適當語言表達的重要
A Stanford professor says eliminating 2
phrases from your vocabulary can make you more successful-
從字彙去除兩個片語，會使你的表達更成功-史丹佛大學教授說
The way you speak
not only affects how others perceive you; it also has the potential to shape
your behavior.
Swapping one word
for another could make all the difference in how you approach your goals.
That's according to
Bernard Roth, a professor of engineering at Stanford and the academic director
of Stanford's Hasso Plattner Institute of Design, the d.school.
In his new book,
"The Achievement Habit," Roth suggests
several linguistic tweaks that can make you more successful. Here are two of
the easiest:
1. Swap 'but' for 'and'-用and代替but
You might be
tempted to say, "I want to go to the movies, but I have
work to do."
Instead, Roth
suggests saying, "I want to go to the movies, and I
have work to do."
He writes:
"When you use the word but, you create a conflict (and
sometimes a reason) for yourself that does not really exist." In other
words, it's possible to go to the movies as well as do your work — you
just need to find a solution.
Meanwhile, when you
use the word and, "your brain gets to consider how it can deal
with both parts of the sentence," Roth writes. Maybe you'll see a shorter
movie; maybe you'll delegate some of your work.
2. Swap 'have to' for
'want to': 改have to為want to
Roth recommends a
simple exercise: The next few times you say "I have to" in your mind,
change have to want.
"This exercise
is very effective in getting people to realize that what they do in their lives
— even the things they find unpleasant — are in fact what they have
chosen," he says.
For example, one of
Roth's students felt he had to take the math
courses required for his graduate program, even though he hated them. At some
point after completing the exercise, he realized that he really did want to
take the classes because the benefit of completing the requirement outweighed
the discomfort of sitting through classes he didn't enjoy.
Both of these
tweaks are based on a key component of a problem-solving strategy called "design thinking."(設計思考) When you employ this
strategy, you try to challenge your automatic thinking and see things as they
really are.
And when you
experiment with different language, you may realize that a problem isn't as
unsolvable as it seems, and that you have more control over your life than you
previously believed.
03/23/2016
