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第一篇：ted演講稿2022

when i was seven years old and my sister was just five years old, we wereplaying on top of a bunk bed. i was two years older than my sister at the time-- i mean, i'm two years older than her now -- but at the time it meant she hadto do everything that i wanted to do, and i wanted to play war. so we were up ontop of our bunk beds. and on one side of the bunk bed, i had put out all of myg.i. joe soldiers and weaponry. and on the other side were all my sister's mylittle ponies ready for a cavalry charge.

there are differing accounts of what actually happened that afternoon, butsince my sister is not here with us today, let me tell you the true story --(laughter) -- which is my sister's a little bit on the clumsy side. somehow,without any help or push from her older brother at all, suddenly amy disappearedoff of the top of the bunk bed and landed with this crash on the floor. now inervously peered over the side of the bed to see what had befallen my fallensister and saw that she had landed painfully on her hands and knees on all fourson the ground.

i was nervous because my parents had charged me with making sure that mysister and i played as safely and as quietly as possible. and seeing as how ihad accidentally broken amy's arm just one week before ... (laughter) ...heroically pushing her out of the way of an oncoming imaginary sniper bullet,(laughter) for which i have yet to be thanked, i was trying as hard as i could-- she didn't even see it coming -- i was trying as hard as i could to be on mybest behavior.

and i saw my sister's face, this wail of pain and suffering and surprisethreatening to erupt from her mouth and threatening to wake my parents from thelong winter's nap for which they had settled. so i did the only thing my littlefrantic seven year-old brain could think to do to avert this tragedy. and if youhave children, you've seen this hundreds of times before. i said, "amy, amy,wait. don't cry. don't cry. did you see how you landed? no human lands on allfours like that. amy, i think this means you're a unicorn."

(laughter)

now that was cheating, because there was nothing in the world my sisterwould want more than not to be amy the hurt five year-old little sister, but amythe special unicorn. of course, this was an option that was open to her brain atno point in the past. and you could see how my poor, manipulated sister facedconflict, as her little brain attempted to devote resources to feeling the painand suffering and surprise she just e_perienced, or contemplating her new-foundidentity as a unicorn. and the latter won out. instead of crying, instead ofceasing our play, instead of waking my parents, with all the negativeconsequences that would have ensued for me, instead a smile spread across herface and she scrambled right back up onto the bunk bed with all the grace of ababy unicorn ... (laughter) ... with one broken leg.

what we stumbled across at this tender age of just five and seven -- we hadno idea at the time -- was something that was going be at the vanguard of ascientific revolution occurring two decades later in the way that we look at thehuman brain. what we had stumbled across is something called positivepsychology, which is the reason that i'm here today and the reason that i wakeup every morning.

when i first started talking about this research outside of academia, outwith companies and schools, the very first thing they said to never do is tostart your talk with a graph. the very first thing i want to do is start my talkwith a graph. this graph looks boring, but this graph is the reason i gete_cited and wake up every morning. and this graph doesn't even mean anything;it's fake data. what we found is --

(laughter)

if i got this data back studying you here in the room, i would be thrilled,because there's very clearly a trend that's going on there, and that means thati can get published, which is all that really matters. the fact that there's oneweird red dot that's up above the curve, there's one weirdo in the room -- iknow who you are, i saw you earlier -- that's no problem. that's no problem, asmost of you know, because i can just delete that dot. i can delete that dotbecause that's clearly a measurement error. and we know that's a measurementerror because it's messing up my data.

so one of the very first things we teach people in economics and statisticsand business and psychology courses is how, in a statistically valid way, do weeliminate the weirdos. how do we eliminate the outliers so we can find the lineof best fit? which is fantastic if i'm trying to find out how many advil theaverage person should be taking -- two. but if i'm interested in potential, ifi'm interested in your potential, or for happiness or productivity or energy orcreativity, what we're doing is we're creating the cult of the average withscience.

if i asked a question like, "how fast can a child learn how to read in aclassroom?" scientists change the answer to "how fast does the average childlearn how to read in that classroom?" and then we tailor the class right towardsthe average. now if you fall below the average on this curve, then psychologistsget thrilled, because that means you're either depressed or you have a disorder,or hopefully both. we're hoping for both because our business model is, if youcome into a therapy session with one problem, we want to make sure you leaveknowing you have 10, so you keep coming back over and over again. we'll go backinto your childhood if necessary, but eventually what we want to do is make younormal again. but normal is merely average.

and what i posit and what positive psychology posits is that if we studywhat is merely average, we will remain merely average. then instead of deletingthose positive outliers, what i intentionally do is come into a population likethis one and say, why? why is it that some of you are so high above the curve interms of your intellectual ability, athletic ability, musical ability,creativity, energy levels, your resiliency in the face of challenge, your senseof humor? whatever it is, instead of deleting you, what i want to do is studyyou. because maybe we can glean information -- not just how to move people up tothe average, but how we can move the entire average up in our companies andschools worldwide.

the reason this graph is important to me is, when i turn on the news, itseems like the majority of the information is not positive, in fact it'snegative. most of it's about murder, corruption, diseases, natural disasters.and very quickly, my brain starts to think that's the accurate ratio of negativeto positive in the world. what that's doing is creating something called themedical school syndrome -- which, if you know people who've been to medicalschool, during the first year of medical training, as you read through a list ofall the symptoms and diseases that could happen, suddenly you realize you haveall of them.

i have a brother in-law named bobo -- which is a whole other story. bobomarried amy the unicorn. bobo called me on the phone from yale medical school,and bobo said, "shawn, i have leprosy." (laughter) which, even at yale, ise_traordinarily rare. but i had no idea how to console poor bobo because he hadjust gotten over an entire week of menopause.

(laughter)

see what we're finding is it's not necessarily the reality that shapes us,but the lens through which your brain views the world that shapes your reality.and if we can change the lens, not only can we change your happiness, we canchange every single educational and business outcome at the same time.

when i applied to harvard, i applied on a dare. i didn't e_pect to get in,and my family had no money for college. when i got a military scholarship twoweeks later, they allowed me to go. suddenly, something that wasn't even apossibility became a reality. when i went there, i assumed everyone else wouldsee it as a privilege as well, that they'd be e_cited to be there. even ifyou're in a classroom full of people smarter than you, you'd be happy just to bein that classroom, which is what i felt. but what i found there is, while somepeople e_perience that, when i graduated after my four years and then spent thene_t eight years living in the dorms with the students -- harvard asked me to; iwasn't that guy. (laughter) i was an officer of harvard to counsel studentsthrough the difficult four years. and what i found in my research and myteaching is that these students, no matter how happy they were with theiroriginal success of getting into the school, two weeks later their brains werefocused, not on the privilege of being there, nor on their philosophy or theirphysics. their brain was focused on the competition, the workload, the hassles,the stresses, the complaints.

when i first went in there, i walked into the freshmen dining hall, whichis where my friends from waco, te_as, which is where i grew up -- i know some ofyou have heard of it. when they'd come to visit me, they'd look around, they'dsay, "this freshman dining hall looks like something out of hogwart's from themovie "harry potter," which it does. this is hogwart's from the movie "harrypotter" and that's harvard. and when they see this, they say, "shawn, why do youwaste your time studying happiness at harvard? seriously, what does a harvardstudent possibly have to be unhappy about?"

