《ted中英文演讲稿精选5篇》

ted中文演讲稿 篇1

（一）

三月的洛阳，点乱红山碎杏发，铺平绿水新苹生，十里湖光千世梦，花语雨初嬉笑回。而那年的三月，白雁翅低仍重飞，黄鹂舌涩未成语，纵使是旷世迁客骚人也难揄扬曾经这如仙境般的美景。他们的眼中只是，泥上飘零许多愁，落水边花未随流；只是，感时残花溅血泪，恨别憔鸟惊恨心。那年，国家天下，内外忧患，人心惶惶。那年，朝廷政权摇摇欲坠，动荡不安，眼看着这曾经盛世民族如今将逢灭顶之灾。

那年，朝中，权臣当道，把持朝政。新帝幼小，是非不分。边境，四面临敌，千里报急。朝廷却迟迟不肯发兵救援。守边大将叶护一人难敌万众，被困敌军，生死未卜。权臣说服幼帝让将军之子叶寒下洛阳，寻找传说中的绝世宝剑，传说，“宝剑一出，无与争锋，以一敌万，救民水火。”

那年，叶寒来到洛阳。

阴沉沉的风刮过洛阳边界，天空中有无数只鸟雀盘旋哀鸣，浓烈的悲哀从叶寒狼眼般狭长深邃的眼睛中渐渐渗出。突逢家变，年少的他，挑起家主的负担。背负国仇，无援的他，担起救国的重任。谁来怜惜，这个昔日冷漠倔犟的少年。多日的跋涉，身心双疲的他，两眼一黑，重重的倒在地上，晕了过去。

不知多久，褥席上，叶寒躺着，嘴角微微上扬，不知他在梦中遇到了谁。微瞬间，叶寒醒了。睁开眼，发现自己躺在一张干净的床上，身边是一个清秀的少年。

“我是言幽，是我救了你。你的身体很弱，需要休息。”少年对着叶寒说。

“嗯？恩！”话虽短，却是温暖。叶寒笑了，这种感觉好像父亲。

“来，喝药。”黑黢黢的药水，泛着波痕。叶寒斜觑着言幽，那双眼睛似乎与梦中的人影重叠，一样的光彩熠熠，似夜空中的星，折射出柔和的颜色，却带着点点忧愁。

“父亲……”叶寒低头不知在自语什么。

（二）

数月过去，天地景物，宛若迷雾。山涧四季，水面涟漪，草际烟光，月下花容，杲杲云彩，风中飘逸。那天晚上，赤橙色的星辰点缀着墨蓝色的天空，夜弥漫着温馨的颜色。那天山上，磷光莹莹，萤火虫闪着模糊地绿光，连缀起一片绿色，好似夜空的倒影，迷茫而又清晰。言幽突然开口道：“你，想要什么？”

叶寒眉头不见任何波澜，默默注视夜空许久，方回声：“我要找到宝剑，复兴我朝。”意气勃发，“我要救父亲，我的父亲……”黯然泣下，声音渐小，一抽一噎。

“男儿有泪不轻弹，不要哭。”言幽的声音庄重有威严，“我们会救出来的。”

“嗯。”叶寒望着像似父亲的眼神，颔首一点，渐渐凝神，双眉紧蹙，脆弱的脸上浮现如山般坚毅，如月般冷漠倔强。

又是长时间的沉默。

言幽突然又道“生在乱时，是我们的不幸。但，国破山在，城春草木，只待烟雨，雨润如舒。逢在痛时，是我们的不甘，但，宝剑锋从磨砺出。是英雄，终显本色，仗剑纵路，才是漫游名山的铮铮傲骨。即使，一把锈迹斑驳的剑。”

