（TED英文演讲）如何实现工作与生活的平衡 - 观后感

How to achieve work-life balance —— Feedback

This issue between work and life is so popular that most of us can’t escape, including the speaker. The speaker once was a classic workaholic who often neglected his family. Later, he found it dull and unsatisfied, which made up his mind to look into people’s struggling with work-life balance. And he shared us with his four observations.

Firstly, if people want to make any progress on this issue, we must have a necessary useful method. Such as flexi-time, paternity leave and dress-down Fridays have been proved not so useful as expected. They all served to mask the core issue that certain jobs and career choices are fundamentally incompatible with being meaningfully engaged with family. The second observation is that we need face the truth that corporations aren’t going to solve this issue for us. The reason is obvious for companies, why should they concern their employees’ life? All they think and want is to make sure of us well-utilized. So, as individuals, we should take control and responsibility for the type of lives that we want to lead instead of looking for helps. If you don’t design your life, someone else will be your designer, and you may not like their idea about balance.

The third observation is we have to be careful with the time frame that we choose upon which to judge our balance. We had better sit down and wrote out a detailed, step-by-step description of our balanced day. Maybe we have too much thing which can’t finish in one day, we must elongate our time rationally. To balance our work and life, there must be a middle way. The last one, we need to approach balance in a balanced way. Being balanced doesn’t mean dramatic upheaval in your life. With the smallest investment in right places, you can radically transform the quality of your relationships and the quality of your life.

In conclusion, if we can make progress in work-life balance, then we can transform society. We can convert the society’s definition of success into a more thoughtful and balanced definition of what a life well-lived looks like.

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