Lesson:How to become a lifehacker/ExerciseD1

Listening Exercise

Watch the video and complete the text according to what you can understand. When you hear the word you generally think of bad people getting into your computer to your identity or do things like that. That’s Whitson Gordon he is the editor of Lifehacker.com. Well what the word hacking really means is just finding a way to do something and often that’s a clever way to work around an system. And you’d be surprised that how many established systems there are in your own life. Like, there is a system for how you in the morning and a system for how you your email and a system you use for your calendar and on and on and on. A lot of us are so in the systems that were part of and the way that we work day to day but we don’t that sometimes that there is an easier way to do something. And so yeah, hacking into someone’s bank account that’s bad but hacking into your own life that can be really good. Because the way that we do things generally sucks. Life hacking can from doing something to your wireless router to get better to making your headphones stay better in your ear with a two dollar pair of ear plugs. It’s just little things that make your day to day easier and more . So how do I go about hacking systems in my own life? The first thing I would do is go by your work as normal and take a little bit of time at the end of day, just ten minutes to think about of what you did that day. You know this point of my day was really inefficient, how can I maybe do that better? Do that every day and you’ll start to see where maybe inefficiencies are in your work, you know, maybe you way too much time trying to read emails, you spend way too much time typing out certain things. From there I just have to be really and think outside the box. Is there any that you have at that point. Yeah, if you say to yourself "god I'm spending much time typing out this, this stuff all day long." You go on to Google and you search how to save yourself time typing. And you’ll find not just a lot of solutions from people but a lot of programs for computers that people have written to with that specific problem. What would be the purpose behind caring about Lifehacks? You know most of us are , just wasting ‘x’ percent of our time on tedious tasks or wasting ‘x’ percent of our money on things that we can easily make ourselves and by dedicating part of your day to reorganizing your thoughts and we rehacking some these little things you do everyday. You can a ton of time, you know, be more productive, have more time to spend on the things that are really more important. J: Hi I’m Jonathan K: and my name is Kristen and we work here at Epipheo. J: Watching a video made me think. What are the things that I do every day that I can do more efficiently? K: Well you could do crunches while you brush your teeth J: Yeah, after you. K: I already do. J: Hey, really? K: Yeah. J: Ok K: So anyways we would love to hear from you and your ideas and how you can hack your way to a better life. So leave us a comment below. J: And we wanna thank Lifehacker.com for partnering with us on this video series. K: We here at Epipheo love to make videos that will improve your life. So make sure you hit the subscribe button so you don’t miss the next one.