讓你的大腦休息下

Okay， so， my 60-second idea to change the world is to invent a device that recognizes when your brain is 1）overloaded and quietly shuts down all your e-mail and social media feeds. So， I think it might work by sensing physical signs of stress and tiredness—so things like 2）hormone levels and blood pressure—and when they cross a certain 3）threshold it could 4）block off all new information and give you the time and space to process the things that are already cluttering up your brain. So there would be nothing we could do to stop it. It would be like a sick note from the doctor or a letter from your mom 5）excusing you from gym class.

I think a device like this is necessary because we don’t have the willpower to do it for ourselves. I know I don’t. We don’t tend to switch off when it’s all getting too much， and the more tired and stressed we are， the more likely we are to check e-mail and Twitter and Facebook 6）obsessively when we should be concentrating on more important things， like getting off the bus at the right stop or not walking into 7）lampposts.

好的，我“60秒改變世界”的想法是發明一個設備，當你的大腦超負荷時，它能夠悄悄關閉你所有的電子郵件和社交媒體網站。所以，我想（這一設備）應該能根據人體在壓力和疲憊出現時的生理征兆——像是荷爾蒙水平和血壓，當它們超過一定極限時，能夠阻擋一切新的信息，讓你有時間和空間來消化已經堆積在大腦的事物。所以我們沒有辦法阻止這一過程。這就像你收到醫生的一張病假單或是媽媽同意不去上體育課的一封信一樣（無法阻擋）。

我想這樣的設備很有必要，因為我們自己沒有意志力去（拒絕接收外界的信息）。我知道我沒有。當信息量已經過大時，我們往往不會停止接收。我們越疲勞，越有壓力，就越有可能強迫自己去查看電子郵件、微博和臉書。然而，此時我們應該把精力放在更重要的事情上，像是在對的站點下車或者不要撞在燈柱上。