I know this is hard with Twitter, Facebook and E-mail beeping for our attention, but I've found that I can significantly increase the speed of my writing by simply doing nothing other than writing.

我知道这有些小难，因为有Twitter、facebook和email滴滴响着提醒有消息需要注意，但是我发现通过简单的双耳不闻窗外事一心埋头写作，大大的增加了我写作的速度。

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As a child, I would sit for hours by the river doing nothing—simply daydreaming.

作为一个孩子，我可以在河边坐好几个小时，什么也不做——只是做着白日梦。

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If they simply focus on the technology towards doing that, they will get nothing.

如果他们只是关注于技术层面，那他们将一无所获。

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All I'm doing here, nothing particularly exciting, I'm simply plugging this expression in for P and then I multiplied the whole thing out because it was all multiplied by q.

这些计算过程确实很枯燥,我只是把这个算式代入到P中,然后打开整理,因为每一项都乘以了q

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The bottom line is that simply doing nothing is NOT a good thing.

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Not by pressing some button and firing a bunch of missiles but simply by doing nothing.

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"Doing nothing was simply not an option, " he said.

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