embedded within that question is the key to understanding the science ofhappiness. because what that question assumes is that our e_ternal world ispredictive of our happiness levels, when in reality, if i know everything aboutyour e_ternal world, i can only predict 10 percent of your long-term happiness.90 percent of your long-term happiness is predicted not by the e_ternal world,but by the way your brain processes the world. and if we change it, if we changeour formula for happiness and success, what we can do is change the way that wecan then affect reality. what we found is that only 25 percent of job successesare predicted by i.q. 75 percent of job successes are predicted by your optimismlevels, your social support and your ability to see stress as a challengeinstead of as a threat.

i talked to a boarding school up in new england, probably the mostprestigious boarding school, and they said, "we already know that. so everyyear, instead of just teaching our students, we also have a wellness week. andwe're so e_cited. monday night we have the world's leading e_pert coming in tospeak about adolescent depression. tuesday night it's school violence andbullying. wednesday night is eating disorders. thursday night is elicit druguse. and friday night we're trying to decide between risky se_ or happiness."(laughter) i said, "that's most people's friday nights." (laughter) (applause)which i'm glad you liked, but they did not like that at all. silence on thephone. and into the silence, i said, "i'd be happy to speak at your school, butjust so you know, that's not a wellness week, that's a sickness week. whatyou've done is you've outlined all the negative things that can happen, but nottalked about the positive."

the absence of disease is not health. here's how we get to health: we needto reverse the formula for happiness and success. in the last three years, i'vetraveled to 45 different countries, working with schools and companies in themidst of an economic downturn. and what i found is that most companies andschools follow a formula for success, which is this: if i work harder, i'll bemore successful. and if i'm more successful, then i'll be happier. thatundergirds most of our parenting styles, our managing styles, the way that wemotivate our behavior.

and the problem is it's scientifically broken and backwards for tworeasons. first, every time your brain has a success, you just changed thegoalpost of what success looked like. you got good grades, now you have to getbetter grades, you got into a good school and after you get into a betterschool, you got a good job, now you have to get a better job, you hit your salestarget, we're going to change your sales target. and if happiness is on theopposite side of success, your brain never gets there. what we've done is we'vepushed happiness over the cognitive horizon as a society. and that's because wethink we have to be successful, then we'll be happier.

but the real problem is our brains work in the opposite order. if you canraise somebody's level of positivity in the present, then their braine_periences what we now call a happiness advantage, which is your brain atpositive performs significantly better than it does at negative, neutral orstressed. your intelligence rises, your creativity rises, your energy levelsrise. in fact, what we've found is that every single business outcome improves.your brain at positive is 31 percent more productive than your brain atnegative, neutral or stressed. you're 37 percent better at sales. doctors are 19percent faster, more accurate at coming up with the correct diagnosis whenpositive instead of negative, neutral or stressed. which means we can reversethe formula. if we can find a way of becoming positive in the present, then ourbrains work even more successfully as we're able to work harder, faster and moreintelligently.

what we need to be able to do is to reverse this formula so we can start tosee what our brains are actually capable of. because dopamine, which floods intoyour system when you're positive, has two functions. not only does it make youhappier, it turns on all of the learning centers in your brain allowing you toadapt to the world in a different way.

we've found that there are ways that you can train your brain to be able tobecome more positive. in just a two-minute span of time done for 21 days in arow, we can actually rewire your brain, allowing your brain to actually workmore optimistically and more successfully. we've done these things in researchnow in every single company that i've worked with, getting them to write downthree new things that they're grateful for for 21 days in a row, three newthings each day. and at the end of that, their brain starts to retain a patternof scanning the world, not for the negative, but for the positive first.

journaling about one positive e_perience you've had over the past 24 hoursallows your brain to relive it. e_ercise teaches your brain that your behaviormatters. we find that meditation allows your brain to get over the cultural adhdthat we've been creating by trying to do multiple tasks at once and allows ourbrains to focus on the task at hand. and finally, random acts of kindness areconscious acts of kindness. we get people, when they open up their inbo_, towrite one positive email praising or thanking somebody in their social supportnetwork.

and by doing these activities and by training your brain just like we trainour bodies, what we've found is we can reverse the formula for happiness andsuccess, and in doing so, not only create ripples of positivity, but create areal revolution.

thank you very much.

(applause)

第二篇：ted演講稿

壓力大，怎么辦?壓力會(huì)讓你心跳加速、呼吸加快、額頭冒汗!當(dāng)壓力成為全民健康公敵時(shí)，有研究顯示只有當(dāng)你與壓力為敵時(shí)，它才會(huì)危害你的健康。心理學(xué)家kellymcgonigal 從積極的一面分析壓力，教你如何使壓力變成你的朋友!

stress. it makes your heart pound, your breathing quicken and your foreheadsweat. but while stress has been made into a public health enemy, new researchsuggests that stress may only be bad for you if you believe that to be the case.psychologist kelly mcgonigal urges us to see stress as a positive, andintroduces us to an unsung mechanism for stress reduction: reaching out toothers.

kelly mcgonigal translates academic research into practical strategies forhealth, happiness and personal success.

why you should listen to her：

stanford university psychologist kelly mcgonigal is a leader in the growingfield of “science-help.” through books, articles, courses and workshops,mcgonigal works to help us understand and implement the latest scientificfindings in psychology, neuroscience and medicine.

straddling the worlds of research and practice, mcgonigal holds positionsin both the stanford graduate school of business and the school of medicine. hermost recent book, the willpower instinct, e_plores the latest research onmotivation, temptation and procrastination, as well as what it takes totransform habits, persevere at challenges and make a successful change.

she is now researching a new book about the "upside of stress," which willlook at both why stress is good for us, and what makes us good at stress. in herwords: "the old understanding of stress as a unhelpful relic of our animalinstincts is being replaced by the understanding that stress actually makes ussocially smart -- it's what allows us to be fully human."

i have a confession to make, but first, i want you to make a littleconfession to me. in the past year, i want you to just raise your hand

if you've e_perienced relatively little stress. anyone?

how about a moderate amount of stress?

who has e_perienced a lot of stress? yeah. me too.

but that is not my confession. my confession is this: i am a healthpsychologist, and my mission is to help people be happier and healthier. but ifear that something i've been teaching for the last 10 years is doing more harmthan good, and it has to do with stress. for years i've been telling people,stress makes you sick. it increases the risk of everything from the common coldto cardiovascular disease. basically, i've turned stress into the enemy. but ihave changed my mind about stress, and today, i want to change yours.

let me start with the study that made me rethink my whole approach tostress. this study tracked 30,000 adults in the united states for eight years,and they started by asking people, "how much stress have you e_perienced in thelast year?" they also asked, "do you believe that stress is harmful for yourhealth?" and then they used public death records to find out who died.

(laughter)

okay. some bad news first. people who e_perienced a lot of stress in theprevious year had a 43 percent increased risk of dying. but that was only truefor the people who also believed that stress is harmful for your health.(laughter) people who e_perienced a lot of stress but did not view stress asharmful were no more likely to die. in fact, they had the lowest risk of dyingof anyone in the study, including people who had relatively little stress.

now the researchers estimated that over the eight years they were trackingdeaths, 182,000 americans died prematurely, not from stress, but from the beliefthat stress is bad for you. (laughter) that is over 20,000 deaths a year. now,if that estimate is correct, that would make believing stress is bad for you the15th largest cause of death in the united states last year, killing more peoplethan skin cancer, hiv/aids and homicide.

(laughter)

you can see why this study freaked me out. here i've been spending so muchenergy telling people stress is bad for your health.

so this study got me wondering: can changing how you think about stressmake you healthier? and here the science says yes. when you change your mindabout stress, you can change your body's response to stress.

now to e_plain how this works, i want you all to pretend that you areparticipants in a study designed to stress you out. it's called the socialstress test. you come into the laboratory, and you're told you have to give afive-minute impromptu speech on your personal weaknesses to a panel of e_pertevaluators sitting right in front of you, and to make sure you feel thepressure, there are bright lights and a camera in your face, kind of like this.and the evaluators have been trained to give you discouraging, non-verbalfeedback like this.

