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Hello.
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This is 6 Minute English from BBC Learning English.
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I'm Beth.
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And I'm Neil.
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Phew, I've spent a day in meetings,
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then shopping, then collecting the kids from school.
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I'm exhausted, Beth.
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What have you been doing today?
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Not much.
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Just sitting around, doing nothing, relaxing and kicking back.
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Lucky you.
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Don't you have any work to do?
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It may not look it,
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Neil, but I'm actually as busy as a bee.
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If you've seen nature documentaries about worker bees flying from flower to flower,
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you probably think animals are always on the move.
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But the surprising truth is,
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away from the cameras, most animals spend most of their time doing absolutely nothing at all.
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In the natural world where finding food and shelter is hard work,
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why have some animals evolved to do nothing.
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And if it's good enough for animals,
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would being lazy work for humans too?
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That's what we'll be discussing in this programme and,
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as usual, we'll be learning some useful new vocabulary as well.
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But first, let me work up the energy to ask you a question, Neil.
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Of course, some animals have a reputation for lounging about.
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Lions, for example, can sleep up to 20 hours a day.
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what is the slowest moving animal on earth?
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Is it.. a the giant tortoise,
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b the three-toed sloth, or c the koala?
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Well, I think it's the three-toed sloth.
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OK, Neil.
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I'll reveal the correct answer at the end of the programme.
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Now, it's no surprise that lazy lions love relaxing,
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but even animals with reputations for being busy spend time doing nothing.
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Look carefully into an ant's nest and you'll see around half of them just sitting there motionless.
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Here's Professor Dan Charbonneau, an expert in insect behaviour,
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discussing the lazy rock ant with Emily Knight,
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presenter of BBC Radio 4 programme Naturebang.
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Dan's research has focused on ant colonies,
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a species called Temnothorax regatulus or the rock ant.
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I think ants are sort of a symbol of industriousness.
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They have this whole tiny little society going on that's kind of similar to ours.
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Some idealised version of what humans might be,
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if we could only pull it together and all work together,
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we could be as industrious as the ants.
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But then when you look at it,
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roughly about half the colony is inactive at any given time.
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We think ants are industrious or hard-working.
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Groups of ants called colonies seem tiny,
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perfect societies where everyone works hard for the good of the group.
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Then why are so many of them inactive?
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One possible answer is that they're reserve ants,
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ready to step in if disease or disaster strike.
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But could it simply be that they don't work because they don't need to?
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Would you get out of bed on Monday morning if you didn't have to?
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Maybe the ants can teach us a thing or two about relaxing,
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but wouldn't it get boring just sitting around all day?
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Not according to psychologist Dr Sandy Mann.
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She thinks being productive – working to produce a lot for the amount of resources we use – is overrated.
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Boredom has its benefits too,
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as she explained to BBC Radio 4 programme Naturebang.
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Would humans have invented bread or beer or fire,
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you know, if we hadn't been bored
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and were wondering what on earth would happen if we mixed this with this, you know?
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Are all these sorts of inventions the mother of boredom?
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But in this world of constant stimulation,
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switching off is harder than it's ever been.
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That's why we're constantly swiping and scrolling and looking for the next big thing
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and the new thing and we get bored of things very quickly.
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So it's a kind of paradox to get rid of this
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unpleasant state of boredom is actually to allow more boredom into your life.
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Dr. Man doubts humans would have invented things without the curiosity that comes from being bored.
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Boredom is the mother of invention,
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an idea based on the famous proverb,
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famous proverb, necessity is the mother of invention – an idiom meaning that if you really need to do something,
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you will think of a way of doing it.
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Instead of fearing boredom, we can open up to its benefits by switching off.
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Stopping worrying or thinking about something and relaxing.
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Slowing down helps too – something we can definitely learn from our animal cousins.
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I think now is a good time to reveal the answer to my question,
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since we have nothing else to do.
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You asked me to name the world's slowest animal and I guessed it was the three-toed sloth.
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Was I right?
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That was the correct answer.
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With a top speed of 30 centimetres per minute,
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three-toed sloths move so slowly that algae grows on their coats.
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OK, let's recap the vocabulary we've learnt from this programme,
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starting with the phrase kicking back – to stop doing things and relax completely.
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The adjective industrious means hard-working.
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A colony is the name given to a group of certain animals,
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including ants and some seabirds.
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Someone who is productive is able to produce a lot for the amount of resources they use.
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The proverb, necessity is the mother of invention,
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means that if you really need to do something,
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you will think of a way of doing it.
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And finally, to switch off means to stop worrying or thinking about something and relax.
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Once again, our six minutes are up.
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It must be time to sit down,
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close your eyes and just do nothing.
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Goodbye for now.
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Bye.
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- lounging about: 빈둥거리고 있는 상태, 쉬고 있는 것을 의미합니다.
- industriousness: 열심히 일하는 성향, 보통 근면함을 나타냅니다.
- curiosity: 호기심, 새로운 것을 알고 싶어 하는 심리를 나타냅니다.
- boredom: 지루함, 흥미를 잃고 하는 일이 없는 상태를 의미합니다.
- reserve ants: 대기 중인 개미, 필요할 때 즉시 행동할 수 있는 개미를 뜻합니다.
- overrated: 지나치게 과대평가된, 중요성이 실제보다 높이 평가된 상태를 의미합니다.
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