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一辈子做好一件事

    ①台湾著名剧作家、导演李国修,年少时,曾抱怨父亲做了一辈子鞋没有发财。父亲痛骂一通后,告诫他:一辈子只要做好一件事,就算功德圆满。李国修深受启发,用毕生的精力只做“开门、上台、演戏”这一件事,让他享有“台湾莫里哀”的美名。对绝大多数人来说,一辈子专注做好一件事很重要。

    ②在现实生活中,人们往往认识不到这点的重要性。他们信奉“艺多不压身”,礼赞“十八般武艺,样样精通”,谁知到头来却落得个“样样涉足,个个平平”的局面,导致“艺多不养家”的尴尬后果。对普通人来说,这其实是一种必然的结局,因为许多伟人亦无法达到多才多艺的人生高度。

    ③法国作家莫泊桑小时候曾在福楼拜面前自信地说:“我上午用两个小时来读书写作,用另两个小时来弹钢琴,下午则用1个小时向邻居学习修理汽车,用3个小时来练习踢足球,晚上,我会去烧烤店学习怎样制作烧鸭,星期天则去乡下种菜。”说完后一脸得意。福楼拜听后笑了笑说:“我每天上午用4个小时来读书写作,下午用4个小时来读书写作,晚上,我还会用4个小时来读书写作。”福楼拜接着问:“你究竟有什么特长,比如有哪样事情你做得特别好?”这下,莫泊桑答不上来了。于是他便问福楼拜:“那么,您的特长又是什么呢?”福楼拜说:“写作。”原来特长便是专注地做好一件事情。于是,莫泊桑下决心拜福楼拜为文学导师,一心一意地读书写作,最终取得了丰硕的成果,跻身世界三大短篇小说之王的行列。

    ④专注于一件事,看似简单,其实是对毅力与恒心的考量。成功学上有个著名的“两万小时理论”,即“经过两万小时锻炼,任何人都能从平凡变成卓越”。但芸芸众生平凡者不可计数,卓越者凤毛麟角。原因很简单,两万小时锻炼太过漫长、枯燥、无趣,没有坚如磐石的信念,没有钢铁般的意志,动摇、绝望直至放弃是顺理成章的事。

    ⑤专注于一件事,看似艰难,其实也容易。只要我们选择的事业,是我们内心深处最渴望的,是我们最感兴趣的,漫长的“两万小时”就不会带来遥遥无期的恐惧,别人眼中枯燥、无趣的历程,便会成为时时给我们惊喜的旅程。只要我们拥有一颗任天边云卷云舒,静看庭前花开花落的淡泊之心,滚滚红尘的纷纷扰扰,便不会轻易动摇我们由平凡走向卓越的脚步。只要我们把“两万小时”分解到活着的每一天,我们每天为卓越所付出的不过是半小时、一小时而已。

    ⑥一个人的职业生涯和精力十分有限,利用这有限的精力,在有限的时间里专注地做好一件事,就很有可能从众人中脱颖而出。

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When you're not at home, many worries may start to crowd your mind. Did I turn the coffee maker off?

Did I lock the door? With a smart home, you can keep all of these worries off.

A smart home is a home with a communication network. This network connects devices (装置), such as lights and TV sets, and allows them to be controlled from far away through electrical wiring, mobile phone communication or WiFi over the Internet.

More and more people may start to consider owning a smart home, because it makes life much more convenient. It can help keep your room at a certain temperature. It can record what happens inside the home and send the video to your phone. When you are on vacation abroad, you can use a smart home controller to switch on or off the electricity when necessary. Some smart homes can receive a visitor, allowing him to come in and offering him a drink. They can even feed the cat and water the plants.

Besides, smart homes are easy to fix. Most smart home technology and devices are wireless and can be set up with a minimum of tools, using only the guiding information. When a problem appears, you can deal with it yourself without paying a professional.

However, for home-users, the smart home technology is far from perfect. It can be rather expensive to own the technology and the devices. Also, because the smart home system (系统) allows its owner to get home information from anywhere, it leaves the home easy to be attacked by hackers (黑客),who may secretly use or change the information in the system.

Now, many scientists are excited at the future of smart home technology. Imagine being able to get fashion advice from your mirror, or receive food shopping suggestions from your refrigerator, while there are others who worry that those smart devices will make people lazier and lonelier. Whatever it is, one thing is for sure — smart home technology will change the way we live and work.