双语阅读：忙得来不及思考 你可能得了匆忙病.docxVIP

Eating lunch at your desk while also checking emails and talking on the phone is one symptom. So is doing something else while on conference calls, or even while brushing your teeth. We all find ourselves multitasking now and then, but what about habitually interrupting someone who is talking, or always getting frustrated in a checkout line or in traffic, even when it’s moving along smoothly? When microwaving something for 30 seconds, do you feel the urge to find something else to do while you wait? 一边在办公桌前吃午餐，一边查看电子邮件和接电话，是一种症状。开电话会议甚至刷牙时还在做其他事也是。我们经常发现自己在同时处理多项任务，但你是否会习惯性地打断别人谈话，或者在等待付款或遇上交通拥堵时变得沮丧，即便前面的车辆正在平顺前行？当你用微波炉将食物热30秒钟的时候，你是否觉得应该找些别的事情边等边做？If one or more of these sounds all too familiar, you probably have a bad case of a malady that psychologists have dubbed “hurry sickness.” A sure sign is “repeatedly pushing the door-close button on an elevator,” says Richard Jolly, a London Business School professor and executive coach. “Half the time, those buttons aren’t even connected to anything but a light bulb — they’re what’s called a ‘mechanical placebo.’ But even if they worked, how much time would they save? Five seconds?”如果你也有一种或多种上述症状，你或许已经患上了一种被心理学家称为“匆忙症”的疾病。伦敦商学院教授，高管教练理查德o乔利表示：“匆忙症的一种明确症状就是不停按电梯的关门按钮”。“通常情况下，这些按钮除了让灯泡闪烁一下，没有任何作用——这就是为什么将它们称为‘机械安慰剂’。但即便按这些按钮有效，你又能节省多少时间呢？五秒钟？”To the hurry-sick, five seconds can seem like forever. About 95% of managers Jolly has studied over the past 10 years, both in his MBA classes and his coaching practice, suffer from the ailment, defined as the constant need to do more, faster, even when there’s no objective reason to be in such a rush. Eventually, hurry sickness really can make you sick, since it increases the body’s output of the stress hormone cortisol, which suppresses the immune system and has been linked with heart disease. 对于匆忙症患者们来说，五秒钟非常漫长。过去十年，乔利对参加其MBA课程和接受指导的管理人员进行了研究，其中约95%的管理者患有这种疾病，他们总是需要做得更多更快，即便很多时候并没有客观原因要求他们如此着急。最后，匆忙症确实会让你生病，因为它会增加身体释放的压力荷尔蒙皮质醇，这种物质会抑制免疫系统，甚至有可能诱发心脏病。What’s more, despite the fact t