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色んな人と一緒に喋って、「仕方がない」を言わずに前向きに「社会善」を目指す番組です！

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Monday Nov 01, 2021

38. 数ヶ月以内に社会改造できますよ、アメリカは世界第二次大戦にやりました We can transform society in months - America did it in WWII

Monday Nov 01, 2021

説明：

真珠湾攻撃を皮切りにアメリカは数ヶ月以内に社会を戦争の経済に完全に切り替えた。環境非常事態に対して、同じ事ができる。

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TRANSCRIPT:

In conversations with scientists and activists, I hear the same words, over and again: “We’re screwed.” Government plans are too little, too late.

What we need - sudden and drastic action - is widely considered impossible

Let’s set aside the obvious lessons of the pandemic, when the magic money tree miraculously burst into leaf, and people radically changed their behaviour.

There’s a bigger example: when the US joined the second world war

Before the US declared war, President Franklin Roosevelt was calling for levels of production that were widely considered impossible.

But after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor the impossible happened.

The day after the attack, Roosevelt immediately began to reorganize the entire nation

He introduced, for the first time in US history, general federal income taxes to pay for the changes,

- between 1940 and 1945, total government spending rose roughly tenfold, and its military budget rose by a factor of 42.

With this money, civilian industries were entirely retooled for war:

The car industry was instructed to switch to military production: its massive equipment was immediately jack-hammered out of the floor and replaced, often in a matter of weeks, with new machines, and it began turning out tanks, aircraft engines, fighter planes, cannons and machine guns. By 1944, Ford was completing a long-range bomber plane almost every hour, and during three years of war the US manufactured 87,000 naval vessels,

Roosevelt described it as a “miracle of production”. But it wasn’t a miracle. It was a well-laid plan.

The US war effort mobilised tens of millions of people: number of American troops rose 26-fold and the civilian labour force increased by 10 million (many of the new workers were women).

From 1942 until 1945, the manufacture of cars was banned, Tyres and gasoline were strictly rationed. A national speed limit of 35mph was imposed, to save fuel.

The construction of new homes was also banned, meat, butter, sugar, clothes and shoes were also limited, and EVERYTHING was recycled: chewing gum wrappers, rubber bands, used cooking fat.

And there was a huge public information campaign:

Posters warned people:

“When you ride ALONE, you ride with Hitler! Join a car-sharing club TODAY”

“Is this trip really necessary?”

“Waste helps the enemy: conserve material”

Consumer’s Victory Pledge: “I will buy carefully; I will take good care of the things I have; I will waste nothing.

So what stops the world from responding in the same way to the climate crisis?

a lack of political will….

We need to make politicians understand that the survival of life on Earth is more important than their ideological commitment to limited government.

So what is our Pearl Harbor moment?

Well, how about now?

the US has recently come under unprecedented climatic attack. (Japan too!)The heat domes, the droughts and fires (in Japan: the heat waves, floods and typhoons) should shock everyone out of their normal ways of thinking.

Because right now the gap between these climate disasters and people’s understanding of what is causing them is, arguably, the greatest public information failure in human history.

We need to be constantly reminding people of what is at stake.

As the US mobilisation showed, when governments and societies decide to act, they can achieve things that in normal times are considered impossible. Catastrophe is not a matter of fate. It’s a matter of choice.

Ok that's all from today's article

今日の記事読み上げながら、まとめながら、訳しながら、ながらがらがらがら・・・以上ですね！　

Hey Simon what do you think?

私に一コメントさせていただければ・・・

Let me get my tea...sound effect...so I can do some drinking with my thinking....

This is necessary…..but I’m not sure how to generate the political will….

That's what I think - thanks for letting me vent!

気持ちを吐き出させてくれて・・・ありがとうね❤

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Hey listeners what do you think?

Your turn to vent!

Would you like some tea?

1.Do you think this massive transformation is necessary?

2.What do you think of our chances of actually doing it?

どうぞ vent your thoughts and feelings on this issue - send me an email!