“是！”叶寒铿锵有力的回答。

搁浅的记忆一点点尘封重启，叶寒的脑海闪烁嘶嘶火光：

“哟，这不是言幽吗？怎么，又出来行骗了。害人还没害够吗？”每每这声音如刺般在叶寒的脑中回旋。

“我不是。”言幽的声音急促响起，却惜在人们的嬉笑中，反驳声消失在人海。他的眉角是落寞，是忧愁，是痛恨，是不甘。

叶寒懂了，他知道言幽如同自己有不堪回首的过去，有自己的痛，有自己的殇，一直，深深埋在内心最深处。叶寒明了，他知道言幽在等待属于自己的命轮，等待有一天自己俯看天下。

“那你呢？”叶寒道。

“我。呵呵，我枉费一生医术。哼，终有一天，我会站在颠峰，让天下的人都知道我言幽是何等的医术高超。”双拳紧握，眉角是坚毅，是凝重。

“可为何他们不信，他们宁愿死也不信，我说他们喝的符汤有毒，不能喝。他们不听，喝了，死了人，还怪罪于我，说我得罪神明，神明降罪，害他们惨死，为什么？”言幽大喊，“为什么，为什么？”

“呵。”叶寒苦笑。在村里住了几月，渐渐的打听到言幽的事，他不能说什么，也不能做什么，他知道是村民的无知，可这有什么办法，村民信神明，不信言幽。每当他问村民言幽的事，他们总是咬牙切齿，恨不得噬其肉，饮其血。

是啊？为什么？我们只是少年，为何，为何？

黑夜总是会过去的，风如海啸席卷而过，划开黎明的光彩。

（三）

轻轻的用叹息掩埋疲惫，轻轻的用叹息远离血腥，轻轻的用叹息牵手，道一声“能行”，轻轻的用叹息别离殇时，流转命轮。已经一个月了，那天晚上的对话后，他们投身军营，开始了流离颠沛的生活。

叶寒没有再去找宝剑，没有再把希望全部寄托在宝剑上，他相信了言幽，要靠自己的双手赶走敌人，靠自己的努力救出父亲。他当小兵起，一步一步的向上。

黑夜漫长，轻轻阖眼，叶寒睡了。的人金袍战衣，意气奋发。金戈铁马，驰骋沙场。脸上，没有随着岁月的流失日渐沧桑。“寒儿……寒儿……”一遍遍的唤着。梦中的叶寒突然紧皱眉头，不安的梦魇缠着他，“不要……血……父亲……”。

白帐撩起，言幽站在了床前，“醒醒，醒醒。”言幽摇动着叶寒的身躯，轻轻拍打叶寒的脸。叶寒睁开眼，短短一瞬，“言幽，谢谢你。”言幽只是浅浅的一笑。他也从军了，当了军医。叶寒看着瞬即而逝的笑容，想起梦中的一幕，父亲被困，齐唰唰的剑砍到他身上，他心悸了。“没事，只是噩梦。”言幽淡淡地说。叶寒看着类似父亲眼睛，轻轻点了点头。

鼓角声暮霭中响起，无数将士战场中撕杀，满地血流，殷红一片。一个，两个，不停的倒下。几天几夜的撕杀，将士们累到了极点。这几天几夜，将士们打退敌人的一轮又一轮的突袭，今天，成功了。躺在沙地上，将士们欣慰地露出了笑容，他们没有死，活着，见到了黎明的期盼。军旗飘扬，旗下，一黑一白。黑色铠甲，白色军袍，如今，他们成就了未来。

不败少年将军叶寒，绝世军营神医言幽，他们，生死阔契。烹羊宰牛战场为乐，风萧萧兮畅行天涯。

霎时，他们名声响彻大江南北，震撼一时多少豪杰。

霎时，敌人闻风丧胆望风而逃，卷起多少千堆风雪。

千古江山踏歌恒飞，寻常巷陌风雨共济。秋牡丹满盛中，他们带着凌人的傲慢，紫陌红尘中，日久弥香。花海中，轻转罗盘，旋开了通往盛世的大道。

（四）

风尘扬，金夕消。

蹄声，塞满了天与地。

蹄声骤聚，一黑一白，在苍黄的日影下浮动。他们，骑着马，奔腾。

胜利的那天，叶寒救出了父亲。站在敌军营前，叶寒的心，久久不能平息。一颤一颤的。“爹。”喊出了多少天的期盼，多少天的痛楚。“太好了，真是太好了！”叶寒欢呼，露出少年的天真。言幽一旁站着，露出了浅浅的微笑，他由衷的高兴：“是太好了，是太好了！”堇色的余辉下拉长了三人的身影。

