TED 테드로 영어공부 하기 How to gain control of your free time by Laura Vanderkam

 

안녕하세요, Davey 입니다. 오늘 소개드릴 TED speech 는 모든 사람들이 원하는 "여유 시간" 이라는 주제와 관련된 강연입니다. 바로, 어떻게, 자유시간을 컨트롤하는지에 대한 팁이 담겨있는 강연입니다.

 

Title은 How to gain control of your free time 입니다. 본문 내용은 아래 Link 참조 부탁 드립니다.

 

https://www.ted.com/talks/laura_vanderkam_how_to_gain_control_of_your_free_time

How to gain control of your free time

- 자유시간이라... 사람들이 항상 일단 자기개발, 아니면 부탁을 받을 때 제일 먼저 하는 애기가, "아! 미안, 시간이 없어서" 아니면, "아~ 시간이 없어서 못해" 이렇게 애기하는게 대부분입니다. 그래서 그런지, 강연내용에서 다른 사람들이 그냥 애기한 내용이 아닌 다른 내용이 나오지 않을 까 하는 기대감으로 강연을 읽게 되었습니다. 일단 서두에는, 자신이 시간관리에 대해서 쓰는 사람이라고 알면, 항상 모든 상황에서 시간을 잘 지키는 사람이라고 인식을 합니다. 하지만, 저도, 예전에, 제 시간 관리에 대한 강연에 늦었습니다. 이 아이러니 한 상황을 즐기세요라고 하면서, 분위기를 업하네요.

 

- 오른쪽을 돌때, 심부름을 해라 등의 여유시간을 가질 수 있는 상황이 많다는 걸 애기를 하고 있습니다. 이 부분에 대해서 연구하는 과정에서 정말 바쁜 여자가, 배수관이 고장나서, 바닥이 물로 흠뻑 젖어버릴때 배관공이 와서 그것을 치우는 그 과정응 수행 할 수 있는 시간을 찾을 거죠! 즉, 시간이 없다는 것은 우선순위에서 밀렸다는 거라고 설명을 합니다. 누군가가 부탁할때 시간이 없다고 하는건, 우선순위에서 부탁받은게 밀린거죠~ 이런 이론을 들으면, 나름대로 설득은 되는거 같습니다. 저도 사실, 지금 현재 자신이 처한 상황이 가장 중요하다고 생각하는거죠. 근데 여기에서 speaker가
애기한 듯이 돈 많이 줄테니까 자신이 부탁한걸 해달라고 하면 안할까요? 당연히 하겠죠. 머 비현실적인 애기라고도 하네요. 즉, 시간을 내고 그걸 사용하는건 우선순위 정하는거라는것과, 우리가 일하고도, 충분히 우리가 원하는 or 우리가 해야 하는 일을 할수 있는 시간이 어느정도 있다는 걸 기억하시면서 (티비를 보거나 그냥 어정거리는데 시간 낭비하지 마시고) 아래 본문 script와 단어 참조하시어, 영어공부 열심히 하세요. 아래 script는 TED 홈페이지 해당 speech의 Transcript 내용 참조하였습니다.

- How to gain control of your free time script & words

 

TED 영상 사진 참조

 

When people find out I write about time management, they assume two things. One is that I'm always on time, and I'm not. I have four small children, and I would like to blame them for my occasional tardiness, but sometimes it's just not their fault. I was once late to my own speech on time management.
(Laughter)

tardiness 느림, 지각, 완만함

We all had to just take a moment together and savor that irony.

savor ~의 미기가 있다, 만끽하다, 음미하다

The second thing they assume is that I have lots of tips and tricks for saving bits of time here and there. Sometimes I'll hear from magazines that are doing a story along these lines, generally on how to help their readers find an extra hour in the day. And the idea is that we'll shave bits of time off everyday activities, add it up, and we'll have time for the good stuff. I question the entire premise of this piece, but I'm always interested in hearing what they've come up with before they call me. Some of my favorites: doing errands where you only have to make right-hand turns
(Laughter)