Monday Oct 25, 2021

37. 生活を簡単化しましょう How to simplify your life

Monday Oct 25, 2021

説明：

私達はストレスや不安、不眠症（私！！！）になっているのは、忙しすぎて、刺激ありすぎて、経験などを整理するゆっくりする時間がないからです。解決方法は、やっていることを減らして、何もしない（＝脳は経験を整理ができる）時間を作る。

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Blog投稿

https://tensaimon.com/2021/10/22/podcast-tensaimon-translates-37-how-to-simplify-your-life/

今日の記事のLink：

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lECIsRif10

単語Links:

https://www.ecosia.org/search?q=%E6%AC%A0%E3%81%91%E3%81%A6%E3%81%84%E3%82%8B%E3%80%80%E6%97%A5%E6%9C%AC%E8%AA%9E

https://ejje.weblio.jp/content/Wisdom

https://ejje.weblio.jp/content/suggestion

https://ejje.weblio.jp/content/ill+health

https://ejje.weblio.jp/content/Expectation

https://ejje.weblio.jp/content/achievement

https://ejje.weblio.jp/content/Lament

Me:

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Credits:

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TRANSCRIPT:

It is well understood by good parents that

after lots of fun the baby will start to cry

nothing is particularly wrong:

it is just time for a nap.

It’s brain needs to have a rest so it can process all the experiences.

Sadly, we don’t do this for ourselves:

We schedule a busy week of work meetings in the day

and seeing friends in the evening

and a weekend break in another city

we’ll watch three films, read 14 newspapers,

and drink 30 coffees

and then we lament that our lives are never calm

and we are close to mental collapse.

We refuse to remember that, like babies, we need rest too

And so we get anxiety: anxiety is our mind telling us it is tired from too much stimulation.

We need less stimulation, and more rest. We need to simplify our lives:

How? Here are some ideas:

1. Fewer People; fewer commitments

We need to recognise that what is physically possible for us to achieve in a day is not

psychologically wise.

Doing the max physically possible ultimately leads to a breakdown.

2. Sleep

at least seven hours.

Or if we can’t manage it, we need to at least recognize that we are over-tired

and that the cure for our life problems is not divorce or a new profession: it’s to get more sleep.

3. Media

What we’re taking in when we check our phones is perhaps the single greatest contributor to our mental ill-health.

We can now learn about everything that is wrong in the world,

but we also need to not know:

because we cannot change anything,

because the stories are too depressing and our minds are fragile,

because we have responsibilities closer to home

4. Thinking

Insomnia and anxiety are the mind’s revenge for not having enough time to rest and reflect

the solution is, we need to have time to do nothing but lie in bed with a pad and paper in order to reflect on:

- What is making me anxious?

- Who has caused me pain and how?

- What is exciting me?

5. Expectations

Of course, it might be pleasant to be extraordinary,famous and world-beating,

but maybe it will be an even greater achievement to stay sane and kind.

We are not backing away from a challenge, we’re simply shifting our sense

of what the real challenge might be: to recognize and make peace with our limits.

As we’re discovering, excitement

is fun for a time; but it also kills.

Simplicity is true wisdom; we need more naps.

Hey listeners what do you think?

Your turn to vent!

Would you like some tea?

1.Are you too busy? Is your life too full of busy stuff?

2. Have you tried to address this? Have you thought about trying to address this, to make your life less busy and less stressed? And if so what have you done, what worked and what didn't?

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Bonus Section: Full Script from today’s video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lECIsRif10

It is well understood by good parents that

life should only ever get so exciting for

a baby: after friends have come around and

brought presents and made animated faces,

after there has been some cake and some cuddles,

after there have been a lot of bright lights

and perhaps some songs too, enough is enough.

The baby will start to look stern and then

burst into tears and the wise parent knows

that nothing is particularly wrong (though

the baby may by now be wailing): it is just

time for a nap. The brain needs to process,

digest and divide up the welter of experiences

that have been ingested, and so the curtains

are drawn, baby is laid down next to the soft

toys and soon it is asleep and calm descends.

Everyone knows that life is going to be a

lot more manageable again in an hour.

Sadly, we exercise no such caution with ourselves.

We schedule a week in which we will see friends

every night, in which we’ll do 12 meetings

(three of them requiring a lot of preparation),

where we’ll make a quick overnight dash

to another country on the Wednesday, where

we’ll watch three films, read 14 newspapers,

change six pairs of sheets, have five heavily

meals after 8pm and drink 30 coffees - and

then we lament that our lives are not as calm

as they might be and that we are close to

mental collapse.