(laughter)

now that you're sufficiently demoralized, time for part two: a math test.and unbeknownst to you, the e_perimenter has been trained to harass you duringit. now we're going to all do this together. it's going to be fun. for me.

okay. i want you all to count backwards from 996 in increments of seven.you're going to do this out loud as fast as you can, starting with 996. go!audience: (counting) go faster. faster please. you're going too slow. stop.stop, stop, stop. that guy made a mistake. we are going to have to start allover again. (laughter) you're not very good at this, are you? okay, so you getthe idea. now, if you were actually in this study, you'd probably be a littlestressed out. your heart might be pounding, you might be breathing faster, maybebreaking out into a sweat. and normally, we interpret these physical changes asan_iety or signs that we aren't coping very well with the pressure.

but what if you viewed them instead as signs that your body was energized,was preparing you to meet this challenge? now that is e_actly what participantswere told in a study conducted at harvard university. before they went throughthe social stress test, they were taught to rethink their stress response ashelpful. that pounding heart is preparing you for action. if you're breathingfaster, it's no problem. it's getting more o_ygen to your brain. andparticipants who learned to view the stress response as helpful for theirperformance, well, they were less stressed out, less an_ious, more confident,but the most fascinating finding to me was how their physical stress responsechanged. now, in a typical stress response, your heart rate goes up, and yourblood vessels constrict like this. and this is one of the reasons that chronicstress is sometimes associated with cardiovascular disease. it's not reallyhealthy to be in this state all the time. but in the study, when participantsviewed their stress response as helpful, their blood vessels stayed rela_ed likethis. their heart was still pounding, but this is a much healthiercardiovascular profile. it actually looks a lot like what happens in moments ofjoy and courage. over a lifetime of stressful e_periences, this one biologicalchange could be the difference between a stress-induced heart attack at age 50and living well into your 90s. and this is really what the new science of stressreveals, that how you think about stress matters.

so my goal as a health psychologist has changed. i no longer want to getrid of your stress. i want to make you better at stress. and we just did alittle intervention. if you raised your hand and said you'd had a lot of stressin the last year, we could have saved your life, because hopefully the ne_t timeyour heart is pounding from stress, you're going to remember this talk andyou're going to think to yourself, this is my body helping me rise to thischallenge. and when you view stress in that way, your body believes you, andyour stress response becomes healthier.

now i said i have over a decade of demonizing stress to redeem myself from,so we are going to do one more intervention. i want to tell you about one of themost under-appreciated aspects of the stress response, and the idea is this:stress makes you social.

to understand this side of stress, we need to talk about a hormone,o_ytocin, and i know o_ytocin has already gotten as much hype as a hormone canget. it even has its own cute nickname, the cuddle hormone, because it'sreleased when you hug someone. but this is a very small part of what o_ytocin isinvolved in. o_ytocin is a neuro-hormone. it fine-tunes your brain's socialinstincts. it primes you to do things that strengthen close relationships.o_ytocin makes you crave physical contact with your friends and family. itenhances your empathy. it even makes you more willing to help and support thepeople you care about. some people have even suggested we should snort o_ytocinto become more compassionate and caring. but here's what most people don'tunderstand about o_ytocin. it's a stress hormone. your pituitary gland pumpsthis stuff out as part of the stress response. it's as much a part of yourstress response as the adrenaline that makes your heart pound. and when o_ytocinis released in the stress response, it is motivating you to seek support. yourbiological stress response is nudging you to tell someone how you feel insteadof bottling it up. your stress response wants to make sure you notice whensomeone else in your life is struggling so that you can support each other. whenlife is difficult, your stress response wants you to be surrounded by people whocare about you.

okay, so how is knowing this side of stress going to make you healthier?well, o_ytocin doesn't only act on your brain. it also acts on your body, andone of its main roles in your body is to protect your cardiovascular system fromthe effects of stress. it's a natural anti-inflammatory. it also helps yourblood vessels stay rela_ed during stress. but my favorite effect on the body isactually on the heart. your heart has receptors for this hormone, and o_ytocinhelps heart cells regenerate and heal from any stress-induced damage. thisstress hormone strengthens your heart, and the cool thing is that all of thesephysical benefits of o_ytocin are enhanced by social contact and social support,so when you reach out to others under stress, either to seek support or to helpsomeone else, you release more of this hormone, your stress response becomeshealthier, and you actually recover faster from stress. i find this amazing,that your stress response has a built-in mechanism for stress resilience, andthat mechanism is human connection.

i want to finish by telling you about one more study. and listen up,because this study could also save a life. this study tracked about 1,000 adultsin the united states, and they ranged in age from 34 to 93, and they started thestudy by asking, "how much stress have you e_perienced in the last year?" theyalso asked, "how much time have you spent helping out friends, neighbors, peoplein your community?" and then they used public records for the ne_t five years tofind out who died.

okay, so the bad news first: for every major stressful life e_perience,like financial difficulties or family crisis, that increased the risk of dyingby 30 percent. but -- and i hope you are e_pecting a but by now -- but thatwasn't true for everyone. people who spent time caring for others showedabsolutely no stress-related increase in dying. zero. caring created resilience.and so we see once again that the harmful effects of stress on your health arenot inevitable. how you think and how you act can transform your e_perience ofstress. when you choose to view your stress response as helpful, you create thebiology of courage. and when you choose to connect with others under stress, youcan create resilience. now i wouldn't necessarily ask for more stressfule_periences in my life, but this science has given me a whole new appreciationfor stress. stress gives us access to our hearts. the compassionate heart thatfinds joy and meaning in connecting with others, and yes, your pounding physicalheart, working so hard to give you strength and energy, and when you choose toview stress in this way, you're not just getting better at stress, you'reactually making a pretty profound statement. you're saying that you can trustyourself to handle life's challenges, and you're remembering that you don't haveto face them alone.

thank you.

(applause)

chris anderson: this is kind of amazing, what you're telling us. it seemsamazing to me that a belief about stress can make so much difference tosomeone's life e_pectancy. how would that e_tend to advice, like, if someone ismaking a lifestyle choice between, say, a stressful job and a non-stressful job,does it matter which way they go? it's equally wise to go for the stressful jobso long as you believe that you can handle it, in some sense?

kelly mcgonigal: yeah, and one thing we know for certain is that chasingmeaning is better for your health than trying to avoid discomfort. and so iwould say that's really the best way to make decisions, is go after what it isthat creates meaning in your life and then trust yourself to handle the stressthat follows.

ca: thank you so much, kelly. it's pretty cool. km: thank you.

(applause)

第三篇：TED英文演講稿3篇

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TED英文演講稿3篇

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TED英文演講稿篇1

What fear can teach us

恐懼可以教會(huì)我們什么

One day in 1819, 3,000 miles off the coast of Chile, in one of the most remote regions of the Pacific Ocean, 20 American sailors watched their ship flood with seawater.

1820xx年的某一天， 在距離智利海岸3000英里的地方， 有一個(gè)太平洋上的最偏遠(yuǎn)的水域， 20名美國(guó)船員目睹了他們的船只進(jìn)水的場(chǎng)面。

They'd been struck by a sperm whale, which had ripped a catastrophic hole in the ship's hull. As their ship began to sink beneath the swells, the men huddled together in three small whaleboats.

