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TED演讲:不那么混蛋地对自己,有什么好处

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0:04A few years ago, I signed up for something called a 360 review.几年前,我报名参加一个叫做360评论的节目.
0:12If you've ever worked in the corporate world,如果你曾经在公司工作过
0:14you probably have heard of this diabolical exercise.你可能听说过这种邪恶的动作
0:19It's an anonymous survey with your bosses, peers and direct reports,这是一次匿名调查 与你的老板,同行和直接报告,
0:23and the idea is to get a panoramic sense of your strengths and weaknesses.想法是获得你优缺点的全景感.
0:27I opted for the colonoscopy version of a 360 review,我选择了结肠镜 360评论版本,
0:32which included my wife, my brother and two of my meditation teachers包括我的妻子,我的兄弟 和我的两个冥想老师
0:35in all 16 people gave hour-long confidential interviews,所有16个人都进行了长达一小时的保密访谈
0:39and I was then handed a 39-page report brimming with blind quotes.然后,我收到一份39页的报告,上面有盲文。
0:46I can tell you're looking forward to hearing the results, sadists.我看得出来你们期待听到结果 虐待狂
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1A few years ago, I signed up for something called a 360 review.几年前,我报名参加一个叫做360评论的节目.
2If you've ever worked in the corporate world,如果你曾经在公司工作过
3you probably have heard of this diabolical exercise.你可能听说过这种邪恶的动作
4It's an anonymous survey with your bosses, peers and direct reports,这是一次匿名调查 与你的老板,同行和直接报告,
5and the idea is to get a panoramic sense of your strengths and weaknesses.想法是获得你优缺点的全景感.
6I opted for the colonoscopy version of a 360 review,我选择了结肠镜 360评论版本,
7which included my wife, my brother and two of my meditation teachers包括我的妻子,我的兄弟 和我的两个冥想老师
8in all 16 people gave hour-long confidential interviews,所有16个人都进行了长达一小时的保密访谈
9and I was then handed a 39-page report brimming with blind quotes.然后,我收到一份39页的报告,上面有盲文。
10I can tell you're looking forward to hearing the results, sadists.我看得出来你们期待听到结果 虐待狂
11But I'm going to make you wait a second,但我要让你等一下
12because I should give you a little background on me.因为我应该给你一些关于我的背景
13I used to be an anchorman.我以前是锚手
14I worked at ABC News for 21 years.我在ABC新闻工作了21年
15It was a very stressful job.这是一个非常紧张的工作。
16In fact, I had a panic attack live on the air in 2004,事实上,我于2004年在现场直播了恐慌症。
17while delivering some otherwise mundane headlines.发些普通的头条新闻
18The good news is that my nationally televised freakout好消息是,我的全国电视剧吓坏了
19ultimately led me to meditation,最终导致我冥想
20which I had actually long rejected as ridiculous.我早就拒绝了这个荒谬的说法
21I was raised by a pair of atheist scientists.我由一对无神论科学家抚养长大.
22I'm a fidgety, skeptical guy,我是一个虚无,怀疑的家伙,
23and that kind of led me to unfairly lump meditation那种导致我 不公平的一次性冥想
24in with aura readings, vision boards and dolphin healing.与气读数,视觉板和海豚愈合。
25But the practice really helped me with my anxiety and depression,但练习真的帮助了我 焦虑和抑郁,
26and so my goal became to make meditation attractive to my fellow skeptics所以我的目标 使冥想吸引我的怀疑者
27by ditching the New Age cliches and liberally using the F-word.通过抛弃新时代的陈词滥调 并自由使用F字。
28To my great surprise,我很惊讶
29this unorthodox approach turned me into a quasi-self-help guru.这种非正统的做法把我变成了一个准自助的大师。
30And a few years into this trip,还有几年的旅程
31I decided that I wanted to get a sense我决定,我想得到一个感觉
32of whether my inner work was having outer results.我的内在工作是否取得了外在成果
33Was meditation making me a nicer person?冥想让我成为一个更好的人吗?
