• The Year of Wandering

    14-04-02 Between the preparation and the work, the apprenticeship(学徒期) and the actual dealing with a task or an art, there comes, in the experience of many young men, a period of uncertainty and wandering which is often misunderstood and counted as time...

  • continuous partial attention 持续部分关注

    14-03-20 Continuous partial attention (CPA) refers to a state in which most of one's attention is on a primary task, but where one is also monitoring several background tasks just in case something more important or interesting comes up. Continuous partial a...

  • perfectionist paralysis 完美主义瘫痪症

    14-03-06 Perfectionist paralysis refers to the inability to start on a project, assignment, essay or any creative task due to the fear of not getting it perfectly right. 完美主义瘫痪症指的是因害怕无法完美地做成某事而一直未能开始某个项目(作业、论文或创造性的...

  • time-sponger 拖拉者

    13-10-31 Positive procrastination is the technique of getting things done by working on one task as a way to procrastinate and avoid doing another task. 故意拖拉是一种执行任务的技巧,为了拖延时间,以避免做下一个任务。 If you want to stop procrastinating, sta...

  • 睡眠可巩固记忆

    13-03-21 Sleep plays an important role in the brain's ability to consolidate learning when two new potentially competing tasks are learned in the same day, research at the University of Chicago demonstrates. Other studies have shown that sleep consolidates l...

  • Freeze the Design

    12-07-04 Perfectionists(完美主义者) can waste just as much time as procrastinators(拖拉者) . Thomas R. Williams, former chairman of Wachovia Corporation, discovered that many young people in banking don't know when to stop researching a project and start...

  • supertasker 超级工作者

    11-11-08 The term supertasker is given to individuals able to successfully accomplish two or more tasks at oncea quality possessed by less than 2.5 percent of people. Supertasker(超级工作者)这个词是用来指代那些能够同时成功完成两件以上任务的人,具备这种素质...

  • 英国女性仍然负担大部分家务

    10-10-17 Women have fought hard for equality but a staggering 82 per cent still do the housework in their home, according to a revealing new study into Britain's cleaning habits. 一项有关英国人的清洁习惯的新研究惊人地揭示,尽管女性为实现平等进行了艰苦的斗争...

  • 消费者在购物前往往高估自己的能力

    10-07-21 Consumers give up on using products because they underestimate their learning abilities, according to a new study in the Journal of Consumer Research. Authors Darron Billeter (Brigham Young University), Ajay Kalra (Rice University), and George Loewe...

  • Olympic task to get people online 英国发动全民上网的奥林匹克

    09-08-29 The race is on to get as many people online as possible by 2012, Martha Lane Fox has told the BBC. Martha Lane Fox告诉BBC,2012年以前让尽可能多的人上网的活动已经开始。 Martha Lane Fox is best known as co-founder of LastMinute.com The newly-appointed...