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🔑How to be more efficient: stop ‘ #precrastinating’
培養高效率習慣：停止「超前部署」!
⏰Putting off important jobs until the last moment, procrastination, is a well-known behaviour, but ‘precrastination’ can be just as dangerous.
總是將重要的工作拖到最後一刻，拖延症是一種眾所周知的行為，不過，「超前部署」可能也過猶不及。
-procrastination 拖延症
-“precrastination” 提前症
📋Whether or not we care to admit it, we’re all familiar with procrastination: waiting until the last minute to catch up with pressing tasks, often leading to subpar or incomplete work. The antidote – while easier said than done – is simply to start on your assignments sooner, long before the cut-off time so that your work reflects your full potential. But in your quest to beat procrastination, is it possible to go too far?
無論我們是否願意承認，人們對拖延症一定不陌生：等到最後一刻才急著處理急迫任務，往往會造成結果不盡理想或不夠完善。解決之道—儘管知易行難—就是在截止期限之前盡快開始工作，好讓最後的成果充分呈現你的付出。但是你在與拖延症對抗的過程中，有沒有可能做得太過頭？
-pressing: 急迫的
-easier said than done: 說比做容易，知易行難
- cut-off time: 截止時間
✍️David Rosenbaum, a professor of psychology at the University of California, Riverside, certainly thinks so. His research focuses on the perils of “precrastination”, the tendency to rush too quickly into tasks. It can result in an expenditure of unnecessary effort that could be avoided with a bit of planning – in other words, haste makes waste.
加州大學河濱分校心理學教授大衛・羅森鮑姆的確這麼認為。他專注研究「提前症」的危害，也就是急於完成任務的傾向。凡事都喜歡提前完成，可能會導致付出不必要的努力，而這可以透過適當的安排和計畫來避免——換句話說，欲速則不達。
-peril: 危險
-haste makes waste: 欲速則不達
🗣As opposed to a procrastinator, who might leave an inbox full of emails untouched until the next day, a precrastinator would read and respond to each of them first thing in the morning. Even if they know most of the emails are unimportant, they would choose to clear them off as soon as possible. In some cases, this can mean depleting the precious energy they might need for a more urgent task later on.
拖延者可能會把一大堆未讀郵件原封不動地留到第二天才處理，與之相比，提前者當天第一件事就是閱讀並回覆每一封郵件。即便他們知道多數郵件內容根本無關緊要，他們也會選擇盡快結束它們。在某些情況下，這可能意味著提前耗掉了之後處理更緊急任務所需的寶貴精力。
-as opposed to: 與…相反
-deplete: 剝奪、耗費
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❓❓多益模擬題❓:
Personality traits such as conscientiousness, eagerness to please and high energy can ＿＿＿ precrastination behaviors, Rosenbaum says, but the _______ impulse behind them is universal.
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A. dictate/ revolutionary
B. describe/ voluntary
C. predict/ evolutionary
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