34And that's why I signed up for the 360.这就是为什么我报名了360。
35And now I will tell you about the results.现在我告诉你结果。
36The first 13 pages were dedicated to my sterling qualities.前13页是献给我杰出品质的。
37People talked about how hardworking and intelligent I was.人们说我有多勤奋和聪明
38Many also said meditation had made me more caring.许多人还说,冥想使我更加关心。
39But then came 26 pages of beatdown.但后来出现了26页的被打倒.
40Um ...那个...
41The first blow was that some reviewers noted第一个打击是一些审查人员指出,
42that I had a penchant for being rude to junior staffers,我对初级职员很不礼貌
43which was deeply embarrassing.这很尴尬
44But it only got worse.但它只是变得更糟。
45I was called emotionally guarded,我被叫做情感守护,
46a diva and an authoritarian.一个女神和一个独裁者。
47I don't know why that's funny.我不知道为什么这很有趣。
48(*Laughter*)(* 笑声*)
49Some people even questioned my motives for promoting meditation.有人甚至质疑我提倡冥想的动机.
50It got so bad that at one point, my wife who was reading it with me事情变得如此糟糕,有一点,我的妻子 谁读它与我
51got up and went to the bathroom and cried.起来去洗手间哭
52I think for me, the most painful part was realizing我觉得对我来说 最痛苦的部分是意识到
53that the aspects of my personality that I was most ashamed of我最惭愧的人格
54and had really tried to hide并试图隐藏
55were in fact on full display for everybody.事实上,是 完全展示给大家。
56And those included my two most prominent and problematic demons,包括我两个最突出 最有问题的恶魔
57anger and self-centeredness.愤怒和自我中心。
58(*Clears throat*)(* 清喉* )
59Sorry, I've never talked about this publicly before.对不起,我从来没有公开谈论过这一点。
60Um ...那个...
61Thank you.谢谢
62I thought we weren't supposed to applaud authoritarians here at TED.我认为我们不应该在TED上 赞美独裁者。
63(*Laughter*)(* 笑声*)
64Bottom line, meditation had helped, for sure,底线,冥想当然有帮助,
65but I clearly retained the capacity to be a schmuck.但我显然保留了成为笨蛋的能力
66And I am not alone in this.我并不孤单
67All kinds of bad behavior have been on the rise.种种恶行渐起.
68Reckless driving, unruly airline passengers,毫无顾忌的驾驶 粗鲁的航空公司乘客
69violent crime,暴力犯罪,
70online bullying,网上欺凌,
71workplace incivility, tribal antagonism,工作场所不文明、部落对抗、
72even general self-centeredness.乃至通达自性.
73At times, it can really feel like our social fabric is unraveling.有时,它会真的感到我们的社会结构正在瓦解。
74So after my 360, I decided to do some work on myself之后,我决定自己做一些工作
75and to see if I could also learn some things看看我能否学到一些东西
76that by extension might help the species.由此可以帮助物种。
77I pulled every lever at my disposal.我利用了一切手段
78I did psychotherapy, communications coaching,我做了心理治疗 通信指导
79bias training, couples counseling and more.偏见培训、夫妇咨询等等。
80And while I was really grateful to be able to do all of this stuff虽然我真的很感激 能做所有这些事情
81and all of it helped,和所有的帮助,
82I was still finding myself too often getting selfish or snippy.我仍然发现自己太 经常变得自私或讨厌。
83So I signed up for a nine-day silent retreat于是我报名参加为期九天的静静退会
84where I would practice a kind of meditation在那里我会练习一种冥想
85that has been shown to boost your capacity for warmth.证明能增强你的温暖能力
86It's called loving kindness,这叫慈爱
87which, as you might imagine, sounded to me like Valentine's Day正如你所想象的 听起来就像情人节
88with a gun to my head.用枪指着我的头
89Um ...那个...
