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各位會員好朋友們:
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長久以來Billy 想著讀書會 應該發揮更大的功能
周六 讀書會
流程將有些改變 要有新鮮感
Session1. 英文時事討論一篇.(有時增加英文情境對話一篇)
Session2. 書籍
雜誌 有趣及有益文章分享探討
(文章請參閱下方)
6月29日 周六中文主題: 好習慣決定好命運
(各位好朋友
您覺得習慣會影響學習 生活 工作嗎?)
每個人的知識有限，任何人都不可能親自去體驗所有的生活。因此，我們必須利用各種管道去吸取別人的經驗來開拓我們的視野，豐富我們的心靈，累積我們的知識，增長我們的智慧。
(所以Billy想透過交流分享讀書心得 可以讓我們學習更多)
閱讀將帶給人們許多益處，所以社會生活水準愈高的國家，人民閱讀的風氣就愈盛，在歐洲和日本的地鐵上，我們隨時可以發現許多人都安詳的在讀書，即使在等候公車，也充分把握時間閱讀。實在很可惜，台灣目前已經是一個富有的國家，但是我們的國人卻還沒有養成閱讀的習慣，所以各位好朋友讓我們一起來培養閱讀的好習慣，深信我們的生活將會因此更加豐碩，知識視野更增進。
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Unhappy People Watch TV, Happy People Read
(Contacts: Neil Tickner ntickner@umd.edu)
A new study by
sociologists at the University of Maryland concludes that unhappy people watch
more TV, while people who describe themselves as "very happy" spend
more time reading and socializing. The study appears in the December issue of
the journal Social Indicators Research.
Analyzing 30-years
worth of national data from time use studies and a continuing series of social
attitude surveys, the Maryland researchers report that spending time watching
television may contribute to viewers' happiness in the moment, with less positive
effects in the long run.
"TV doesn't
really seem to satisfy people over the long haul the way that social
involvement or reading a newspaper does," says University of Maryland
sociologist John P. Robinson, the study co-author and a pioneer in time use studies.
"It's more passive and may provide escape - especially when the news is as
depressing as the economy itself. The data suggest to us that the TV habit may
offer short-run pleasure at the expense of long-term malaise."
TV VIEWING DURING
A FINANCIAL CRISIS
Based on data from
time use surveys, Robinson projects that TV viewing might increase
significantly as the economy worsens in the next few months and years.
"Through good
and bad economic times, our diary studies, have consistently found that work is
the major activity correlate of higher TV viewing hours," Robinson says.
"As people have progressively more time on their hands, viewing hours increase."
But Robinson
cautions that some of that extra time also might be spent sleeping. "As
working and viewing hours increase, so do sleep hours," he says.
"Sleep could be the second major beneficiary of job loss or reduced
working hours."
STUDY FINDINGS AND
DATA
In their new
study, Robinson and his co-author, University of Maryland sociologist Steven
Martin, set out to learn more about the activities that contributed to
happiness in people's lives. They analyzed two sets of data spanning nearly 30
years (1975-2006) gathered from nearly 30,000 adults:
•A series of time use studies that asked
people to fill out diaries for a 24-hour period and to indicate how pleasurable
they found each activity;
•General Social Survey attitude studies,
which Robinson calls the premier national source for monitoring changes in
public attitudes - in-depth surveys that over the years consistently asked
subjects how happy they feel, how they spend their time, among a number of
other questions.
NHAPPY PEOPLE
VIEW SIGNIFICANTLY MORE
Robinson and
Martin found that the two sets of data largely coincided for most activities -
with the exception of television.
From the General
Social Survey, the researchers found that self-described very happy people were
more socially active, attended more religious services, voted more and read
more newspapers. By contrast, unhappy people watched significantly more
television in their spare time.
According to the
study's findings, unhappy people watch an estimated 20 percent more television
than very happy people, after taking into account their education, income, age
and marital status - as well as other demographic predictors of both viewing
and happiness.
UNHAPPY PEOPLE ARE
HAPPY WITH TV
Data from time
diaries told a somewhat different story. Responding in "real time,"
much closer to daily events, survey respondents tended to rate television
viewing more highly as a daily activity.
"What viewers
seem to be saying is that while TV in general is a waste of time and not
particularly enjoyable, 'the shows I saw tonight were pretty good,' "
Robinson says.
The data also
suggested to Robinson and Martin that TV viewing is "easy." Viewers
don't have to go anywhere, dress up, find company, plan ahead, expend energy,
do any work or spend money in order to view. Combine these advantages with the
immediate gratification offered by television, and you can understand why
Americans spend more than half their free time as TV viewers, the researchers
say.
Unhappy people
were also more likely to feel that they have unwanted extra time on their hands
(51 percent) compared to very happy people (19 percent) and to feel rushed for
time (35 percent vs. 23 percent). Having too much time and no clear way to fill
it was the bigger burden of the two.
AN ADDICT'S FIX
Martin likens the
short, temporary pleasure of television to addiction: "Addictive
activities produce momentary pleasure and long-term misery and regret," he
says. "People most vulnerable to addiction tend to be socially or
personally disadvantaged. For this kind of person, TV can become a kind of
opiate in a way. It's habitual, and tuning in can be an easy way of tuning
out."
Questions:
1. Is too much television an unhappy habit?
Effects of television addiction?
2. How to overcome television addiction?
3. What makes people happy and what makes
people unhappy?
4. Is facebook making us lonely?
5. Why do people get depressed?
6. Pros and cons of the internet in today's
society?
7. Ways to make yourself happier?
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