TED TALKS VIDEO LESSON – TRY SOMETHING NEW FOR 30 DAYS – MATT CUTTIS.
TED
TALKS VIDEO LESSON – TRY SOMETHING NEW FOR 30 DAYS – MATT CUTTIS
1. What did Matt Cuttis feel a few
years ago?
2. What did he decide to do?
3. Have you ever wanted to try
something new? If so did you try it? If not why?
4. What is thirty days the right
amount of time for?
5. What is a habit?
6. Do you have any negative
habits?
7. If so do you think thirty days
is enough time to eliminate it/them?
8. Matt says there are a few
things he learnt from doing thirty-day challenges. What did he learn about
time?
9. What did Matt notice when he
started doing more thirty-day challenges?
10.What does self confidence mean?
11. What did Matt learn when he
started to make small sustainable changes.
12.Write down three things you
have always wanted to do but haven’t? Are you ready to try one out now?
Please leave a comment on
a thirty-day challenge you would like to try out. I would love to find out! JJJ
Transcript
00:11A few years ago, I felt like I was stuck in a rut, so I decided to follow in the
footsteps of the great American philosopher, Morgan Spurlock, and try something new for 30
days. The idea is actually pretty simple. Think
about something you've always wanted to add to your life and try it for the next 30 days. It turns out 30 days is just
about the right amount of time to add a new habit or subtract
a habit -- like watching the news -- from your life.
00:42There's
a few things I learned while doing these 30-day challenges. The
first was, instead of the months flying by, forgotten, the
time was much more memorable. This was part of a challenge I did to take
a picture every day for a month. And
I remember exactly where I was and what I was doing that day. I
also noticed that as I started to do more and harder
30-day challenges, my self-confidence grew. I
went from desk-dwelling computer nerd to
the kind of guy who bikes to work. For
fun!
01:14(Laughter)
01:16Even
last year, I ended up hiking up Mt. Kilimanjaro, the
highest mountain in Africa. I would never have been that adventurous
before I started my 30-day challenges.
01:27I
also figured out that if you really want something badly enough, you
can do anything for 30 days. Have you ever wanted to write a novel? Every
November, tens of thousands of people try
to write their own 50,000-word novel, from scratch, in
30 days. It turns out, all you have to do is write
1,667 words a day for a month. So
I did. By the way, the secret is not to go to sleep until
you've written your words for the day. You might be sleep-deprived, but
you'll finish your novel. Now is my book the next great American
novel? No. I wrote it in a month. It's
awful.
02:11(Laughter)
02:13But
for the rest of my life, if I meet John Hodgman at a TED party, I
don't have to say, "I'm a computer scientist." No,
no, if I want to, I can say, "I'm a novelist."
02:25(Laughter)
02:28So
here's one last thing I'd like to mention. I
learned that when I made small, sustainable changes, things
I could keep doing, they were more likely to stick. There's
nothing wrong with big, crazy challenges. In
fact, they're a ton of fun. But they're less likely to stick. When
I gave up sugar for 30 days, day 31 looked like this.
02:50(Laughter)
02:53So
here's my question to you: What are you waiting for? I
guarantee you the next 30 days are going to pass whether you like it or
not, so why not think about something you have
always wanted to try and give it a shot! For
the next 30 days.
03:11Thanks.
03:13(Applause)
