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When young, Jack was very , who worked hard on scientific research.He his career and barely his attention to other things.After a couple of , he made a big and won a good fame in the field.However, most successful people, he is leading a simple life. , he still lives in a small room with little now.Last week, he signed a with a charity concerned about .He gave away all his money to the charity to in environmental protection.It is his to our environment that other ordinary people.
Over millions of years humans have responded to certain situations without thinking too hard. If our ancestors spotted movement in the nearby forest, they would run first and question later. At the same time, the ability to analyze and to plan is part of what separates us from other animals. The question of when to trust your instinct (直觉) and when to think slow matters in the office as much as in the savannah (草原).
Slow thinking is the feature of a well-managed workplace. Yet instinct also has its place. Some decisions are more connected to emotional responses and less to analysis. In demanding customer-service or public-facing situations, instinct is often a better guide to how to behave.
Instinct can also be improved. Plenty of research has shown that instinct becomes more unerring with experience. In one well-known experiment, volunteers were asked to assess whether a selection of designer handbags were real or not. Some were instructed to operate on instinct and others to deliberate (深思熟虑) over their decision. Instinct worked better for those who owned at least three designer handbags; indeed, it outperformed analysis. The more expert you become, the better your instinct tends to be.
However, the real reason to embrace fast thinking is that it is, well, fast. It is often the only way to get through the day. To take one example, when your inbox floods with new emails at the start of a new day, there is absolutely no way to read them all carefully. Instinct is what helps you decide which ones to answer and which to delete or leave unopened. Fast thinking can also help the entire organization. The value of many managerial decisions lies in the simple fact that they have been made at all. Yet as data explodes, the temptation (诱惑) to ask for one more bit of analysis has become much harder to resist. Managers often suffer from overthinking, turning a simple problem into a complex one.
When to use instinct in the workplace rests on its own form of pattern recognition. Does the decision maker have real expertise in this area? Is this a field in which emotion matters more than reasoning? Above all, is it worth delaying the decision? Slow thinking is needed to get the big calls right. But fast thinking is the way to stop deliberation turning to a waste of time.
Nowadays, the term "quiet quitting" has taken over the Internet, meaning lying flat, or taking a break from the overwork. It appears to have originated from a TikTok video posted by Brian Creely. Creely showed an Insider article written by senior reporter Aki Ito. The headline read, "Fed up with long hours, many employees have quietly decided to take it easy at work rather than quit their jobs." Creely said, "More people are quiet quitting instead of leaving." The video has received nearly 100, 000 likes and more than 4, 000 comments, the vast majority describing the benefits of doing the bare minimum.
Despite a number of news outlets reporting that quiet quitting is a trend that is being encouraged, Insider found many users on the app were actually warning people against doing so.
Ashley Herd, a former employment lawyer, posted two videos about quiet quitting. In her videos, she argued that while limiting work to what is specified in the job description is fine, doing so quietly can be detrimental. "If someone is stressed out, they should feel able to have that conversation with their manager, " she said.
A TikToker and consultant Mary posted a video titled "Minorities should be careful quiet quitting". In the video she said, "Unfortunately in America minorities are held to a different standard. We are looked at differently. So we have to go above and beyond to be successful. We can't risk being regarded as not performing."
In recent weeks, TikTokers have been warning workers that quiet quitting could lead to "quiet firing", labeled as a new workplace trend. The phrase describes the longstanding practice of constructive dismissal—creating an environment that leads a worker to quit their job in order to avoid having to fire them. Creators are receiving hundreds of thousands of views that post about quiet firing and call out managers who employ the practice.
A new study shows that getting half of American 8-to 11-year-olds into 25 minutes of physical activity three times a week would save ＄21.9 billion in medical costs over their lifetimes.
The increase from the current 32 percent to 50 percent of kids taking part in exercise, active play, or sports would also result in 340, 000 fewer overweight teenagers.
