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爱德华·博克:爱德华·博克自传·补录 379

爱德华·博克《爱德华·博克自传》· The Americanization of Edward Bok · 领导

Bok not only saw an opportunity to better the exterior of the small houses, but he determined that each plan published should provide for two essentials: every servant's room should have two windows to insure cross-ventilation, and contain twice the number of cubic feet usually given to such rooms; and in place of the American parlor, which he considered a useless room, should be substituted either a living-room or a library. He did not point to these improvements; every plan simply presented the larger servant's room and did not present a parlor. It is a singular fact that of the tens of thousands of plans sold, not a purchaser ever noticed the absence of a parlor except one woman in Brookline, Mass., who, in erecting a group of twenty-five "Journal houses," discovered after she had built ten that not one contained a parlor!

出处: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3538
定位:Additional excerpt 379 · 核对日期:2026-10-19 · 核验:短摘录

白话

博克不仅想改善小房子的外观,还定下两条硬标准:佣人房必须开两扇窗保证通风,空间要比通常大出一倍;同时取消他认为没用的美式客厅,换成起居室或书房。他不明说这些改动,只是让每份图纸都呈现更大的佣人房、不画客厅。结果卖出的几万份图纸里,只有一个马萨诸塞州布鲁克莱恩的女士发现少了客厅——她建了十栋“杂志屋”后才察觉。这说明:改变习惯不必靠说教,把更好的选项直接做成默认,人们自然会接受。

上下文

博克是《妇女家庭杂志》主编,20世纪初通过刊登住宅图纸影响美国普通人的居住方式。

今日一问

你能否把一个想推广的好做法,直接设为默认选项,而不是先说服别人?

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