The Closet Vortex
隱形的漩渦

What girl doesn’t long for a Carrie Bradshaw–style closet, replete with the most fashionable offerings her budget will allow (and then some)? Such closets, and even smaller, simpler ones, are major culprits in terms of lost time. The average American woman spends sixty-one minutes contemplating her outfits during the course of a week. An hour, ladies. An hour. Just think of what you could accomplish if you got even half of those 3,172 minutes per year back. Where would the human race be if we were even slightly more decisive about what to wear?
女孩們并不渴望得到的像《欲望都市》里Carrie Bradshaw式的，被無數時尚衣服飾品裝滿的衣櫥，而且她們能支付得起嗎？像這種衣櫥，或者說小點的，簡單點的，是浪費時間的罪魁禍首。在美國，女性一周平均花51分鐘在思忖“自己該穿什么”的問題上。乖乖，1個小時啊。試想一下，即使你僅僅用這一年你浪費的3172分鐘一半的時間，你能完成多少有用的事情？試想一下，如果我們在穿衣服問題上更加猶豫不決的話，人類的明天會變成什么樣子？

Fantasy Land
充滿幻想的國度

For the average person, daydreaming consumes 15 to 50 percent of each day. My aforementioned rudimentary math skills prevent me from breaking that down into actual hours and minutes, but even at the lower, 15–20 percent range, we’re still talking about a good chunk of our days’ being spent woolgathering—fantasizing about how we’d spend our imaginary lottery winnings, envisioning the moment when our boyfriends are finally going to pop the long-awaited question. Happily, some studies have suggested that daydreaming is actually a sign of creativity and intelligence, and many psychologists regard it as a healthy mental exercise, much like meditation, so it would seem to be a worthy undertaking. However, that doesn’t remove the necessity of greeting the grindstone for at least part of each day.
平常人一天大約有15%-50%花在做白日夢上。我前面提到我那差勁的計算能力阻止我將這些時間拆分成精確地小時和分鐘，但甚至再低一些，在15%-20%的范圍里，我們依然談論著一天當中有一整塊的時間都用來神游-----幻想著我們怎么用著想象的中彩票的獎金，展望我們的男朋友最后成為了名父親。令人愉快的是，一些研究證明，做白日夢的確是富有創造力與智慧的表現，是許多心理學家把做白日夢當做是讓心靈更加健康的鍛煉，這和冥想很相似， 所以，這看上去是一向值得知性的任務。但是，這些都不能改變一個事實，那便是它的確占據了一天中一定的時間。