use it.By Justin BarisoA few days ago, Thomas Chamorro-Premuzic, an accomplished psychologist and business professor, co-authored a piece in the Harvard Business Review entitled, The Downsides of Being Very Emotionally Intelligent.It begins with the story of Gemma, a hypothetical employee who most would describe as ideal. According to the authors, Gemma is:• extremely caring and sensitive• optimistic• reliable and dependable• organized• trustworthy and ethical• a beacon of calm, who never loses her cool, no matter the stress or pressure at work• Sounds like a great hire, right?But Dr. Chamorro-Premuzic concludes that Gemma's high EQ (emotional quotient) may reduce her effectiveness in certain roles, including those in senior leadership. He argues that people like Gemma are severely challenged when it comes time to make unpopular choices, bring about change, and "focus on driving results, even at the expense of sacrificing employee relations."I actually agree with much of what Dr. Chamorro-Premuzic has to say. There's only one problem.Most of the issues he describes aren't due to emotional intelligence. They come from a lack of it.Emotional vs. Emotional IntelligenceAs set out in my forthcoming book, emotional intelligence is a person's ability to identify emotions (in both themselves and others), to recognize the powerful effects of those emotions, and to use that information to inform and guide behavior. Emotional intelligence involves not only understanding how emotions work in a given situation, but the ability to manage a situation to attain a desired result.Put more simply, emotional intelligence is the ability to make emotions work for you, instead of against you.Gemma may be extremely caring and sensitive, and that's generally a good thing. But the moment that sensitivity prevents her from offering necessary feedback, it's no longer emotionally intelligent.It's just emotional.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容Your perfectionist parenting style may be detrimental to your childBy Ariana Eunjung ChaEven if you were horrified at the idea of hovering over your child as Amy Chua did in her polarizing 2011 bestseller "The Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother," I'm betting there was a part of you that looked at her perfect children with at least a tinge of envy. As portrayed in the book, Chua's magic formula of no playdates, no TV and always being No. 1 in everything (except for gym and drama, of course) ended up producing two girls who were straight-A students and who also were wildly talented in music. Oh, and they both ended up going to Harvard University.Critics predicted that daughters Sophia and Lulu would end up being "mentally ill, friendless robots," according to a recent "where are they now" profile in the Telegraph. Instead, they ended up being "polite, modest and thoughtful" as well as successful, the article says, and they remember their childhood as tough — but happy.But are the sisters the norm or exception to this type of parenting?A new study out of the notoriously high-pressure, high-performing Asian city-state of Singapore takes a stab at this question and comes to worrisome conclusions. The research, published in the Journal of Personality, involved 263 children in primary school who were 7 years old when it began and were followed for five years from 2010 to 2014.The work looks at the dark side of perfectionism — maladaptive perfectionism, in research parlance — and how this develops in schoolchildren.Scientists measured what they called "parental intrusiveness" in the first year of the study by asking the child to solve some puzzles while a parent — whichever one was more involved in care — was present. They told the parents that they should feel free to help the child whenever necessary and then secretly rated their behaviors. Their goal was to figure out whether the parents interfered with the child's problem-solving  and whether that help was needed.At the extreme end of the spectrum were parents with what they called highly intrusive behavior. These were the moms and dads who "took over the game to retract a move made by the child," the researchers said. Each of these attempts was logged and coded. Similar tests were repeated as the children aged — at 8, 9 and 11.The researchers then assessed aspects of the child's mental health from talking to both the child and parent.And here's the part where the study becomes alarming. The children with intrusive parents were more likely to be overly critical of themselves, and this tendency increased over the years. And that high or increased level of self-criticism was correlated to elevated levels of depression or anxiety.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容1 Corinthians 13Love Is the GreatestIf I could speak all the languages of earth and of angels, but didn’t love others, I would only be a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. If I had the gift of prophecy, and if I understood all of God’s secret plans and possessed all knowledge, and if I had such faith that I could move mountains, but didn’t love others, I would be nothing. If I gave everything I have to the poor and even sacrificed my body, I could boast about it; but if I didn’t love others, I would have gained nothing.Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud or rude. It does not demand its own way. It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged. It does not rejoice about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out. Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance.Prophecy and speaking in unknown languages and special knowledge will become useless. But love will last forever! Now our knowledge is partial and incomplete, and even the gift of prophecy reveals only part of the whole picture! But when the time of perfection comes, these partial things will become useless.When I was a child, I spoke and thought and reasoned as a child. But when I grew up, I put away childish things. Now we see things imperfectly, like puzzling reflections in a mirror, but then we will see everything with perfect clarity. All that I know now is partial and incomplete, but then I will know everything completely, just as God now knows me completely.Three things will last forever—faith, hope, and love—and the greatest of these is love.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容How to Be Awesome at Feeling Awesome(Part 2 of “An Overlooked Factor in Creating Positive Change”)By Leo BabautaIt’s not possible to always feel positive and upbeat. I don’t even recommend it — lots of us try to block out or avoid any negative feelings whatsoever, and this means we’re rejecting a whole range of feelings. I used to buy into this idea, but now I let myself feel down. I let myself feel discouraged, sad, frustrated, irritated — and accept these parts of myself instead of rejecting them.That said, you can take actions to put yourself in the mood for positive changes. It’s helpful to be mindful of your mood and what effect it has on you.Here are some actions you can take:• Practice mindfulness of your feelings and self talk. When you’re procrastinating or resisting taking steps you know you should take, turn inward and notice how you’re feeling. Are you tired, discouraged, stressed? Are you saying things like “I can do it later” or “I deserve a break”? Become aware of what’s going on inside and how it’s affecting you.• Be accepting of your mood. Instead of rejecting or avoiding your discouraged feelings, just stay with them. Be a good friend to them. Notice that you’re having a hard time, and give yourself love. In this way, you develop a trust in yourself, and you see that the mood isn’t anything to panic about, it’s just a passing feeling.• Learn what puts you in a positive mood. By practicing mindfulness, you can see that some activities get you in a funk, while others might make you feel great. For me, going for a walk or doing a workout always make me feel great. Taking a shower, having a cup of tea, and meditating are other great ones for me.• Find encouragement. Surround yourself with people who will support you, hold your feet to the fire, give you positive vibes. When you have a friend like this, hang out with them more. Negative people, hang out with them less. I’ve found they just drag me down. Look to online communities if necessary.• Be mindful when you miss a couple days. This is a danger zone, I’ve found. Missing a day is no big deal, but missing two days often feels discouraging and people quit at this point. Ask friends for help if you’ve missed two days. Take the smallest step to get moving again.• Take small positive steps. When I’m in a funk, the smallest positive steps are all I need to get myself in a positive mood for taking more small positive steps. Identify the smallest step you can take, and put everything you have into it.• Be forgiving. You’ll mess up. We all do. That’s OK — it’s not a straight, linear process, but a messy one. There’s learning, there’s missteps, there’s lots of starts and stops. That’s how life works, be less attached to doing it perfectly and instead grateful to be doing it at all.• Find joy in every step. You’re not doing this to get to some great destination at the end. Each positive step can be a joy in itself, a place to smile and breathe and find gratitude. What a wonderful thing to be where you are!In the end, none of this is easy. But by shining a light on this process, we can take it from an overlooked area that’s holding us back, to something we explore with curiosity and wonder.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容How to Be Awesome at Feeling Awesome(Part 2 of “An Overlooked Factor in Creating Positive Change”)By Leo BabautaIt’s not possible to always feel positive and upbeat. I don’t even recommend it — lots of us try to block out or avoid any negative feelings whatsoever, and this means we’re rejecting a whole range of feelings. I used to buy into this idea, but now I let myself feel down. I let myself feel discouraged, sad, frustrated, irritated — and accept these parts of myself instead of rejecting them.That said, you can take actions to put yourself in the mood for positive changes. It’s helpful to be mindful of your mood and what effect it has on you.Here are some actions you can take:• Practice mindfulness of your feelings and self talk. When you’re procrastinating or resisting taking steps you know you should take, turn inward and notice how you’re feeling. Are you tired, discouraged, stressed? Are you saying things like “I can do it later” or “I deserve a break”? Become aware of what’s going on inside and how it’s affecting you.• Be accepting of your mood. Instead of rejecting or avoiding your discouraged feelings, just stay with them. Be a good friend to them. Notice that you’re having a hard time, and give yourself love. In this way, you develop a trust in yourself, and you see that the mood isn’t anything to panic about, it’s just a passing feeling.• Learn what puts you in a positive mood. By practicing mindfulness, you can see that some activities get you in a funk, while others might make you feel great. For me, going for a walk or doing a workout always make me feel great. Taking a shower, having a cup of tea, and meditating are other great ones for me.• Find encouragement. Surround yourself with people who will support you, hold your feet to the fire, give you positive vibes. When you have a friend like this, hang out with them more. Negative people, hang out with them less. I’ve found they just drag me down. Look to online communities if necessary.• Be mindful when you miss a couple days. This is a danger zone, I’ve found. Missing a day is no big deal, but missing two days often feels discouraging and people quit at this point. Ask friends for help if you’ve missed two days. Take the smallest step to get moving again.• Take small positive steps. When I’m in a funk, the smallest positive steps are all I need to get myself in a positive mood for taking more small positive steps. Identify the smallest step you can take, and put everything you have into it.• Be forgiving. You’ll mess up. We all do. That’s OK — it’s not a straight, linear process, but a messy one. There’s learning, there’s missteps, there’s lots of starts and stops. That’s how life works, be less attached to doing it perfectly and instead grateful to be doing it at all.• Find joy in every step. You’re not doing this to get to some great destination at the end. Each positive step can be a joy in itself, a place to smile and breathe and find gratitude. What a wonderful thing to be where you are!In the end, none of this is easy. But by shining a light on this process, we can take it from an overlooked area that’s holding us back, to something we explore with curiosity and wonder.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容Running May Be Good for Your KneesBy Gretchen ReynoldsMany people worry that running ruins knees. But a new study finds that the activity may in fact benefit the joint, changing the biochemical environment inside the knee in ways that could help keep it working smoothly.In my many decades as a runner, fellow runners and nonrunners alike have frequently told me that I am putting my knees at risk. The widespread argument generally follows the lines that running will slowly wear away the cartilage that cushions the bones in the joint and cause arthritis.But there is little evidence to support the idea, and a growing body of research that suggests the reverse. Epidemiological studies of long-term runners show that they generally are less likely to develop osteoarthritis in the knees than people of the same age who do not run.Some scientists have speculated that running may protect knees because it also often is associated with relatively low body mass. Carrying less weight is known to reduce the risk for knee arthritis.But other researchers have wondered whether running might have a more direct impact on knee joints, perhaps by altering the working of various cells inside the knee.To find out, researchers at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, recruited 15 male and female runners under the age of 30 with no history of knee injury or arthritis. The scientists wished to study people with healthy knees in order to better isolate running’s effects on otherwise normal joints.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容The Prologue to Bertrand Russell's AutobiographyWhat I Have Lived ForThree passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. These passions, like great winds, have blown me hither and thither, in a wayward course, over a great ocean of anguish, reaching to the very verge of despair.I have sought love, first, because it brings ecstasy - ecstasy so great that I would often have sacrificed all the rest of life for a few hours of this joy. I have sought it, next, because it relieves loneliness--that terrible loneliness in which one shivering consciousness looks over the rim of the world into the cold unfathomable lifeless abyss. I have sought it finally, because in the union of love I have seen, in a mystic miniature, the prefiguring vision of the heaven that saints and poets have imagined. This is what I sought, and though it might seem too good for human life, this is what--at last--I have found.With equal passion I have sought knowledge. I have wished to understand the hearts of men. I have wished to know why the stars shine. And I have tried to apprehend the Pythagorean power by which number holds sway above the flux. A little of this, but not much, I have achieved.Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens. But always pity brought me back to earth. Echoes of cries of pain reverberate in my heart. Children in famine, victims tortured by oppressors, helpless old people a burden to their sons, and the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be. I long to alleviate this evil, but I cannot, and I too suffer.This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the chance were offered me.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容Solitary SocialiteBy Derek SiversThis is just a self-indulgent bit about myself — something I feel like describing, because I find it unusual and interesting.For the past eight years, I’ve answered emails from 40-200 people per day, asking my advice on business and life.I’ll sit alone in my little office for 8-10 hours, engaging with 100 people’s lives and questions for a few minutes each, and then go home.Then when friends want to hang out with me, I say I need some alone time first.They say I’ve been alone all day. So I explain that I’ve been massively social all day long, and feel spent, even though I’ve been sitting alone.I like it, so I’m not complaining — just explaining. It’s unusual to be physically alone, but extremely social. A solitary socialite.At first I thought this was a new internet thing. But for decades there have been people who talk on the phone all day long. Before that, there were people who just answered paper mail all day long.It works for me. I love people one-on-one. When not answering emails, I’m often talking on the phone with one of my dear friends across the world, getting into great conversations for hours.But it’s a strange life. The solitary socialite.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容The Prologue to Bertrand Russell's AutobiographyWhat I Have Lived ForThree passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. These passions, like great winds, have blown me hither and thither, in a wayward course, over a great ocean of anguish, reaching to the very verge of despair.I have sought love, first, because it brings ecstasy - ecstasy so great that I would often have sacrificed all the rest of life for a few hours of this joy. I have sought it, next, because it relieves loneliness--that terrible loneliness in which one shivering consciousness looks over the rim of the world into the cold unfathomable lifeless abyss. I have sought it finally, because in the union of love I have seen, in a mystic miniature, the prefiguring vision of the heaven that saints and poets have imagined. This is what I sought, and though it might seem too good for human life, this is what--at last--I have found.With equal passion I have sought knowledge. I have wished to understand the hearts of men. I have wished to know why the stars shine. And I have tried to apprehend the Pythagorean power by which number holds sway above the flux. A little of this, but not much, I have achieved.Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens. But always pity brought me back to earth. Echoes of cries of pain reverberate in my heart. Children in famine, victims tortured by oppressors, helpless old people a burden to their sons, and the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be. I long to alleviate this evil, but I cannot, and I too suffer.This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the chance were offered me.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容Solitary SocialiteBy Derek SiversThis is just a self-indulgent bit about myself — something I feel like describing, because I find it unusual and interesting.For the past eight years, I’ve answered emails from 40-200 people per day, asking my advice on business and life.I’ll sit alone in my little office for 8-10 hours, engaging with 100 people’s lives and questions for a few minutes each, and then go home.Then when friends want to hang out with me, I say I need some alone time first.They say I’ve been alone all day. So I explain that I’ve been massively social all day long, and feel spent, even though I’ve been sitting alone.I like it, so I’m not complaining — just explaining. It’s unusual to be physically alone, but extremely social. A solitary socialite.At first I thought this was a new internet thing. But for decades there have been people who talk on the phone all day long. Before that, there were people who just answered paper mail all day long.It works for me. I love people one-on-one. When not answering emails, I’m often talking on the phone with one of my dear friends across the world, getting into great conversations for hours.But it’s a strange life. The solitary socialite.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容Running May Be Good for Your KneesBy Gretchen ReynoldsMany people worry that running ruins knees. But a new study finds that the activity may in fact benefit the joint, changing the biochemical environment inside the knee in ways that could help keep it working smoothly.In my many decades as a runner, fellow runners and nonrunners alike have frequently told me that I am putting my knees at risk. The widespread argument generally follows the lines that running will slowly wear away the cartilage that cushions the bones in the joint and cause arthritis.But there is little evidence to support the idea, and a growing body of research that suggests the reverse. Epidemiological studies of long-term runners show that they generally are less likely to develop osteoarthritis in the knees than people of the same age who do not run.Some scientists have speculated that running may protect knees because it also often is associated with relatively low body mass. Carrying less weight is known to reduce the risk for knee arthritis.But other researchers have wondered whether running might have a more direct impact on knee joints, perhaps by altering the working of various cells inside the knee.To find out, researchers at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, recruited 15 male and female runners under the age of 30 with no history of knee injury or arthritis. The scientists wished to study people with healthy knees in order to better isolate running’s effects on otherwise normal joints.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容FoundationBy Isaac Asimov2 The ship landed in a medley of noises. There was the far-off hiss of the atmosphere cutting and sliding past the metal of the ship. There was the steady drone of the conditioners fighting the heat of friction, and the slower rumble of the engines enforcing deceleration. There was the human sound of men and women gathering in the debarkation rooms and the grind of the hoists lifting baggage, mail, and freight to the long axis of the ship, from which they would be later moved along to the unloading platform. Gaal felt the slight jar that indicated the ship no longer had an independent motion of its own. Ship’s gravity had been giving way to planetary gravity for hours. Thousands of passengers had been sitting patiently in the debarkation rooms which swung easily on yielding force-fields to accommodate its orientation to the changing direction of the gravitational forces. Now they were crawling down curving ramps to the large, yawning locks. Gaal’s baggage was minor. He stood at a desk, as it was quickly and expertly taken apart and put together again. His visa was inspected and stamped. He himself paid no attention. This was Trantor! The air seemed a little thicker here, the gravity a bit greater, than on his home planet of Synnax, but he would get used to that. He wondered if he would get used to immensity968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容FoundationBy Isaac Asimov2 The ship landed in a medley of noises. There was the far-off hiss of the atmosphere cutting and sliding past the metal of the ship. There was the steady drone of the conditioners fighting the heat of friction, and the slower rumble of the engines enforcing deceleration. There was the human sound of men and women gathering in the debarkation rooms and the grind of the hoists lifting baggage, mail, and freight to the long axis of the ship, from which they would be later moved along to the unloading platform. Gaal felt the slight jar that indicated the ship no longer had an independent motion of its own. Ship’s gravity had been giving way to planetary gravity for hours. Thousands of passengers had been sitting patiently in the debarkation rooms which swung easily on yielding force-fields to accommodate its orientation to the changing direction of the gravitational forces. Now they were crawling down curving ramps to the large, yawning locks. Gaal’s baggage was minor. He stood at a desk, as it was quickly and expertly taken apart and put together again. His visa was inspected and stamped. He himself paid no attention. This was Trantor! The air seemed a little thicker here, the gravity a bit greater, than on his home planet of Synnax, but he would get used to that. He wondered if he would get used to immensity968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容The Downsides of Being Very Emotionally IntelligentBy Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic and Adam YearsleyGemma is extremely caring and sensitive. She pays a great deal of attention to others’ emotions and is kind and considerate. Gemma is also quite optimistic. She is usually upbeat and remains positive even in the face of bad news. Her colleagues love working with her because they see her as a beacon of calm. No matter how much stress and pressure there is at work, Gemma is enthusiastic and never loses her cool.Gemma’s manager enjoys dealing with her, as she rarely complains about anything, is reliable and dependable, and shows great levels of organizational citizenship. Indeed, Gemma is extremely trustworthy and ethical. Furthermore, Gemma’s personality also means that she is generally engaged at work, even when her boss is not doing a great job at managing her.Who wouldn’t want to hire Gemma? In many ways, she seems like the ideal employee, someone with excellent potential for a career in management. If you agree, you are not alone: Most people would find Gemma’s personality a great asset, and not just in a work context. The main reason for this is Gemma’s high emotional intelligence (EQ), which explains all of the qualities described above.Though definitions vary, EQ always comprises intrapersonal and interpersonal skills — in particular high adjustment, sociability, sensitivity, and prudence. Thousands of scientific studies have tested the importance of EQ in various domains of life, providing compelling evidence for the benefits of higher EQ with regards to work, health, and relationships. For example, EQ is positively correlated with leadership, job performance, job satisfaction, happiness, and well-being (both physical and emotional). Moreover, EQ is negatively correlated with counterproductive work behaviors, psychopathy, and stress proclivity.But is higher EQ always beneficial? Although the downside of higher EQ remains largely unexplored, there are many reasons for being cautious about a one-size-fits-all or higher-is-always-better take on EQ. Most things are better in moderation, and there is a downside to every human trait. Let’s focus again on Gemma and explore some of the less favorable implications of her high EQ.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容The Downsides of Being Very Emotionally IntelligentBy Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic and Adam YearsleyGemma is extremely caring and sensitive. She pays a great deal of attention to others’ emotions and is kind and considerate. Gemma is also quite optimistic. She is usually upbeat and remains positive even in the face of bad news. Her colleagues love working with her because they see her as a beacon of calm. No matter how much stress and pressure there is at work, Gemma is enthusiastic and never loses her cool.Gemma’s manager enjoys dealing with her, as she rarely complains about anything, is reliable and dependable, and shows great levels of organizational citizenship. Indeed, Gemma is extremely trustworthy and ethical. Furthermore, Gemma’s personality also means that she is generally engaged at work, even when her boss is not doing a great job at managing her.Who wouldn’t want to hire Gemma? In many ways, she seems like the ideal employee, someone with excellent potential for a career in management. If you agree, you are not alone: Most people would find Gemma’s personality a great asset, and not just in a work context. The main reason for this is Gemma’s high emotional intelligence (EQ), which explains all of the qualities described above.Though definitions vary, EQ always comprises intrapersonal and interpersonal skills — in particular high adjustment, sociability, sensitivity, and prudence. Thousands of scientific studies have tested the importance of EQ in various domains of life, providing compelling evidence for the benefits of higher EQ with regards to work, health, and relationships. For example, EQ is positively correlated with leadership, job performance, job satisfaction, happiness, and well-being (both physical and emotional). Moreover, EQ is negatively correlated with counterproductive work behaviors, psychopathy, and stress proclivity.But is higher EQ always beneficial? Although the downside of higher EQ remains largely unexplored, there are many reasons for being cautious about a one-size-fits-all or higher-is-always-better take on EQ. Most things are better in moderation, and there is a downside to every human trait. Let’s focus again on Gemma and explore some of the less favorable implications of her high EQ.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容When I am dead, my dearestBY CHRISTINA ROSSETTIWhen I am dead, my dearest, Sing no sad songs for me; Plant thou no roses at my head, Nor shady cypress tree: Be the green grass above me With showers and dewdrops wet; And if thou wilt, remember, And if thou wilt, forget. I shall not see the shadows, I shall not feel the rain; I shall not hear the nightingale Sing on, as if in pain: And dreaming through the twilight That doth not rise nor set, Haply I may remember, And haply may forget. 968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容When I am dead, my dearestBY CHRISTINA ROSSETTIWhen I am dead, my dearest, Sing no sad songs for me; Plant thou no roses at my head, Nor shady cypress tree: Be the green grass above me With showers and dewdrops wet; And if thou wilt, remember, And if thou wilt, forget. I shall not see the shadows, I shall not feel the rain; I shall not hear the nightingale Sing on, as if in pain: And dreaming through the twilight That doth not rise nor set, Haply I may remember, And haply may forget. 968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容My Favorite Questions for Making Tough DecisionsBy Steve Pavlina...How will this sculpt my character as a man?I’m sharing this question the way I ask it, so feel free to modify it to fit your gender, or use a gender-neutral substitute like, How will this sculpt my character as a human being?...Could I reverse or undo this decision?...Some decisions are permanent, and you can’t simply undo them. If you quit your job or leave your relationship, you may not be able to go back if you later change your mind. But for many decisions, there’s a built-in undo. You can often return items you purchased. You can move back to your old city. You can buy back similar possessions to replace those you gave away. You can switch back to your old diet and exercise routines.If a decision is reversible and/or the negative consequences of a mistake are low, then I’ll tend to lean towards the new experience. At the very least, I might learn something from it.Can I test this decision?If you can’t undo a decision, maybe you can test it somehow. Could you dip your toes into each path to gain more clarity about the options? Could you collect some real world experience before you have to commit?...Testing a decision can help you tip one way or the other, so you don’t remain endlessly stuck in ambivalence, where you’re constantly waffling about which direction to go.* * *Try asking some or all of these questions the next time you face a tricky decision. I think you’ll find them useful tools for increasing clarity and making better choices. When I’ve shared some of these questions with other people, their number one favorite is usually the memory one, so that may be a good one to start with.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容My Favorite Questions for Making Tough DecisionsBy Steve Pavlina...How will this sculpt my character as a man?I’m sharing this question the way I ask it, so feel free to modify it to fit your gender, or use a gender-neutral substitute like, How will this sculpt my character as a human being?...Could I reverse or undo this decision?...Some decisions are permanent, and you can’t simply undo them. If you quit your job or leave your relationship, you may not be able to go back if you later change your mind. But for many decisions, there’s a built-in undo. You can often return items you purchased. You can move back to your old city. You can buy back similar possessions to replace those you gave away. You can switch back to your old diet and exercise routines.If a decision is reversible and/or the negative consequences of a mistake are low, then I’ll tend to lean towards the new experience. At the very least, I might learn something from it.Can I test this decision?If you can’t undo a decision, maybe you can test it somehow. Could you dip your toes into each path to gain more clarity about the options? Could you collect some real world experience before you have to commit?...Testing a decision can help you tip one way or the other, so you don’t remain endlessly stuck in ambivalence, where you’re constantly waffling about which direction to go.* * *Try asking some or all of these questions the next time you face a tricky decision. I think you’ll find them useful tools for increasing clarity and making better choices. When I’ve shared some of these questions with other people, their number one favorite is usually the memory one, so that may be a good one to start with.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容My Favorite Questions for Making Tough DecisionsBy Steve PavlinaSometimes you’ll encounter tough decisions that can leave you wallowing in indecision, such as whether to change jobs or careers, end a relationship, move to a new city, or pursue a new lifestyle direction. Sometimes all it takes to gain sufficient clarity, though, is to ask the right questions. A good question can shift your perspective about your decision and make the wise path obvious.When I face tough decisions, here are some of my favorite questions to ask:Will this help me grow?Since growth is one of my highest personal values, I favor decisions where I can expect to learn and grow. If I see little or no growth on a particular path, I’ll tend to lean against it....Would my best self do this?Asking this question gave me clarity when I was trying to decide whether or not to uncopyright all my blog posts back in 2010. I had created a tremendous body of intellectual property, and I owned it 100%. But I often wondered what would happen if I let go of that ownership and donated it to the public domain. It seemed like a huge leap, and there was no good way to predict the outcome.When I asked if my best self would do this, the answer was clear. If uncopyrighting my work would help more people than keeping it copyrighted, my best self would pull the trigger and do it....Do I want the memory?Every decision ultimately becomes a memory, and the sum of your decisions will eventually become a string of memories. So which memories do you want?Do you want the memories of maintaining your current social media habits for the next 10 years? (It’s extremely rare to find someone who can honestly answer yes to this.)Do you want the memories of keeping your current job for another year? What about your current relationship situation?Do you want the memories of taking that trip, or would you rather have the memories of not taking it?This is a really powerful question, and some people have gained immediate clarity the first time they’ve asked it.……968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容My Favorite Questions for Making Tough DecisionsBy Steve PavlinaSometimes you’ll encounter tough decisions that can leave you wallowing in indecision, such as whether to change jobs or careers, end a relationship, move to a new city, or pursue a new lifestyle direction. Sometimes all it takes to gain sufficient clarity, though, is to ask the right questions. A good question can shift your perspective about your decision and make the wise path obvious.When I face tough decisions, here are some of my favorite questions to ask:Will this help me grow?Since growth is one of my highest personal values, I favor decisions where I can expect to learn and grow. If I see little or no growth on a particular path, I’ll tend to lean against it....Would my best self do this?Asking this question gave me clarity when I was trying to decide whether or not to uncopyright all my blog posts back in 2010. I had created a tremendous body of intellectual property, and I owned it 100%. But I often wondered what would happen if I let go of that ownership and donated it to the public domain. It seemed like a huge leap, and there was no good way to predict the outcome.When I asked if my best self would do this, the answer was clear. If uncopyrighting my work would help more people than keeping it copyrighted, my best self would pull the trigger and do it....Do I want the memory?Every decision ultimately becomes a memory, and the sum of your decisions will eventually become a string of memories. So which memories do you want?Do you want the memories of maintaining your current social media habits for the next 10 years? (It’s extremely rare to find someone who can honestly answer yes to this.)Do you want the memories of keeping your current job for another year? What about your current relationship situation?Do you want the memories of taking that trip, or would you rather have the memories of not taking it?This is a really powerful question, and some people have gained immediate clarity the first time they’ve asked it.……968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

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点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容An Overlooked Factor in Creating Positive ChangeBy Leo BabautaI’ve created more positive changes in the last 11 years than I can count: from health and fitness to mindfulness and happiness; from productivity and finance to clutter and relationships.There are lots of factors that are incredibly important in creating any positive change: starting small, taking small steps all along the way, finding motivation and accountability, finding the support of people around you (or finding it online), learning to mindfully notice your urges to quit.These are all super important. But there’s another factor that most people overlook: how you feel about the change.This is what I’ve learned in the decade-plus since I’ve been doing this, for myself and helping other people:• If you’re not in the mood to take the small steps you need to make the change, you’ll probably procrastinate. Same if you’re overly tired.• If you feel excited about the change, you’ll take the steps.• If you miss a couple of days, you feel discouraged and are likely to not even want to think about it. We’re very good at avoiding thinking about uncomfortable things.• If you can keep the good feeling going, you’ll form a habit or make the change you want to make.• Other people can be discouraging, or they can be encouraging. This makes a lot of difference.• We ourselves can talk to ourselves (in our heads, what I call “self talk”) in a positive, encouraging way, or we can talk to ourselves in a negative, discouraging way.• It’s easy to get stuck in a negative mood, where you just don’t think you can do it and give up caring. Our minds tend towards the negative. We put up resistance whenever we think about making changes.• It’s also possible to get into a positive track, where you’re feeling great about the changes and want to keep going. This is amazing. But it doesn’t always last forever, so you have to be mindful of how you’re feeling.You can see from all of the above how important your attitude is, your mood, your feeling about the change. You can see that it’s affected by how you’re feeling each day, your tiredness and stress levels, how encouraging or discouraging other people are toward you, and how you talk to yourself.So putting all that together, let’s talk about some actions you can take to get better at this overlooked skill.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容An Overlooked Factor in Creating Positive ChangeBy Leo BabautaI’ve created more positive changes in the last 11 years than I can count: from health and fitness to mindfulness and happiness; from productivity and finance to clutter and relationships.There are lots of factors that are incredibly important in creating any positive change: starting small, taking small steps all along the way, finding motivation and accountability, finding the support of people around you (or finding it online), learning to mindfully notice your urges to quit.These are all super important. But there’s another factor that most people overlook: how you feel about the change.This is what I’ve learned in the decade-plus since I’ve been doing this, for myself and helping other people:• If you’re not in the mood to take the small steps you need to make the change, you’ll probably procrastinate. Same if you’re overly tired.• If you feel excited about the change, you’ll take the steps.• If you miss a couple of days, you feel discouraged and are likely to not even want to think about it. We’re very good at avoiding thinking about uncomfortable things.• If you can keep the good feeling going, you’ll form a habit or make the change you want to make.• Other people can be discouraging, or they can be encouraging. This makes a lot of difference.• We ourselves can talk to ourselves (in our heads, what I call “self talk”) in a positive, encouraging way, or we can talk to ourselves in a negative, discouraging way.• It’s easy to get stuck in a negative mood, where you just don’t think you can do it and give up caring. Our minds tend towards the negative. We put up resistance whenever we think about making changes.• It’s also possible to get into a positive track, where you’re feeling great about the changes and want to keep going. This is amazing. But it doesn’t always last forever, so you have to be mindful of how you’re feeling.You can see from all of the above how important your attitude is, your mood, your feeling about the change. You can see that it’s affected by how you’re feeling each day, your tiredness and stress levels, how encouraging or discouraging other people are toward you, and how you talk to yourself.So putting all that together, let’s talk about some actions you can take to get better at this overlooked skill.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容How cultures around the world think about parentingBy Amy S. ChoiWhat can American parents learn from how other cultures look at parenting? A look at child-rearing ideas in Japan, Norway, Spain — and beyond.The crisis of American parenting, as anyone who has looked at the parenting section of a bookstore can attest, is that nobody knows what the hell they’re doing. Yet despite this lack of confidence and apparent absence of knowledge, many American parents zealously believe that their choices carve out their children’s futures. Indeed, they seek the advice of expert after expert in the field in order to succeed at one goal: to raise the happiest, the most successful, and the most well-adjusted leaders of the future.But what dangers lay in thinking that there is one “right” way to parent? How much of how we parent is actually dictated by our culture? How do the ways we parent express the essentialness of who we are, as a nation?“Americans have no script,” says Jennifer Senior (TED Talk: For parents, happiness is a very high bar), author of All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood. “We believe we get to invent our future, our opportunities and who are our children are going to be. Which is wonderful, but also very troubling.”In reporting her book, says Senior, when she asked mothers who they went to for parenting advice, they named friends, websites and books. None named their own mothers. Only the most current child-rearing strategies were desired, in order to best position their children for achievement in the future.In other words, that which is most American about us — our belief that the future is unwrit — is what is driving us mad as parents. Senior paraphrases Margaret Mead, who wrote this in 1942: In America, there are only this year’s children.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容How cultures around the world think about parentingBy Amy S. ChoiWhat can American parents learn from how other cultures look at parenting? A look at child-rearing ideas in Japan, Norway, Spain — and beyond.The crisis of American parenting, as anyone who has looked at the parenting section of a bookstore can attest, is that nobody knows what the hell they’re doing. Yet despite this lack of confidence and apparent absence of knowledge, many American parents zealously believe that their choices carve out their children’s futures. Indeed, they seek the advice of expert after expert in the field in order to succeed at one goal: to raise the happiest, the most successful, and the most well-adjusted leaders of the future.But what dangers lay in thinking that there is one “right” way to parent? How much of how we parent is actually dictated by our culture? How do the ways we parent express the essentialness of who we are, as a nation?“Americans have no script,” says Jennifer Senior (TED Talk: For parents, happiness is a very high bar), author of All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood. “We believe we get to invent our future, our opportunities and who are our children are going to be. Which is wonderful, but also very troubling.”In reporting her book, says Senior, when she asked mothers who they went to for parenting advice, they named friends, websites and books. None named their own mothers. Only the most current child-rearing strategies were desired, in order to best position their children for achievement in the future.In other words, that which is most American about us — our belief that the future is unwrit — is what is driving us mad as parents. Senior paraphrases Margaret Mead, who wrote this in 1942: In America, there are only this year’s children.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容How to do what you love and make good moneyBy Derek SiversThe problem:People with a well-paying job ask my advice because they want to quit to become full-time artists.But full-time artists ask my advice because they’re finding it impossible to make money.(Let’s define “art” as anything you do for expression, even just blogging or whatever.)The solution:For both of them, I prescribe the lifestyle of the happiest people I know:1. Have a well-paying job2. Seriously pursue your art for love, not moneyThe ingredients:Balance:You’ve heard about balancing heart and mind, or right-brain left-brain, or whatever you want to call it.We all have a need for stability and adventure, certainty and uncertainty, money and expression.Too much stability, and you get bored. Not enough, and you’re devastated. So keep the balance.Do something for love, and something for money. Don’t try to make one thing satisfy your entire life.In practice, then, each half of your life becomes a remedy for the other.You get paid and get stability for part of your day, but then need creative time for expression.So you push yourself creatively, expose your vulnerable darlings to the public, feel the frustration of rejection and apathy, and then long for some stability again.Each half a remedy for the other.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容How to do what you love and make good moneyBy Derek SiversThe problem:People with a well-paying job ask my advice because they want to quit to become full-time artists.But full-time artists ask my advice because they’re finding it impossible to make money.(Let’s define “art” as anything you do for expression, even just blogging or whatever.)The solution:For both of them, I prescribe the lifestyle of the happiest people I know:1. Have a well-paying job2. Seriously pursue your art for love, not moneyThe ingredients:Balance:You’ve heard about balancing heart and mind, or right-brain left-brain, or whatever you want to call it.We all have a need for stability and adventure, certainty and uncertainty, money and expression.Too much stability, and you get bored. Not enough, and you’re devastated. So keep the balance.Do something for love, and something for money. Don’t try to make one thing satisfy your entire life.In practice, then, each half of your life becomes a remedy for the other.You get paid and get stability for part of your day, but then need creative time for expression.So you push yourself creatively, expose your vulnerable darlings to the public, feel the frustration of rejection and apathy, and then long for some stability again.Each half a remedy for the other.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

