We live in an incredibly busy world. 我们生活在一个异常纷杂的世界。 The pace of life is often frantic, our minds are always busy, and we're always doing something. 生活的步调时常快得疯狂，我们的头脑(心灵)一直忙碌运转着，而我们每时每刻都在做着事情 So with
So for example, right now, if I focus too much on the balls, 打个比方，现在，如果我太集中于这些球， then there's no way I can relax and talk to you at the same time. 那么我就无法能够放松并同时与你们说话。 Equally, if I relax too much talk
I was on a three-month road trip this summer. 今年夏天我度了三个月的假。 It was something that I've been dreaming about doing my whole life, 这是我一生梦寐以求的东西， just driving around the U.S. and Canada and just figuring
And so fundamentally, rather than, for example, measuring content based on how many people are watching, 从根本上，而不是，比如根据收视率衡量内容 this gives us the basic data for looking at engagement properties of conte
A friend told me, shortly after that, that she had heard that Tim Russert, 在那不久后，我的一个朋友就告诉我，她听说提姆·路塞特， a nationally renowned journalist, had been talking about me on national T.V. 一个全国知名的记者在全国播放的电视节目上
Now we're not here for that long anyway, 虽然不管怎样我们不会在此地待多长时间， but to spend almost half of our life lost in thought and potentially quite unhappy, I don't know, 但耗费大半人生迷失在思考中并因此可能变得非常不幸福，我不知道， it just k
You didn't break it. It's just in a new position, 你没有破坏它，只是让它移到一个新的地方， and that new position can be just as beautiful. 这新的地方也可以是一样美丽。 Now, if you're no longer a traffic cop -- the problem with being a
You know, this project for me is a way for me to bridge that gap and remember everything that I've done. 这个项目对我而言，就是一座让我能够回忆起我过去生活的桥梁。 Even just this one second allows me to remember everything else I
A few years ago, I felt like I was stuck in a rut, 几年前，我感觉对老一套感到枯燥乏味， so I decided to follow in the footsteps of the great American philosopher, Morgan Spurlock, 所以我决定追随伟大的美国哲学家摩根·斯普尔洛克的脚步， and try so
Here are the top five things that people with post-traumatic growth say: "My priorities have changed." 这是排在前五位的被创伤后精神再生的人们说过的话：我做事情的优先级改变了。 "I'm not afraid to do what makes me happy." "I feel closer t
Lexicography is really more about material science. 字典编纂学是研究物质的科学。 We are studying the tolerances of the materials that you use to build the structure of your expression: your speeches and your writin
But it was interesting because I had some very preconceived notions about, for instance, evangelical Christianity, 但是这很有趣，因为我有一些先入为主的想法，例如，福音派基督教， and I found that it's such a wide and varied movement
I'm a writer and a journalist, and I'm also an insanely curious person, 我是一个作家，一个新闻记者，我也是一位具有强烈求知欲的人。 so in 22 years as a journalist, I've learned how to do a lot of new things. 所以在做新闻记者的22年里，我知道了很多新奇
This formula works wherever metaphor is present. 这个公式适用于所有的暗喻。 Elvis uses it, but so does Shakespeare in this famous line from "Romeo and Juliet:" Juliet is the sun. 埃尔维斯用到它，莎士比亚也同样用到它，于《罗密欧与朱丽叶》中有这样的
Third, that thou shall have reverence. 第三，诸位应心存尊敬。 This one was unexpected because I started the year as an agnostic, 这是个意外的体会。因为我刚开始是一个不可知论者， and by the end of the year, I became what a friend of min
But this one is -- the Bible says that you cannot touch women during certain times of the month, 但这一个是，圣经告诉我们在每个月的某些时间不能碰女人， and more than that, you cannot sit on a seat where a menstruating woman has
Now, 21 billion hours, it's a lot of time. 现在看起来，两百一十亿个小时是很多时间。 It's so much time, in fact, that the number one unsolicited comment that I have heard from people all over the world 真的是很多时间。事实上，我看到的最多的
We've started analyzing television content using the same principles -- 我们开始分析电视内容，用同样的原则-- analyzing event structure of a TV signal -- 分析一个电视信号的事件结构-- episodes of shows, commercials, all of the compo
So, everybody ready? This is your first quest. Here we go. 怎么样，每个人都准备好了吗？第一个任务来了。 Pick one: Stand up and take three steps, or make your hands into fists, 选择一项做：站起来并走三步，或者握起拳头， raise them over your hea
I am not a religious person myself, but I did look for nature. 我不信教，但我尊重自然。 I had spent my first sabbatical in New York City. Looked for something different for the second one. 我的第一个长修假是在纽约市度过的，我希望第二次
