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日常办公初级05:33simplifying

Less stuff, more happiness

少一点东西,多一点幸福

格雷厄姆·希尔用五分多钟讲清一件事:美国人的居住空间是五十年前的三倍,幸福感却原地踏步。他把自己四百二十平方英尺的公寓当样板,给出精简生活的三条路——狠心做减法、小而好用、一物多用。句子短、语速稳,很适合初学者入门。

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台词(49 句)

00:07
What's in the box? Whatever it is must be pretty important, because I've traveled with it, moved it, from apartment to apartment to apartment.

这箱子里装着什么?不管是什么,一定挺重要的,因为我带着它旅行,一次次从这套公寓搬到那套公寓。

00:18
(Laughter) (Applause) Sound familiar?

(笑声)(掌声)听着耳熟吗?

00:26
Did you know that we Americans have about three times the amount of space we did 50 years ago?

你知道吗?我们美国人拥有的空间,大约是五十年前的三倍。

00:32
Three times. So you'd think, with all this extra space, we'd have plenty of room for all our stuff.

整整三倍。所以你会觉得,多了这么多空间,放我们那些东西总该绰绰有余了吧。

00:41
Nope. There's a new industry in town, a 22 billion-dollar, 2.2 billion sq. ft. industry: that of personal storage.

并没有。一个新行业出现了:规模两百二十亿美元、占地二十二亿平方英尺的个人仓储业。

00:50
So we've got triple the space, but we've become such good shoppers that we need even more space.

我们的空间翻了三倍,可我们太会买东西了,反而需要更多空间。

00:58
So where does this lead?

这会带来什么后果呢?

01:00
Lots of credit card debt, huge environmental footprints, and perhaps not coincidentally, our happiness levels flat-lined over the same 50 years.

大量的信用卡债务、巨大的环境足迹;也许并非巧合,同样是这五十年里,我们的幸福感一直原地踏步。

01:10
Well I'm here to suggest there's a better way, that less might actually equal more.

我想在这里提出一种更好的活法:少,其实可能就等于多。

01:16
I bet most of us have experienced at some point the joys of less: college -- in your dorm,

我敢说,我们大多数人都体会过「少」的乐趣:上大学时,只有一间宿舍;

01:24
traveling -- in a hotel room, camping -- rig up basically nothing, maybe a boat.

旅行时,只有一间旅馆客房;露营时,几乎什么都不用搭,也许只有一条船。

01:31
Whatever it was for you, I bet that, among other things, this gave you a little more freedom, a little more time.

不管你的经历是哪一种,我敢说,除了别的收获,它还给了你多一点自由、多一点时间。

01:39
So I'm going to suggest that less stuff and less space are going to equal a smaller footprint.

所以我要说:更少的东西、更小的空间,意味着更小的环境足迹。

01:45
It's actually a great way to save you some money. And it's going to give you a little more ease in your life.

这其实是个省钱的好办法,也会让你的生活多一分从容。

01:50
So I started a project called Life Edited at lifeedited.org to further this conversation and to find some great solutions in this area.

于是我发起了一个叫「精简生活」的项目,网址是 lifeedited.org,一方面推动这场讨论,一方面在这个领域找出好方案。

01:58
First up: crowd-sourcing my 420 sq. ft. apartment in Manhattan with partners Mutopo and Jovoto.com.

第一步:和合作伙伴 Mutopo、Jovoto.com 一起,众包设计我在曼哈顿那套四百二十平方英尺的公寓。

02:05
I wanted it all -- home office, sit down dinner for 10, room for guests, and all my kite surfing gear.

我什么都想要——家庭办公区、能坐十个人吃饭的地方、留宿客人的空间,还有我全套的风筝冲浪装备。

02:14
With over 300 entries from around the world, I got it, my own little jewel box.

来自世界各地的三百多份方案里,我如愿以偿,得到了属于自己的小小百宝箱。

02:20
By buying a space that was 420 sq. ft. instead of 600, immediately I'm saving 200 grand.

买四百二十平方英尺而不是六百平方英尺,我一下子就省了二十万美元。

02:28
Smaller space is going to make for smaller utilities -- save some more money there, but also a smaller footprint.

空间更小,水电开销也更小——既能再省一笔钱,环境足迹也更小。

02:36
And because it's really designed around an edited set of possessions -- my favorite stuff -- and really designed for me, I'm really excited to be there.

