TED演讲-合理安排工作时间

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But I'm sure, if you had asked her at the start of the week, "Could you find seven hours to train for a triathlon? Could you find 7 hours to mentor seven-worthy people?" I'm sure she would have said what most of us would have said, which is, "No. Can't you see how busy I am?" Yet, when she had to find 7 hours because there is water all over her basement, she found 7 hours. And what this shows us is that time is highly elastic. 

但我敢肯定，如果你在一周开始的时候问她:“你能抽出7个小时来训练铁人三项吗?”你能抽出7个小时来指导7个有价值的人吗?”我相信她会说我们大多数人都会说，“不。你看不出我有多忙吗?”然而，当她不得不找7个小时，因为她的地下室全是水，她找到了7个小时。这告诉我们时间是高度弹性的。

We cannot make more time, but time will stretch to accommodate what we choose to put into it. So, the key to time management is treating our priorities as the equivalent of that broken water heater. There are 168 hours in a week. 24 times seven is 168 hours. That is a lot of time. If you are working a full-time job, so 40 hours a week, sleeping 8 hours a night, so 56 hours a week, that leaves 72 hours for other things. That is a lot of time.

我们不能创造更多的时间，但时间会随着我们的选择而变化。所以，时间管理的关键是把我们的优先事项看作是坏掉的热水器。一周有168个小时。24乘以7等于168小时。那是很长的时间。如果你有一份全职工作，每周工作40个小时，每晚睡8个小时，每周工作56个小时，剩下72个小时可以做其他事情。那是很长的时间。

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