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点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容How to Be More Interesting (in 1 Simple Step)It's challenging in the beginning. But like everything, it gets easier with practice.By Justin BarisoJessica Hagy wrote the book on being interesting.Literally.It all started with a piece she penned for Forbes a few years ago, entitled, How to Be More Interesting (In 10 Simple Steps). The article works not only because the advice is timeless (including recommendations like "explore ideas, places and opinions" and "hop off the bandwagon"), but because the simple illustrations are perfect complements. (Hagy's also an artist whose work has been translated into more than a dozen languages.)The article went viral. So, naturally, it was turned into a book.But Hagy's advice got me to thinking:There's a single action one could take, that actually rolls all ten of Hagy's steps into one. I've taken this action for years and people repeatedly point it out as a major strength, one that they both appreciate and have learned from.What is that single action?Assume that everyone else is interesting.How it WorksWhen you assume others are interesting, you're naturally drawn to learn more about them.You ask questions--not in an invasive or nosy way, but out of the most innocent of motives: curiosity. Where are you from? Where did you grow up? Where have you been? Those are three variations of one simple question, that could lead to hours of potential conversation--and easily draw an individual out.When you assume others are interesting, you don't dismiss their thoughts or opinions as wrong, or strange (even when everyone else does).Instead, you endeavor to understand why the person thinks and feels the way they do. And in doing so, that person is naturally intrigued about you. As a byproduct, the other person is more open to hear and consider your thoughts and opinions--even when they disagree with them.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容Mile Wide, Mile Deep by Steve PavlinaHave you ever heard the phrase “inch wide, mile deep” with respect to picking an area of focus for your education, career, website, business, etc? The idea here is that you should narrow your focus and concentrate on becoming highly skilled in one particular subfield. Then you’ll be able to carve out a space within your industry where you’re competent enough to compete… and hopefully make a good living.You can do that. It does work to a certain extent. But this article is about why you may not want to do that.You don’t have to use the inch wide, mile deep approach to niche down if it bothers you to do so. Many people have mixed feelings about it, and rightly so. There are some big consequences to consider.I don’t use this approach for my work because I don’t like the lifestyle consequences of sticking to one niche for so long. I’d be bored within a few years no matter what I picked, even if I picked something I love. I like variety too much. This life is precious to me, and while I love doing deep dives, I don’t want to be so myopically focused on any one aspect of life or business for so long that I miss out on exploring the other aspects that also interest me.You could say that my niche is personal growth, but that isn’t really a niche at all because anything fits into that huge space: productivity, relationships, career, finances, health, lifestyle, values, spirituality, social skills, and more. Name any topic you can think of, and I can link it to personal growth.Mile Wide, Mile DeepI prefer the mile wide, mile deep approach. It works well too, but the mindset and framework are different if you want to succeed with it. There are some consequences to accept, but you may actually like those consequences.To make this work in business, it’s important to focus on the long-term relationship with your audience instead of deliberately trying to nichify or brand yourself into a corner. You want to connect with them as human beings with lots of interests, problems, challenges, and desires – i.e. people just like you – not as monodimensional prospects who care about your niche.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容I tried the Chinese practice of ‘sitting the month’ after childbirthBy Leslie Hsu OhWhen my aunt learned I was pregnant with my fourth child, she begged me to respect the Chinese tradition of zuo yue zi, or “sitting the month.” Traced back to as early as the year 960, zuo yue zi is a set of diet and lifestyle restrictions practiced after birth to restore a woman’s “broken body.”Traditionally, your mother enforces zuo yue zi. But my mother died when I turned 21, and I was raised by a father who championed all things Chinese but ridiculed the zuo yue zi restrictions he’d heard about: Do not wash your hair. Do not take showers. Do not brush your teeth. Do not carry your newborn baby, climb stairs, shed tears, drink or eat cold foods. Do not have sex, use the air conditioner, leave the house, read, watch TV or surf the Internet.Zuo yue zi is somewhat controversial because the advice to take a month’s rest can be interpreted widely. For example, the ideas that one shouldn’t wash hair, take showers, brush teeth, use an air conditioner or leave the house all stem from the belief that childbirth brings significant amounts of fluid and blood loss. According to traditional Chinese medicine, blood carries chi, your “life force,” which fuels all the functions of the body. When you lose blood, you lose chi, and this causes your body to go into a state of yin (cold). When yin (cold) and yang (hot) are out of balance, your body will suffer physical disorders.Some folks, such as a woman in China who died of heatstroke last year, follow the restrictions to an extreme. Others are more relaxed, taking showers or using air conditioning as long as cold air does not blow directly on them.Born and raised in the United States and a graduate of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, I could not resist examining the evidence relating to zuo yue zi — and I found inconsistent results. On the plus side were findings that a long recovery period improved a mother’s health-related quality of life and led to better bonding with her child. But a 2014 study of Chinese women found that limiting physical activity for a month was bad for muscular and cardiovascular health and increased postpartum depression.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容Mile Wide, Mile Deep by Steve PavlinaHave you ever heard the phrase “inch wide, mile deep” with respect to picking an area of focus for your education, career, website, business, etc? The idea here is that you should narrow your focus and concentrate on becoming highly skilled in one particular subfield. Then you’ll be able to carve out a space within your industry where you’re competent enough to compete… and hopefully make a good living.You can do that. It does work to a certain extent. But this article is about why you may not want to do that.You don’t have to use the inch wide, mile deep approach to niche down if it bothers you to do so. Many people have mixed feelings about it, and rightly so. There are some big consequences to consider.I don’t use this approach for my work because I don’t like the lifestyle consequences of sticking to one niche for so long. I’d be bored within a few years no matter what I picked, even if I picked something I love. I like variety too much. This life is precious to me, and while I love doing deep dives, I don’t want to be so myopically focused on any one aspect of life or business for so long that I miss out on exploring the other aspects that also interest me.You could say that my niche is personal growth, but that isn’t really a niche at all because anything fits into that huge space: productivity, relationships, career, finances, health, lifestyle, values, spirituality, social skills, and more. Name any topic you can think of, and I can link it to personal growth.Mile Wide, Mile DeepI prefer the mile wide, mile deep approach. It works well too, but the mindset and framework are different if you want to succeed with it. There are some consequences to accept, but you may actually like those consequences.To make this work in business, it’s important to focus on the long-term relationship with your audience instead of deliberately trying to nichify or brand yourself into a corner. You want to connect with them as human beings with lots of interests, problems, challenges, and desires – i.e. people just like you – not as monodimensional prospects who care about your niche.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容I tried the Chinese practice of ‘sitting the month’ after childbirthBy Leslie Hsu OhWhen my aunt learned I was pregnant with my fourth child, she begged me to respect the Chinese tradition of zuo yue zi, or “sitting the month.” Traced back to as early as the year 960, zuo yue zi is a set of diet and lifestyle restrictions practiced after birth to restore a woman’s “broken body.”Traditionally, your mother enforces zuo yue zi. But my mother died when I turned 21, and I was raised by a father who championed all things Chinese but ridiculed the zuo yue zi restrictions he’d heard about: Do not wash your hair. Do not take showers. Do not brush your teeth. Do not carry your newborn baby, climb stairs, shed tears, drink or eat cold foods. Do not have sex, use the air conditioner, leave the house, read, watch TV or surf the Internet.Zuo yue zi is somewhat controversial because the advice to take a month’s rest can be interpreted widely. For example, the ideas that one shouldn’t wash hair, take showers, brush teeth, use an air conditioner or leave the house all stem from the belief that childbirth brings significant amounts of fluid and blood loss. According to traditional Chinese medicine, blood carries chi, your “life force,” which fuels all the functions of the body. When you lose blood, you lose chi, and this causes your body to go into a state of yin (cold). When yin (cold) and yang (hot) are out of balance, your body will suffer physical disorders.Some folks, such as a woman in China who died of heatstroke last year, follow the restrictions to an extreme. Others are more relaxed, taking showers or using air conditioning as long as cold air does not blow directly on them.Born and raised in the United States and a graduate of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, I could not resist examining the evidence relating to zuo yue zi — and I found inconsistent results. On the plus side were findings that a long recovery period improved a mother’s health-related quality of life and led to better bonding with her child. But a 2014 study of Chinese women found that limiting physical activity for a month was bad for muscular and cardiovascular health and increased postpartum depression.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容How to Be More Interesting (in 1 Simple Step)It's challenging in the beginning. But like everything, it gets easier with practice.By Justin BarisoJessica Hagy wrote the book on being interesting.Literally.It all started with a piece she penned for Forbes a few years ago, entitled, How to Be More Interesting (In 10 Simple Steps). The article works not only because the advice is timeless (including recommendations like "explore ideas, places and opinions" and "hop off the bandwagon"), but because the simple illustrations are perfect complements. (Hagy's also an artist whose work has been translated into more than a dozen languages.)The article went viral. So, naturally, it was turned into a book.But Hagy's advice got me to thinking:There's a single action one could take, that actually rolls all ten of Hagy's steps into one. I've taken this action for years and people repeatedly point it out as a major strength, one that they both appreciate and have learned from.What is that single action?Assume that everyone else is interesting.How it WorksWhen you assume others are interesting, you're naturally drawn to learn more about them.You ask questions--not in an invasive or nosy way, but out of the most innocent of motives: curiosity. Where are you from? Where did you grow up? Where have you been? Those are three variations of one simple question, that could lead to hours of potential conversation--and easily draw an individual out.When you assume others are interesting, you don't dismiss their thoughts or opinions as wrong, or strange (even when everyone else does).Instead, you endeavor to understand why the person thinks and feels the way they do. And in doing so, that person is naturally intrigued about you. As a byproduct, the other person is more open to hear and consider your thoughts and opinions--even when they disagree with them.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容Why we need to plan for a future without jobsAndy Stern spent his career organizing workers. Here’s why he thinks work is doomed.By Sean Illing The future of work in America is uncertain. What we know is that things are going to change. Technology will upend countless careers, workers across fields will be displaced, and it’s not entirely clear how many jobs will be replaced.When driverless trucks are manufactured at scale, which will happen far sooner than many realize (as soon as five years), America’s 3.5 million truck drivers will be dispensable. That doesn’t mean the profession of truck driving will disappear overnight, but it will shrink considerably. According to Morgan Stanley, autonomous technology will save the freight industry $168 billion annually, nearly half of which will come from staff reductions. What is true of the freight industry will be true of many others. We will enter what the Atlantic’s Derek Thompson called “an era of technological unemployment,” in which machines render human labor useless and inefficient. Andy Stern is the former president of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), which today represents close to 2 million workers in the United States and Canada. He resigned his post in 2010 and accepted a position as a senior fellow at Columbia University’s Richard Paul Richman Center for Business, Law and Public Policy. For the last year or so, Stern has argued that a universal basic income (UBI) is the best response to the social and economic disruption caused by technological change. UBI is a form of social security in which citizens receive an unconditional wage from the government. In his new book, Raising the Floor, Stern says a UBI will become essential as automation wreaks havoc on the labor 968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容Why we need to plan for a future without jobsAndy Stern spent his career organizing workers. Here’s why he thinks work is doomed.By Sean Illing The future of work in America is uncertain. What we know is that things are going to change. Technology will upend countless careers, workers across fields will be displaced, and it’s not entirely clear how many jobs will be replaced.When driverless trucks are manufactured at scale, which will happen far sooner than many realize (as soon as five years), America’s 3.5 million truck drivers will be dispensable. That doesn’t mean the profession of truck driving will disappear overnight, but it will shrink considerably. According to Morgan Stanley, autonomous technology will save the freight industry $168 billion annually, nearly half of which will come from staff reductions. What is true of the freight industry will be true of many others. We will enter what the Atlantic’s Derek Thompson called “an era of technological unemployment,” in which machines render human labor useless and inefficient. Andy Stern is the former president of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), which today represents close to 2 million workers in the United States and Canada. He resigned his post in 2010 and accepted a position as a senior fellow at Columbia University’s Richard Paul Richman Center for Business, Law and Public Policy. For the last year or so, Stern has argued that a universal basic income (UBI) is the best response to the social and economic disruption caused by technological change. UBI is a form of social security in which citizens receive an unconditional wage from the government. In his new book, Raising the Floor, Stern says a UBI will become essential as automation wreaks havoc on the labor 968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容The Bush Sisters Wrote the Obama Girls A LetterBy Barbara Bush and Jenna Bush HagerMalia and Sasha, eight years ago on a cold November day, we greeted you on the steps of the White House. We saw both the light and wariness in your eyes as you gazed at your new home. We left our jobs in Baltimore and New York early and traveled to Washington to show you around. To show you the Lincoln Bedroom, and the bedrooms that were once ours, to introduce you to all the people—the florists, the grounds-keepers and the butlers—who dedicate themselves to making this historic house a home. The four of us wandered the majestic halls of the house you had no choice but to move in to. When you slid down the banister of the solarium, just as we had done as 8-year-olds and again as 20-year-olds chasing our youth, your joy and laughter were contagious.In eight years, you have done so much. Seen so much. You stood at the gates of the Robben Island cell where South Africa’s Nelson Mandela was imprisoned for decades, your arms around your father. You traveled to Liberia and Morocco with your mom to talk with girls about the importance of education—girls who saw themselves in you, saw themselves in your parents, saw who they could become if they continued to study and learn. You attended state dinners, hiked in national parks, met international leaders and managed to laugh at your dad’s jokes during the annual Thanksgiving turkey pardon, all while being kids, attending school and making friends. We have watched you grow from girls to impressive young women with grace and ease.And through it all you had each other. Just like we did.Now you are about to join another rarified club, one of former First Children—a position you didn’t seek and one with no guidelines. But you have so much to look forward to. You will be writing the story of your lives, beyond the shadow of your famous parents, yet you will always carry with you the experiences of the past eight years.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容The Bush Sisters Wrote the Obama Girls A LetterBy Barbara Bush and Jenna Bush HagerMalia and Sasha, eight years ago on a cold November day, we greeted you on the steps of the White House. We saw both the light and wariness in your eyes as you gazed at your new home. We left our jobs in Baltimore and New York early and traveled to Washington to show you around. To show you the Lincoln Bedroom, and the bedrooms that were once ours, to introduce you to all the people—the florists, the grounds-keepers and the butlers—who dedicate themselves to making this historic house a home. The four of us wandered the majestic halls of the house you had no choice but to move in to. When you slid down the banister of the solarium, just as we had done as 8-year-olds and again as 20-year-olds chasing our youth, your joy and laughter were contagious.In eight years, you have done so much. Seen so much. You stood at the gates of the Robben Island cell where South Africa’s Nelson Mandela was imprisoned for decades, your arms around your father. You traveled to Liberia and Morocco with your mom to talk with girls about the importance of education—girls who saw themselves in you, saw themselves in your parents, saw who they could become if they continued to study and learn. You attended state dinners, hiked in national parks, met international leaders and managed to laugh at your dad’s jokes during the annual Thanksgiving turkey pardon, all while being kids, attending school and making friends. We have watched you grow from girls to impressive young women with grace and ease.And through it all you had each other. Just like we did.Now you are about to join another rarified club, one of former First Children—a position you didn’t seek and one with no guidelines. But you have so much to look forward to. You will be writing the story of your lives, beyond the shadow of your famous parents, yet you will always carry with you the experiences of the past eight years.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容Zen of Busy: Continual Letting Go When You’re OverwhelmedBY LEO BABAUTAThese past two weeks have been hectic and exhausting for me. My wife’s father passed away, and I’ve been in non-stop planning, coordinating, cooking, cleaning, driving around mode.Yesterday was the funeral, and it was a long, tiring and busy day. Incredibly sad, but busy.In the midst of this busyness, I’ve been trying to remember the practice of “continual letting go.”I see it as a Zen practice: whatever you think you know, let go of it. Whatever you are sure of, let go of it. My mantra is: You know nothing. The result is that when I remind myself of this, I try to see things from a fresh perspective. I realize that I think I know something but I don’t really, and so I try to see it as if I don’t know.What’s the point of this? By continually letting go, we don’t have to be so stressed out. When we realize we don’t know:• We don’t have to be mad when someone is acting in a way we don’t like.• We don’t have to have anxiety when we don’t know if things will go as planned or hoped. • We don’t have to have all the answers. We can have questions and curiosity instead.• We don’t have to get into a tense “No I’m right” battle with anyone else.• We don’t judge other people as much, so we can be open to who they are and have a good relationship with them.• We don’t have to control things, but can instead just try to be helpful without controlling the outcome.The benefit of this is that by continually letting go of what I think things should be, of what I think I know, of needing to have control or certainty … I can just let go and relax. I can do my best, but not stress out about it when things don’t go my way.I don’t have to be afflicted by anything. I can be busy, but not afflicted by that busyness. I can be tired, but not afflicted by the fact of my tiredness. I can have things go differently than I planned, but not be afflicted by that fact. The first conditions (busy, tired, things not going as planned) are not always in my control. But I can let go of knowing, and so not be afflicted by any of these conditions. Being afflicted by the conditions of life is what causes our real problems.So in the midst of tiredness, busyness, chaos … I try to remember to let go, continually.When someone comes to me with something unexpected, I try to let go of what I thought the situation was. Then I open up to this new situation, with fresh eyes.When someone is cross with me or grumpy, I try to let go of how I think they should be acting. And then be curious about why they’re acting that way, and love them in the midst of their suffering.When I’m tired and have a lot to do, I try to let go of the idea that I shouldn’t be tired or busy. Then I look at the situation with fresh eyes and realize that I can do these tasks despite the discomfort, out of love for my family.When things are messy or disorderly, not the way I like them, I try to let go of the way I think things should be. Then I try to see the situation with fresh eyes, understanding that there will always be chaos and mess, and that this too can be loved.I see that I’m stressed and holding onto the way I want things to be, and so I tell myself I know nothing. And I let go. Then something else comes up and tightness comes up in my body, and I notice this and try to let go. I breathe, smile, and open up. I see things as a beginner. It happens again and again, often from one moment to the next, and I try to continuously let go, let go, let go.And by letting go of what I know, I’m opening myself up to what’s in front of me. This unfolding moment of unexpectedness.And it is truly magnificent.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容Zen of Busy: Continual Letting Go When You’re OverwhelmedBY LEO BABAUTAThese past two weeks have been hectic and exhausting for me. My wife’s father passed away, and I’ve been in non-stop planning, coordinating, cooking, cleaning, driving around mode.Yesterday was the funeral, and it was a long, tiring and busy day. Incredibly sad, but busy.In the midst of this busyness, I’ve been trying to remember the practice of “continual letting go.”I see it as a Zen practice: whatever you think you know, let go of it. Whatever you are sure of, let go of it. My mantra is: You know nothing. The result is that when I remind myself of this, I try to see things from a fresh perspective. I realize that I think I know something but I don’t really, and so I try to see it as if I don’t know.What’s the point of this? By continually letting go, we don’t have to be so stressed out. When we realize we don’t know:• We don’t have to be mad when someone is acting in a way we don’t like.• We don’t have to have anxiety when we don’t know if things will go as planned or hoped. • We don’t have to have all the answers. We can have questions and curiosity instead.• We don’t have to get into a tense “No I’m right” battle with anyone else.• We don’t judge other people as much, so we can be open to who they are and have a good relationship with them.• We don’t have to control things, but can instead just try to be helpful without controlling the outcome.The benefit of this is that by continually letting go of what I think things should be, of what I think I know, of needing to have control or certainty … I can just let go and relax. I can do my best, but not stress out about it when things don’t go my way.I don’t have to be afflicted by anything. I can be busy, but not afflicted by that busyness. I can be tired, but not afflicted by the fact of my tiredness. I can have things go differently than I planned, but not be afflicted by that fact. The first conditions (busy, tired, things not going as planned) are not always in my control. But I can let go of knowing, and so not be afflicted by any of these conditions. Being afflicted by the conditions of life is what causes our real problems.So in the midst of tiredness, busyness, chaos … I try to remember to let go, continually.When someone comes to me with something unexpected, I try to let go of what I thought the situation was. Then I open up to this new situation, with fresh eyes.When someone is cross with me or grumpy, I try to let go of how I think they should be acting. And then be curious about why they’re acting that way, and love them in the midst of their suffering.When I’m tired and have a lot to do, I try to let go of the idea that I shouldn’t be tired or busy. Then I look at the situation with fresh eyes and realize that I can do these tasks despite the discomfort, out of love for my family.When things are messy or disorderly, not the way I like them, I try to let go of the way I think things should be. Then I try to see the situation with fresh eyes, understanding that there will always be chaos and mess, and that this too can be loved.I see that I’m stressed and holding onto the way I want things to be, and so I tell myself I know nothing. And I let go. Then something else comes up and tightness comes up in my body, and I notice this and try to let go. I breathe, smile, and open up. I see things as a beginner. It happens again and again, often from one moment to the next, and I try to continuously let go, let go, let go.And by letting go of what I know, I’m opening myself up to what’s in front of me. This unfolding moment of unexpectedness.And it is truly magnificent.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容I Think You're FatThis story is about something called Radical Honesty. It may change your life. (But honestly, we don't really care.)By A.J. JacobsHere's the truth about why I'm writing this article:I want to fulfill my contract with my boss. I want to avoid getting fired. I want all the attractive women I knew in high school and college to read it. I want them to be amazed and impressed and feel a vague regret over their decision not to have sex with me, and maybe if I get divorced or become a widower, I can have sex with them someday at a reunion. I want Hollywood to buy my article and turn it into a movie, even though they kind of already made the movie ten years ago with Jim Carrey.I want to get congratulatory e-mails and job offers that I can politely decline. Or accept if they're really good. Then get a generous counteroffer from my boss.To be totally honest, I was sorry I mentioned this idea to my boss about three seconds after I opened my mouth. Because I knew the article would be a pain in the ass to pull off. Dammit. I should have let my colleague Tom Chiarella write it. But I didn't want to seem lazy.What I mentioned to my boss was this: a movement called Radical Honesty.The movement was founded by a sixty-six-year-old Virginia-based psychotherapist named Brad Blanton. He says everybody would be happier if we just stopped lying. Tell the truth, all the time. This would be radical enough -- a world without fibs -- but Blanton goes further. He says we should toss out the filters between our brains and our mouths. If you think it, say it. Confess to your boss your secret plans to start your own company. If you're having fantasies about your wife's sister, Blanton says to tell your wife and tell her sister. It's the only path to authentic relationships. It's the only way to smash through modernity's soul-deadening alienation. Oversharing? No such thing.Yes. I know. One of the most idiotic ideas ever, right up there with Vanilla Coke and giving Phil Spector a gun permit. Deceit makes our world go round. Without lies, marriages would crumble, workers would be fired, egos would be shattered, governments would collapse.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容I Think You're FatThis story is about something called Radical Honesty. It may change your life. (But honestly, we don't really care.)By A.J. JacobsHere's the truth about why I'm writing this article:I want to fulfill my contract with my boss. I want to avoid getting fired. I want all the attractive women I knew in high school and college to read it. I want them to be amazed and impressed and feel a vague regret over their decision not to have sex with me, and maybe if I get divorced or become a widower, I can have sex with them someday at a reunion. I want Hollywood to buy my article and turn it into a movie, even though they kind of already made the movie ten years ago with Jim Carrey.I want to get congratulatory e-mails and job offers that I can politely decline. Or accept if they're really good. Then get a generous counteroffer from my boss.To be totally honest, I was sorry I mentioned this idea to my boss about three seconds after I opened my mouth. Because I knew the article would be a pain in the ass to pull off. Dammit. I should have let my colleague Tom Chiarella write it. But I didn't want to seem lazy.What I mentioned to my boss was this: a movement called Radical Honesty.The movement was founded by a sixty-six-year-old Virginia-based psychotherapist named Brad Blanton. He says everybody would be happier if we just stopped lying. Tell the truth, all the time. This would be radical enough -- a world without fibs -- but Blanton goes further. He says we should toss out the filters between our brains and our mouths. If you think it, say it. Confess to your boss your secret plans to start your own company. If you're having fantasies about your wife's sister, Blanton says to tell your wife and tell her sister. It's the only path to authentic relationships. It's the only way to smash through modernity's soul-deadening alienation. Oversharing? No such thing.Yes. I know. One of the most idiotic ideas ever, right up there with Vanilla Coke and giving Phil Spector a gun permit. Deceit makes our world go round. Without lies, marriages would crumble, workers would be fired, egos would be shattered, governments would collapse.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容Goals shape the present, not the future.By Derek SiversYou have a goal you’ve been putting off.You want to do it some day.You’ve been meaning to take real action on it, but could use more motivation.Let it go. It’s a bad goal.If it was a great goal, you would have jumped into action already. You wouldn’t wait. Nothing would stop you.Goals are not to improve the future. The future doesn’t really exist. It’s only in our imagination. All that really exists is the present moment, and what you do in it.Judge a goal by how well it changes your actions in the present moment.A bad goal makes you say, “I want to do that some day.” A great goal makes you take action immediately.A bad goal is foggy, vague, and distant. A great goal is so clear, specific, and close you can almost touch it. (This is crucial to keep you going.)A bad goal makes you say, “I’m not sure how to start.” With a great goal, you know exactly what needs to be done next. (Even if just a phone call.)A bad goal makes you say, “Let me sleep on it.” A great goal makes you say, “I can’t sleep! I was up until 2 doing this, then got up at 7 to do it some more.”A bad goal makes you say, “That’d be nice.” A great goal makes you say, “Oh my god! Yes! That would be amazing! I can’t wait!”A bad goal makes you say, “I’ll do it as soon as I do this other stuff.” A great goal is so interesting and important that you can’t be distracted.Some goals seem great. They impress your friends (“I’m going to bike across India”), satisfy an old wish (“I want to go into space”), or are good for you (“I’m going to lose 30 pounds”). But unless it changes your actions, right now, it’s not a great goal. Find another variation that excites you.Lastly, remember that the daily actions have to be exciting, too. “Speak fluent Italian” may sound nice, but “take Italian lessons an hour a day for two years” has to excite you just as much, or you’ll never stick with it.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容Goals shape the present, not the future.By Derek SiversYou have a goal you’ve been putting off.You want to do it some day.You’ve been meaning to take real action on it, but could use more motivation.Let it go. It’s a bad goal.If it was a great goal, you would have jumped into action already. You wouldn’t wait. Nothing would stop you.Goals are not to improve the future. The future doesn’t really exist. It’s only in our imagination. All that really exists is the present moment, and what you do in it.Judge a goal by how well it changes your actions in the present moment.A bad goal makes you say, “I want to do that some day.” A great goal makes you take action immediately.A bad goal is foggy, vague, and distant. A great goal is so clear, specific, and close you can almost touch it. (This is crucial to keep you going.)A bad goal makes you say, “I’m not sure how to start.” With a great goal, you know exactly what needs to be done next. (Even if just a phone call.)A bad goal makes you say, “Let me sleep on it.” A great goal makes you say, “I can’t sleep! I was up until 2 doing this, then got up at 7 to do it some more.”A bad goal makes you say, “That’d be nice.” A great goal makes you say, “Oh my god! Yes! That would be amazing! I can’t wait!”A bad goal makes you say, “I’ll do it as soon as I do this other stuff.” A great goal is so interesting and important that you can’t be distracted.Some goals seem great. They impress your friends (“I’m going to bike across India”), satisfy an old wish (“I want to go into space”), or are good for you (“I’m going to lose 30 pounds”). But unless it changes your actions, right now, it’s not a great goal. Find another variation that excites you.Lastly, remember that the daily actions have to be exciting, too. “Speak fluent Italian” may sound nice, but “take Italian lessons an hour a day for two years” has to excite you just as much, or you’ll never stick with it.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容Remember by Christina RossettiRemember me when I am gone away, Gone far away into the silent land;When you can no more hold me by the hand, Nor I half turn to go, yet turning stay.Remember me when no more day by day You tell me of our future that you plann’d:Only remember me; you understand It will be late to counsel then or pray.Yet if you should forget me for a while And afterwards remember, do not grieve:For if the darkness and corruption leave A vestige of the thoughts that once I had, Better by far you should forget and smile Than that you should remember and be sad.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容Remember by Christina RossettiRemember me when I am gone away, Gone far away into the silent land;When you can no more hold me by the hand, Nor I half turn to go, yet turning stay.Remember me when no more day by day You tell me of our future that you plann’d:Only remember me; you understand It will be late to counsel then or pray.Yet if you should forget me for a while And afterwards remember, do not grieve:For if the darkness and corruption leave A vestige of the thoughts that once I had, Better by far you should forget and smile Than that you should remember and be sad.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容A Month Without SugarBy David LeonhardtIt is in chicken stock, sliced cheese, bacon and smoked salmon, in mustard and salad dressing, in crackers and nearly every single brand of sandwich bread. It is all around us — in obvious ways and hidden ones — and it is utterly delicious.It’s sugar, in its many forms: powdered sugar, honey, corn syrup, you name it. The kind you eat matters less than people once thought, scientific research suggests, and the amount matters much more. Our national sugar habit is the driving force behind the diabetes and obesity epidemics and may be a contributing factor to cancer and Alzheimer’s.Like me, you’ve probably just finished a couple of weeks in which you have eaten a whole lot of tasty sugar. Don’t feel too guilty about it. But if you feel a little guilty about it, I’d like to make a suggestion.Choose a month this year — a full 30 days, starting now or later — and commit to eating no added sweeteners. Go cold turkey, for one month.I have done so in each of the last two years, and it has led to permanent changes in my eating habits. It wasn’t easy, but it was worth it. It reset my sugar-addled taste buds and opened my eyes to the many products that needlessly contain sugar. I now know which brands of chicken stock, bacon, smoked salmon, mustard and hot sauce contain added sugar and which do not.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容A Month Without SugarBy David LeonhardtIt is in chicken stock, sliced cheese, bacon and smoked salmon, in mustard and salad dressing, in crackers and nearly every single brand of sandwich bread. It is all around us — in obvious ways and hidden ones — and it is utterly delicious.It’s sugar, in its many forms: powdered sugar, honey, corn syrup, you name it. The kind you eat matters less than people once thought, scientific research suggests, and the amount matters much more. Our national sugar habit is the driving force behind the diabetes and obesity epidemics and may be a contributing factor to cancer and Alzheimer’s.Like me, you’ve probably just finished a couple of weeks in which you have eaten a whole lot of tasty sugar. Don’t feel too guilty about it. But if you feel a little guilty about it, I’d like to make a suggestion.Choose a month this year — a full 30 days, starting now or later — and commit to eating no added sweeteners. Go cold turkey, for one month.I have done so in each of the last two years, and it has led to permanent changes in my eating habits. It wasn’t easy, but it was worth it. It reset my sugar-addled taste buds and opened my eyes to the many products that needlessly contain sugar. I now know which brands of chicken stock, bacon, smoked salmon, mustard and hot sauce contain added sugar and which do not.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容Career Apathy by Steve PavlinaA bad career choice can serve up some major emotional consequences. First comes discontent and dissatisfaction. Next comes frustration and overwhelm. Then comes depression and learned helplessness. And finally you get numbness and apathy. This pattern normally plays out over a period of years, although the rate of progression is different for everyone.It’s sad to see people stuck in the numbness/apathy stage. This is especially common among people who’ve been on the wrong career path for 10 years or more. Apathy and denial become the primary coping mechanisms. When you see someone suffering from career apathy, you’ll almost always see lots of escapism. Their evenings and weekends — and even much of their work time — gets consumed by TV, computer games, internet addiction, idle chit chat, and so on. They may use a variety of methods to essentially check out from life. The person feels hopelessly trapped, but it’s too painful to deal with those feelings.When you look into the glazed-over eyes of someone suffering from career apathy, you can still see their soul peering out through a thick crust of denial, as if crying for help. It really gets to me when I see someone working as an office administrator, real estate agent, or paralegal, but I can see in their face that they have no love for what they do. However, if I talk to them about it, they’re going to feel worse, not better — at least initially — since the path out of apathy runs straight through the territory of negative emotions. Take a quick scan of the levels of consciousness scale, and you’ll see that in order to progress beyond apathy, you have to move through grief, fear, anger, etc. Basically you have to peel back the layers of soul-crushing negativity that you piled on in order to become apathetic in the first place, and as you do so, you’re going to experience those emotions again.It’s perfectly OK to admit you’re on the wrong path and to be uncertain and frustrated about what to do next. This is a very human situation. The benefit of dealing with those difficult feelings is that they’ll help you clarify what you do want, and therein lies the energy to pursue new opportunities for greater happiness and fulfillment. 968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容Career Apathy by Steve PavlinaA bad career choice can serve up some major emotional consequences. First comes discontent and dissatisfaction. Next comes frustration and overwhelm. Then comes depression and learned helplessness. And finally you get numbness and apathy. This pattern normally plays out over a period of years, although the rate of progression is different for everyone.It’s sad to see people stuck in the numbness/apathy stage. This is especially common among people who’ve been on the wrong career path for 10 years or more. Apathy and denial become the primary coping mechanisms. When you see someone suffering from career apathy, you’ll almost always see lots of escapism. Their evenings and weekends — and even much of their work time — gets consumed by TV, computer games, internet addiction, idle chit chat, and so on. They may use a variety of methods to essentially check out from life. The person feels hopelessly trapped, but it’s too painful to deal with those feelings.When you look into the glazed-over eyes of someone suffering from career apathy, you can still see their soul peering out through a thick crust of denial, as if crying for help. It really gets to me when I see someone working as an office administrator, real estate agent, or paralegal, but I can see in their face that they have no love for what they do. However, if I talk to them about it, they’re going to feel worse, not better — at least initially — since the path out of apathy runs straight through the territory of negative emotions. Take a quick scan of the levels of consciousness scale, and you’ll see that in order to progress beyond apathy, you have to move through grief, fear, anger, etc. Basically you have to peel back the layers of soul-crushing negativity that you piled on in order to become apathetic in the first place, and as you do so, you’re going to experience those emotions again.It’s perfectly OK to admit you’re on the wrong path and to be uncertain and frustrated about what to do next. This is a very human situation. The benefit of dealing with those difficult feelings is that they’ll help you clarify what you do want, and therein lies the energy to pursue new opportunities for greater happiness and fulfillment. 968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容DNA Is Not Destiny When It Comes To Heart RiskBy Richard HarrisYou can't choose your parents, so you can't help it if you're born with genes that increase your risk of heart disease. But a study finds that you can reduce that risk greatly with a healthful lifestyle.Scientists have been wondering whether that's the case. To find out, one international consortium looked at data from four large studies that had isolated genetic risk factors for heart disease.They identified genetic markers that seem to put people at nearly twice the risk for heart disease.The scientists then dug further into their data to look at behavior that helps the heart, as well as at the influence of obesity. Specifically, they looked at smoking habits, obesity, diet and exercise. People who were healthy — based on at least three of those criteria — were considered, for the purposes of the study, to be following a healthful lifestyle.The scientists were pleased to discover that the benefits of those good habits were strong, even for people who carried genetic traits that raised their risk. (Healthful habits actually benefited everyone, regardless of inherited risk.)968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容DNA Is Not Destiny When It Comes To Heart RiskBy Richard HarrisYou can't choose your parents, so you can't help it if you're born with genes that increase your risk of heart disease. But a study finds that you can reduce that risk greatly with a healthful lifestyle.Scientists have been wondering whether that's the case. To find out, one international consortium looked at data from four large studies that had isolated genetic risk factors for heart disease.They identified genetic markers that seem to put people at nearly twice the risk for heart disease.The scientists then dug further into their data to look at behavior that helps the heart, as well as at the influence of obesity. Specifically, they looked at smoking habits, obesity, diet and exercise. People who were healthy — based on at least three of those criteria — were considered, for the purposes of the study, to be following a healthful lifestyle.The scientists were pleased to discover that the benefits of those good habits were strong, even for people who carried genetic traits that raised their risk. (Healthful habits actually benefited everyone, regardless of inherited risk.)968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容Finding Stillness & MeaningBy Leo BabautaOnce you’ve filtered out the noise, you are left with a few interesting problems:1. Changing your habits of busyness and constant movement.2. Figuring out what’s meaningful.3. Learning to stop and stay still.I think those are wonderful problems to be faced with. Most people never even consider them. Find gratitude that you can work on this at all.Take some time to notice your constant need for busyness or distraction. For example, if you have a moment where you’re not doing anything — you’re waiting in line, you’re alone at your restaurant table while your friend goes to the bathroom, you’re sitting on your couch — what do you try to do out of habit? This is your pattern of busyness and movement.Now see if you can let go of those patterns. Catch yourself, and instead opt for stillness and quiet. Try to just sit there and notice your surroundings. Soak it all in. Savor the moment. Meditate on your breath. Reflect on your day. Ask yourself what you’re grateful for right now.Start building new patterns of stillness. For example, try morning meditation on your breath, even if just for a few minutes every day. Try going for a morning or evening walk, without your phone. Try turning the phone and computer off and just journal.Start finding activities that are more meaningful to you. This doesn’t have to be done in one day — you can slowly experiment to figure out what’s meaningful to you. You might start writing a book or screenplay, for example, or taking photos or drawing or making music. You might decide to start a business or charity that changes the world. You might start to learn something that’s meaningful, or teach others. Find ways to help others and make the world a better place. Journal, meditate, exercise, make healthy food, declutter, make dates with people who are important to you.When you notice yourself running to busyness and distraction, pause. Turn instead towards stillness and your meaningful activities.Build a life around stillness and meaning, and notice the difference it makes in you.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容Finding Stillness & MeaningBy Leo BabautaOnce you’ve filtered out the noise, you are left with a few interesting problems:1. Changing your habits of busyness and constant movement.2. Figuring out what’s meaningful.3. Learning to stop and stay still.I think those are wonderful problems to be faced with. Most people never even consider them. Find gratitude that you can work on this at all.Take some time to notice your constant need for busyness or distraction. For example, if you have a moment where you’re not doing anything — you’re waiting in line, you’re alone at your restaurant table while your friend goes to the bathroom, you’re sitting on your couch — what do you try to do out of habit? This is your pattern of busyness and movement.Now see if you can let go of those patterns. Catch yourself, and instead opt for stillness and quiet. Try to just sit there and notice your surroundings. Soak it all in. Savor the moment. Meditate on your breath. Reflect on your day. Ask yourself what you’re grateful for right now.Start building new patterns of stillness. For example, try morning meditation on your breath, even if just for a few minutes every day. Try going for a morning or evening walk, without your phone. Try turning the phone and computer off and just journal.Start finding activities that are more meaningful to you. This doesn’t have to be done in one day — you can slowly experiment to figure out what’s meaningful to you. You might start writing a book or screenplay, for example, or taking photos or drawing or making music. You might decide to start a business or charity that changes the world. You might start to learn something that’s meaningful, or teach others. Find ways to help others and make the world a better place. Journal, meditate, exercise, make healthy food, declutter, make dates with people who are important to you.When you notice yourself running to busyness and distraction, pause. Turn instead towards stillness and your meaningful activities.Build a life around stillness and meaning, and notice the difference it makes in you.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容Filter Out the NoiseBY LEO BABAUTAIt can seem like our lives are filled with busyness, noise, distractions, and often meaningless activities.What if we could filter out all that noise, and focus on the meaningful?What if we could find stillness instead of constant distraction?I believe that most of us have that power. In my experience, most of the noise is there by choice, but we’ve fallen into patterns over the years and it can seem like we’re not able to change them.Let’s talk about ways to filter out the noise, then how to find stillness and meaning.Ways to Filter the NoiseTake the rest of today to notice what noise you find in your life. Even take a little time to make a list, whenever you find distraction or busyness.For example, noise in my life comes from: email, Whatsapp, Snapchat, Twitter, blogs and other sites I like to read, text messages, Slack, and watching Netflix. You might have other sources: Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, news, cable TV.Once we’re aware of the noise, how can we filter it out? We have to decide that we want more quiet and meaning in our lives. That it’s important enough to “miss out” on some things in those noisy channels.Then we can take action:• Turn off notifications as much as possible. Including the unread messages count by each app on your phone.• Decide to check on some things (like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram) just once a day. Others you can check twice a day, or three times if needed (like email or Slack). But set a limit.• Delete accounts or delete apps that aren’t giving you real meaning (I deleted my Facebook account years ago).• Unsubscribe from everything possible in your email account. And from Twitter or any other app where you’re “following” people or blogs/websites. If you use an RSS reader, unsubscribe from as many feeds as possible. Leave only a handful that give you meaning.• Tell people that you are only checking your messages once a day, to set expectations. Don’t use an autoresponder — I find those annoying. Instead, just send a message to the people who matter most, and ask that they be understanding.• Set a time each day when you watch TV or movies (if at all). Set a time of day when you read news or blogs (if at all). If you say, “I only watch TV after 7 p.m.,” then you’ve limited how much space this takes up in your life.• If there are some things (like email, for example) where you need to stay connected because of work, try to negotiate with your boss or team so that you can find periods of disconnection. For example, ask if you can take a couple hours in the morning and a couple in the afternoon to be disconnected, to focus on more important work.If you take these actions, you’ll filter out most of the noise.What’s left? Time for quiet, stillness, focus and meaning.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容Filter Out the NoiseBY LEO BABAUTAIt can seem like our lives are filled with busyness, noise, distractions, and often meaningless activities.What if we could filter out all that noise, and focus on the meaningful?What if we could find stillness instead of constant distraction?I believe that most of us have that power. In my experience, most of the noise is there by choice, but we’ve fallen into patterns over the years and it can seem like we’re not able to change them.Let’s talk about ways to filter out the noise, then how to find stillness and meaning.Ways to Filter the NoiseTake the rest of today to notice what noise you find in your life. Even take a little time to make a list, whenever you find distraction or busyness.For example, noise in my life comes from: email, Whatsapp, Snapchat, Twitter, blogs and other sites I like to read, text messages, Slack, and watching Netflix. You might have other sources: Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, news, cable TV.Once we’re aware of the noise, how can we filter it out? We have to decide that we want more quiet and meaning in our lives. That it’s important enough to “miss out” on some things in those noisy channels.Then we can take action:• Turn off notifications as much as possible. Including the unread messages count by each app on your phone.• Decide to check on some things (like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram) just once a day. Others you can check twice a day, or three times if needed (like email or Slack). But set a limit.• Delete accounts or delete apps that aren’t giving you real meaning (I deleted my Facebook account years ago).• Unsubscribe from everything possible in your email account. And from Twitter or any other app where you’re “following” people or blogs/websites. If you use an RSS reader, unsubscribe from as many feeds as possible. Leave only a handful that give you meaning.• Tell people that you are only checking your messages once a day, to set expectations. Don’t use an autoresponder — I find those annoying. Instead, just send a message to the people who matter most, and ask that they be understanding.• Set a time each day when you watch TV or movies (if at all). Set a time of day when you read news or blogs (if at all). If you say, “I only watch TV after 7 p.m.,” then you’ve limited how much space this takes up in your life.• If there are some things (like email, for example) where you need to stay connected because of work, try to negotiate with your boss or team so that you can find periods of disconnection. For example, ask if you can take a couple hours in the morning and a couple in the afternoon to be disconnected, to focus on more important work.If you take these actions, you’ll filter out most of the noise.What’s left? Time for quiet, stillness, focus and meaning.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容Daffodils by William WordsworthI wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o’er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils;Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.Continuous as the stars that shine And twinkle on the milky way, They stretched in never-ending line Along the margin of a bay:Ten thousand saw I at a glance, Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.The waves beside them danced, but they Out-did the sparkling leaves in glee;A poet could not be but gay, In such a jocund company!I gazed and gazed but little thought What wealth the show to me had brought:For oft, when on my couch I lie In vacant or in pensive mood, They flash upon that inward eye Which is the bliss of solitude;And then my heart with pleasure fills, And dances with the daffodils.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容Daffodils by William WordsworthI wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o’er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils;Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.Continuous as the stars that shine And twinkle on the milky way, They stretched in never-ending line Along the margin of a bay:Ten thousand saw I at a glance, Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.The waves beside them danced, but they Out-did the sparkling leaves in glee;A poet could not be but gay, In such a jocund company!I gazed and gazed but little thought What wealth the show to me had brought:For oft, when on my couch I lie In vacant or in pensive mood, They flash upon that inward eye Which is the bliss of solitude;And then my heart with pleasure fills, And dances with the daffodils.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容At Home With Mark Zuckerberg And Jarvis, The AI Assistant He Built For His FamilyFacebook's CEO still loves to code. Here's an exclusive peek at his new project, which plays music, makes toast, and occasionally annoys his wife.By Daniel TerdimanWhen new engineers join Facebook—no matter whether they’re just out of college or VP-level veterans—they spend their first six weeks in Bootcamp, an intensive program designed to help them learn the ins and outs of the company’s massive code base and the always-evolving set of programming tools at their disposal.Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s original engineer, contributed more to that code than anyone else in the early years of its existence. But the 32-year-old CEO never went through the Bootcamp program, which was launched in 2006, two years after he founded the company in his Harvard dorm room.Last January, Zuckerberg announced that he planned to build an AI system to run his home using Facebook tools, in the latest of the personal-growth challenges he gives himself each year. An exciting exploration of the state of the art of AI—a technology field essential to Facebook’s future—the project also forced him to refresh his command of the company’s programming tools and processes. That in turn has reconnected him to the daily experience of the thousands of engineers he manages and the engineering culture that’s at the heart of one of the world’s most important technology companies.But being CEO of Facebook is not the kind of job you can abandon for six weeks in the interest of continuing education. "I didn’t go through a formal Bootcamp," Zuckerberg told me last week in the spacious living room of his classic 113-year-old wood-frame Palo Alto, California, home, where I've come for a Jarvis demo and the first interview he has given about this year's personal-challenge project. "But when I ask people questions, you can imagine that they respond pretty quickly."968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容At Home With Mark Zuckerberg And Jarvis, The AI Assistant He Built For His FamilyFacebook's CEO still loves to code. Here's an exclusive peek at his new project, which plays music, makes toast, and occasionally annoys his wife.By Daniel TerdimanWhen new engineers join Facebook—no matter whether they’re just out of college or VP-level veterans—they spend their first six weeks in Bootcamp, an intensive program designed to help them learn the ins and outs of the company’s massive code base and the always-evolving set of programming tools at their disposal.Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s original engineer, contributed more to that code than anyone else in the early years of its existence. But the 32-year-old CEO never went through the Bootcamp program, which was launched in 2006, two years after he founded the company in his Harvard dorm room.Last January, Zuckerberg announced that he planned to build an AI system to run his home using Facebook tools, in the latest of the personal-growth challenges he gives himself each year. An exciting exploration of the state of the art of AI—a technology field essential to Facebook’s future—the project also forced him to refresh his command of the company’s programming tools and processes. That in turn has reconnected him to the daily experience of the thousands of engineers he manages and the engineering culture that’s at the heart of one of the world’s most important technology companies.But being CEO of Facebook is not the kind of job you can abandon for six weeks in the interest of continuing education. "I didn’t go through a formal Bootcamp," Zuckerberg told me last week in the spacious living room of his classic 113-year-old wood-frame Palo Alto, California, home, where I've come for a Jarvis demo and the first interview he has given about this year's personal-challenge project. "But when I ask people questions, you can imagine that they respond pretty quickly."968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容How to thrive in an unknowable futureBy Derek Sivers1.Prepare for the worst.Since you have no idea what the future may bring, be open to the best and the worst.But the best case scenario doesn’t need your preparation or your attention.So mentally and financially prepare for the worst case, instead.Like insurance, don’t obsess on it. Just prepare, then carry on appreciating the good times.2. Expect disaster.Every biography of a successful person has that line, “And then, things took a turn for the worse.”Fully expect that disaster to come to you at any time.Completely assume it’s going to happen, and make your plans accordingly.Not just money, but health, family, freedom. Expect it all to disappear.Besides, you appreciate things more when you know this may be your last time seeing them.3. Own as little as possible.Depend on even less.The less you own, the less you’re affected by disaster.4. Choose opportunity, not loyalty.Have no loyalty to location, corporation, or your past public statements.Be an absolute opportunist, doing whatever is best for the future in the current situation, unbound by the past.Have loyalty for only your most important human relationships.5. Choose the plan with the most options.The best plan is the one that lets you change your plans.(Example: renting a house is buying the option to move at any time without losing money in a changing market.)6. Avoid planning.For maximum options, don’t plan at all.Since you have no idea how the situation or your mood may change in the future, wait until the last moment to make each decision.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容How to thrive in an unknowable futureBy Derek Sivers1.Prepare for the worst.Since you have no idea what the future may bring, be open to the best and the worst.But the best case scenario doesn’t need your preparation or your attention.So mentally and financially prepare for the worst case, instead.Like insurance, don’t obsess on it. Just prepare, then carry on appreciating the good times.2. Expect disaster.Every biography of a successful person has that line, “And then, things took a turn for the worse.”Fully expect that disaster to come to you at any time.Completely assume it’s going to happen, and make your plans accordingly.Not just money, but health, family, freedom. Expect it all to disappear.Besides, you appreciate things more when you know this may be your last time seeing them.3. Own as little as possible.Depend on even less.The less you own, the less you’re affected by disaster.4. Choose opportunity, not loyalty.Have no loyalty to location, corporation, or your past public statements.Be an absolute opportunist, doing whatever is best for the future in the current situation, unbound by the past.Have loyalty for only your most important human relationships.5. Choose the plan with the most options.The best plan is the one that lets you change your plans.(Example: renting a house is buying the option to move at any time without losing money in a changing market.)6. Avoid planning.For maximum options, don’t plan at all.Since you have no idea how the situation or your mood may change in the future, wait until the last moment to make each decision.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容Show Me Your Battle Scars by Steve PavlinaWhenever you set an ambitious goal, it’s virtually guaranteed you’ll encounter some roadblocks.There’s no reason to let that stop you though. A roadblock isn’t much of an obstacle for a human being. You can climb over it, walk around it, blow it up, get someone else to move it, or otherwise bypass it.Roadblocks do an outstanding job of frightening away the timid. But to those with a modicum of courage, roadblocks have very little power. When a committed person tackles a roadblock, the roadblock stands very little chance. After a little time spent hacking away at the roadblock, the universe will tend to do the equivalent of saying, “Well, alright then… I was just checking to see if you were serious. I won’t stand in your way anymore. You’re free to proceed.”Perhaps it’s a universal safety mechanism, something along the lines of survival of the fittest. Maybe the universe won’t allow weak-minded people to go too far down the path of goal achievement, since if they were to succeed in a big way, they’d just make a real mess of things. Strong-willed people are free to pass, while weak-minded ones get knocked back and have to train up a bit more.Time for a quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson:When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.So the question is… are you a timid adventurer? Has the world been scaring you away from setting and achieving some really big and meaningful goals?Let's see the battle 968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容Show Me Your Battle Scars by Steve PavlinaWhenever you set an ambitious goal, it’s virtually guaranteed you’ll encounter some roadblocks.There’s no reason to let that stop you though. A roadblock isn’t much of an obstacle for a human being. You can climb over it, walk around it, blow it up, get someone else to move it, or otherwise bypass it.Roadblocks do an outstanding job of frightening away the timid. But to those with a modicum of courage, roadblocks have very little power. When a committed person tackles a roadblock, the roadblock stands very little chance. After a little time spent hacking away at the roadblock, the universe will tend to do the equivalent of saying, “Well, alright then… I was just checking to see if you were serious. I won’t stand in your way anymore. You’re free to proceed.”Perhaps it’s a universal safety mechanism, something along the lines of survival of the fittest. Maybe the universe won’t allow weak-minded people to go too far down the path of goal achievement, since if they were to succeed in a big way, they’d just make a real mess of things. Strong-willed people are free to pass, while weak-minded ones get knocked back and have to train up a bit more.Time for a quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson:When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.So the question is… are you a timid adventurer? Has the world been scaring you away from setting and achieving some really big and meaningful goals?Let's see the battle 968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容The Trials of Apollo, Book One: The Hidden OracleBy Rick RiordanMY NAME IS APOLLO. I used to be a god. In my four thousand six hundred and twelve years, I have done many things. I inflicted a plague on the Greeks who besieged Troy. I blessed Babe Ruth with three home runs in game four of the 1926 World Series. I visited my wrath upon Britney Spears at the 2007 MTV Video Music Awards. But in all my immortal life, I never before crash-landed in a Dumpster. I’m not even sure how it happened. I simply woke up falling. Skyscrapers spiraled in and out of view. Flames streamed off my body. I tried to fly. I tried to change into a cloud or teleport across the world or do a hundred other things that should have been easy for me, but I just kept falling. I plunged into a narrow canyon between two buildings and BAM! Is anything sadder than the sound of a god hitting a pile of garbage bags?I lay groaning and aching in the open Dumpster. My nostrils burned with the stench of rancid bologna and used diapers. My ribs felt broken, though that shouldn’t have been possible. My mind stewed in confusion, but one memory floated to the surface—the voice of my father, Zeus: YOUR FAULT. YOUR PUNISHMENT. I realized what had happened to me. And I sobbed in despair.Even for a god of poetry such as myself, it is difficult to describe how I felt. How could you—a mere mortal—possibly understand? Imagine being stripped of your clothes, then blasted with a fire hose in front of a laughing crowd. Imagine the ice-cold water filling your mouth and lungs, the pressure bruising your skin, turning your joints to putty. Imagine feeling helpless, ashamed, completely vulnerable—publicly and brutally stripped of everything that makes you you. My humiliation was worse than that.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容The Trials of Apollo, Book One: The Hidden OracleBy Rick RiordanMY NAME IS APOLLO. I used to be a god. In my four thousand six hundred and twelve years, I have done many things. I inflicted a plague on the Greeks who besieged Troy. I blessed Babe Ruth with three home runs in game four of the 1926 World Series. I visited my wrath upon Britney Spears at the 2007 MTV Video Music Awards. But in all my immortal life, I never before crash-landed in a Dumpster. I’m not even sure how it happened. I simply woke up falling. Skyscrapers spiraled in and out of view. Flames streamed off my body. I tried to fly. I tried to change into a cloud or teleport across the world or do a hundred other things that should have been easy for me, but I just kept falling. I plunged into a narrow canyon between two buildings and BAM! Is anything sadder than the sound of a god hitting a pile of garbage bags?I lay groaning and aching in the open Dumpster. My nostrils burned with the stench of rancid bologna and used diapers. My ribs felt broken, though that shouldn’t have been possible. My mind stewed in confusion, but one memory floated to the surface—the voice of my father, Zeus: YOUR FAULT. YOUR PUNISHMENT. I realized what had happened to me. And I sobbed in despair.Even for a god of poetry such as myself, it is difficult to describe how I felt. How could you—a mere mortal—possibly understand? Imagine being stripped of your clothes, then blasted with a fire hose in front of a laughing crowd. Imagine the ice-cold water filling your mouth and lungs, the pressure bruising your skin, turning your joints to putty. Imagine feeling helpless, ashamed, completely vulnerable—publicly and brutally stripped of everything that makes you you. My humiliation was worse than that.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容Instead of Goals or Resolutions, Try Creating RulesBY LEO BABAUTAImplementing the RulesOf course, a rule is great in theory, but much harder to put into practice. So I’d like to make a few suggestions:1. Implement one at a time. When you’ve done one for a week or two, then implement another, but never have too many going at once. I’ve found that five fairly new ones are my max.2. Make each one small (5-20 minutes for something hard, up to 30 minutes for something easy).3. Don’t expect perfection — allow yourself to mess up, but try to do better.4. If you keep messing up, set up some accountability, or change your environment so it’s easier to implement.5. Don’t start with food rules. Food is the hardest, because we’re not really aware of all the things going on, like emotional eating or parts of our brain sending hormones to make us really hungry. When you do food rules, do one at a time, and try to change your environment so that there aren’t tempting foods all around you. If you can’t get rid of the foods, don’t go where they are very often.6. Mindfulness rules are the best to start with, because they make following the other rules easier.7. Set computer or phone reminders, or put up visual reminders like notes wherever the rule is supposed to happen.What you’ll find is that the rules need adjusting as you figure out what works for you and what doesn’t. You’ll find that you forget at first — in which case you should set reminders. You’ll find that some rules really need a change in environment, others might need accountability. What you’ll learn is that this is an incredible learning process, as you start to understand how you work best.Rules are small steps that add up to huge changes over time, and they’re ones that you’ll actually make happen. What one rule can you create today that will have a big impact on 968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容Instead of Goals or Resolutions, Try Creating RulesBY LEO BABAUTAImplementing the RulesOf course, a rule is great in theory, but much harder to put into practice. So I’d like to make a few suggestions:1. Implement one at a time. When you’ve done one for a week or two, then implement another, but never have too many going at once. I’ve found that five fairly new ones are my max.2. Make each one small (5-20 minutes for something hard, up to 30 minutes for something easy).3. Don’t expect perfection — allow yourself to mess up, but try to do better.4. If you keep messing up, set up some accountability, or change your environment so it’s easier to implement.5. Don’t start with food rules. Food is the hardest, because we’re not really aware of all the things going on, like emotional eating or parts of our brain sending hormones to make us really hungry. When you do food rules, do one at a time, and try to change your environment so that there aren’t tempting foods all around you. If you can’t get rid of the foods, don’t go where they are very often.6. Mindfulness rules are the best to start with, because they make following the other rules easier.7. Set computer or phone reminders, or put up visual reminders like notes wherever the rule is supposed to happen.What you’ll find is that the rules need adjusting as you figure out what works for you and what doesn’t. You’ll find that you forget at first — in which case you should set reminders. You’ll find that some rules really need a change in environment, others might need accountability. What you’ll learn is that this is an incredible learning process, as you start to understand how you work best.Rules are small steps that add up to huge changes over time, and they’re ones that you’ll actually make happen. What one rule can you create today that will have a big impact on 968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容Instead of Goals or Resolutions, Try Creating RulesBY LEO BABAUTAI’m convinced that creating goals or resolutions is hardwired into us, because we can’t stop making them. Unfortunately, we’re not as equipped for making the goals come true, and the pattern most of us have seen is that we start a goal with optimism, only to be disappointed when we haven’t done much after the first week or so.I’d like to suggest that you try creating rules that will make your goals happen.A rule in this case is an action you do after a specific event happens, as consistently as you can, which will lead to your goal happening.Some examples for different goals:• Write a book: When I turn on my computer, I will shut off the browser and all other programs but my text editor, and write for 20 minutes.• Learn Spanish: When I drive to and from work, I will listen to my Spanish tapes and practice.• Read more: When it’s 9:30 p.m., I turn off the computer, get ready for bed, and read my book.• Run a marathon: When my alarm goes off at 6 a.m., go out and do my run for today. Or stretch if it’s a rest day.• Lose weight: 1) When it’s breakfast, eat oats, cinnamon and berries. 2) When it’s lunch or dinner, eat black beans, brown rice, veggies, salsa and guacamole. 3) If I’m hungry in between, eat apples, carrots, or plain nuts. 4) Drink only tea or water, except a cup of coffee to start the day.• Be more mindful: When I wake up, I pee, drink a glass of water, then meditate for five minutes.None of these rules will get you all the way to the goal, but they’ll get you much farther than you are now.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容Instead of Goals or Resolutions, Try Creating RulesBY LEO BABAUTAI’m convinced that creating goals or resolutions is hardwired into us, because we can’t stop making them. Unfortunately, we’re not as equipped for making the goals come true, and the pattern most of us have seen is that we start a goal with optimism, only to be disappointed when we haven’t done much after the first week or so.I’d like to suggest that you try creating rules that will make your goals happen.A rule in this case is an action you do after a specific event happens, as consistently as you can, which will lead to your goal happening.Some examples for different goals:• Write a book: When I turn on my computer, I will shut off the browser and all other programs but my text editor, and write for 20 minutes.• Learn Spanish: When I drive to and from work, I will listen to my Spanish tapes and practice.• Read more: When it’s 9:30 p.m., I turn off the computer, get ready for bed, and read my book.• Run a marathon: When my alarm goes off at 6 a.m., go out and do my run for today. Or stretch if it’s a rest day.• Lose weight: 1) When it’s breakfast, eat oats, cinnamon and berries. 2) When it’s lunch or dinner, eat black beans, brown rice, veggies, salsa and guacamole. 3) If I’m hungry in between, eat apples, carrots, or plain nuts. 4) Drink only tea or water, except a cup of coffee to start the day.• Be more mindful: When I wake up, I pee, drink a glass of water, then meditate for five minutes.None of these rules will get you all the way to the goal, but they’ll get you much farther than you are now.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容Imitate. We are imperfect mirrors.By Derek SiversYou know that song you love, that you wish you wrote? Copy it.You know that existing business, that you wish you had thought of? Copy it.Why?Because humans are imperfect mirrors.Like a funhouse mirror that distorts what it reflects, even if you try to imitate something, it will turn out much different than the original. Maybe better.When a musician covers someone else’s song, they clearly reveal their own warped perspective, since we know what the original sounds like. Because of this, a cover song is actually a great way to define who you are as an artist.When a musician writes a new song, imitating someone else’s song, it’s usually unrecognizable. You have to tell people of its inspiration, for them to make the connection.So an entrepreneur can imitate someone else’s business, and still be adding a unique service to the world.---I resisted this lesson as long as I could. It offended my instincts as an artist. I felt that everything I did had to be 100% original. Everything “not invented here” was out of the question.Back in my CD Baby days, my only direct competitor had one awesome advantage: old fashioned credit card swiping machines that musicians could use to sell CDs at gigs, even without electricity or a 3G connection. Musicians would tell me how much they loved that service, and even told me they wished we had it too. I said, “Yeah. Damn. Oh well.” Because imitating their offering didn’t even enter my mind.It took a whole year for me to swallow my pride, and realize I’d be doing my clients a favor if I imitated that idea. It turned out to be one of the most successful things I ever did.Those little credit card swiping machines charged over $8.5 million for thousands of musicians, which meant $7.75 million paid out to the musicians, and $750k profit for us. And the whole thing only took two weeks to make, and one employee to run.---So look around at those existing ideas in the world.Get over that self-important resistance, and do the world a favor.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容Imitate. We are imperfect mirrors.By Derek SiversYou know that song you love, that you wish you wrote? Copy it.You know that existing business, that you wish you had thought of? Copy it.Why?Because humans are imperfect mirrors.Like a funhouse mirror that distorts what it reflects, even if you try to imitate something, it will turn out much different than the original. Maybe better.When a musician covers someone else’s song, they clearly reveal their own warped perspective, since we know what the original sounds like. Because of this, a cover song is actually a great way to define who you are as an artist.When a musician writes a new song, imitating someone else’s song, it’s usually unrecognizable. You have to tell people of its inspiration, for them to make the connection.So an entrepreneur can imitate someone else’s business, and still be adding a unique service to the world.---I resisted this lesson as long as I could. It offended my instincts as an artist. I felt that everything I did had to be 100% original. Everything “not invented here” was out of the question.Back in my CD Baby days, my only direct competitor had one awesome advantage: old fashioned credit card swiping machines that musicians could use to sell CDs at gigs, even without electricity or a 3G connection. Musicians would tell me how much they loved that service, and even told me they wished we had it too. I said, “Yeah. Damn. Oh well.” Because imitating their offering didn’t even enter my mind.It took a whole year for me to swallow my pride, and realize I’d be doing my clients a favor if I imitated that idea. It turned out to be one of the most successful things I ever did.Those little credit card swiping machines charged over $8.5 million for thousands of musicians, which meant $7.75 million paid out to the musicians, and $750k profit for us. And the whole thing only took two weeks to make, and one employee to run.---So look around at those existing ideas in the world.Get over that self-important resistance, and do the world a favor.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容The Lincoln LawyerBy Michael ConnellyOne Monday, March 7 The morning air off the Mojave in late winter is as clean and crisp as you’ll ever breathe in Los Angeles County. It carries the taste of promise on it. When it starts blowing in like that I like to keep a window open in my office. There are a few people who know this routine of mine, people like Fernando Valenzuela. The bondsman, not the baseball pitcher. He called me as I was coming into Lancaster for a nine o’clock calendar call. He must have heard the wind whistling in my cell phone. “Mick,” he said, “you up north this morning?” “At the moment,” I said as I put the window up to hear him better. “You got something?” “Yeah, I got something. I think I got a franchise player here. But his first appearance is at eleven. Can you make it back down in time?” Valenzuela has a storefront office on Van Nuys Boulevard a block from the civic center, which includes two courthouses and the Van Nuys jail. He calls his business Liberty Bail Bonds. His phone number, in red neon on the roof of his establishment, can be seen from the high-power wing on the third floor of the jail. His number is scratched into the paint on the wall next to every pay phone on every other ward in the jail. You could say his name is also permanently scratched onto my Christmas list. At the end of the year I give a can of salted nuts to everybody on it. Planters holiday mix. Each can has a ribbon and bow on it. But no nuts inside. Just cash. I have a lot of bail bondsmen on my Christmas list. I eat holiday mix out of Tupperware well into spring. Since my last divorce, it is sometimes all I get for dinner.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容The Lincoln LawyerBy Michael ConnellyOne Monday, March 7 The morning air off the Mojave in late winter is as clean and crisp as you’ll ever breathe in Los Angeles County. It carries the taste of promise on it. When it starts blowing in like that I like to keep a window open in my office. There are a few people who know this routine of mine, people like Fernando Valenzuela. The bondsman, not the baseball pitcher. He called me as I was coming into Lancaster for a nine o’clock calendar call. He must have heard the wind whistling in my cell phone. “Mick,” he said, “you up north this morning?” “At the moment,” I said as I put the window up to hear him better. “You got something?” “Yeah, I got something. I think I got a franchise player here. But his first appearance is at eleven. Can you make it back down in time?” Valenzuela has a storefront office on Van Nuys Boulevard a block from the civic center, which includes two courthouses and the Van Nuys jail. He calls his business Liberty Bail Bonds. His phone number, in red neon on the roof of his establishment, can be seen from the high-power wing on the third floor of the jail. His number is scratched into the paint on the wall next to every pay phone on every other ward in the jail. You could say his name is also permanently scratched onto my Christmas list. At the end of the year I give a can of salted nuts to everybody on it. Planters holiday mix. Each can has a ribbon and bow on it. But no nuts inside. Just cash. I have a lot of bail bondsmen on my Christmas list. I eat holiday mix out of Tupperware well into spring. Since my last divorce, it is sometimes all I get for dinner.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容To Those Who Are StrugglingBY LEO BABAUTAOn Twitter I met a struggling soul who shared a lack of friends, family, motivation, self-esteem and confidence.I feel for him because I know what it’s like to struggle, to feel down and even depressed, to have no motivation. I have suffered from confidence problems, many times.So I’m writing this for him, and all my fellow human beings who are struggling.You are struggling, maybe even hurting. And that is really difficult. It can feel hopeless, lonely, confining.These feelings are very real, and really hard. How do you climb out of this when you don’t have the motivation to change? How do you make friends who can help you if you don’t feel the self-esteem and confidence?I am sorry you’re hurting and struggling. But know that even if you feel alone, you are not alone. I, for one, am connected to you because I’m thinking of you, all of you. I’m connected to you because I too have suffered in similar ways. We have shared pain, shared hopelessness, shared loneliness.And it’s not just me: every single human being who is alive has felt this kind of pain, hopelessness, and loneliness at one time or another. We are all connected through this shared pain and struggle. We feel alone, and in this we are connected.The feeling of being alone, separated from the rest of the world, is an illusion. Sure, it’s an illusion that feels very very real. But it’s not true.Consider: you are supported by millions, even billions, of people. You are using electricity that is powered by an electric company, with thousands of employees working to give you that electricity. You drink water brought to you by yet more thousands of people. You eat food raised and harvested and brought to you by thousands of people. Brought to you on roads built and maintained by thousands of people, on vehicles (ships, trucks, cars, planes) built and run by thousands of people. You wear clothes, use gadgets, sit on furniture, all built and brought by thousands of people. And all those thousands and thousands of people are themselves supported similarly by thousands more.You are supported by millions of people, and those millions are supported by millions. The entire world supports each other. We became the people we’ve become only because we’ve had that support, we’ve connected to share ideas, learn from each other, serve each other.I believe this is a miracle. We each are supported by a miracle of connections to every other person on the planet. We feel alone, but it is only an illusion.The way to rise from this struggle is to turn from your own pain to the pain of others. Who else around you is struggling? How can you offer them love? How can you help them, ease their pain in some way?By turning outwards, toward the pain of others, we can fill our hearts with love for them, wanting nothing but happiness for them. Then, by this simple turning, we have hearts filled with love. I think that, too, is a miracle.I can’t take away your pain, but I can offer you two miracles: the love that comes from turning toward other human beings, and the connection we have to everyone on Earth. I feel connected to you, and my heart is filled with love for you.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容To Those Who Are StrugglingBY LEO BABAUTAOn Twitter I met a struggling soul who shared a lack of friends, family, motivation, self-esteem and confidence.I feel for him because I know what it’s like to struggle, to feel down and even depressed, to have no motivation. I have suffered from confidence problems, many times.So I’m writing this for him, and all my fellow human beings who are struggling.You are struggling, maybe even hurting. And that is really difficult. It can feel hopeless, lonely, confining.These feelings are very real, and really hard. How do you climb out of this when you don’t have the motivation to change? How do you make friends who can help you if you don’t feel the self-esteem and confidence?I am sorry you’re hurting and struggling. But know that even if you feel alone, you are not alone. I, for one, am connected to you because I’m thinking of you, all of you. I’m connected to you because I too have suffered in similar ways. We have shared pain, shared hopelessness, shared loneliness.And it’s not just me: every single human being who is alive has felt this kind of pain, hopelessness, and loneliness at one time or another. We are all connected through this shared pain and struggle. We feel alone, and in this we are connected.The feeling of being alone, separated from the rest of the world, is an illusion. Sure, it’s an illusion that feels very very real. But it’s not true.Consider: you are supported by millions, even billions, of people. You are using electricity that is powered by an electric company, with thousands of employees working to give you that electricity. You drink water brought to you by yet more thousands of people. You eat food raised and harvested and brought to you by thousands of people. Brought to you on roads built and maintained by thousands of people, on vehicles (ships, trucks, cars, planes) built and run by thousands of people. You wear clothes, use gadgets, sit on furniture, all built and brought by thousands of people. And all those thousands and thousands of people are themselves supported similarly by thousands more.You are supported by millions of people, and those millions are supported by millions. The entire world supports each other. We became the people we’ve become only because we’ve had that support, we’ve connected to share ideas, learn from each other, serve each other.I believe this is a miracle. We each are supported by a miracle of connections to every other person on the planet. We feel alone, but it is only an illusion.The way to rise from this struggle is to turn from your own pain to the pain of others. Who else around you is struggling? How can you offer them love? How can you help them, ease their pain in some way?By turning outwards, toward the pain of others, we can fill our hearts with love for them, wanting nothing but happiness for them. Then, by this simple turning, we have hearts filled with love. I think that, too, is a miracle.I can’t take away your pain, but I can offer you two miracles: the love that comes from turning toward other human beings, and the connection we have to everyone on Earth. I feel connected to you, and my heart is filled with love for you.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容Robots won’t kill the workforce. They’ll save the global economy.Across the world, the labor pool isn't growing fast enough to support our needs.By Ruchir Sharma The United Nations forecasts that the global population will rise from 7.3 billion to nearly 10 billion by 2050, a big number that often prompts warnings about overpopulation. Some have come from neo-Malthusians, who fear that population growth will outstrip the food supply, leaving a hungry planet. Others appear in the tirades of anti-immigrant populists, invoking the specter of a rising tide of humanity as cause to slam borders shut. Still others inspire a chorus of neo-Luddites, who fear that the “rise of the robots” is rapidly making human workers obsolete, a threat all the more alarming if the human population is exploding.Before long, though, we’re more likely to treasure robots than to revile them. They may be the one thing that can protect the global economy from the dangers that lie ahead.An increase of 2.5 billion people may sound catastrophic. But what matters for economic growth is not the number of people but the rate of population growth. Since its peak in the 1960s, that rate has slumped by almost half to just 1 percent, and the U.N. forecast assumes that this slowdown will continue. Women are having fewer children, so fewer people are entering the working ages between 15 and 64, and labor-force growth is poised to decline from Chile to China. At the same time, owing to rapid advances in health care and medicine, people are living longer , and most of the coming global population increase will be among the retirement crowd. These trends are toxic for economic growth, and boosting the number of robots may be the easiest answer for many countries.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容Robots won’t kill the workforce. They’ll save the global economy.Across the world, the labor pool isn't growing fast enough to support our needs.By Ruchir Sharma The United Nations forecasts that the global population will rise from 7.3 billion to nearly 10 billion by 2050, a big number that often prompts warnings about overpopulation. Some have come from neo-Malthusians, who fear that population growth will outstrip the food supply, leaving a hungry planet. Others appear in the tirades of anti-immigrant populists, invoking the specter of a rising tide of humanity as cause to slam borders shut. Still others inspire a chorus of neo-Luddites, who fear that the “rise of the robots” is rapidly making human workers obsolete, a threat all the more alarming if the human population is exploding.Before long, though, we’re more likely to treasure robots than to revile them. They may be the one thing that can protect the global economy from the dangers that lie ahead.An increase of 2.5 billion people may sound catastrophic. But what matters for economic growth is not the number of people but the rate of population growth. Since its peak in the 1960s, that rate has slumped by almost half to just 1 percent, and the U.N. forecast assumes that this slowdown will continue. Women are having fewer children, so fewer people are entering the working ages between 15 and 64, and labor-force growth is poised to decline from Chile to China. At the same time, owing to rapid advances in health care and medicine, people are living longer , and most of the coming global population increase will be among the retirement crowd. These trends are toxic for economic growth, and boosting the number of robots may be the easiest answer for many countries.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容A Visit from St. NicholasBY CLEMENT CLARKE MOORE'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse; The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there; The children were nestled all snug in their beds; While visions of sugar-plums danced in their heads; And mamma in her 'kerchief, and I in my cap, Had just settled our brains for a long winter's nap, When out on the lawn there arose such a clatter, I sprang from my bed to see what was the matter. Away to the window I flew like a flash, Tore open the shutters and threw up the sash. The moon on the breast of the new-fallen snow, Gave a lustre of midday to objects below, When what to my wondering eyes did appear, But a miniature sleigh and eight tiny rein-deer, With a little old driver so lively and quick, I knew in a moment he must be St. Nick. More rapid than eagles his coursers they came, And he whistled, and shouted, and called them by name: "Now, Dasher! now, Dancer! now Prancer and Vixen! On, Comet! on, Cupid! on, Donner and Blitzen! To the top of the porch! to the top of the wall! Now dash away! dash away! dash away all!" As leaves that before the wild hurricane fly, When they meet with an obstacle, mount to the sky; So up to the housetop the coursers they flew With the sleigh full of toys, and St. Nicholas too— And then, in a twinkling, I heard on the roof The prancing and pawing of each little hoof. As I drew in my head, and was turning around, Down the chimney St. Nicholas came with a bound. He was dressed all in fur, from his head to his foot, And his clothes were all tarnished with ashes and soot; A bundle of toys he had flung on his back, And he looked like a pedler just opening his pack. His eyes—how they twinkled! his dimples, how merry! His cheeks were like roses, his nose like a cherry! His droll little mouth was drawn up like a bow, And the beard on his chin was as white as the snow; The stump of a pipe he held tight in his teeth, And the smoke, it encircled his head like a wreath; He had a broad face and a little round belly That shook when he laughed, like a bowl full of jelly. He was chubby and plump, a right jolly old elf, And I laughed when I saw him, in spite of myself; A wink of his eye and a twist of his head Soon gave me to know I had nothing to dread; He spoke not a word, but went straight to his work, And filled all the stockings; then turned with a jerk, And laying his finger aside of his nose, And giving a nod, up the chimney he rose; He sprang to his sleigh, to his team gave a whistle, And away they all flew like the down of a thistle. But I heard him exclaim, ere he drove out of sight— “Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good night!”968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容A Visit from St. NicholasBY CLEMENT CLARKE MOORE'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse; The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there; The children were nestled all snug in their beds; While visions of sugar-plums danced in their heads; And mamma in her 'kerchief, and I in my cap, Had just settled our brains for a long winter's nap, When out on the lawn there arose such a clatter, I sprang from my bed to see what was the matter. Away to the window I flew like a flash, Tore open the shutters and threw up the sash. The moon on the breast of the new-fallen snow, Gave a lustre of midday to objects below, When what to my wondering eyes did appear, But a miniature sleigh and eight tiny rein-deer, With a little old driver so lively and quick, I knew in a moment he must be St. Nick. More rapid than eagles his coursers they came, And he whistled, and shouted, and called them by name: "Now, Dasher! now, Dancer! now Prancer and Vixen! On, Comet! on, Cupid! on, Donner and Blitzen! To the top of the porch! to the top of the wall! Now dash away! dash away! dash away all!" As leaves that before the wild hurricane fly, When they meet with an obstacle, mount to the sky; So up to the housetop the coursers they flew With the sleigh full of toys, and St. Nicholas too— And then, in a twinkling, I heard on the roof The prancing and pawing of each little hoof. As I drew in my head, and was turning around, Down the chimney St. Nicholas came with a bound. He was dressed all in fur, from his head to his foot, And his clothes were all tarnished with ashes and soot; A bundle of toys he had flung on his back, And he looked like a pedler just opening his pack. His eyes—how they twinkled! his dimples, how merry! His cheeks were like roses, his nose like a cherry! His droll little mouth was drawn up like a bow, And the beard on his chin was as white as the snow; The stump of a pipe he held tight in his teeth, And the smoke, it encircled his head like a wreath; He had a broad face and a little round belly That shook when he laughed, like a bowl full of jelly. He was chubby and plump, a right jolly old elf, And I laughed when I saw him, in spite of myself; A wink of his eye and a twist of his head Soon gave me to know I had nothing to dread; He spoke not a word, but went straight to his work, And filled all the stockings; then turned with a jerk, And laying his finger aside of his nose, And giving a nod, up the chimney he rose; He sprang to his sleigh, to his team gave a whistle, And away they all flew like the down of a thistle. But I heard him exclaim, ere he drove out of sight— “Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good night!”968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容Tilting my mirror (motivation is delicate)By Derek SiversMotivation is delicate.When you notice your motivation dying, you have to seek out the subtle cause.Then a simple tweak can make all the difference between achieving something or not.An hour outside my city, there’s a little mountain range. It’s gorgeous on the other side.But the road that crosses the mountains is very twisted, with sharp turns every few seconds. The first two times I drove across it, my kid threw up in the back seat.It’s also stressful. I’m surrounded by gorgeous mountain scenery, but I can’t take my eyes off the winding road.Though I drive at a normal speed, the other cars follow impatiently on my tail, because many of them drive this road every day.It’s only a half hour to cross, but I always arrive pretty drained. The stress was affecting my motivation enough that I wanted to stop visiting.So one day I tried a new approach. I drove really slowly.Now the turns didn’t make my kid sick. Now I could afford to take a few seconds to glance sideways and appreciate the scenery.Now it wasn’t stressful, except for one thing: the impatient queue of cars behind me. I care (perhaps too much) about other people, so just seeing them in my mirror made me go back to driving faster than I wanted, which brought back all the original problems.So I made one simple tweak:I tilted my rear view mirror up towards the ceiling, so I couldn’t see anything behind me.Ahhh... Instantly relaxed.Now it feels like I’m almost alone on this gorgeous mountain drive. Going at my own pace, not influenced or stressed by anyone else.There’s a passing lane every few minutes, so when it comes, the other cars whiz by me. For 30 minutes, they’re not my problem. When I get to the other side, I put my mirror back.Now I go visit all the time, no stress at all.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容Tilting my mirror (motivation is delicate)By Derek SiversMotivation is delicate.When you notice your motivation dying, you have to seek out the subtle cause.Then a simple tweak can make all the difference between achieving something or not.An hour outside my city, there’s a little mountain range. It’s gorgeous on the other side.But the road that crosses the mountains is very twisted, with sharp turns every few seconds. The first two times I drove across it, my kid threw up in the back seat.It’s also stressful. I’m surrounded by gorgeous mountain scenery, but I can’t take my eyes off the winding road.Though I drive at a normal speed, the other cars follow impatiently on my tail, because many of them drive this road every day.It’s only a half hour to cross, but I always arrive pretty drained. The stress was affecting my motivation enough that I wanted to stop visiting.So one day I tried a new approach. I drove really slowly.Now the turns didn’t make my kid sick. Now I could afford to take a few seconds to glance sideways and appreciate the scenery.Now it wasn’t stressful, except for one thing: the impatient queue of cars behind me. I care (perhaps too much) about other people, so just seeing them in my mirror made me go back to driving faster than I wanted, which brought back all the original problems.So I made one simple tweak:I tilted my rear view mirror up towards the ceiling, so I couldn’t see anything behind me.Ahhh... Instantly relaxed.Now it feels like I’m almost alone on this gorgeous mountain drive. Going at my own pace, not influenced or stressed by anyone else.There’s a passing lane every few minutes, so when it comes, the other cars whiz by me. For 30 minutes, they’re not my problem. When I get to the other side, I put my mirror back.Now I go visit all the time, no stress at all.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容INSIDE NIKE’S QUEST FOR THE IMPOSSIBLE: A TWO-HOUR MARATHONBy Ed CaesarTHE WORLD RECORD for a marathon, set by Dennis Kimetto of Kenya in Berlin in September 2014, stands at two hours, two minutes, and 57 seconds. If that number means nothing to you, understand this: running 26.2 miles in 2:02:57 is absurdly fast. The speed required, a little under 13 mph for a little over two hours, is unimaginable for all but a few of the world’s very best marathoners, and it causes even those East African supermen to glimpse the abyss. I remember watching Kimetto’s mouth pursed with agony as he approached the Brandenburg Gate on the cool, sunny day he broke the record, and thinking he might split in two from the effort.He won, of course, beating by 26 seconds the record Wilson Kipsang had set the previous year. But even Kimetto, with his giant heart and ostrich legs, still fell well short of a barrier long thought impregnable, at least for this generation of athletes: to run a marathon in under two hours. Today, after two years of preparation and research, Nike is announcing a project called Breaking2 that has a single goal: to break the two-hour mark in a special marathon planned for the spring of 2017. If the attempt is successful, it will be the most significant moment for running since Roger Bannister’s first sub-four-minute mile in 1954. Nike calls the project its “Mission to Mars,” and its team of designers, scientists, coaches, and statisticians believes that on a specially designated course in an as-yet undetermined location, it can propel at least one world-class athlete, and possibly three, to shave three percent from Kimetto’s world 968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容INSIDE NIKE’S QUEST FOR THE IMPOSSIBLE: A TWO-HOUR MARATHONBy Ed CaesarTHE WORLD RECORD for a marathon, set by Dennis Kimetto of Kenya in Berlin in September 2014, stands at two hours, two minutes, and 57 seconds. If that number means nothing to you, understand this: running 26.2 miles in 2:02:57 is absurdly fast. The speed required, a little under 13 mph for a little over two hours, is unimaginable for all but a few of the world’s very best marathoners, and it causes even those East African supermen to glimpse the abyss. I remember watching Kimetto’s mouth pursed with agony as he approached the Brandenburg Gate on the cool, sunny day he broke the record, and thinking he might split in two from the effort.He won, of course, beating by 26 seconds the record Wilson Kipsang had set the previous year. But even Kimetto, with his giant heart and ostrich legs, still fell well short of a barrier long thought impregnable, at least for this generation of athletes: to run a marathon in under two hours. Today, after two years of preparation and research, Nike is announcing a project called Breaking2 that has a single goal: to break the two-hour mark in a special marathon planned for the spring of 2017. If the attempt is successful, it will be the most significant moment for running since Roger Bannister’s first sub-four-minute mile in 1954. Nike calls the project its “Mission to Mars,” and its team of designers, scientists, coaches, and statisticians believes that on a specially designated course in an as-yet undetermined location, it can propel at least one world-class athlete, and possibly three, to shave three percent from Kimetto’s world 968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容The HobbitBy J.R.R. Tolkien Chapter I AN UNEXPECTED PARTY In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort. It had a perfectly round door like a porthole, painted green, with a shiny yellow brass knob in the exact middle. The door opened on to a tube-shaped hall like a tunnel: a very comfortable tunnel without smoke, with panelled walls, and floors tiled and carpeted, provided with polished chairs, and lots and lots of pegs for hats and coats—the hobbit was fond of visitors. The tunnel wound on and on, going fairly but not quite straight into the side of the hill—The Hill, as all the people for many miles round called it—and many little round doors opened out of it, first on one side and then on another. No going upstairs for the hobbit: bedrooms, bathrooms, cellars, pantries (lots of these), wardrobes (he had whole rooms devoted to clothes), kitchens, dining-rooms, all were on the same floor, and indeed on the same passage. The best rooms were all on the left-hand side (going in), for these were the only ones to have windows, deep-set round windows looking over his garden, and meadows beyond, sloping down to the river.This hobbit was a very well-to-do hobbit, and his name was Baggins. The Bagginses had lived in the neighbourhood of The Hill for time out of mind, and people considered them very respectable, not only because most of them were rich, but also because they never had any adventures or did anything unexpected: you could tell what a Baggins would say on any question without the bother of asking him. This is a story of how a Baggins had an adventure, and found himself doing and saying things altogether unexpected. He may have lost the neighbours’ respect, but he gained—well, you will see whether he gained anything in the end.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容The HobbitBy J.R.R. Tolkien Chapter I AN UNEXPECTED PARTY In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort. It had a perfectly round door like a porthole, painted green, with a shiny yellow brass knob in the exact middle. The door opened on to a tube-shaped hall like a tunnel: a very comfortable tunnel without smoke, with panelled walls, and floors tiled and carpeted, provided with polished chairs, and lots and lots of pegs for hats and coats—the hobbit was fond of visitors. The tunnel wound on and on, going fairly but not quite straight into the side of the hill—The Hill, as all the people for many miles round called it—and many little round doors opened out of it, first on one side and then on another. No going upstairs for the hobbit: bedrooms, bathrooms, cellars, pantries (lots of these), wardrobes (he had whole rooms devoted to clothes), kitchens, dining-rooms, all were on the same floor, and indeed on the same passage. The best rooms were all on the left-hand side (going in), for these were the only ones to have windows, deep-set round windows looking over his garden, and meadows beyond, sloping down to the river.This hobbit was a very well-to-do hobbit, and his name was Baggins. The Bagginses had lived in the neighbourhood of The Hill for time out of mind, and people considered them very respectable, not only because most of them were rich, but also because they never had any adventures or did anything unexpected: you could tell what a Baggins would say on any question without the bother of asking him. This is a story of how a Baggins had an adventure, and found himself doing and saying things altogether unexpected. He may have lost the neighbours’ respect, but he gained—well, you will see whether he gained anything in the end.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容Of Studiesby Francis BaconStudies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight is in privateness and retiring; for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business. For expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one; but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling of affairs, come best from those that are learned. To spend too much time in studies is sloth; to use them too much for ornament, is affectation; to make judgment wholly by their rules, is the humor of a scholar. They perfect nature, and are perfected by experience: for natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning, by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience. Crafty men condemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them; for they teach not their own use; but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation. Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention. Some books also may be read by deputy, and extracts made of them by others; but that would be only in the less important arguments, and the meaner sort of books, else distilled books are like common distilled waters, flashy things. Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit: and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics subtle; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoricable to contend. Abeunt studia in mores [Studies pass into and influence manners]. Nay, there is no stone or impediment in the wit but may be wrought out by fit studies; like as diseases of the body may have appropriate exercises. Bowling is good for the stone and reins; shooting for the lungs and breast; gentle walking for the stomach; riding for the head; and the like. So if a man’s wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again. If his wit be not apt to distinguish or find differences, let him study the Schoolmen; for they are cymini sectores [splitters of hairs]. If he be not apt to beat over matters, and to call up one thing to prove and illustrate another, let him study the lawyers’ cases. So every defect of the mind may have a special receipt.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容Of Studiesby Francis BaconStudies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight is in privateness and retiring; for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business. For expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one; but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling of affairs, come best from those that are learned. To spend too much time in studies is sloth; to use them too much for ornament, is affectation; to make judgment wholly by their rules, is the humor of a scholar. They perfect nature, and are perfected by experience: for natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning, by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience. Crafty men condemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them; for they teach not their own use; but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation. Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention. Some books also may be read by deputy, and extracts made of them by others; but that would be only in the less important arguments, and the meaner sort of books, else distilled books are like common distilled waters, flashy things. Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit: and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics subtle; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoricable to contend. Abeunt studia in mores [Studies pass into and influence manners]. Nay, there is no stone or impediment in the wit but may be wrought out by fit studies; like as diseases of the body may have appropriate exercises. Bowling is good for the stone and reins; shooting for the lungs and breast; gentle walking for the stomach; riding for the head; and the like. So if a man’s wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again. If his wit be not apt to distinguish or find differences, let him study the Schoolmen; for they are cymini sectores [splitters of hairs]. If he be not apt to beat over matters, and to call up one thing to prove and illustrate another, let him study the lawyers’ cases. So every defect of the mind may have a special receipt.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容Are GPS Apps Messing With Our Brains? Something to think about as you hit the road for the holidays.By Måns SwanbergAbout 15 years ago, anthropologist Claudio Aporta and philosopher Eric Higgs traveled to Igloolik, a remote island in far northeast Canada, to answer an intriguing question: How might newly introduced GPS devices affect the island's Inuit hunters, who possessed some of the sharpest wayfinding skills on Earth?You don't want to get lost on Igloolik. The proximity of magnetic north makes compasses fickle. The land can appear utterly featureless, especially in winter, when the cold—like a cat watching a mouse, "waiting patiently to see if he would make a mistake," as explorer R.M. Patterson once put it—can make the smallest mishap fatal. During the summer, when Inuit hunters stalk walrus by boat, sea fog can close so tight around a vessel that anyone lacking GPS must drop anchor, lest they run aground, or steer out to sea and risk running out of fuel.To navigate this murk, Igloolik's hunters had long attended closely to not just stars and landmarks, but patterns of wind, snowdrift, current, animal behavior, and light. They read as much in the wind's snow sculptures as Polynesian sailors read in constellations and tides. They had no formal training and rarely used paper maps. Yet the best hunters carried in their heads extraordinarily intricate maps of the landscape, constructed through decades of experience and tutelage. During a break in travel, a veteran hunter might ask novices to describe the location of a place, and nudge his protégés along as they worked out the problem aloud. This was easier when the Inuit traveled by dogsled—no engine noise—but it still happens in the snow-machine age.Like the snowmobile, GPS offered the hunters irresistible advantages. They could travel more safely through terrestrial whiteouts or ocean fog. If a snowmobile conked out or a hunting party had to stash food or equipment, GPS made it easy to mark the spot and find it later. And the hunters always knew the way home. But within a few short years, as Aporta and Higgs documented, the GPS units revealed some sharp limitations. In winter, the batteries quickly failed unless the devices were kept against the body under much clothing. The units themselves were devilishly hard to operate with gloves or mittens, and their screens iced over in seconds.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容Are GPS Apps Messing With Our Brains? Something to think about as you hit the road for the holidays.By Måns SwanbergAbout 15 years ago, anthropologist Claudio Aporta and philosopher Eric Higgs traveled to Igloolik, a remote island in far northeast Canada, to answer an intriguing question: How might newly introduced GPS devices affect the island's Inuit hunters, who possessed some of the sharpest wayfinding skills on Earth?You don't want to get lost on Igloolik. The proximity of magnetic north makes compasses fickle. The land can appear utterly featureless, especially in winter, when the cold—like a cat watching a mouse, "waiting patiently to see if he would make a mistake," as explorer R.M. Patterson once put it—can make the smallest mishap fatal. During the summer, when Inuit hunters stalk walrus by boat, sea fog can close so tight around a vessel that anyone lacking GPS must drop anchor, lest they run aground, or steer out to sea and risk running out of fuel.To navigate this murk, Igloolik's hunters had long attended closely to not just stars and landmarks, but patterns of wind, snowdrift, current, animal behavior, and light. They read as much in the wind's snow sculptures as Polynesian sailors read in constellations and tides. They had no formal training and rarely used paper maps. Yet the best hunters carried in their heads extraordinarily intricate maps of the landscape, constructed through decades of experience and tutelage. During a break in travel, a veteran hunter might ask novices to describe the location of a place, and nudge his protégés along as they worked out the problem aloud. This was easier when the Inuit traveled by dogsled—no engine noise—but it still happens in the snow-machine age.Like the snowmobile, GPS offered the hunters irresistible advantages. They could travel more safely through terrestrial whiteouts or ocean fog. If a snowmobile conked out or a hunting party had to stash food or equipment, GPS made it easy to mark the spot and find it later. And the hunters always knew the way home. But within a few short years, as Aporta and Higgs documented, the GPS units revealed some sharp limitations. In winter, the batteries quickly failed unless the devices were kept against the body under much clothing. The units themselves were devilishly hard to operate with gloves or mittens, and their screens iced over in seconds.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容Knowing Is Being by Steve PavlinaWhat do you know?Do you know about productivity, time management, and organizing? Are you highly productive?Do you know how to be healthy? Are you healthy?Do you believe your life should serve a purpose? Are you living such a purpose right now?Do you know what it means to be good? Are you a good and moral person?Do you value courage? Are you brave?Do you value close relationships? Are you experiencing one today?Do you value service to others? Whom are you serving right now?Knowing is beingIf you claim to know something that isn’t readily apparent in your life, then you do not really know it.To claim to know what you are not is merely to know the conceptualization of a thing but not to know the thing itself. You can understand the concepts of productivity, health, and courage without being productive, healthy, or brave. But to know the truth behind the concepts, then those things must be in you.To know is to be. If you know productivity, you will be productive. If you know health, you will be healthy. If you know courage, you will be brave.A concept is a shadow cast by the truth. You can know every facet of a shadow while knowing nothing of the object which casts it. Studying the shadow can be of some help in finding the truth, but only in the sense that it serves as a pointer to the truth.Yet how many people devote so much time and energy to the study of the shadow. They become experts in shadow studies, possessing vast knowledge of the concepts that represent truth, but no knowledge of truth itself.Such people claim to know productivity, yet they are not productive. They claim to know health but are not healthy. They claim to know courage but are too often afraid to act.Concepts or TruthDo you know concepts, or do you know truth?To study concepts, look outside yourself. To study truth, turn your gaze inward. The truth that casts the shadow in the form of a concept is the truth that already resides within you.Concepts are useful when you understand they are projections created from truth, such that you can trace them back to the source. When you follow concepts back to their source, you will find the part of yourself that resonates with those concepts. You will know the part of you that is productive, healthy, and brave. And from then on, concepts will no longer be necessary except as tools you may use to teach others. You will already know the truth.