TED演讲：越努力，越幸运
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| 0:12 | I've spent nearly two decades observing what makes people luckier than others, | 我花了将近二十年时间观察 是什么让人们比别人更幸运, |
| 0:18 | and trying to help people increase their luck. | 并试图帮助人们增加他们的运气。 |
| 0:23 | You see, I teach entrepreneurship, | 你看,我教创业 |
| 0:25 | and we all know that most new ventures fail, | 我们都知道,大多数新的企业都失败了, |
| 0:29 | and innovators and entrepreneurs need all the luck they can get. | 创新者和企业家需要他们能得到的一切运气。 |
| 0:34 | So what is luck? | 那么什么是运气? |
| 0:35 | Luck is defined as success or failure | 运气被定义为成功或失败 |
| 0:39 | apparently caused by chance. | 显然是偶然的 |
| 0:42 | Apparently. | 显然 |
| 0:44 | That's the operative word. | 这是操作词。 |
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| 1 | I've spent nearly two decades observing what makes people luckier than others, | 我花了将近二十年时间观察 是什么让人们比别人更幸运, |
| 2 | and trying to help people increase their luck. | 并试图帮助人们增加他们的运气。 |
| 3 | You see, I teach entrepreneurship, | 你看,我教创业 |
| 4 | and we all know that most new ventures fail, | 我们都知道,大多数新的企业都失败了, |
| 5 | and innovators and entrepreneurs need all the luck they can get. | 创新者和企业家需要他们能得到的一切运气。 |
| 6 | So what is luck? | 那么什么是运气? |
| 7 | Luck is defined as success or failure | 运气被定义为成功或失败 |
| 8 | apparently caused by chance. | 显然是偶然的 |
| 9 | Apparently. | 显然 |
| 10 | That's the operative word. | 这是操作词。 |
| 11 | It looks like it's chance, | 看起来像是机会 |
| 12 | because we rarely see all the levers that come into play | 因为我们很少看到所有的杠杆作用 |
| 13 | to make people lucky. | 让人们幸运。 |
| 14 | But I've realized, by watching so long, | 但我已经意识到, 通过看这么久, |
| 15 | that luck is rarely a lightning strike, | 运气很少是闪电打击 |
| 16 | isolated and dramatic. | 孤立和戏剧性。 |
| 17 | It's much more like the wind, | 更像是风 |
| 18 | blowing constantly. | 不断吹. |
| 19 | Sometimes it's calm, | 有时很平静 |
| 20 | and sometimes it blows in gusts, | 有时它会吹在水中, |
| 21 | and sometimes it comes from directions that you didn't even imagine. | 有时它来自你根本想象不到的方向 |
| 22 | So how do you catch the winds of luck? | 那么,你如何赶上幸运之风? |
| 23 | It's easy, but it's not obvious. | 虽易而未显. |
| 24 | So I'm going to share some things, three things with you, | 所以我要和你分享一些东西 三件事 |
| 25 | that you can do to build a sail to capture the winds of luck. | 你可以做一个帆 捕捉幸运之风。 |
| 26 | The first thing you want to do | 你想做的第一件事是... ... ...... |
| 27 | is to change your relationship with yourself. | 就是改变你和你自己的关系 |
| 28 | Be willing to take small risks that get you out of your comfort zone. | 愿意冒小风险 让你离开舒适的地带 |
| 29 | Now, when we're children, we do this all the time. | 现在,当我们还是孩子的时候, 我们总是这样做。 |
| 30 | We have to do this if we're going to learn how to walk or talk | 如果我们要学会走路或说话,我们就得这么做 |
| 31 | or ride a bike, | 或骑自行车, |
| 32 | or even quantum mechanics, right? | 甚至是量子力学 对吧? |
| 33 | We need to go from someone one week who doesn't ride a bike | 我们要离开一个不骑自行车的人 |
| 34 | to next week someone who does. | 下周,谁做。 |
| 35 | And this requires us to get out of our comfort zone | 这需要我们离开舒适区 |
| 36 | and take some risks. | 冒一些风险。 |
| 37 | The problem is, as we get older, | 问题是,随着我们变老 |
| 38 | we rarely do this. | 我们很少这样做。 |
| 39 | We sort of lock down the sense of who we are | 我们有点束缚了自己 |
| 40 | and don't stretch anymore. | 别再拉了 |
| 41 | Now, with my students, | 现在,与我的学生, |
| 42 | I spend a lot of time giving them encouragement | 我花了很多时间去鼓励他们 |
| 43 | to get out of their comfort zone and take some risks. | 离开他们的舒适地带 冒一些风险。 |