We refuse to take seriously how much of our

babyhood is left inside our adult selves - and

therefore, how much care we have to take to

keep things simple and very very calm. What

registers as anxiety is typically no freakish

phenomenon; it is the mind’s logical enraged

plea not to be continuously and exhaustingly

overstimulated.

What are some of the things we may need to

do to simplify our lives:

Fewer People; fewer commitments

It is theoretically a privilege to have a

lot of people to see and things to do. It

is also - psychologically-speaking - exhausting

and ultimately rather dangerous.

The manner of expression is a little dated

and brutal, and one might want to quibble

over the exact timings, but this point from

Nietzsche remains acute:

“Today as always, men fall into two groups:

slaves and free men. Whoever does not have

two-thirds of his day for himself, is a slave,

whatever he may be: a statesman, a businessman,

an official, or a scholar.”

We need to recognise that what is physically

possible for us to achieve in a day is not,

for that matter, psychologically wise or plausible.

It may well be feasible to nip over to a foreign

capital or two in a day and run a company

alongside managing a household but nor should

we be surprised if such routines ultimately

contribute to a breakdown.

Sleep

Plenty of it of course; at least seven hours.

Or if we can’t manage it, we need at a minimum

fully to recognise how much we are deprived,

so that we won’t aggravate our sorrows by

searching for abstruse explanations for them.

We don’t necessarily have to get divorced,

retrain in a completely different profession

or move country: we just need to get some

more rest.

Media

What we’re taking in when we check our phones

is perhaps the single greatest contributor

to our mental ill-health. For most of history,

it was inconceivable that there could ever

be such a thing as ‘too much news’. Information

from political circles or foreign countries

was rare, prized and expensive (it was as

unlikely that one could gorge oneself on it

as one could on chocolate bars). But since

the middle of the twentieth century, news

has been commodified and, in the process,

it has become a major - though still too little

known - risk to our mental survival.

Every minute of every day presents us with

untold options for filling our minds with

the mania, exploits, disasters, furies, reversals,

ambitions, triumphs, insanity and cataclysms

of strangers around our benighted planet.

Always, news organisations speak of our need

to know - and to need to know right now. But

what they have left out is our equally great,

and often even greater need not to know: because

we cannot change anything, because the stories

are too violent, dispiriting and sad, because

our minds are fragile, because we have responsibilities

closer to home, because we need to lead our

own lives rather than be torn apart by stories

of the lives of others who are ultimately

as remote from and irrelevant to us as the

inhabitants of the Egyptian court of King

Sneferu in late 2,613 BC.

Thinking

Insomnia and anxiety are the mind’s revenge

for all the thoughts we refuse to have consciously

in the day. In order to be able to find rest,

we need to carve off chunks of time where

we have nothing to do other than lie in bed

with a pad and paper in order to think. We

need to consider three topics in particular:

- What is making me anxious?

- Who has caused me pain and how?

- What is exciting me?

We need to sift through the chaotic contents

of our minds. Every hour of living requires

at least ten minutes of sifting.

Expectations

Of course, it might be pleasant to be extraordinary,

famous and world-beating, but maybe it will

be an even greater achievement to stay sane

and kind. We might opt not to conquer the

world in favour of living a longer, and more

serene life. We are not backing away from

a challenge, we’re simply shifting our sense

of what the real challenge might be - and

more importantly where the real rewards may

lie. A quiet life isn’t necessarily one

of resignation or flight, it may constitute

a supremely wise recognition that the truly

satisfying things are available away from

the spotlight and the big cities, on modest

salaries and as far as possible from the manic,

sleepless competition to ‘win’ the professional

status race. As we’re discovering, excitement

is fun for a time; but it also kills. Simplicity

is true wisdom; we need more naps.

Do you need a detox from your devices? Our phone detox is designed to help give you a well-deserved break from your phone.

