跟读练习: You Need to Be Bored. Here's Why. - 通过YouTube学习英语口语
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You need to be bored.
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You need to be bored.
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You will have less meaning and you will be more depressed if you never are bored.
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I mean, it couldn't be clearer.
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Let me give you the good side of boredom in general.
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Boredom is a tendency for us to not be occupied otherwise cognitively,
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which switches over our thinking system to use a part of our brain that's called the default mode network.
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That sounds fancy.
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It's really not.
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The default mode network is a bunch of structures in your brain
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that switch on when you don't have anything else to think about.
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So you forgot your phone,
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you're sitting in a light, for example.
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That's when your default mode network goes on.
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We don't like it.
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My colleague in the psychology department here at Harvard,
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Dan Gilbert, he did experiments where people had to sit in a room for 15 minutes with instructions to do absolutely nothing.
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And there was nothing in the room to do,
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except there was a button in front of them that they could push,
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and if they did, they gave themselves a painful electric shock.
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Sit there bored or get a shock.
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A big majority of the participants gave themselves shocks instead of thinking about nothing.
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We don't like boredom.
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Boredom's terrible.
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Why is boredom so bad?
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Well, because the default mode network makes us think about things that might be kind of uncomfortable.
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When you think about nothing,
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well, your mind wanders and thinks about,
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for example, big questions of meaning in your life.
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What does my life mean?
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You go to kind of uncomfortable existential questions when you're bored.
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That turns out to be incredibly important, incredibly good.
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One of the reasons that we have such an explosion of depression
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and anxiety in our society today is because people actually don't know the meaning of their lives,
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much less so in previous generations.
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Tons of data show this.
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And furthermore, we're not even looking.
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Why not?
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I'll tell you why not.
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We figured out a way to eliminate boredom.
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We've been able almost completely to shut off the default mode network in our brains.
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How?
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The answer is that thing in your pocket with the screen,
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which you take out even when you're standing on the street corner waiting for the light to change.
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It's like, I might have to wait here for 15 seconds.
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What are you doing?
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You're actually trying to not be bored
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because the default mode network is mildly uncomfortable
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because it sends you to the types of questions that you can't get your mind around,
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you can't get your arms around around.
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Well, that's a big problem.
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That's a doom loop of meaning.
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If every time you're slightly bored,
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you pull out your phone,
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it's going to get harder and harder for you to find meaning.
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And that's the recipe for depression and anxiety and a sense of hollowness,
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which, by the way, are all through the roof.
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I get it.
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You don't want to be bored.
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You need to be bored.
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Be bored more.
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Tomorrow, when you go to the gym in the morning after you wake up,
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don't take your phone.
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Can you handle it?
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Not listening to a podcast while you're working out?
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Just being in your head?
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I promise you, you'll have your most interesting ideas while you're working out without devices.
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It's probably been a long time since you've done that.
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Commute with nothing, not even the radio.
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Can you do that?
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Start getting better at periods that are 15 minutes and longer of boredom and watch your life change.
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Number one, you'll be less bored with ordinary things in your life.
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If you get better at the skill of boredom,
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you'll be less bored with your job.
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You'll be less bored with your relationships.
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You'll be less bored with the things that are going on around you.
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But more importantly, you'll start digging into the biggest questions in your life.
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Purpose, meaning, coherence, significance, and who knows?
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You might just get happier.
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People ask me all the time,
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is the doctor taking his own prescriptions?
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And the answer is yes.
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Yes, I am.
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I'm prone to the same pathologies as anybody else because I have the same brain chemistry as everybody else.
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So what do I do to fight that?
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And the answer is, well,
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I do a number of things.
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I have a no device policy after seven in the afternoon.
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I don't sleep with my phone.
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We don't have devices when we have meals in my family because we're there for each other.
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We're not there for people who aren't there.
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Three, I have regular social media and screen cleanses where I don't use my device for longer periods of time.
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First, it's like children screaming in my head.
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Well, because that's how dopamine is saying,
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get the phone, get the phone.
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That's addiction.
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But it calms down, and I feel better,
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and I feel blessed by the end.
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And I pick the phone up by the end because I have to check my emails,
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and I have to be a normal,
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functioning, connected person in the world.
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But it does remind me that my life doesn't have to revolve around these devices.
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These protocols are really, really helpful and I recommend them to anybody and everybody.
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Don't sleep with your phone,
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no phones during meals, regular social media fasts, you'll get better.
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People worry that if they do these things, they're gonna miss something.
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There are ways that you can remedy that.
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One of the things that you can do is you can have your phone on,
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you're just not looking at it,
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and there's only one or two numbers that can reach you in case of emergencies.
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Phones can do that, by the way.
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If you don't know how to do that, ask your kid.
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But don't use emergencies as an excuse.
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Here's something that's not an emergency.
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What's going on on Twitter?
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That's not an emergency.
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Answer, nothing.
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It doesn't matter.
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The news can wait.
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Seriously, your grandparents didn't know what was going on every single second in Washington, DC.
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You're killing yourself with this stuff.
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Are you kidding me?
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It's bad for you.
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So let me say it straight to my kids.
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Put down your phones.
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You need more meaning in your life.
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And so do I.
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Thank you.
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在这段视频中，讲者阿瑟·布鲁克斯探讨了无聊的必要性。他认为无聊对我们的心理健康和生活意义非常重要。随时取出手机以避免无聊的行为，可能导致人们在生活中找不到真正的意义，从而造成抑郁和焦虑的情绪。而这些问题在现代社会愈发突出。阿瑟通过心理学实验，揭示了我们对无聊的恐惧，并深入分析了无聊可能带来的积极影响。
日常交流的五个常用短语
- 当你感到无聊时，想想生活的意义。 (When you feel bored, think about the meaning of life.)
- 我们应该学会享受独处的时光。 (We should learn to enjoy the time alone.)
- 无聊可能让我们思考更深层的问题。 (Boredom can lead us to think about deeper issues.)
- 如果你不面对这些问题，生活可能会变得空虚。 (If you don’t face these issues, life may feel hollow.)
- 从小的无聊开始，逐步训练自己。 (Start with small periods of boredom and gradually train yourself.)
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