20210927 TED: What's in the box (계절관련 공간관련)

Changing Seasons 

가을탄다  I am feeling restless (잠자리 설치거나, 생각때문에 설치거나, 집 안에 갇혀있는데 따분한느낌, 너무 심심하고, 뭘 해도 약간 귀차니즘에 빠질때)

I get sentimental in the fall. 

봄: spring fever (열)  / 황사: yellow(Asian) dust, 미세먼지: micro dust

여름: summer breeze / 열대야: tropical nights 

가을/ 겨울: Autumn / winter blues (mild depression) 

 

What’s your favorite and worst season?

• Summer: 
• Worst season: Winter
• Spring: rekindle (feelings / memories), reminds him of childhood, lived in the countryside
• You are opposite to me. Siberia(Saiberia), (Cecius / Farenheit), cozy, 
• Cool and chilly, fallen leaves,
• Don’t like / Dislike / hate / despise(경멸) / abhor (경멸+ 혐오) / 
• Indoor / outdoor person / I am ourdoorsy
• Couch potato,
• Howling 

Minimalism: 적게 소유하고 언제든지 떠날 수 있는

What's in the box? Whatever it is must be pretty (=very, 꽤) important, because I've traveled with it, moved it, from apartment to apartment to apartment. 

How are you doing?

- pretty (구어적인 = Colloquial (구어적) )  good 

It is pretty (very) important to me

- pretty: very / quite 

 

00:23

Sound familiar? Did you know that we Americans have about three times the amount of space we did 50 years ago? Three times. So you'd think, with all this extra space, we'd have plenty of room for all our stuff. Nope.

• 그는 내 덩치에 3배다 
• He is three times as big as I
• He has three times the size of me. 

 There's a new industry in town, a 22 billion-dollar, 2.2 billion sq. ft. industry: that of personal storage. So we've got triple the space, but we've become such (so) good shoppers that we need even more space. So where does this lead? Lots of credit card debt, huge environmental footprints, and perhaps not coincidentally, our happiness levels flat-lined over the same 50 years. 

= ecological foot print: 사람이 사는 동안 자연에 남긴 영향을 토지의 면적으로 환산한 수치

Co(together)-ed: 남녀공학: It is a co-ed school

Co-incident: 동시발생적인, 우연히 

 

 

 

01:10

Well I'm here to suggest there's a better way, that less might actually equal more. I bet most of us have experienced at some point the joys of less: college -- in your dorm, traveling -- in a hotel room, camping -- rig up basically nothing, maybe a boat.

 Whatever it was for you, I bet that, among other things, this gave you a little more freedom, a little more time. So I'm going to suggest that less stuff and less space are going to equal a smaller footprint. It's actually a great way to save you some money. And it's going to give you a little more ease in your life. 

 

01:50

So I started a project called Life Edited at lifeedited.org to further this conversation and to find some great solutions in this area. First up: crowd-sourcing my 420 sq. ft. apartment in Manhattan with partners Mutopo and Jovoto.com. I wanted it all -- home office, sit down dinner for 10, room for guests, and all my kite surfing gear. 

First up: / First off, 첫번째로

First of all: 첫번째로 (문어 구어 다쓰는 표현)

/ Above all(무엇보다 중요한 /가장 중요한)

 

 

With over 300 entries from around the world, I got it, my own little jewel box. By buying a space that was 420 sq. ft. instead of 600, immediately I'm saving 200 grand. Smaller space is going to make for smaller utilities -- save some more money there, but also a smaller footprint. And because it's really designed around an edited set of possessions -- my favorite stuff -- and really designed for me, I'm really excited to be there. 

 

02:44

So how can you live little? Three main approaches. First of all, you have to edit ruthlessly. We've got to clear the arteries of our lives. And that shirt that I hadn't worn in years? It's time for me to let it go. We've got to cut the extraneous out of our lives, and we've got to learn to stem the inflow. We need to think before we buy. Ask ourselves, "Is that really going to make me happier? Truly?" By all means, we should buy and own some great stuff. But we want stuff that we're going to love for years, not just stuff. 

 

03:21

Secondly, our new mantra: small is sexy. We want space efficiency. We want things that are designed for how they're used the vast majority of the time, not that rare event. Why have a six burner stove when you rarely use three? So we want things that nest, we want things that stack, and we want it digitized. You can take paperwork, books, movies, and you can make it disappear -- it's magic. 

 

03:49

Finally, we want multifunctional spaces and housewares -- a sink combined with a toilet, a dining table becomes a bed -- same space, a little side table stretches out to seat 10. In the winning Life Edited scheme in a render here, we combine a moving wall with transformer furniture to get a lot out of the space. Look at the coffee table -- it grows in height and width to seat 10. My office folds away, easily hidden. My bed just pops out of the wall with two fingers. Guests? Move the moving wall, have some fold-down guest beds. And of course, my own movie theater. 

 

04:31

So I'm not saying that we all need to live in 420 sq. ft. But consider the benefits of an edited life. Go from 3,000 to 2,000, from 1,500 to 1,000. Most of us, maybe all of us, are here pretty happily for a bunch of days with a couple of bags, maybe a small space, a hotel room. So when you go home and you walk through your front door, take a second and ask yourselves, "Could I do with a little life editing? Would that give me a little more freedom? Maybe a little more time?" 

 

05:04

What's in the box? It doesn't really matter. I know I don't need it. What's in yours? Maybe, just maybe, less might equal more. So let's make room for the good stuff. 

 

05:23

Thank you. 

 

05:25

(Applause)