TED | 如何把你重视的事情做得更好

 

演讲简介

在本段视频中，爱德华多·布里塞诺告诉我们如何在自己关心的事务上做得更好的方法，无论这个事务是工作，家庭还是自己的爱好。他同时分享了一些有用的方法，这样你可以一直保持学习并且一直觉得你在进步。

 

 

 

 

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They go through life deliberately alternating between two zones: the learning zone and the performance zone. 

生活中，他们有意识的在两个区域转换：学习区和展现区。

 

The learning zone is when our goal is to improve. Then we do activities designed for improvement, concentrating on what we haven't mastered yet, which means we have to expect to make mistakes, knowing that we will learn from them. That is very different from what we do when we're in our performance zone, which is when our goal is to do something as best as we can, to execute. Then we concentrate on what we have already mastered and we try to minimize mistakes. 

在学习区，我们希冀进步，我们为了进步而计划行为，将精力集中在那些我们还没有掌握的东西上，我们意识到自己会犯错，并且知道我们会从中汲取什么教训。这和我们在展现区做的完全不同，在展现区我们的目标是做到最好，去执行，我们在已经掌握的东西上集中精力，并尽力把错误缩小。

 

Both of these zones should be part of our lives, but being clear about when we want to be in each of them, with what goal, focus and expectations, helps us better perform and better improve. The performance zone maximizes our immediate performance, while the learning zone maximizes our growth and our future performance. 

这两个区域都应是我们生活的一部分，但是在进入区域之前，想清楚我们进的是哪个区，我们的目标是什么、精力放在哪、有什么样的期望，这会帮助我们更好的提升或表现在展现区将展现最大化，在学习区将进步最大化并在未来的展现中将其表现。

 

The reason many of us don't improve much despite our hard work is that we tend to spend almost all of our time in the performance zone. This hinders our growth, and ironically, over the long term, also our performance. 

我们努力工作却没有太多进步的原因，是我们往往将时间都花在了展现区里。这阻碍着我们的进步，更讽刺的是，长久来看，这也影响着我们的展现。

 

 

So how can we spend more time in the learning zone? First, we must believe and understand that we can improve, what we call a growth mindset. Second, we must want to improve at that particular skill. There has to be a purpose we care about, because it takes time and effort. Third, we must have an  idea about how to improve, what we can do to improve, not how I used to practice the guitar as a teenager, performing songs over and over again, but doing deliberate practice. 

那我们如何将更多时间用在学习区上呢？首先， 坚定我们一定会进步的信念，我们叫它“成长思维”。 其次，成长目标必须明确。 时间、精力有限，它们必须花费在我们特定的目标上。 第三，我们必须要知道如何提高， 怎样提高，不能像小时候学吉他， 一遍遍重复单调的歌曲， 而是做一些有意的练习。 

 

And fourth, we must be in a low-stakes situation, because if mistakes are to be expected, then the consequence of making them must not be catastrophic, or even very significant. A tightrope walker doesn't practice new tricks without a net underneath, and an athlete wouldn't set out to first try a new move during a championship match. 

第四，保证低风险， 因为犯错在意料之中， 其后果必不能不堪设想， 哪怕是有一点严重都不行。 没有拦网，走钢索的人不会去训练新技巧， 在大赛上，运动员也不会去开发新的动作。