90But I was in it to win it.但我是为了赢得它
91I really wanted to be a nicer person.我真的想成为一个更好的人。
92I kept getting tripped up, though,虽然我一直被绊倒
93because the woman who was running the retreat, my teacher,因为那个领导撤退的女人 我的老师
94her name is Spring Washam,她叫斯普林・瓦沙姆
95she kept insisting that if I wanted to be less of a jerk to other people,她一直坚持,如果我想 少一个混蛋别人,
96I needed to start by being less of a jerk to myself,我首先要从自己少一个混蛋开始
97which I thought was the kind of thing you hear from Instagram influencers我认为那是你从Instagram 影响者那里听到的
98and spin instructors.和旋转导师。
99So ...所以说...
100And she even went so far as to suggest她甚至说
101that when I saw my demons emerging in meditation,当我看到我的恶魔在冥想中出现的时候,
102I should put my hand on my heart and say to myself,我该把手放在心上 对自己说
103it's OK, sweetie, I'm here for you.没关系,亲爱的,我在这里为你。
104Hard pass.硬通过。
105(*Laughter*)(* 笑声*)
106Pass Adina.传阿迪纳.
107I was not going to do that.我不会那么做的
108But over the ensuing days of nonstop meditation,但在接下来的不断冥想中
109I did notice that my twin demons were in full effect.我注意到我的双胞胎恶魔已经完全生效了
110My anger had me rehearsing glorious, expletive-filled speeches我的愤怒让我排练辉煌,充满激情的演讲
111I would deliver to my boss about the various promotions I deserved.我会把我应得的各种晋升 交给我的老板
112My self-centeredness had me writing my own five-star Amazon reviews我的自我本性让我写了自己的五星亚马逊评论
113for my various books,为了我的书,
114praising my elegant prose and rugged good looks.赞美我优雅的散文 和崎岖的帅气。
115And ...还有...
116In the face of all of this roostering and rage,面对所有的鸡和愤怒,
117I layered on an avalanche of self-criticism.我压在了自我批评的雪崩上
118I told myself a whole story about how I was an incurably self-obsessed,我告诉自己一个故事 关于我是如何 一个无法治愈的自我迷恋,
119cranky monster怪兽
120who had a cloven hose and a retractable jaw.他有一个丁香管 和可收回的下巴。
121After about five or six days of drinking from this fire hose,喝了五六天的消防水管后
122I caved.我崩溃了
123Mid-meditation, I put my hand on my heart,中药,我把手放在心上
124and while I definitely was not going to call myself sweetie,虽然我绝对不会叫自己亲爱的
125I did silently say to myself,我默默地对自己说
126it's all good, dude, I know this sucks, but I've got you.一切都很好,伙计,我知道这很糟糕, 但我有你。
127This was very strange and embarrassing.这是非常奇怪和尴尬的。
128But in this moment, I had an epiphany.但此时此刻,我有一个觉悟.
129I realized that my demons were actually just ancient,我意识到我的恶魔其实只是古老的
130fear-based, neurotic programs,基于恐惧的神经病程序,
131probably injected into me by the culture or by my parents,可能是文化或父母给我注射的
132and they were trying to help me.他们试图帮助我。
133It was the organism trying to protect itself.是那个试图保护自己的生物
134And when I stopped fighting them, they calmed down for a few seconds.当我停止与他们战斗时,他们冷静了几秒钟。
135I didn't have to slay them.我没有杀死他们。
136I just had to give them a high five.我只能给他们一个击掌。
137And this counterintuitive extension of warmth was not, I realized,而这种反直觉的延伸 温暖不是,我意识到,
138it was not indulgence, it was radical disarmament.这不是宽恕,而是激进的裁军。
139Here's the way I think about this.我是这样想的
140At any given moment, we humans have two choices,在任何特定的时刻,我们人类有两个选择,
141or two spirals that are available to us.或者两个螺旋 我们可以得到。
142The first is what my friend Evelyn Tribolet calls the toilet vortex.第一个是我的朋友伊芙琳·特里博莱特所说的马桶漩涡.
