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跟外國客戶開完會,回程捷運上你在想什麼?會議結論?還是那句講錯的英文,在腦中重播了十幾遍,旁邊還有個聲音補刀:「你英文怎麼這麼爛。」
那個聲音不是你。這集幕後教師室聊的書《Positive Intelligence》,教你把它揪出來,取個名字,然後讓它替你工作。
它不是惡魔,是破壞者
作者 Shirzad Chamine 是紐約時報暢銷作家,也在史丹佛講課,長年到各大企業做教練。他把腦中那個扯後腿的聲音叫做 Saboteur,內在破壞者。站在它對面的叫 Sage,智者。
聽起來很像小天使跟小惡魔對吧?阿鍵老師也這樣問。John老師說差別在這裡:惡魔是叫你去做壞事,Saboteur 沒有,它只是在你該做事的時候說「算了啦」「你那麼廢,幹嘛讓自己這麼痛苦」。順帶一提,saboteur 跟 sabotage 都是從法文來的字,搞破壞叫 sabotage,搞破壞的那個人就是 saboteur。
英文有句話說 You are your own worst enemy,你最大的敵人就是你自己。專案還沒開始就先認定三個月內會爛掉,明天還沒上班就覺得一定會出包。John老師自己示範,說他照鏡子覺得顏值大概 8.5 分,阿鍵老師很捧場地說至少 9.5,結果 John老師說不行,這時候 Saboteur 就該出來講「其實你只有 6 分」。
為什麼要幫它取名字?
負面想法最麻煩的地方,是它沒有形狀。說是情緒也不完全是,說是念頭又會讓你肩頸變重、呼吸卡卡的。John老師形容像遊戲裡的詛咒,一層一層疊上去,等你發現的時候已經重到抬不起頭。
看不見的東西只會讓人更慌。所以書裡第一招很可愛,name it。John老師當場把他的取名叫「小毛」,你要叫 Peter、Tina 都可以。
取了名字,事情就變了。本來是「我英文很爛」,現在是「小毛說我英文很爛」。下一步問自己:Is it a fact or a thought? 這是事實,還是只是一個想法?阿鍵老師說大部分根本還沒發生,你把它當事實,等於親手讓它成真。
十秒鐘,先不要急著反駁
小毛一出現,我們通常馬上進入防衛模式,急著辯解,動作跟語氣都被帶著走。開會時被主管唸了一句,後面別人講什麼完全聽不進去,就是這種狀態。
Chamine 的做法叫 PQ Reps,把它想成大腦的重訓,一次只要十秒左右。不去管小毛說什麼,把注意力放回呼吸、放回身體的感覺,先跟它拉開距離。阿鍵老師說這跟之前節目教過的 5-4-3-2-1 很像,倒數完就動,不讓它繼續佔著你的心思。
拉開距離之後換一句話問自己。書裡的說法是 replace judgment with curiosity,把批評換成好奇。「你英文講錯了,真差」跟「我剛剛講錯什麼?下次怎麼說比較好?」是同一件事,但後面那句是 Sage 在講話。
光轉念不夠,還要動手
對著鏡子喊 I'm okay 沒有用,那不算行動,比較像催眠自己。
John老師舉了一個很生活的英文會話例子。人家稱讚你,你一直回 no no no,事後才想到其實說 thank you 就夠了。這時候與其懊惱,不如回家打開 ChatGPT,把同一個情境再 role-play 一遍,逼自己把 thank you 講到順口。你學到的是「這個場合這樣說更好」,而不是「我英文很差」。
在竹科上班的人應該很有感,沒有哪個產品是第一版就成功的。兩位老師聊到 SpaceX,火箭炸了那麼多次,現在可以飛出去再倒退回來,被發射塔的「筷子」夾住。阿鍵老師說這根本是飛上天的掃地機器人回充電座。別人的失敗我們看得懂是累積,輪到自己講錯一個字,卻覺得 the end of the world。
行動做久了,John老師說小毛會越來越小,最後變「沒毛」。而且他認為其實沒有兩個聲音,小毛跟 Sage 是同一個東西的兩面,你拿它來讓自己進步,它就是你的 Sage。
這週的小挑戰
找出你最常批評自己的那件事,幫它取個名字。它出現的時候問三個問題:
Is it a fact or a story? What can I learn from this? What can I do next?
第三題 John老師有意見。他說不要問 what,直接講 Let's do this next,告訴自己去做就對了。