金黄的沙翻滚，马背上的两个少年望着火红的远方，望着曾经敌寇猖狂的地方，一串泪，一串泪辛酸的泪，一串泪至死也不会凝竭的泪，粉碎在金黄的尘沙上，粉碎着重重叠叠的昨日，屈辱的昨日，殇痛的昨日。他们流出了一个笑容，流出了一个皇家的未来，流出了命轮的流转。

他们，放长了僵绳，让马蹄缓缓敲响前行的路。“驾”鞭马声响起，沙场上淡淡的身影渐渐拉长，一点一点浅去……

“阿寒，你说那些村民会相信我吗？”

“会，一定会的。”

……

晨初

经典TED英语演讲稿 篇2

When you are a kid, you get asked this one particular question a lot, it really gets kind of annoying. What do you want to be when you grow up? Now, adults are hoping for answers like, I want to be an astronaut or I want to be a neurosurgeon, you’re adults in your imaginations.

Kids, they’re most likely to answer with pro-skateboarder, surfer or minecraft player. I asked my little brother, and he said, seriously dude, I’m 10, I have no idea, probably a pro-skier, let’s go get some ice cream.

See, us kids are going to answer something we’re stoked on, what we think is cool, what we have experience with, and that’s typically the opposite of what adults want to hear.

But if you ask a little kid, sometimes you’ll get the best answer, something so simple, so obvious and really profound. When I grow up, I want to be happy.

For me, when I grow up, I want to continue to be happy like I am now. I’m stoked to be here at TedEx, I mean, I’ve been watching Ted videos for as long as I can remember, but I never thought I’d make it on the stage here so soon. I mean, I just became a teenager, and like most teenage boys, I spend most of my time wondering, how did my room get so messy all on its own.

Did I take a shower today? And the most perplexing of all, how do I get girls to like me? Neurosciences say that the teenage brain is pretty weird, our prefrontal cortex is underdeveloped, but we actually have more neurons than adults, which is why we can be so creative, and impulsive and moody and get bummed out.

But what bums me out is to know that, a lot of kids today are just wishing to be happy, to be healthy, to be safe, not bullied, and be loved for who they are. So it seems to me when adults say, what do you want to be when you grow up? They just assume that you’ll automatically be happy and healthy.

Well, maybe that’s not the case, go to school, go to college, get a job, get married, boom, then you’ll be happy, right? You don’t seem to make learning how to be happy and healthy a priority in our schools, it’s separate from schools. And for some kids, it doesn’t exists at all? But what if we didn’t make it separate? What if we based education on the study and practice of being happy and healthy, because that’s what it is, a practice, and a simple practice at that?

Education is important, but why is being happy and healthy not considered education, I just don’t get it. So I’ve been studying the science of being happy and healthy. It really comes down to practicing these eight things. Exercise, diet and nutrition, time in nature, contribution, service to others, relationships, recreation, relaxation and stress management, and religious or spiritual involvement, yes, got that one.

So these eight things come from Dr. Roger Walsh, he calls them Therapeutic Lifestyle Changes or TLCs for short. He is a scientist that studies how to be happy and healthy. In researching this talk, I got a chance to ask him a few questions like; do you think that our schools today are making these eight TLCs a priority? His response was no surprise, it was essentially no. But he did say that many people do try to get this kind of education outside of the traditional arena, through reading and practices such as meditation or yoga.

But what I thought was his best response was that, much of education is oriented for better or worse towards making a living rather than making a life.

In 2006, Sir Ken Robinson gave the most popular Ted talk of all time. Schools kill creativity. His message is that creativity is as important as literacy, and we should treat it with the same status.