他們和一頭抹香鯨相撞，給船體撞了 一個(gè)毀滅性的大洞。 當(dāng)船在巨浪中開始沉沒時(shí)， 人們?cè)谌龡l救生小艇中抱作一團(tuán)。

These men were 10,000 miles from home, more than 1,000 miles from the nearest scrap of land. In their small boats, they carried only rudimentary navigational equipment and limited supplies of food and water.

這些人在離家10000萬(wàn)英里的地方， 離最近的陸地也超過(guò)1000英里。 在他們的小艇中，他們只帶了 落后的導(dǎo)航設(shè)備 和有限的食物和飲水。

These were the men of the whaleship Essex, whose story would later inspire parts of "Moby Dick."

他們就是捕鯨船ESSEX上的人們， 后來(lái)的他們的故事成為《白鯨記》的一部分。

Even in today's world, their situation would be really dire, but think about how much worse it would have been then.

即使在當(dāng)今的世界，碰上這種情況也夠杯具的，更不用說(shuō)在當(dāng)時(shí)的情況有多糟糕。

No one on land had any idea that anything had gone wrong. No search party was coming to look for these men. So most of us have never experienced a situation as frightening as the one in which these sailors found themselves, but we all know what it's like to be afraid.

岸上的人根本就還沒意識(shí)到出了什么問(wèn)題。 沒有任何人來(lái)搜尋他們。 我們當(dāng)中大部分人沒有經(jīng)歷過(guò) 這些船員所處的可怕情景， 但我們都知道害怕是什么感覺。

We know how fear feels, but I'm not sure we spend enough time thinking about what our fears mean.

我們知道恐懼的感覺， 但是我不能肯定我們會(huì)花很多時(shí)間想過(guò) 我們的恐懼到底意味著什么。

As we grow up, we're often encouraged to think of fear as a weakness, just another childish thing to discard like baby teeth or roller skates.

我們長(zhǎng)大以后，我們總是會(huì)被鼓勵(lì)把恐懼 視為軟弱，需要像乳牙或輪滑鞋一樣 扔掉的幼稚的東西。

And I think it's no accident that we think this way. Neuroscientists have actually shown that human beings are hard-wired to be optimists.

我想意外事故并非我們所想的那樣。 神經(jīng)系統(tǒng)科學(xué)家已經(jīng)知道人類 生來(lái)就是樂(lè)觀主義者。

So maybe that's why we think of fear, sometimes, as a danger in and of itself. "Don't worry," we like to say to one another. "Don't panic." In English, fear is something we conquer. It's something we fight.

這也許就是為什么我們認(rèn)為有時(shí)候恐懼， 本身就是一種危險(xiǎn)或帶來(lái)危險(xiǎn)。 “不要愁?！蔽覀兛偸菍?duì)別人說(shuō)。“不要慌”。 英語(yǔ)中，恐懼是我們需要征服的東西。 是我們必須對(duì)抗的東西，是我們必須克服的東西。

It's something we overcome. But what if we looked at fear in a fresh way? What if we thought of fear as an amazing act of the imagination, something that can be as profound and insightful as storytelling itself?

但是我們?nèi)绻麚Q個(gè)視角看恐懼會(huì)如何呢? 如果我們把恐懼當(dāng)做是想象力的一個(gè)驚人成果， 是和我們講故事一樣 精妙而有見地的東西，又會(huì)如何呢?

It's easiest to see this link between fear and the imagination in young children, whose fears are often extraordinarily vivid.

在小孩子當(dāng)中，我們最容易看到恐懼與想象之間的聯(lián)系， 他們的恐懼經(jīng)常是超級(jí)生動(dòng)的。

When I was a child, I lived in California, which is, you know, mostly a very nice place to live, but for me as a child, California could also be a little scary.

我小時(shí)候住在加利福尼亞， 你們都知道，是非常適合居住的位置， 但是對(duì)一個(gè)小孩來(lái)說(shuō)，加利福尼亞也會(huì)有點(diǎn)嚇人。

I remember how frightening it was to see the chandelier that hung above our dining table swing back and forth during every minor earthquake, and I sometimes couldn't sleep at night, terrified that the Big One might strike while we were sleeping.

我記得每次小地震的時(shí)候 當(dāng)我看到我們餐桌上的吊燈 晃來(lái)晃去的時(shí)候是多么的嚇人， 我經(jīng)常會(huì)徹夜難眠，擔(dān)心大地震 會(huì)在我們睡覺的時(shí)候突然襲來(lái)。

And what we say about kids who have fears like that is that they have a vivid imagination. But at a certain point, most of us learn to leave these kinds of visions behind and grow up.

我們說(shuō)小孩子感受到這種恐懼 是因?yàn)樗麄冇猩鷦?dòng)的想象力。 但是在某個(gè)時(shí)候，我們大多數(shù)學(xué)會(huì)了 拋棄這種想法而變得成熟。

We learn that there are no monsters hiding under the bed, and not every earthquake brings buildings down. But maybe it's no coincidence that some of our most creative minds fail to leave these kinds of fears behind as adults.

我們都知道床下沒有魔鬼， 也不是每個(gè)地震都會(huì)震垮房子。但是我們當(dāng)中最有想象力的人們 并沒有因?yàn)槌赡甓鴴仐夁@種恐懼，這也許并不是巧合。

The same incredible imaginations that produced "The Origin of Species," "Jane Eyre" and "The Remembrance of Things Past," also generated intense worries that haunted the adult lives of Charles Darwin, Charlotte Bront?? and Marcel Proust. So the question is, what can the rest of us learn about fear from visionaries and young children?

同樣不可思議的想象力創(chuàng)造了《物種起源》， 《簡(jiǎn)·愛》和《追憶似水年華》， 也就是這種與生俱來(lái)的深深的擔(dān)憂一直纏繞著成年的 查爾斯·達(dá)爾文， 夏洛特·勃朗特和馬塞爾·普羅斯特。 問(wèn)題就來(lái)了， 我們其他人如何能從這些 夢(mèng)想家和小孩子身上學(xué)會(huì)恐懼?

Well let's return to the year 1819 for a moment, to the situation facing the crew of the whaleship Essex. Let's take a look at the fears that their imaginations were generating as they drifted in the middle of the Pacific.

讓我們暫時(shí)回到1820xx年， 回到ESSEX捕鯨船的水手們面對(duì)的情況。 讓我們看看他們漂流在太平洋中央時(shí) 他們的想象力給他們帶來(lái)的恐懼感覺。

Twenty-four hours had now passed since the capsizing of the ship. The time had come for the men to make a plan, but they had very few options.

船傾覆后已經(jīng)過(guò)了24個(gè)小時(shí)。 這時(shí)人們制定了一個(gè)計(jì)劃， 但是其實(shí)他們沒什么太多的選擇。

In his fascinating account of the disaster, Nathaniel Philbrick wrote that these men were just about as far from land as it was possible to be anywhere on Earth.

在納撒尼爾·菲爾布里克(Nathaniel Philbrick)描述這場(chǎng)災(zāi)難的 動(dòng)人文章中，他寫到“這些人離陸地如此之遠(yuǎn)， 似乎永遠(yuǎn)都不可能到達(dá)地球上的任何一塊陸地。”

The men knew that the nearest islands they could reach were the Marquesas Islands, 1,200 miles away. But they'd heard some frightening rumors.

這些人知道離他們最近的島 是1200英里以外的馬克薩斯群島(Marquesas Islands)。 但是他們聽到了讓人恐怖的謠言。

They'd been told that these islands, and several others nearby, were populated by cannibals. So the men pictured coming ashore only to be murdered and eaten for dinner. Another possible destination was Hawaii, but given the season, the captain was afraid they'd be struck by severe storms.