"Physical activity not only makes kids feel better and helps them develop healthy habits, it's also good for the nation's bottom line, " says Bruce Y. Lee, executive director of the Global Obesity Prevention Center at Johns Hopkins University. "Our findings show that encouraging exercise and investing in physical activity when kids are young pays big dividends as they grow up."
The study, published in the journal Health Affairs, suggests an even bigger advantage if every 8 to 11-year-old in the United States exercised 75 minutes over three times in a week. In that case, the researchers estimate(估计), ＄62.3 billion in medical costs over the course of their lifetimes could be avoided and 1.2 million fewer youths would be overweight. And the money would increase if not just current 8-to-11 year olds, but every future elementary school child joined their game.
Exercise at least 25 minutes a day, three days a week, is a guideline developed for kids by the Sports and Fitness Industry Association. An overweight person's lifetime medical costs average ＄62, 331. For the overweight person, these amounts are great.
"Even a little increase in physical activity could cause billions of dollars in savings, " Lee says. He also says there are other benefits of physical activity that don't affect weight, such as improving bone density, improving mood, and building muscle.
Lee says "We need to be adding physical education programs and not cutting them. We need to encourage kids to be active, to reduce screen time and get them running around again. It's important for their physical health and the nation's financial(经济的) health."
For years, you've been told that stress can be deadly and is something to be avoided. Therefore, an anxious situation is often accompanied by a sense of fear. However, recent studies suggest that stress-related harmful effects on your health are not unavoidable.
One study followed 30, 000 people over eight years and measured their stress levels. Those who believed that stress is harmful died at a higher rate than those who were under stress but didn't acknowledge the so-called negative effects. The latter group was healthier, and many of them lived long, happy lives.
Stressful feelings start out in a small region of the brain that affects how people feel emotions, especially fear. The small region is very sensitive to possible threats. When it senses danger, it alerts the brain, and feelings of fear or stress can result. These feelings give people a warning message when they need to pay attention and when they need to take action. For instance, when the sight of a speeding car triggers (触发) the region to release a lightning-fast message, we know immediately to move out of the way!
Another study carried by Health psychologist Dr. McGonigal found a link between stress and the amount of sympathy people showed to others. Researchers tracked 1, 000 adults, their descriptions of the level of stress in their lives and the amount of time spent helping others. With each major stressful event, such as a family tragedy or financial crisis, the risk of dying increased by 30 percent. But for the group who spent time helping others, there was no increase in stress-related deaths, even for those who had faced their own personal tragedies. According to Dr. McGonigal, "Chasing meaning is better for your health than trying to avoid discomfort. Go after what it is that creates meaning in your life and then trust yourself to handle the stress that follows."
Earth is far more alive than we previously thought, according to "deep life" studies that reveal a rich underground ecosystem beneath our feet that is almost twice the size of all the world's oceans. Despite extreme heat, no light and intense pressure, scientists estimate it has between 15 billion and 23 billion tonnes of microorganisms. "It's like finding a whole new reservoir (储藏) of life on Earth, " said Karen Lloyd an associate professor at the University of Tennessee.
Results suggest 70 percent of Earth's bacteria and archaea exist in the subsurface. One organism found 2.5 kilometers below the surface has been buried for millions of years and may not rely at all on energy from the sun. Also, the methanogen (产甲烷菌) has found a way to create methane in this environment, which the methanogen may not use to reproduce or divide, but use to replace or repair broken parts. Lengths of their lives were completely different. Some microorganisms have been alive for thousands of years, barely moving except with shifts in earthquakes or eruptions. They're just active inside, with less energy than people thought possible to support life.
The team consists of 1, 200 scientists from 52 countries in disciplines ranging from geology and microbiology to chemistry and physics. A year before the conclusion of their study, they will present the findings before the American Geophysical Union's annual meeting opens this week, which they say are made possible by technical advances on drills and microscopes.
The scientists have been wondering about the point beyond which life cannot exist, but the deeper they dig, the more life they find. There is a temperature maximum—currently 122℃—but they believe this record will be broken if they keep exploring and developing more advanced instruments.