A lot of parents watched those videos, some of those parents like mine counted it as one of the reasons they felt confident to pull their kids from traditional school to try something different. I realized I’m part of this small, but growing revolution of kids who are going about their education differently, and you know what? It freaks a lot of people out.

Even though I was only nine, when my parents pulled me out of the school system, I can still remember my mom being in tears when some of her friends told her she was crazy and it was a stupid idea.

Looking back, I’m thankful she didn’t cave to peer pressure, and I think she is too. So, out of the 200 million people that have watched Sir Ken Robinson’s talk, why aren’t there more kids like me out there?

Shane McConkey is my hero. I loved him because he was the world’s best skier. But then, one day I realized what I really loved about Shane, he was a hacker. Not a computer hacker, he hacked skiing. His creativity and inventions made skiing what it is today, and why I love to ski. A lot of people think of hackers as geeky computer nerds who live in their parent’s basement and spread computer viruses, but I don’t see it that way.

英语演讲稿 篇3

In 20_ — not so long ago — a professor who was then at Columbia University took that case and made it [Howard] Roizen. And he gave the case out, both of them, to two groups of students. He changed exactly one word: "Heidi" to "Howard." But that one word made a really big difference. He then surveyed the students, and the good news was the students, both men and women, thought Heidi and Howard were equally competent, and that's good.The bad news was that everyone liked Howard. He's a great guy. You want to work for him. You want to spend the day fishing with him. But Heidi? Not so sure. She's a little out for herself. She's a little political.You're not sure you'd want to work for her. This is the complication. We have to tell our daughters and our colleagues, we have to tell ourselves to believe we got the A, to reach for the promotion, to sit at the table, and we have to do it in a world where, for them, there are sacrifices they will make for that, even though for their brothers, there are not. The saddest thing about all of this is that it's really hard to remember this. And I'm about to tell a story which is truly embarrassing for me, but I think important.

ted中英文演讲稿 篇4

Yesterday, we had a discussion. The topic is"What is my dream?"Everyone hashis dream. Some want to be teachers,others want to be scientists. My dream is tobecome a doctor.

My friends asked me why. I told them my story. When I was a small boy, Iwas very weak. Once I was terribly ill. I had a high fever. My parents sent meto the hospital but the doctors could do nothing for me. Then my parents heardthere was a very good doctor in another town. They took me there at once. I wassaved.

A good doctor can save peoples lives. From then on I decided to become adoctor. I know it is not easy to be a doctor.But I am determined to study hard.I am sure my dream will come true.

昨天，我们有一个讨论。主题就是“我的梦想是什么？”每个人都有他的梦想。有些人想成为老师，其他人想成为科学家。我的梦想是成为一名医生。

我的朋友问我为什么。我跟他们说了个故事。当我还是一个小男孩的时候，我的身体非常虚弱。有次，我生了一场很严重的病。我发着高烧。我的父母把我送到医院，但医生们不能为我做什么。那时，我的父母听闻在其他镇上，有位名医。他们马上把我带到那儿。（然后）我得救了。

一个好医生可以拯救一个人的生命。从此，我决定要成为一名医生。我知道做医生不容易。但是，我决定努力学习。我相信自己的梦想会实现。

经典TED英语演讲稿 篇5

When people find out I write about time management, they assume two things. One is that I'm always on time, and I'm not. I have four small children, and I would like to blame them for my occasional tardiness, but sometimes it's just not their fault. I was once late to my own speech on time management.

当人们发现我写关于时间管理的文章时，他们都会假设两件事：第一，我永远都准时，但我并不是。我有四个小孩，我偶尔将迟到归咎于他们，不过有时候真的不是因为他们。我有一次在去我的一个关于时间管理的演讲时迟到了。

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

我们都需要一点时间去好好地体味一下这有多么讽刺。

The second thing they assume is that I have lots of tips and tricks for saving bits of time here and there.Sometimes I'll hear from magazines that are doing a story along these lines, generally on how to help their readers find an extra hour in the day. And the idea is that we'll shave bits of time off everyday activities, add it up, and we'll have time for the good stuff.