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容Knowing Is Being by Steve PavlinaWhat do you know?Do you know about productivity, time management, and organizing? Are you highly productive?Do you know how to be healthy? Are you healthy?Do you believe your life should serve a purpose? Are you living such a purpose right now?Do you know what it means to be good? Are you a good and moral person?Do you value courage? Are you brave?Do you value close relationships? Are you experiencing one today?Do you value service to others? Whom are you serving right now?Knowing is beingIf you claim to know something that isn’t readily apparent in your life, then you do not really know it.To claim to know what you are not is merely to know the conceptualization of a thing but not to know the thing itself. You can understand the concepts of productivity, health, and courage without being productive, healthy, or brave. But to know the truth behind the concepts, then those things must be in you.To know is to be. If you know productivity, you will be productive. If you know health, you will be healthy. If you know courage, you will be brave.A concept is a shadow cast by the truth. You can know every facet of a shadow while knowing nothing of the object which casts it. Studying the shadow can be of some help in finding the truth, but only in the sense that it serves as a pointer to the truth.Yet how many people devote so much time and energy to the study of the shadow. They become experts in shadow studies, possessing vast knowledge of the concepts that represent truth, but no knowledge of truth itself.Such people claim to know productivity, yet they are not productive. They claim to know health but are not healthy. They claim to know courage but are too often afraid to act.Concepts or TruthDo you know concepts, or do you know truth?To study concepts, look outside yourself. To study truth, turn your gaze inward. The truth that casts the shadow in the form of a concept is the truth that already resides within you.Concepts are useful when you understand they are projections created from truth, such that you can trace them back to the source. When you follow concepts back to their source, you will find the part of yourself that resonates with those concepts. You will know the part of you that is productive, healthy, and brave. And from then on, concepts will no longer be necessary except as tools you may use to teach others. You will already know the truth.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容Keep earning your title, or it expiresBy Derek Sivers Until yesterday, I called myself an entrepreneur. Today I erased it from the top of every page on my site.It’s been years since I started a company, so I can’t keep using that title.Someone who played football in high school can’t call himself an athlete forever. Someone who did something successful long ago can’t keep calling himself a success.You have to keep earning it.Holding on to an old title gives you satisfaction without action. But success comes from doing, not declaring.By using a title without still doing the work, you fool yourself into thinking future success is assured. (“This is who I am!”) That premature sense of satisfaction can keep you from doing the hard work necessary.Stop fooling yourself. Be honest about what’s past and what’s present. Expiring old titles lets you admit what you’re really doing now.And if you don't like the idea of losing your title, then do something about it! This goes for titles like “good friend”, “leader”, or “risk-taker”, too.I updated my home page to reflect what accomplishments are in the past. It’s liberating to speak in past-tense about what’s passed, and only speak in present-tense about what’s actually present.I do plan to start another company some day. And when I do, I will have earned the “entrepreneur” title again.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容Keep earning your title, or it expiresBy Derek Sivers Until yesterday, I called myself an entrepreneur. Today I erased it from the top of every page on my site.It’s been years since I started a company, so I can’t keep using that title.Someone who played football in high school can’t call himself an athlete forever. Someone who did something successful long ago can’t keep calling himself a success.You have to keep earning it.Holding on to an old title gives you satisfaction without action. But success comes from doing, not declaring.By using a title without still doing the work, you fool yourself into thinking future success is assured. (“This is who I am!”) That premature sense of satisfaction can keep you from doing the hard work necessary.Stop fooling yourself. Be honest about what’s past and what’s present. Expiring old titles lets you admit what you’re really doing now.And if you don't like the idea of losing your title, then do something about it! This goes for titles like “good friend”, “leader”, or “risk-taker”, too.I updated my home page to reflect what accomplishments are in the past. It’s liberating to speak in past-tense about what’s passed, and only speak in present-tense about what’s actually present.I do plan to start another company some day. And when I do, I will have earned the “entrepreneur” title again.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much. They were the last people you’d expect to be involved in anything strange or mysterious, because they just didn’t hold with such nonsense. Mr. Dursley was the director of a firm called Grunnings, which made drills. He was a big, beefy man with hardly any neck, although he did have a very large mustache. Mrs. Dursley was thin and blonde and had nearly twice the usual amount of neck, which came in very useful as she spent so much of her time craning over garden fences, spying on the neighbors. The Dursleys had a small son called Dudley and in their opinion there was no finer boy anywhere. The Dursleys had everything they wanted, but they also had a secret, and their greatest fear was that somebody would discover it. They didn’t think they could bear it if anyone found out about the Potters. Mrs. Potter was Mrs. Dursley’s sister, but they hadn’t met for several years; in fact, Mrs. Dursley pretended she didn’t have a sister, because her sister and her good-for-nothing husband were as unDursleyish as it was possible to be. The Dursleys shuddered to think what the neighbors would say if the Potters arrived in the street. The Dursleys knew that the Potters had a small son, too, but they had never even seen him. This boy was another good reason for keeping the Potters away; they didn’t want Dudley mixing with a child like that.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much. They were the last people you’d expect to be involved in anything strange or mysterious, because they just didn’t hold with such nonsense. Mr. Dursley was the director of a firm called Grunnings, which made drills. He was a big, beefy man with hardly any neck, although he did have a very large mustache. Mrs. Dursley was thin and blonde and had nearly twice the usual amount of neck, which came in very useful as she spent so much of her time craning over garden fences, spying on the neighbors. The Dursleys had a small son called Dudley and in their opinion there was no finer boy anywhere. The Dursleys had everything they wanted, but they also had a secret, and their greatest fear was that somebody would discover it. They didn’t think they could bear it if anyone found out about the Potters. Mrs. Potter was Mrs. Dursley’s sister, but they hadn’t met for several years; in fact, Mrs. Dursley pretended she didn’t have a sister, because her sister and her good-for-nothing husband were as unDursleyish as it was possible to be. The Dursleys shuddered to think what the neighbors would say if the Potters arrived in the street. The Dursleys knew that the Potters had a small son, too, but they had never even seen him. This boy was another good reason for keeping the Potters away; they didn’t want Dudley mixing with a child like that.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容My best trick for staying fit? Telling everyone I used to be fat.No one offers doughnuts a second timeBy Mike RiggsOn my first day at my current job, one of my colleagues brought in a dozen doughnuts to welcome me to the team. I love doughnuts. And pie. And cake and ice cream and french fries and pancakes. But I almost never eat those things anymore.Instead of simply saying no, I declined in the most awkward way possible: I told these friendly people, many of whom I had met only minutes earlier, that I used to be 90 pounds heavier, really didn’t like weighing that much, and now eat garbage only on very special occasions.I’ve delivered that explanation dozens of times over the past two years. Most people react by hemming and hawing. A few folks get defensive. Both reactions are understandable. Not only are my responses incongruous, they are fundamentally impolite. But I do it anyway, because full disclosure is the best tool I have for putting people off. They feel awkward, they don’t want to feel that way again, so they don’t ask a second time, or push me to try something  just this once. And I’d rather be rude and healthy than compliant and obese.I worked hard to get my weight under control. I did it because I am vain and because I was scared of dying young. After doing some research, I settled on the following strategy: I maintained a mild weekly calorie deficit by keeping a food journal ; lifted weights several days a week to increase my lean body mass and insulin sensitivity; cut alcohol consumption to a few occasions per month (and no more than three drinks per occasion); and switched from cigarettes to nicotine gum.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容My best trick for staying fit? Telling everyone I used to be fat.No one offers doughnuts a second timeBy Mike RiggsOn my first day at my current job, one of my colleagues brought in a dozen doughnuts to welcome me to the team. I love doughnuts. And pie. And cake and ice cream and french fries and pancakes. But I almost never eat those things anymore.Instead of simply saying no, I declined in the most awkward way possible: I told these friendly people, many of whom I had met only minutes earlier, that I used to be 90 pounds heavier, really didn’t like weighing that much, and now eat garbage only on very special occasions.I’ve delivered that explanation dozens of times over the past two years. Most people react by hemming and hawing. A few folks get defensive. Both reactions are understandable. Not only are my responses incongruous, they are fundamentally impolite. But I do it anyway, because full disclosure is the best tool I have for putting people off. They feel awkward, they don’t want to feel that way again, so they don’t ask a second time, or push me to try something  just this once. And I’d rather be rude and healthy than compliant and obese.I worked hard to get my weight under control. I did it because I am vain and because I was scared of dying young. After doing some research, I settled on the following strategy: I maintained a mild weekly calorie deficit by keeping a food journal ; lifted weights several days a week to increase my lean body mass and insulin sensitivity; cut alcohol consumption to a few occasions per month (and no more than three drinks per occasion); and switched from cigarettes to nicotine gum.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容The Mental Habit of Feeling Rushed & OverwhelmedBY LEO BABAUTAAs we dive into the holiday season, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed, rushed, even irritated by family members and others around us.I’d like to encourage you to try a mindfulness practice.Here’s the practice:• Notice each time you feel rushed, anxious or overwhelmed. Try to develop an awareness of it throughout the day. The sooner you can catch it, the better. Make it a game: try to see it when it happens, as often as you can.• When you feel rushed, catch yourself and pause. Notice your mental habit of rushing, rushing to the next thing. Don’t let yourself waste your time with that habit. Instead, try building a new mental pattern: pausing, relaxing with the feeling that’s in your body, and then doing the single task in front of you, letting that be your entire world. Trust that you’ll be able to handle the next task after it without worrying about it right now. Enjoy the doing of the task in front of you.• When you feel anxious, catch yourself and pause. Notice your mental habit of letting anxiety carry you off into a chain reaction of worry. Don’t let yourself waste your time with that habit. Instead, try building a new mental pattern: pausing, relaxing with the feeling that’s in your body, and then trusting that you can handle the uncertainty in front of you. Embrace the uncertainty and smile at it, relaxing into it.• When you feel overwhelmed, catch yourself and pause. Notice your mental habit of thinking about all you have to do and feeling anxious about being able to do it all. Don’t let yourself waste your time with that habit. Instead, try building a new mental pattern: pausing, relaxing with the feeling that’s in your body, taking things one task at a time, breathing and enjoying that task. Trust that you’ll be able to do everything you need to do, and that you’ll be OK.This is the practice. As you can see, it’s basically the same for all three (related) mental patterns, and it takes practice. You’ll mess up, but that’s OK. Smile and enjoy the practice.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容The Mental Habit of Feeling Rushed & OverwhelmedBY LEO BABAUTAAs we dive into the holiday season, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed, rushed, even irritated by family members and others around us.I’d like to encourage you to try a mindfulness practice.Here’s the practice:• Notice each time you feel rushed, anxious or overwhelmed. Try to develop an awareness of it throughout the day. The sooner you can catch it, the better. Make it a game: try to see it when it happens, as often as you can.• When you feel rushed, catch yourself and pause. Notice your mental habit of rushing, rushing to the next thing. Don’t let yourself waste your time with that habit. Instead, try building a new mental pattern: pausing, relaxing with the feeling that’s in your body, and then doing the single task in front of you, letting that be your entire world. Trust that you’ll be able to handle the next task after it without worrying about it right now. Enjoy the doing of the task in front of you.• When you feel anxious, catch yourself and pause. Notice your mental habit of letting anxiety carry you off into a chain reaction of worry. Don’t let yourself waste your time with that habit. Instead, try building a new mental pattern: pausing, relaxing with the feeling that’s in your body, and then trusting that you can handle the uncertainty in front of you. Embrace the uncertainty and smile at it, relaxing into it.• When you feel overwhelmed, catch yourself and pause. Notice your mental habit of thinking about all you have to do and feeling anxious about being able to do it all. Don’t let yourself waste your time with that habit. Instead, try building a new mental pattern: pausing, relaxing with the feeling that’s in your body, taking things one task at a time, breathing and enjoying that task. Trust that you’ll be able to do everything you need to do, and that you’ll be OK.This is the practice. As you can see, it’s basically the same for all three (related) mental patterns, and it takes practice. You’ll mess up, but that’s OK. Smile and enjoy the practice.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容How Humans Became 'Consumers': A HistoryUntil the 19th century, hardly anyone recognized the vital role everyday buyers play in the world economy.By Frank Trentmann“Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production,” Adam Smith confidently announced in The Wealth of Nations in 1776. Smith’s quote is famous, but in reality this was one of the few times he explicitly addressed the topic. Consumption is conspicuous by its absence in The Wealth of Nations, and neither Smith nor his immediate pupils treated it as a separate branch of political economy.It was in an earlier work, 1759’s The Theory of Moral Sentiments, that Smith put his finger on the social and psychological impulses that push people to accumulate objects and gadgets. People, he observed, were stuffing their pockets with “little conveniences,” and then buying coats with more pockets to carry even more. By themselves, tweezer cases, elaborate snuff boxes, and other “baubles” might not have much use. But, Smith pointed out, what mattered was that people looked at them as “means of happiness." It was in people’s imagination that these objects became part of a harmonious system and made the pleasures of wealth “grand and beautiful and noble."This moral assessment was a giant step towards a more sophisticated understanding of consumption, for it challenged the dominant negative mindset that went back to the ancients. From Plato in ancient Greece to St. Augustine and the Christian fathers to writers in the Italian Renaissance, thinkers routinely condemned the pursuit of things as wicked and dangerous because it corrupted the human soul, destroyed republics, and overthrew the social order. The splendour of luxus, the Latin word for “luxury,” smacked of luxuria—excess and lechery.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容How Humans Became 'Consumers': A HistoryUntil the 19th century, hardly anyone recognized the vital role everyday buyers play in the world economy.By Frank Trentmann“Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production,” Adam Smith confidently announced in The Wealth of Nations in 1776. Smith’s quote is famous, but in reality this was one of the few times he explicitly addressed the topic. Consumption is conspicuous by its absence in The Wealth of Nations, and neither Smith nor his immediate pupils treated it as a separate branch of political economy.It was in an earlier work, 1759’s The Theory of Moral Sentiments, that Smith put his finger on the social and psychological impulses that push people to accumulate objects and gadgets. People, he observed, were stuffing their pockets with “little conveniences,” and then buying coats with more pockets to carry even more. By themselves, tweezer cases, elaborate snuff boxes, and other “baubles” might not have much use. But, Smith pointed out, what mattered was that people looked at them as “means of happiness." It was in people’s imagination that these objects became part of a harmonious system and made the pleasures of wealth “grand and beautiful and noble."This moral assessment was a giant step towards a more sophisticated understanding of consumption, for it challenged the dominant negative mindset that went back to the ancients. From Plato in ancient Greece to St. Augustine and the Christian fathers to writers in the Italian Renaissance, thinkers routinely condemned the pursuit of things as wicked and dangerous because it corrupted the human soul, destroyed republics, and overthrew the social order. The splendour of luxus, the Latin word for “luxury,” smacked of luxuria—excess and lechery.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容Building a Happier Life by Steve PavlinaLately I’ve been on a happiness kick. I’ve been going over various projects, activities, and aspects of my lifestyle and asking myself, Does this really make me happy?Many people say that happiness comes from within, and while that’s true in the long run, there’s also an experiential side of happiness. I’m sure you’ll agree that some experiences put a smile on your face more than others. It may be a learned response in most cases, but there’s still an effect.Even money can contribute to happiness to an extent. You’d probably be happier receiving an unexpected financial gift as opposed to an unexpected bill.So I’ve been looking at some recurring activities in my life and asking myself if they’re positively contributing to my long-term happiness. As I’ve been going through this process, I’ve been making a lot of changes, and they’re really beginning to add up. My daily rhythms changed quite a bit in the past six months or so.One of the easiest places to begin was to start identifying and eliminating dead weight. These are activities that aren’t really too debatable — I’m pretty clear that they aren’t doing much to increase my long-term happiness. They may generate some momentary pleasure, but in the long run, the gains are probably neutral or negative. Or they might be only marginally positive, such that it’s easy to see that there are better ways to spend my time.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容Building a Happier Life by Steve PavlinaLately I’ve been on a happiness kick. I’ve been going over various projects, activities, and aspects of my lifestyle and asking myself, Does this really make me happy?Many people say that happiness comes from within, and while that’s true in the long run, there’s also an experiential side of happiness. I’m sure you’ll agree that some experiences put a smile on your face more than others. It may be a learned response in most cases, but there’s still an effect.Even money can contribute to happiness to an extent. You’d probably be happier receiving an unexpected financial gift as opposed to an unexpected bill.So I’ve been looking at some recurring activities in my life and asking myself if they’re positively contributing to my long-term happiness. As I’ve been going through this process, I’ve been making a lot of changes, and they’re really beginning to add up. My daily rhythms changed quite a bit in the past six months or so.One of the easiest places to begin was to start identifying and eliminating dead weight. These are activities that aren’t really too debatable — I’m pretty clear that they aren’t doing much to increase my long-term happiness. They may generate some momentary pleasure, but in the long run, the gains are probably neutral or negative. Or they might be only marginally positive, such that it’s easy to see that there are better ways to spend my time.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容Hope is the Thing with Feathers by Emily DickinsonHope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul,And sings the tune without the words,And never stops at all.And sweetest in the gale is heard;And sore must be the stormThat could abash the little birdThat kept so many warm.I’ve heard it in the chilliest land And on the strangest sea;Yet, never, in extremity,It asked a crumb of me.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容Hope is the Thing with Feathers by Emily DickinsonHope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul,And sings the tune without the words,And never stops at all.And sweetest in the gale is heard;And sore must be the stormThat could abash the little birdThat kept so many warm.I’ve heard it in the chilliest land And on the strangest sea;Yet, never, in extremity,It asked a crumb of me.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容I sound strange because I’m singing the counter-melodyBy Derek SiversA lot of people think my advice and opinions sound strange.Even my mom read a recent one and said, “You don’t actually mean this stuff, do you?”So, a little explanation:Do you know what musical counterpoint is?Underneath the main melody, you have a counter-melody that goes against it, and together they make harmony.This is different than just harmonizing, where someone sings along with the melody at an interval. This is a separate melody that could stand on its own, but is really there to complement the main melody.Well, if my advice and opinions sound strange, it’s because I’m just the counter-melody.I know I’m not the only voice you hear. There’s a message I know that most of my readers or listeners are hearing, because it’s a common message we all hear these days. So let’s call that the melody.I may love that melody too, but I don’t want to just duplicate it. So I try to think of a good counter-melody.I do it to compensate (or over-compensate) for something I think is missing in the common message.So my public posts are a counterpoint meant to complement the popular point.For example:• There’s a glorification of leadership and those who start companies. So I suggested that it’s more effective to be an early follower.• The popular “law of attraction” says you should tell everyone your goals. So I shared an interesting study showing that telling your plans makes them less likely to happen.• To people who are too focused on money, I preach my point that generosity is a more effective path to success.• To people who are too focused on passion and purpose, I preach my point that money can lead you towards your purpose, because it shows you where you’re valuable to others.• And I love pointing out that the opposite of anything may also be true.Now if you ask me if I think the stuff I say is the only way to go, of course not! I’m just the counter-melody.My best advice is to listen to the combination. Eventually you’ll find yourself singing along with the melody you like best. Or making up your own.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容I sound strange because I’m singing the counter-melodyBy Derek SiversA lot of people think my advice and opinions sound strange.Even my mom read a recent one and said, “You don’t actually mean this stuff, do you?”So, a little explanation:Do you know what musical counterpoint is?Underneath the main melody, you have a counter-melody that goes against it, and together they make harmony.This is different than just harmonizing, where someone sings along with the melody at an interval. This is a separate melody that could stand on its own, but is really there to complement the main melody.Well, if my advice and opinions sound strange, it’s because I’m just the counter-melody.I know I’m not the only voice you hear. There’s a message I know that most of my readers or listeners are hearing, because it’s a common message we all hear these days. So let’s call that the melody.I may love that melody too, but I don’t want to just duplicate it. So I try to think of a good counter-melody.I do it to compensate (or over-compensate) for something I think is missing in the common message.So my public posts are a counterpoint meant to complement the popular point.For example:• There’s a glorification of leadership and those who start companies. So I suggested that it’s more effective to be an early follower.• The popular “law of attraction” says you should tell everyone your goals. So I shared an interesting study showing that telling your plans makes them less likely to happen.• To people who are too focused on money, I preach my point that generosity is a more effective path to success.• To people who are too focused on passion and purpose, I preach my point that money can lead you towards your purpose, because it shows you where you’re valuable to others.• And I love pointing out that the opposite of anything may also be true.Now if you ask me if I think the stuff I say is the only way to go, of course not! I’m just the counter-melody.My best advice is to listen to the combination. Eventually you’ll find yourself singing along with the melody you like best. Or making up your own.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容Soaking in the Wonder of the Emerging MomentBY LEO BABAUTALately I’ve been using the image of an empty cup to find a more peaceful state of mind.One of the most peaceful, meditative states is when you’re just open to noticing what’s around you and happening in the present moment. You’re just receiving the world around you (yourself included), soaking in the light, colors, shapes, sounds, touch sensations, just noticing.When you’re completely open to noticing this moment, it can be amazing — you notice things you wouldn’t have if you were in your normal dream state, you start to appreciate little details of everything around you. Most of us miss this almost all of the time. We all walk around in a trance, thinking about what we need to do, spinning stories about what’s happening.Here’s the thing: if our minds are full of thoughts and stories already, we actually can’t notice the present moment. We can’t see what’s all around us, when we’re caught up in our normal dreamlike state.You can’t fill a cup up with the present moment, when it’s already full.So I have been practicing emptying out my cup.I notice that I have an emotional state or story that has filled my mind and is blocking me from noticing what’s in front of me.I let all of that flow out of the cup of my mind.And then I soak in the present moment, noticing the physical sensations of everything around me. Noticing my body and how it feels. Noticing what’s flowing through my mind.Then, of course, I get caught up in my thoughts again. When I notice this, I empty my cup. I soak in the moment. Then once again, I get caught up, I empty my cup, I soak in the moment.Over and over, I empty my cup. And that leaves me open to whatever is happening right now, the wonder-filled beauty and joy of the emerging moment968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容Soaking in the Wonder of the Emerging MomentBY LEO BABAUTALately I’ve been using the image of an empty cup to find a more peaceful state of mind.One of the most peaceful, meditative states is when you’re just open to noticing what’s around you and happening in the present moment. You’re just receiving the world around you (yourself included), soaking in the light, colors, shapes, sounds, touch sensations, just noticing.When you’re completely open to noticing this moment, it can be amazing — you notice things you wouldn’t have if you were in your normal dream state, you start to appreciate little details of everything around you. Most of us miss this almost all of the time. We all walk around in a trance, thinking about what we need to do, spinning stories about what’s happening.Here’s the thing: if our minds are full of thoughts and stories already, we actually can’t notice the present moment. We can’t see what’s all around us, when we’re caught up in our normal dreamlike state.You can’t fill a cup up with the present moment, when it’s already full.So I have been practicing emptying out my cup.I notice that I have an emotional state or story that has filled my mind and is blocking me from noticing what’s in front of me.I let all of that flow out of the cup of my mind.And then I soak in the present moment, noticing the physical sensations of everything around me. Noticing my body and how it feels. Noticing what’s flowing through my mind.Then, of course, I get caught up in my thoughts again. When I notice this, I empty my cup. I soak in the moment. Then once again, I get caught up, I empty my cup, I soak in the moment.Over and over, I empty my cup. And that leaves me open to whatever is happening right now, the wonder-filled beauty and joy of the emerging moment968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容Poor Old LadyPoor old lady, she swallowed a fly.I don’t know why she swallowed a fly.Poor old lady, I think she’ll die.Poor old lady, she swallowed a spider.It squirmed and wriggled and turned inside her.She swallowed the spider to catch the fly.I don’t know why she swallowed a fly.Poor old lady, I think she’ll die.Poor old lady, she swallowed a bird.How absurd! She swallowed a bird.She swallowed the bird to catch the spider, She swallowed the spider to catch the fly, I don’t know why she swallowed a fly.Poor old lady, I think she’ll die.Poor old lady, she swallowed a cat.Think of that! She swallowed a cat.She swallowed the cat to catch the bird.She swallowed the bird to catch the spider.She swallowed the spider to catch the fly,I don’t know why she swallowed a fly.Poor old lady, I think she’ll die.Poor old lady, she swallowed a dog.She went the whole hog when she swallowed the dog.She swallowed the dog to catch the cat.She swallowed the cat to catch the bird.She swallowed the bird to catch the spider.She swallowed the spider to catch the fly, I don’t know why she swallowed a fly.Poor old lady, I think she’ll die.Poor old lady, she swallowed a cow.I don’t know how she swallowed a cow.She swallowed the cow to catch the dog.She swallowed the dog to catch the cat.She swallowed the cat to catch the bird.She swallowed the bird to catch the spider.She swallowed the spider to catch the fly, I don’t know why she swallowed a fly.Poor old lady, I think she’ll die.Poor old lady, she swallowed a horse.She died, of course.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容Poor Old LadyPoor old lady, she swallowed a fly.I don’t know why she swallowed a fly.Poor old lady, I think she’ll die.Poor old lady, she swallowed a spider.It squirmed and wriggled and turned inside her.She swallowed the spider to catch the fly.I don’t know why she swallowed a fly.Poor old lady, I think she’ll die.Poor old lady, she swallowed a bird.How absurd! She swallowed a bird.She swallowed the bird to catch the spider, She swallowed the spider to catch the fly, I don’t know why she swallowed a fly.Poor old lady, I think she’ll die.Poor old lady, she swallowed a cat.Think of that! She swallowed a cat.She swallowed the cat to catch the bird.She swallowed the bird to catch the spider.She swallowed the spider to catch the fly,I don’t know why she swallowed a fly.Poor old lady, I think she’ll die.Poor old lady, she swallowed a dog.She went the whole hog when she swallowed the dog.She swallowed the dog to catch the cat.She swallowed the cat to catch the bird.She swallowed the bird to catch the spider.She swallowed the spider to catch the fly, I don’t know why she swallowed a fly.Poor old lady, I think she’ll die.Poor old lady, she swallowed a cow.I don’t know how she swallowed a cow.She swallowed the cow to catch the dog.She swallowed the dog to catch the cat.She swallowed the cat to catch the bird.She swallowed the bird to catch the spider.She swallowed the spider to catch the fly, I don’t know why she swallowed a fly.Poor old lady, I think she’ll die.Poor old lady, she swallowed a horse.She died, of course.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容The Running Conversation in Your HeadWhat a close study of "inner speech" reveals about why humans talk to themselvesBy Julie BeckLanguage is the hallmark of humanity—it allows us to form deep relationships and complex societies. But we also use it when we’re all alone; it shapes even our silent relationships with ourselves. In his book, The Voices Within, Charles Fernyhough gives a historical overview of “inner speech”—the more scientific term for “talking to yourself in your head.”Fernyhough, a professor at Durham University in the U.K., says that inner speech develops alongside social speech. This idea was pioneered by Lev Vygotsky, a Russian psychologist who studied children in the 1920s and noted that when they learned to talk to other humans, they also learned how to talk to themselves, first out loud, and eventually, in their heads.Inner speech, Fernyhough writes, isn’t bound by many of the conventions of verbal speech. For one, we can produce it much faster when we don’t have to go at the pace required to use tongues and lips and voice boxes. One researcher the book cites clocks inner speech at an average pace of 4,000 words per minute—10 times faster than verbal speech. And it’s often more condensed—we don’t have to use full sentences to talk to ourselves, because we know what we mean.But it does maintain many of the characteristics of dialogue. We may imagine an exchange with someone else, or we may just talk to ourselves. But that doesn’t mean it’s not a conversation. Our minds contain many different perspectives, and they can argue or confer or talk over each other.“We are all fragmented,” Fernyhough writes. “There is no unitary self. We are all in pieces, struggling to create the illusion of a coherent ‘me’ from moment to moment.”968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容The Running Conversation in Your HeadWhat a close study of "inner speech" reveals about why humans talk to themselvesBy Julie BeckLanguage is the hallmark of humanity—it allows us to form deep relationships and complex societies. But we also use it when we’re all alone; it shapes even our silent relationships with ourselves. In his book, The Voices Within, Charles Fernyhough gives a historical overview of “inner speech”—the more scientific term for “talking to yourself in your head.”Fernyhough, a professor at Durham University in the U.K., says that inner speech develops alongside social speech. This idea was pioneered by Lev Vygotsky, a Russian psychologist who studied children in the 1920s and noted that when they learned to talk to other humans, they also learned how to talk to themselves, first out loud, and eventually, in their heads.Inner speech, Fernyhough writes, isn’t bound by many of the conventions of verbal speech. For one, we can produce it much faster when we don’t have to go at the pace required to use tongues and lips and voice boxes. One researcher the book cites clocks inner speech at an average pace of 4,000 words per minute—10 times faster than verbal speech. And it’s often more condensed—we don’t have to use full sentences to talk to ourselves, because we know what we mean.But it does maintain many of the characteristics of dialogue. We may imagine an exchange with someone else, or we may just talk to ourselves. But that doesn’t mean it’s not a conversation. Our minds contain many different perspectives, and they can argue or confer or talk over each other.“We are all fragmented,” Fernyhough writes. “There is no unitary self. We are all in pieces, struggling to create the illusion of a coherent ‘me’ from moment to moment.”968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容Understanding Family Relationship Problems by Steve PavlinaOne of the most difficult matters to confront with respect to family relationships is that you don’t control the entire relationship yourself. Whether the relationship thrives or withers isn’t up to you alone. As the saying goes, it takes two to tango.When major family relationship problems are encountered, it’s common to attempt a control strategy. You try to get the other person to change. Sometimes this approach works, especially if your request and the other person are both reasonable. But many times it just leads to frustration.On the other hand, if you can’t change the other person, maybe you should just accept them as they are. That’s another strategy that sometimes works, but this one can also lead to frustration and even resentment if your needs aren’t being met.There is, however, a third alternative for those times when changing the other person and accepting the other person as-is are both unworkable for you. And that option is to change yourself in a way that solves the problem. This requires that you redefine the problem as an internal one instead of an external one, and then the solution will take the form of an expansion of your awareness and/or a change in your beliefs.An internal way of viewing relationship problems is that they reflect back to you a part of yourself that you dislike. If you have a negative external relationship situation, it’s a reflection of a conflict in your own thinking. As long as you keep looking outside yourself for the answer, you may never resolve the external problem. But once you start looking inside yourself for the problem, it may become easier to solve.What you’ll find when you tackle such problems is that you harbor one or more beliefs that perpetuate the relationship problem in its current form. Those beliefs are the real problem — the true cause of the unhealthy relationship.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容Understanding Family Relationship Problems by Steve PavlinaOne of the most difficult matters to confront with respect to family relationships is that you don’t control the entire relationship yourself. Whether the relationship thrives or withers isn’t up to you alone. As the saying goes, it takes two to tango.When major family relationship problems are encountered, it’s common to attempt a control strategy. You try to get the other person to change. Sometimes this approach works, especially if your request and the other person are both reasonable. But many times it just leads to frustration.On the other hand, if you can’t change the other person, maybe you should just accept them as they are. That’s another strategy that sometimes works, but this one can also lead to frustration and even resentment if your needs aren’t being met.There is, however, a third alternative for those times when changing the other person and accepting the other person as-is are both unworkable for you. And that option is to change yourself in a way that solves the problem. This requires that you redefine the problem as an internal one instead of an external one, and then the solution will take the form of an expansion of your awareness and/or a change in your beliefs.An internal way of viewing relationship problems is that they reflect back to you a part of yourself that you dislike. If you have a negative external relationship situation, it’s a reflection of a conflict in your own thinking. As long as you keep looking outside yourself for the answer, you may never resolve the external problem. But once you start looking inside yourself for the problem, it may become easier to solve.What you’ll find when you tackle such problems is that you harbor one or more beliefs that perpetuate the relationship problem in its current form. Those beliefs are the real problem — the true cause of the unhealthy relationship.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容Super Sad True Love StoryBy Gary ShteyngartDO NOT GO GENTLE FROM THE DIARIES OF LENNY ABRAMOV JUNE 1 Rome–New York Dearest Diary, Today I’ve made a major decision: I am never going to die. Others will die around me. They will be nullified. Nothing of their personality will remain. The light switch will be turned off. Their lives, their entirety, will be marked by glossy marble headstones bearing false summations (“ her star shone brightly,” “never to be forgotten,” “he liked jazz”), and then these too will be lost in a coastal flood or get hacked to pieces by some genetically modified future-turkey. Don’t let them tell you life’s a journey. A journey is when you end up somewhere. When I take the number 6 train to see my social worker, that’s a journey. When I beg the pilot of this rickety UnitedContinentalDeltamerican plane currently trembling its way across the Atlantic to turn around and head straight back to Rome and into Eunice Park’s fickle arms, that’s a journey.But wait. There’s more, isn’t there? There’s our legacy. We don’t die because our progeny lives on! The ritual passing of the DNA, Mama’s corkscrew curls, his granddaddy’s lower lip, ah buh-lieve thuh chil’ren ah our future. I’m quoting here from “The Greatest Love of All,” by 1980s pop diva Whitney Houston, track nine of her eponymous first LP. Utter nonsense. The children are our future only in the most narrow, transitive sense. They are our future until they too perish. The song’s next line, “Teach them well and let them lead the way,” encourages an adult’s relinquishing of selfhood in favor of future generations. The phrase “I live for my kids,” for example, is tantamount to admitting that one will be dead shortly and that one’s life, for all practical purposes, is already over. “I’m gradually dying for my kids” would be more accurate.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容Super Sad True Love StoryBy Gary ShteyngartDO NOT GO GENTLE FROM THE DIARIES OF LENNY ABRAMOV JUNE 1 Rome–New York Dearest Diary, Today I’ve made a major decision: I am never going to die. Others will die around me. They will be nullified. Nothing of their personality will remain. The light switch will be turned off. Their lives, their entirety, will be marked by glossy marble headstones bearing false summations (“ her star shone brightly,” “never to be forgotten,” “he liked jazz”), and then these too will be lost in a coastal flood or get hacked to pieces by some genetically modified future-turkey. Don’t let them tell you life’s a journey. A journey is when you end up somewhere. When I take the number 6 train to see my social worker, that’s a journey. When I beg the pilot of this rickety UnitedContinentalDeltamerican plane currently trembling its way across the Atlantic to turn around and head straight back to Rome and into Eunice Park’s fickle arms, that’s a journey.But wait. There’s more, isn’t there? There’s our legacy. We don’t die because our progeny lives on! The ritual passing of the DNA, Mama’s corkscrew curls, his granddaddy’s lower lip, ah buh-lieve thuh chil’ren ah our future. I’m quoting here from “The Greatest Love of All,” by 1980s pop diva Whitney Houston, track nine of her eponymous first LP. Utter nonsense. The children are our future only in the most narrow, transitive sense. They are our future until they too perish. The song’s next line, “Teach them well and let them lead the way,” encourages an adult’s relinquishing of selfhood in favor of future generations. The phrase “I live for my kids,” for example, is tantamount to admitting that one will be dead shortly and that one’s life, for all practical purposes, is already over. “I’m gradually dying for my kids” would be more accurate.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容Quit Social Media. Your Career May Depend on It.by Cal NewportI’m a millennial computer scientist who also writes books and runs a blog. Demographically speaking I should be a heavy social media user, but that is not the case. I’ve never had a social media account.At the moment, this makes me an outlier, but I think many more people should follow my lead and quit these services. There are many issues with social media, from its corrosion of civic life to its cultural shallowness, but the argument I want to make here is more pragmatic: You should quit social media because it can hurt your career.This claim, of course, runs counter to our current understanding of social media’s role in the professional sphere. We’ve been told that it’s important to tend to your so-called social media brand, as this provides you access to opportunities you might otherwise miss and supports the diverse contact network you need to get ahead. Many people in my generation fear that without a social media presence, they would be invisible to the job market.In a recent New York magazine essay, Andrew Sullivan recalled when he started to feel obligated to update his blog every half-hour or so. It seemed as if everyone with a Facebook account and a smartphone now felt pressured to run their own high-stress, one-person media operation, and “the once-unimaginable pace of the professional blogger was now the default for everyone,” he wrote.I think this behavior is misguided. In a capitalist economy, the market rewards things that are rare and valuable. Social media use is decidedly not rare or valuable. Any 16-year-old with a smartphone can invent a hashtag or repost a viral article. The idea that if you engage in enough of this low-value activity, it will somehow add up to something of high value in your career is the same dubious alchemy that forms the core of most snake oil and flimflam in business.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容Quit Social Media. Your Career May Depend on It.by Cal NewportI’m a millennial computer scientist who also writes books and runs a blog. Demographically speaking I should be a heavy social media user, but that is not the case. I’ve never had a social media account.At the moment, this makes me an outlier, but I think many more people should follow my lead and quit these services. There are many issues with social media, from its corrosion of civic life to its cultural shallowness, but the argument I want to make here is more pragmatic: You should quit social media because it can hurt your career.This claim, of course, runs counter to our current understanding of social media’s role in the professional sphere. We’ve been told that it’s important to tend to your so-called social media brand, as this provides you access to opportunities you might otherwise miss and supports the diverse contact network you need to get ahead. Many people in my generation fear that without a social media presence, they would be invisible to the job market.In a recent New York magazine essay, Andrew Sullivan recalled when he started to feel obligated to update his blog every half-hour or so. It seemed as if everyone with a Facebook account and a smartphone now felt pressured to run their own high-stress, one-person media operation, and “the once-unimaginable pace of the professional blogger was now the default for everyone,” he wrote.I think this behavior is misguided. In a capitalist economy, the market rewards things that are rare and valuable. Social media use is decidedly not rare or valuable. Any 16-year-old with a smartphone can invent a hashtag or repost a viral article. The idea that if you engage in enough of this low-value activity, it will somehow add up to something of high value in your career is the same dubious alchemy that forms the core of most snake oil and flimflam in business.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容Change careers like Tarzanby Derek SiversI get emails from many people who want to make a big change in their career.Each one wants to quit their current career, and boldly leap into their new venture or preferred lifestyle.When they ask my advice, they think I’m going to say, “Yes! Quit! Go for it!”But instead, they’re surprised at my suggestion:Remember how Tarzan swings through the jungle? He doesn’t let go of the previous vine until the next vine is supporting his weight.So my advice is: Change careers like Tarzan.Don’t let go of the old one until the new one is supporting you.And make sure you don’t lose momentum.P.S. I highly recommend reading the book “So Good They Can’t Ignore You” for more thoughts on this.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容Change careers like Tarzanby Derek SiversI get emails from many people who want to make a big change in their career.Each one wants to quit their current career, and boldly leap into their new venture or preferred lifestyle.When they ask my advice, they think I’m going to say, “Yes! Quit! Go for it!”But instead, they’re surprised at my suggestion:Remember how Tarzan swings through the jungle? He doesn’t let go of the previous vine until the next vine is supporting his weight.So my advice is: Change careers like Tarzan.Don’t let go of the old one until the new one is supporting you.And make sure you don’t lose momentum.P.S. I highly recommend reading the book “So Good They Can’t Ignore You” for more thoughts on this.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容Shall I Compare Thee To A Summer's Day?我可否将你比作一个夏日by William Shakespeare (1564-1616) Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate. Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date. Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimm'd; And every fair from fair sometime declines, By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd; But thy eternal summer shall not fade Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st; Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade, When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st: So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.　　我想要用夏日来比作你 　　可你更加可爱更加温婉 　　五月的花朵，风吹满地 　　夏季的生命，匆匆而逝 　　有时候，太阳真热，可 　　又常遮蔽你金色的容颜 　　美丽，无法抗拒这凋零 　　流转，也拗不过这自然的代谢 　　但是你的永恒之夏绝不会褪色 　　你也不会失去你那俊美的仪容 　　死神不能夸说你困于他的阴影 　　你在这不朽的诗句里获得永生 　　 只要我还能听到你，看到你 　　 你就要伴着这诗句永远长存968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容Shall I Compare Thee To A Summer's Day?我可否将你比作一个夏日by William Shakespeare (1564-1616) Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate. Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date. Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimm'd; And every fair from fair sometime declines, By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd; But thy eternal summer shall not fade Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st; Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade, When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st: So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.　　我想要用夏日来比作你 　　可你更加可爱更加温婉 　　五月的花朵，风吹满地 　　夏季的生命，匆匆而逝 　　有时候，太阳真热，可 　　又常遮蔽你金色的容颜 　　美丽，无法抗拒这凋零 　　流转，也拗不过这自然的代谢 　　但是你的永恒之夏绝不会褪色 　　你也不会失去你那俊美的仪容 　　死神不能夸说你困于他的阴影 　　你在这不朽的诗句里获得永生 　　 只要我还能听到你，看到你 　　 你就要伴着这诗句永远长存968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容And their eyes glazed overMy college students are never entirely present in class, addicted to texts and tech. Is there any hope left for learning?By Joelle RenstromI have a rule about cellphones in class: if one disrupts us by ringing, vibrating or sounding an alarm, the owner has to sing a song or bust some dance moves in front of the class. At first, this provision in the syllabus elicits snickers, but it’s no laughing matter. You need to be able to turn off your phones and pay attention, I say. On the first day of class, they shut off their phones. But it doesn’t stay that way.While my students – undergraduates at Boston University who are taking classes on writing and research – agree that there’s a problem if they can’t go 50 minutes without checking their phones, few of them can resist, despite knowing that this is my biggest pet peeve. A University of Nebraska-Lincoln study indicates that 80 per cent of college students send text messages during class. Nearly 100 per cent of them text before and after class. In the minutes before class – the ones I used to spend shooting the breeze with students about TV shows, sports or what they did over the weekend – we now sit in technologically-induced silence. Students rarely even talk to each other anymore. Gone are the days when they gabbed about the impossible chemistry midterm they just took or the quality of the food at the dining halls. Around the 30-minute mark in class, their hands inch toward their backpacks or into their pockets, fingers feeling around for the buttons as though their mere shape offers comfort. When I end class, they whip out their phones with a collective sigh of relief, as though they’ve all just been allowed to go to the bathroom after having to hold it all day.Even when my students stash their cellphones, my classes look like an Apple commercial – faces hide behind screens embossed with the same famous fruit. I have no delusions that they’re taking notes for class or referencing that day’s reading. A University of Waterloo professor who put a postgraduate at the back of his lecture hall to observe his students learned that 85 per cent of them did something unrelated to class on their laptops; a Cornell University study confirms that most students engage in ‘high-tech “doodling”’ and communication during class. One might think that the whopping $65,000 cost of attending Boston University for a year would provide ample reason to maintain focus during class, but one would be wrong.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容And their eyes glazed overMy college students are never entirely present in class, addicted to texts and tech. Is there any hope left for learning?By Joelle RenstromI have a rule about cellphones in class: if one disrupts us by ringing, vibrating or sounding an alarm, the owner has to sing a song or bust some dance moves in front of the class. At first, this provision in the syllabus elicits snickers, but it’s no laughing matter. You need to be able to turn off your phones and pay attention, I say. On the first day of class, they shut off their phones. But it doesn’t stay that way.While my students – undergraduates at Boston University who are taking classes on writing and research – agree that there’s a problem if they can’t go 50 minutes without checking their phones, few of them can resist, despite knowing that this is my biggest pet peeve. A University of Nebraska-Lincoln study indicates that 80 per cent of college students send text messages during class. Nearly 100 per cent of them text before and after class. In the minutes before class – the ones I used to spend shooting the breeze with students about TV shows, sports or what they did over the weekend – we now sit in technologically-induced silence. Students rarely even talk to each other anymore. Gone are the days when they gabbed about the impossible chemistry midterm they just took or the quality of the food at the dining halls. Around the 30-minute mark in class, their hands inch toward their backpacks or into their pockets, fingers feeling around for the buttons as though their mere shape offers comfort. When I end class, they whip out their phones with a collective sigh of relief, as though they’ve all just been allowed to go to the bathroom after having to hold it all day.Even when my students stash their cellphones, my classes look like an Apple commercial – faces hide behind screens embossed with the same famous fruit. I have no delusions that they’re taking notes for class or referencing that day’s reading. A University of Waterloo professor who put a postgraduate at the back of his lecture hall to observe his students learned that 85 per cent of them did something unrelated to class on their laptops; a Cornell University study confirms that most students engage in ‘high-tech “doodling”’ and communication during class. One might think that the whopping $65,000 cost of attending Boston University for a year would provide ample reason to maintain focus during class, but one would be wrong.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容Little Changes Can Make a Huge DifferenceBY LEO BABAUTAWhen I’m feeling down, I make a list of what’s contributing to the down-ness:Didn’t get enough sleepOverwhelmed by too much to doNot exercising or eating wellGot in an argument with someoneFeeling uncertainty about somethingSo there might be five different factors contributing to a funk. That’s a lot of things to deal with at once, and so it can be depressing to think about all the things I need to fix in order to feel better.I can’t fix everything at once, so I just start with one step. I meditate for a couple minutes.Then I take on another step: I make a list of what I need to do. Pick a few I can do today. A few I can do tomorrow. Vow to focus on the first one on the list.Another step: go for a walk, get my body moving.Then another step: talk to the person I had an argument with, in a loving, compassionate way.Suddenly, with these small steps, I’m starting to feel better.I spend a little time with my son, playing with him, reading with him.I take a nap.I eat a healthy meal.I meditate on my uncertainty, staying with it as long as I can, with compassion and friendliness.I go to bed early, and try to get a good night’s sleep.I focus on one small work task at a time.And with each step, my mood improves. One step at a time, I help myself feel better.These are small steps, taken one at a time, with as much presence as I can muster. And they make all the difference in the world.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容Little Changes Can Make a Huge DifferenceBY LEO BABAUTAWhen I’m feeling down, I make a list of what’s contributing to the down-ness:Didn’t get enough sleepOverwhelmed by too much to doNot exercising or eating wellGot in an argument with someoneFeeling uncertainty about somethingSo there might be five different factors contributing to a funk. That’s a lot of things to deal with at once, and so it can be depressing to think about all the things I need to fix in order to feel better.I can’t fix everything at once, so I just start with one step. I meditate for a couple minutes.Then I take on another step: I make a list of what I need to do. Pick a few I can do today. A few I can do tomorrow. Vow to focus on the first one on the list.Another step: go for a walk, get my body moving.Then another step: talk to the person I had an argument with, in a loving, compassionate way.Suddenly, with these small steps, I’m starting to feel better.I spend a little time with my son, playing with him, reading with him.I take a nap.I eat a healthy meal.I meditate on my uncertainty, staying with it as long as I can, with compassion and friendliness.I go to bed early, and try to get a good night’s sleep.I focus on one small work task at a time.And with each step, my mood improves. One step at a time, I help myself feel better.These are small steps, taken one at a time, with as much presence as I can muster. And they make all the difference in the world.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容The Golden BirdA certain king had a beautiful garden, and in the garden stood a tree which bore golden apples. These apples were always counted, and about the time when they began to grow ripe it was found that every night one of them was gone. The king became very angry at this, and ordered the gardener to keep watch all night under the tree. The gardener set his eldest son to watch; but about twelve o’clock he fell asleep, and in the morning another of the apples was missing. Then the second son was ordered to watch; and at midnight he too fell asleep, and in the morning another apple was gone. Then the third son offered to keep watch; but the gardener at first would not let him, for fear some harm should come to him: however, at last he consented, and the young man laid himself under the tree to watch. As the clock struck twelve he heard a rustling noise in the air, and a bird came flying that was of pure gold; and as it was snapping at one of the apples with its beak, the gardener’s son jumped up and shot an arrow at it. But the arrow did the bird no harm; only it dropped a golden feather from its tail, and then flew away. The golden feather was brought to the king in the morning, and all the council was called together. Everyone agreed that it was worth more than all the wealth of the kingdom: but the king said, ‘One feather is of no use to me, I must have the whole bird.’968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容The Golden BirdA certain king had a beautiful garden, and in the garden stood a tree which bore golden apples. These apples were always counted, and about the time when they began to grow ripe it was found that every night one of them was gone. The king became very angry at this, and ordered the gardener to keep watch all night under the tree. The gardener set his eldest son to watch; but about twelve o’clock he fell asleep, and in the morning another of the apples was missing. Then the second son was ordered to watch; and at midnight he too fell asleep, and in the morning another apple was gone. Then the third son offered to keep watch; but the gardener at first would not let him, for fear some harm should come to him: however, at last he consented, and the young man laid himself under the tree to watch. As the clock struck twelve he heard a rustling noise in the air, and a bird came flying that was of pure gold; and as it was snapping at one of the apples with its beak, the gardener’s son jumped up and shot an arrow at it. But the arrow did the bird no harm; only it dropped a golden feather from its tail, and then flew away. The golden feather was brought to the king in the morning, and all the council was called together. Everyone agreed that it was worth more than all the wealth of the kingdom: but the king said, ‘One feather is of no use to me, I must have the whole bird.’968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容‘No Vacancy’ Signs Are Vanishing From America’s HighwaysWhy this icon of road travel is flickering out.By Paul Lukas  You’ve been driving for a good chunk of the day, you’re pulling into an unfamiliar town, and you need a place to stay for the night. Happily, there’s a comforting sight just ahead—a motel with an illuminated “Vacancy” sign, the “No” thankfully darkened.The “(No) Vacancy” sign, a beacon of hospitality and/or disappointment, has greeted road-weary American travelers for generations. But just as paper maps and toll booth clerks increasingly seem quaint relics of the analog age, the classic “(No) Vacancy” sign may soon become another victim of shifting travel habits and market forces.First, some quick historical context. It’s not clear who came up with the ingeniously simple pairing of “Vacancy” and “No Vacancy,” which allows the motel operator to simply toggle the “No” on or off, but it was probably sometime in the 1930s or before. (While the canonical example is neon, electricity isn’t required: Some motels instead gave the “No” a cover-up flap or a slider panel.) By 1946, the signs had become so ubiquitous that country singer Merle Travis recorded a song called No Vacancy, which reached No. 3 on the country charts. America’s postwar boom in the 1950s and ’60s, which led to an explosion of automotive travel and a corresponding spike in roadside lodging development, further solidified the “(No) Vacancy” sign as a staple of American travel culture.But a lot has changed since those days. “We don’t really have any customers who want that type of sign anymore,” said Alex Lauretano of the Lauretano Sign Group, a leading sign manufacturer for the hospitality industry. “At one point they were useful—but not anymore, with online booking.” Julie Hall, a spokesperson for AAA, which inspects and rates motels, confirmed that vacancy indicators are on the wane and also cited online booking as a key factor.What about the freewheeling road trippers who don’t book days in advance and simply follow their wanderlust? Even that type of traveler can now use smartphone apps, or simply Google lodging options in the next town down the highway and call ahead to check on availability, rendering the “(No) Vacancy” sign somewhat moot.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容‘No Vacancy’ Signs Are Vanishing From America’s HighwaysWhy this icon of road travel is flickering out.By Paul Lukas  You’ve been driving for a good chunk of the day, you’re pulling into an unfamiliar town, and you need a place to stay for the night. Happily, there’s a comforting sight just ahead—a motel with an illuminated “Vacancy” sign, the “No” thankfully darkened.The “(No) Vacancy” sign, a beacon of hospitality and/or disappointment, has greeted road-weary American travelers for generations. But just as paper maps and toll booth clerks increasingly seem quaint relics of the analog age, the classic “(No) Vacancy” sign may soon become another victim of shifting travel habits and market forces.First, some quick historical context. It’s not clear who came up with the ingeniously simple pairing of “Vacancy” and “No Vacancy,” which allows the motel operator to simply toggle the “No” on or off, but it was probably sometime in the 1930s or before. (While the canonical example is neon, electricity isn’t required: Some motels instead gave the “No” a cover-up flap or a slider panel.) By 1946, the signs had become so ubiquitous that country singer Merle Travis recorded a song called No Vacancy, which reached No. 3 on the country charts. America’s postwar boom in the 1950s and ’60s, which led to an explosion of automotive travel and a corresponding spike in roadside lodging development, further solidified the “(No) Vacancy” sign as a staple of American travel culture.But a lot has changed since those days. “We don’t really have any customers who want that type of sign anymore,” said Alex Lauretano of the Lauretano Sign Group, a leading sign manufacturer for the hospitality industry. “At one point they were useful—but not anymore, with online booking.” Julie Hall, a spokesperson for AAA, which inspects and rates motels, confirmed that vacancy indicators are on the wane and also cited online booking as a key factor.What about the freewheeling road trippers who don’t book days in advance and simply follow their wanderlust? Even that type of traveler can now use smartphone apps, or simply Google lodging options in the next town down the highway and call ahead to check on availability, rendering the “(No) Vacancy” sign somewhat moot.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容Enjoying the Journey by Steve PavlinaIf you work really hard to achieve your goals but don’t enjoy the journey, you’re delaying the essence of life. Committing to your goals doesn’t mean you slave away at work you dislike, celebrating only the destination. A real abiding commitment means that you love what you do each day. You are at least as passionate about the path as you are about the results. If you love the path you’re on, your passion motivates you to keep taking the next step.But passion alone isn’t enough. Passion requires focused direction, and that direction must come from three other areas: your purpose, your talents, and your needs.First, purpose and passion go hand in hand. If you don’t know your life purpose, your passion won’t be guided by conscience. Many criminals go this route — they are very passionate about certain actions, but those actions aren’t motivated by a higher purpose. When passion and purpose point in the same direction, it means you fall in love with the path of service. You love what you do, and it also contributes positively to the world. A synergy is created whereby your passion is increased manyfold, a natural consequence of doing something you love to do AND which you know is making a difference.Secondly, passion must be blended with talent. Passion can get you pretty far, but there are plenty of people who are passionate and incompetent, and their passion isn’t sufficient to save them. Have you ever known anyone who got really excited about an idea but couldn’t follow through? The good news is that your talent can be developed — you can educate yourself to learn new knowledge and skills. But the ultimate goal here is to discover where your greatest talents lie. What talents, if you were to fully develop them, could be extremely strong for you? You may come up with several answers, but which ones overlap with your passion? When you do what you love to AND you become really good at doing it, your passion will increase, and your results will be amplified.Thirdly, passion must be blended with need. At the very least, you have to direct your passion in such a way that you’ll be able to feed yourself. But if you master the blending of passion, purpose, and talent, it will not be too difficult to satisfy your needs… even to achieve financial abundance.The key to fulfillment is to work from your greatest strengths, with passion, in the service of purpose.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容Enjoying the Journey by Steve PavlinaIf you work really hard to achieve your goals but don’t enjoy the journey, you’re delaying the essence of life. Committing to your goals doesn’t mean you slave away at work you dislike, celebrating only the destination. A real abiding commitment means that you love what you do each day. You are at least as passionate about the path as you are about the results. If you love the path you’re on, your passion motivates you to keep taking the next step.But passion alone isn’t enough. Passion requires focused direction, and that direction must come from three other areas: your purpose, your talents, and your needs.First, purpose and passion go hand in hand. If you don’t know your life purpose, your passion won’t be guided by conscience. Many criminals go this route — they are very passionate about certain actions, but those actions aren’t motivated by a higher purpose. When passion and purpose point in the same direction, it means you fall in love with the path of service. You love what you do, and it also contributes positively to the world. A synergy is created whereby your passion is increased manyfold, a natural consequence of doing something you love to do AND which you know is making a difference.Secondly, passion must be blended with talent. Passion can get you pretty far, but there are plenty of people who are passionate and incompetent, and their passion isn’t sufficient to save them. Have you ever known anyone who got really excited about an idea but couldn’t follow through? The good news is that your talent can be developed — you can educate yourself to learn new knowledge and skills. But the ultimate goal here is to discover where your greatest talents lie. What talents, if you were to fully develop them, could be extremely strong for you? You may come up with several answers, but which ones overlap with your passion? When you do what you love to AND you become really good at doing it, your passion will increase, and your results will be amplified.Thirdly, passion must be blended with need. At the very least, you have to direct your passion in such a way that you’ll be able to feed yourself. But if you master the blending of passion, purpose, and talent, it will not be too difficult to satisfy your needs… even to achieve financial abundance.The key to fulfillment is to work from your greatest strengths, with passion, in the service of purpose.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容THE SUBWAY’S NO. 1 CHARMERInside the cramped and crazed subways of New York, a colorful conductor on the 1 train brightens commutes with off-script announcements.By Daniel KriegerRiding the subway in New York City, there’s not a whole lot to smile about. Delays, filth, passengers who block the door or take up multiple seats or eat fried chicken—there’s always something to rankle you. And if you’re already having a rotten day (or week or life), everything seems to take on an even bleaker hue under that dim fluorescent lighting, as you’re hemmed in by humans not of your choosing. This condition is what inspired Victor Vasquez, a conductor on the No. 1 Broadway local, to start veering off-script last summer when making routine announcements.“A lot of people who get on the train have a semi-depressed look on their face,” Vasquez says. “Standing under someone’s armpit, you just want to get home.”Vasquez, who is twenty-seven, bearded and a tad heavyset, wanted to make straphangers smile with the hope that they might even pay it forward, which is the gist of one of his public service messages from his own repertoire: “Your smile might make a difference in someone else’s day. Little things count.”Whether he’s urging good behavior—“Be nice to each other as you go down the steps”—sharing his thoughts about the weather—“Nice breeze we have tonight. Autumn finally decided to arrive”—or just pointing out your location—“Change of scenery; Harlem, everyone”—Vasquez’s casual remarks do seem to lighten the mood, as if he were joining you for the ride.True, he’s subverting the institutional tone of those humdrum announcements that passengers mostly tune out. But he discovered that when he throws in a little friendly commentary, some ears perk right up, like mine the first time I heard him while riding downtown. Immediately, I stepped off the train, found him, and asked if he was the guy. Vasquez flashed a mischievous smile and said, “Maybe.” Then I got back on and heard a more definitive response over the PA: “Yes, I am the Batman.”968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容THE SUBWAY’S NO. 1 CHARMERInside the cramped and crazed subways of New York, a colorful conductor on the 1 train brightens commutes with off-script announcements.By Daniel KriegerRiding the subway in New York City, there’s not a whole lot to smile about. Delays, filth, passengers who block the door or take up multiple seats or eat fried chicken—there’s always something to rankle you. And if you’re already having a rotten day (or week or life), everything seems to take on an even bleaker hue under that dim fluorescent lighting, as you’re hemmed in by humans not of your choosing. This condition is what inspired Victor Vasquez, a conductor on the No. 1 Broadway local, to start veering off-script last summer when making routine announcements.“A lot of people who get on the train have a semi-depressed look on their face,” Vasquez says. “Standing under someone’s armpit, you just want to get home.”Vasquez, who is twenty-seven, bearded and a tad heavyset, wanted to make straphangers smile with the hope that they might even pay it forward, which is the gist of one of his public service messages from his own repertoire: “Your smile might make a difference in someone else’s day. Little things count.”Whether he’s urging good behavior—“Be nice to each other as you go down the steps”—sharing his thoughts about the weather—“Nice breeze we have tonight. Autumn finally decided to arrive”—or just pointing out your location—“Change of scenery; Harlem, everyone”—Vasquez’s casual remarks do seem to lighten the mood, as if he were joining you for the ride.True, he’s subverting the institutional tone of those humdrum announcements that passengers mostly tune out. But he discovered that when he throws in a little friendly commentary, some ears perk right up, like mine the first time I heard him while riding downtown. Immediately, I stepped off the train, found him, and asked if he was the guy. Vasquez flashed a mischievous smile and said, “Maybe.” Then I got back on and heard a more definitive response over the PA: “Yes, I am the Batman.”968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容Why I don’t want stuffBy Derek SiversAbout once a month, someone asks for my mailing address because they want to send me something. They liked something I wrote, and want to send me a gift in return. I’m very thankful, but have to say no. Here’s why.I live in a little pre-furnished apartment with no stuff, and I love it this way. I have no books, knicknacks, decorations, and really no personal items at all. Just some minimal clothing, my laptop, headphones, and not much else. All the kitchenware and furniture just came with the place, and will stay here when I leave.I just moved into this place a few weeks ago. I’ve moved every year or two since I was 17. I do it because I can, and living this way makes me happy.Every year, I erase my computer’s hard drive and re-install my operating system from scratch. Every week, I erase my phone’s log of texts and calls. I just love that uncluttered feeling.So when I receive something in the mail, no matter how thoughtful it is, it kinda sucks because now I have to figure out how to get rid of it. I feel really wasteful if I just throw it in the trash, so I have to figure out who to give it to.Then I feel bad for whoever spent a bunch of money and time to get and send me something. I appreciate the thought, but really a nice compliment by email is actually much more appreciated than some thing that shows up in the mail.My family and friends know this about me, so I haven’t received anything for Christmas or my birthday in almost 20 years. I’ve been living this way a long time. It makes me really happy when another Christmas or birthday has passed and I didn’t receive anything. It makes me feel understood.I’m not saying anyone else should be this way. Back when I was a full-time musician, I had a whole recording studio full of stuff. But these days, everything I want to do is on my laptop. If I had a different hobby, I’d have a different situation. I’m in awe of my friends with a steady home and huge collections that make them happy.It’s not even a problem. I’m not complaining or bragging. I’m incredibly grateful that I even have to write this. But because it comes up often, I thought I should explain it here.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容Why I don’t want stuffBy Derek SiversAbout once a month, someone asks for my mailing address because they want to send me something. They liked something I wrote, and want to send me a gift in return. I’m very thankful, but have to say no. Here’s why.I live in a little pre-furnished apartment with no stuff, and I love it this way. I have no books, knicknacks, decorations, and really no personal items at all. Just some minimal clothing, my laptop, headphones, and not much else. All the kitchenware and furniture just came with the place, and will stay here when I leave.I just moved into this place a few weeks ago. I’ve moved every year or two since I was 17. I do it because I can, and living this way makes me happy.Every year, I erase my computer’s hard drive and re-install my operating system from scratch. Every week, I erase my phone’s log of texts and calls. I just love that uncluttered feeling.So when I receive something in the mail, no matter how thoughtful it is, it kinda sucks because now I have to figure out how to get rid of it. I feel really wasteful if I just throw it in the trash, so I have to figure out who to give it to.Then I feel bad for whoever spent a bunch of money and time to get and send me something. I appreciate the thought, but really a nice compliment by email is actually much more appreciated than some thing that shows up in the mail.My family and friends know this about me, so I haven’t received anything for Christmas or my birthday in almost 20 years. I’ve been living this way a long time. It makes me really happy when another Christmas or birthday has passed and I didn’t receive anything. It makes me feel understood.I’m not saying anyone else should be this way. Back when I was a full-time musician, I had a whole recording studio full of stuff. But these days, everything I want to do is on my laptop. If I had a different hobby, I’d have a different situation. I’m in awe of my friends with a steady home and huge collections that make them happy.It’s not even a problem. I’m not complaining or bragging. I’m incredibly grateful that I even have to write this. But because it comes up often, I thought I should explain it here.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容The Closet as Workspace, Bedroom or BarBy Ronnie KoenigSome New Yorkers have a use-what-you-have mentality that allows them to see an ordinary old coat closet as a gift of more square footage in a city where every inch of interior real estate counts. With a little work and a lot of vision, they’ve discovered that the smallest and most unassuming space can become a bedroom, a work space, even a secret cocktail bar.When Jane Herro, 30, a jewelry designer and a saleswoman at Realty Collective, first saw her one-bedroom apartment in Red Hook, Brooklyn, she was most excited by the small coat closet behind a curtain next to the front door. It looked just big enough for her jeweler’s bench. “I worked in my bedroom in my last place,” said Ms. Herro, who is originally from Milwaukee, and came to Red Hook after stints in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn, and Hell’s Kitchen in Manhattan. “When I saw this place I thought, that’s perfect. I love working from home, but I didn’t want to look at my work all the time, so I needed a closet where I could close it.”The jeweler’s bench, which she bought at Metalliferous, did indeed fit the space perfectly. She pays around $2,000 a month in rent for her place, a price tag that’s still a shock after living in a Milwaukee studio that cost $500 a month. The trade-off is an artist-friendly neighborhood and a landlord who is understanding about the Saturdays she spends hammering away at strips of sterling silver or soldering small items with a torch.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容The Closet as Workspace, Bedroom or BarBy Ronnie KoenigSome New Yorkers have a use-what-you-have mentality that allows them to see an ordinary old coat closet as a gift of more square footage in a city where every inch of interior real estate counts. With a little work and a lot of vision, they’ve discovered that the smallest and most unassuming space can become a bedroom, a work space, even a secret cocktail bar.When Jane Herro, 30, a jewelry designer and a saleswoman at Realty Collective, first saw her one-bedroom apartment in Red Hook, Brooklyn, she was most excited by the small coat closet behind a curtain next to the front door. It looked just big enough for her jeweler’s bench. “I worked in my bedroom in my last place,” said Ms. Herro, who is originally from Milwaukee, and came to Red Hook after stints in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn, and Hell’s Kitchen in Manhattan. “When I saw this place I thought, that’s perfect. I love working from home, but I didn’t want to look at my work all the time, so I needed a closet where I could close it.”The jeweler’s bench, which she bought at Metalliferous, did indeed fit the space perfectly. She pays around $2,000 a month in rent for her place, a price tag that’s still a shock after living in a Milwaukee studio that cost $500 a month. The trade-off is an artist-friendly neighborhood and a landlord who is understanding about the Saturdays she spends hammering away at strips of sterling silver or soldering small items with a torch.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容5-Year Commitments by Steve PavlinaPeople commonly overestimate how far they can get in a year, but grossly underestimate how far they can get in 5 years.If you actually want results, make a 5-year commitment to a particular path, like building an online business, developing your social skills, becoming a world traveler, etc. A lesser commitment is largely pointless.When I began blogging in 2004, I expected I’d still be blogging in 2009. If I didn’t have that expectation, I wouldn’t have started blogging.Many other bloggers quit within their first year, which is largely a waste of effort. If they were going to quit within such a short period of time, they were never serious about it to begin it. The best results come well after the first year. If you can’t make it at least 5 years, why bother with it at all?Sure there’s some experiential value to be gained from dabbling, but there won’t be much value in terms of results. If you just want to rack up a bunch of short-term experiences for the fun of it, then by all means feel free to dabble. That’s fine. It’s not a mistake to do that if that’s your intention.But if your intention is to actually generate some meaningful results, like strong new relationships, a commercially competitive skill set, a fulfilling career path, or some significant income streams, then forget about dabbling.If you notice that you keep starting over every 6 months or so, you’re being way too noncommittal. As soon as you reach the point when you’re just about to transition into moderate results territory and get into the long run of nice results, you’re pulling the plug and erasing your progress.In the first year, a new website will just begin to get some links, search engine placement, social networking recognition, and some moderate traffic. The seed has grown to a sapling. Then the owners look at the sapling with disappointment because they wanted a full-grown tree by that point, so they yank it out of the ground and start another project from scratch. This is nonsensical. After five years of this pattern, they have little to show for their efforts.After a single year on a new path, it may look like you’re barely getting anywhere. Transformation often looks that way at first. But fast forward five years and look back, and the total transformation can be profound.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容5-Year Commitments by Steve PavlinaPeople commonly overestimate how far they can get in a year, but grossly underestimate how far they can get in 5 years.If you actually want results, make a 5-year commitment to a particular path, like building an online business, developing your social skills, becoming a world traveler, etc. A lesser commitment is largely pointless.When I began blogging in 2004, I expected I’d still be blogging in 2009. If I didn’t have that expectation, I wouldn’t have started blogging.Many other bloggers quit within their first year, which is largely a waste of effort. If they were going to quit within such a short period of time, they were never serious about it to begin it. The best results come well after the first year. If you can’t make it at least 5 years, why bother with it at all?Sure there’s some experiential value to be gained from dabbling, but there won’t be much value in terms of results. If you just want to rack up a bunch of short-term experiences for the fun of it, then by all means feel free to dabble. That’s fine. It’s not a mistake to do that if that’s your intention.But if your intention is to actually generate some meaningful results, like strong new relationships, a commercially competitive skill set, a fulfilling career path, or some significant income streams, then forget about dabbling.If you notice that you keep starting over every 6 months or so, you’re being way too noncommittal. As soon as you reach the point when you’re just about to transition into moderate results territory and get into the long run of nice results, you’re pulling the plug and erasing your progress.In the first year, a new website will just begin to get some links, search engine placement, social networking recognition, and some moderate traffic. The seed has grown to a sapling. Then the owners look at the sapling with disappointment because they wanted a full-grown tree by that point, so they yank it out of the ground and start another project from scratch. This is nonsensical. After five years of this pattern, they have little to show for their efforts.After a single year on a new path, it may look like you’re barely getting anywhere. Transformation often looks that way at first. But fast forward five years and look back, and the total transformation can be profound.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容Free Shipping Is A LieFree shipping is a top priority for online shoppers, but many merchants are struggling to keep up with the costs.By NEAL UNGERLEIDERWhen shopping online, you tend to run into the lie pretty quickly.Spend a certain amount—perhaps $15 or $20—and your shipment is free. Take advantage of competitive holiday promotions that promise free shipping on any item, no minimum required. Or subscribe to a service like Amazon Prime, which, for $99 a year in the United States, offers members free shipping on millions of eligible items.But the truth is that, like virtually everything else, "free" shipping is not actually free.The implications of the lie aren't often felt by us consumers, who have come to expect free shipping. The biggest impact is felt by e-commerce businesses, particularly smaller ones, which face what some have called an emerging crisis: The cost of free shipping, in many cases, is unsustainable.For many online shops, the cost of a free shipment is either folded into the prices for items or funded by investors. Jerry Storch, CEO of Hudson’s Bay Company, a brick-and-mortar giant that includes Canada’s The Bay department store, Lord & Taylor, and Saks Fifth Avenue, says it’s much more expensive for retailers like them to deliver products to a customer's front door than to have them shop in the store. For the retailers that can pay for it, he says, free shipping is becoming a loss leader."The economics are clear," Storch explained at the Shoptalk e-commerce conference in Las Vegas this spring. "Direct-to-home has a supply chain cost three times higher than a store-based model. So when we say the internet retailer can charge less, how can that be? Maybe this is why so many of us have so much trouble emulating Amazon's model and making any money. It's because it's really expensive and it's also why Amazon's had trouble making money on merchandising sales. It’s a very expensive model and it’s not less expensive than the store-based model."968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容Free Shipping Is A LieFree shipping is a top priority for online shoppers, but many merchants are struggling to keep up with the costs.By NEAL UNGERLEIDERWhen shopping online, you tend to run into the lie pretty quickly.Spend a certain amount—perhaps $15 or $20—and your shipment is free. Take advantage of competitive holiday promotions that promise free shipping on any item, no minimum required. Or subscribe to a service like Amazon Prime, which, for $99 a year in the United States, offers members free shipping on millions of eligible items.But the truth is that, like virtually everything else, "free" shipping is not actually free.The implications of the lie aren't often felt by us consumers, who have come to expect free shipping. The biggest impact is felt by e-commerce businesses, particularly smaller ones, which face what some have called an emerging crisis: The cost of free shipping, in many cases, is unsustainable.For many online shops, the cost of a free shipment is either folded into the prices for items or funded by investors. Jerry Storch, CEO of Hudson’s Bay Company, a brick-and-mortar giant that includes Canada’s The Bay department store, Lord & Taylor, and Saks Fifth Avenue, says it’s much more expensive for retailers like them to deliver products to a customer's front door than to have them shop in the store. For the retailers that can pay for it, he says, free shipping is becoming a loss leader."The economics are clear," Storch explained at the Shoptalk e-commerce conference in Las Vegas this spring. "Direct-to-home has a supply chain cost three times higher than a store-based model. So when we say the internet retailer can charge less, how can that be? Maybe this is why so many of us have so much trouble emulating Amazon's model and making any money. It's because it's really expensive and it's also why Amazon's had trouble making money on merchandising sales. It’s a very expensive model and it’s not less expensive than the store-based model."968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容Relax Into the MomentBY LEO BABAUTAYou might be surprised how often we’re resisting life.If you assess your body right now, I bet you can find some kind of tension or tightness. For me, it’s often in my chest, but sometimes it’s in my jaw, face, neck or shoulders.Where does this tightness come from? We’re struggling against something — perhaps we’re irritated by someone, frustrated by something, stressed or overwhelmed by all we have to do, or just don’t like whatever it is we’re faced with. This causes a resistance, a hardening or tightening. Everyone does it, most of the day.It’s normal, but it causes unhappiness, an aversion to the present moment, struggles with other people or ourselves, struggles with the task we’re faced with. What I’ve found useful is the idea of relaxing into the moment.Try this:Notice where the tension is in your body right now.Notice what you’re tightening against — it might be someone else, or whatever it is you’re faced with.Relax the tightness. Just let yourself melt.Face the same situation, but with a relaxed, friendly attitude.And repeat as often as you can remember, throughout the day. Just use the phrase “relax into the moment” to remind yourself.What this does is help us to face the day with less tension and greater contentment. We struggle less with how other people are, and instead might open our hearts to them and see that they, like us, are struggling and want to be happy.We might face a task with less resistance, and instead do it with a smile. We might just notice the physical space around us and start to appreciate it for the unique gift that it is. And in the end, we’re changing our mode of being from one of struggle and resistance to one of peace and gratitude.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容Relax Into the MomentBY LEO BABAUTAYou might be surprised how often we’re resisting life.If you assess your body right now, I bet you can find some kind of tension or tightness. For me, it’s often in my chest, but sometimes it’s in my jaw, face, neck or shoulders.Where does this tightness come from? We’re struggling against something — perhaps we’re irritated by someone, frustrated by something, stressed or overwhelmed by all we have to do, or just don’t like whatever it is we’re faced with. This causes a resistance, a hardening or tightening. Everyone does it, most of the day.It’s normal, but it causes unhappiness, an aversion to the present moment, struggles with other people or ourselves, struggles with the task we’re faced with. What I’ve found useful is the idea of relaxing into the moment.Try this:Notice where the tension is in your body right now.Notice what you’re tightening against — it might be someone else, or whatever it is you’re faced with.Relax the tightness. Just let yourself melt.Face the same situation, but with a relaxed, friendly attitude.And repeat as often as you can remember, throughout the day. Just use the phrase “relax into the moment” to remind yourself.What this does is help us to face the day with less tension and greater contentment. We struggle less with how other people are, and instead might open our hearts to them and see that they, like us, are struggling and want to be happy.We might face a task with less resistance, and instead do it with a smile. We might just notice the physical space around us and start to appreciate it for the unique gift that it is. And in the end, we’re changing our mode of being from one of struggle and resistance to one of peace and gratitude.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容Masters of LoveScience says lasting relationships come down to—you guessed it—kindness and generosity.By EMILY ESFAHANI SMITHEvery day in June, the most popular wedding month of the year, about 13,000 American couples will say “I do,” committing to a lifelong relationship that will be full of friendship, joy, and love that will carry them forward to their final days on this earth.Except, of course, it doesn’t work out that way for most people. The majority of marriages fail, either ending in divorce and separation or devolving into bitterness and dysfunction. Of all the people who get married, only three in ten remain in healthy, happy marriages, as psychologist Ty Tashiro points out in his book The Science of Happily Ever After, which was published earlier this year.Social scientists first started studying marriages by observing them in action in the 1970s in response to a crisis: Married couples were divorcing at unprecedented rates. Worried about the impact these divorces would have on the children of the broken marriages, psychologists decided to cast their scientific net on couples, bringing them into the lab to observe them and determine what the ingredients of a healthy, lasting relationship were. Was each unhappy family unhappy in its own way, as Tolstoy claimed, or did the miserable marriages all share something toxic in common?...Contempt, they have found, is the number one factor that tears couples apart. People who are focused on criticizing their partners miss a whopping 50 percent of positive things their partners are doing and they see negativity when it’s not there. People who give their partner the cold shoulder—deliberately ignoring the partner or responding minimally—damage the relationship by making their partner feel worthless and invisible, as if they’re not there, not valued. And people who treat their partners with contempt and criticize them not only kill the love in the relationship, but they also kill their partner's ability to fight off viruses and cancers. Being mean is the death knell of relationships.Kindness, on the other hand, glues couples together. Research independent from theirs has shown that kindness (along with emotional stability) is the most important predictor of satisfaction and stability in a marriage. Kindness makes each partner feel cared for, understood, and validated—feel loved. “My bounty is as boundless as the sea,” says Shakespeare’s Juliet. “My love as deep; the more I give to thee, / The more I have, for both are infinite.” That’s how kindness works too: there’s a great deal of evidence showing the more someone receives or witnesses kindness, the more they will be kind themselves, which leads to upward spirals of love and generosity in a relationship.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容Masters of LoveScience says lasting relationships come down to—you guessed it—kindness and generosity.By EMILY ESFAHANI SMITHEvery day in June, the most popular wedding month of the year, about 13,000 American couples will say “I do,” committing to a lifelong relationship that will be full of friendship, joy, and love that will carry them forward to their final days on this earth.Except, of course, it doesn’t work out that way for most people. The majority of marriages fail, either ending in divorce and separation or devolving into bitterness and dysfunction. Of all the people who get married, only three in ten remain in healthy, happy marriages, as psychologist Ty Tashiro points out in his book The Science of Happily Ever After, which was published earlier this year.Social scientists first started studying marriages by observing them in action in the 1970s in response to a crisis: Married couples were divorcing at unprecedented rates. Worried about the impact these divorces would have on the children of the broken marriages, psychologists decided to cast their scientific net on couples, bringing them into the lab to observe them and determine what the ingredients of a healthy, lasting relationship were. Was each unhappy family unhappy in its own way, as Tolstoy claimed, or did the miserable marriages all share something toxic in common?...Contempt, they have found, is the number one factor that tears couples apart. People who are focused on criticizing their partners miss a whopping 50 percent of positive things their partners are doing and they see negativity when it’s not there. People who give their partner the cold shoulder—deliberately ignoring the partner or responding minimally—damage the relationship by making their partner feel worthless and invisible, as if they’re not there, not valued. And people who treat their partners with contempt and criticize them not only kill the love in the relationship, but they also kill their partner's ability to fight off viruses and cancers. Being mean is the death knell of relationships.Kindness, on the other hand, glues couples together. Research independent from theirs has shown that kindness (along with emotional stability) is the most important predictor of satisfaction and stability in a marriage. Kindness makes each partner feel cared for, understood, and validated—feel loved. “My bounty is as boundless as the sea,” says Shakespeare’s Juliet. “My love as deep; the more I give to thee, / The more I have, for both are infinite.” That’s how kindness works too: there’s a great deal of evidence showing the more someone receives or witnesses kindness, the more they will be kind themselves, which leads to upward spirals of love and generosity in a relationship.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容The Best Place to Invest Your Money By Steve PavlinaThe best place to invest your money is in yourself. The rate of return from investing in your own knowledge and skills will be much higher than anything you’ll see from stocks, real estate, or other investments.In some cases you can even measure the rate of return. Say you buy a book. Even add in the cost of your average hourly rate multiplied by the time it took you to read it. Many books will be lousy. But every once in a while, you’ll get one good idea that gives you a huge rate of return. Like 10x the cost in a matter of months. This is especially true with business and personal productivity books. But often it isn’t a breakthrough idea but rather the continuous exposure to the same ideas presented in different ways that produces a steady return over time. And the results go way beyond monetary. If investing in your own knowledge finally gives you the idea you need to quit smoking, you can measure the lifetime financial savings in the cost of cigarettes, but what is the increased level of health worth to you? What is the idea that allows you to meet and connect with your future spouse worth? What is shedding 50 pounds of fat and knowing you can keep it off the rest of your life worth? What is building a career that totally fulfills you worth?A trick I learned from Brian Tracy is to invest 3% of your income on your own personal development. I don’t know why he specifically uses 3%, but that seems about right to me. So if you earn $5000 per month, you’d invest just $150 per month on your own personal development. You don’t have to spend that exact percentage every month. It’s fine to underspend one month and overspend another. But aim for about 3% for the year on average. If that amount makes you uncomfortable, start with 1% the first month and build up gradually. Or just start with a fixed amount like $20 until you get the hang of it.You can use this budget to invest in improving yourself any way you like. So that includes not just knowledge, but also equipment and services — anything that helps you grow and improve. 968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容The Best Place to Invest Your Money By Steve PavlinaThe best place to invest your money is in yourself. The rate of return from investing in your own knowledge and skills will be much higher than anything you’ll see from stocks, real estate, or other investments.In some cases you can even measure the rate of return. Say you buy a book. Even add in the cost of your average hourly rate multiplied by the time it took you to read it. Many books will be lousy. But every once in a while, you’ll get one good idea that gives you a huge rate of return. Like 10x the cost in a matter of months. This is especially true with business and personal productivity books. But often it isn’t a breakthrough idea but rather the continuous exposure to the same ideas presented in different ways that produces a steady return over time. And the results go way beyond monetary. If investing in your own knowledge finally gives you the idea you need to quit smoking, you can measure the lifetime financial savings in the cost of cigarettes, but what is the increased level of health worth to you? What is the idea that allows you to meet and connect with your future spouse worth? What is shedding 50 pounds of fat and knowing you can keep it off the rest of your life worth? What is building a career that totally fulfills you worth?A trick I learned from Brian Tracy is to invest 3% of your income on your own personal development. I don’t know why he specifically uses 3%, but that seems about right to me. So if you earn $5000 per month, you’d invest just $150 per month on your own personal development. You don’t have to spend that exact percentage every month. It’s fine to underspend one month and overspend another. But aim for about 3% for the year on average. If that amount makes you uncomfortable, start with 1% the first month and build up gradually. Or just start with a fixed amount like $20 until you get the hang of it.You can use this budget to invest in improving yourself any way you like. So that includes not just knowledge, but also equipment and services — anything that helps you grow and improve. 968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容The Economist: Oliver Hart and Bengt Holmstrom win the Nobel prize for economic sciencesSUPPOSE that you and I are interested in opening a lemonade stand together. We agree that I will bring the materials we need (cups, stand and so forth) while you will make the lemonade. I’ll do the pouring while you mind the cashbox and at the end we will split the proceeds fairly. A doubt niggles, though. I am worried you might, at the end, try to hog the contents of the cashbox. We therefore decide to draw up a contract (common practice in the lemonade-stand industry) dictating that the returns to our operation must be split evenly. But then you start to worry: much of the success of our stand will depend on the quality of the lemonade, over which I have no control. What if I decide to slack off and piggyback on your lemonade-brewing genius, knowing that after you pour your sweat into the lemonade (not literally), the split is still an even 50-50? We therefore set to haggling over language in the contract setting out precisely how each of us should do our respective jobs.Contracts play a critical role in the operation of the modern economy. They set out who is allowed to do what with the land they own, the people they employ and the songs they store on their smartphones. They underpin nearly all of the banking and insurance sectors. Individuals are self-interested, but to take advantage of economic opportunity people must often work together and find ways to align their interests (or minimise conflicts of interest). That’s where contracts come in. This morning, The Swedish Riksbank awarded this year’s Nobel prize for economic sciences to Oliver Hart, a British economist at Harvard University, and Bengt Holmstrom, a Finnish economist at MIT, for their work improving our understanding of how and why contracts work, and when they can be made to work better.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容The Economist: Oliver Hart and Bengt Holmstrom win the Nobel prize for economic sciencesSUPPOSE that you and I are interested in opening a lemonade stand together. We agree that I will bring the materials we need (cups, stand and so forth) while you will make the lemonade. I’ll do the pouring while you mind the cashbox and at the end we will split the proceeds fairly. A doubt niggles, though. I am worried you might, at the end, try to hog the contents of the cashbox. We therefore decide to draw up a contract (common practice in the lemonade-stand industry) dictating that the returns to our operation must be split evenly. But then you start to worry: much of the success of our stand will depend on the quality of the lemonade, over which I have no control. What if I decide to slack off and piggyback on your lemonade-brewing genius, knowing that after you pour your sweat into the lemonade (not literally), the split is still an even 50-50? We therefore set to haggling over language in the contract setting out precisely how each of us should do our respective jobs.Contracts play a critical role in the operation of the modern economy. They set out who is allowed to do what with the land they own, the people they employ and the songs they store on their smartphones. They underpin nearly all of the banking and insurance sectors. Individuals are self-interested, but to take advantage of economic opportunity people must often work together and find ways to align their interests (or minimise conflicts of interest). That’s where contracts come in. This morning, The Swedish Riksbank awarded this year’s Nobel prize for economic sciences to Oliver Hart, a British economist at Harvard University, and Bengt Holmstrom, a Finnish economist at MIT, for their work improving our understanding of how and why contracts work, and when they can be made to work better.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容I love being wrongBy Derek SiversMost of the time I feel smart, successful, and driven - like I’ve got it all figured out.But last month a bunch of stuff knocked me on my ass. I’ve never felt so wrong.I vulnerably called on friends for help.• Amber reminded me to pull my head out of today, and think long-term again.• Jeff told me to get my swagger back and relish the moment.• Ariel said I should really accept and feel this pain, instead of moving on so fast like I always do.Each different perspective made me feel good for a while, then I’d fall back into the whirlpool of destructive thoughts.Whenever something’s wrong in my life, I’ve asked myself this amazing question:“What’s great about this?”But now my only answer was, “Nothing. This just sucks.” I tried asking it again every day or two, but the answer was the same. Down the whirlpool I went.After moping at the bottom of the ocean for a few weeks, I got a bright memory from my former self.I actually love being wrong, even though it cracks my confidence, because that’s the only time I learn.I actually love being lost, even though it fuels fears, because that’s when I go somewhere unexpected.I pursue these things in small digestable doses. I love little lessons that surprise my expectations and change my mind. This is why I aim to make my TED talks surprising. If we’re not surprised, we’re not learning.But I finally answered “What’s great about this?”:Getting knocked on my ass made me humble as hell. It’s been years since I’d called for help. It’s been years since my cup was so empty. It’s been years since I was so open to advice.I smiled, thinking of how much I’ve learned from my friends these past few weeks. I realized how ultimately happy it makes me to be so empty, even if it really hurts at first. It’s better than thinking I’ve got it all figured out.And with that, the sun came up and the whirlpool went away.Thank you life. Thank you friends.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容I love being wrongBy Derek SiversMost of the time I feel smart, successful, and driven - like I’ve got it all figured out.But last month a bunch of stuff knocked me on my ass. I’ve never felt so wrong.I vulnerably called on friends for help.• Amber reminded me to pull my head out of today, and think long-term again.• Jeff told me to get my swagger back and relish the moment.• Ariel said I should really accept and feel this pain, instead of moving on so fast like I always do.Each different perspective made me feel good for a while, then I’d fall back into the whirlpool of destructive thoughts.Whenever something’s wrong in my life, I’ve asked myself this amazing question:“What’s great about this?”But now my only answer was, “Nothing. This just sucks.” I tried asking it again every day or two, but the answer was the same. Down the whirlpool I went.After moping at the bottom of the ocean for a few weeks, I got a bright memory from my former self.I actually love being wrong, even though it cracks my confidence, because that’s the only time I learn.I actually love being lost, even though it fuels fears, because that’s when I go somewhere unexpected.I pursue these things in small digestable doses. I love little lessons that surprise my expectations and change my mind. This is why I aim to make my TED talks surprising. If we’re not surprised, we’re not learning.But I finally answered “What’s great about this?”:Getting knocked on my ass made me humble as hell. It’s been years since I’d called for help. It’s been years since my cup was so empty. It’s been years since I was so open to advice.I smiled, thinking of how much I’ve learned from my friends these past few weeks. I realized how ultimately happy it makes me to be so empty, even if it really hurts at first. It’s better than thinking I’ve got it all figured out.And with that, the sun came up and the whirlpool went away.Thank you life. Thank you friends.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容Why Does Purpose Matter? By Steve PavlinaWhy does it matter whether or not your life actually has a purpose?Let’s take a few steps back and creep up on this question….If you complete a task, and there’s no overall important context for that task, then the task doesn’t really matter. So you watch a TV show. It doesn’t make a difference — there’s no larger context for it. But if you complete a task that’s part of a larger project, now it suddenly matters, at least within the context of the project. If you create a web page, and it’s part of a new web site you’re building, that task matters. It takes you closer to the realization of the completed project.Now when does a project matter? Projects matter only within the context of a larger goal. If your goal is to increase your income, and you complete a project that is likely to facilitate it, the project matters. It brings you a step closer to the realization of your goal. But if you complete a project like digging a trench through your backyard, and there’s no real goal you’re trying to accomplish, then the project is pointless. There’s no meaning behind it.If a project isn’t part of some larger goal, then that project has no context and is therefore irrelevant. You don’t need a complicated goal to give meaning to a project. It could be something simple like increasing your happiness or even just entertaining you for a while. But human behavior is purposeful, and we humans don’t tend to undertake projects if there is no good reason for doing so. People don’t often work hard at digging holes and refilling them for no reason.What’s the difference between projects and goals? Goals are outcomes, objectives. They’re states of being — a state where you’d like to be at some point. Projects are encapsulations of the actions you feel you can take to help you achieve a goal. Owning your own home is a goal. Writing a screenplay is a project.So to reverse the order, you start by setting some goals, create projects to achieve those goals, and perform tasks to complete those projects and thereby achieve your goals.But now what’s the context for your goals? Why do they matter? If a task needs the context of a project and a project needs the context of a goal, don’t goals need a context as well in order for them to matter?968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容Why Does Purpose Matter? By Steve PavlinaWhy does it matter whether or not your life actually has a purpose?Let’s take a few steps back and creep up on this question….If you complete a task, and there’s no overall important context for that task, then the task doesn’t really matter. So you watch a TV show. It doesn’t make a difference — there’s no larger context for it. But if you complete a task that’s part of a larger project, now it suddenly matters, at least within the context of the project. If you create a web page, and it’s part of a new web site you’re building, that task matters. It takes you closer to the realization of the completed project.Now when does a project matter? Projects matter only within the context of a larger goal. If your goal is to increase your income, and you complete a project that is likely to facilitate it, the project matters. It brings you a step closer to the realization of your goal. But if you complete a project like digging a trench through your backyard, and there’s no real goal you’re trying to accomplish, then the project is pointless. There’s no meaning behind it.If a project isn’t part of some larger goal, then that project has no context and is therefore irrelevant. You don’t need a complicated goal to give meaning to a project. It could be something simple like increasing your happiness or even just entertaining you for a while. But human behavior is purposeful, and we humans don’t tend to undertake projects if there is no good reason for doing so. People don’t often work hard at digging holes and refilling them for no reason.What’s the difference between projects and goals? Goals are outcomes, objectives. They’re states of being — a state where you’d like to be at some point. Projects are encapsulations of the actions you feel you can take to help you achieve a goal. Owning your own home is a goal. Writing a screenplay is a project.So to reverse the order, you start by setting some goals, create projects to achieve those goals, and perform tasks to complete those projects and thereby achieve your goals.But now what’s the context for your goals? Why do they matter? If a task needs the context of a project and a project needs the context of a goal, don’t goals need a context as well in order for them to matter?968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容The Rise of Ransom CityBy Felix GilmanEDITOR’S FOREWORD BY ELMER MERRIAL CARSON It seems I have worked half my life on this account of Mr. Harry Ransom and his adventures. I have published more books in my life than I can now recall, I have founded two newspapers and run three into the ground, I have rewritten my own autobiography four times—one of the hazards of longevity—and it seems to me now that this book has cost me more labor than all the rest put together. Ever since I first met him, Mr. Harry Ransom has made my life difficult. This is Mr. Ransom’s story, and for the most part it is told in his own words. I have corrected the man’s unorthodox spelling, and in a few places where his pages were torn or fouled or never recovered, I have had to guess at his meaning. Some of his punctuation appears to be of his own invention, and I have forced it into a more standard mold. I have preserved all his digressions from the point and I have corrected only a small percentage of his errors. What I believe Mr. Ransom intended as his title was one hundred and sixty-six words long, which is an abomination that no publisher can abide. I have shortened it. I do not intend to say anything much about Mr. Ransom here. I do not intend to express an opinion on whether he was a good man or a bad one, a genius or a charlatan, an honest man or a traitor. He was the kind of odd fellow one used to meet back in the century gone by, in the days when the Great War was at its height. All that is to say that my editorial duties have been light. The labor I speak of has mostly been a matter of tracking down the pages of Ransom’s manuscript. But that has taken me half a lifetime.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容The Rise of Ransom CityBy Felix GilmanEDITOR’S FOREWORD BY ELMER MERRIAL CARSON It seems I have worked half my life on this account of Mr. Harry Ransom and his adventures. I have published more books in my life than I can now recall, I have founded two newspapers and run three into the ground, I have rewritten my own autobiography four times—one of the hazards of longevity—and it seems to me now that this book has cost me more labor than all the rest put together. Ever since I first met him, Mr. Harry Ransom has made my life difficult. This is Mr. Ransom’s story, and for the most part it is told in his own words. I have corrected the man’s unorthodox spelling, and in a few places where his pages were torn or fouled or never recovered, I have had to guess at his meaning. Some of his punctuation appears to be of his own invention, and I have forced it into a more standard mold. I have preserved all his digressions from the point and I have corrected only a small percentage of his errors. What I believe Mr. Ransom intended as his title was one hundred and sixty-six words long, which is an abomination that no publisher can abide. I have shortened it. I do not intend to say anything much about Mr. Ransom here. I do not intend to express an opinion on whether he was a good man or a bad one, a genius or a charlatan, an honest man or a traitor. He was the kind of odd fellow one used to meet back in the century gone by, in the days when the Great War was at its height. All that is to say that my editorial duties have been light. The labor I speak of has mostly been a matter of tracking down the pages of Ransom’s manuscript. But that has taken me half a lifetime.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容DisconnectBy Derek SiversSomeone asked what I remember as the best times of my life.They’re almost all times when I was being the most productive — when I was creating the most.Turning my ideas into reality is what I want the most out of life. So that’s what gives me the deepest happiness.Then I realized that all the best, happiest, and most productive times in my life, were when I was completely cut-off.No internet. No TV. No phone. No people.Long uninterrupted solitude.When I was 22, I quit my job, and spent five months alone in a house on the Oregon coast. Practicing, writing, recording, exercising, studying, learning. No internet. No TV. No phone. No people. I only drove into the city once a month to see friends and family. The rest was completely disconnected.In those five months, I wrote and recorded over 50 songs, made huge improvements in my instrumental skills, read 20 books (some of which changed my life), lost 20 pounds, and got into the best physical shape of my life. Not only that, but I was the happiest I’d ever been.When I was 27, I moved to the woods of Woodstock and did that again. Months and months of lovely solitude. That’s how I started CD Baby.It’s not that I hate people. The other best times in my life were with people. But it’s interesting how many highlights were just sitting in a room, in that wonderful creative flow. Free from the chatter of the world.No updates. No news. No pings. No chats. No meetings. No surfing. No blogs.Silence is a great canvas for your thoughts.That vacuum helps turn all your inputs into output.That lack of interruption is a great ingredient for flow.Every business wants to get you addicted to their infinite updates, pings, chats, messages, and news. But if what you want out of life is to create, then those things are the first to go.People often ask me what they can do to be more successful.I say disconnect. Even if just for a few hours. Unplug. Turn off your phone and wifi. Focus. Write. Practice. Create.That’s what’s rare and valuable these days.You get no competitive edge from consuming the same stuff everyone else is consuming. But it’s rare to focus. And it gives such better rewards.