Saturday Oct 09, 2021

36. フェースブックの告発者facebook whistleblower

Saturday Oct 09, 2021

フェースブックで働いていた人はフェースブック会社はやっていた本研究の資料をコピーして漏洩した理由を説明するインタビュー。

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Blog投稿

https://tensaimon.com/2021/10/09/podcast-tensaimon-translates-36-facebook-whistleblower/

今日の記事のLink：

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/facebook-whistleblower-frances-haugen-misinformation-public-60-minutes-2021-10-03/

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単語Links:

https://ejje.weblio.jp/content/testify

https://ejje.weblio.jp/content/Senate

https://ejje.weblio.jp/content/whistleblower

https://ejje.weblio.jp/content/Hate+speech

https://ejje.weblio.jp/content/misinformation

https://ejje.weblio.jp/content/law+enforcement

https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%88%A9%E7%9B%8A%E7%9B%B8%E5%8F%8D

https://ejje.weblio.jp/content/the+public

https://www.ecosia.org/search?q=divisive%20political%20speech%20%E6%97%A5%E6%9C%AC%E8%AA%9E

https://eow.alc.co.jp/search?q=tear%20apart

https://ejje.weblio.jp/content/eating+disorder

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English Script (記事からの引用、まとめ）:

Her name is Frances Haugen

an anonymous former employee filed complaints with federal law enforcement.

The complaints say Facebook's own research shows that it amplifies hate, misinformation and political unrest—but the company hides what it knows.

One complaint alleges that Facebook's Instagram harms teenage girls.

trove of private Facebook research she took when she quit in May

Frances Haugen is revealing her identity to explain why she became the Facebook whistleblower

conflicts of interest between what was good for the public and what was good for Facebook

And Facebook, over and over again, chose to optimize for its own interests, like making more money.

She secretly copied tens of thousands of pages of Facebook internal research

the company is lying to the public about making significant progress against hate, violence and misinformation

We have evidence

hat hate speech, divisive political speech and misinformation

are affecting societies around the world."

he version of Facebook that exists today is tearing our societies apart a

you have your phone. You might see only 100 pieces of content if you sit and scroll on for, you know, five minutes. But Facebook has thousands of options it could show you.

The algorithm picks from those options based on the kind of content you've engaged with the most in the past.

optimizing for content that gets engagement, or reaction

it's easier to inspire people to anger than it is to other emotions.

Misinformation, angry content-- is enticing to people and

keeps them on the platform.

if they change the algorithm to be safer, people will spend less time on the site, they'll click on less ads, they'll make less money.

Facebook essentially amplifies the worst of human nature.

forcing us to take positions

that we know are bad for society.

if we don't take those positions, we won't win in the marketplace of social media.

Facebook's own research says,

hey get more and more depressed. And it actually makes them use the app more

Monday Oct 04, 2021

35: 建設は環境問題の解決方法はではない we cannot build our way out of the environmental crisis

Monday Oct 04, 2021

建設してインフラを作る必要があるけど、建設は環境問題の解決方法ではない。現在では、ほとんどのインフラは環境を優先にしているわけはなくて、利益（特に、建設業の）は優先されている。

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今日の記事のLink：

https://www.monbiot.com/2021/09/06/ground-rules/

Blog投稿:

https://tensaimon.com/2021/10/04/podcast-tensaimon-translates-35-we-cannot-build-our-way-out-of-the-environmental-crisis/

単語Links:

https://www.xe.com/ja/currencyconverter/convert/?Amount=3000000000&From=GBP&To=JPY

https://ejje.weblio.jp/content/splurge

https://ejje.weblio.jp/content/resilient

https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%B8%80%E5%B8%AF%E4%B8%80%E8%B7%AF

https://ejje.weblio.jp/content/prosperity

https://ejje.weblio.jp/content/harmony

https://ejje.weblio.jp/content/Public+transport

https://ejje.weblio.jp/content/indigenous+people

Me:

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Credits:

Music by Kajiki
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English Script (記事からの引用、まとめ）:

Dig for victory: this, repurposed from the Second World War, could be the slogan of our times. All over the world, governments are using the pandemic and the environmental crisis to justify a new splurge of infrastructure spending.

In the US, Joe Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Framework “will make our economy more sustainable, resilient, and just.”

In the UK, Boris Johnson’s Build Back Better programme will “unite and level up the country”, under the banner of “green growth”.

China’s Belt and Road project will bring the world together in hyper-connected harmony and prosperity.

Sure, we need some new infrastructure. If people are to drive less, we need new public transport links and safe cycling routes. We need better water treatment plants and recycling centres, new wind and solar plants, and the powerlines required to connect them to the grid

But we can no more build our way out of the environmental crisis than we can consume our way out of it.

