跟读练习: Be Careful When Using Your Phone (animated) - 通过YouTube学习英语口语
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In today's world, having and using a phone is the norm.
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In today's world, having and using a phone is the norm.
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But there are some real dangers that come in to play when we use it too much.
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Some people spend every spare moment of their day on it, and they get so sucked into it, that they end up wasting a lot of time.
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Like that guy who says he's going on a 5 minute break, but takes his phone with him.
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What was supposed to be a 5 minute break is now a 20 minute break.
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Also living your life through your phone makes you asocial and hurts your communication skills.
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This is because communicating through your phone is very simple compared to communication in real life.
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When you're interacting with another person you need to pay attention to things like eye contact, body language, and facial expressions.
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It requires a whole different skill set and sadly you can't practice those skills through your screen.
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If you're trying to connect with people, and only using your phone and social platforms to do so, you're doing it wrong.
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That's not how you form real connections.
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Real friendships are formed by interaction with one another in realm time.
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Sure you can have hundreds or thousands of friends on Facebook, but ask yourself, are those the friends that would assist you if you needed help with something?
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Probably not.
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But why do we keep coming back to it?
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Why can't we just put our phones down?
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Well, it's because they're highly addictive and they're designed this way.
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For example; social media companies are spending millions of dollars every single year just to find more ways to make you spend more time on their platform.
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That's right, there are people getting paid to keep your attention glued to the screen.
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Because the more time you spend on their site, the more money they make.
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So what they do is they abuse a chemical in your brain called dopamine.
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Dopamine is released every time we expect some kind of reward and it gives us this feeling of satisfaction.
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That's why when someone sends you a text, or when they like your photo, it feels really good.
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And we simply love getting that social attention.
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Every time we get it, we are rewarded with that dopamine hit, which in turn makes us want to use our phones even more.
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It's a vicious cycle.
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And this exact reason is why we keep going back to it.
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That dopamine hit makes us feel so good that we can't stop.
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Our brains even begin to rewire themselves, making us crave more of this neurological excitement after each interaction.
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Sounds a little like taking a drug, right?
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That's because in a way, it is a drug.
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Doing things like gambling, alcohol or heroin, send dopamine into overdrive, leading some people to constantly seek that high.
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In other words they become addicted.
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Those notifications you get on your phone, also cause dopamine to be released, though not as violently as drugs.
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So It's no wonder that today's kids can't even bother to look up from their phone.
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They are addicted to it.
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But you might be thinking: "It's not like my phone is harming ME in any way.
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Maybe all my friends are addicted to it, but I would know if I was addicted!" If you think you're a superhuman that's immune to this stuff you're wrong.
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A good indicator of addiction is randomly checking your phone without thinking about it, to see if you have any new notifications, or just to scroll through social platforms.
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This is where a lot of people fail.
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It's become a bad mainstream habit to reach for your phone whenever you have 10 seconds of free time.
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We are constantly distracting ourselves with that new dopamine hit.
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And we are not allowing ourselves to be bored or be with our thoughts for even a second.
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And all this mindless phone browsing is harming us in one of the worst ways possible.
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What we're doing is destroying our ability to focus and pay attention.
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There's a growing amount of research which tells us that if you spend your time breaking up your attention, to take a glance and just quickly look at Instagram - that this can permanently reduce your capacity for concentration.
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There is this concept called attention residue.
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Let's say you're trying to write a book.
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Suddenly a friend jumps out of nowhere and starts bombarding you with questions about where he should go on a vacation.
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First, your mind will remain focused on writing that book.
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You won't be able to fully switch to answering any of those questions.
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Then, when the friend leaves, you won't be able to fully focus on writing again.
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Somewhere in the back of your mind you're still thinking about your friends vacation.
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In one study they found that your mind takes about 15 minutes to get your focus back.
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So with that 2 minute interaction with your friend, you just lost 17 minutes of your work time.
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That's not good.
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But what does this have to do with our phones?
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Well, when you're fully focusing on writing that book, if suddenly you get a Facebook notification your attention will instantly become divided.
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It's like a friend suddenly jumped through your window and yelled "Hey!
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I liked your photo." BOOM, attention residue.
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Since in today's world we carry our phones with us everywhere, how can we really expect to concentrate on anything?
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Every time you're doing something and your phone buzzes, EVEN IF YOU DON'T CHECK IT, you split up your attention.
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Somewhere in the back of your mind there will be a voice saying "What if it's really important?
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What if something has happened?" In the end you will most likely end up checking it anyway, because you also want that dopamine hit.
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And if you think attention residue doesn't apply to you, you are wrong.
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Our brains are simply not made to multitask and we cannot focus on multiple things at once.
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This is why driving, while on your phone, is so dangerous.
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Your attention will be split between two tasks and you won't be able to react fast enough, if something out of the ordinary happened.
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Like a car suddenly driving up in front of you.
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If you want to keep your focus and actually produce anything of value, you need to become more mindful about how you use both your phone, and social networks.
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If you made it his far in to the video, then you already have a better attention span and focus than most people these days.
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So I'll give you two practical tips to keep your focus and use your phone more mindfully.
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And no, I'm not going to tell you to throw your phone away and become a hermit.
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The first thing to consider is deleting all social media apps from of your phone.
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A lot of our phone usage is unconscious behavior.
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That's because we are only one click away from mindlessly scrolling through our social platforms.
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You shift from Facebook to Instagram, to checking the texts, without even thinking about it twice.
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You could say that Facebook and other similar apps are like a fridge.
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You check it every 15 minutes, mainly out of habit, even though you know nothing’s there.
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By removing the apps you basically remove the fridge so there is no way you'll check it spontaneously.
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You can still go to instagram.com or facebook.com, if you really needed to, however there is this additional barrier that you have to overcome.
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And since you're not gonna be just one click away, it's going to be a conscious decision, and not an impulsive choice.
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The second step is to disable all notifications.
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This applies to everything on your phone.
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In fact, I encourage you to put your phone on silent.
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You don't have to be interrupted by every "like" that your latest Instagram picture receives.
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It only makes you more likely to whip out your phone and get in a vicious circle of texting, email checking and who knows what.
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You can disable app notifications in your main settings menu, or customize them so you only get notified about the important stuff.
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You could also turn your phone off when you're not using it.
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This way you won't let messages or any other app notifications split up your attention.
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Thanks to these two habit changes I made, I can actually say I'm happier and more focused.
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I encourage you to do the same and to try limit your phone usage for at least 1 week.
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See how it makes you feel.
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You might get bored, but you'll soon realize how much of your time is actually spent mindlessly using your phone.
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And just to clarify; I don't think using your phone is a bad thing.
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You just need to know how to use it properly.
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It's a tool, and like all other tools it depends on how you use it.
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That's why I believe it's important to educate the world about its possible dangers.
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Thanks for watching and if you enjoyed the video, please leave a like!
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It helps my channel grow and I can make more content for you guys.
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Also you should show this video to someone who spends way too much time on their phone.
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This way we can all become, better than yesterday.
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