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容DisconnectBy Derek SiversSomeone asked what I remember as the best times of my life.They’re almost all times when I was being the most productive — when I was creating the most.Turning my ideas into reality is what I want the most out of life. So that’s what gives me the deepest happiness.Then I realized that all the best, happiest, and most productive times in my life, were when I was completely cut-off.No internet. No TV. No phone. No people.Long uninterrupted solitude.When I was 22, I quit my job, and spent five months alone in a house on the Oregon coast. Practicing, writing, recording, exercising, studying, learning. No internet. No TV. No phone. No people. I only drove into the city once a month to see friends and family. The rest was completely disconnected.In those five months, I wrote and recorded over 50 songs, made huge improvements in my instrumental skills, read 20 books (some of which changed my life), lost 20 pounds, and got into the best physical shape of my life. Not only that, but I was the happiest I’d ever been.When I was 27, I moved to the woods of Woodstock and did that again. Months and months of lovely solitude. That’s how I started CD Baby.It’s not that I hate people. The other best times in my life were with people. But it’s interesting how many highlights were just sitting in a room, in that wonderful creative flow. Free from the chatter of the world.No updates. No news. No pings. No chats. No meetings. No surfing. No blogs.Silence is a great canvas for your thoughts.That vacuum helps turn all your inputs into output.That lack of interruption is a great ingredient for flow.Every business wants to get you addicted to their infinite updates, pings, chats, messages, and news. But if what you want out of life is to create, then those things are the first to go.People often ask me what they can do to be more successful.I say disconnect. Even if just for a few hours. Unplug. Turn off your phone and wifi. Focus. Write. Practice. Create.That’s what’s rare and valuable these days.You get no competitive edge from consuming the same stuff everyone else is consuming. But it’s rare to focus. And it gives such better rewards.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容Honeycrisp was just the beginning: inside the quest to create the perfect appleBy Alex Abad-SantosThe idea that a red apple is a delicious apple is one of the greatest frauds ever perpetrated against Americans. The apples we’re supposed to eat to keep doctors away, the apples we’re supposed to give to teachers to show our appreciation, the apples we compare to oranges — all of them are a deep, predictable red, and none of them are delicious. The apple variety known as Red Delicious has, according to the US Department of Agriculture, dominated the apple industry since at least 1980. It’s been the most widely produced variety in the United States for the last 36 years. The name is a total fabrication, a lie that’s woven its way into the tapestry of American culture. At best, biting into a Red Delicious is like biting into a firm cantaloupe that has only a serviceable sweetness. At worst, it’s like biting into an old baseball mitt, with shudder-inducing softness compounded by a flavor that tastes like it was muzzled between two cotton balls. Because they are common and cheap, Red Delicious apples are often served in hospitals and cafeterias across this great nation. Fuck the Red Delicious.Thankfully, there’s hope. In the last several years, a new apple has emerged, one that all other apples should be judged against. This apple exemplifies American exceptionalism; it is a feat of science as well as of grit and determination.The Honeycrisp apple is as good as the Red Delicious is bad. Its story is also a harbinger of apple greatness still to come.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容Honeycrisp was just the beginning: inside the quest to create the perfect appleBy Alex Abad-SantosThe idea that a red apple is a delicious apple is one of the greatest frauds ever perpetrated against Americans. The apples we’re supposed to eat to keep doctors away, the apples we’re supposed to give to teachers to show our appreciation, the apples we compare to oranges — all of them are a deep, predictable red, and none of them are delicious. The apple variety known as Red Delicious has, according to the US Department of Agriculture, dominated the apple industry since at least 1980. It’s been the most widely produced variety in the United States for the last 36 years. The name is a total fabrication, a lie that’s woven its way into the tapestry of American culture. At best, biting into a Red Delicious is like biting into a firm cantaloupe that has only a serviceable sweetness. At worst, it’s like biting into an old baseball mitt, with shudder-inducing softness compounded by a flavor that tastes like it was muzzled between two cotton balls. Because they are common and cheap, Red Delicious apples are often served in hospitals and cafeterias across this great nation. Fuck the Red Delicious.Thankfully, there’s hope. In the last several years, a new apple has emerged, one that all other apples should be judged against. This apple exemplifies American exceptionalism; it is a feat of science as well as of grit and determination.The Honeycrisp apple is as good as the Red Delicious is bad. Its story is also a harbinger of apple greatness still to come.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容Patterns of SuccessBy Steve Pavlina  People usually succeed in the long run.This is the pattern I see in my long-term readers. They may take a while to get moving on their goals at first. They may endure some false starts and setbacks. They may procrastinate now and then. But if a goal is important to them, such as creating passive income streams or finding a fulfilling relationship, they do eventually succeed.Not all of them succeed of course. Some give up. Some get sucked back into social groups that influence them to fall off track. Some drift aimlessly without finding their focus.But by and large, the people who persist do eventually succeed. If they keep working towards their goals, keep learning and growing, and stay conscious, they do make progress, and they do achieve their goals.Here are some of the patterns I see in readers who succeed in achieving their long-term goals.Take Goals SeriouslyPeople who succeed take their goals seriously. They move their goals out of the realm of fantasy and turn them into practical objectives to be achieved.Start ModestlyPeople who succeed tend to begin with modest goals and build up to larger goals when they get some success going. Those who fail often bite off more than they can chew.Don’t Go DarkAlmost everyone goes dark at some point, sinking into aimless drifting for a while and losing sight of their goals. Those who succeed tend to bounce back quickly though. They recognize when they’re going dark and even give themselves permission to temporarily wallow in this state if they need a break. They know they’ll get back to working on their goals soon enough.Be FlexiblePeople who get sidetracked often have a very rigid approach to success. When their initial plans don’t work in the real world, they keep repeating the same ineffective strategies, stubbornly expecting that something new will happen each time.Embrace the Growth JourneyIt usually takes people longer than they expect to achieve their goals, regardless of what types of goals they set. When we set a goal, we can’t accurately envision all the micro-steps it will take to achieve it. We oversimplify the journey. We overlook many details, and those details will take time.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容Patterns of SuccessBy Steve Pavlina  People usually succeed in the long run.This is the pattern I see in my long-term readers. They may take a while to get moving on their goals at first. They may endure some false starts and setbacks. They may procrastinate now and then. But if a goal is important to them, such as creating passive income streams or finding a fulfilling relationship, they do eventually succeed.Not all of them succeed of course. Some give up. Some get sucked back into social groups that influence them to fall off track. Some drift aimlessly without finding their focus.But by and large, the people who persist do eventually succeed. If they keep working towards their goals, keep learning and growing, and stay conscious, they do make progress, and they do achieve their goals.Here are some of the patterns I see in readers who succeed in achieving their long-term goals.Take Goals SeriouslyPeople who succeed take their goals seriously. They move their goals out of the realm of fantasy and turn them into practical objectives to be achieved.Start ModestlyPeople who succeed tend to begin with modest goals and build up to larger goals when they get some success going. Those who fail often bite off more than they can chew.Don’t Go DarkAlmost everyone goes dark at some point, sinking into aimless drifting for a while and losing sight of their goals. Those who succeed tend to bounce back quickly though. They recognize when they’re going dark and even give themselves permission to temporarily wallow in this state if they need a break. They know they’ll get back to working on their goals soon enough.Be FlexiblePeople who get sidetracked often have a very rigid approach to success. When their initial plans don’t work in the real world, they keep repeating the same ineffective strategies, stubbornly expecting that something new will happen each time.Embrace the Growth JourneyIt usually takes people longer than they expect to achieve their goals, regardless of what types of goals they set. When we set a goal, we can’t accurately envision all the micro-steps it will take to achieve it. We oversimplify the journey. We overlook many details, and those details will take time.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容B Is for BurglarBy Sue GraftonPrologueAfter it’s over, of course, you want to kick yourself for all the things you didn’t see at the time. The Had-I-But-Known school of private investigation perhaps. My name is Kinsey Millhone and most of my reports begin the same way. I start by asserting who I am and what I do, as though by stating the same few basic facts I can make sense out of everything that comes afterward. This is what’s true of me in brief. I’m female, age thirty-two, single, self-employed. I went through the police academy when I was twenty, joining Santa Teresa Police Department on graduation. I don’t even remember now how I pictured the job before I took it on. I must have had vague, idealistic notions of law and order, the good guys versus the bad, with occasional court appearances in which I’d be asked to testify as to which was which. In my view, the bad guys would all go to jail, thus making it safe for the rest of us to carry on. After a while, I realized how naïve I was. I was frustrated at the restrictions and frustrated because back then, policewomen were viewed with a mixture of curiosity and scorn. I didn’t want to spend my days defending myself against “goodnatured” insults, or having to prove how tough I was again and again. I wasn’t getting paid enough to deal with all that grief, so I got out. For two years, I tried an assortment of occupations, but none had the same pull. Whatever else is true of police work, it does entail the intermittent sick thrill of life on the edge. I was hooked on the adrenal rush, and I couldn’t go back to the commonplace. Eventually, I joined a small firm of private investigators and spent another two years learning the business, after which I opened an office of my own, duly licensed and bonded. I’ve been at it for five years, supporting myself in a modest way. I’m wiser now than I used to be and I’m more experienced, but the fact remains that when a client sits down in the chair across the desk from me, I never know what’s going to happen next.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容B Is for BurglarBy Sue GraftonPrologueAfter it’s over, of course, you want to kick yourself for all the things you didn’t see at the time. The Had-I-But-Known school of private investigation perhaps. My name is Kinsey Millhone and most of my reports begin the same way. I start by asserting who I am and what I do, as though by stating the same few basic facts I can make sense out of everything that comes afterward. This is what’s true of me in brief. I’m female, age thirty-two, single, self-employed. I went through the police academy when I was twenty, joining Santa Teresa Police Department on graduation. I don’t even remember now how I pictured the job before I took it on. I must have had vague, idealistic notions of law and order, the good guys versus the bad, with occasional court appearances in which I’d be asked to testify as to which was which. In my view, the bad guys would all go to jail, thus making it safe for the rest of us to carry on. After a while, I realized how naïve I was. I was frustrated at the restrictions and frustrated because back then, policewomen were viewed with a mixture of curiosity and scorn. I didn’t want to spend my days defending myself against “goodnatured” insults, or having to prove how tough I was again and again. I wasn’t getting paid enough to deal with all that grief, so I got out. For two years, I tried an assortment of occupations, but none had the same pull. Whatever else is true of police work, it does entail the intermittent sick thrill of life on the edge. I was hooked on the adrenal rush, and I couldn’t go back to the commonplace. Eventually, I joined a small firm of private investigators and spent another two years learning the business, after which I opened an office of my own, duly licensed and bonded. I’ve been at it for five years, supporting myself in a modest way. I’m wiser now than I used to be and I’m more experienced, but the fact remains that when a client sits down in the chair across the desk from me, I never know what’s going to happen next.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容I’m a very slow thinkerBy Derek SiversWhen a friend says something interesting to me, I usually don’t have a reaction until much later.When someone asks me a deep question, I say, “Hmm. I don’t know.” The next morning, I have an answer.I’m a disappointing person to try to debate or attack. I just have nothing to say in the moment, except maybe, “Good point.” Then a few days later, after thinking about it a lot, I have a response.This probably makes me look stupid in the moment, but I don’t mind. I’m not trying to win any debates.In fact, I’ll tell you a secret. For most of those interviews at sivers.org/i, they sent me their questions a week in advance. I’d spend hours writing down answers from different perspectives, before choosing the most interesting one. Then once we were in a live conversation, I’d try to make it sound spontaneous.It’s a common belief that your first reaction is the most honest, but I disagree. Your first reaction is usually outdated. Either it’s an answer you came up with long ago and now use instead of thinking, or it’s triggering a knee-jerk emotional response to something that happened long ago.If you take some time to think it through, you might find that your first reaction wasn’t current and true. Or if it was, then you can say so with more conviction.Point is: When you’re less impulsive and more deliberate like this, it can be a little inconvenient for other people, but that’s OK.Someone asks you a question. You don’t need to answer. You can say, “I don’t know,” and take your time to answer after thinking.Things happen. Someone expects you to respond. But you can say, “We’ll see.”And maybe, through example, you can show them that they can do the same.(Can you imagine how the world would work if this was the norm?)968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容I’m a very slow thinkerBy Derek SiversWhen a friend says something interesting to me, I usually don’t have a reaction until much later.When someone asks me a deep question, I say, “Hmm. I don’t know.” The next morning, I have an answer.I’m a disappointing person to try to debate or attack. I just have nothing to say in the moment, except maybe, “Good point.” Then a few days later, after thinking about it a lot, I have a response.This probably makes me look stupid in the moment, but I don’t mind. I’m not trying to win any debates.In fact, I’ll tell you a secret. For most of those interviews at sivers.org/i, they sent me their questions a week in advance. I’d spend hours writing down answers from different perspectives, before choosing the most interesting one. Then once we were in a live conversation, I’d try to make it sound spontaneous.It’s a common belief that your first reaction is the most honest, but I disagree. Your first reaction is usually outdated. Either it’s an answer you came up with long ago and now use instead of thinking, or it’s triggering a knee-jerk emotional response to something that happened long ago.If you take some time to think it through, you might find that your first reaction wasn’t current and true. Or if it was, then you can say so with more conviction.Point is: When you’re less impulsive and more deliberate like this, it can be a little inconvenient for other people, but that’s OK.Someone asks you a question. You don’t need to answer. You can say, “I don’t know,” and take your time to answer after thinking.Things happen. Someone expects you to respond. But you can say, “We’ll see.”And maybe, through example, you can show them that they can do the same.(Can you imagine how the world would work if this was the norm?)968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容What’s the Most Loving Thing You Can Do?BY LEO BABAUTAThe question I’ve been asking myself lately, before I do anything, is a deceptively simple one: “What’s the most loving thing you can do in this situation?“Now, that might sound corny to some of you, might seem irrelevant to most of you. But give me one minute of your time to explain.I’ve been experimenting for awhile with letting go. Not running when I have uncertainty, fear, discomfort. Not acting on my fears or frustrations. Not letting these things drive me, but sitting still with them instead, and facing them with courage.That’s wonderful, but what if you actually need to act? You could sit still all day, but then you’d never help anyone, never create anything, never do anything.So there’s a need to not act, to sit still … and there’s a need to act. How do we determine which is which?By asking that question. “What’s the most loving thing you can do in this situation?”When you’re about to take an action (including running away, going away from uncertainty to comfort, procrastinating, going to distractions or comfort food) … stop and sit still.Turn inward and see if fear or stress is coming up, see if you’re feeling uncertainty and wanting to cope by getting control. See if you’re trying to comfort yourself, or to lash out, to close down.In this case, the most loving thing you can do is nothing.The most loving thing you can do, for yourself and others, is to sit still. Face the fear and uncertainty. Not act out wanting to control these emotions, wanting to comfort yourself.But in other cases, you want to take action. Doing your work, for example, could be something that helps you or your team or the world. Taking care of someone, talking to them, being there for them, serving them … those can be very helpful things to do.In these cases, acting to help yourself or someone else is the most loving thing you can do.If I’m going to read with my kid, take a walk with my wife, clean the kitchen for my family, write a book for my readers … these are loving acts.If I’m running to check email or social media because I want something easy to do instead of writing that book for my readers … the loving act is to sit still and face this discomfort, fear and uncertainty.When I’m talking to someone out of frustration, the most loving thing I can do is to refrain from trying to criticize or control them or be defensive. Instead, I can face this frustration. When I calm myself down, I can talk to them in a loving way and try to help them, try to empathize with them, try to be there for them.Each time I’m about to act, the best thing I can do is ask that question: What’s the most loving thing you can do in this situation? I might not always remember, but when I do, it is always a helpful question.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容What’s the Most Loving Thing You Can Do?BY LEO BABAUTAThe question I’ve been asking myself lately, before I do anything, is a deceptively simple one: “What’s the most loving thing you can do in this situation?“Now, that might sound corny to some of you, might seem irrelevant to most of you. But give me one minute of your time to explain.I’ve been experimenting for awhile with letting go. Not running when I have uncertainty, fear, discomfort. Not acting on my fears or frustrations. Not letting these things drive me, but sitting still with them instead, and facing them with courage.That’s wonderful, but what if you actually need to act? You could sit still all day, but then you’d never help anyone, never create anything, never do anything.So there’s a need to not act, to sit still … and there’s a need to act. How do we determine which is which?By asking that question. “What’s the most loving thing you can do in this situation?”When you’re about to take an action (including running away, going away from uncertainty to comfort, procrastinating, going to distractions or comfort food) … stop and sit still.Turn inward and see if fear or stress is coming up, see if you’re feeling uncertainty and wanting to cope by getting control. See if you’re trying to comfort yourself, or to lash out, to close down.In this case, the most loving thing you can do is nothing.The most loving thing you can do, for yourself and others, is to sit still. Face the fear and uncertainty. Not act out wanting to control these emotions, wanting to comfort yourself.But in other cases, you want to take action. Doing your work, for example, could be something that helps you or your team or the world. Taking care of someone, talking to them, being there for them, serving them … those can be very helpful things to do.In these cases, acting to help yourself or someone else is the most loving thing you can do.If I’m going to read with my kid, take a walk with my wife, clean the kitchen for my family, write a book for my readers … these are loving acts.If I’m running to check email or social media because I want something easy to do instead of writing that book for my readers … the loving act is to sit still and face this discomfort, fear and uncertainty.When I’m talking to someone out of frustration, the most loving thing I can do is to refrain from trying to criticize or control them or be defensive. Instead, I can face this frustration. When I calm myself down, I can talk to them in a loving way and try to help them, try to empathize with them, try to be there for them.Each time I’m about to act, the best thing I can do is ask that question: What’s the most loving thing you can do in this situation? I might not always remember, but when I do, it is always a helpful question.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容The Hunger GamesBy Suzanne CollinsChapter 1When I wake up, the other side of the bed is cold. My fingers stretch out, seeking Prim’s warmth but finding only the rough canvas cover of the mattress. She must have had bad dreams and climbed in with our mother. Of course, she did. This is the day of the reaping. I prop myself up on one elbow. There’s enough light in the bedroom to see them. My little sister, Prim, curled up on her side, cocooned in my mother’s body, their cheeks pressed together. In sleep, my mother looks younger, still worn but not so beaten-down. Prim’s face is as fresh as a raindrop, as lovely as the primrose for which she was named. My mother was very beautiful once, too. Or so they tell me. Sitting at Prim’s knees, guarding her, is the world’s ugliest cat. Mashed-in nose, half of one ear missing, eyes the color of rotting squash. Prim named him Buttercup, insisting that his muddy yellow coat matched the bright flower. He hates me. Or at least distrusts me. Even though it was years ago, I think he still remembers how I tried to drown him in a bucket when Prim brought him home. Scrawny kitten, belly swollen with worms, crawling with fleas. The last thing I needed was another mouth to feed. But Prim begged so hard, cried even, I had to let him stay. It turned out okay. My mother got rid of the vermin and he’s a born mouser. Even catches the occasional rat. Sometimes, when I clean a kill, I feed Buttercup the entrails. He has stopped hissing at me. Entrails. No hissing. This is the closest we will ever come to love.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容The Hunger GamesBy Suzanne CollinsChapter 1When I wake up, the other side of the bed is cold. My fingers stretch out, seeking Prim’s warmth but finding only the rough canvas cover of the mattress. She must have had bad dreams and climbed in with our mother. Of course, she did. This is the day of the reaping. I prop myself up on one elbow. There’s enough light in the bedroom to see them. My little sister, Prim, curled up on her side, cocooned in my mother’s body, their cheeks pressed together. In sleep, my mother looks younger, still worn but not so beaten-down. Prim’s face is as fresh as a raindrop, as lovely as the primrose for which she was named. My mother was very beautiful once, too. Or so they tell me. Sitting at Prim’s knees, guarding her, is the world’s ugliest cat. Mashed-in nose, half of one ear missing, eyes the color of rotting squash. Prim named him Buttercup, insisting that his muddy yellow coat matched the bright flower. He hates me. Or at least distrusts me. Even though it was years ago, I think he still remembers how I tried to drown him in a bucket when Prim brought him home. Scrawny kitten, belly swollen with worms, crawling with fleas. The last thing I needed was another mouth to feed. But Prim begged so hard, cried even, I had to let him stay. It turned out okay. My mother got rid of the vermin and he’s a born mouser. Even catches the occasional rat. Sometimes, when I clean a kill, I feed Buttercup the entrails. He has stopped hissing at me. Entrails. No hissing. This is the closest we will ever come to love.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容How Much Do Parents Matter?By Uri FriedmanIn 1930, the American anthropologist Margaret Mead published a study of how people in Papua New Guinea raised their children. The world is one giant laboratory and human development one grand experiment, she reasoned. So why not compare parenting across cultures?“The way in which each human infant is transformed into the finished adult, into the complicated individual version of his city and his century[,] is one of the most fascinating studies open to the curious minded,” Mead wrote. “[W]e have been prodigal and blind in our use of these priceless records,” but the curious-minded could change that, by seeking to “read the answers written down in the ways of life of different peoples.” In other words: All over the world, parents are trying to figure out how to parent—and they have been for millennia. Their practices and theories might offer valuable lessons.Nearly 90 years later, Robert LeVine, an anthropologist and emeritus professor of education and human development at Harvard University, and his wife Sarah, a former research fellow at Harvard, have read the answers provided by parents around the world, and they’ve attempted to make sense of them. They’ve found those answers in the fieldwork they conducted over the past 50 years in Africa, Latin America, and South Asia, and in other studies by academics, journalists, pediatricians, and developmental psychologists. And their new book poses one concise question: Do parents matter?Their response: Parents don’t matter as much as many parents think they do. For me—a father of a toddler—this discovery was at once deflating and reassuring. The book’s thesis can invite a kind of parental nihilism: I could read Goodnight Moon to him every night, or I could not. Does any of it really matter? But it also invites parents to be more relaxed.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容How Much Do Parents Matter?By Uri FriedmanIn 1930, the American anthropologist Margaret Mead published a study of how people in Papua New Guinea raised their children. The world is one giant laboratory and human development one grand experiment, she reasoned. So why not compare parenting across cultures?“The way in which each human infant is transformed into the finished adult, into the complicated individual version of his city and his century[,] is one of the most fascinating studies open to the curious minded,” Mead wrote. “[W]e have been prodigal and blind in our use of these priceless records,” but the curious-minded could change that, by seeking to “read the answers written down in the ways of life of different peoples.” In other words: All over the world, parents are trying to figure out how to parent—and they have been for millennia. Their practices and theories might offer valuable lessons.Nearly 90 years later, Robert LeVine, an anthropologist and emeritus professor of education and human development at Harvard University, and his wife Sarah, a former research fellow at Harvard, have read the answers provided by parents around the world, and they’ve attempted to make sense of them. They’ve found those answers in the fieldwork they conducted over the past 50 years in Africa, Latin America, and South Asia, and in other studies by academics, journalists, pediatricians, and developmental psychologists. And their new book poses one concise question: Do parents matter?Their response: Parents don’t matter as much as many parents think they do. For me—a father of a toddler—this discovery was at once deflating and reassuring. The book’s thesis can invite a kind of parental nihilism: I could read Goodnight Moon to him every night, or I could not. Does any of it really matter? But it also invites parents to be more relaxed.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容SOCIAL MEDIAINT: AN OFFICE(Greta has been cornered by a coworker who is angry about being removed from Greta's social media profile.)GRETALook, I'm sorry, Louisa, it wasn't personal or anything. I've just started unfriending people who aren't strictly relevant to my social life. Yikes, that sounded wrong and I can see the angry Tweet forming in your brain, but come on, hear me out.You and I are friends…in a professional context. I like chatting with you here at the water cooler or at potlucks. I mean, I like being on your team when we do company bowling, because you're an awesome bowler.(Louisa does not look appeased.)Okay, I can see I'm doing a bad job at this. It's just…you don't really want to see my Facebook updates about going to nightclubs in the city and I'm tired of reading about marriage and pregnancies and nightly family Boggle sessions and life-changing trips to Europe.Ugh, not, not like your trip to Europe. Barcelona looked absolutely magical. I meant it general. It's like…(Deep sigh.)Do you ever feel like everyone's living a better life than you? Or at least acting like it? From what I can tell, two-thirds of my friends have the most adventurous, fulfilling careers that anyone could ever have. And the rest of them have perfect children and ideal spouses. There's some overlap in there too, which is really unbearable. Or, I don't know, maybe they're all faking it. I guess I am too. I'm not posting about sitting under these fluorescent lights fifty hours a week. Or going home to a cat now that James left for good. Or dressing a body pillow in his old clothes and sleeping with it.(Stares at the ground, Louisa completely forgotten.)So anyway, that's why I unfriended you. I just didn't want to get too personal with my coworkers.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容SOCIAL MEDIAINT: AN OFFICE(Greta has been cornered by a coworker who is angry about being removed from Greta's social media profile.)GRETALook, I'm sorry, Louisa, it wasn't personal or anything. I've just started unfriending people who aren't strictly relevant to my social life. Yikes, that sounded wrong and I can see the angry Tweet forming in your brain, but come on, hear me out.You and I are friends…in a professional context. I like chatting with you here at the water cooler or at potlucks. I mean, I like being on your team when we do company bowling, because you're an awesome bowler.(Louisa does not look appeased.)Okay, I can see I'm doing a bad job at this. It's just…you don't really want to see my Facebook updates about going to nightclubs in the city and I'm tired of reading about marriage and pregnancies and nightly family Boggle sessions and life-changing trips to Europe.Ugh, not, not like your trip to Europe. Barcelona looked absolutely magical. I meant it general. It's like…(Deep sigh.)Do you ever feel like everyone's living a better life than you? Or at least acting like it? From what I can tell, two-thirds of my friends have the most adventurous, fulfilling careers that anyone could ever have. And the rest of them have perfect children and ideal spouses. There's some overlap in there too, which is really unbearable. Or, I don't know, maybe they're all faking it. I guess I am too. I'm not posting about sitting under these fluorescent lights fifty hours a week. Or going home to a cat now that James left for good. Or dressing a body pillow in his old clothes and sleeping with it.(Stares at the ground, Louisa completely forgotten.)So anyway, that's why I unfriended you. I just didn't want to get too personal with my coworkers.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容Don’t add your 2 centsBy Derek SiversMy friend just became the big boss at work, managing other people for the first time. She asked if I had any non-obvious advice on management.My only advice: don’t add your two cents to their ideas.“My two cents” is American slang for adding a small opinion or suggestion to someone else’s thing.Here’s how it plays out at work:employee:“I’ve been working for the past two weeks on this new design. What do you think?”boss:“I like it! Really good. Maybe just a darker shade of blue there, and change the word ‘giant’ to ‘huge’. Other than that, it’s great!”Now, because the boss said so, the creator of that design will have to change it just a little bit.Because of that small change, that person no longer feels full ownership of their project. (Then you wonder why they’re not motivated!)Imagine this instead:employee:“I’ve been working for the past two weeks on this new design. What do you think?”boss:“It’s perfect. Great work!”This slight change made a huge difference in the psychology of motivation. Now that person can feel full ownership of this project, which is more likely to lead to more involvement and commitment for future projects.The boss’s opinion is no better than anyone else’s. But once you become the boss, unfortunately your opinion is dangerous because it’s not just one person’s opinion anymore — it’s a command! So adding your two cents can really hurt morale.A business should not focus on the boss, so this restraint is healthy. You shouldn’t give your opinion on everything just because you can.Obviously, if there’s more than “2 cents” worth of stuff that needs to change, then this rule does not apply.But if your contribution is small and probably just a meaningless opinion, just let it go. Let the other person feel full ownership of the idea, instead.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容Don’t add your 2 centsBy Derek SiversMy friend just became the big boss at work, managing other people for the first time. She asked if I had any non-obvious advice on management.My only advice: don’t add your two cents to their ideas.“My two cents” is American slang for adding a small opinion or suggestion to someone else’s thing.Here’s how it plays out at work:employee:“I’ve been working for the past two weeks on this new design. What do you think?”boss:“I like it! Really good. Maybe just a darker shade of blue there, and change the word ‘giant’ to ‘huge’. Other than that, it’s great!”Now, because the boss said so, the creator of that design will have to change it just a little bit.Because of that small change, that person no longer feels full ownership of their project. (Then you wonder why they’re not motivated!)Imagine this instead:employee:“I’ve been working for the past two weeks on this new design. What do you think?”boss:“It’s perfect. Great work!”This slight change made a huge difference in the psychology of motivation. Now that person can feel full ownership of this project, which is more likely to lead to more involvement and commitment for future projects.The boss’s opinion is no better than anyone else’s. But once you become the boss, unfortunately your opinion is dangerous because it’s not just one person’s opinion anymore — it’s a command! So adding your two cents can really hurt morale.A business should not focus on the boss, so this restraint is healthy. You shouldn’t give your opinion on everything just because you can.Obviously, if there’s more than “2 cents” worth of stuff that needs to change, then this rule does not apply.But if your contribution is small and probably just a meaningless opinion, just let it go. Let the other person feel full ownership of the idea, instead.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容Learning Through Play--Education does not stop when recess begins.By EMILY DERUYGoogle the definition of play and the first thing that pops up is this: “[To] engage in activity for enjoyment and recreation rather than a serious or practical purpose.”Jack Shonkoff, the director of the Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University, finds that language supremely frustrating. “It’s not taking a break from learning when we talk about play,” he told me, rattling off a litany of cognitive, physical, mental, and social-emotional benefits. “Play is one of the most important ways in which children learn.”But in the mid-2000s, the federal No Child Left Behind education law—which emphasized test scores—prompted some schools to scale back recess (along with art and music) to spend more time on math and reading. Other schools eliminated recess because it was the source of a disproportionate number of discipline issues and a headache for administrators. The rollback wasn’t quite as extreme as some of the headlines seemed to indicate (After all, what better way for opponents of the law to push back than to put out the word that recess was on the chopping block?), but it did leave hundreds, even thousands, of kids without time during the school day to play outside. Some studies suggested that as many as 40 percent of school districts across the country reduced or cut recess. Even today, only a handful  of states actually require recess. And many of the students affected by recess cuts were low-income children, disproportionately black and Latino, who didn’t always have a safe space to play outside at home.Yet while that was going on, the science showing the benefits of play was also growing increasingly robust. Galvanized by both the rollback of recess in some places and the stronger science backing play, and bolstered by a relatively new focus in education on social-emotional learning, preventing bullying, and reducing childhood obesity, recess has made something of a comeback. According to a report put together by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), about 95 percent of kindergartners have recess. But that figure drops to 91 percent for 5th grade, and only about 35 percent of the elementary schools that offer 6th grade give those students a recess period.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容Learning Through Play--Education does not stop when recess begins.By EMILY DERUYGoogle the definition of play and the first thing that pops up is this: “[To] engage in activity for enjoyment and recreation rather than a serious or practical purpose.”Jack Shonkoff, the director of the Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University, finds that language supremely frustrating. “It’s not taking a break from learning when we talk about play,” he told me, rattling off a litany of cognitive, physical, mental, and social-emotional benefits. “Play is one of the most important ways in which children learn.”But in the mid-2000s, the federal No Child Left Behind education law—which emphasized test scores—prompted some schools to scale back recess (along with art and music) to spend more time on math and reading. Other schools eliminated recess because it was the source of a disproportionate number of discipline issues and a headache for administrators. The rollback wasn’t quite as extreme as some of the headlines seemed to indicate (After all, what better way for opponents of the law to push back than to put out the word that recess was on the chopping block?), but it did leave hundreds, even thousands, of kids without time during the school day to play outside. Some studies suggested that as many as 40 percent of school districts across the country reduced or cut recess. Even today, only a handful  of states actually require recess. And many of the students affected by recess cuts were low-income children, disproportionately black and Latino, who didn’t always have a safe space to play outside at home.Yet while that was going on, the science showing the benefits of play was also growing increasingly robust. Galvanized by both the rollback of recess in some places and the stronger science backing play, and bolstered by a relatively new focus in education on social-emotional learning, preventing bullying, and reducing childhood obesity, recess has made something of a comeback. According to a report put together by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), about 95 percent of kindergartners have recess. But that figure drops to 91 percent for 5th grade, and only about 35 percent of the elementary schools that offer 6th grade give those students a recess period.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容Are You Playing the Waiting Game?By Steve PavlinaLean into action in spite of your doubts. It’s unreasonable to expect perfect clarity in advance. A fuzzy idea is good enough.Ideas don’t normally become crystal clear when you’re standing still and pondering them. In fact, they rarely become crystal clear even after you’ve implemented them.When I get an idea for a new article, it’s usually quite fuzzy. All I have is an idea for a piece of an article, like the beginning of it, a point I want to make, or maybe a story to share. I don’t know what the completed article will include, how long it will be, how long it will take to write, or how it will end. I don’t get any of that up front.But all I need is a tiny idea about a puny little piece of it, and that’s enough to start writing. Once I’ve written that piece, I get an idea for the next piece, maybe just the next sentence or next paragraph. So I write that. And soon I’m in the flow of writing, and the article basically writes itself.I often don’t even have clarity about that first tiny piece. But that’s okay. I just need to feel an impulse that it might be interesting to explore. I may still feel uncertain as to whether it’s going to work.So all I require is the tiniest little seed, and I can plant it and water it and see what it grows into. Maybe it will be beautiful. Maybe it will be hideous. Maybe it will be somewhere in the middle. The outcome doesn’t matter. If I just keep doing this often enough, I’ll create work all across the spectrum. And it seems reasonable to believe that the beautiful output will do more good than the hideous stuff does harm, especially since I can learn and improve from all of it.If you’re waiting for clarity before you get moving into action, you’re being very silly. That kind of clarity isn’t going to come, and even if it did, it may be wrong anyway.The best you can normally hope for is a tiny little piece of what may or may not be a good idea. You won’t know if it’s a decent idea until much later. In fact, even when you implement it, you probably still won’t be quite sure. You may look back on your idea even after it’s released into the wild and sort of wonder, “I dunno. It seemed like a good idea at the time, but now I’m not so sure.”And that’s beautiful. Inject your creativity into the world, and see what becomes of it. Watch it weave itself into the tapestry of others’ lives. Enjoy the mystery of it. Be unsure and take action anyway.What if you make a mistake? Seriously… who cares? If you avoid mistakes, you avoid learning and growing. Mistakes are nothing to fret over. Rack them up and be proud of them.But don’t stand around moping, “I dunno what to do… I’m just not sure…” unless you want all of your tomorrows to look like your yesterdays.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容Are You Playing the Waiting Game?By Steve PavlinaLean into action in spite of your doubts. It’s unreasonable to expect perfect clarity in advance. A fuzzy idea is good enough.Ideas don’t normally become crystal clear when you’re standing still and pondering them. In fact, they rarely become crystal clear even after you’ve implemented them.When I get an idea for a new article, it’s usually quite fuzzy. All I have is an idea for a piece of an article, like the beginning of it, a point I want to make, or maybe a story to share. I don’t know what the completed article will include, how long it will be, how long it will take to write, or how it will end. I don’t get any of that up front.But all I need is a tiny idea about a puny little piece of it, and that’s enough to start writing. Once I’ve written that piece, I get an idea for the next piece, maybe just the next sentence or next paragraph. So I write that. And soon I’m in the flow of writing, and the article basically writes itself.I often don’t even have clarity about that first tiny piece. But that’s okay. I just need to feel an impulse that it might be interesting to explore. I may still feel uncertain as to whether it’s going to work.So all I require is the tiniest little seed, and I can plant it and water it and see what it grows into. Maybe it will be beautiful. Maybe it will be hideous. Maybe it will be somewhere in the middle. The outcome doesn’t matter. If I just keep doing this often enough, I’ll create work all across the spectrum. And it seems reasonable to believe that the beautiful output will do more good than the hideous stuff does harm, especially since I can learn and improve from all of it.If you’re waiting for clarity before you get moving into action, you’re being very silly. That kind of clarity isn’t going to come, and even if it did, it may be wrong anyway.The best you can normally hope for is a tiny little piece of what may or may not be a good idea. You won’t know if it’s a decent idea until much later. In fact, even when you implement it, you probably still won’t be quite sure. You may look back on your idea even after it’s released into the wild and sort of wonder, “I dunno. It seemed like a good idea at the time, but now I’m not so sure.”And that’s beautiful. Inject your creativity into the world, and see what becomes of it. Watch it weave itself into the tapestry of others’ lives. Enjoy the mystery of it. Be unsure and take action anyway.What if you make a mistake? Seriously… who cares? If you avoid mistakes, you avoid learning and growing. Mistakes are nothing to fret over. Rack them up and be proud of them.But don’t stand around moping, “I dunno what to do… I’m just not sure…” unless you want all of your tomorrows to look like your yesterdays.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容The Most Important MomentBY LEO BABAUTASomething I forget a lot, and have to remind myself about a lot: I’m not on my way somewhere.This moment isn’t just a stepping stone to get to another place. It’s the destination. I’m already here.I’m not on my way to a more important moment. This current moment is the most important moment.This might be obvious to some of you, but I forget a lot. It’s not usually obvious until I remind myself. And even then, it takes some convincing, because I have a tendency to discount this moment and think the important ones are coming up soon.Let’s quickly look at a few examples:You’re in traffic, quite literally on your way to another destination. You’re in a rush to get somewhere else. But this moment, sitting in traffic, frustrated, is not less than any other moment in your life. It’s full of sounds, sights, textures, emotions, other people, the ability to be present and appreciate life, the ability to learn patience and how to deal with struggle, the opportunity to practice coming back to the present. These, and many other things present in the current moment, are incredibly important.You’re walking to a meeting. You’re almost at somewhere important! But right now, this walk down a hallway, is just as important. If you don’t pay attention, you’ll miss it. It’s an opportunity to practice, to appreciate, to find gratitude, to breathe, to give yourself space before the rush of the meeting, to deal with the emotions you’re feeling.Someone interrupts you while you’re doing something important. How dare they! Don’t they know you’re doing something important, and now you’re disrupted? But this moment of noticing your frustration, this opportunity to bring your presence to this other person, this opportunity to appreciate this other person and be curious about them … these are also super important.You’re showering, washing dishes, getting dressed, getting your keys to go to your car … these are times of rushing to the next thing. They are also destinations in themselves, if you pay attention. They’re spaces between, times to practice, times to notice, mini meditations.Each moment rushes by, because we’re on our way somewhere else. They rush by, rush by, and whoosh are gone. We don’t notice them, because they’re unimportant. Our lives become a huge pile of unnoticed unimportant moments on our way to more important things. The important things also get tossed on the same pile, until we’re left wondering where it all went.Each moment is like the dew on grass, fragile, ready to evaporate, precious. Let’s not waste each dewlike moment with neglect.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容The Most Important MomentBY LEO BABAUTASomething I forget a lot, and have to remind myself about a lot: I’m not on my way somewhere.This moment isn’t just a stepping stone to get to another place. It’s the destination. I’m already here.I’m not on my way to a more important moment. This current moment is the most important moment.This might be obvious to some of you, but I forget a lot. It’s not usually obvious until I remind myself. And even then, it takes some convincing, because I have a tendency to discount this moment and think the important ones are coming up soon.Let’s quickly look at a few examples:You’re in traffic, quite literally on your way to another destination. You’re in a rush to get somewhere else. But this moment, sitting in traffic, frustrated, is not less than any other moment in your life. It’s full of sounds, sights, textures, emotions, other people, the ability to be present and appreciate life, the ability to learn patience and how to deal with struggle, the opportunity to practice coming back to the present. These, and many other things present in the current moment, are incredibly important.You’re walking to a meeting. You’re almost at somewhere important! But right now, this walk down a hallway, is just as important. If you don’t pay attention, you’ll miss it. It’s an opportunity to practice, to appreciate, to find gratitude, to breathe, to give yourself space before the rush of the meeting, to deal with the emotions you’re feeling.Someone interrupts you while you’re doing something important. How dare they! Don’t they know you’re doing something important, and now you’re disrupted? But this moment of noticing your frustration, this opportunity to bring your presence to this other person, this opportunity to appreciate this other person and be curious about them … these are also super important.You’re showering, washing dishes, getting dressed, getting your keys to go to your car … these are times of rushing to the next thing. They are also destinations in themselves, if you pay attention. They’re spaces between, times to practice, times to notice, mini meditations.Each moment rushes by, because we’re on our way somewhere else. They rush by, rush by, and whoosh are gone. We don’t notice them, because they’re unimportant. Our lives become a huge pile of unnoticed unimportant moments on our way to more important things. The important things also get tossed on the same pile, until we’re left wondering where it all went.Each moment is like the dew on grass, fragile, ready to evaporate, precious. Let’s not waste each dewlike moment with neglect.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容Water for ElephantsBy Sara Gruen One I am ninety. Or ninety-three. One or the other. When you’re five, you know your age down to the month. Even in your twenties you know how old you are. I’m twenty-three, you say, or maybe twenty-seven. But then in your thirties something strange starts to happen. It’s a mere hiccup at first, an instant of hesitation. How old are you? Oh, I’m—you start confidently, but then you stop. You were going to say thirty-three, but you’re not. You’re thirty-five. And then you’re bothered, because you wonder if this is the beginning of the end. It is, of course, but it’s decades before you admit it. You start to forget words: they’re on the tip of your tongue, but instead of eventually dislodging, they stay there. You go upstairs to fetch something, and by the time you get there you can’t remember what it was you were after. You call your child by the names of all your other children and finally the dog before you get to his. Sometimes you forget what day it is. And finally you forget the year. Actually, it’s not so much that I’ve forgotten. It’s more like I’ve stopped keeping track. We’re past the millennium, that much I know—such a fuss and bother over nothing, all those young folks clucking with worry and buying canned food because somebody was too lazy to leave space for four digits instead of two—but that could have been last month or three years ago. And besides, what does it really matter? What’s the difference between three weeks or three years or even three decades of mushy peas, tapioca, and Depends undergarments? I am ninety. Or ninety-three. One or the other.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容Water for ElephantsBy Sara Gruen One I am ninety. Or ninety-three. One or the other. When you’re five, you know your age down to the month. Even in your twenties you know how old you are. I’m twenty-three, you say, or maybe twenty-seven. But then in your thirties something strange starts to happen. It’s a mere hiccup at first, an instant of hesitation. How old are you? Oh, I’m—you start confidently, but then you stop. You were going to say thirty-three, but you’re not. You’re thirty-five. And then you’re bothered, because you wonder if this is the beginning of the end. It is, of course, but it’s decades before you admit it. You start to forget words: they’re on the tip of your tongue, but instead of eventually dislodging, they stay there. You go upstairs to fetch something, and by the time you get there you can’t remember what it was you were after. You call your child by the names of all your other children and finally the dog before you get to his. Sometimes you forget what day it is. And finally you forget the year. Actually, it’s not so much that I’ve forgotten. It’s more like I’ve stopped keeping track. We’re past the millennium, that much I know—such a fuss and bother over nothing, all those young folks clucking with worry and buying canned food because somebody was too lazy to leave space for four digits instead of two—but that could have been last month or three years ago. And besides, what does it really matter? What’s the difference between three weeks or three years or even three decades of mushy peas, tapioca, and Depends undergarments? I am ninety. Or ninety-three. One or the other.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容Why are you doing?By Derek Sivers The most important thing in life is to know why you are doing what you’re doing.Most people don’t know. They just go with the flow.Social norms are really powerful. The inputs that influence you are really powerful. A great video, talk, or book can convince you that you should be acting and thinking like that.But the worst thing in life would be a death-bed regret that you’ve spent your life pursuing what someone said you should want, instead of what you really want.For example, if you really want to make a lot of money, you need to admit that.If you really want to be famous, you need to pursue that.If you really want freedom and no responsibilities, or to learn as much as possible, or whatever else, you need to realize it and embrace it.But whatever you decide, you need to optimize for that, and be willing to let go of the others.You can’t diffuse your energy, trying to do a little bit of everything, or you’ll always be in conflict with yourself.For example, one way to make money is to take on a lot of responsibility, which means letting go of some freedoms.One way to get famous is to let others make more money, while you take the spotlight.I learned this living in Los Angeles, when I was friends with some famous Hollywood actors, and realized they’re not as rich as you’d think. The richest people in Hollywood are the ones you’ve never heard of, because they’ve optimized their career for money. They know others are willing to take less money in return for more fame, so they profit from the other side of that deal.Maybe the most important thing to you is learning, or creating, or giving. Maybe it's how many people's lives you can influence. Maybe it's how deeply you can influence just a few people's lives.Once you realize it and admit it, you need to pursue it.Like if you want freedom, then you own a business but delegate all the work. You won’t be learning or creating or giving as much as you could with a different strategy, but that’s OK. You know freedom is what you’re after.Sometimes your best strategy is counter-intuitive. Like if you have a high paying job, but realize that charitable giving is what matters most to you, then the best strategy is not to quit your job and go hang mosquito nets in Africa, but actually to keep your job and make as much money as you can, while spending it on hiring hundreds of people in Africa to hang thousands of mosquito nets. (Unless your goal is more about looking charitable, instead of actually being charitable. Then admit that to yourself, too.)But whatever you choose, brace yourself, because people are always going to tell you you’re wrong.That’s why you need know why you're doing what you're doing. Know it in advance. Use it as your compass and optimize your life around it. Let the other goals be secondary.So when those decision moments come, you can choose the value that you already know matters most to you.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容Why are you doing?By Derek Sivers The most important thing in life is to know why you are doing what you’re doing.Most people don’t know. They just go with the flow.Social norms are really powerful. The inputs that influence you are really powerful. A great video, talk, or book can convince you that you should be acting and thinking like that.But the worst thing in life would be a death-bed regret that you’ve spent your life pursuing what someone said you should want, instead of what you really want.For example, if you really want to make a lot of money, you need to admit that.If you really want to be famous, you need to pursue that.If you really want freedom and no responsibilities, or to learn as much as possible, or whatever else, you need to realize it and embrace it.But whatever you decide, you need to optimize for that, and be willing to let go of the others.You can’t diffuse your energy, trying to do a little bit of everything, or you’ll always be in conflict with yourself.For example, one way to make money is to take on a lot of responsibility, which means letting go of some freedoms.One way to get famous is to let others make more money, while you take the spotlight.I learned this living in Los Angeles, when I was friends with some famous Hollywood actors, and realized they’re not as rich as you’d think. The richest people in Hollywood are the ones you’ve never heard of, because they’ve optimized their career for money. They know others are willing to take less money in return for more fame, so they profit from the other side of that deal.Maybe the most important thing to you is learning, or creating, or giving. Maybe it's how many people's lives you can influence. Maybe it's how deeply you can influence just a few people's lives.Once you realize it and admit it, you need to pursue it.Like if you want freedom, then you own a business but delegate all the work. You won’t be learning or creating or giving as much as you could with a different strategy, but that’s OK. You know freedom is what you’re after.Sometimes your best strategy is counter-intuitive. Like if you have a high paying job, but realize that charitable giving is what matters most to you, then the best strategy is not to quit your job and go hang mosquito nets in Africa, but actually to keep your job and make as much money as you can, while spending it on hiring hundreds of people in Africa to hang thousands of mosquito nets. (Unless your goal is more about looking charitable, instead of actually being charitable. Then admit that to yourself, too.)But whatever you choose, brace yourself, because people are always going to tell you you’re wrong.That’s why you need know why you're doing what you're doing. Know it in advance. Use it as your compass and optimize your life around it. Let the other goals be secondary.So when those decision moments come, you can choose the value that you already know matters most to you.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin OlympicsBy Daniel James BrownChapter OneMonday, October 9, 1933, began as a gray day in Seattle. A gray day in a gray time. Along the waterfront, seaplanes from the Gorst Air Transport company rose slowly from the surface of Puget Sound and droned westward, flying low under the cloud cover, beginning their short hops over to the naval shipyard at Bremerton. Ferries crawled away from Colman Dock on water as flat and dull as old pewter. Downtown, the Smith Tower pointed, like an upraised finger, toward somber skies. On the streets below the tower, men in fraying suit coats, worn-out shoes, and battered felt fedoras wheeled wooden carts toward the street corners where they would spend the day selling apples and oranges and packages of gum for a few pennies apiece. Around the corner, on the steep incline of Yesler Way, Seattle’s old, original Skid Road, more men stood in long lines, heads bent, regarding the wet sidewalks and talking softly among themselves as they waited for the soup kitchens to open. Trucks from the Seattle Post-Intelligencer rattled along cobblestone streets, dropping off bundles of newspapers. Newsboys in woolen caps lugged the bundles to busy intersections, to trolley stops, and to hotel entrances, where they held the papers aloft, hawking them for two cents a copy, shouting out the day’s headline: “15,000,000 to Get U.S. Relief.” A few blocks south of Yesler, in a shantytown sprawling along the edge of Elliott Bay, children awoke in damp cardboard boxes that served as beds. Their parents crawled out of tin-and-tar-paper shacks and into the stench of sewage and rotting seaweed from the mudflats to the west. They broke apart wooden crates and stooped over smoky campfires, feeding the flames. They looked up at the uniform gray skies and, seeing in them tokens of much colder weather ahead, wondered how they would make it through another winter.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin OlympicsBy Daniel James BrownChapter OneMonday, October 9, 1933, began as a gray day in Seattle. A gray day in a gray time. Along the waterfront, seaplanes from the Gorst Air Transport company rose slowly from the surface of Puget Sound and droned westward, flying low under the cloud cover, beginning their short hops over to the naval shipyard at Bremerton. Ferries crawled away from Colman Dock on water as flat and dull as old pewter. Downtown, the Smith Tower pointed, like an upraised finger, toward somber skies. On the streets below the tower, men in fraying suit coats, worn-out shoes, and battered felt fedoras wheeled wooden carts toward the street corners where they would spend the day selling apples and oranges and packages of gum for a few pennies apiece. Around the corner, on the steep incline of Yesler Way, Seattle’s old, original Skid Road, more men stood in long lines, heads bent, regarding the wet sidewalks and talking softly among themselves as they waited for the soup kitchens to open. Trucks from the Seattle Post-Intelligencer rattled along cobblestone streets, dropping off bundles of newspapers. Newsboys in woolen caps lugged the bundles to busy intersections, to trolley stops, and to hotel entrances, where they held the papers aloft, hawking them for two cents a copy, shouting out the day’s headline: “15,000,000 to Get U.S. Relief.” A few blocks south of Yesler, in a shantytown sprawling along the edge of Elliott Bay, children awoke in damp cardboard boxes that served as beds. Their parents crawled out of tin-and-tar-paper shacks and into the stench of sewage and rotting seaweed from the mudflats to the west. They broke apart wooden crates and stooped over smoky campfires, feeding the flames. They looked up at the uniform gray skies and, seeing in them tokens of much colder weather ahead, wondered how they would make it through another winter.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容Inside iPhone 7: Why Apple Killed The Headphone JackBy John PaczkowskiApple VP Greg Joswiak is grinning as he holds up what is easily the smallest iPhone adapter I have ever seen. iPod white and about the length of a matchstick, it’s designed to connect audio headphones with an industry standard 3.5-millimeter analog plug to the Lightning port on Apple’s newest iPhone, which no longer bears the industry standard jack they require to work.“This time, we’re putting an adapter in every box,” Joswiak quips, a wry nod to the backlash evoked in 2012 the last time Apple killed a widely used iPhone port — a move that rendered thousands of peripherals designed to interact with it incompatible without a $29 adapter, and pissed off legions of people in the process.Apple is no stranger to killing things people use all the time — and even love. But the headphone jack? It’s on a whole other level than disc drives or ports named after their number of pins. The headphone jack predates not only Apple, but computers themselves. And it is ubiquitous. So, when you’re killing a century-old standard around which the entire audio industry developed, it’s wise to take precautions.Invented for use with telephone switchboards in the late 1800s, the audio jack is among the oldest existing electrical standards. Originally 6.35-millimeter in width, it was reduced to 3.5-millimeter in the ’60s, a transformation that made it pervasive across most every piece of electronic audio equipment you can think of — home stereos, car stereos, camcorders, guitar amps, laptops, airplane entertainment systems, cochlear implants, smartphones, and — until today — the iPhone.Apple is arguing that the future of audio is wireless, that the world’s current assumptions about mobile audio are not only antiquated, but worthy of immediate abandonment. In a world of Spotify and Sonos, it’s tough to disagree. But right now that future comes with a price: You’ve got to leave behind the perfectly good headphones you own and you’ve got to purchase the new wireless ones as an iPhone accessory. It’s up to Apple to make the case that this is a worthwhile exchange.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容Inside iPhone 7: Why Apple Killed The Headphone JackBy John PaczkowskiApple VP Greg Joswiak is grinning as he holds up what is easily the smallest iPhone adapter I have ever seen. iPod white and about the length of a matchstick, it’s designed to connect audio headphones with an industry standard 3.5-millimeter analog plug to the Lightning port on Apple’s newest iPhone, which no longer bears the industry standard jack they require to work.“This time, we’re putting an adapter in every box,” Joswiak quips, a wry nod to the backlash evoked in 2012 the last time Apple killed a widely used iPhone port — a move that rendered thousands of peripherals designed to interact with it incompatible without a $29 adapter, and pissed off legions of people in the process.Apple is no stranger to killing things people use all the time — and even love. But the headphone jack? It’s on a whole other level than disc drives or ports named after their number of pins. The headphone jack predates not only Apple, but computers themselves. And it is ubiquitous. So, when you’re killing a century-old standard around which the entire audio industry developed, it’s wise to take precautions.Invented for use with telephone switchboards in the late 1800s, the audio jack is among the oldest existing electrical standards. Originally 6.35-millimeter in width, it was reduced to 3.5-millimeter in the ’60s, a transformation that made it pervasive across most every piece of electronic audio equipment you can think of — home stereos, car stereos, camcorders, guitar amps, laptops, airplane entertainment systems, cochlear implants, smartphones, and — until today — the iPhone.Apple is arguing that the future of audio is wireless, that the world’s current assumptions about mobile audio are not only antiquated, but worthy of immediate abandonment. In a world of Spotify and Sonos, it’s tough to disagree. But right now that future comes with a price: You’ve got to leave behind the perfectly good headphones you own and you’ve got to purchase the new wireless ones as an iPhone accessory. It’s up to Apple to make the case that this is a worthwhile exchange.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容Habits and the Long Viewby Steve PavlinaIf you aren’t satisfied with your life today, yet you continue the same habits that got you here, you’ll still be dissatisfied next year, possibly even more so.Many habits may feel quite satisfying in the moment, but they have no long-term positive impact. They are temporary pleasures or escapes but nothing more. These habits tend to self-perpetuate automatically, but as you become more conscious and rational, you’ll discover the importance of replacing these short-sighted habits with better ones.In my early 20s I could spend as much as 18 hours straight playing video games, a habit that I enjoyed but which produced no significant long-term impact (other than becoming a more skillful gamer). By replacing that habit with reading and writing, I’ve played hundreds fewer games but read more than a thousand extra books and wrote more than a thousand articles and a book. I feel good about that trade.Think carefully about the long-term impact of your current habits. Your habits will likely take you down a path that’s either increasingly satisfying or increasingly disappointing.A small course correction today can make a huge difference over the next 10 or 20 years. That may seem like a long time to wait, but those years are going to pass anyway, and someday you’ll be looking back to your self of today, perhaps with appreciation for your wisdom… or with disgust for your short-sightedness.I often look back at the decisions I made in my 20s and feel glad that I put so much thought into how those decisions would affect myself and others down the road. I hope my 60-something self is equally appreciative of the careful thought I put into making decisions while I’m in my 40s.Imagine your future self 20 years out looking back at the habits you have today, having experienced two more decades of accumulated impact from those habits. What would s/he appreciate about your habits? What would s/he beg and plead with you to change?968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容Habits and the Long Viewby Steve PavlinaIf you aren’t satisfied with your life today, yet you continue the same habits that got you here, you’ll still be dissatisfied next year, possibly even more so.Many habits may feel quite satisfying in the moment, but they have no long-term positive impact. They are temporary pleasures or escapes but nothing more. These habits tend to self-perpetuate automatically, but as you become more conscious and rational, you’ll discover the importance of replacing these short-sighted habits with better ones.In my early 20s I could spend as much as 18 hours straight playing video games, a habit that I enjoyed but which produced no significant long-term impact (other than becoming a more skillful gamer). By replacing that habit with reading and writing, I’ve played hundreds fewer games but read more than a thousand extra books and wrote more than a thousand articles and a book. I feel good about that trade.Think carefully about the long-term impact of your current habits. Your habits will likely take you down a path that’s either increasingly satisfying or increasingly disappointing.A small course correction today can make a huge difference over the next 10 or 20 years. That may seem like a long time to wait, but those years are going to pass anyway, and someday you’ll be looking back to your self of today, perhaps with appreciation for your wisdom… or with disgust for your short-sightedness.I often look back at the decisions I made in my 20s and feel glad that I put so much thought into how those decisions would affect myself and others down the road. I hope my 60-something self is equally appreciative of the careful thought I put into making decisions while I’m in my 40s.Imagine your future self 20 years out looking back at the habits you have today, having experienced two more decades of accumulated impact from those habits. What would s/he appreciate about your habits? What would s/he beg and plead with you to change?968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement By Eliyahu M. GoldrattChapter 1I come through the gate this morning at 7: 30 and I can see it from across the lot: the crimson Mercedes. It’s parked beside the plant, next to the offices. And it’s in my space. Who else would do that except Bill Peach? Never mind that the whole lot is practically empty at that hour. Never mind that there are spaces marked “Visitor.” No, Bill’s got to park in the space with my title on it. Bill likes to make subtle statements. So, okay, he’s the division vice-president, and I’m just a mere plant manager. I guess he can park his damn Mercedes wherever he wants. I put my Mazda next to it (in the space marked “Controller”). A glance at the license as I walk around it assures me it has to be Bill’s car because the plate says “NUMBER 1.” And, as we all know, that’s absolutely correct in terms of who Bill always looks out for. He wants his shot at CEO. But so do I. Too bad that I may never get the chance now. Anyway, I’m walking up to the office doors. Already the adrenalin is pumping. I’m wondering what the hell Bill is doing here. I’ve lost any hope of getting any work done this morning. I usually go in early to catch up on all the stuff I’m too busy to do during the day, because I can really get a lot done before the phone rings and the meetings start, before the fires break out. But not today. “Mr. Rogo!” I hear someone calling.I stop as four people come bursting out of a door on the side of the plant. I see Dempsey, the shift supervisor; Martinez, the union steward; some hourly guy; and a machining center foreman named Ray. And they’re all talking at the same time. Dempsey is telling me we’ve got a problem. Martinez is shouting about how there is going to be a walkout. The hourly guy is saying something about harassment. Ray is yelling that we can’t finish some damn thing because we don’t have all the parts. Suddenly I’m in the middle of all this. I’m looking at them; they’re looking at me. And I haven’t even had a cup of coffee yet.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement By Eliyahu M. GoldrattChapter 1I come through the gate this morning at 7: 30 and I can see it from across the lot: the crimson Mercedes. It’s parked beside the plant, next to the offices. And it’s in my space. Who else would do that except Bill Peach? Never mind that the whole lot is practically empty at that hour. Never mind that there are spaces marked “Visitor.” No, Bill’s got to park in the space with my title on it. Bill likes to make subtle statements. So, okay, he’s the division vice-president, and I’m just a mere plant manager. I guess he can park his damn Mercedes wherever he wants. I put my Mazda next to it (in the space marked “Controller”). A glance at the license as I walk around it assures me it has to be Bill’s car because the plate says “NUMBER 1.” And, as we all know, that’s absolutely correct in terms of who Bill always looks out for. He wants his shot at CEO. But so do I. Too bad that I may never get the chance now. Anyway, I’m walking up to the office doors. Already the adrenalin is pumping. I’m wondering what the hell Bill is doing here. I’ve lost any hope of getting any work done this morning. I usually go in early to catch up on all the stuff I’m too busy to do during the day, because I can really get a lot done before the phone rings and the meetings start, before the fires break out. But not today. “Mr. Rogo!” I hear someone calling.I stop as four people come bursting out of a door on the side of the plant. I see Dempsey, the shift supervisor; Martinez, the union steward; some hourly guy; and a machining center foreman named Ray. And they’re all talking at the same time. Dempsey is telling me we’ve got a problem. Martinez is shouting about how there is going to be a walkout. The hourly guy is saying something about harassment. Ray is yelling that we can’t finish some damn thing because we don’t have all the parts. Suddenly I’m in the middle of all this. I’m looking at them; they’re looking at me. And I haven’t even had a cup of coffee yet.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容The Unexpected Humanity of Robot SoccerBy Seth Frey and Patrick HouseWhen Google’s AlphaGo computer program triumphed over a Go expert earlier this year, a human member of the Google team had to physically move the pieces. Manuela Veloso, the head of Carnegie Mellon’s machine learning department, would have done it differently. “I’d require the machine to move the pieces like I do,” she says. “That’s the world in which I live, which is a physical world.”It sounds simple enough. If Google can make cars that drive themselves, surely it could add robotic arms to a Go match. Even in 1997, I.B.M. could have given Deep Blue robotic arms in its match against Garry Kasparov. To Veloso, though, the challenge is not in building a robot to play on a given board in given conditions, but rather to build one able to play on any board.“Imagine all the different types of chess pieces that humans handle perfectly fine. How would we get a robot to detect these pieces and move them on any type of board, with any number of lighting conditions, and never let the piece fall except on the right square? Oh God,” she says.And if the idiosyncrasies of static chess pieces are hard for modern robotics, imagine how hard it would be to deal with a chaotic, rolling soccer ball. Then add a whole team of other robots chasing that same ball. That’s the setup for RoboCup, the annual robotic soccer competition Veloso co-founded in 1997.The cost of bringing robots into her, and our, world is great. A game like Go is a one-versus-one game of perfect information—both sides can see the entire board and can make their moves with perfect accuracy. Two Go games could, theoretically, be identical. But the contingencies of the physical world make each soccer game different and entirely unpredictable. “As soon as you inject the ball in there—the physics of the ball, the gravity, the friction on the carpet—it’s not reproducible. How do you go about writing a piece of code that plays a game without knowing what’s going to happen?” says Veloso.RoboCup robots range in size all the way from small (think oversized coffee mugs) to kid-sized (think 2-year-old) to adult-sized. Robot size tends to be inversely correlated with apparent soccer ability. The coffee-mug robots zip around like springtime squirrels and make what look like intentional, soccer-worthy passes and goals. In the adult-sized league, though, the robots move cautiously and inelegantly. They stumble, often. They fall, often. Videos of adult-sized robots shooting on goal need to be sped up to even be watchable (like, say, videos of plants growing).968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容The Unexpected Humanity of Robot SoccerBy Seth Frey and Patrick HouseWhen Google’s AlphaGo computer program triumphed over a Go expert earlier this year, a human member of the Google team had to physically move the pieces. Manuela Veloso, the head of Carnegie Mellon’s machine learning department, would have done it differently. “I’d require the machine to move the pieces like I do,” she says. “That’s the world in which I live, which is a physical world.”It sounds simple enough. If Google can make cars that drive themselves, surely it could add robotic arms to a Go match. Even in 1997, I.B.M. could have given Deep Blue robotic arms in its match against Garry Kasparov. To Veloso, though, the challenge is not in building a robot to play on a given board in given conditions, but rather to build one able to play on any board.“Imagine all the different types of chess pieces that humans handle perfectly fine. How would we get a robot to detect these pieces and move them on any type of board, with any number of lighting conditions, and never let the piece fall except on the right square? Oh God,” she says.And if the idiosyncrasies of static chess pieces are hard for modern robotics, imagine how hard it would be to deal with a chaotic, rolling soccer ball. Then add a whole team of other robots chasing that same ball. That’s the setup for RoboCup, the annual robotic soccer competition Veloso co-founded in 1997.The cost of bringing robots into her, and our, world is great. A game like Go is a one-versus-one game of perfect information—both sides can see the entire board and can make their moves with perfect accuracy. Two Go games could, theoretically, be identical. But the contingencies of the physical world make each soccer game different and entirely unpredictable. “As soon as you inject the ball in there—the physics of the ball, the gravity, the friction on the carpet—it’s not reproducible. How do you go about writing a piece of code that plays a game without knowing what’s going to happen?” says Veloso.RoboCup robots range in size all the way from small (think oversized coffee mugs) to kid-sized (think 2-year-old) to adult-sized. Robot size tends to be inversely correlated with apparent soccer ability. The coffee-mug robots zip around like springtime squirrels and make what look like intentional, soccer-worthy passes and goals. In the adult-sized league, though, the robots move cautiously and inelegantly. They stumble, often. They fall, often. Videos of adult-sized robots shooting on goal need to be sped up to even be watchable (like, say, videos of plants growing).968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容How to Handle the Difficult TimesBY LEO BABAUTASometimes, life just wallops us against the head, deals us with such a blow that it takes our breath away.A loved one dies, you lose a job, someone you care about gets sick, your car gets totaled, or hopelessness hits you.What do we do when the world around us crumbles, when we can’t seem to find a way out?The times when things are falling apart are exactly the best times to practice mindfulness and compassion. These are the times we’re preparing for, in a way, when we meditate regularly with mindfulness and compassion, during the non-traumatic times.The times when the world is collapsing are the richest areas of exploration, and when we need the tools most.So the way to work with these times is this:Stay with the pain. Don’t run from it, don’t try to do anything about it, but face it with courage.Stay with the bodily feeling, dropping below your story, and smile at it, be friendly with it, have the braveness to just be with it like you would with a friend who’s hurting.Do it in small doses if that’s all you can handle. Do it with patience, noticing that your mind wants to run. Keep coming back, and you’ll earn trust in yourself to stay with the hard feelings.Eventually, you see that the feelings aren’t so bad, that you can stay with them and the world won’t end, that they’ll go away like a passing cloud, that these feelings and thoughts aren’t you but just passing phenomena. You’ll start to take them less seriously, see that they’re No Big Deal, hold them lightly, give them space in your mind.When the world is falling apart, this is the time to practice.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容How to Handle the Difficult TimesBY LEO BABAUTASometimes, life just wallops us against the head, deals us with such a blow that it takes our breath away.A loved one dies, you lose a job, someone you care about gets sick, your car gets totaled, or hopelessness hits you.What do we do when the world around us crumbles, when we can’t seem to find a way out?The times when things are falling apart are exactly the best times to practice mindfulness and compassion. These are the times we’re preparing for, in a way, when we meditate regularly with mindfulness and compassion, during the non-traumatic times.The times when the world is collapsing are the richest areas of exploration, and when we need the tools most.So the way to work with these times is this:Stay with the pain. Don’t run from it, don’t try to do anything about it, but face it with courage.Stay with the bodily feeling, dropping below your story, and smile at it, be friendly with it, have the braveness to just be with it like you would with a friend who’s hurting.Do it in small doses if that’s all you can handle. Do it with patience, noticing that your mind wants to run. Keep coming back, and you’ll earn trust in yourself to stay with the hard feelings.Eventually, you see that the feelings aren’t so bad, that you can stay with them and the world won’t end, that they’ll go away like a passing cloud, that these feelings and thoughts aren’t you but just passing phenomena. You’ll start to take them less seriously, see that they’re No Big Deal, hold them lightly, give them space in your mind.When the world is falling apart, this is the time to practice.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容A farmer had only one horse. One day, his horse ran away.His neighbors said, “I'm so sorry. This is such bad news. You must be so upset.”The man just said, “We'll see.”A few days later, his horse came back with twenty wild horses following. The man and his son corralled all 21 horses.His neighbors said, “Congratulations! This is such good news. You must be so happy!”The man just said, “We'll see.”One of the wild horses kicked the man's only son, breaking both his legs.His neighbors said, “I'm so sorry. This is such bad news. You must be so upset.”The man just said, “We'll see.”The country went to war, and every able-bodied young man was drafted to fight. The war was terrible and killed every young man, but the farmer's son was spared, since his broken legs prevented him from being drafted.His neighbors said, “Congratulations! This is such good news. You must be so happy!”The man just said, “We'll see.”968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容A farmer had only one horse. One day, his horse ran away.His neighbors said, “I'm so sorry. This is such bad news. You must be so upset.”The man just said, “We'll see.”A few days later, his horse came back with twenty wild horses following. The man and his son corralled all 21 horses.His neighbors said, “Congratulations! This is such good news. You must be so happy!”The man just said, “We'll see.”One of the wild horses kicked the man's only son, breaking both his legs.His neighbors said, “I'm so sorry. This is such bad news. You must be so upset.”The man just said, “We'll see.”The country went to war, and every able-bodied young man was drafted to fight. The war was terrible and killed every young man, but the farmer's son was spared, since his broken legs prevented him from being drafted.His neighbors said, “Congratulations! This is such good news. You must be so happy!”The man just said, “We'll see.”968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容Ladies and Gentlemen, I'd planned to speak to you tonight to report on the state of the Union, but the events of earlier today have led me to change those plans. Today is a day for mourning and remembering. Nancy and I are pained to the core by the tragedy of the shuttle Challenger. We know we share this pain with all of the people of our country. This is truly a national loss.Nineteen years ago, almost to the day, we lost three astronauts in a terrible accident on the ground. But we've never lost an astronaut in flight. We've never had a tragedy like this.And perhaps we've forgotten the courage it took for the crew of the shuttle. But they, the Challenger Seven, were aware of the dangers, but overcame them and did their jobs brilliantly. We mourn seven heroes: Michael Smith, Dick Scobee, Judith Resnik, Ronald McNair, Ellison Onizuka, Gregory Jarvis, and Christa McAuliffe.We mourn their loss as a nation together.For the families of the seven, we cannot bear, as you do, the full impact of this tragedy. But we feel the loss, and we're thinking about you so very much. Your loved ones were daring and brave, and they had that special grace, that special spirit that says, "Give me a challenge, and I'll meet it with joy." They had a hunger to explore the universe and discover its truths. They wished to serve, and they did. They served all of us.We've grown used to wonders in this century. It's hard to dazzle us. But for twenty-five years the United States space program has been doing just that. We've grown used to the idea of space, and, perhaps we forget that we've only just begun. We're still pioneers. They, the members of the Challenger crew, were pioneers.And I want to say something to the schoolchildren of America who were watching the live coverage of the shuttle's take-off. I know it's hard to understand, but sometimes painful things like this happen. It's all part of the process of exploration and discovery. It's all part of taking a chance and expanding man's horizons. The future doesn't belong to the fainthearted; it belongs to the brave. The Challenger crew was pulling us into the future, and we'll continue to follow them.I've always had great faith in and respect for our space program. And what happened today does nothing to diminish it. We don't hide our space program. We don't keep secrets and cover things up. We do it all up front and in public. That's the way freedom is, and we wouldn't change it for a minute. We'll continue our quest in space. There will be more shuttle flights and more shuttle crews and, yes, more volunteers, more civilians, more teachers in space. Nothing ends here; our hopes and our journeys continue.I want to add that I wish I could talk to every man and woman who works for NASA, or who worked on this mission and tell them: "Your dedication and professionalism have moved and impressed us for decades. And we know of your anguish. We share it."There's a coincidence today. On this day three hundred and ninety years ago, the great explorer Sir Francis Drake died aboard ship off the coast of Panama. In his lifetime the great frontiers were the oceans, and a historian later said, "He lived by the sea, died on it, and was buried in it." Well, today, we can say of the Challenger crew: Their dedication was, like Drake's, complete.The crew of the space shuttle Challenger honored us by the manner in which they lived their lives. We will never forget them, nor the last time we saw them, this morning, as they prepared for their journey and waved goodbye and "slipped the surly bonds of earth" to "touch the face of God."Thank you.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容Ladies and Gentlemen, I'd planned to speak to you tonight to report on the state of the Union, but the events of earlier today have led me to change those plans. Today is a day for mourning and remembering. Nancy and I are pained to the core by the tragedy of the shuttle Challenger. We know we share this pain with all of the people of our country. This is truly a national loss.Nineteen years ago, almost to the day, we lost three astronauts in a terrible accident on the ground. But we've never lost an astronaut in flight. We've never had a tragedy like this.And perhaps we've forgotten the courage it took for the crew of the shuttle. But they, the Challenger Seven, were aware of the dangers, but overcame them and did their jobs brilliantly. We mourn seven heroes: Michael Smith, Dick Scobee, Judith Resnik, Ronald McNair, Ellison Onizuka, Gregory Jarvis, and Christa McAuliffe.We mourn their loss as a nation together.For the families of the seven, we cannot bear, as you do, the full impact of this tragedy. But we feel the loss, and we're thinking about you so very much. Your loved ones were daring and brave, and they had that special grace, that special spirit that says, "Give me a challenge, and I'll meet it with joy." They had a hunger to explore the universe and discover its truths. They wished to serve, and they did. They served all of us.We've grown used to wonders in this century. It's hard to dazzle us. But for twenty-five years the United States space program has been doing just that. We've grown used to the idea of space, and, perhaps we forget that we've only just begun. We're still pioneers. They, the members of the Challenger crew, were pioneers.And I want to say something to the schoolchildren of America who were watching the live coverage of the shuttle's take-off. I know it's hard to understand, but sometimes painful things like this happen. It's all part of the process of exploration and discovery. It's all part of taking a chance and expanding man's horizons. The future doesn't belong to the fainthearted; it belongs to the brave. The Challenger crew was pulling us into the future, and we'll continue to follow them.I've always had great faith in and respect for our space program. And what happened today does nothing to diminish it. We don't hide our space program. We don't keep secrets and cover things up. We do it all up front and in public. That's the way freedom is, and we wouldn't change it for a minute. We'll continue our quest in space. There will be more shuttle flights and more shuttle crews and, yes, more volunteers, more civilians, more teachers in space. Nothing ends here; our hopes and our journeys continue.I want to add that I wish I could talk to every man and woman who works for NASA, or who worked on this mission and tell them: "Your dedication and professionalism have moved and impressed us for decades. And we know of your anguish. We share it."There's a coincidence today. On this day three hundred and ninety years ago, the great explorer Sir Francis Drake died aboard ship off the coast of Panama. In his lifetime the great frontiers were the oceans, and a historian later said, "He lived by the sea, died on it, and was buried in it." Well, today, we can say of the Challenger crew: Their dedication was, like Drake's, complete.The crew of the space shuttle Challenger honored us by the manner in which they lived their lives. We will never forget them, nor the last time we saw them, this morning, as they prepared for their journey and waved goodbye and "slipped the surly bonds of earth" to "touch the face of God."Thank you.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容Now the trumpet summons us again -- not as a call to bear arms, though arms we need -- not as a call to battle, though embattled we are -- but a call to bear the burden of a long twilight struggle, year in and year out, "rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation," a struggle against the common enemies of man: tyranny, poverty, disease, and war itself.Can we forge against these enemies a grand and global alliance, North and South, East and West, that can assure a more fruitful life for all mankind? Will you join in that historic effort?In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility -- I welcome it. I do not believe that any of us would exchange places with any other people or any other generation. The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this endeavor will light our country and all who serve it. And the glow from that fire can truly light the world.And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.My fellow citizens of the world, ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.Finally, whether you are citizens of America or citizens of the world, ask of us here the same high standards of strength and sacrifice which we ask of you. With a good conscience our only sure reward, with history the final judge of our deeds, let us go forth to lead the land we love, asking His blessing and His help, but knowing that here on earth God's work must truly be our own.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容Now the trumpet summons us again -- not as a call to bear arms, though arms we need -- not as a call to battle, though embattled we are -- but a call to bear the burden of a long twilight struggle, year in and year out, "rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation," a struggle against the common enemies of man: tyranny, poverty, disease, and war itself.Can we forge against these enemies a grand and global alliance, North and South, East and West, that can assure a more fruitful life for all mankind? Will you join in that historic effort?In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility -- I welcome it. I do not believe that any of us would exchange places with any other people or any other generation. The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this endeavor will light our country and all who serve it. And the glow from that fire can truly light the world.And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.My fellow citizens of the world, ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.Finally, whether you are citizens of America or citizens of the world, ask of us here the same high standards of strength and sacrifice which we ask of you. With a good conscience our only sure reward, with history the final judge of our deeds, let us go forth to lead the land we love, asking His blessing and His help, but knowing that here on earth God's work must truly be our own.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容JournalingBy Steve PavlinaJournaling is one of the easiest and most powerful ways to accelerate your personal development. By getting your thoughts out of your head and putting them down in writing, you gain insights you’d otherwise never see.Beyond sequential thinkingWhile your brain is technically capable of processing a great deal of input simultaneously, your conscious thoughts play out in a certain sequence. One thought triggers the next, which triggers the next, and so on. Sometimes these sequences have a few branches, but they’re still subject to linear time, and at any given moment, you’re following one of those branches. These thought sequences have a beginning, a middle, and an end, and it’s nearly impossible to see the big picture overhead view of a sequence while you’re stuck in playback mode.This is where journaling can provide huge advantages. Journaling allows you to break free of sequential thinking and examine your thoughts from a bird’s-eye view. When you record your sequential thoughts in a tangible medium, you can then go back and review those thoughts from a third-person perspective. While you’re recording the thoughts, you’re in first-person mode. But when you’re reading them, you can remain dissociated instead of associated. This dissociative view, when combined with what you’ve already learned from the associative view, will bring you much closer to seeing the truth of your situation.While many people use journaling to record a personal diary of their thoughts and experiences, the power of journaling goes way beyond verbal photography.Here are 3 other powerful benefits of journaling:• Solve tricky problems. Some problems are very difficult to solve when you’re stuck in an associative, first-person viewpoint. Only when you record the situation and then re-examine it from a third-person perspective does the solution become clear. Sometimes the solution is so obvious that you’re shocked you didn’t see it sooner.• Gain clarity. A great time to turn to your journal is when you’re just not clear about what to do. Should you quit your job to start your own business? Should you marry your current romantic partner? Are you on the right track financially? It’s amazing how much clearer things become when you explore them in writing.• Verify your progress. It’s wonderful to go back and re-read journal entries from years ago and see how much real progress has been made. When you’re frustrated that your life doesn’t seem to be working out as you’d like, go back and read something you wrote five years ago — it will totally change your perspective. This helps you in the present moment too by reminding you that you are in fact growing and changing, even when it feels like you’re standing still.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容JournalingBy Steve PavlinaJournaling is one of the easiest and most powerful ways to accelerate your personal development. By getting your thoughts out of your head and putting them down in writing, you gain insights you’d otherwise never see.Beyond sequential thinkingWhile your brain is technically capable of processing a great deal of input simultaneously, your conscious thoughts play out in a certain sequence. One thought triggers the next, which triggers the next, and so on. Sometimes these sequences have a few branches, but they’re still subject to linear time, and at any given moment, you’re following one of those branches. These thought sequences have a beginning, a middle, and an end, and it’s nearly impossible to see the big picture overhead view of a sequence while you’re stuck in playback mode.This is where journaling can provide huge advantages. Journaling allows you to break free of sequential thinking and examine your thoughts from a bird’s-eye view. When you record your sequential thoughts in a tangible medium, you can then go back and review those thoughts from a third-person perspective. While you’re recording the thoughts, you’re in first-person mode. But when you’re reading them, you can remain dissociated instead of associated. This dissociative view, when combined with what you’ve already learned from the associative view, will bring you much closer to seeing the truth of your situation.While many people use journaling to record a personal diary of their thoughts and experiences, the power of journaling goes way beyond verbal photography.Here are 3 other powerful benefits of journaling:• Solve tricky problems. Some problems are very difficult to solve when you’re stuck in an associative, first-person viewpoint. Only when you record the situation and then re-examine it from a third-person perspective does the solution become clear. Sometimes the solution is so obvious that you’re shocked you didn’t see it sooner.• Gain clarity. A great time to turn to your journal is when you’re just not clear about what to do. Should you quit your job to start your own business? Should you marry your current romantic partner? Are you on the right track financially? It’s amazing how much clearer things become when you explore them in writing.• Verify your progress. It’s wonderful to go back and re-read journal entries from years ago and see how much real progress has been made. When you’re frustrated that your life doesn’t seem to be working out as you’d like, go back and read something you wrote five years ago — it will totally change your perspective. This helps you in the present moment too by reminding you that you are in fact growing and changing, even when it feels like you’re standing still.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容The dangers of readingBy Leo BabautaOne of the biggest reasons I depart from my minimalist philosophy is reading.Specifically, reading about what others are doing.I read a blog post, or a magazine article, about someone doing something interesting: traveling, using a new productivity system, doing a new kind of workout, brewing artisinal coffee, making bread. And then I want to do that too.And I think we all do this. We all read inspirational things, or hear about them from a friend, and fantasize about ourselves doing the same thing.This is often a good thing — inspiration is good, right? Learning from others is definitely good. But this inspiration can often cause me to forget about what I’ve learned, and soon I’m heading down a new path, buying a lot of things to support my new pursuit … only to abandon this pursuit when I’ve read something else.This has happened to me dozens of times. I want to learn Spanish, programming, breadmaking, pizzamaking, teamaking, hiking, Crossfit, ultrarunning, drawing, fiction writing, guitar, history, films, great novels, and more.Individually, each of these is wonderful. But when I get obsessed with the next new thing to learn about, the other things suffer. I can’t learn about them all at once. Such distraction pulls away my focus, keeps me from doing well at any one thing.What’s the antidote? Focus. Sticking to something long enough to really learn it. Remembering your priorities. Not getting distracted by every new thing you read.The answer isn’t to stop reading, but to be more mindful of your impulses when you do read.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容The dangers of readingBy Leo BabautaOne of the biggest reasons I depart from my minimalist philosophy is reading.Specifically, reading about what others are doing.I read a blog post, or a magazine article, about someone doing something interesting: traveling, using a new productivity system, doing a new kind of workout, brewing artisinal coffee, making bread. And then I want to do that too.And I think we all do this. We all read inspirational things, or hear about them from a friend, and fantasize about ourselves doing the same thing.This is often a good thing — inspiration is good, right? Learning from others is definitely good. But this inspiration can often cause me to forget about what I’ve learned, and soon I’m heading down a new path, buying a lot of things to support my new pursuit … only to abandon this pursuit when I’ve read something else.This has happened to me dozens of times. I want to learn Spanish, programming, breadmaking, pizzamaking, teamaking, hiking, Crossfit, ultrarunning, drawing, fiction writing, guitar, history, films, great novels, and more.Individually, each of these is wonderful. But when I get obsessed with the next new thing to learn about, the other things suffer. I can’t learn about them all at once. Such distraction pulls away my focus, keeps me from doing well at any one thing.What’s the antidote? Focus. Sticking to something long enough to really learn it. Remembering your priorities. Not getting distracted by every new thing you read.The answer isn’t to stop reading, but to be more mindful of your impulses when you do read.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容CleopatraBy Stacy SchiffChapter 1     That Egyptian WomanIf the name is indelible, the image is blurry. Cleopatra may be one of the most recognizable figures in history but we have little idea of what she actually looked like. Only her coin portraits—issued in her lifetime, and which she likely approved—can be accepted as authentic. We remember her too for the wrong reasons.  A capable, clear-eyed sovereign, she knew how to build a fleet, suppress an insurrection, control a currency, alleviate a famine. An eminent Roman general vouched for her grasp of military affairs. Even at a time when women rulers were no rarity she stood out, the sole female of the ancient world to rule alone and to play a role in Western affairs. She was incomparably richer than anyone else in the Mediterranean. And she enjoyed greater prestige than any other woman of her age, as an excitable rival king was reminded when he called, during her stay at his court, for her assassination. (In light of her stature, it could not be done.) Cleopatra descended from a long line of murderers and faithfully upheld the family tradition but was, for her time and place, remarkably well behaved. She nonetheless survives as a wanton temptress, not the last time a genuinely powerful woman has been transmuted into a shamelessly seductive one.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容CleopatraBy Stacy SchiffChapter 1     That Egyptian WomanIf the name is indelible, the image is blurry. Cleopatra may be one of the most recognizable figures in history but we have little idea of what she actually looked like. Only her coin portraits—issued in her lifetime, and which she likely approved—can be accepted as authentic. We remember her too for the wrong reasons.  A capable, clear-eyed sovereign, she knew how to build a fleet, suppress an insurrection, control a currency, alleviate a famine. An eminent Roman general vouched for her grasp of military affairs. Even at a time when women rulers were no rarity she stood out, the sole female of the ancient world to rule alone and to play a role in Western affairs. She was incomparably richer than anyone else in the Mediterranean. And she enjoyed greater prestige than any other woman of her age, as an excitable rival king was reminded when he called, during her stay at his court, for her assassination. (In light of her stature, it could not be done.) Cleopatra descended from a long line of murderers and faithfully upheld the family tradition but was, for her time and place, remarkably well behaved. She nonetheless survives as a wanton temptress, not the last time a genuinely powerful woman has been transmuted into a shamelessly seductive one.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容Fixed mindset vs Growth mindsetBy Derek SiversOne of the most important concepts I’ve learned is the difference between the “fixed” mindset and the “growth” mindset.It’s a little bit like “nature vs nurture”:People in a fixed mindset believe you either are or aren’t good at something, based on your inherent nature, because it’s just who you are.People in a growth mindset believe anyone can be good at anything, because your abilities are entirely due to your actions.This sounds simple, but it’s surprisingly deep. The fixed mindset is the most common and the most harmful, so it’s worth understanding and considering how it’s affecting you.For example:In a fixed mindset, you believe “She’s a natural born singer” or “I’m just no good at dancing.”In a growth mindset, you believe “Anyone can be good at anything. Skill comes only from practice.”The fixed mindset believes trouble is devastating. If you believe, “You’re either naturally great or will never be great,” then when you have any trouble, your mind thinks, “See? You’ll never be great at this. Give up now.”The growth mindset believes trouble is just important feedback in the learning process.Can you see how this subtle difference in mindset can change everything?More examples:In a fixed mindset, you want to hide your flaws so you’re not judged or labeled a failure.In a growth mindset, your flaws are just a TO-DO list of things to improve.In a fixed mindset, you stick with what you know to keep up your confidence.In a growth mindset, you keep up your confidence by always pushing into the unfamiliar, to make sure you’re always learning.In a fixed mindset, you look inside yourself to find your true passion and purpose, as if this is a hidden inherent thing.In a growth mindset, you commit to mastering valuable skills regardless of mood, knowing passion and purpose come from doing great work, which comes from expertise and experience.In a fixed mindset, failures define you.In a growth mindset, failures are temporary setbacks.In a fixed mindset, you believe if you’re romantically compatible with someone, you should share all of eachother’s views, and everything should just come naturally.In a growth mindset, you believe a lasting relationship comes from effort and working through inevitable differences.In a fixed mindset, it’s all about the outcome. If you fail, you think all effort was wasted.In a growth mindset, it’s all about the process, so the outcome hardly matters.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容Fixed mindset vs Growth mindsetBy Derek SiversOne of the most important concepts I’ve learned is the difference between the “fixed” mindset and the “growth” mindset.It’s a little bit like “nature vs nurture”:People in a fixed mindset believe you either are or aren’t good at something, based on your inherent nature, because it’s just who you are.People in a growth mindset believe anyone can be good at anything, because your abilities are entirely due to your actions.This sounds simple, but it’s surprisingly deep. The fixed mindset is the most common and the most harmful, so it’s worth understanding and considering how it’s affecting you.For example:In a fixed mindset, you believe “She’s a natural born singer” or “I’m just no good at dancing.”In a growth mindset, you believe “Anyone can be good at anything. Skill comes only from practice.”The fixed mindset believes trouble is devastating. If you believe, “You’re either naturally great or will never be great,” then when you have any trouble, your mind thinks, “See? You’ll never be great at this. Give up now.”The growth mindset believes trouble is just important feedback in the learning process.Can you see how this subtle difference in mindset can change everything?More examples:In a fixed mindset, you want to hide your flaws so you’re not judged or labeled a failure.In a growth mindset, your flaws are just a TO-DO list of things to improve.In a fixed mindset, you stick with what you know to keep up your confidence.In a growth mindset, you keep up your confidence by always pushing into the unfamiliar, to make sure you’re always learning.In a fixed mindset, you look inside yourself to find your true passion and purpose, as if this is a hidden inherent thing.In a growth mindset, you commit to mastering valuable skills regardless of mood, knowing passion and purpose come from doing great work, which comes from expertise and experience.In a fixed mindset, failures define you.In a growth mindset, failures are temporary setbacks.In a fixed mindset, you believe if you’re romantically compatible with someone, you should share all of eachother’s views, and everything should just come naturally.In a growth mindset, you believe a lasting relationship comes from effort and working through inevitable differences.In a fixed mindset, it’s all about the outcome. If you fail, you think all effort was wasted.In a growth mindset, it’s all about the process, so the outcome hardly matters.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容The Pillars of the EarthBy Ken FollettChapter OneIN A BROAD VALLEY, at the foot of a sloping hillside, beside a clear bubbling stream, Tom was building a house.The walls were already three feet high and rising fast. The two masons Tom had engaged were working steadily in the sunshine, their trowels going scrape, slap and then tap, tap while their laborer sweated under the weight of the big stone blocks. Tom’s son Alfred was mixing mortar, counting aloud as he scooped sand onto a board. There was also a carpenter, working at the bench beside Tom, carefully shaping a length of beech wood with an adz.Alfred was fourteen years old, and tall like Tom. Tom was a head higher than most men, and Alfred was only a couple of inches less, and still growing. They looked alike, too: both had light-brown hair and greenish eyes with brown flecks. People said they were a handsome pair. The main difference between them was that Tom had a curly brown beard, whereas Alfred had only a fine blond fluff. The hair on Alfred’s head had been that color once, Tom remembered fondly. Now that Alfred was becoming a man, Tom wished he would take a more intelligent interest in his work, for he had a lot to learn if he was to be a mason like his father; but so far Alfred remained bored and baffled by the principles of building.When the house was finished it would be the most luxurious home for miles around. The ground floor would be a spacious undercroft, for storage, with a curved vault for a ceiling, so that it would not catch fire. The hall, where people actually lived, would be above, reached by an outside staircase, its height making it hard to attack and easy to defend. Against the hall wall there would be a chimney, to take away the smoke of the fire. This was a radical innovation: Tom had only ever seen one house with a chimney, but it had struck him as such a good idea that he was determined to copy it. At one end of the house, over the hall, there would be a small bedroom, for that was what earls’ daughters demanded nowadays—they were too fine to sleep in the hall with the men and the serving wenches and the hunting dogs. The kitchen would be a separate building, for every kitchen caught fire sooner or later, and there was nothing for it but to build them far away from everything else and put up with lukewarm food.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容The Pillars of the EarthBy Ken FollettChapter OneIN A BROAD VALLEY, at the foot of a sloping hillside, beside a clear bubbling stream, Tom was building a house.The walls were already three feet high and rising fast. The two masons Tom had engaged were working steadily in the sunshine, their trowels going scrape, slap and then tap, tap while their laborer sweated under the weight of the big stone blocks. Tom’s son Alfred was mixing mortar, counting aloud as he scooped sand onto a board. There was also a carpenter, working at the bench beside Tom, carefully shaping a length of beech wood with an adz.Alfred was fourteen years old, and tall like Tom. Tom was a head higher than most men, and Alfred was only a couple of inches less, and still growing. They looked alike, too: both had light-brown hair and greenish eyes with brown flecks. People said they were a handsome pair. The main difference between them was that Tom had a curly brown beard, whereas Alfred had only a fine blond fluff. The hair on Alfred’s head had been that color once, Tom remembered fondly. Now that Alfred was becoming a man, Tom wished he would take a more intelligent interest in his work, for he had a lot to learn if he was to be a mason like his father; but so far Alfred remained bored and baffled by the principles of building.When the house was finished it would be the most luxurious home for miles around. The ground floor would be a spacious undercroft, for storage, with a curved vault for a ceiling, so that it would not catch fire. The hall, where people actually lived, would be above, reached by an outside staircase, its height making it hard to attack and easy to defend. Against the hall wall there would be a chimney, to take away the smoke of the fire. This was a radical innovation: Tom had only ever seen one house with a chimney, but it had struck him as such a good idea that he was determined to copy it. At one end of the house, over the hall, there would be a small bedroom, for that was what earls’ daughters demanded nowadays—they were too fine to sleep in the hall with the men and the serving wenches and the hunting dogs. The kitchen would be a separate building, for every kitchen caught fire sooner or later, and there was nothing for it but to build them far away from everything else and put up with lukewarm food.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容Controlling Your Own ScheduleBy Steve Pavlina Sometimes people use their job as their blanket excuse for not being in control of their schedule. “Oh… I can’t because I have a job,” is the main reason people give for not being able to do 30-day trials, experience extended travel, and do immersive deep dives.However, during periods without a job, these same people often switch to a different excuse. Oh… I can’t because I’m unemployed right now.Self-employed people do this too. Oh… I can’t because I have to work.Work will come and go. Your finances may fluctuate over time. But no matter what, time is passing. You have the same number of days this month that anyone else has. You’re free to decide how you’ll use these days. If you want to spend this time on work, you can do that. If you want to spend the time on other growth and lifestyle activities, you can do that too.You Have More Control Than You ThinkMany people have a hard time accepting the responsibility of being in control, so they yield this control to someone else. Unless you’re being forcibly enslaved, giving someone else control of your schedule is only a temporary assignment. The truth is that you’re still in control all along because you can make a different decision whenever you desire.If you give control of your schedule to a boss, a company, a client, a spouse, or anyone else, that’s a temporary choice. These people don’t actually have control over your time without your consent. You can always change your mind and start saying “No, thanks” to their requests.Not having control over your schedule can be stressful. But the lack of control is an illusion. You chose to put yourself in that situation, and you didn’t have to. You could have made different decisions, and you still can. If you don’t like the stress, you can take back control and make different decisions.I’m not suggesting that you can control other people’s reactions, and fortunately you don’t need to. I’m just suggesting you can start using your time differently and thereby get different results.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容Controlling Your Own ScheduleBy Steve Pavlina Sometimes people use their job as their blanket excuse for not being in control of their schedule. “Oh… I can’t because I have a job,” is the main reason people give for not being able to do 30-day trials, experience extended travel, and do immersive deep dives.However, during periods without a job, these same people often switch to a different excuse. Oh… I can’t because I’m unemployed right now.Self-employed people do this too. Oh… I can’t because I have to work.Work will come and go. Your finances may fluctuate over time. But no matter what, time is passing. You have the same number of days this month that anyone else has. You’re free to decide how you’ll use these days. If you want to spend this time on work, you can do that. If you want to spend the time on other growth and lifestyle activities, you can do that too.You Have More Control Than You ThinkMany people have a hard time accepting the responsibility of being in control, so they yield this control to someone else. Unless you’re being forcibly enslaved, giving someone else control of your schedule is only a temporary assignment. The truth is that you’re still in control all along because you can make a different decision whenever you desire.If you give control of your schedule to a boss, a company, a client, a spouse, or anyone else, that’s a temporary choice. These people don’t actually have control over your time without your consent. You can always change your mind and start saying “No, thanks” to their requests.Not having control over your schedule can be stressful. But the lack of control is an illusion. You chose to put yourself in that situation, and you didn’t have to. You could have made different decisions, and you still can. If you don’t like the stress, you can take back control and make different decisions.I’m not suggesting that you can control other people’s reactions, and fortunately you don’t need to. I’m just suggesting you can start using your time differently and thereby get different results.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