143The reason why this looks childish and ridiculous这看起来很幼稚和可笑的原因
144is that I drew it myself.是我自己画的
145It's OK, sweetie, you're good at so many other things.没事的,亲爱的,你擅长其他很多事情
146I probably shouldn't make fun of the thing I'm going to try to get you to do.我可能不应该取笑 我试图让你做的事。
147But the toilet vortex might start like this.但马桶漩涡可能是这样开始的
148You're picking on yourself because you don't like the way you look in the mirror,你挑剔自己 因为你不喜欢你照镜子的样子
149you're unhappy with your level of productivity,你对生产力水平不满意
150or you have failed to achieve ketosis, whatever,或者你没能实现酮化,不管怎样,
151and then you take that out on other people,然后,你拿出来别人,
152and then you are feeling more miserable,然后你感到更悲惨,
153and then down you go.然后你们下去。
154The vastly superior alternative is what I call the cheesy upward spiral.我称之为俗气的螺旋上升
155This one was drawn by a professional.这个是专业画的
156As your inner weather gets bombier,由于你的内在天气越来越强,
157because you've learned how to high-five your demons,因为你学会了如何击掌你的恶魔
158that shows up in your relationships with other people,出现在你和别人的关系中,
159and because relationships are probably the most important variable因为关系可能是最重要的变量
160when it comes to human flourishing,当人类繁荣的时候,
161your inner weather improves even further,你的内在天气会进一步好转
162and up you go.起来吧
163And that is the whole point here.这就是重点所在。
164Self-love, properly understood not as narcissism,自爱,正确理解 不是自恋,
165but as having your own back,但作为你自己的背,
166is not selfish.这不是自私。
167It makes you better at loving other people.让你更爱别人
168And the flip side of this was on full display in my 360.这个翻转的一面在我的360中完全展现出来。
169All the ways in which I was torturing myself所有折磨自己的方式
170showed up in my relationships with other people,出现在我和别人的关系中
171and as those relationships suffered, so did I.和这些关系遭受, 我也是。
172Taken together, my two excellent drawings集在一起,我的两幅优秀的画
173represent a kind of amateur, unified field theory of love.代表着一种业余,统一的田野爱情理论.
174I call itи硂
175me, comma, a love story.我,逗号,爱情故事。
176That's a deliberately ridiculous name,这是一个故意荒谬的名字,
177but I am actually pretty serious about using the word love.但我真的很认真的想用爱这个词
178Granted, it's a confusing term,同意,这是一个混淆的术语,
179because we use it to apply to everything from our spouses to our children因为我们用它来应用 从配偶到孩子的一切
180to gluten-free snickerdoodles,以无忧无虑的口味,
181but I am comfortable embracing the broadness of the term.但我对这个术语的宽泛性感到欣慰。
182I consider love to be anything that falls within the human capacity to care,我认为爱情是属于人类能力范围的一切
183a capacity wired deeply into us via evolution.一种通过进化深入我们体内的能力
184It's our ability to care, cooperate and communicate这是我们关心,合作和沟通的能力
185that has allowed homosapiens to thrive.这使得同性恋者得以兴盛。
186And it is a failure to exercise that muscle,而不能锻炼这种肌肉,
187it is a lack of love,这是缺乏爱,
188that I think is at the root of our most pressing problems,我认为是我们最紧迫问题的根源,
189from inequality to violence to the climate crisis.从不平等到暴力到气候危机。
190Obviously, these are all massive problems很明显,这些都是大问题
191that are going to require massive structural change,需要大规模结构改革,
192but at a baseline,但有一个基线,
193they also require us to care about one another.他们也要求我们互相关心
194And it is harder to do that更难做到
195when you're stuck in a ceaseless spiral of self-centered self-flagellation.当你被困在无休止的螺旋 自我中心自燃。
196Thank you.谢谢
197So I guess what I'm trying to say here is,所以我想说的是...
198there's a geopolitical case for you to get your shit together.有个地缘政治的案子要你处理
199And the massively empowering news和巨大的授权新闻
200is that love is not an unalterable factory setting,爱不是无法改变的工厂环境
201it is a skill that you can train.这是你能训练的技能
202It's actually a family of skills.这其实是一个技能的家族.
