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B1 中級 英語 15:57 Educational

How to Get Your Brain to Focus | Chris Bailey | TEDxManchester

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Translator: Viviane P. Reviewer: Amanda Chu

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A few years ago,

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I began to observe something in my own behavior

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that made me a bit uncomfortable.

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And that was that from the moment that I woke up to the end of the day,

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my life was a series of screens.

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I started the day

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with the thing that woke me up first thing in the morning, my phone,

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and so I sat there in bed watching various cooking videos on Instagram

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and bouncing around between a bunch of different applications.

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But then it was time to get out of bed and cook breakfast,

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and so the thing that I focused then on,

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in addition to the omelette in the pan,

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was the iPad that was right next to the oven.

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And then it was time to do some work,

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and so I went to a different screen

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which was attached to another screen itself.

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All the while,

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this little devil on my wrist

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was tapping and beeping and blooping and distracting me

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as I was trying to get important stuff done.

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But there was one particular offender out of all of these different devices

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that I wasted more time on than anything else.

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That was this dastardly thing: my phone.

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I could spend hours on this thing every single day.

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And so I decided to essentially, for all intents and purposes,

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get rid of the thing for a month.

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As an experiment, I thought,

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"I'm going to live on this thing for just 30 minutes every single day

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at a maximum."

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And so this is the amount of time I have for maps,

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this is the amount of time to call my mother,

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this is the amount of time I have

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for everything that I could possibly want to do,

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to listen to music, to listen to podcasts,

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and I observed what happened during this time.

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It took about a week

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to adjust downward into a new, lower level of stimulation,

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but once I did,

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I noticed that three curious things began to happen.

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First, my attention span grew.

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It was like I could focus on things,

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not effortlessly,

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but with much more ease than I could before this experiment started.

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In addition to this, though, as I was going about the world

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and especially when my mind wandered a bit,

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I had more ideas that my mind arrived at,

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and on top of this,

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I had more plans and thoughts about the future.

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Getting rid of one simple device led to these three effects.

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Why?

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Noticing this a few years back led me on this long journey

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to get to the bottom of what it takes to focus in a world of distraction.

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I pored over hundreds of research papers from front to back at my office.

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I don't know if you've ever watched one of those crime shows

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where somebody's solving a murder.

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And so they have this big Bristol board,

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and there's string attached to papers

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attached to memos attached to newspaper clippings -

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this is like what the state of my office was.

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I flew out to meet experts around the world who study focus;

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I conducted more experiments on myself

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