第二，人们总是假设我有很多关于如何节省时间的贴士和技巧。有时候我听说一些杂志 在写这方面的故事，通常都是关于教读者如何在一天中获得额外一个小时。基本思路就是从日常的每个活动中挤出一点时间，加起来，然后我们就有时间去做更有意思的事情了。

I question the entire premise of this piece, but I'm always interested in hearing what they've come up with before they call me. Some of my favorites:doing errands where you only have to make right-hand turns.

我对这个说法持保留意见，不过我还是愿意听听他们在找我之前有什么想法。我最喜欢的几个是：只完成那些只需要右转的事；

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

在用微波炉时，要极度审慎：当食物包装上面写了3到3.5分钟时，我们要挑时间最短的那个。我个人最喜欢的是，录下你最喜欢看的电视剧，然后你就可以跳过广告了。其实在某个程度上，还是挺有道理的。

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.

这样，你每半个小时就可以挤出八分钟。那么你葱用来看电视的两个小时中，可以挤出32分钟锻炼的时间。

Which is true. You know another way to find 32 minutes to exercise? Don't watch two hours of TV a day, right?

倒的确是这么回事儿。你还知道其他可以找到32分钟锻炼时间的方法吗？不要每天都看两个小时电视就行了，对吧？ （笑声）

Anyway, the idea is we'll save bits of time here and there, add it up, we will finally get to everything we want to do. 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.

总之，就是要在各处都省点时间，加起来就有时间做我们想做的事了。但在我了解成功的人如何分配时间，并看过了他们的时间表后，我觉得这个想法是完全本末倒置的。

We don't build the lives we want by saving time. We build the lives we want, and then time saves itself.

我们不是通过节省时间来打造我们想过的生活。我们应该先建立我们想要的生活，时间就会自然而然节省出来。

Here's what I mean. I recently did a time diary project looking at 1,001 days in the lives of extremely busy women. They had demanding jobs, sometimes their own businesses, kids to care for, maybe parents to care for, community commitments -- busy, busy people.

我来解释一下。我最近有个时间日记项目，观察最忙碌的女士生命中的1001天。她们工作繁忙，有时候是自己的生意，有时候要照顾自己的孩子，或者是照顾父母，还有服务社区等等——都是一些很忙的人。

I had them keep track of their time for a week so I could add up how much they worked and slept, and I interviewed them about their strategies, for my book.

我让她们记录了一星期的行程，计算她们工作和睡觉的时间，为了我的书，我还采访 了解了她们的常用策略。

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.

其中一个被我研究过时间表的女士，在一个周三晚上出去了一趟，回家发现她的热水器坏了，地下室都被水淹了。如果你也遇到过这种事儿的话，你会知道眼前的景象多么令人崩溃和沮丧。

So she's dealing with the immediate aftermath that night, next day she's got plumbers coming in, day after that, professional cleaning crew dealing with the ruined carpet. All this is being recorded on her time log. Winds up taking seven hours of her week. Seven hours. That's like finding an extra hour in the day.

于是那个晚上她立刻着手处理，第二天她找了一个水管工，第三天找了专业的清理人员 来处理损坏的地毯。所有这些都算在了她的时间表内。总共花了她一周中的七个小时。七个小时。这就等于一周七天每天都要挤出一个小时。

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?" "Could you find seven hours to mentor seven worthy people?" I'm sure she would've said what most of us would've said, which is, "No -- can't you see how busy I am?" Yet when she had to find seven hours because there is water all over her basement, she found seven hours.

但是假如你在这一周刚开始时就问她，“你能在这周抽出七个小时来参加铁人三项吗？”，“你能在这周抽出七个小时指导七个有潜力的人吗？“ 我确定她会像大多数人一样， 说，”怎么可能，你看不出我有多忙吗？“ 但是她最后不得不抽出七个小时，因为她的地下室都被水淹了， 她挤出了这七个小时。

And what this shows us is that time is highly elastic. We cannot make more time, but time will stretch to accommodate what we choose to put into it.