The Fault In Our StarsBy John GreenChapter OneLate in the winter of my seventeenth year, my mother decided I was depressed, presumably because I rarely left the house, spent quite a lot of time in bed, read the same book over and over, ate infrequently, and devoted quite a bit of my abundant free time to thinking about death. Whenever you read a cancer booklet or website or whatever, they always list depression among the side effects of cancer. But, in fact, depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is a side effect of dying. (Cancer is also a side effect of dying. Almost everything is, really.) But my mom believed I required treatment, so she took me to see my Regular Doctor Jim, who agreed that I was veritably swimming in a paralyzing and totally clinical depression, and that therefore my meds should be adjusted and also I should attend a weekly Support Group. This Support Group featured a rotating cast of characters in various states of tumor-driven unwellness. Why did the cast rotate? A side effect of dying. The Support Group, of course, was depressing as hell. It met every Wednesday in the basement of a stone-walled Episcopal church shaped like a cross. We all sat in a circle right in the middle of the cross, where the two boards would have met, where the heart of Jesus would have been. I noticed this because Patrick, the Support Group Leader and only person over eighteen in the room, talked about the heart of Jesus every freaking meeting, all about how we, as young cancer survivors, were sitting right in Christ’s very sacred heart and whatever.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

The Fault In Our StarsBy John GreenChapter OneLate in the winter of my seventeenth year, my mother decided I was depressed, presumably because I rarely left the house, spent quite a lot of time in bed, read the same book over and over, ate infrequently, and devoted quite a bit of my abundant free time to thinking about death. Whenever you read a cancer booklet or website or whatever, they always list depression among the side effects of cancer. But, in fact, depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is a side effect of dying. (Cancer is also a side effect of dying. Almost everything is, really.) But my mom believed I required treatment, so she took me to see my Regular Doctor Jim, who agreed that I was veritably swimming in a paralyzing and totally clinical depression, and that therefore my meds should be adjusted and also I should attend a weekly Support Group. This Support Group featured a rotating cast of characters in various states of tumor-driven unwellness. Why did the cast rotate? A side effect of dying. The Support Group, of course, was depressing as hell. It met every Wednesday in the basement of a stone-walled Episcopal church shaped like a cross. We all sat in a circle right in the middle of the cross, where the two boards would have met, where the heart of Jesus would have been. I noticed this because Patrick, the Support Group Leader and only person over eighteen in the room, talked about the heart of Jesus every freaking meeting, all about how we, as young cancer survivors, were sitting right in Christ’s very sacred heart and whatever.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

