TED笔记1：尝试做新事情30天
Matt Cutts: Try something new for 30 days
It’s rather easy to be lazy, to procrastinate, to refuse to embrace new changes in life. Because we get so accustomed to the way it used to be, and any trivial change might make us feel uneasy and agitated, especially when we need to get rid of some bad habits and pick up some that really do goods to us.
Take myself as an example, once I practiced English when I went home from work. It took me 1-3 hours each day to listen to audio-books and practice oral English. I kept doing it for 3 months. Then somehow I gave up. It seemed like I got too stuck in some other issues. So I told myself why not take a break, but deep inside, I knew I just tried to legitimize the excuse. By then I thought I would just skip the routine for 2 or 3 days. However, a short-time recess could do real damage to a long-term study. Once you go back to the old lifestyle, you feel too comfortable to change any more.
So I feel skeptical about this video clip. Do 30-day challenges really work out so well? Even a 3-month period doesn’t appear to be promising. But I have to admit that judging from my own experience, this kind of efforts is very fulfilling. I felt more confident and thought that I made every day count. It’s just that I still considered it obligatory, so I easily gave in.
Nevertheless, it’s the best way to dispose of a waste of time. And I quite agree with what Cutts says. Small changes are sustainable and more likely to stick. Once you start and soak up the experience, you can never put a stop to it.
Be (stuck) in a rut: be bored, become too fixed in one particular type of job, activity, method, etc
Add a habit ←→ subtract a habit
It’s rather easy to be lazy, to procrastinate, to refuse to embrace new changes in life. Because we get so accustomed to the way it used to be, and any trivial change might make us feel uneasy and agitated, especially when we need to get rid of some bad habits and pick up some that really do goods to us.
Take myself as an example, once I practiced English when I went home from work. It took me 1-3 hours each day to listen to audio-books and practice oral English. I kept doing it for 3 months. Then somehow I gave up. It seemed like I got too stuck in some other issues. So I told myself why not take a break, but deep inside, I knew I just tried to legitimize the excuse. By then I thought I would just skip the routine for 2 or 3 days. However, a short-time recess could do real damage to a long-term study. Once you go back to the old lifestyle, you feel too comfortable to change any more.
So I feel skeptical about this video clip. Do 30-day challenges really work out so well? Even a 3-month period doesn’t appear to be promising. But I have to admit that judging from my own experience, this kind of efforts is very fulfilling. I felt more confident and thought that I made every day count. It’s just that I still considered it obligatory, so I easily gave in.
Nevertheless, it’s the best way to dispose of a waste of time. And I quite agree with what Cutts says. Small changes are sustainable and more likely to stick. Once you start and soak up the experience, you can never put a stop to it.
Be (stuck) in a rut: be bored, become too fixed in one particular type of job, activity, method, etc
Add a habit ←→ subtract a habit
