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We have a problem—and the odd thing is we not only know about it, we’re celebrating it. Just today, someone boasted to me that s
We have a problem—and the odd thing is we not only know about it, we’re celebrating it. Just today, someone boasted to me that s
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2019-06-03
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We have a problem—and the odd thing is we not only know about it, we’re celebrating it. Just today, someone boasted to me that she was so busy she’ s averaged four hours of sleep a night for the last two weeks. She wasn’t complaining; she was proud of the fact. She is not alone.
Why are typically rational people so irrational in their behavior? The answer, I believe, is that we’ re in the midst of a bubble; one so vast that to bealive today in the developed world is to be affected, or infected, by it. 【R1】______
The nature of bubbles is that some asset is absurdly overvalued until—eventually—the bubble bursts, and we ’re left scratching our heads wondering why we were so irrationally exuberant in the first place. The asset we’re overvaluing now is the notion of doing it all, having it all, achieving it all; what Jim Collins calls "the undisciplined pursuit of more."
This bubble is being enabled by an unholy alliance between three powerful trends: smart phones, social media, and extreme consumerism. 【R2】______In the process, we have been sold a bill of goods: that success means being supermen and superwomen who can get it all done. Of course, we back-door-brag about being busy: it’s code for being successful and important.
Not only are we addicted to the drug of more, we are pushers too. 【R3】______And with them, busyness, sleep deprivation and stress.
Luckily, there is an antidote to the undisciplined pursuit of more: the disciplined pursuit of less, but better. A growing number of people are making this shift. I call these people Essentialists. These people are designing their lives around what is essential and eliminating everything else. 【R4】______
They trade off time on Facebook and call those few friends who really matter to them. Instead of running to back-to-back in meetings, they put space on their calendars to get important work done.
A hundred years from now, when people look back at this period, they will marvel at the stupidity of it all: the stress, the motion sickness, and the self-neglect we put ourselves through.
So we have two choices. 【R5】______
[A]On one hand, our children are given more free time to dominate and on the other hand they are usually immersed in what we regards invaluable.
[B]The result is not just information overload, but opinion overload. We are more aware than at anytime in history of what everyone else is doing and, therefore, what we "should" be doing.
[C]In the race to get our children into "a good college" we have added absurd amounts of homework, sports, clubs, dance performances and ad infinitum extra curricul aractivities.
[D]It’s the bubble of bubbles: it not only mirrors the previous bubbles(whether of the Tulip, Silicon Valley or Real Estate variety), it undergirds them all. I call it "The More Bubble."
[E]We can be among the last people caught up in the "more bubble" when it bursts, or we can see the madness for what it is and join the growing community of Essentialists and get more of what matters in our one precious life.
[F]The bubble makes people live in a self-thinking world, considering whether they should be proud of or hate their busy work. This paradoxical feeling worries most people.
[G]These people take walks in the morning to think and ponder, they negotiate to have actual weekends(i.e. during which they are not working), they turn technology off for set periods every night and create technology-free zones in their homes.
【R3】
选项
答案
C
解析
空格前介绍了在加大自己工作量的同时,我们也开始敦促别人完成各种任务。C项对此举了一个例子,即为了让我们的孩子能够上更好的大学,他们要做额外的功课,大量的运动.参加各种俱乐部、舞会以及其他数不清的课外活动。因此,该选项顺接了前文信息,符合题意,为正确答案。
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