So let me give you a personal example. The third time when I taught positive psychology, about half way through the semester, I started to feel a little bit enervated, a little bit tired.
给你们举一个个人例子,我第三次教积极心理学时,学期到了一半时我开始觉得有点疲倦、有点精疲力竭
You know, I've done it twice before. I knew what I was going to say. I've heard myself say it before. And I thought I lost a little bit of energy, a little bit ongf in teaching. And then I went back to the VIA. And I said "well that made a lot of sense. "
我之前已经教了两次,我知道自己会说什么,我听过自己以前说过。我觉得我失去了精力、失去了教学的动力,然后我就回到VIA,我说“这倒确实说得通”
Because my second strength after prudence is love of learning. And when I am teaching the same course, again, I wasn't learning that much new.
因为我在审慎之后排第二位的是对学习的热爱,而当我反复教同一门课时我就没怎么学新东西
So yes, I had new learnings in office hours. I always learn a lot- those who've been to my office hours know that I jot down ideas as we are speaking. But as a whole, in a class, I was doing the same thing.
确实我在工作时能学新东西,我经常在学习,那些来过我办公室的人就知道,我们说话时我会写下一些想法。但总体来说,在这门课上我教的是一样的东西。
And then I said, "OK. So I am going to engage in this exercise. " And for me, that exercise was let's take love of learning and continue it, even when I am teaching the same course. I'm incredibly busy even if I am teaching the same course. But I still put in an hour aside every day to learning something new, to reading something that I haven't read before.
然后我就说“好吧,那我就要实践一下这个练习”对我来说,这个练习就是继续追求对学习的热爱,即便我是在教同样的课,即使我教同一门课,我还是很忙,但我仍然每天抽一小时出来做点新鲜的事阅读一些我没读过的东西
And what that did for me immediately within two days- it brought back my energy.
而两天之后就对我起了效果——我的能量回来了。