这件事告诉我们：时间是有弹性的。我们不能创造更多时间，但是时间会自己调整去适应我们选择去做的事情。

And so the key to time management is treating our priorities as the equivalent of that broken water heater. To get at this, I like to use language from one of the busiest people I ever interviewed. By busy, I mean she was running a small business with 12 people on the payroll, she had six children in her spare time.

所以时间管理的关键，就是对待最重要的事情应该像对待那个坏了的热水器一样。要做到这一点，我要借用我采访过最忙的人的话。她经营着一个小企业，请了十二名员工，空余时间她还要照顾六个孩子。

I was getting in touch with her to set up an interview on how she "had it all" -- that phrase. I remember it was a Thursday morning, and she was not available to speak with me. Of course, right?

我联系上了她，想要采访她关于她是怎么做到“无所不能”的。我记得那是一个星期四的早晨，她没时间和我说话。当然了，她很忙。

But the reason she was unavailable to speak with me is that she was out for a hike, because it was a beautiful spring morning, and she wanted to go for a hike. So of course this makes me even more intrigued, and when I finally do catch up with her, she explains it like this. She says, "Listen Laura, everything I do, every minute I spend, is my choice."

但是她没时间和我说话的原因是，她去远足了。因为那是春季一个美丽的清晨，所以她去远足了。这样的她让我变得更感兴趣了，当我最终联系上她时，她说：“听我说，劳拉，我做的所有的事情，我花的每分每秒，都是我的选择。

And rather than say, "I don't have time to do x, y or z," she'd say, "I don't do x, y or z because it's not a priority." "I don't have time," often means "It's not a priority."

”所以与其说， ”我没有时间做这个，这个，或者那个。” 她会说：”我不做这些事情因为这些不是我的首要任务。““我没有时间”的意思通常是 ”那不是我的首要任务”。

If you think about it, that's really more accurate language. I could tell you I don't have time to dust my blinds, but that's not true. If you offered to pay me $100,000 to dust my blinds, I would get to it pretty quickly.

其实你想想， 那的确是更准确的说法。我可能会告诉你我没有时间清理百叶窗，但那不是真的。假如你愿意付我10万美金让我给百叶窗除尘，我会马上就去做。 （笑声）

Since that is not going to happen, I can acknowledge this is not a matter of lacking time; it's that I don't want to do it. Using this language reminds us that time is a choice. And granted, there may be horrible consequences for making different choices, I will give you that.

既然那不可能发生，我可以说不是因为时间不够，而是我不想做。这么说提醒了我们， 时间是一种选择。我会告诉你，当然，不同的选择有时候会带来可怕的后果。

But we are smart people, and certainly over the long run, we have the power to fill our lives with the things that deserve to be there.

但是我们都是聪明人，从长远来看，我们有能力去选择一些值得做的事，来填补我们生命中的时间。那么我们应该怎么做呢？

So how do we do that? How do we treat our priorities as the equivalent of that broken water heater?

我们要如何像对待那个坏了的热水器一样对待我们的首要任务？首先，我们需要找出哪些事最重要。

Well, first we need to figure out what they are. I want to give you two strategies for thinking about this.The first, on the professional side: I'm sure many people coming up to the end of the year are giving or getting annual performance reviews. You look back over your successes over the year, your "opportunities for growth." And this serves its purpose, but I find it's more effective to do this looking forward.

我想给你们分享两个技巧。第一个，从职业的角度来说：我相信许多人在年底的时候，会发出或者收到年度绩效审查。你回头看看这一年的成功和 “成长的机会”。这的确起到了它的作用，但是我发现往前看会更有效。

So I want you to pretend it's the end of next year. You're giving yourself a performance review,and it has been an absolutely amazing year for you professionally. What three to five things did you do that made it so amazing? So you can write next year's performance review now.

我想让你们把这当做下一年的年底。你在给自己做年度绩效审查，在专业方面，这一年的表现非常出众。是哪三到五件事使这一年变得如此出众？你现在就可以写明年的绩效审查。

And you can do this for your personal life, too. I'm sure many of you, like me, come December, get cards that contain these folded up sheets of colored paper, on which is written what is known as the family holiday letter.