Seeking admission to top colleges, Chinese students flock to U.S. private schoolsBy Daniel A. GrossWhen the lunch bell rings at Cape Cod Academy, students line up for a weekly treat — food from Great House, a local Chinese restaurant.At first glance, the piles of fried rice and barbecue pork might seem ideal for the private high school’s international students. Nearly 20 percent of the student body is Chinese, and in the hallways, throngs of students can often be found chatting in Mandarin.But the Chinese students don’t find the lunch offerings especially appetizing.“They put too much oil in it,” says Zhang, 18, a third-year student who, here, in a village of 3,500 people on the southern Cape coast, goes by Tony. “To be honest, that shop will probably shut off if it was in China.”The international flavor of Cape Cod Academy, contrasts sharply with local demographics. The school is in one of the state’s least-diverse counties — a summer oceanfront getaway in the town of ……, about 70 miles southeast of Boston — with a population that is 93 percent white and less than 2 percent Asian, according to census data.……“A lot of Chinese families are realizing that they have to get into the process earlier,” said Christine Ye, a researcher at the University of San Francisco who studies the experience of East Asian immigrants in U.S. schools. That drives them to seek a U.S. high school education to gain an edge for college admissions. “It’s getting so competitive.”The move is creating growing pockets of Chinese children in U.S. schools, sometimes in places not known for international diversity — such as ……. For the U.S. schools, the change can mean a financial windfall from full-paying Chinese families and an opportunity to broaden their student body’s horizons.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