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Summary:
For many years, social media companies like Facebook, Google and other online competitors are challenging the influence of traditional magazine publishers in the world. After executive senior editors of top international magazines like Vanity Fair, Time, Elle, Glamour, and Rolling Stone have stepped down, it seems like the prediction of the fall of traditional media is becoming a reality. As people are reading less, publishers are taking an “anything goes” approach” in search for new revenue streams. Now Time is featuring viral videos of animals and Hearst is now partnering with Airbnb on a new magazine.
原跟讀文章: https://www.15mins.today/blog/ep-k021-the-not-so-glossy-future-of-magazines
Vocabulary and Sample Sentences:
Chauffeur n. v. person hired to drive a private rented vehicle In the 90s, magazine editors in chauffeured town cars told the nation what to wear, what to watch, and who to read. My client in Bangkok arranged a driver to chauffeur me around during my business trip.
Stake/s n. a share or interest in business Jann S. Wenner, a titan of the magazine industry sold his stake in Rolling Stones. My friend who has a small stake in Tesla is now a millionaire.
Monopoly n. a company or group having exclusive control over the market For many years, magazines have had a monopoly on readers and advertising. My favorite board game as a child was Monopoly.

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你有沒有這種經驗：在國外旅行的時候，明明還沒聽到對方開口，就有一種「欸，他應該也是台灣人」的直覺。到底是哪裡露餡的？本週的《英語咖啡館》John 老師和 Angel 老師就來聊聊這件事。
本集節目裡我們先從排隊講起，John 老師說了自己天還沒亮就出門排隊的故事，Angel 老師則想起大學時候排隊買甜點，結果最後有點哭笑不得的收尾。另外還有手扶梯要站哪邊、星期幾要追垃圾車，還有幾句我們天天說，卻難以翻譯的萬用語！？
Have you ever had this experience: while traveling abroad, before the other person even opens their mouth, you get a feeling like "Hey, they must be Taiwanese too." What gave it away? This week on English Cafe, John and Angel discuss exactly this.
In this episode, we start by talking about queuing. Teacher John shares his story of leaving before dawn to line up, while TAngel recalls buying desserts in line during university, with an amusing ending. We also discuss which side of the escalator to stand on, which day to chase the garbage truck, and some catch-all phrases we say every day that are hard to translate!?

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國際時事跟讀 Ep. L277: Taiwan's Six-Week Fuel Freeze Breaks