| 44 | How do I do this? | 我该怎么做? |
| 45 | Well, I start out by having them fill out a riskometer. | 我首先让他们填写一个风险计 |
| 46 | Now, it's basically a fun thing we developed in our class, | 现在,它基本上是一个有趣的事情 我们开发在我们的班级, |
| 47 | where they map out what risks they're willing to take. | 他们想出他们愿意承担的风险 |
| 48 | And it becomes clear very quickly to them | 他们很快就明白 |
| 49 | that risk-taking is not binary. | 冒险不是二进制 |
| 50 | They're intellectual risks. | 它们是智力风险. |
| 51 | And physical risks, and financial risks, | 物理风险 金融风险 |
| 52 | and emotional risks, and social risks, | 情感风险和社会风险, |
| 53 | and ethical risks, and political risks. | 道德风险和政治风险。 |
| 54 | And once they do this, | 一旦他们这样做, |
| 55 | they compare their risk profiles with others, | 他们将风险简介与他人进行比较, |
| 56 | and they quickly realize that they're all really different. | 他们很快地意识到 他们都是真正的不同。 |
| 57 | I then encourage them to stretch, | 我鼓励他们伸展, |
| 58 | to take some risks that get them out of their comfort zone. | 冒险让他们离开舒适地带 |
| 59 | For example, I might ask them to do an intellectual risk | 举例来说,我可能要他们冒智力风险 |
| 60 | and try to tackle a problem they haven't tried before. | 试着解决他们以前没有尝试过的问题 |
| 61 | Or a social risk, | 或社会风险, |
| 62 | talking to someone sitting next to them on the train. | 和坐在火车上的人聊天 |
| 63 | Or an emotional risk, | 或者情绪风险, |
| 64 | maybe telling someone they really care about how they feel. | 也许告诉别人 他们真正关心的是什么感觉。 |
| 65 | I do this myself all the time. | 我一直都这样 |
| 66 | About a dozen years ago, | 大约12年前, |
| 67 | I was on an airplane, early, early morning flight on my way to Ecuador. | 我在飞机上, 早早的航班, 在我的途中厄瓜多尔。 |
| 68 | And normally, I would just put on my headphones | 通常,我只会戴上耳机 |
| 69 | and go to sleep, wake up, do some work, | 睡觉,醒来,做一些工作, |
| 70 | but I decided to take a little risk. | 但我决定冒险 |
| 71 | And I started a conversation with the man sitting next to me. | 我和坐在我旁边的男人开始交谈 |
| 72 | I introduced myself, | 我自我介绍 |
| 73 | and I learned that he was a publisher. | 我得知他是一个出版商。 |
| 74 | Interesting. | 有意思,这很有趣 |
| 75 | We ended up having a fascinating conversation. | 我们最后聊得很开心 |
| 76 | I learned all about the future of the publishing industry. | 我了解出版业的未来 |
| 77 | So about three-quarters of the way through the flight, | 所以大约四分之三的路程 通过飞行, |
| 78 | I decided to take another risk. | 我决定再冒险一次 |
| 79 | And I opened up my laptop, | 我打开了我的笔记本电脑, |
| 80 | and I shared with him a book proposal I put together | 我和他分享了 我整理的书提案 |
| 81 | for something I was doing in my class. | 因为我在课堂上做的事 |
| 82 | And he was very polite, he read it, | 他非常礼貌,他读它, |
| 83 | and he said, | 他说, |
| 84 | "'You know what, Tina, this isn't right for us, | ""你知道吗,蒂娜,这不适合我们, |
| 85 | but thank you so much for sharing. | 谢谢你的分享 |
| 86 | It's OK, that risk didn't work out.'" | 没关系,冒险没有成功 |
| 87 | Shut my laptop. | 关上我的笔记本电脑。 |
| 88 | At the end of the flight, we exchanged contact information. | 飞行结束后,我们交换了联系信息. |
| 89 | A couple of months later, I reached out to him, | 几个月后,我联系他 |
| 90 | and I said, | 我说, |
| 91 | "'Mark, would you like to come to my class? | "'马克,你想来我的班吗? |
| 92 | I'm doing a project on reinventing the book, | 我正在做一个重塑这本书的项目, |
| 93 | the future of publishing.'" | 未来出版。" |
| 94 | He said, "'Great, I'd love to come.'" | 他说:"太好了,我很想来" |
| 95 | So we came to my class, we had a great experience. | 所以,我们来到我的班, 我们有一个伟大的经验。 |
| 96 | A few months later, I wrote him again. | 几个月后,我又写信给他。 |
| 97 | This time, I sent him a bunch of video clips | 这次我给他发了一堆录像 |
