初衷
2020年05月18日，做了个重要的决定，解决了一个困扰了我许久的问题，虽然转而需要在有限的时间里完成一个重要又艰巨的任务，但是我很欣慰自己做出的改变。
2020年05月18日晚上，久违地点开邮箱里的TED Recommends，听了一个TED演讲，萌生了一个念头——养成听TED演讲的习惯。
但我很可能又只是一时脑热，没坚持几天就又停止了。
于是乎，想到了一个能扩宽视野+能提高英语水平+能督促自我的方式——听写。
该系列就诞生啦~
初步设定：
- 尽量做到每周完整听完2~3个TED视频
- listen and write down all I recognised
- check out with subtitles
删除线删除错误的词句，粗体补充遗漏的词句
1st - Try Something New for 30 Days
- Try Something New for 30 Days
- 2020.05.19
A few years ago, I thought felt that I was stuck and rot in a rut, so I decided to follow some steps in the footsteps of the great Great an Ameriacan fellow philosopher, Morgan Spurlock, and try something new for 30 days. The idea is actually pretty simple. Think about something you you’ve always want wanted to add to your life and try it for the next 30 days. It turns out, 30 day is just about the right amount of time to add your a new habit or substract your a habit – like watching the news – from your life.
There is a few things that I learned while doing thest from 30-day challenges. The first First was, instead of the months month flying by**,** forgotten, the time is was much more mememblememorable. This was part of a challenge I did to take pictures every day for a month~~,. and I remember exactly where I was and what was I doing that day. I also noticed,~~ that as I started to do more and harder 30 -day challenges, my self-confidence grew. I went rom desk-dwelling to dual desk computer room too, nerd to the kind of guy who bikes to work for fun.
Even last year, I~~'d piking mountain~~ ended up hikiing up Mt.Kilianjaro, the highest mountain in Africa. I would never have been that adventures before I started my 30 -day challenges.
I also figureed out that if you really want something mad badly enough, you can do anything for 30 days. If Have you ever wanted to write a novel
, ? every November , tens of thousands of people try to write their own a 50,000 - word novel , from Scritch scratch, in 30 days. It turns out, all you have to do is write 1,600 and 60 more 1,667 words a day for a month. So I did, by the way, the secret is not to go to sleep until you 've written your work words for the this day. You might be sleepy bread sleep-deprived, but you**'ll** finished a your novel.
Now, it’s my book the next great American novel? Nooooo, I wrote it in a month, it’s awful.
But, for the rest of my life, if I meet John Hodgman in a tech at a TED party, I don’t have to say ‘I’am a computer scientist’, no, no, if I want to, I can say, ‘I’am a novelist’.
So here is one last thing I’d like to mention. I learned that when I make made small sustainable changes, things I can could keep doing, they would were more likely sticked to stick. There is nothing wrong with big, crazy challenges .In and fact, they are a ton of fun., but they 're less likely to sticked. When I give gave up sugar for 30 days, then day 31 looks looked like this (picture).
So here is my question to you, what are you waiting for? I gurantee to you the next 30 days are going to pass when you and I get whether you like it or not. So why not think about something you have always wanted to try and get to finish it give it a shot for the next 30 days.
Thanks.
2nd - Lies, damned lies and statistics
- Lies, damned lies and statistics
- 2020.05.19
If you go on the TED website, you can currently find there over a full week of TED talk videos, over 1.3 million words of transcripts and millions of user ratings. And that**'s** was huge managed amount of data and it got me wondering, if you took all these this data and put it through the statistical analysis, could you reverse engineer a TED talk, could you create the ultimate TED talk, and also, could you create the worse worst possible TED talk that I they would still let get you get away with.
To find this out, I looked at three things. I looked at the topic, that it you should truth choose, I looked at how it you should deliberately deliver it and the visuals onstage the videos on stage. Now, with a the topic : there is a at the whole range of the topics you can choose, but you should choose wisely, because if your topic strongly correlated correlates with how users will reacted to the your talk. Now, to make this more concreat concrete, let’s look at the list of top 10 words that statistically sticked out and in the most favorite TED talks and in the least favorite TED talks. So if you came here to talk about how French coffee will spreads happiness in your our brains, that’s a goal go! Whereas, if you wanted to talk about your project involving oxygen, girls, aircraft, and ~~ actually I s~~ it is not so good.will would like to hear that talk, but statistics say
If you generalise generalize this**,** the most favorite TED talks those that feature topics can connnet with**,** both easily and deeply, such as~~,~~ happiness,our own body, food and emotions, and the more technical topics such as architecture, materials and strangely enough, men , those are not good topics to talk about.
