Ted. Ideas worth spreading
3분 조금 넘는 시간이라 한시간만에 딕테이션 끝.
지난번꺼는 7분정도면서 말이 너무 빨라서 시간이 오래걸렸는데..
그래 이정도가 정상인거야!
A few years ago, I felt like I was stuck in a rut, so I decided to follow in the footsteps of the great American philosopher, Morgan Spurlock, and try something new for thirty days. The idea is actually pretty simple. Think about something you’ve always wanted to add to your life and try it for the next thirty days. It turns out, thirty days is just about the right amount of time to add a new habit or subtrack a habit - like watching the news - from your life.
There are a few things that I learned while doing these thirty days challenges. The first was, instead of the months flying by, forgotten, the time was much more memorable. This was part of a challenge I did to take a picture everyday for a month, And I remember exactly where I was and what I was doing that day. I also noticed that as I started to do more and harder thirty day challenges, my self-confidence grew. I went from desk-dwelling computer nerd to the kind of guy who bikes to work - for fun. Even last year, I ended up hiking up Mt. Killimanjaro, the highest mountain in Africa. I would never have been that adventurous before I started my thirty days challenges.
I also figured out that if you really want something badly enough, you can do anything for thirty days. Have you ever wanted to write a novel? Every November, tens of thousands of people try to write their own 50,000-word novel from scratch in thirty days. It turns out, all you have to do is write 1,667 words a day for a month. So I did. By the way, the secret is not to go to sleep until you’ve written your words for the day. You might be sleep–deprived, but you’ll finish your novel. Now is my book the next great American novel? No~, I wrote it in a month. It’s awful! But for the rest of my life, if I meet John Hodgman at a TED party, I don’t have to say, “I’m a computer scientist.” No, no, if I want to, I can say, “I’m a novelist.”
So, here is one last thing I’d like to mention. I learned that when I made small, sustainable changes, things I could keep doing, they were more likely to stick. there is nothing wrong with big, crazy challenges. In fact, they are a ton of fun. But they are less likely to stick, when I gave up sugar for thirty days, day thirty one looked like this.
So, here is my question to you: What are you waiting for? I guarantee you the next thirty days are going to pass whether you like it or not, so why not think about something you have always wanted to try and give it a shot for the next thirty days.
Thanks.