Seeking admission to top colleges, Chinese students flock to U.S. private schoolsBy Daniel A. GrossWhen the lunch bell rings at Cape Cod Academy, students line up for a weekly treat — food from Great House, a local Chinese restaurant.At first glance, the piles of fried rice and barbecue pork might seem ideal for the private high school’s international students. Nearly 20 percent of the student body is Chinese, and in the hallways, throngs of students can often be found chatting in Mandarin.But the Chinese students don’t find the lunch offerings especially appetizing.“They put too much oil in it,” says Zhang, 18, a third-year student who, here, in a village of 3,500 people on the southern Cape coast, goes by Tony. “To be honest, that shop will probably shut off if it was in China.”The international flavor of Cape Cod Academy, contrasts sharply with local demographics. The school is in one of the state’s least-diverse counties — a summer oceanfront getaway in the town of ……, about 70 miles southeast of Boston — with a population that is 93 percent white and less than 2 percent Asian, according to census data.……“A lot of Chinese families are realizing that they have to get into the process earlier,” said Christine Ye, a researcher at the University of San Francisco who studies the experience of East Asian immigrants in U.S. schools. That drives them to seek a U.S. high school education to gain an edge for college admissions. “It’s getting so competitive.”The move is creating growing pockets of Chinese children in U.S. schools, sometimes in places not known for international diversity — such as ……. For the U.S. schools, the change can mean a financial windfall from full-paying Chinese families and an opportunity to broaden their student body’s horizons.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

