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But let's, sort of, start at the beginning.

So we have companies and non-profits and charities

很多公司、非營利企業、慈善機構

And they expect these people who work for them

At least good work, hopefully, at least it's good work --

這是基本要求，能拿出優秀的成績

And so what they typically do is they decide

that all these people need to come together in one place

So a company, or a charity, or an organization of any kind,

they typically  -- unless you're working in Africa,

most people have to go to an office every day.

They go out and they buy a building, or they rent a building,

maybe a fridge, maybe a few other things,

and they expect their employees, or their volunteers,

to come to that location every day to do great work.

It seems like it's perfectly reasonable to ask that.

where do you really want to go when you really need to get something done?

你真想把事情做好的時候，會去哪裡？

If you ask people the question: where do you really need to go

你如果問：你真想把事情做好的時候，

Typically you get three different kinds of answers.

One is kind of a place or a location or a room.

When I ask people -- and I've been asking people this question for about 10 years --

I ask them, "Where do you go when you really need to get something done?"

我問：你想把事情做好的時候，會去哪裡？

I'll hear things like, the porch, the deck,

我得到的答案有：門廊、桌前、

I'll hear things like an extra room in the house,

And then you'll hear things like the train,

飛機上、車裡，關於交通的答案

"Well, it doesn't really matter where I am,

as long as it's really early in the morning or really late at night or on the weekends."

「只要是在清晨、深夜、週末的時候就可以」

You almost never hear someone say the office.

But businesses are spending all this money on this place called the office,

and they're making people go to it all the time,

但員工卻無法在辦公室內完成工作

And what you find out is that, if you dig a little bit deeper,

and they're basically trading in their workday

You don't have a workday anymore. You have work moments.

已經不是工作「天」，而是工作「片刻」

It's like the front door of the office is like a Cuisinart,

and you walk in and your day is shredded to bits,

because you have 15 minutes here and 30 minutes there,

and then something else happens and you're pulled off your work,

常常有什麼事，就得分神去處理

and you've got to do something else, then you have 20 minutes, then it's lunch.

跑去做別的事之後，再專心個20分鐘，就中餐時間了

Then you've got 15 minutes, and someone pulls you aside and asks you this question,

再專心15分鐘，然後有人跑來問你的問題

and you realize that you didn't get anything done.

or the day before, or the day before that.

You look back on your day, and you're like, I got nothing done today.

每天回顧，恍然發現什麼事也沒做

I sat at my desk. I used my expensive computer.

I went to these meetings I was asked to go to.

I did these conference calls. I did all this stuff.

I didn't actually get meaningful work done.

And what you find is that, especially with creative people --

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