时间:2018-12-07 作者:英语课 分类:智慧背囊超越自我


英语课
[00:01.48]Tiny Steps, Big Changes寻求大改变,从小处做起
[00:04.53]If you have failed in the past at trying to make big changes in your life,
[00:10.25]try again now, one tiny step at a time.
[00:14.18]Every year it’s the same.
[00:16.15]As December comes to an end,
[00:18.15]you think about the new year and all the ways you want to improve your life.
[00:22.94]But as you start to write down your hopes for the new year,
[00:26.22]you think about last year.
[00:28.23]You excitedly wrote down all the changes you were going to make,
[00:32.48]but by the end of January those ideas got lost in your crowded life.
[00:36.99]Here’s a suggestion:
[00:39.28]Forget the overreaching, hard-to-achieve goals.
[00:42.67]Just think small.
[00:44.42]"We have this extreme-makeover culture that thinks you’ve got to do everything in big steps,
[00:50.34]even though the evidence is overwhelming that it doesn’t work,"
[00:54.06]says psychologist Robert Maurer,
[00:56.35]who recently published One Small Step Can Change Your Life.
[01:00.32]"What we try to do is to break down to a step so small
[01:04.14]that people couldn’t possibly resist or have any excuse not to do it."
[01:08.87]The technique is called kaizen,
[01:11.05]a Japanese word for an American business philosophy adapted to change behavior and attitudes.
[01:17.74]During World War II, American factory managers increased productivity by trying small,
[01:24.54]continuous improvements rather than sudden radical 1 change.
[01:28.58]After the war, U.S. occupation forces brought that philosophy to a rebuilding Japan,
[01:35.57]which made it a cornerstone of the country’s amazing economic rebound 2.
[01:40.19]The Japanese called it kaizen, which means "improvement".
[01:44.70]Maurer, who teaches at the UCLA and University of Washington medical schools,
[01:50.71]says he began studying whether the idea could help people who couldn’t tackle big challenges.
[01:56.97]"Some of it is psychological, and some of it is just their overwhelmed lifestyles," he says.
[02:03.40]"They don’t have the time to go to the gym and do all those other things we know are good for us.
[02:09.12]So kaizen seemed a logical thing to experiment with."

1 radical
n.激进份子,原子团,根号;adj.根本的,激进的,彻底的
  • The patient got a radical cure in the hospital.病人在医院得到了根治。
  • She is radical in her demands.她的要求十分偏激。
2 rebound
v.弹回;n.弹回,跳回
  • The vibrations accompanying the rebound are the earth quake.伴随这种回弹的振动就是地震。
  • Our evil example will rebound upon ourselves.我们的坏榜样会回到我们自己头上的。
学英语单词
-rific
Abel tests
All 's well that ends well.
androgynises
anti-independence
association for computing machinery (acm)
atteveld
ball hockey
Bas-en-Basset
Berl saddles
bromatological
burkaed
call someone's bluff
capital-in-excess account
Carex peiktusani
center upset
cerium materials/devices
charlesite
cloisters
congestion window
constancies
crenimugil crenilabi
cum towel
david turner
decorrelations
DIFI
direct cycle access storage device (dasd)
discrete-time convolution property
document storage status
dysosma veitchii (hemsl. et wils. fu)
easy on the trigger
easy-to-grasp
ecological engineering
epicanthal fold
esophagectomies
eulogious
expenditure for procurement
fire hole ring
Formosa B.
Gave d'Oloron
high speed ball mill
inferior tarsal muscle
interlock control
knife file
Kogushi
latching logic
left ventriculo-aortic conduit
limit of integration
locking pushbutton
long-stem nozzle
lpci open signal
Macdowel's frenum
main scheduling routine
make your presence felt
masson disk
matching magnet
mergers-and-acquisitions
metatracheal wide type
methylglutaconyl
Mixed Mode CD
mobiliary art
monoclines
multiple storage
multiple utility
nanotexturing
neural anesthesia
oath-rite
odman
pearlins
pedatilobed
petewilliamsite
Phenazodine
pipeline conveyor
polyanionic surfactant
potassium methyl sulfate
preserved meat
primary marketing
propylmercuric bromide
punch-tape code
pusher bar
quasi-factorical design
rabbinish
rack up
RAID4
ranking form
remote control rack
resonant vibrator
Rikuzentakata
running latte
secondary peduncle
shear-plate nozzle
struma colloides cystica
suburbans
table napkin
Tensift, Oued
Tismana
transportin
unit start-up and commissioning
unshadowable
upganger
vacuum packer
vehicle currency