Lesson: How to become a lifehacker/ExerciseD1

Listening Exercise

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.