学英语，英国B-B-C的经验是，“为什么不用学母语的方式学英语呢？”大家学母语都是先学说后认字的吧？听说应该先于阅读才对。

学习英语要循序渐进，对于普通学习者来说，可以选择慢速英语作为入门。B-B-C的慢速英语收集整理了很多生活话题，它从身边事物入手，引导大家循序渐进学习，侧重于听力练习，让你不知不觉学会英语。

我们每天都要作出各种各样的决定，有些决定至关重要，有些则无关紧要。聪明的人就一定会做出最明智的选择吗？本期节目讨论阻碍人们作出正确决定的因素。

点击下方听音频。

BBC英语-影响作出正确决定的因素.mp3（没法传音频，需要私）

先听一遍，肯定有生词，不要紧，看看下面的单词表。

⇒choice 选择
⇒inconsequential 无关紧要的
⇒significant 重要的
⇒good outcome 好的结果
⇒decide 做决定
⇒perfectionism 完美主义
⇒perfect solution 完美的解决办法
⇒indecisive 犹豫不决的
⇒preconception 先入之见，成见
⇒perspective （思考问题的）角度，观点
⇒come to a decision 做出一个决定
⇒barrier 障碍
⇒cognitive bias 认知偏差
⇒justification 辩解，正当理由
⇒irrational belief 非理性的看法
⇒humility 谦逊
⇒change one's mind 改变主意
⇒indecisiveness 犹豫不决。

学习了生词，回过头再听几遍，争取每句话都听懂，没听出来的对照下面的英文原稿。

Life is full of choices, some inconsequential, some really significant. But sometimes it can be hard to make the correct one. What are the obstacles that stand between us and a good outcome?

Some of us just find it hard to decide. Alice Boyes, writing for Harvard Business Review, tells us this can be connected to perfectionism, where people attempt to find a perfect solution to any problem and are unable to move forward when they can't find one. It might seem that being indecisive would stop us making the right decision, but in fact it could actually help us make the correct ones.

Susan Krauss in Psychology Today reminds us that people often make bad decisions because they base them on preconceptions rather than the context in which things happen. She highlights a paper by researcher Iris Schneider which finds that indecisive people are more likely to look at different perspectives and use them to come to a better decision. So, it could be that a more significant barrier to making the best choice is our cognitive biases.

David Robson, speaking to the B-B-C's Crowd Science, tells us that intelligence can sometimes stop people making the right decision. People sometimes use intelligence to invent justifications for irrational beliefs. He believes that humility is key to making a good decision. People who can accept that they might be wrong are more likely to consider different viewpoints. He is backed up on this by Jeff Bezos. Tech CEO Jason Fried recalls the Amazon founder saying how the people who were right a lot of the time were the people who often changed their minds.

So, maybe rather than indecision, it might be intelligence and decisiveness, backed up by our biases that actually stop us making good choices. While humility and indecisiveness could help us pick the best option.

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