一分鍾聽-daydreaming（速度較快，大家聽聽看）

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Ah, daydreaming. Is there anything more pleasant than sitting back and letting your thoughts drift? Well, yes: not letting your thoughts drift, for one. Because according to a study published in the journal Science, people are least happy when their minds wander. [M. Killingsworth and Daniel Gilbert, A Wandering Mind Is an Unhappy Mind, citation link to come]

Humans, to a degree unmatched by other animals, are capable of thinking about things outside the here and now—something that happened yesterday, or something they hope will happen tomorrow. It’s that sort of itinerant intellect that allows us to plan and to learn. But at what cost?

Psychologists at Harvard used an iPhone app to find out. At random times throughout the day, the program asked some 2,200 participants what they were doing, what they were thinking about and how they felt. Turns out that people spend nearly half their waking hours thinking about something other than what they’re doing. And that whether and where their thoughts tend to stray is a better predictor of their feelings than what they’re actually up to. The scientists conclude that a wandering mind is an unhappy mind.

So try to focus on, and live in, the present. You might discover that happiness is just being where it’s happening.

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• 前一陣天天聽，聽了２０多天，沒堅持下來。個人感覺是不錯的材料。 -戲雨飛鷹- ♀ (0 bytes) () 11/11/2010 postreply 11:40:08

• Where did you get it? -美壇奇葩- ♂ (0 bytes) () 11/11/2010 postreply 11:57:49

• you like it? -戲雨飛鷹- ♀ (101 bytes) () 11/11/2010 postreply 12:01:23

• Good material. Thanks. -北京二號- ♀ (224 bytes) () 11/11/2010 postreply 12:23:07

• 你英語聽說都好。我聽力還常常有聽不懂的時候。 -戲雨飛鷹- ♀ (0 bytes) () 11/11/2010 postreply 12:31:33

• 你謙虛。 -北京二號- ♀ (0 bytes) () 11/11/2010 postreply 12:41:06

• 謙虛我就不練聽力了：））。我的聽力一會兒好一會兒壞 -戲雨飛鷹- ♀ (61 bytes) () 11/11/2010 postreply 12:55:05

• I actually make money on this watching -走馬讀人- ♂ (83 bytes) () 11/11/2010 postreply 12:53:49

• you are painting it? -戲雨飛鷹- ♀ (32 bytes) () 11/11/2010 postreply 12:58:19

• or, are you watching white clouds&blue sky daydreaming to make m -戲雨飛鷹- ♀ (0 bytes) () 11/11/2010 postreply 13:00:54

• to make money? -戲雨飛鷹- ♀ (0 bytes) () 11/11/2010 postreply 13:02:38

• The clouds is market indicater to me. -走馬讀人- ♂ (218 bytes) () 11/11/2010 postreply 13:21:10

• 快。我能聽懂10%。和我老板一樣快。我幾乎是聽不懂 -falsetruth- ♀ (200 bytes) () 11/11/2010 postreply 13:04:17

• 你比我強，我聽懂9%.但我quote unquote不任輸。 -戲雨飛鷹- ♀ (70 bytes) () 11/11/2010 postreply 14:39:33

• 對你的記憶我quote，unquote 認輸：） -falsetruth- ♀ (19 bytes) () 11/11/2010 postreply 14:49:12

• 俺那是引用。你這引號加的，可是反意詞的意思。;0) -戲雨飛鷹- ♀ (0 bytes) () 11/11/2010 postreply 18:51:26

• Thank 戲雨飛鷹 for sharing such wonderful listening materials. -紫君- ♀ (0 bytes) () 11/11/2010 postreply 13:09:32

• 謝謝紫君鼓勵。這是聽力連接: -戲雨飛鷹- ♀ (107 bytes) () 11/11/2010 postreply 14:45:24

• Thank you. Good night and sweet dream... -紫君- ♀ (0 bytes) () 11/11/2010 postreply 19:57:43

• 'How are you?" someone is texting you and thinking of you ! -billnet- ♂ (56 bytes) () 11/11/2010 postreply 13:15:21

• 謝謝bill鼓勵。好久不見。 -戲雨飛鷹- ♀ (104 bytes) () 11/11/2010 postreply 14:50:57

• itinerant 這個詞沒聽懂，練聽寫，這倒是個不錯的材料, thanks for sharing~ -lilac09- ♀ (0 bytes) () 11/11/2010 postreply 15:34:53

• 你聽力好！itinerant我也聽了好幾遍。還有第一句裏的than我聽不出來但我猜出來了。還有兩處，忘了：） -戲雨飛鷹- ♀ (95 bytes) () 11/11/2010 postreply 15:50:26

• 嗬嗬～這我如果聽不懂，課就沒法上了 :) -千與.千尋- ♀ (0 bytes) () 11/11/2010 postreply 17:55:52

• 非常好的資料，謝飛鷹～ 如果下周考試考了，我再謝你哈～ -千與.千尋- ♀ (0 bytes) () 11/11/2010 postreply 17:56:45

• 祝考個好成績。考完了，給我們念上一段：） -戲雨飛鷹- ♀ (0 bytes) () 11/11/2010 postreply 18:43:16

• 下周考完了，還有期末呢...... :) -千與.千尋- ♀ (0 bytes) () 11/11/2010 postreply 19:08:00

• "happiness is just being where it’s happening." -YuGong- ♂ (0 bytes) () 11/11/2010 postreply 17:58:01

• that's true. Thanks, fishman. 魚公回來了。不打魚啦? ：））） -戲雨飛鷹- ♀ (0 bytes) () 11/11/2010 postreply 18:47:30

• 回複：that's true. Thanks, fishman. 魚公回來了。不打魚啦? ：））） -YuGong- ♂ (464 bytes) () 11/11/2010 postreply 19:38:45

• 我們的這裏生活充滿陽光，充滿陽光，好好享受,好好享受:) -戲雨飛鷹- ♀ (0 bytes) () 11/11/2010 postreply 20:08:26

• I am definitely a daydreamer more than half of my waking time;) -梅石瑩玉- ♀ (0 bytes) () 11/12/2010 postreply 06:06:39

• 我也是。以後咱們少些dream，多些happy:) -戲雨飛鷹- ♀ (0 bytes) () 11/12/2010 postreply 21:03:36