So to summarize: the ABCs- the affect (the emotion), the behavior (action), and the cognition (the thought).
所以總結起來:ABC,也就是影響(情感)、行為和認知
I want to talk about a technique, a simple technique-journaling that has remarkable,
我想談一個小小的技巧,一個簡單的方法,
remarkable consequence. Just get a show of hands: how many people keep a journal or have kept a journal for significant amount of time? OK.
就是把有深刻影響的事情記錄下來。請大家舉起手多少人有長期寫日記的習慣?好。
That's great. That's great to see.
這么多人有這個習慣,是件好事
We know from, from this course and research you encountered before how difficult change is.
從這個課程和大家之前接觸過的研究中知道,改變是困難的
Sometimes programs that have been around for 5 years don't help. Very often interventions were millions and billions.
有的項目持續五年了還是沒有進展通常投入的資金是數百萬,數十億
It's about-100-billion-dollars-a year industry that change industries and organizations.
大概每年投入巨額資金來做研究才能對各行業和機構有所改變

Most of the interventions don't work. We know how difficult it is to change. And yet journaling?
很多的資金投入都浪費了說明改變有多難,而日記呢?
Very solid research showing how much it helps. So let me share with you a study.
有實質的研究結果證明它的作用很大,我跟你們分享一下某項調查
This was done by the person who really brought journaling into the scientific realm.
這項調查是由那些將日志帶進科學領域的人來做的
So there'd been people like Ira Progoff and others who had been talking about journaling for a very long time,
有些像普羅果夫這樣的人長期以來一直在討論寫日記的作用
but it was Jamie Pennebaker from University of Texas, Austin, who brought this idea to the scientific realm and really researched it.
但卻是德州大學的杰米·尼貝克將這個想法帶進了科學領域,并真正意義上研究它,
And here is what he did. What he did was bringing participants and have them do the following: on 4 consecutive days that they came in, each day,
他是這么做的,他選了一些參與者,并讓他們做以下的事情:連續四天
they would spend 15 minutes- that's all, 15 minutes, times for writing about the most difficult experiences.
每天都用15分鐘的時間,就15分鐘來寫下最難忘的經歷