| 98 | from another project my students had done. | 从另一个项目 我的学生做了。 |
| 99 | He was so intrigued by one of the projects the students had done, | 他对学生们完成的一个项目很感兴趣 |
| 100 | he thought there might be a book in it. | 他以为里面可能有一本书 |
| 101 | And he wanted to meet those students. | 他想见见那些学生。 |
| 102 | Now, I have to tell you, I was a little bit hurt, right? | 现在,我不得不告诉你, 我有点受伤,对不对? |
| 103 | I mean, he wanted to do a book with my students and not with me, | 我的意思是,他想做一本书 与我的学生,而不是我, |
| 104 | but OK, it's all right. | 但没关系 |
| 105 | So I invited him to come down, | 所以我请他下来 |
| 106 | and he and his colleagues came to Stanford | 他和他的同事来到斯坦福 |
| 107 | and met with the students, | 并会见了学生们, |
| 108 | and afterwards, we had lunch together. | 然后我们一起吃午饭 |
| 109 | And one of his editors said to me, | 他的一位编辑对我说 |
| 110 | "'Hey, have you ever considered writing a book?' | 你考虑过写一本书吗? |
| 111 | I said, "'Funny you should ask.'" | 我说,"有趣你应该问。" |
| 112 | And I pulled out the exact same proposal | 我提出同样的建议 |
| 113 | that I had showed his boss a year earlier. | 我一年前给他老板看的 |
| 114 | Within two weeks, I had a contract, | 两周内 我签了合同 |
| 115 | and within two years, | 两年内, |
| 116 | the book had sold over a million copies around the world." | 这本书在全世界售出了超过一百万份". |
| 117 | Now, you might say, | 现在,你可能会说, |
| 118 | "'Oh, you're so lucky.'" | "哦,你真幸运" |
| 119 | But of course I was lucky, | 但我当然很幸运 |
| 120 | but that luck resulted from a series of small risks I took, | 但幸运的缘故是我冒了一系列小风险 |
| 121 | starting with saying hello. | 从打招呼开始 |
| 122 | And anyone can do this. | 任何人都可以做到这一点。 |
| 123 | No matter where you are in your life, | 无论你身处何处 |
| 124 | no matter where you are in the world, | 无论你在哪里 |
| 125 | no matter even if you think you're the most unlucky person, | 即使你觉得自己是最不幸的人 |
| 126 | you can do this by taking little risks | 你可以通过小冒险做到这一点 |
| 127 | that get you out of your comfort zone. | 让你走出你的舒适区域。 |
| 128 | You start building a sail to capture luck. | 你开始造一个帆 捕捉运气。 |
| 129 | The second thing you want to do | 你想做的第二点 |
| 130 | is to change your relationship with other people. | 改变你和别人的关系 |
| 131 | You need to understand that everyone who helps you on your journey | 你要明白,所有帮助你旅行的人 |
| 132 | is playing a huge role in getting you to your goals. | 正在发挥巨大作用 让你达到你的目标。 |
| 133 | And if you don't show appreciation, | 如果你不表示欣赏, |
| 134 | not only are you not closing the loop, | 你不仅不关闭循环, |
| 135 | but you're missing an opportunity. | 但你错过了一个机会 |
| 136 | When someone does something for you, | 当有人为你做一些事情, |
| 137 | they're taking that time that they could be spending on themselves | 他们花了那么长时间, 他们可能花在自己身上 |
| 138 | or someone else, | 或别人, |
| 139 | and you need to acknowledge what they're doing. | 你得承认他们在做什么 |
| 140 | Now, I run three fellowship programs at Stanford, | 现在我在斯坦福办了三个奖学金项目 |
| 141 | and they're very competitive to get into. | 他们非常有竞争力的进入。 |
| 142 | And when I send out the letters to those students who don't get in, | 当我把信发给那些进不去的学生时 |
| 143 | I always know there are going to be people who are disappointed. | 我总是知道会有人失望 |
| 144 | Some of the people who are disappointed send me notes complaining. | 一些失望的人给我寄来抱怨 |
| 145 | Some of them send notes saying, | 他们中有一部分人寄纸条说: |
| 146 | what can I do to make myself more successful next time around? | 我下次能做什么才能让自己更成功? |
| 147 | And every once in a while, | 偶尔 |
| 148 | someone sends me a note thanking me for the opportunity. | 有人给我寄了张纸条 感谢机会 |