你也可以在个人生活方面这么做。我相信你们许多人，包括我，在十二月，都会收到这种夹着彩色纸的卡片。上面写着“家庭假日信件”。

Bit of a wretched genre of literature, really, going on about how amazing everyone in the household is,or even more scintillating, how busy everyone in the household is. But these letters serve a purpose,which is that they tell your friends and family what you did in your personal life that mattered to you over the year.

听起来像是一个挺悲惨的文学题材，谈论家里每个人有多了不起，或者更精彩点，家里每个人有多忙。但是这些信有它们的用处，它们告诉你的朋友和家人你这一年里做了什么对个人生活有意义的事。

So this year's kind of done, but I want you to pretend it's the end of next year, and it has been an absolutely amazing year for you and the people you care about. What three to five things did you do that made it so amazing? So you can write next year's family holiday letter now. Don't send it.

那么今年快要结束了，我想让你假装这是明年的年底，对你和你在乎的人来说，这都是无与伦比的一年。哪三到五件事让你这一年表现如此出色？其实你现在就可以写明年的家庭假日信件了。先不要发出去。

Please, don't send it. But you can write it. And now, between the performance review and the family holiday letter, we have a list of six to ten goals we can work on in the next year.

真的，不要发出去。但是你可以写。现在，有了绩效评估和写给家人的信，我们就有了六到十个明年可以努力的目标。我们需要先把他们分成可行的阶段性任务。

And now we need to break these down into doable steps. So maybe you want to write a family history.First, you can read some other family histories, get a sense for the style. Then maybe think about the questions you want to ask your relatives, set up appointments to interview them. Or maybe you want to run a 5K. So you need to find a race and sign up, figure out a training plan, and dig those shoes out of the back of the closet.

或许你要写一个家族传记。首先吗，你可以读读别人的家族历史，了解一下大概的风格 然后可以想象你要问亲戚的问题，约定和他们见面谈话的时间。或者你想要参加一个五千米的短程马拉松。你需要先找一个竞赛报名，再做一个培训计划，从衣柜底下翻出你的运动鞋。

And then -- this is key -- we treat our priorities as the equivalent of that broken water heater, by putting them into our schedules first. We do this by thinking through our weeks before we are in them.

然后——这是关键——我们将我们的首要事件视为那个坏掉的热水器，将它们优先放入我们的日程表里。我们要在事情发生的几周前就先想好。

I find a really good time to do this is Friday afternoons. Friday afternoon is what an economist might calla "low opportunity cost" time. Most of us are not sitting there on Friday afternoons saying, "I am excited to make progress toward my personal and professional priorities right now."

我发现周五的下午最适合处理这事儿。周五的下午是被经济学家称为“低机会成本”时间。我们大部分人不会在周五下午想着，“我要朝我的个人和职业生涯的首要事件迈进了， 所以很兴奋。“

But we are willing to think about what those should be. So take a little bit of time Friday afternoon, make yourself a three-category priority list: career, relationships, self. Making a three-category list reminds usthat there should be something in all three categories.

但是我们愿意去想那些事是什么。所以在周五下午花一点时间，为自己做一个分成三类的首要事件的列表：事业、人际关系、个人。这样的三项分类列表提醒了我们每一个类别都应该有一些事。

Career, we think about; relationships, self -- not so much. But anyway, just a short list, two to three items in each. Then look out over the whole of the next week, and see where you can plan them in.

事业，我们经常考虑；人际关系，个人——很少会想。无论如何，只要一个短短的列表，每个都包含两到三件事。它们会帮助我们看清下周，如何在下周计划这些事情。你可以决定如何计划。

Where you plan them in is up to you. I know this is going to be more complicated for some people than others. I mean, some people's lives are just harder than others. It is not going to be easy to find time to take that poetry class if you are caring for multiple children on your own. I get that. And I don't want to minimize anyone's struggle. But I do think that the numbers I am about to tell you are empowering.