Highlights 主題摘要
CPC raised gasoline by NT$0.7 and diesel by NT$0.6 a liter on Monday, ending a six-week price freeze.
Middle East fighting pushed CPC's benchmark crude price to US$115.61 a barrel, lifting its purchasing costs 12.29 percent.
Absorbing the gap has cost CPC NT$19.85 billion since February, and the subsidy budget now awaits legislative approval.
Drivers pulling into filling stations across Taiwan on Monday morning paid a little more than they had for the previous month and a half. CPC Corp., the state-owned oil supplier, lifted gasoline prices by NT$0.7 per liter and diesel by NT$0.6, bringing an end to a six-week freeze that had been maintained to ease inflationary pressure on households. Ninety-five-octane unleaded now sells at NT$32.7 a liter, with 92-octane at NT$31.2 and 98-octane at NT$34.7, while premium diesel reaches NT$29.9, levels that will hold until Sunday night.
週一清晨進加油站的車主，發現油價比過去一個半月都貴了一些。國營的台灣中油宣布，汽油每公升調漲0.7元、柴油調漲0.6元，結束連續六週的凍漲；先前凍漲，是為了減輕物價對家庭的壓力。95無鉛目前每公升32.7元，92無鉛31.2元、98無鉛34.7元，超級柴油則是29.9元，價格一路維持到週日深夜。
The pressure originates several thousand kilometers away. Escalating military conflict in the Middle East has heightened risks to crude supply and tanker transport, and CPC's floating price mechanism, weighted 70 percent towards Dubai crude and 30 percent towards Brent, put last week's average at US$115.61 a barrel, compared with US$99.82 a week earlier. The company calculated that its crude purchasing costs rose 12.29 percent, an increase only partly offset by a firmer New Taiwan dollar, which averaged NT$31.556 against the greenback.
壓力來自數千公里外。中東戰事升溫，原油供應與油輪運輸風險同步拉高。中油的浮動油價機制以杜拜原油七成、布蘭特原油三成加權計算，上週均價來到每桶115.61美元，前一週還是99.82美元。中油估算，原油採購成本因此上漲12.29%，新台幣走強只抵銷掉一部分，上週兌美元平均匯率為31.556元。
What drivers were shielded from is the distance between that figure and what they were actually charged. By the economics ministry's reckoning, 95-octane gasoline ought to have risen NT$11.2 a liter and diesel NT$11.4. An expanded commodity tax reduction and CPC's own stabilisation measures absorbed NT$10.5 and NT$10.8 respectively, which leaves the company swallowing a loss of NT$6.8 on every liter of gasoline sold this week and NT$8.7 on diesel. Since the conflict began in late February, those absorbed losses have reached roughly NT$19.85 billion.
車主沒有付到的，是另一個數字。依經濟部試算，95無鉛原本應該漲11.2元、柴油應該漲11.4元。貨物稅減徵擴大，加上中油自行啟動的平穩措施，分別吸收10.5元與10.8元，也讓中油本週每賣出一公升汽油就賠6.8元，柴油更賠8.7元。二月底戰事爆發以來，累計吸收金額已接近198.5億元。
Someone, eventually, has to bear the brunt. The Ministry of Economic Affairs is pressing the opposition-controlled Legislative Yuan to approve NT$180.94 billion in subsidies for state-owned energy companies, a component of the record supplementary budget the Cabinet finalised on September 3. Approval is far from assured. The central bank, meanwhile, holds its quarterly meeting on Thursday with consumer price growth above the 2 percent alert level for a fourth consecutive month, making a rate rise look considerably less far-fetched than it did in June.
成本終究要有人扛。經濟部正在爭取由在野黨掌握多數的立法院通過1,809.35億元，撥補國營能源事業；這筆錢屬於行政院9月3日拍板的史上最大追加預算，能否過關仍有變數。另一方面，中央銀行週四召開季度理監事會，消費者物價漲幅已連續四個月站上2%警戒線，升息不再像六月時那樣遙遠。
Keyword Drills 關鍵字
Freeze [noun, a period during which prices or wages are deliberately held unchanged]: The government announced a six-week freeze on fuel prices.
Floating price mechanism [noun phrase, a system that adjusts prices automatically according to market costs]: Fuel prices here follow a floating price mechanism.
Shield [verb, to protect someone from something harmful or costly]: Subsidies shield drivers from the full price increase.
Swallow [verb, to absorb a loss or cost without passing it on]: The company had to swallow the extra shipping costs.
Bear the brunt [idiom, to take the worst part of something unpleasant]: Small businesses bear the brunt of rising fuel costs.

Reference article:
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https://focustaiwan.tw/business/202609120011
https://focustaiwan.tw/business/202609120009

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Hello通勤家族，歡迎你收聽15mins Live Podcast直播，這個我在Mixerbox 做語音互動時，側錄下來的單元。
我們這一集的主題是，必修的英語網路火星文，shownotes裡有簡易大綱給你參考。
英語網路火星文如何來的？ - 電報時代 --> 簡訊 --> 網際網路 --> 行動通訊軟體(LINE/Whatsapp)
用字母取代單字 (諧音) - be 變 b - see 變 c - are 變 r - you 變 u - why 變 y - OK 變 k
或者是用數字取代單字 - ate 變 8 - for 變 4 - to 或 too 變 2 - one 或 won 變 1 later 變 l8r tomorrow 變 2mro for or fore 變 4 Your and You're 變 ur 或 yr
常見英語網路火星文
- atm --> at the moment
- brb --> be right back
- bff --> best friends forever
- btw --> by the way
- idc / idk --> i don't care / i don't know
- imo / imho --> in my opinion / in my humble opinion
- ppl --> people
- plz / pls --> please
- ttyl --> talk to you later
- thx / tks --> thanks
- ty / tyvm --> thank you / thank you very much