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日常办公初级03:54work-life balance

How to succeed? Get more sleep

想成功?先睡饱

《赫芬顿邮报》创始人阿里安娜·赫芬顿的三分钟短讲。她从自己因过劳晕倒、摔断颧骨讲起,戳破职场里「少睡就是拼」的攀比迷思:睡眠不足不会让人更高效,只会让人在关键决策上错过那座冰山。语速平缓、句式简单,适合初学者练听力,并积累睡眠不足、电话会议、看清全局等职场高频表达。

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台词(31 句)

00:04
My big idea is a very,

我要讲的这个大想法,其实是一个非常、

00:06
very small idea that can unlock billions of big ideas that are at the moment dormant inside us.

非常小的想法,而它能解锁此刻蛰伏在我们心里的亿万个绝妙创意。

00:16
And my little idea that will do that is sleep.

而这个能做到这一点的小想法,就是睡觉。

00:19
(Laughter) (Applause) This is a room of type A women.

(笑声)(掌声)这间屋子里坐的,都是好强拼命的 A 型人格女性。

00:30
This is a room of sleep-deprived women.

这间屋子里坐的,也都是睡眠严重不足的女性。

00:35
And I learned the hard way the value of sleep.

而我是付出了惨痛代价,才明白睡眠的价值。

00:39
Two-and-a-half years ago, I fainted from exhaustion. I hit my head on my desk.

两年半前,我因过度疲劳而晕倒,头撞在了办公桌上。

00:44
I broke my cheekbone, I got five stitches on my right eye.

我摔断了颧骨,右眼缝了五针。

00:48
And I began the journey of rediscovering the value of sleep.

从那以后,我开始了重新发现睡眠价值的旅程。

00:54
And in the course of that, I studied, I met with medical doctors, scientists,

在这个过程中,我查阅研究,走访医生和科学家,

01:00
and I'm here to tell you that the way to a more productive, more inspired, more joyful life is getting enough sleep.

今天我要告诉大家:通往更高效、更有灵感、更快乐生活的那条路,就是睡够觉。

01:09
(Applause) And we women are going to lead the way in this new revolution, this new feminist issue.

(掌声)而我们女性,将在这场新革命、这个新的女权议题中一马当先。

01:21
We are literally going to sleep our way to the top -- literally -- (Laughter) (Applause) because unfortunately,

我们真的要「一路睡到顶峰」——字面意义上的睡——(笑声)(掌声)因为很不幸,

01:33
for men, sleep deprivation has become a virility symbol.

对男人来说,睡眠不足已经成了男子气概的象征。

01:39
I was recently having dinner with a guy who bragged that he had only gotten four hours sleep the night before.

我最近和一位男士吃晚饭,他吹嘘说自己前一晚只睡了四个小时。

01:46
And I felt like saying to him -- but I didn't say -- I felt like saying, "You know what? if you had gotten five, this dinner would have been a lot more interesting."

我当时很想对他说——但话到嘴边没说出口——我很想说:「你知道吗?要是你多睡一个小时,今晚这顿饭会有意思得多。」

01:54
(Laughter) There is now a kind of sleep deprivation one-upmanship.

(笑声)如今流行起一种比谁睡得更少的攀比风气。

02:02
Especially here in Washington, if you try to make a breakfast date, and you say, "How about eight o'clock?"

尤其在华盛顿这儿,如果你想约个早餐,说:「八点怎么样?」

02:07
they're likely to tell you, "Eight o'clock is too late for me, but that's OK, I can get a game of tennis in and do a few conference calls and meet you at eight."

对方多半会告诉你:「八点对我来说太晚了,不过没关系,我可以先打一局网球、开几个电话会议,然后八点跟你见面。」

02:15
And they think that means they are so incredibly busy and productive, but the truth is, they're not, because we,

他们以为这说明自己忙得不可开交、效率超群,可事实并非如此,因为我们

02:24
at the moment, have had brilliant leaders in business, in finance, in politics, making terrible decisions.

眼下正看着商界、金融界、政界那些绝顶聪明的领袖,做出一个个糟糕的决定。

02:33
So a high IQ does not mean that you're a good leader, because the essence of leadership is being able to see the iceberg before it hits the Titanic.

所以高智商并不代表你就是个好领导,因为领导力的精髓,在于能在冰山撞上泰坦尼克之前就看见它。

02:43
(Laughter) And we've had far too many icebergs hitting our Titanics.

(笑声)而我们已经有太多次,让冰山撞上了自己的泰坦尼克。

02:49
In fact, I have a feeling that if Lehman Brothers was Lehman Brothers and Sisters, they might still be around.

事实上我有种感觉:如果当年雷曼兄弟叫「雷曼兄妹」,它今天也许还活着。

02:57
(Laughter) (Applause) While all the brothers were busy just being hyper-connected 24/7, maybe a sister would have noticed the iceberg,

(笑声)(掌声)当那些「兄弟」忙着 7×24 小时连轴转、时刻在线时,也许某位「姐妹」会注意到那座冰山,

03:07
because she would have woken up from a seven-and-a-half- or eight-hour sleep, and have been able to see the big picture.

因为她睡足了七个半到八个小时才醒来,能够看清全局。

03:17
So as we are facing all the multiple crises in our world at the moment, what is good for us on a personal level,

所以,当我们正面对这个世界的重重危机时,那些在个人层面上对我们有益的东西,

03:26
what's going to bring more joy, gratitude, effectiveness in our lives and be the best for our own careers, is also what is best for the world.

那些能给我们的生活带来更多喜悦、感恩与效率、对我们自己的事业最有利的东西,同样也是对这个世界最有利的。

03:37
So I urge you to shut your eyes, and discover the great ideas that lie inside us;

所以我恳请各位:闭上眼睛,去发现深藏在我们内心的那些伟大想法;

03:45
to shut your engines and discover the power of sleep.

关掉你的引擎,去发现睡眠的力量。

03:50
Thank you. (Applause)

谢谢大家。(掌声)