这可能对一些人来说会比较困难一点。我的意思是，有些人的人生就是比较复杂。如果你自己有好几个要照顾的小孩，想要找时间去参加诗歌班一定不容易。我懂。我不想轻视任何人的困难。但是我觉得我接下来要说的数字，是会改变你的想法的。

There are 168 hours in a week. Twenty-four times seven is 168 hours. That is a lot of time. If you are working a full-time job, so 40 hours a week, sleeping eight hours a night, so 56 hours a week -- that leaves 72 hours for other things. That is a lot of time.

我们每周都有168个小时，24乘以7是168个小时。这是一段很长时间。假如你有一个全职的工作，一周是40个小时，每晚睡八个小时，一周是56个小时，我们有剩下72个小时来做其他事情。这是一段很长的时间。

You say you're working 50 hours a week, maybe a main job and a side hustle. Well, that leaves 62 hours for other things. You say you're working 60 hours. Well, that leaves 52 hours for other things. You say you're working more than 60 hours. Well, are you sure?

假如你说你每周工作50个小时，比如一份全职和一份兼职。这样你还是有60小时去做其他的事情。假如你说你每周工作60个小时，你还是有52个小时去做其他的事情。你说你每周工作超过60个小时，你确定吗？

There was once a study comparing people's estimated work weeks with time diaries. They found that people claiming 75-plus-hour work weeks were off by about 25 hours.

曾经有一个研究对比了人们估计的工作时间，和实际的工作日记。他们发现那些表示工作超过75小时的人，有25小时的误差。

You can guess in which direction, right? Anyway, in 168 hours a week, I think we can find time for what matters to you.

你可以猜到这个误差是多了还是少了吧？无论如何，在一周的168个小时里，我觉得我们总可以找到时间做我们想做的事。

If you want to spend more time with your kids, you want to study more for a test you're taking, you want to exercise for three hours and volunteer for two, you can. And that's even if you're working way more than full-time hours.

如果你想花时间陪陪你的孩子，或者准备你即将到来的考试，你想锻炼两三个小时或者 做两个小时志愿者，你都可以的。即便你的工作时间远超过法定时间。

So we have plenty of time, which is great, because guess what? We don't even need that much time to do amazing things. But when most of us have bits of time, what do we do? Pull out the phone, right?Start deleting emails. Otherwise, we're puttering around the house or watching TV.

所以我们有很多时间，这很好。但是你知道吗？我们根本不需要那么多时间去完成一个大目标。但当我们有一点空闲时间的时候，我们会做什么？拿出手机，是吧？开始删除邮件。或者在家里闲逛，看电视。

But small moments can have great power. You can use your bits of time for bits of joy. Maybe it's choosing to read something wonderful on the bus on the way to work.

但是每个不起眼的时刻都潜力无限。你可以用零星的时间，来获得零星的快乐。比如说在去上班的公车上读一些精彩的东西。

I know when I had a job that required two bus rides and a subway ride every morning, I used to go to the library on weekends to get stuff to read. It made the whole experience almost, almost, enjoyable. Breaks at work can be used for meditating or praying. If family dinner is out because of your crazy work schedule, maybe family breakfast could be a good substitute.

当我以前的工作需要我每天早上乘两趟公车和一趟地铁的时候，我周末会去图书馆找东西来读。这几乎，几乎让我的生活更丰富了。工作间隙的休息时间可以用来冥想或者祷告。如果你因为工作忙而不能吃家庭晚餐，试一下家庭早餐。

It's about looking at the whole of one's time and seeing where the good stuff can go. I truly believe this.There is time. Even if we are busy, we have time for what matters. And when we focus on what matters, we can build the lives we want in the time we've got.

这就是看着一个人所有的时间，然后找到什么时候可以做想做的事。我真的相信，我们都有充分的时间。就算我们很忙，我们仍然有时间去做重要的事。当我们关注在重要的事上时，我们可以用所拥有的时间创造我们想要的生活。

Thank you.

谢谢。