Being extremely judicious in microwave usage: it says three to three-and-a-half minutes on the package, we're totally getting in on the bottom side of that. And my personal favorite, which makes sense on some level, is to DVR your favorite shows so you can fast-forward through the commercials. That way, you save eight minutes every half hour, so in the course of two hours of watching TV, you find 32 minutes to exercise.
(Laughter)

 

judicious 신중한, 판단력있는 
fast-forward 테이프 빨리 감기 

Which is true. You know another way to find 32 minutes to exercise? Don't watch two hours of TV a day, right?
(Laughter)

Anyway, the idea is we'll save bits of time here and there, add it up, we will finally get to everything we want to do. But after studying how successful people spend their time and looking at their schedules hour by hour, I think this idea has it completely backward. We don't build the lives we want by saving time. We build the lives we want, and then time saves itself.

Here's what I mean. I recently did a time diary project looking at 1,001 days in the lives of extremely busy women. They had demanding jobs, sometimes their own businesses, kids to care for, maybe parents to care for, community commitments -- busy, busy people. I had them keep track of their time for a week so I could add up how much they worked and slept, and I interviewed them about their strategies, for my book.

One of the women whose time log I studied goes out on a Wednesday night for something. She comes home to find that her water heater has broken, and there is now water all over her basement. If you've ever had anything like this happen to you, you know it is a hugely damaging, frightening, sopping mess. So she's dealing with the immediate aftermath that night, next day she's got plumbers coming in, day after that, professional cleaning crew dealing with the ruined carpet. All this is being recorded on her time log. Winds up taking seven hours of her week. Seven hours. That's like finding an extra hour in the day.

 

sopping 흠뻑 다 젖은 
aftermath 여파 
wind up 마무리 짓다 

 

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 seven hours to mentor seven worthy people?" I'm sure she would've said what most of us would've said, which is, "No -- can't you see how busy I am?" Yet when she had to find seven hours because there is water all over her basement, she found seven hours. And what this shows us is that time is highly elastic. We cannot make more time, but time will stretch to accommodate what we choose to put into it.

And so the key to time management is treating our priorities as the equivalent of that broken water heater. To get at this, I like to use language from one of the busiest people I ever interviewed. By busy, I mean she was running a small business with 12 people on the payroll, she had six children in her spare time. I was getting in touch with her to set up an interview on how she "had it all" -- that phrase. I remember it was a Thursday morning, and she was not available to speak with me. Of course, right?

But the reason she was unavailable to speak with me is that she was out for a hike, because it was a beautiful spring morning, and she wanted to go for a hike. So of course this makes me even more intrigued, and when I finally do catch up with her, she explains it like this. She says, "Listen Laura, everything I do, every minute I spend, is my choice." And rather than say, "I don't have time to do x, y or z," she'd say, "I don't do x, y or z because it's not a priority." "I don't have time," often means "It's not a priority." If you think about it, that's really more accurate language. I could tell you I don't have time to dust my blinds, but that's not true. If you offered to pay me $100,000 to dust my blinds, I would get to it pretty quickly.
(Laughter)

 

to dust 먼지를 털다 

Since that is not going to happen, I can acknowledge this is not a matter of lacking time; it's that I don't want to do it. Using this language reminds us that time is a choice. And granted, there may be horrible consequences for making different choices, I will give you that. But we are smart people, and certainly over the long run, we have the power to fill our lives with the things that deserve to be there.

So how do we do that? How do we treat our priorities as the equivalent of that broken water heater?

Well, first we need to figure out what they are. I want to give you two strategies for thinking about this. The first, on the professional side: I'm sure many people coming up to the end of the year are giving or getting annual performance reviews. You look back over your successes over the year, your "opportunities for growth." And this serves its purpose, but I find it's more effective to do this looking forward. So I want you to pretend it's the end of next year. You're giving yourself a performance review, and it has been an absolutely amazing year for you professionally. What three to five things did you do that made it so amazing? So you can write next year's performance review now.