| 149 | This happened about seven years ago. | 这发生在大约七年前。 |
| 150 | A young man named Brian sent me a beautiful note saying, | 一个叫布莱恩的年轻人给我寄了张漂亮的纸条说 |
| 151 | I know I've been rejecting from this program twice, | 我知道我已经拒绝过两次了 |
| 152 | but I want to thank you for the opportunity | 但我想谢谢你给我这个机会 |
| 153 | I learned so much through the process of applying. | 我在申请过程中学到了很多东西。 |
| 154 | I was so taken by the graciousness of his message | 我被他的恩惠所吸引 |
| 155 | that I invited him to come and meet me. | 我邀请他来见我 |
| 156 | And we spent some time chatting | 我们聊了一段时间 |
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| 158 | He was on the football team at Stanford, | 他在斯坦福的足球队, |
| 159 | and he decided to do a project on looking at leadership in that context. | 他决定开展一个项目,研究这方面的领导能力。 |
| 160 | We got to know each other incredibly well through that quarter, | 在那个季度里,我们非常了解对方, |
| 161 | and he took the project that he started working on in the independent study | 他接受了独立研究中开始的项目 |
| 162 | and turned it ultimately into a company called Play for Tomorrow, | 最终变成了一家名为"明日游戏"的公司, |
| 163 | where he teaches kids from disadvantaged backgrounds | 他教来自不利背景的孩子 |
| 164 | how to essentially craft the lives they dream to live. | 如何从本质上 创造他们梦想的生活。 |
| 165 | Now, the important thing about this story | 现在,这个故事很重要 |
| 166 | is that we both ended up catching the winds of luck | 我们最终都赶上了幸运之风 |
| 167 | as a result of his thank-you note. | 由于他的感谢信。 |
| 168 | But it was the winds that we didn't expect in the first place. | 但这是我们最初没有预料到的风。 |
| 169 | Over the course of the last couple of years, | 在过去几年中, |
| 170 | I've come up with some tactics for my own life | 我为自己的生活想了一些策略 |
| 171 | to help me really foster appreciation. | 帮助我真正促进欣赏。 |
| 172 | My favorite is that at the end of every single day, | 我最喜欢的是,在每一天结束时, |
| 173 | I look at my calendar and I review all the people I met with, | 我看着我的日历,我回顾我遇到的所有人, |
| 174 | and I send thank-you notes to every single person. | 我向每个人发送感谢信 |
| 175 | It only takes a few minutes, | 只需要几分钟 |
| 176 | but at the end of every day, | 但每天结束时, |
| 177 | I feel incredibly grateful and appreciative, | 我感到非常感激和感激, |
| 178 | and I promise you, it has increased my luck. | 我向你保证,这增加了我的运气。 |
| 179 | So first, you need to take some risks and get out of your comfort zone. | 所以首先,你需要冒一些风险 离开你的舒适地带。 |
| 180 | Second, you need to show appreciation. | 第二,你需要表示欣赏。 |
| 181 | And third, you want to change your relationship with ideas. | 第三,你想改变你和思想的关系。 |
| 182 | Most people look at new ideas that come their way and they judge them. | 多数人看 新的想法 来他们的方式, 他们评判。 |
| 183 | That's a great idea or that's a terrible idea. | 这是一个伟大的想法或 这是一个可怕的想法。 |
| 184 | But it's actually much more nuanced. | 但它实际上更细微。 |
| 185 | Ideas are neither good nor bad, | 想法既不好也不坏, |
| 186 | and in fact, in the seeds of terrible ideas, | 事实上,在可怕的想法的种子中, |
| 187 | are often something truly remarkable. | 经常是真正了不起的东西。 |
| 188 | One of my favorite exercises in my classes on creativity | 我最爱的创意练习课之一 |
| 189 | is to help students foster an attitude of looking at terrible ideas | 是帮助学生培养一种看待可怕想法的态度 |
| 190 | through the lens of possibilities. | 透过可能性的镜头 |
| 191 | So I give them a challenge | 所以我给他们一个挑战 |
| 192 | to create an idea for a brand-new restaurant. | 创造一个全新的餐厅的想法。 |
| 193 | They have to come up with the best ideas for a new restaurant | 他们必须想出一个新餐馆的最佳想法 |
| 194 | and the worst ideas for a new restaurant. | 还有新餐厅最糟糕的想法 |
