比如，假设你是一个秘书，每当你电话响起时，在你接听前，来一个放松呼吸（6秒钟，远远短于电话在响起的时间，所以没有人会注意到你在偷空）。

Each time your phone rings, breathe before you answer it. (6 seconds is less than the time it takes for the phone to ring again, so no one will even notice you’re taking time for yourself.)

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吃坚果来代替你抽烟的习惯。 每当你想抽烟的时候就吃坚果。

Switch your cigarette habit for a nut habit -- four nuts in their shell for every cigarette you want to smoke.

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虽然每当你遇到一个红灯路口，心里有可能会暗暗诅咒，但城市规划者们确实在努力提高交通流畅程度，他们尝试让多盏信号灯实现同步，甚至依靠超级计算机来设计的最佳模式。

Though you might curse them at every red light, city planners do try to synchronize traffic signals to improve flow, even relying on supercomputers to design the optimal patterns.

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