And you can do this for your personal life, too. I'm sure many of you, like me, come December, get cards that contain these folded up sheets of colored paper, on which is written what is known as the family holiday letter. (Laughter)

Bit of a wretched genre of literature, really, going on about how amazing everyone in the household is, or even more scintillating, how busy everyone in the household is. But these letters serve a purpose, which is that they tell your friends and family what you did in your personal life that mattered to you over the year. So this year's kind of done, but I want you to pretend it's the end of next year, and it has been an absolutely amazing year for you and the people you care about. What three to five things did you do that made it so amazing? So you can write next year's family holiday letter now. Don't send it.
(Laughter)

 

wretched 가련한, 불쌍한

household 가정 

scintillating 불꽃을 내는, 반짝 반짝 빛나는 

Please, don't send it. But you can write it. And now, between the performance review and the family holiday letter, we have a list of six to ten goals we can work on in the next year.

And now we need to break these down into doable steps. So maybe you want to write a family history. First, you can read some other family histories, get a sense for the style. Then maybe think about the questions you want to ask your relatives, set up appointments to interview them. Or maybe you want to run a 5K. So you need to find a race and sign up, figure out a training plan, and dig those shoes out of the back of the closet. And then -- this is key -- we treat our priorities as the equivalent of that broken water heater, by putting them into our schedules first. We do this by thinking through our weeks before we are in them.

 

doable ~할 수 있는

 

I find a really good time to do this is Friday afternoons. Friday afternoon is what an economist might call a "low opportunity cost" time. Most of us are not sitting there on Friday afternoons saying, "I am excited to make progress toward my personal and professional priorities right now."
(Laughter)

But we are willing to think about what those should be. So take a little bit of time Friday afternoon, make yourself a three-category priority list: career, relationships, self. Making a three-category list reminds us that there should be something in all three categories. Career, we think about; relationships, self -- not so much. But anyway, just a short list, two to three items in each. Then look out over the whole of the next week, and see where you can plan them in.

Where you plan them in is up to you. I know this is going to be more complicated for some people than others. I mean, some people's lives are just harder than others. It is not going to be easy to find time to take that poetry class if you are caring for multiple children on your own. I get that. And I don't want to minimize anyone's struggle. But I do think that the numbers I am about to tell you are empowering.

There are 168 hours in a week. Twenty-four 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 eight hours a night, so 56 hours a week -- that leaves 72 hours for other things. That is a lot of time. You say you're working 50 hours a week, maybe a main job and a side hustle. Well, that leaves 62 hours for other things. You say you're working 60 hours. Well, that leaves 52 hours for other things. You say you're working more than 60 hours. Well, are you sure?
(Laughter)

There was once a study comparing people's estimated work weeks with time diaries. They found that people claiming 75-plus-hour work weeks were off by about 25 hours.
(Laughter)

You can guess in which direction, right? Anyway, in 168 hours a week, I think we can find time for what matters to you. If you want to spend more time with your kids, you want to study more for a test you're taking, you want to exercise for three hours and volunteer for two, you can. And that's even if you're working way more than full-time hours.

So we have plenty of time, which is great, because guess what? We don't even need that much time to do amazing things. But when most of us have bits of time, what do we do? Pull out the phone, right? Start deleting emails. Otherwise, we're puttering around the house or watching TV.

 

putter 통통 거리다, 어정거리다

But small moments can have great power. You can use your bits of time for bits of joy. Maybe it's choosing to read something wonderful on the bus on the way to work. I know when I had a job that required two bus rides and a subway ride every morning, I used to go to the library on weekends to get stuff to read. It made the whole experience almost, almost, enjoyable. Breaks at work can be used for meditating or praying. If family dinner is out because of your crazy work schedule, maybe family breakfast could be a good substitute.

It's about looking at the whole of one's time and seeing where the good stuff can go. I truly believe this. There is time. Even if we are busy, we have time for what matters. And when we focus on what matters, we can build the lives we want in the time we've got.
Thank you.

(Applause)

 

우선순위라~ 삼성의 모토가 선택과 집중이라고 하는데 머~ 약간은 의미상으로 완벽하게 똑같지 않지만, 우선순위를 정해서 자신이 필요한 것을 위해서 시간을 내고 남는 시간동안에는 자신이 꼭 해야하는일, 하고 싶은일을 하도록 시간관리를 잘 하도록 노력해야 할거 같습니다. 그럼 위 강연도 조금이나마 도움이 되셨으면 하네요! 감사합니다.

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