How should you deliberate deliver your talk**?** and TED it is famous for keeping a very short sharp eye on the clock, so there’re going to hate me for revealing this, because actually you should talk as long as they would let let you, because the most favorite TED talks are on average are over 15% 50 percent longer than the least favorite ones. And it is this holds true for all ranking lists on TED .com talks come except if you want to have a talk that is beautiful, inspiring and or funny then you should be brief breath, and after But other than that, talks until they drag you off this the stage.
- TO BE CONTINUE.
3rd - What is depression?
- What is depression?
- 2020.05.21
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Depression is the leading cause of disability in the world. In the United States, cause close 10 percent of dogs adults struggled with depression. But the of because it’s a mental illness , it can be lard a lot harder to understand than,and said say, high cholesterol(胆固醇).
One major sauce source of confusion is the difference between having depression and just feeling depressed. Almost everyone feels down from time to time~~,~~ Getting a bad grade, losing a job, having an argument, even the rainy day can bring on feeling of sadness. Sometimes there was not trigger at all, it just pass about pops up out of the blue, then circustance circumstances changed, and those sad feelings disappeared.
Clinical depression is different, it is medical disorder, and it won’t go away just because you want it to. It rankered to lingers for at least two and consecutive weeks and significantly enters interferes with one’s your feels with ability to work, play or love.
Depression can have a lot of different symptoms, alone a low mood, lots loss of interesting in things you**'d normally** no more enjoy, changes in appetite, feeling worthless or excessively guilty, sleeping at either too much or too little, poor concentration, restlessness or slowness, loss of energy, or recurrent thoughts of suicide. If you have at least 5 of those symptoms, according to psychiatric（精神病学的） guidelines, you qualified qualify for a diagnose of depression.
And it**'s not** just not behaviored your behavioral symptoms, depression has physical manifestations inside the brain. First of all, they wolud there are changes as they would that could be seen in with the naked eyes in X.Ray vision**.** , There include smaller frontal lobes（耳垂；脑叶） and hippocampus hippocampal（海马趾的） volumn volumes. On a more microscale, depression is associated with a few things, the abnormal transmition transmission or depletion（消耗;用尽） of certain neurotransmitters（神经传递素）, especially serotonin（血清素）, norepinephrine（降肾上腺素,去甲肾上腺素） and dopamine（多巴胺） , blunted（钝的，不锋利的；生硬的） circadian（昼夜节奏的） rhythms, or speficity specific changes in the REM and slow**-wave** ways parts of your sleep cycle and homo hormone abnormalities, such as high crotisol and deregulation of thyroid hormones（甲状腺激素）.
But neuralscientists still don’t have a complete picture of what causes of depression, it seems to have to do with a complex interaction between genes and environment. But we don’t have a diagnose diagnostic tool that can accurately predict where or when it would will show up.
And because of depression symptoms are intangible（难以捉摸的, 难以理解的, 无法确定的）, it is hard to know who might looked fine but actually struggling. According to the National Institute of Mental Health into health, it takes the average per person suffering with a mental illness over 10 years to ask for help. But there are very effective teatments, medications and therapy~~,~~ complement each other~~, the~~ to boost bring chemicals . In extreme cases, electrical electroconvulsive（电惊厥的,电休克的） therapy**,** which is like a controled and bring seizure（夺取；捕获；没收） in the patient’s brain , it is also very helpful. Other promissing treatments, like transcranial magnetic stimulation（经颅磁刺激）, are being investigated , too.
So if you know someone struggling with depression, encourage them, gently Ja, to seek out some of these this options, you might be even offered to help with specific task, like looking up therapy therapists in the area, or making a list of questions to ask a doctor. To someone with depression, this these first steps to can seem insurmountable（不可逾越的）., If they feel guilty or ashamed, point out the that depression is a medical condition, just like asoma asthma or that diabetes. , It’s not a weakness or a personality trait, and they shouldn’t explain expect themsleves to just get over them it , any themselves anymore than they could will themselves to get over a broken arm. If you have to express haven’t experienced depression to yourself, avoid to comparing it to times your you’ve felt feel down, comparing what they**'re** expressing experiencing to normal**,** temporary feelings of sadness can make them feel guilty for struggling. Even just talking about depression openly can help. For example, researcher shows said they asked that asking someone about suicide suicidal thoughts or faults actually reduces their suicide risk. Open conversations about mental illness help erode stigma you and make it easier for people to ask for help, and the more patients seek treatment to desecret them then the more scientists would will learned about depression, and the better treatments would will get.