Rule 1 is that the primary purpose of new infrastructure is to enrich the people who commission or build it.

Much of the time, schemes are created and driven not by a well-intentioned public authority, but by the demands of industry.

Their main purpose – making money – is fulfilled before anyone uses them

Rule 2 is that there’s an inherent bias towards selecting projects with the worst possible value for money

Decisions are routinely based on misinformation and “delusional optimism”. HS2 - somewhere between £72bn and £110bn

By contrast, for £3bn (３0億ポンド、約4,500億円） a year, all bus tickets in the UK could be issued without charge, a policy that would take more cars off the road and reduce emissions much faster than this gigantic white elephant.

Rule 3 is that the environmental benefits of new schemes are routinely overstated, while the costs are underplayed.

the massive footprint of concrete, creates new demand.new infrastructure and the deforestation it causes is highly “spatially contagious”

Rule 4 is that in countries with high biodiversity, infrastructure is the major driver of habitat destruction.

There is an almost perfect relationship between the proximity to a road and a number of forest fires. Roads, above all other factors, are tearing apart the forests of the Amazon, the Congo Basin and Southeast Asia.

Rule 5 is that massive infrastructure schemes disproportionately affect territories belonging to indigenous people: for centuries their land has been treated as other people’s frontier

Rule 6 is that greener infrastructure will produce a greener outcome only if it’s accompanied by the deliberate retirement of existing infrastructure - the key issue is not the new things we do, but the old things we stop doing...but the UK government ...has no plans to retire any road or runway. very major airport in the UK has plans for expansion.

Rule 7 is that rich nations tend to be oversupplied with some types of infrastructure. One of the simplest, cheapest and most effective green policies is to set aside existing motorway lanes for buses, to create a fast, efficient intercity service. But where’s the money for construction companies in that?

Rule 8 is that environmental change cannot be delivered only by infrastructure. To be effective, it needs to be accompanied by social change: travelling less as well as travelling better

But while governments and construction companies are happy to give us more of everything, the one thing we cannot have is less.

The overarching rule is this: if you want a greener world, resist the rising tide of concrete.

Hey Simon what do you think?

I think we have the same problem here in Japan and Okinawa – they’re building stuff everywhere. And often they lie – the Onna bypass says it will reduce CO2, but surely having a free bus service would be far more effective at this….

Hey Listeners what do you think?

Do you think we need more infrastructure? Do you think the environment is being prioritised, or profit for construction companies?

Monday Sep 27, 2021

34. アメリカとイギリスは自己破壊している理由 Why America and Britain are self-destructing

Monday Sep 27, 2021

今週キャンプしたり、大学の後期が始まる前に夏休みの最後を楽しみにしているからエピソードを録音する時間がなかったから、去年このPodcast番組を準備してたときに録音したエピソードをUPさせていただきます！

このアメリカとイギリスについてのエピソードにした理由は、今週イギリスは、EU離脱とコロナのせいでトラック運転手さんは１０万人ぐらい不足せいで、スーパーに食べもの、ガソリンスタンドにガソリンは配達出来ないから不足になっている状況は爆買いを起こして、今週救急車でもガソリン補給できないケースもあるらしい。これは、全面的に見ると新自由主義が起こしている崩壊に見えます。

沖縄、、日本はこのように崩れていかないように、頑張りましょう・・・

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今日の記事のLink：

https://eand.co/why-american-and-britain-are-self-destructing-a8693ebb097

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English Script (記事からの引用、まとめ）:

1. The world’s two large English speaking societies, America and Britain, are collapsing….in eerily similar ways, for eerily similar reasons.
2. America and Britain are the only two societies in the rich world where life is getting shorter, poorer, meaner, and more hopeless - where young people will probably live worse lives than their parents and grandparents.
3. Why? - In the 1980s, especially America, and also the UK, started privatising 民営化public services - Neoliberalism　新自由主義. (I remember the privatization of BT and of the water companies)
4. the private companies that now provide public services began charging massive prices to maximalize their profits – US $50K for childbirth, $200K for an education.
5. They simultaneously paid their workers less (also to maximize profit) – even workers with fulltime jobs are underpaid (Amazon is a famous example) – in Jブラック企業 – and the “gig economy” was born e.g. Uber.
6. People are now so poor they can’t afford to do anything...including pay taxes...which means less investment in society. The key amount seems to be : if a country invests less than 25% of the economy in public goods – it enters this a death spiral　死のスパイラル
7. What follows such death spirals, of course, is fascism ファシズム、独裁的国家社会主義, authoritarianism 権威主義, and all the horrors of history (=Europe WWII)

