Deliberation is not always the best option
Humans have developed over millions of years of evolution to respond to certain situations without thinking too hard. If your ancestors1movement in the undergrowth, they would run first and ask questions later. At the same time, the 2 to analyse and to plan is part of what distinguishes people from other animals.
The question of when to trust your gut(直觉)and when to test your 3—whether to think fast or slow, in the language of Daniel Kahneman, a psychologist—4in the office as much as it does in the savannah(大草原).
Deliberative thinking is the feature of a well-managed workplace. Strategic changes and budget discussions are built on rounds of meetings, memos, formulas and presentations. Processes are increasingly designed to 5 instinctive responses. From blind screening of job applicants to using "red-teaming" techniques to pick apart a firm's plans, precision 6 instinct.
Yet instinct also has its place. Some decisions are more connected to emotional responses and inherently(固有的)less 7 to analysis. Does a marketing campaign capture the 8 of your company, say, or would this person work well with other people in a team? In 9 customer-service situations, intuition is often a better guide to how to behave than a script.
Gut instincts can also be 10. Plenty of research has shown that intuition becomes more unfailing with experience. In one well-known experiment, conducted in 2012, volunteers were asked to 11 whether a selection of designer handbags were fake or real. Some were instructed to operate on instinct and others to deliberate over their decision. Intuition worked better for those who owned at least three designer handbags; indeed, it 12 analysis. The more expert you become, the better your instincts tend to be.
13, the real reason to embrace fast thinking is that it is, well, fast. Instinctive decision-making is often the only way to get through the day. Researchers at Cornell University once estimated that people make over 200 decisions a day about food alone. The workplace is 14but a succession of choices, a few big and many small: what to 15, when to intervene, whom to avoid in the lifts and, now, where to work each day.
Rockets were probably invented by accident about 2000 years ago. The Chinese had a form of gunpowder which was put in bamboo tubes and thrown into fires to make 1·during festivals. Perhaps some of the tubes jumped out of the fire instead of exploding in it. The Chinese discovered that the gunpowder 2 from the tube could lift it into the air. The idea of the rocket was 3.
The first 4 use of rockets was in 1232. The Song Dynasty was at war with the Mongols. During the 5 of Kaifeng, the Song army 6 "arrows of flying fire". The tubes were 7 to a long stick which helped keep the rocket moving in a straight direction. 8 the Mongols learned how to make rockets themselves and it is possible that they 9 them to Europe. Between the 13th and 15th century there were many rocket 10 in England, France and Italy. They were used for military purposes. One Italian scientist even invented a rocket which could travel over the surface of water and hit a(an)11 ship.
Not everybody wanted to use rockets in battles. Wan Hu, a Chinese government official, invented a 12 chair. He fixed two big kites to the chair, and 47 rockets to the kites. The rockets were lit, there was a huge explosion and 13 of thick smoke. When the smoke 14 Wan Hu and his chair had disappeared, no one knows what happened. Did Wan Hu die in the explosion? Or was he carried miles into space, becoming the world's first 15?
Teenagers are more likely to cause conflict with their parents than any other age child. Teens often think what they are saying is 1. They believe that if they keep arguing, they can 2 their parents.
Teenagers argue with their parents because two things are still 3 during the adolescent period: the limbic system (边缘系统) and the frontal lobe (额叶). The former 4 emotions, and the latter helps with people's decision making.
With not everything fully developed in teenager bodies, it 5 how they react to discipline and the word "no". Teenagers want to have freedom and the 6 to do what they want. Being teenagers is very 7. There are too many things happening in a teen's 8 all at once and their bodies are not quite ready to 9 everything that's happening. They are still in the 10 of growing and making all these life decisions.
With teens having little free time, it's an unhappy thing to hear "no" coming from 11. Teens want to do something interesting with friends or just simply 12 without worrying about anything. They trust themselves to be 13. Some teens don't understand why they're told they can't do something. Without reasoning behind the "no", there is often a spark of 14 leading into an argument. If parents gave a(an) 15 reason for their decision, it could 16 many arguments and keep a healthy 17. Even if they disagree, when knowing their parents' reason 18, teenagers are less likely to respond in a negative way.
Parents should not 19 intervene with(干预) their kids' choices. It is a part of growing up, and making 20 and suffering the consequence is an important lesson to learn.
The part of the environmental movement that draws my firm's attention is the design of buildings. Today, thousands of people come to1building conferences, and the idea that buildings can be good for people and the environment will be increasingly2in years to come. Back in 1984 we discovered that most manufactured products for decoration weren't designed for 3use. The "energy-efficient" sealed commercial buildings constructed after the 1970s energy crisis 4indoor air quality problems caused by materials such as paint, wall covering and carpet. So for 20 years, we've been looking for ways to make these materials 5for people and the planet.
Home builders can now use materials, such as green paints, that release significantly 6amounts of chemical compounds, which people believe don't 7the quality of the air.8, our basic design strategy is focused not simply on being "less bad" but on creating 9 healthful materials that can be either safely returned to the soil or 10by industry again and again. For example, the world's largest carpet manufacturer has already 11 a carpet that is fully and safely recyclable.
Look at it this way: no one12to create a building that destroy the planet. But our current industrial systems are basically causing these conditions, whether we like it or not. So13of simply trying to reduce the damage, we are14 a positive approach. We're giving people high-quality, healthful products and an opportunity to make choices that have a15effect on the world. It is not just the building industry, either. Entire cities are taking these environmentally positive approaches to design, planning and building.
Typhoons and hurricanes are the same weather phenomenon: tropical cyclones (热带气旋). However, they go by different names 1 where they occur.
Typhoons develop in the northwestern part of the Pacific Ocean. They most 2 occur from late June to December. When winds blow into warm seawater, a lot of warm, moist air evaporates and 3 rapidly, while colder air moves in below. This creates.4 causing the winds to move very quickly. The more warm air and moisture there is, the more5 the winds. When the winds move faster than 119 kilometers per hour, a typhoon is formed. If a typhoon 6 241 kilometers per hour, then it becomes a super typhoon.
The 7of a typhoon is called the "eye". This is right in the middle of a typhoon and is 8 . In the "eye", the wind does not move so fast. Around the "eye" is the 9 of clouds. This is where the strongest winds and hardest rains are found. The rain bands are the outer part of a typhoon that 10 with it.
Typhoons do bring water to people, but they also can be very 11 . They 12 houses and cars, and even kill people. For example, tropical storm Megi hit the Philippines in April. More than 220 people died from. 13 and flooding caused by the typhoon.
China is also one of the countries most affected by typhoons. The 14 time for typhoons landing is from July to September.15 , China's coastal residents face 10 typhoon landings each year.