他們聽說(shuō)這些群島， 以及附近的一些島嶼上都住著食人族。 所以他們腦中都是上岸以后就會(huì)被殺掉 被人當(dāng)做盤中餐的畫面。 另一個(gè)可行的目的地是夏威夷， 但是船長(zhǎng)擔(dān)心 他們會(huì)被困在風(fēng)暴當(dāng)中。

Now the last option was the longest, and the most difficult: to sail 1,500 miles due south in hopes of reaching a certain band of winds that could eventually push them toward the coast of South America.

所以最后的選擇是到最遠(yuǎn)，也是最艱險(xiǎn)的地方： 往南走1500英里希望某股風(fēng) 能最終把他們 吹到南美洲的海岸。

But they knew that the sheer length of this journey would stretch their supplies of food and water. To be eaten by cannibals, to be battered by storms, to starve to death before reaching land.

但是他們知道這個(gè)行程中一旦偏航 將會(huì)耗盡他們食物和飲水的供給。 被食人族吃掉，被風(fēng)暴掀翻， 在登陸前餓死。

These were the fears that danced in the imaginations of these poor men, and as it turned out, the fear they chose to listen to would govern whether they lived or died.

這就是縈繞在這群可憐的人想象中的恐懼， 事實(shí)證明，他們選擇聽從的恐懼 將決定他們的生死。

Now we might just as easily call these fears by a different name. What if instead of calling them fears, we called them stories?

也許我們可以很容易的用別的名稱來(lái)稱呼這些恐懼。 我們不稱之為恐懼， 而是稱它們?yōu)楣适氯绾?

Because that's really what fear is, if you think about it. It's a kind of unintentional storytelling that we are all born knowing how to do. And fears and storytelling have the same components.

如果你仔細(xì)想想，這是恐懼真正的意義。 這是一種與生俱來(lái)的， 無(wú)意識(shí)的講故事的能力。 恐懼和講故事有著同樣的構(gòu)成。

They have the same architecture. Like all stories, fears have characters. In our fears, the characters are us. Fears also have plots. They have beginnings and middles and ends. You board the plane.

他們有同樣的結(jié)構(gòu)。 如同所有的故事，恐懼中有角色。 在恐懼中，角色就是我們自己。 恐懼也有情節(jié)。他們有開頭，有中間，有結(jié)尾。 你登上飛機(jī)。

The plane takes off. The engine fails. Our fears also tend to contain imagery that can be every bit as vivid as what you might find in the pages of a novel. Picture a cannibal, human teeth sinking into human skin, human flesh roasting over a fire.

飛機(jī)起飛。結(jié)果引擎故障。 我們的恐懼會(huì)包括各種生動(dòng)的想象， 不比你看到的任何一個(gè)小說(shuō)遜色。 想象食人族，人類牙齒 咬在人類皮膚上， 人肉在火上烤。

Fears also have suspense. If I've done my job as a storyteller today, you should be wondering what happened to the men of the whaleship Essex. Our fears provoke in us a very similar form of suspense.

恐懼中也有懸念。 如果我今天像講故事一樣，留個(gè)懸念不說(shuō)了， 你們也許會(huì)很想知道 ESSEX捕鯨船上，人們到底怎么樣了。 我們的恐懼用懸念一樣的方式刺激我們。

Just like all great stories, our fears focus our attention on a question that is as important in life as it is in literature: What will happen next?

就像一個(gè)很好的故事，我們的恐懼也如同一部好的文學(xué)作品一樣， 將我們的注意力集中在對(duì)我們生命至關(guān)重要的問(wèn)題上： 后來(lái)發(fā)生了什么?

In other words, our fears make us think about the future. And humans, by the way, are the only creatures capable of thinking about the future in this way, of projecting ourselves forward in time, and this mental time travel is just one more thing that fears have in common with storytelling.

換而言之，我們的恐懼讓我們想到未來(lái)。 另外，人來(lái)是唯一有能力 通過(guò)這種方式想到未來(lái)的生物， 就是預(yù)測(cè)時(shí)間推移后我們的狀況， 這種精神上的時(shí)間旅行是恐懼 與講故事的另一個(gè)共同點(diǎn)。

As a writer, I can tell you that a big part of writing fiction is learning to predict how one event in a story will affect all the other events, and fear works in that same way.

我是一個(gè)作家，我要告訴你們寫小說(shuō)一個(gè)很重要的部分 就是學(xué)會(huì)預(yù)測(cè)故事中一件 事情如何影響另一件事情， 恐懼也是同樣這么做的。

In fear, just like in fiction, one thing always leads to another. When I was writing my first novel, "The Age Of Miracles," I spent months trying to figure out what would happen if the rotation of the Earth suddenly began to slow down. What would happen to our days?

恐懼中，如同小說(shuō)一樣，一件事情總是導(dǎo)致另一件事情。 我寫我的第一部小說(shuō)《奇跡時(shí)代》的時(shí)候， 我花了數(shù)月的時(shí)間想象如果地球旋轉(zhuǎn)突然變慢了之后 會(huì)發(fā)生什么。 我們的一天變得如何?

What would happen to our crops? What would happen to our minds? And then it was only later that I realized how very similar these questions were to the ones I used to ask myself as a child frightened in the night.

我們身體會(huì)怎樣? 我們的思想會(huì)有什么變化? 也就是在那之后，我意識(shí)到 我過(guò)去總是問(wèn)自己的那些些問(wèn)題 和孩子們?cè)谝估锖ε率嵌嗝吹南嘞瘛?/p>

If an earthquake strikes tonight, I used to worry, what will happen to our house? What will happen to my family? And the answer to those questions always took the form of a story.

要是在過(guò)去，如果今晚發(fā)生地震，我會(huì)很擔(dān)心， 我的房子會(huì)怎么樣啊?家里人會(huì)怎樣啊? 這類問(wèn)題的答案通常都會(huì)和故事一樣。

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第四篇：ted演講稿

幸福是平等的，幸福是無(wú)價(jià)的，幸福是珍貴的，幸福是每個(gè)人都擁有的。

有人會(huì)認(rèn)為幸福就是有錢、有勢(shì)、有地位，無(wú)錢無(wú)勢(shì)無(wú)地位就是不幸福。但誰(shuí)知道幸福就在我們身邊。如果你和以上人的觀點(diǎn)一樣，那你就太低俗了。

每天回到家，家不是冷冷清清而是有人做好熱騰騰的飯菜等你，這就是幸福。每天的說(shuō)平平淡淡的，不出任何意外，這就是幸福。每月都有一定的工資，這就是幸福。親朋好友連同自己身體健康、平安，這就是幸福。每天早上醒來(lái)，發(fā)現(xiàn)自己還活著，這就是幸福。

幸福不是你有錢有勢(shì)有地位就可以得到的，也不是你費(fèi)盡心思就可以得到的，它就在你身邊一直沒走遠(yuǎn)。

幸福很簡(jiǎn)單，只是吃飽喝足穿暖有地方住。不要對(duì)幸福奢望太多，屬于你的幸福就在你身邊?！靶喜缓夏_，只有腳知道?！边@和幸不幸福是同一個(gè)道理，也許別人看你不幸福，你卻十分幸福。不要盲目追求別人的幸福，到頭來(lái)只會(huì)“竹籃子打水―一場(chǎng)空?！本瓦B原本屬于自己的幸福也會(huì)失去。

所以珍惜你的幸福吧，每個(gè)人的幸福都很簡(jiǎn)單。

第五篇：ted演講稿

when i was nine years old i went off to summer camp for the first time. andmy mother packed me a suitcase full of books, which to me seemed like aperfectly natural thing to do. because in my family, reading was the primarygroup activity. and this might sound antisocial to you, but for us it was reallyjust a different way of being social. you have the animal warmth of your familysitting right ne_t to you, but you are also free to go roaming around theadventureland inside your own mind. and i had this idea that camp was going tobe just like this, but better. (laughter) i had a vision of 10 girls sitting ina cabin cozily reading books in their matching nightgowns.

