Name: 【TED】蘿拉．凡德坎姆: 如何掌控你的空閒時間 (How to gain control of your free time | Laura Vanderkam)
Uploaded: 2017-05-09T21:59:57.000Z
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Description: 「時間管理」真的好難！一天只有24小時，光是睡覺吃東西就可以花上20小時了(? 到底我們要怎麼樣才能擠出時間上班、睡覺、看韓劇、吃東西、約會、逛街呢？ 或許，在今天的影片中，你可以找到解答哦！ 1assume 0:16 assume 的意思就是「假設、臆測」。 People sometimes assume that...

When people find out I write about time management, they assume two things.

當別人知道我撰寫有關時間管理的文章時他們都會做兩項假設

頻率副詞

One is that I'm always on time, and I'm not.

第一就是我永遠都會準時其實並沒有

to 不定詞

I have four small children, and I would like to blame them for my occasional tardiness, but sometimes it's just not their fault.

我有四個小孩，我偶爾遲到都是他們的錯，但有時候也不能全怪他們

I was once late to my own speech on time management.

有次我在自己的時間管理演講來遲了

We all had to just take a moment together and savor that irony.

於是大家就一同感受一下那種諷刺

The second thing they assume is that I have lots of tips and tricks

他們的第二個假設是，我有很多省時妙招

Sometimes I'll hear from magazines that are doing a story along these lines,

有時我在雜誌會看到類似的文章

generally on how to help their readers find an extra hour in a day.

大致上是幫助讀者在一天當中找到額外的時間

And the idea is that we'll shave bits of time off everyday activities,

從每日例行公事中挪出一點時間

I question the entire premise of this piece, but I'm always interested

即使我心裡對這樣的假設有所質疑，但在他們打來問我之前

in hearing what they've come up with before they call me.

我還是很想知道他們搬出什麼省時妙招

Doing errands in a way where you only have to make right-hand turns --

做雜事的時候選擇只需要右轉的

Being extremely judicious in microwave usage:

it says three to three-and-a-half minutes on the package,

we're totally getting in on the bottom side of that.

And my personal favorite, which makes sense on some level,

個人最喜歡的是以下這個，其實也頗有道理

is to DVR your favorite shows so you can fast-forward through the commercials.

把你喜歡的節目錄下來，廣告的時候就可以快轉

That way, you save eight minutes every half hour,

so in the course of two hours of watching TV, you find 32 minutes to exercise.

兩小時的電視時間，就有三十二分鐘可以運動

You know another way to find 32 minutes to exercise?

還有另外一個方法能找到三十二分鐘運動

Don't watch two hours of TV a day, right?

別每天看兩小時的電視就好了，對吧？

Anyway, the idea is we'll save bits of time here and there, add it up,

概念就是時間這裡省一點、那裡省一點，加總之後

we will finally get to everything we want to do.

就能拿來做我們想做卻沒時間做的事

But after studying how successful people spend their time

and looking at their schedules hour by hour,

I think this idea has it completely backward.

We don't build the lives we want by saving time.

我們不用省時間來打造自己想要的生活

最近我做了一個時間日記的研究

looking at 1,001 days in the lives of extremely busy women.

研究忙碌女性一千零一天的生活

They had demanding jobs, sometimes their own businesses,

kids to care for, maybe parents to care for,

有小孩要養，或許還要照顧父母

I had them keep track of their time for a week

so I could add up how much they worked and slept,

我就能得知她們工作跟睡覺的時間長度

and I interviewed them about their strategies, for my book.

我也為我的書訪問她們的時間管理策略

One of the women whose time log I studied

goes out on a Wednesday night for something.

She comes home to find that her water heater has broken,

and there is now water all over her basement.

If you've ever had anything like this happen to you,

you know it is a hugely damaging, frightening, sopping mess.

你就會知道這很嚇人，又濕又混亂

So she's dealing with the immediate aftermath that night,

day after that, professional cleaning crew dealing with the ruined carpet.

再隔一天請了地毯清潔人員來處理壞掉的地毯

All this is being recorded on her time log.

一週下來，這件事花了她七個小時

That's like finding an extra hour in the day.

這些時間省下來的話每天又多一小時可以用

But I'm sure if you had asked her at the start of the week,

"Could you find seven hours to train for a triathlon?"

「妳會花七個小時訓練三項鐵人嗎？」

"Could you find seven hours to mentor seven worthy people?"

「妳會花七個鐘頭教導七個你覺得值得的人嗎？」

I'm sure she would've said what most of us would've said,

我相信她的答案會和大多數人一樣

which is, "No -- can't you see how busy I am?"

那就是，「沒時間，看不出來我有多忙嗎？」

because there is water all over her basement,

And what this shows us is that time is highly elastic.

but time will stretch to accommodate what we choose to put into it.

as the equivalent of that broken water heater.

I like to use language from one of the busiest people I ever interviewed.

我想引述我面談過最忙碌的人所說的話

By busy, I mean she was running a small business

我說她最忙是因為她有自己的小事業

I was getting in touch with her to set up an interview

問她如何能有三頭六臂去做這些

and she was not available to speak with me. Of course, right?

她沒時間和我面談，這我可以理解

But the reason she was unavailable to speak with me

because it was a beautiful spring morning,

So of course this makes me even more intrigued,

and when I finally do catch up with her, she explains it like this.

當我終於有機會和她談話時，她是這麼跟我解釋的

She says, "Listen Laura, everything I do,

她說：「聽著，我做的每一件事

我花的每一分鐘都是我的選擇」

she'd say, "I don't do x, y or z because it's not a priority."

而是「我不做是因為它們不是最要緊的」

"I don't have time," often means "It's not a priority."

「我沒時間」通常等於「那不重要」

If you think about it, that's really more accurate language.

仔細想想，這才是更貼切的描述

I could tell you I don't have time to dust my blinds,

If you offered to pay me $100,000 to dust my blinds,

如果你付我十萬美金去做這件事

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