Unit 11
Book Series: Deep Work
新知思想/閱讀種子
New Knowledge/Reading Knowledge
BRAIN STORM
Share your ideas with your teacher and try to make sentences.
On a scale of 1-10, rate your ability to concentrate.
*1 being you cannot concentrate and 10 being, you have excellent concentration ability.
VOCABULARY
Repeat these sentences after your teacher.
1. cognitive (adj.) 認知能力的
He was cognitively impaired from the accident.
事故使他在認知上受損。
2. flow state (phr.) 心流狀態
Wow! You look like you are in your flow state.
哇！您看起來好像處於流動狀態。
3. in the zone (phr.) 全神貫注的狀態
You are so energetic and in the zone!
您是如此充滿活力，並在區域內！
4. busywork (n.) 消磨時間的工作;累人而無價值的工作
The boss was in today, so we had to do a lot of busywork.
今天老板在，因此我們必須不忙也得裝忙。
5. work ethic (n.) 工作準則，職業道德
We value your work ethic in the office.
我們重視您在辦公室的職業道德。
6. rigorous (adj.) 嚴格的，嚴謹的
It was a long and rigorous training!
這是一次長期而嚴格的培訓！
7. regimen (n.) 生活規則，養生之道
What is your self-care regimen?
您的自我保健方案是什麼？
8. reorienting (v.) 調整,轉變方向
The company is starting to reorient its focus on a broader demographic.
該公司開始重新將重點放在更廣泛的人群上。
Dialogue
Read the dialogue aloud with your teacher.
Ever feel like your hard work isn’t producing real results?
In his bestselling book Deep Work, computer science professor Cal Newport argues that you may need to make a shift from hard work to deep work.
He characterizes deep work as “distraction-free concentration that pushes your cognitive capabilities to the limit.” In psychology, it’s called a flow state. Informally, it’s simply being “in the zone.“
Its opposite, “shallow work,” consists of busywork that is cognitively “shallow” and produces very little value compared to deep work.
你是否曾感覺你的辛勤工作並沒有產出實際的成果？
計算機科學教授Cal Newport在他的暢銷書《深度工作》中指出，你可能需要從努力工作轉向深度工作。
他將深度工作描述為”在無干擾的狀態下專注進行工作，使個人的認知能力達到極限」。 在心理學中，這被稱為心流狀態。 通俗來講，也就是處於”全神貫注的狀態”。
與深度工作相對的是「浮淺工作」，它由在認知上「浮於表面的」繁忙瑣事構成，而且與深度工作相比，能夠產出的價值微乎其微。
Applying deep work to your work ethic is anything but easy. It requires a rigorous training regimen, like removing distractions and scheduling time methodically.
He gives suggestions like switching off your internet, committing to a fixed end time of your day, and reorienting your focus using brain-building exercises.
Newport promises that cultivating deep work habits will have a transformative effect on your productivity and increase satisfaction in our lives.
將深度工作運用到你的工作準則中絕非易事。 這需要嚴格的訓練規則，比如排除干擾和有計劃地安排時間。
他給出了一些建議，比如關掉你的互聯網、保證每天的結束工作時間固定、通過增強腦力的練習來調整注意力。
Newport承諾，培養深度工作的習慣將會對你的工作效率產生顛覆性的影響，並且能夠提高我們在生活中的滿足感。
Grammar
anything but
In this lesson, we saw the sentence, “Applying deep work to your work ethic is anything but easy.” It can be rephrased: “Applying deep work to your work ethic is not easy at all.”
The phrase “anything but” is a great way to emphasize what something is not. It means “it can be many things, but it is absolutely not this.” Verbs, nouns or adjectives can follow “anything but.”
1. I ate too much sushi this week, so tonight I want anything but sushi.
2. The movie was supposed to be a comedy, but it was anything but funny.
3. I’m down for doing anything but going skydiving. I’m too scared!
DISCUSSION
Make a conversation with your teacher.
1.Can you site some tips on how you focus or concentrate on a specific task?