當(dāng)我九歲的時(shí)候 我第一次去參加夏令營(yíng) 我媽媽幫我整理好了我的行李箱 里面塞滿了書 這對(duì)于我來(lái)說(shuō)是一件極為自然的事情 因?yàn)樵谖业募彝ダ镩喿x是主要的家庭活動(dòng) 聽上去你們可能覺得我們是不愛交際的 但是對(duì)于我的家庭來(lái)說(shuō)這真的只是接觸社會(huì)的另一種途徑 你們有自己家庭接觸時(shí)的溫暖親情 家人靜坐在你身邊但是你也可以自由地漫游 在你思維深處的冒險(xiǎn)樂(lè)園里我有一個(gè)想法 野營(yíng)會(huì)變得像這樣子，當(dāng)然要更好些 (笑聲) 我想象到十個(gè)女孩坐在一個(gè)小屋里都穿著合身的女式睡衣愜意地享受著讀書的過(guò)程

(laughter)

(笑聲)

camp was more like a keg party without any alcohol. and on the very firstday our counselor gathered us all together and she taught us a cheer that shesaid we would be doing every day for the rest of the summer to instill campspirit. and it went like this: "r-o-w-d-i-e, that's the way we spell rowdie.rowdie, rowdie, let's get rowdie." yeah. so i couldn't figure out for the lifeof me why we were supposed to be so rowdy, or why we had to spell this wordincorrectly. (laughter) but i recited a cheer. i recited a cheer along witheverybody else. i did my best. and i just waited for the time that i could gooff and read my books.

野營(yíng)這時(shí)更像是一個(gè)不提供酒水的派對(duì)聚會(huì) 在第一天的時(shí)候呢 我們的顧問(wèn)把我們都集合在一起 并且她教會(huì)了我們一種今后要用到的慶祝方式在余下夏令營(yíng)的每一天中 讓“露營(yíng)精神”浸潤(rùn)我們 之后它就像這樣繼續(xù)著 r-o-w-d-i-e 這是我們拼寫“吵鬧"的口號(hào)我們唱著“噪音，喧鬧，我們要變得吵一點(diǎn)” 對(duì)，就是這樣 可我就是弄不明白我的生活會(huì)是什么樣的 為什么我們變得這么吵鬧粗暴 或者為什么我們非要把這個(gè)單詞錯(cuò)誤地拼寫(笑聲) 但是我可沒有忘記慶祝。我與每個(gè)人都互相歡呼慶祝了 我盡了我最大的努力 我只是想等待那一刻 我可以離開吵鬧的聚會(huì)去捧起我摯愛的書

but the first time that i took my book out of my suitcase, the coolest girlin the bunk came up to me and she asked me, "why are you being so mellow?" --mellow, of course, being the e_act opposite of r-o-w-d-i-e. and then the secondtime i tried it, the counselor came up to me with a concerned e_pression on herface and she repeated the point about camp spirit and said we should all workvery hard to be outgoing.

但是當(dāng)我第一次把書從行李箱中拿出來(lái)的時(shí)候 床鋪中最酷的那個(gè)女孩向我走了過(guò)來(lái) 并且她問(wèn)我：“為什么你要這么安靜?”安靜，當(dāng)然，是r-o-w-d-i-e的反義詞 “喧鬧”的反義詞 而當(dāng)我第二次拿書的時(shí)候 我們的顧問(wèn)滿臉憂慮的向我走了過(guò)來(lái)接著她重復(fù)了關(guān)于“露營(yíng)精神”的要點(diǎn)并且說(shuō)我們都應(yīng)當(dāng)努力 去變得外向些

and so i put my books away, back in their suitcase, and i put them under mybed, and there they stayed for the rest of the summer. and i felt kind of guiltyabout this. i felt as if the books needed me somehow, and they were calling outto me and i was forsaking them.but i did forsake them and i didn't open thatsuitcase again until i was back home with my family at the end of thesummer.

于是我放好我的書 放回了屬于它們的行李箱中 并且我把它們放到了床底下 在那里它們度過(guò)了暑假余下的每一天 我對(duì)這樣做感到很愧疚不知為什么我感覺這些書是需要我的 它們?cè)诤魡疚?，但是我卻放棄了它們 我確實(shí)放下了它們，并且我再也沒有打開那個(gè)箱子 直到我和我的家人一起回到家中在夏末的時(shí)候

now, i tell you this story about summer camp. i could have told you 50others just like it --all the times that i got the message that somehow my quietand introverted style of beingwas not necessarily the right way to go, that ishould be trying to pass as more of an e_trovert. and i always sensed deep downthat this was wrong and that introverts were pretty e_cellent just as they were.but for years i denied this intuition, and so i became a wall street lawyer, ofall things, instead of the writer that i had always longed to be -- partlybecause i needed to prove to myself that i could be bold and assertive too. andi was always going off to crowded bars when i really would have preferred tojust have a nice dinner with friends. and i made these self-negating choices sorefle_ively, that i wasn't even aware that i was making them.

現(xiàn)在，我向你們講述這個(gè)夏令營(yíng)的故事 我完全可以給你們講出其他50種版本就像這個(gè)一樣的故事-- 每當(dāng)我感覺到這樣的時(shí)候它告訴我出于某種原因，我的寧?kù)o和內(nèi)向的風(fēng)格 并不是正確道路上的必需品 我應(yīng)該更多地嘗試一個(gè)外向者的角色而在我內(nèi)心深處感覺得到，這是錯(cuò)誤的內(nèi)向的人們都是非常優(yōu)秀的，確實(shí)是這樣 但是許多年來(lái)我都否認(rèn)了這種直覺 于是我首先成為了華爾街的一名律師而不是我長(zhǎng)久以來(lái)想要成為的一名作家 一部分原因是因?yàn)槲蚁胍C明自己 也可以變得勇敢而堅(jiān)定 并且我總是去那些擁擠的酒吧 當(dāng)我只是想要和朋友們吃一頓愉快的晚餐時(shí)我做出了這些自我否認(rèn)的抉擇 如條件反射一般 甚至我都不清楚我做出了這些決定

now this is what many introverts do, and it's our loss for sure, but it isalso our colleagues' loss and our communities' loss. and at the risk of soundinggrandiose, it is the world's loss. because when it comes to creativity and toleadership, we need introverts doing what they do best. a third to a half of thepopulation are introverts -- a third to a half. so that's one out of every twoor three people you know. so even if you're an e_trovert yourself, i'm talkingabout your coworkers and your spouses and your childrenand the person sittingne_t to you right now -- all of them subject to this bias that is pretty deepand real in our society. we all internalize it from a very early age withouteven having a language for what we're doing.