[tea sound] 勝手に一コメントをいわせていただければ・・・ If I can briefly offer my own thoughts on this...
1. The UK and America do seem to be disintegrating – I read the news from these countries, and have many friends in both, and what I read seems far worse than other countries….We can use these examples as a warning. Japan still invests a lot in public goods – but is becoming more neoliberal, and many people are suffering financially. Let’s take this as a warning.
2. This article was written in December 2019 – last year, before covid-19 -we can see from the death rates that the US and the UK have done by far the worse of all the rich industrialised nations. https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/data/mortality

皆さん、いかがでしょうか？What do you think?
1. Do you think the US and the UK are collapsing? Do you think it is coincidence that these are the two most neoliberal industrialised nations?
2. What do you think we can learn from this in Japan and Okinawa?

Monday Sep 20, 2021

33.用事リストの問題 the problem with to-do lists

Monday Sep 20, 2021

用事リストを使って用事を管理すると様々な問題は発生する：否定的な自尊心、気晴らし、先送り、時間がない自分、人生の楽しさを奪っちゃう。自分のOSを更新して、scheduleを使いましょう！・・・という内容の英語の記事を読み上げならまとめながら訳します！

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Blog投稿

https://tensaimon.com/2021/09/18/podcast-tensaimon-translates-33-the-problem-with-to-do-lists/

今日の記事のLink：

https://www.nirandfar.com/todo-vs-schedule-builder/

単語Links:

https://ejje.weblio.jp/content/devotee

https://ejje.weblio.jp/content/distraction

https://ja.glosbe.com/en/ja/self-image

https://ejje.weblio.jp/content/Illusion

https://ejje.weblio.jp/content/underestimate

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Imagine you bought a new phone, but at the end of each day, every day, the operating system crashed.

Would you keep using the faulty phone? Of course not.

You’d take it back to the store, complain, and get a new one.

And yet, many people run their entire lives on a faulty operating system.

It’s called the to-do list.

Have you ever met someone who runs their day using a to-do list and actually finishes everything they said they’d do? Me neither.

To-do list devotees...’re surprised, at the end of the day, to find their to-do list has gotten longer, not shorter..and yet they continue to run their lives with a to-do list,

what’s wrong with to-do lists:

*getting tasks onto a piece of paper, or into an app, is a very good thing! But...

1. negative self-image

I’d blame myself for not finishing tasks

eventually we start to think:

“I’m not good with deadlines,”

2. lead us to distraction

but what is distraction – the opposite is “traction” -

traction is what we want to do

distraction is anything else we end up doing!

Playing video games or watching television can be an act of traction if that’s what you planned to do

3. we focus on easy and urgent not important – procrastination!

4. To-do lists destroy the fun in life!

I’d sit down for a pleasant dinner with my family, only to start thinking about all the things left undone on my to-do list. (this is me!!!!)

5. create the illusion that we don’t have enough time!

But actually Time studies show people far underestimate how much leisure time they have.

They’ve simply forgotten how wonderful it feels to have the peace of mind of spending time solely focused on their children or taking a walk.

(this is me!!!!)

So what’s the alternative? It’s time to upgrade your life OS and build a weekly schedule instead.

Most people plop meetings into their schedule and leave the rest blank! (this is me!!! - look at my google calendar!!)

But planning out your whole day gives you:

1.better self image : “I did what I planned to do!!”

2.less distraction: easier to do what you really want to do in that time

less time to get a task done = you’ll focus!

3. we focus on what is important!

4. Brings back the fun in life: can relax and enjoy playing video games with my kids coz that’s what I intended to do

5. help us realize how much time we really have, which helps us use it well

Hey Simon what do you think?

This is me…..but I’ve been trying a schedule this week….so far I like it!

Hey listeners what do you think?

Do you use a to-do list?

Do you experience the problems described in the article: low self-image, distraction, procrastination, to-haven’t-done-yet stress, time stress?

