2012-11-22
2012-11/24 S15 Keep your goals to yourself
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Everyone, please think of your biggest personal goal. For real -- you can take a second. You've got to feel this to learn it. Take a few seconds and think of your personal biggest goal, okay? Imagine deciding right now that you're going to do it.
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Imagine telling someone that you meet today what you're going to do. Imagine their congratulations and their high image of you. Doesn't it feel good to say it out loud? Don't you feel one step closer already, like it's already becoming part of your identity?
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Well, bad news: you should have kept your mouth shut, because that good feeling now will make you less likely to do it. Repeated psychology tests have proven that telling someone your goal makes it less likely to happen. Any time you have a goal, there are some steps that need to be done, some work that needs to be done in order to achieve it. Ideally, you would not be satisfied until you had actually done the work.
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But when you tell someone your goal and they acknowledge it, psychologists have found that it's called a "social reality." The mind is kind of tricked into feeling that it's already done. And then, because you felt that satisfaction, you're less motivated to do the actual hard work necessary. (Laughter) So this goes against the conventional wisdom that we should tell our friends our goals, right -- so they hold us to it.
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So, let's look at the proof. 1926, Kurt Lewin, founder of social psychology, called this "substitution." 1933, Vera Mahler found, when it was acknowledged by others, it felt real in the mind. 1982, Peter Gollwitzer wrote a whole book about this and in 2009, he did some new tests that were published.
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It goes like this: 163 people across four separate tests -- everyone wrote down their personal goal. Then half of them announced their commitment to this goal to the room, and half didn't. Then everyone was given 45 minutes of work that would directly lead them towards their goal, but they were told that they could stop at any time.
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Now, those who kept their mouths shut worked the entire 45 minutes, on average, and when asked afterwards, said that they felt that they had a long way to go still to achieve their goal. But those who had announced it quit after only 33 minutes, on average, and when asked afterwards, said that they felt much closer to achieving their goal.
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So, if this is true, what can we do? Well, you could resist the temptation to announce your goal. You can delay the gratification that the social acknowledgement brings, and you can understand that your mind mistakes the talking for the doing. But if you do need to talk about something, you can state it in a way that gives you no satisfaction,
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such as, "I really want to run this marathon, so I need to train five times a week and kick my ass if I don't, okay?"
So audience, next time you're tempted to tell someone your goal, what will you say? (Silence) Exactly, well done.
2012-11-08
2012-11-10 S15班演講練習 Barack Obama's Victory Speech Highlights
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Tonight, more than 200 years after a former colony won the right to determine its own destiny, the task of perfecting our union moves forward.the American people, reminded us that while our road has been hard, while our journey has been long, we have picked ourselves up, we have fought our way back, and we know in our hearts that for the United States of America, the best is yet to come.
As it has for more than two centuries, progress will come in fits and starts. It's not always a straight line. It's not always a smooth path.
Our economy is recovering. A decade of war is ending. (Cheers, applause.) A long campaign is now over. (Cheers, applause.) And whether I earned your vote or not, I have listened to you. I have learned from you. And you've made me a better president. And with your stories and your struggles, I return to the White House more determined and more inspired than ever about the work there is to do and the future that lies ahead. (Cheers, applause.)
I've never been more hopeful about our future. I have never been more hopeful about America. And I ask you to sustain that hope.I believe we can keep the promise of our founding, the idea that if you're willing to work hard, it doesn't matter who you are or where you come from or what you look like or where you love. It doesn't matter whether you're black or white or Hispanic or Asian or Native American or young or old or rich or poor, abled, disabled, gay or straight. (Cheers, applause.) You can make it here in America if you're willing to try.
We are greater than the sum of our individual ambitions and we remain more than a collection of red states and blue states. We are, and forever will be, the United States of America. (Cheers, applause.)
And together, with your help and God's grace, we will continue our journey forward and remind the world just why it is that we live in the greatest nation on earth. (Cheers, applause.) Thank you, America. (Cheers, applause.) God bless you. God bless these United States. (Cheers, applause.)
2012-10-12
2012-09-22
2012-07-13
7/14 J15 網路功課 Ice Age 4
從上面的影片對話請回答下列問題
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2. When the world falls apart , no matter
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3.You got no I am saying , ? May ?
4. No one gonna stop me from
請將完整的句子寫在 留言處 記的寫你的名子 (週五前完成)
2012-05-22
S15 班 5/26 網路功課 Mark Zuckerberg
THE OUTLINES OF the Mark Zuckerberg story — the boyhood in Dobbs Ferry, New York, a suburb about 40 kilometers north of New York; the Harvard University ；founder of “Facebook”; the relentless rise in California’s Silicon Valley — are by now well known. But Facebook’s initial public offering of around $100 billion begins a new chapter in one of the greatest business. It will also make Mr. Zuckerberg almost impossibly rich.
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2012-05-11
5/12 S15 網路功課 - 遜咖日記
請將下列遜咖日記印出並寫出中文翻譯 印出的人請先在下面留言, 告訴我你開始做這項功課
遜咖日記：暴風雪驚魂記／轉載一：葛瑞的日行一善 (轉自udn校園博覽會) 故事介紹 葛瑞為了想拿到童軍團的服務優秀獎章，所以需要做一些好事。葛瑞的媽媽建議他去休閒大樓老人中心看看有沒有老人家需要幫忙，像是提東西之類的事情，於是羅德里克就載著葛瑞出發了……
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2012-04-29
2012-03-30
3/30 J15網路功課
http://youtu.be/096r9MJz-vg
影片的連結, 也可以在FB 裡看
請在 意見中回答下列問題
1. 電影的英文名
2. 變形金剛的英文名
3. 演習的英文:
4. 我有不好的預感: Don't
5. 離開那裡: Get
6. 從海上開始
7. 有一天我們找到他們, 或者他們發現我們
One day , or
影片的連結, 也可以在FB 裡看
請在 意見中回答下列問題
1. 電影的英文名
2. 變形金剛的英文名
3. 演習的英文:
4. 我有不好的預感: Don't
5. 離開那裡: Get
6. 從海上開始
7. 有一天我們找到他們, 或者他們發現我們
One day , or
2012-01-13
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