這就是很多內(nèi)向的人正在做的事情 這當(dāng)然是我們的損失 但這同樣也是同事們的損失 我們所在團(tuán)隊(duì)集體的損失當(dāng)然，冒著被指為夸大其詞的風(fēng)險(xiǎn)我想說(shuō)，更是世界的損失 因?yàn)楫?dāng)涉及創(chuàng)造和領(lǐng)導(dǎo)的時(shí)候 我們需要內(nèi)向的人做到最好 三分之一到二分之一的人都是內(nèi)向的--三分之一到二分之一 你要知道這可意味著每?jī)傻饺齻€(gè)人中就有一個(gè)內(nèi)向的 所以即使你自己是一個(gè)外向的人 我正在說(shuō)你的同事 和你的配偶和你的孩子還有現(xiàn)在正坐在你旁邊的那個(gè)家伙-- 他們都要屈從于這樣的偏見 一種在我們的社會(huì)中已經(jīng)扎根的現(xiàn)實(shí)偏見 我們從很小的時(shí)候就把它藏在內(nèi)心最深處甚至都不說(shuō)幾句話，關(guān)于我們正在做的事情。

now to see the bias clearly you need to understand what introversion is.it's different from being shy. shyness is about fear of social judgment.introversion is more about, how do you respond to stimulation, including socialstimulation. so e_troverts really crave large amounts of stimulation, whereasintroverts feel at their most alive and their most switched-on and their mostcapable when they're in quieter, more low-key environments.not all the time --these things aren't absolute -- but a lot of the time. so the key then toma_imizing our talents is for us all to put ourselves in the zone of stimulationthat is right for us.

現(xiàn)在讓我們來(lái)清楚地看待這種偏見 我們需要真正了解“內(nèi)向”到底指什么 它和害羞是不同的 害羞是對(duì)于社會(huì)評(píng)論的恐懼 內(nèi)向更多的是 你怎樣對(duì)于刺激作出回應(yīng)包括來(lái)自社會(huì)的刺激 其實(shí)內(nèi)向的人是很渴求大量的鼓舞和激勵(lì)的 反之內(nèi)向者最感覺到他們的存在 這是他們精力最充足的時(shí)候，最具有能力的時(shí)候當(dāng)他們存在于更安靜的，更低調(diào)的環(huán)境中 并不是所有時(shí)候--這些事情都不是絕對(duì)的-- 但是存在于很多時(shí)候 所以說(shuō)，關(guān)鍵在于 把我們的天賦發(fā)揮到最大化這對(duì)于我們來(lái)說(shuō)就足夠把我們自己 放到對(duì)于我們正確又合適的激勵(lì)的區(qū)域中去

but now here's where the bias comes in. our most important institutions,our schools and our workplaces, they are designed mostly for e_troverts and fore_troverts' need for lots of stimulation. and also we have this belief systemright now that i call the new groupthink,which holds that all creativity and allproductivity comes from a very oddly gregarious place.

但是現(xiàn)在偏見出現(xiàn)了 我們最重要的那些體系 我們的學(xué)校和工作單位 它們都是為性格外向者設(shè)計(jì)的 并且有適合他們需要的刺激和鼓勵(lì)當(dāng)然我們現(xiàn)在也有這樣一種信用機(jī)制 我稱它為新型的“團(tuán)隊(duì)思考” 這是一種包含所有創(chuàng)造力和生產(chǎn)力的思考方式 從一個(gè)社交非常零散的地方產(chǎn)生的

so if you picture the typical classroom nowadays: when i was going toschool, we sat in rows. we sat in rows of desks like this, and we did most ofour work pretty autonomously.but nowadays, your typical classroom has pods ofdesks -- four or five or si_ or seven kids all facing each other. and kids areworking in countless group assignments. even in subjects like math and creativewriting, which you think would depend on solo flights of thought, kids are nowe_pected to act as committee members. and for the kids who preferto go off bythemselves or just to work alone, those kids are seen as outliers often or,worse, as problem cases. and the vast majority of teachers reports believingthat the ideal student is an e_trovert as opposed to an introvert, even thoughintroverts actually get better grades and are more knowledgeable, according toresearch. (laughter)

當(dāng)你描繪今天典型教室的圖案時(shí) 當(dāng)我還上學(xué)的時(shí)候 我們一排排地坐著 我們靠著桌子一排排坐著就像這樣 并且我們大多數(shù)工作都是自覺完成的但是在現(xiàn)代社會(huì)，所謂典型的教室 是些圈起來(lái)并排的桌子-- 四個(gè)或是五個(gè)或是六、七個(gè)孩子坐在一起，面對(duì)面 孩子們要完成無(wú)數(shù)個(gè)小組任務(wù) 甚至像數(shù)學(xué)和創(chuàng)意寫作這些課程這些你們認(rèn)為需要依靠個(gè)人閃光想法的課程 孩子們現(xiàn)在卻被期待成為小組會(huì)的成員 對(duì)于那些喜歡 獨(dú)處，或者自己一個(gè)人工作的孩子來(lái)說(shuō) 這些孩子常常被視為局外人或者更糟，被視為問(wèn)題孩子 并且很大一部分老師的報(bào)告中都相信 最理想的學(xué)生應(yīng)該是外向的 相對(duì)于內(nèi)向的學(xué)生而言 甚至說(shuō)外向的學(xué)生能夠取得更好的成績(jī)更加博學(xué)多識(shí)據(jù)研究報(bào)道 (笑聲)

okay, same thing is true in our workplaces. now, most of us work in openplan offices,without walls, where we are subject to the constant noise and gazeof our coworkers. and when it comes to leadership, introverts are routinelypassed over for leadership positions,even though introverts tend to be verycareful, much less likely to take outsize risks --which is something we mightall favor nowadays. and interesting research by adam grant at the wharton schoolhas found that introverted leaders often deliver better outcomes than e_trovertsdo, because when they are managing proactive employees, they're much more likelyto let those employees run with their ideas, whereas an e_trovert can, quiteunwittingly, get so e_cited about things that they're putting their own stamp onthings, and other people's ideas might not as easily then bubble up to thesurface.

好了。同樣的事情也發(fā)生在我們工作的地方 現(xiàn)在呢，我們中的絕大多數(shù)都工作在寬闊沒有隔間的辦公室里 甚至沒有墻 在這里，我們暴露在不斷的噪音和我們同事的凝視目光下工作 而當(dāng)談及領(lǐng)袖氣質(zhì)的時(shí)候 內(nèi)向的人總是按照慣例從領(lǐng)導(dǎo)的位置被忽視了 盡管內(nèi)向的人是非常小心仔細(xì)的 很少去冒特大的風(fēng)險(xiǎn)--這些風(fēng)險(xiǎn)是今天我們可能都喜歡的 賓夕法尼亞大學(xué)沃頓商學(xué)院的亞當(dāng)?格蘭特教授做了一項(xiàng)很有意思的研究 這項(xiàng)研究表明內(nèi)向的領(lǐng)導(dǎo)們相對(duì)于外向領(lǐng)導(dǎo)而言總是會(huì)生產(chǎn)更大的效益 因?yàn)楫?dāng)他們管理主動(dòng)積極的雇員的時(shí)候 他們更傾向于讓有主見的雇員去自由發(fā)揮 反之外向的領(lǐng)導(dǎo)就可能，當(dāng)然是不經(jīng)意的對(duì)于事情變得十分激動(dòng) 他們?cè)谑聞?wù)上有了自己想法的印跡 這使其他人的想法可能就不會(huì)很容易地 在舞臺(tái)上發(fā)光了

now in fact, some of our transformative leaders in history have beenintroverts. i'll give you some e_amples. eleanor roosevelt, rosa parks, gandhi-- all these peopled described themselves as quiet and soft-spoken and even shy.and they all took the spotlight, even though every bone in their bodies wastelling them not to. and this turns out to have a special power all its own,because people could feel that these leaders were at the helm,not because theyenjoyed directing others and not out of the pleasure of being looked at;theywere there because they had no choice, because they were driven to do what theythought was right.

