Work is not your family (1)（每日一篇・聆聽）

日期：2025.6.7

文章級別：聆聽

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大家工作賣力嗎？是不是工作的時間比見家人的時間更少？今天挑選的TED Talk要喚醒大家不要把工作當成自己的家庭，大家一齊來聽聽～（明天有下集哦）

指引：先按以上的連結指定的錄音內容，今天我們會聆聽2分22秒至4分23秒，你也可以提早開始聽聽，熱身一下～做聆聽練習的時候，不要開字幕，邊看下面的文字，一邊在紙上寫上答案，看看內容播完後自己答對了多少題。有需要的話可以調慢錄音的語速或多聽幾次～

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Boundaries are hard for a lot of us because many of us never learned boundaries. It's kind of a newer, buzzy phrase that not many of us really have learned or defined before. So let's start by defining what boundaries are and why they're so important to our (1)_____. I like to think of boundaries as our ability to identify, communicate and take action on our needs. Being able to say, "I need to eat," "I need to rest," "I need some (2)_____ right now." Survival speaking, boundaries are critical for us as humans to be able to say, "I need something," to be able to find safety and resourcing.

However, it can also be (3)_____ in certain situations to delay or deprioritize our needs too. For example, if I'm a human back in the day, running away from a tiger, if I happen to be hungry, it will, of course, be (4)_____ to delay that need for hunger until I'm safe again. However, if, after the tiger has left and I'm safe, I keep staying stuck and being scared of the tiger and delaying my hunger and not eating, that becomes unhealthy too. This shift of delaying our needs into the unhealthy without knowing it is where a lot of us find ourselves (5)_____ stuck today.

Somewhere in our lives we learned and adapted that repressing or (6)_____ our needs for others was beneficial. But that became so auto-piloted in our (7)_____ that it goes past the point of diminishing returns and becomes unhealthy.

To where maybe we land into a workplace and we hear "we're like family" and our brain just (8)_____ into "give it everything no matter what." We sacrifice our boundaries, our time, our relationships, and we start living life in these big swings of overworking to (9)_____. And maybe we rationally know that it's not the healthiest pattern in our life, but we feel stuck. I get that. I've lived through that and sometimes still feel challenged with it.

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答案

1. mental health
2. space
3. advantageous
4. beneficial
5. unknowingly
6. sacrificing
7. subconscious
8. triggers
9. burnout

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