Possible futuresby Derek SiversI don’t know if you do this, or if it’s just me.I’ll get a big vision for my future. A huge project that would take many months or years. Something exciting and very worth doing.I’ll do a bunch of research, make a bunch of plans, and tell my friends all about it. They think I’ve made a big decision on a new direction in life.Then a month later, I have a completely different vision. Something unrelated to the previous one. Something I’m more excited about.And the process repeats.I used to feel bad about this. Like I should stop having new ideas for the future, and just stick with one. I used to feel bad for not doing them. Then I made a little change that made a big difference:I made a folder on my computer called “Possible Futures”.For each big plan, I make a new file in that folder, and put all of my ideas and research into it.Now I can daydream all I want, not feeling bad that I’m not taking immediate action on this idea, because now it’s clear that it’s just one of many possible futures.It also reminds me that I love daydreaming, just for its own sake.I’ve got 58 different futures in there as of today. A few times a year, I read through them all. Some seem stupid now, but some get more and more enticing with time.When I finish a big project, and I’m feeling ready for a new future, I open this folder and pick one to make real.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

Possible futuresby Derek SiversI don’t know if you do this, or if it’s just me.I’ll get a big vision for my future. A huge project that would take many months or years. Something exciting and very worth doing.I’ll do a bunch of research, make a bunch of plans, and tell my friends all about it. They think I’ve made a big decision on a new direction in life.Then a month later, I have a completely different vision. Something unrelated to the previous one. Something I’m more excited about.And the process repeats.I used to feel bad about this. Like I should stop having new ideas for the future, and just stick with one. I used to feel bad for not doing them. Then I made a little change that made a big difference:I made a folder on my computer called “Possible Futures”.For each big plan, I make a new file in that folder, and put all of my ideas and research into it.Now I can daydream all I want, not feeling bad that I’m not taking immediate action on this idea, because now it’s clear that it’s just one of many possible futures.It also reminds me that I love daydreaming, just for its own sake.I’ve got 58 different futures in there as of today. A few times a year, I read through them all. Some seem stupid now, but some get more and more enticing with time.When I finish a big project, and I’m feeling ready for a new future, I open this folder and pick one to make real.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

How Big Is A Fart? Somewhere Between A Bottle Of Nail Polish And A Can Of SodaBy Maggie Koerth-BakerFiled under Science Question From A ToddlerThe questions kids ask about science aren’t always easy to answer. Sometimes, their little brains can lead to big places adults forget to explore. With that in mind, we’ve started a series called Science Question From A Toddler, which will use the curiosity of kids ages 5 and younger as a jumping-off point to investigate the scientific wonders that adults don’t even think to ask about. The answers are for adults, but they wouldn’t be possible without the wonder only a child can bring. And now, our question …Q: How much space does a fart take in your body? — Inbal R., age 5Placed under the microscope, even the dullest grain of sand develops a personality. So it goes with farts. (Or “flatulence,” as they say in the scientific literature.) Farts may seem largely interchangeable, but each one is special. Even just your own farts are a circus sideshow of intestinal gas: big ones, little ones, stinky ones, oddly fresh ones. There is not enough scientific evidence to say that no two farts are alike — but you can rest assured that they are a riot of diversity.As a result, it’s impossible to say exactly how much space a generic fart takes up in the body. I can, however, tell you about the range of specific farts, as captured in scientific experiments. For instance, a 1997 study of 16 Americans found a volume-per-fart range of 17 milliliters to 375 milliliters.1 Imagine a bottle of nail polish — that’s a rough analogy for the volume of the daintiest of poots. Now imagine a can of soda. That’s the volume of a really big stinker. Your body is a wonderland.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

How Big Is A Fart? Somewhere Between A Bottle Of Nail Polish And A Can Of SodaBy Maggie Koerth-BakerFiled under Science Question From A ToddlerThe questions kids ask about science aren’t always easy to answer. Sometimes, their little brains can lead to big places adults forget to explore. With that in mind, we’ve started a series called Science Question From A Toddler, which will use the curiosity of kids ages 5 and younger as a jumping-off point to investigate the scientific wonders that adults don’t even think to ask about. The answers are for adults, but they wouldn’t be possible without the wonder only a child can bring. And now, our question …Q: How much space does a fart take in your body? — Inbal R., age 5Placed under the microscope, even the dullest grain of sand develops a personality. So it goes with farts. (Or “flatulence,” as they say in the scientific literature.) Farts may seem largely interchangeable, but each one is special. Even just your own farts are a circus sideshow of intestinal gas: big ones, little ones, stinky ones, oddly fresh ones. There is not enough scientific evidence to say that no two farts are alike — but you can rest assured that they are a riot of diversity.As a result, it’s impossible to say exactly how much space a generic fart takes up in the body. I can, however, tell you about the range of specific farts, as captured in scientific experiments. For instance, a 1997 study of 16 Americans found a volume-per-fart range of 17 milliliters to 375 milliliters.1 Imagine a bottle of nail polish — that’s a rough analogy for the volume of the daintiest of poots. Now imagine a can of soda. That’s the volume of a really big stinker. Your body is a wonderland.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

Habits and Practices in Your 20'Sby Steve PavlinaYour 20'S are a powerful decade of your life. During this time you sculpt many of the habits and practices you’ll probably maintain throughout your 30'S, 40'S, and beyond. However, many 20-somethings don’t give much thought to how their decisions and actions during this decade will ultimately create their future identity. They expect they’ll be able to make changes later, but that assumption usually turns out to be wrong.CareerDuring your 20'S you may think of your career path as having many options. You believe you could do many different types of work. That’s technically true.Later in life, however, people have a tendency to wrap their career paths into their identities. They don’t just do a job. They are that job. People in their 40'S don’t just sell real estate; they’re realtors. People don’t just do customer service; they’re customer service representatives. People don’t just program; they’re programmers.When you’re in your 20'S, be extra careful about the risk of getting sucked into a long-term career path by doing some temporary work to cover expenses. A good rule of thumb is to ask yourself if you’d still like to be doing that job in 10 years. If your answer is something like “hell no!” or cynical laughter, maybe you should pass and wait for a better spot. If you’re desperate for money, fine, but do be careful about the possibility of short-term decisions becoming long-term patterns. If you don’t have a clear exit strategy, you may find that the exit is decades away.HealthPeople in their 20'S often feel that they can work on their health habits when they’re older or if they happen to get sick. They figure there’s plenty of time to make improvements if and when it becomes necessary.The problem with that mindset is that we establish health habits during our 20'S (and younger) that we’ll very likely carry forward into future decades, and the longer we maintain those habits, the harder it is to change.（节目时间关系，仅录了以上内容，但原文还有更多以下信息，感兴趣的亲们可以完整阅读）Media ConsumptionThink about the media consumption habits you’re establishing during your 20'S (including social media). Will you still want to maintain those same habits during your 40'S?Some habits may feel good to you, such as reading good books or indulging in a good movie or video series now and then. Other practices may give you a feeling of dread if you think about continuing them for decades.Which media consumption …… are you establishing today that you wouldn’t want to drag into your 30's, 40's, and beyond? Pay attention to those dread-inducing ……, and drop or replace them while you still can.Expecting a personal transition to happen later is often equivalent to delaying it indefinitely. In the future you’ll still be projecting the change into the future. So if you expect to make a change within the next five years, then five years from now, you’ll still be expecting your future self to make that change within another five years. The change will always be someday, never now.Temporary ……Even if you want to indulge in less than stellar habits during your 20'S (which I completely understand), I recommend blocking off some time during that decade to temporarily establish really positive …… in different areas of your life. Then even if you stray from those …… afterwards, it will be much easier for you to reload them at some point later in life, should you ever want or need to do so.I feel lucky that I established some good long-term habits and temporary …… during my 20'S, not knowing how beneficial they’d be later in life. I encourage you to build a lot of this toolbox during your 20'S too; later in life you’ll be glad you did.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

Habits and Practices in Your 20'Sby Steve PavlinaYour 20'S are a powerful decade of your life. During this time you sculpt many of the habits and practices you’ll probably maintain throughout your 30'S, 40'S, and beyond. However, many 20-somethings don’t give much thought to how their decisions and actions during this decade will ultimately create their future identity. They expect they’ll be able to make changes later, but that assumption usually turns out to be wrong.CareerDuring your 20'S you may think of your career path as having many options. You believe you could do many different types of work. That’s technically true.Later in life, however, people have a tendency to wrap their career paths into their identities. They don’t just do a job. They are that job. People in their 40'S don’t just sell real estate; they’re realtors. People don’t just do customer service; they’re customer service representatives. People don’t just program; they’re programmers.When you’re in your 20'S, be extra careful about the risk of getting sucked into a long-term career path by doing some temporary work to cover expenses. A good rule of thumb is to ask yourself if you’d still like to be doing that job in 10 years. If your answer is something like “hell no!” or cynical laughter, maybe you should pass and wait for a better spot. If you’re desperate for money, fine, but do be careful about the possibility of short-term decisions becoming long-term patterns. If you don’t have a clear exit strategy, you may find that the exit is decades away.HealthPeople in their 20'S often feel that they can work on their health habits when they’re older or if they happen to get sick. They figure there’s plenty of time to make improvements if and when it becomes necessary.The problem with that mindset is that we establish health habits during our 20'S (and younger) that we’ll very likely carry forward into future decades, and the longer we maintain those habits, the harder it is to change.（节目时间关系，仅录了以上内容，但原文还有更多以下信息，感兴趣的亲们可以完整阅读）Media ConsumptionThink about the media consumption habits you’re establishing during your 20'S (including social media). Will you still want to maintain those same habits during your 40'S?Some habits may feel good to you, such as reading good books or indulging in a good movie or video series now and then. Other practices may give you a feeling of dread if you think about continuing them for decades.Which media consumption …… are you establishing today that you wouldn’t want to drag into your 30's, 40's, and beyond? Pay attention to those dread-inducing ……, and drop or replace them while you still can.Expecting a personal transition to happen later is often equivalent to delaying it indefinitely. In the future you’ll still be projecting the change into the future. So if you expect to make a change within the next five years, then five years from now, you’ll still be expecting your future self to make that change within another five years. The change will always be someday, never now.Temporary ……Even if you want to indulge in less than stellar habits during your 20'S (which I completely understand), I recommend blocking off some time during that decade to temporarily establish really positive …… in different areas of your life. Then even if you stray from those …… afterwards, it will be much easier for you to reload them at some point later in life, should you ever want or need to do so.I feel lucky that I established some good long-term habits and temporary …… during my 20'S, not knowing how beneficial they’d be later in life. I encourage you to build a lot of this toolbox during your 20'S too; later in life you’ll be glad you did.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

Player of GamesBy Iain M. BanksChapter 1Culture PlateThis is the story of a man who went far away for a long time, just to play a game. The man is a game-player called “Gurgeh.” The story starts with a battle that is not a battle, and ends with a game that is not a game. Me? I’ll tell you about me later. This is how the story begins. Dust drifted with each footstep. He limped across the desert, following the suited figure in front. The gun was quiet in his hands. They must be nearly there; the noise of distant surf boomed through the helmet soundfield. They were approaching a tall dune, from which they ought to be able to see the coast. Somehow he had survived; he had not expected to. It was bright and hot and dry outside, but inside the suit he was shielded from the sun and the baking air; cosseted and cool. One edge of the helmet visor was dark, where it had taken a hit, and the right leg flexed awkwardly, also damaged, making him limp, but otherwise he’d been lucky. The last time they’d been attacked had been a kilometer back, and now they were nearly out of range. The flight of missiles cleared the nearest ridge in a glittering arc. He saw them late because of the damaged visor. He thought the missiles had already started firing, but it was only the sunlight reflecting on their sleek bodies. The flight dipped and swung together, like a flock of birds. When they did start firing it was signaled by strobing red pulses of light. He raised his gun to fire back; the other suited figures in the group had already started firing. Some dived to the dusty desert floor, others dropped to one knee. He was the only one standing. The missiles swerved again, turning all at once and then splitting up to take different directions. Dust puffed around his feet as shots fell close. He tried to aim at one of the small machines, but they moved startlingly quickly, and the gun felt large and awkward in his hands. His suit chimed over the distant noise of firing and the shouts of the other people; lights winked inside the helmet, detailing the damage. The suit shook and his right leg went suddenly numb.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

Player of GamesBy Iain M. BanksChapter 1Culture PlateThis is the story of a man who went far away for a long time, just to play a game. The man is a game-player called “Gurgeh.” The story starts with a battle that is not a battle, and ends with a game that is not a game. Me? I’ll tell you about me later. This is how the story begins. Dust drifted with each footstep. He limped across the desert, following the suited figure in front. The gun was quiet in his hands. They must be nearly there; the noise of distant surf boomed through the helmet soundfield. They were approaching a tall dune, from which they ought to be able to see the coast. Somehow he had survived; he had not expected to. It was bright and hot and dry outside, but inside the suit he was shielded from the sun and the baking air; cosseted and cool. One edge of the helmet visor was dark, where it had taken a hit, and the right leg flexed awkwardly, also damaged, making him limp, but otherwise he’d been lucky. The last time they’d been attacked had been a kilometer back, and now they were nearly out of range. The flight of missiles cleared the nearest ridge in a glittering arc. He saw them late because of the damaged visor. He thought the missiles had already started firing, but it was only the sunlight reflecting on their sleek bodies. The flight dipped and swung together, like a flock of birds. When they did start firing it was signaled by strobing red pulses of light. He raised his gun to fire back; the other suited figures in the group had already started firing. Some dived to the dusty desert floor, others dropped to one knee. He was the only one standing. The missiles swerved again, turning all at once and then splitting up to take different directions. Dust puffed around his feet as shots fell close. He tried to aim at one of the small machines, but they moved startlingly quickly, and the gun felt large and awkward in his hands. His suit chimed over the distant noise of firing and the shouts of the other people; lights winked inside the helmet, detailing the damage. The suit shook and his right leg went suddenly numb.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

Seeking inspiration?By Derek SiversThe word “inspiration” usually means something that mentally stimulates you.But “inspiration” also means to breathe in.The meanings poetically combine when you think of yourself breathing in thoughts, filling your body with ideas.But don’t forget to breathe out.Some people watch hundreds of TED talks, looking for inspiration.Tech entrepreneurs visit Hacker News every few hours, looking for new inspiration.Musicians, writers, artists, and everyone else, all scouring the world for inspiration.Breathing in, and in, and in, and in.Yet most of them aren’t feeling inspired enough. They’re looking for more, thinking something else out there will truly inspire them.Want to know why?Because nothing is truly inspiring unless you apply it to your work.  (“work” meaning your life’s output, whether creative, business, or personal.)In other words, your work, itself, is the inspiration.You may hear something or see something that gives you a new idea.But it’s only when you stop and think of your work through this new perspective, that you actually jump up and go turn the idea into reality.That’s the real inspiration that everyone is looking for!The inspiration is not the receiving of information. The inspiration is applying what you’ve received.People think that if they keep reading articles, browsing books, listening to talks, or meeting people, that they’re going to suddenly get inspired.But constantly seeking inspiration is anti-inspiring.You have to pause the input, and focus on your output.For every bit of inspiration, use it and amplify it by applying it to your work.Then you’ll finally feel the inspiration you’ve been looking for.Breathe in. Breathe out. Breathe in. Breathe out.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

Seeking inspiration?By Derek SiversThe word “inspiration” usually means something that mentally stimulates you.But “inspiration” also means to breathe in.The meanings poetically combine when you think of yourself breathing in thoughts, filling your body with ideas.But don’t forget to breathe out.Some people watch hundreds of TED talks, looking for inspiration.Tech entrepreneurs visit Hacker News every few hours, looking for new inspiration.Musicians, writers, artists, and everyone else, all scouring the world for inspiration.Breathing in, and in, and in, and in.Yet most of them aren’t feeling inspired enough. They’re looking for more, thinking something else out there will truly inspire them.Want to know why?Because nothing is truly inspiring unless you apply it to your work.  (“work” meaning your life’s output, whether creative, business, or personal.)In other words, your work, itself, is the inspiration.You may hear something or see something that gives you a new idea.But it’s only when you stop and think of your work through this new perspective, that you actually jump up and go turn the idea into reality.That’s the real inspiration that everyone is looking for!The inspiration is not the receiving of information. The inspiration is applying what you’ve received.People think that if they keep reading articles, browsing books, listening to talks, or meeting people, that they’re going to suddenly get inspired.But constantly seeking inspiration is anti-inspiring.You have to pause the input, and focus on your output.For every bit of inspiration, use it and amplify it by applying it to your work.Then you’ll finally feel the inspiration you’ve been looking for.Breathe in. Breathe out. Breathe in. Breathe out.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

Zero to OneBy Peter ThielPrefaceEVERY MOMENT IN BUSINESS happens only once. The next Bill Gates will not build an operating system. The next Larry Page or Sergey Brin won’t make a search engine. And the next Mark Zuckerberg won’t create a social network. If you are copying these guys, you aren’t learning from them. Of course, it’s easier to copy a model than to make something new. Doing what we already know how to do takes the world from 1 to n, adding more of something familiar. But every time we create something new, we go from 0 to 1. The act of creation is singular, as is the moment of creation, and the result is something fresh and strange. Unless they invest in the difficult task of creating new things, American companies will fail in the future no matter how big their profits remain today. What happens when we’ve gained everything to be had from fine-tuning the old lines of business that we’ve inherited? Unlikely as it sounds, the answer threatens to be far worse than thecrisis of 2008. Today’s “best practices” lead to dead ends; the best paths are new and untried. In a world of gigantic administrative bureaucracies both public and private, searching for a new path might seem like hoping for a miracle. Actually, if American business is going to succeed, we are going to need hundreds, or even thousands, of miracles. This would be depressing but for one crucial fact: humans are distinguished from other species by our ability to work miracles. We call these miracles technology. Technology is miraculous because it allows us to do more with less, ratcheting up our fundamental capabilities to a higher level. Other animals are instinctively driven to build things like dams or honeycombs, but we are the only ones that can invent new things and better ways of making them. Humans don’t decide what to build by making choices from some cosmic catalog of options given in advance; instead, by creating new technologies, we rewrite the plan of the world. These are the kind of elementary truths we teach to second graders, but they are easy to forget in a world where so much of what we do is repeat what has been done before.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

Zero to OneBy Peter ThielPrefaceEVERY MOMENT IN BUSINESS happens only once. The next Bill Gates will not build an operating system. The next Larry Page or Sergey Brin won’t make a search engine. And the next Mark Zuckerberg won’t create a social network. If you are copying these guys, you aren’t learning from them. Of course, it’s easier to copy a model than to make something new. Doing what we already know how to do takes the world from 1 to n, adding more of something familiar. But every time we create something new, we go from 0 to 1. The act of creation is singular, as is the moment of creation, and the result is something fresh and strange. Unless they invest in the difficult task of creating new things, American companies will fail in the future no matter how big their profits remain today. What happens when we’ve gained everything to be had from fine-tuning the old lines of business that we’ve inherited? Unlikely as it sounds, the answer threatens to be far worse than thecrisis of 2008. Today’s “best practices” lead to dead ends; the best paths are new and untried. In a world of gigantic administrative bureaucracies both public and private, searching for a new path might seem like hoping for a miracle. Actually, if American business is going to succeed, we are going to need hundreds, or even thousands, of miracles. This would be depressing but for one crucial fact: humans are distinguished from other species by our ability to work miracles. We call these miracles technology. Technology is miraculous because it allows us to do more with less, ratcheting up our fundamental capabilities to a higher level. Other animals are instinctively driven to build things like dams or honeycombs, but we are the only ones that can invent new things and better ways of making them. Humans don’t decide what to build by making choices from some cosmic catalog of options given in advance; instead, by creating new technologies, we rewrite the plan of the world. These are the kind of elementary truths we teach to second graders, but they are easy to forget in a world where so much of what we do is repeat what has been done before.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯

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