| 195 | So the best ideas are things like a restaurant on a mountaintop | 所以最好的主意是像山顶上的餐厅 |
| 196 | with a beautiful sunset, | 与美丽的夕阳, |
| 197 | or a restaurant on a boat with a gorgeous view. | 或者在有华丽风景的船上的餐厅 |
| 198 | And the terrible ideas are things like a restaurant in a garbage dump, | 可怕的想法是像一个餐馆 在垃圾堆, |
| 199 | or a restaurant with terrible service that's really dirty, | 或餐厅 糟糕的服务 真的很脏, |
| 200 | or a restaurant that serves cockroach sushi. | 或者提供蟑螂寿司的餐厅 |
| 201 | So they hand all the ideas to me. | 所以他们把所有的想法交给我。 |
| 202 | I read the great ideas out loud, | 我大声读出伟大的想法, |
| 203 | and then I rip them up and throw them away. | 然后把它们撕碎扔了 |
| 204 | I then take the horrible ideas and redistribute them. | 然后,我采取可怕的想法 并重新分配。 |
| 205 | Each team now has an idea that another team thought was horrible, | 每一个团队现在都有一个想法 另一个团队认为是可怕的, |
| 206 | and their challenge is to turn it into something brilliant. | 他们的挑战就是把它变成一件辉煌的事 |
| 207 | Here's what happens. | 现如是. |
| 208 | Within about 10 seconds, someone says, | 10秒内 有人说 |
| 209 | this is a fabulous idea. | 这主意太棒了 |
| 210 | And they have to, about three minutes, | 他们得约三分钟 |
| 211 | before they pitch the idea to the class. | 在他们把想法投给班级之前 |
| 212 | So the restaurant in the garbage dump, what does that turn into? | 垃圾场的餐厅变成什么了? |
| 213 | Well, they collect all the food from Michelin-star restaurants | 他们从米其林星级餐厅收集食物 |
| 214 | that was going to get thrown out, all the extra food, | 所有额外的食物, |
| 215 | and they have another restaurant at a much lower price | 他们有另一家餐厅 价格低得多 |
| 216 | with all the leftovers. | 和所有剩下的东西。 |
| 217 | Pretty cool. | 相当酷。 |
| 218 | Or the restaurant that's dirty with terrible service? | 还是那个服务不好的餐厅? |
| 219 | Well, that turns into a restaurant that's a training ground | 那会变成一个训练场的餐厅 |
| 220 | for future restaurateurs to figure out how to avoid all the pitfalls. | 将来的修补者们要想办法 避免所有的陷阱 |
| 221 | And the restaurant with cockroach sushi? | 还有有蟑螂寿司的餐厅? |
| 222 | Well, of course, it turns into a sushi bar | 当然,它变成了寿司吧 |
| 223 | with all sorts of really interesting and exotic ingredients. | 和各种真正有趣的 异国情调的成分。 |
| 224 | If you look around at the companies, the ventures | 如果你看看周围的公司, 企业 |
| 225 | that are really innovative around you, | 那些在你们周围都是创新的 |
| 226 | the ones that we now take for granted that have changed our life, | 那些我们现在认为是理所当然的 那些改变了我们的生活, |
| 227 | well, you know what? | 你知道吗? |
| 228 | They all started out as crazy ideas. | 他们一开始都是疯狂的想法。 |
| 229 | They started ideas that when they pitched to other people, | 他们开始思考 当他们向其他人投注, |
| 230 | most people said, | 大多数人说, |
| 231 | that's crazy, it will never work. | 这太疯狂了,它永远不会工作。 |
| 232 | So, yes, | 所以,对 |
| 233 | sometimes people were born into terrible circumstances, | 有时人们生在可怕的环境中, |
| 234 | and sometimes luck is a lightning bolt | 有时运气就是闪电 |
| 235 | that hits us with something wonderful or something terrible. | 这给我们带来一些美妙或可怕的东西。 |
| 236 | But the winds of luck are always there. | 但运之风常在. |
| 237 | And if you're willing to take some risks, | 如果你愿意冒险的话 |
| 238 | if you're willing to really go out and show appreciation, | 如果你真的愿意出去表达感激 |
| 239 | and you're willing to really look at ideas, | 你愿意真正地看 想法, |
| 240 | even if they're crazy, through the lens of possibilities, | 即使他们疯了, 通过可能的镜头, |
| 241 | you build a bigger and bigger sail to catch the winds of luck. | 你造一个更大的帆 来赶上幸运之风 |
| 242 | Thank you. | 谢谢 |
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