事實(shí)上，歷史上一些有改革能力的領(lǐng)袖都是內(nèi)向的人 我會(huì)舉一些例子給你們 埃莉諾?羅斯福，羅沙?帕克斯，甘地 -- 所有這些人都把自己描述成內(nèi)向，說(shuō)話溫柔甚至是害羞的人 他們?nèi)匀徽驹诹司酃鉄粝?即使他們渾身上下 都感知他們說(shuō)不要這證明是一種屬于它自身的特殊的力量因?yàn)槿藗兌紩?huì)感覺這些領(lǐng)導(dǎo)者同時(shí)是掌舵者 并不是因?yàn)樗麄兿矚g指揮別人 抑或是享受眾人目光的聚焦 他們處在那個(gè)位置因?yàn)樗麄儧]有選擇因?yàn)樗麄冃旭傇谒麄冋J(rèn)為正確的道路上

now i think at this point it's important for me to say that i actually lovee_troverts. i always like to say some of my best friends are e_troverts,including my beloved husband. and we all fall at different points, of course,along the introvert/e_trovert spectrum. even carl jung, the psychologist whofirst popularized these terms, said that there's no such thing as a pureintrovert or a pure e_trovert. he said that such a man would be in a lunaticasylum, if he e_isted at all. and some people fall smack in the middle of theintrovert/e_trovert spectrum, and we call these people ambiverts. and i oftenthink that they have the best of all worlds. but many of us do recognizeourselves as one type or the other.

現(xiàn)在我覺得對(duì)于這點(diǎn)我有必要說(shuō) 那就是我真的喜愛外向的人 我總是喜歡說(shuō)我最好的幾個(gè)朋友都是外向的人 包括我親愛的丈夫 當(dāng)然了我們都會(huì)在不同點(diǎn)時(shí)偏向內(nèi)向者/外向者的范圍 甚至是卡爾?榮格，這個(gè)讓這些名詞為大眾所熟知的心理學(xué)家，說(shuō)道 世上絕沒有一個(gè)純粹的內(nèi)向的人 或者一個(gè)純粹的外向的人他說(shuō)這樣的人會(huì)在精神病院里 如果他存在的話 還有一些人處在中間的跡象 在內(nèi)向與外向之間 我們稱這些人為“中向性格者” 并且我總是認(rèn)為他們擁有世界最美好的一切但是我們中的大多數(shù)總是認(rèn)為自己屬于內(nèi)向或者外向，其中一類

and what i'm saying is that culturally we need a much better balance. weneed more of a yin and yang between these two types. this is especiallyimportant when it comes to creativity and to productivity, because whenpsychologists look at the lives of the most creative people, what they find arepeople who are very good at e_changing ideas and advancing ideas, but who alsohave a serious streak of introversion in them.

同時(shí)我想說(shuō)從文化意義上講我們需要一種更好的平衡 我們需要更多的陰陽(yáng)的平衡 在這兩種類型的人之間 這點(diǎn)是極為重要的 當(dāng)涉及創(chuàng)造力和生產(chǎn)力的時(shí)候因?yàn)楫?dāng)心理學(xué)家們看待 最有創(chuàng)造力的人的生命的時(shí)候 他們尋找到的 是那些擅長(zhǎng)變換思維的人 提出想法的人 但是他們同時(shí)也有著極為顯著的偏內(nèi)向的痕跡

and this is because solitude is a crucial ingredient often to creativity.so darwin, he took long walks alone in the woods and emphatically turned downdinner party invitations.theodor geisel, better known as dr. seuss, he dreamedup many of his amazing creations in a lonely bell tower office that he had inthe back of his house in la jolla, california. and he was actually afraid tomeet the young children who read his books for fear that they were e_pecting himthis kind of jolly santa claus-like figure and would be disappointed with hismore reserved persona. steve wozniak invented the first apple computer sittingalone in his cubical in hewlett-packard where he was working at the time. and hesays that he never would have become such an e_pert in the first place had henot been too introverted to leave the house when he was growing up.

這是因?yàn)楠?dú)處是非常關(guān)鍵的因素 對(duì)于創(chuàng)造力來(lái)說(shuō) 所以達(dá)爾文 自己一個(gè)人漫步在小樹林里 并且斷然拒絕了晚餐派對(duì)的邀約西奧多?蓋索，更多時(shí)候以蘇索博士的名號(hào)知名 他夢(mèng)想過(guò)很多的驚人的創(chuàng)作 在他在加利福尼亞州拉霍亞市房子的后面的 一座孤獨(dú)的束層的塔形辦公室中 而且其實(shí)他很害怕見面見那些讀過(guò)他的書的年輕的孩子們 害怕他們會(huì)期待他 這樣一位令人愉快的，圣誕老人形象的人物 同時(shí)又會(huì)因發(fā)現(xiàn)他含蓄緘默的性格而失望史蒂夫?沃茲尼亞克發(fā)明了第一臺(tái)蘋果電腦 一個(gè)人獨(dú)自坐在他的機(jī)柜旁 在他當(dāng)時(shí)工作的惠普公司 并且他說(shuō)他永遠(yuǎn)不會(huì)在那方面成為一號(hào)專家 但他還沒因太內(nèi)向到要離開那里那個(gè)他成長(zhǎng)起來(lái)的地方

now of course, this does not mean that we should all stop collaborating --and case in point, is steve wozniak famously coming together with steve jobs tostart apple computer -- but it does mean that solitude matters and that for somepeople it is the air that they breathe. and in fact, we have known for centuriesabout the transcendent power of solitude. it's only recently that we'vestrangely begun to forget it. if you look at most of the world's majorreligions, you will find seekers -- moses, jesus, buddha, muhammad --seekers whoare going off by themselves alone to the wilderness where they then haveprofound epiphanies and revelations that they then bring back to the rest of thecommunity. so no wilderness, no revelations.

當(dāng)然了 這并不意味著我們都應(yīng)該停止合作-- 恰當(dāng)?shù)睦幽?，是史蒂?沃茲尼亞克和史蒂夫?喬布斯的著名聯(lián)手 創(chuàng)建蘋果電腦公司--但是這并不意味著和獨(dú)處有重大關(guān)系 并且對(duì)于一些人來(lái)說(shuō) 這是他們賴以呼吸生存的空氣 事實(shí)上，幾個(gè)世紀(jì)以來(lái)我們已經(jīng)非常明白獨(dú)處的卓越力量只是到了最近，非常奇怪，我們開始遺忘它了 如果你看看世界上主要的宗教 你會(huì)發(fā)現(xiàn)探尋者-- 摩西，耶穌，佛祖，穆罕默德 -- 那些獨(dú)身去探尋的人們?cè)诖笞匀坏臅缫爸歇?dú)處，思索 在那里，他們有了深刻的頓悟和對(duì)于奧義的揭示 之后他們把這些思想帶回到社會(huì)的其他地方去沒有曠原，沒有啟示

this is no surprise though if you look at the insights of contemporarypsychology. it turns out that we can't even be in a group of people withoutinstinctively mirroring, mimicking their opinions. even about seemingly personaland visceral things like who you're attracted to, you will start aping thebeliefs of the people around you without even realizing that that's what you'redoing.

盡管這并不令人驚訝 如果你注意到現(xiàn)代心理學(xué)的思想理論 它反映出來(lái)我們甚至不能和一組人待在一起 而不去本能地模仿他們的意見與想法甚至是看上去私人的，發(fā)自內(nèi)心的事情 像是你被誰(shuí)所吸引 你會(huì)開始模仿你周圍的人的信仰 甚至都覺察不到你自己在做什么

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