而且它是围绕一套精简过的物品——我最喜欢的东西——为我量身设计的,所以我特别期待住进去。

02:44
So how can you live little? Three main approaches.

那么,怎样才能过得精简?主要有三条路。

02:48
First of all, you have to edit ruthlessly. We've got to clear the arteries of our lives.

第一,你必须狠下心来做减法。我们得把生活的动脉疏通干净。

02:54
And that shirt that I hadn't worn in years? It's time for me to let it go.

那件我好几年没穿过的衬衫呢?是时候放手了。

02:59
We've got to cut the extraneous out of our lives, and we've got to learn to stem the inflow.

我们得剪掉生活里多余的东西,还得学会截住新东西涌进来。

03:05
We need to think before we buy. Ask ourselves, "Is that really going to make me happier? Truly?"

买之前要先想一想,问问自己:「这真的会让我更快乐吗?真的吗?」

03:12
By all means, we should buy and own some great stuff.

当然,我们应该买、也应该拥有一些好东西。

03:16
But we want stuff that we're going to love for years, not just stuff.

但我们要的是能喜欢很多年的东西,而不是随便什么东西。

03:21
Secondly, our new mantra: small is sexy.

第二,我们的新口号是:小才迷人。

03:25
We want space efficiency. We want things that are designed for how they're used the vast majority of the time, not that rare event.

我们要的是空间效率。我们要的东西,应该按它绝大多数时候的使用方式来设计,而不是为极少数场合设计。

03:33
Why have a six burner stove when you rarely use three?

你连三个灶眼都很少用满,何必买六个灶眼的炉子?

03:37
So we want things that nest, we want things that stack, and we want it digitized.

所以我们要能一个套一个的东西,要能层层摞起来的东西,还要把东西数字化。

03:42
You can take paperwork, books, movies, and you can make it disappear -- it's magic.

文件、书籍、电影,都可以让它们凭空消失——简直像变魔术。

03:49
Finally, we want multifunctional spaces and housewares -- a sink combined with a toilet,

最后,我们要多功能的空间和家居用品——洗手池和马桶合为一体,

03:56
a dining table becomes a bed -- same space, a little side table stretches out to seat 10.

餐桌能变成床——同样的空间里,一张小边桌能拉开,坐下十个人。

04:03
In the winning Life Edited scheme in a render here, we combine a moving wall with transformer furniture to get a lot out of the space.

在这张「精简生活」获胜方案的效果图里,我们把一面可移动的墙和变形家具结合起来,把空间用到极致。

04:10
Look at the coffee table -- it grows in height and width to seat 10.

看这张茶几——它能长高、变宽,坐下十个人。

04:16
My office folds away, easily hidden.

我的办公桌可以折起来,轻松藏好。

04:20
My bed just pops out of the wall with two fingers. Guests? Move the moving wall, have some fold-down guest beds.

两根手指一拉,床就从墙里弹出来。来客人了?推一下那面活动墙,就有折叠客床。

04:28
And of course, my own movie theater. So I'm not saying that we all need to live in 420 sq. ft.

当然,还有我自己的家庭影院。我并不是说我们都得住在四百二十平方英尺里。

04:35
But consider the benefits of an edited life. Go from 3,000 to 2,000, from 1,500 to 1,000.

但不妨想想精简生活的好处:从三千平方英尺减到两千,从一千五减到一千。

04:43
Most of us, maybe all of us, are here pretty happily for a bunch of days with a couple of bags, maybe a small space, a hotel room.

我们大多数人,也许是所有人,这几天在这里过得挺开心,身边只有两个包,也许只有一个小空间——一间旅馆客房。

04:51
So when you go home and you walk through your front door, take a second and ask yourselves, "Could I do with a little life editing?

所以当你回到家、走进大门时,花一秒钟问问自己:「我的生活是不是也该精简一下?」

04:58
Would that give me a little more freedom? Maybe a little more time?"

「那样会不会让我多一点自由?也许还多一点时间?」

05:04
What's in the box? It doesn't really matter.

这箱子里装着什么?其实并不重要。

05:10
I know I don't need it. What's in yours?

我知道我并不需要它。那你的箱子里装着什么?

05:15
Maybe, just maybe, less might equal more.

也许,只是也许,少真的可以等于多。

05:19
So let's make room for the good stuff.

所以,让我们为真正重要的东西腾出地方。

05:23
Thank you. (Applause)

谢谢。(掌声)