Do you have a schedule? Is it mostly blank?

Monday Sep 06, 2021

32.漏洩されたIPCC Report:資本主義の経済成長は持続不可能 / IPCC leaked report: capitalist growth is unsustainable

Monday Sep 06, 2021

IPCC（気候変動に関する政府間パネル）から漏洩されている報告によって、資本主義の経済成長は持続不可能、についての記事を読み上げならまとめながら訳しま〜す！

今日の記事のLink：

https://mronline.org/2021/08/23/leaked-report-of-the-ipcc-reveals-that-the-growth-model-of-capitalism-is-unsustainable

漏洩元：

https://scientistrebellion.com/we-leaked-the-upcoming-ipcc-report/

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31. 森林浴 Forest Bathing

Monday Aug 30, 2021

体と心を癒やす森林浴（自然で時間を過ごす事）についての記事。私は今週娘と一緒にキャンプして来て、かなり自然の癒やす効果を感じていますからこの記事を選ばせていただきました！

今日の記事のLink：

https://www.npr.org/sections/13.7/2018/04/04/599135342/suffering-from-nature-deficit-disorder-try-forest-bathing?utm_source=pocket-ff-recs

EpisodeのBlog登校

http://www.tensaimon.com/2021/08/30/podcast-tensaimon-translates-31-forest-bathing/

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30. パンデミック心理 Pandemic Psychology

Sunday Aug 22, 2021

パンデミックの心理についての本のレビュー、理論は、疫病次第の感染力などより、人間の心理は感染を促進させてしまう。

今日の記事のLink：

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/aug/19/book-psychology-pandemics-steven-taylor

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引用

No one wanted to read’ his book on pandemic psychology – then Covid hit

In October 2019, a month or so before Covid-19 began to spread

an Australian psychologist, Steven Taylor,

published

The Psychology of Pandemics.

The stops along the way include prejudices, the role of the media, attitudes to vaccinations, how society manages rumors, and the psychology of conspiracy theories.

not to downplay the significance of the disease

many more people have been psychologically affected

pandemics “are essentially a psychological phenomenon and about the behaviors, attitudes and emotions of people”

“how human factors impact the spreading of disease and emotional disturbance”.

Vaccine hesitancy doesn’t really get at the motivational roots for why people don’t want to get vaccinate

psychological reactance

“rules, regulation, or attempts at persuasion that are perceived as threatening to one’s autonomy and freedom of choice”.

The you’re-not-the-boss-of-me kind of response is seen particularly in people raised in cultures that take pride in freedom and individualism

because they perceive their freedoms are being threatened

motivated thinking”, otherwise fantasy-thinking in which Covid-19, or climate change, are seen as hoaxes so people can tell themselves positive stories that everything is going to be fine and their freedom is not threatened.

“The harder you try to push and persuade these psychologically reactive people, the more they are likely to push back

they were predictions of reactions based on research of what happened during previous pandemics.

I was pretty much surprised that pretty much everything in the book unfolded,

Taylor theorizes that with the Delta variant on the rise, any return to lockdown could trigger an exaggerated backlash and rebellion – part of the psychological phenomenon commonly known as pandemic fatigue

What’s been different about this pandemic, Taylor says, is that all the basic phenomena seen in the past have happened on a broader, grander scale.

Part of the reason, he says, is social media and the 24/7 news cycle

The Psychology of Pandemics was rejected by the publisher

“interesting, but no one’s going to want to read it”.

The attitude, ironically, was characteristic of Taylor’s thesis – that people tend to be too preoccupied with the present to plan for the future

We’re going to see recurrent outbreaks of Covid, but the desire to socialize is stronger than the fear of getting infected.” And that is psychology.

29. IPCC報告書 report 2021

Monday Aug 16, 2021

今週IPCC(国連の地球温暖化に関する政府間パネル）は２０２１年の報告書を出版しました。それについてのGuardian紙の記事を読み上げならまとめたり訳したりして、関連のリンクと私の個人コメントも差し上げさせていただきます。

今日の記事のLink：

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/aug/09/ipcc-reports-verdict-on-climate-crimes-of-humanity-guilty-as-hell

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1. Fewer People; fewer commitments

2. Sleep

3. Media

4. Thinking

5. Expectations

Hey listeners what do you think?

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