Questions remain, including how the microbes interact with chemical processes, and what this might reveal about how life and Earth coevolved.
Efficient ways to improve your speech Find it difficult to make a wonderful speech in public?
Use more facial expressions
One psychologist feels that our facial expression is responsible more than anything else for the impression others have of us. A smile in which the eyes participate is extremely communicative. People tend to mirror your expression, so try to show how you feel about a topic or an idea through your facial expression.
Get rid of your inner fear
The way to handle it is to put it to work for you, get into action, as Shakespeare observed, action cures fear. The first is to admit it. Do the thing you fear and it will be the death of fear itself. Another simple aid at the last minute before you begin, is to take a few deep breaths. This will help get the butterflies in formation and also keep your voice under control.
Polish your voice
Our voice is the main instrument we possess for communicating with people. So invest in a tape recorder, practice your speech by speaking it into the microphone and then listen to it. You can even have others join in the evaluation of your strong points and your weaknesses or faults as well. Simply reading a newspaper, a magazine or stories to your children out loud can help.
Strengthen your memory
Psychologists tell us that most individuals don't use above ten percent of their inherent capacity for memory. How to enhance the power of memory? First, have a burning desire to remember. It's difficult to recall anything without wanting to do so. Our success depends greatly on our ability to concentrate. The next principle is repetition, we learned many things in school by repetition.
A.Step number two is concentration. B.Here are some efficient ways to improve your speech. C.A frown often brings the same thing in return. D.Reading aloud cannot necessarily help you develop a personal style. E.Your emphasis, pausing, pace and even pitch can improve. F.It's natural to have some tension when you appear before an audience. G.The more associations you make with the brain, the easier it becomes. |
The most obvious benefit of a single currency is that it will no longer be necessary to incur(引起) the costs of exchange from one currency to another. Travelers know that these costs are not negligible. First of all, there is a commission 1 (usually a fixed amount); secondly, the price 2 which the traveler purchases foreign currency for domestic currency 3 from the price of exchanging back surplus(过剩) foreign currency. The removal of these transaction costs constitutes a gain from monetary union.
Another benefit is that the removal of exchange rate 4 between the countries of the EU would provide much more assurance to 5 location decisions. At present, a company takes 6 of the risk of exchange rate variation in its location decision, and this may lead it to scatter its plants across the various economies, to hedge against(防范) the risk of exchange rate variation. Removing this source of uncertainty allows investors to 7 according to economies of scale and may lead to more plants of 8 size, a reduction in unit cost of production, and increase in 9 .
A single currency provides the 10 for counter-inflationary(反通胀) policies. A single currency could lead to a 11 in the market discrimination that currently exists in the EU (for example, prices of motor cars of the 12 specification(规格) stand higher in the UK than they do in France) as the quotation(报价) of prices in common currency discourages arbitrage(套利) activity and reduces the market division 13 which such discrimination relies. 14 , firms in one country cannot continue to 15 their prices higher than their European competitors and still remain competitive.
I came into the senior high school at last! This is the first day for me to go to school, so I'm little anxious right now. I want to make a good first (impress), Will I make any friends? What if no one talks to me?
I just had my first maths class at senior high school The class was difficult, the teacher was kind. He even told us a funny story and everyone laughed so much! J found most of my classmates and teachers (help).
This afternoon, we had our chemistry class in the science lab. The lab is new and the lesson was great, but the guy next to me (try) to talk to me the whole time. I couldn't concentrate the experiment. I (real) wanted to tell him to be quiet and leave me alone.
What a day! This morning, I was worried that no one would talk to me. But I was wrong. I didn't feel (frighten) at all. I miss my friends from junior high school, but I believe I will make new friends here and there's a lot (explore) at senior high. I feel much more confident than I felt this morning. I think that tomorrow (be) a great day!
注意：(1)词数80左右；(2)可以适当增加细节, 以使行文连贯。
Dear Harry,
Yours sincerely,
Li Hua.