203After my 360, I learned a whole bunch of practices for upping my love game,我的360之后,我学到了一大堆 练习我的爱情游戏,
204and I'm going to share two with you right now我现在就跟你分享两个
205that I think would be very easy to integrate into your life.我认为很容易融入你的生活
206The first is to boot up a practice of loving-kindness meditation.首先是启动爱心冥想的实践.
207I should say that it does not require you to subscribe我要说的是,这不需要你同意
208to some fancy metaphysical program,给一些精致的物理程序,
209and it shouldn't take up too much time,它不应该花太多时间,
210maybe a few minutes, a couple times a week, to start.也许几分钟,一周几次,开始。
211The instructions are really simple.这些指示非常简单。
212Find a reasonably quiet place,找个安静的地方
213assume a comfortable position,做一个舒适的位置,
214close your eyes闭上眼睛
215and begin by envisioning a really easy person.并开始设想 一个真正容易的人。
216Maybe a good friend, maybe a pet.也许是好朋友,也许是宠物
217And then you repeat in your mind,然后你在你的脑海里重复,
218four phrases, may you be happy, may you be safe, may you be healthy,四句,愿你快乐,愿你安全,愿你健康
219may you live with ease.愿你轻松地生活。
220After you've generated a little warmth,在你发热之后
221you do a bait and switch and move on to yourself.你做个诱饵 换个位置 继续往前走
222Once again, you conjure the image and send the phrases.再次,你召集图像并发送短语。
223After that, it's on to a mentor, somebody who's helped you in your life,在那之后,它是一个导师, 一个帮助你生活的人,
224then a neutral person, somebody you might overlook,一个中立的人,一个你可能忽略的人,
225then a difficult person, probably not hard to find,然后是一个困难的人,也许不难找到,
226and then we finish with all beings everywhere.然后,我们结束 与所有的人在任何地方。
227To some of you, this may seem forced and trickly,在你们中有些人看来,这似乎是强迫和狡猾的,
228but it's worth noting that the research shows但值得注意的是 研究显示
229that this practice has physiological, psychological这种实践具有生理和心理特征
230and even behavioral benefits.甚至行为上的好处。
231The other practice I'm going to recommend我建议的其他做法
232is to start consciously counter-programming against your inner critic.开始自觉地反制你的内在评论家
233Next time you notice yourself going down the toilet,下次你注意到自己下厕所的时候
234if nobody's looking, put your hand on your heart如果没人看,把手放在心上
235and talk to yourself the way you would talk to a good friend.和你自己说话的方式 你会与一个好朋友说话。
236For ambitious people, this may be a little scary,对于野心勃勃的人来说 这也许有点可怕
237you might fear it's going to erode your edge,你可能害怕它会侵蚀你的边缘,
238but research shows that this process of replacing your sadistic inner tyrant但是研究显示,这个过程 取代你虐待的内在暴君
239with a supportive inner coach who has high standards与支持性 内导师高标准
240but is not a jerk about it,但它不是一个混蛋,
241makes you more likely to reach your goals.让你更容易达到目标
242Now, I will cop to the fact that even though I've now retired from my job瞷и穦玂靡 瞷и竒瞒秨и
243as a newsman and am a full-time meditation evangelist,作为一名记者,也是一名专职的冥想传教士,
244I still go down the toilet on the regular,我还是经常去厕所
245but I'm much more likely to access the upward spiral these days.但我现在更可能进入螺旋上升
246In fact, three years after my 360, I got another one,事实上,在我360年之后的三年里, 我又得到了一个,
247because I never learned,因为我从没学过
248and this one was way different.而这个是完全不同的。
249People gushed about how much I had changed人们都说我变了多少
250as a friend and a mentor and a colleague.作为朋友、导师和同事。
251They talked about specific meetings where I used to be a prosecutor他们谈到我曾经是检察官的具体会面
252and was now delightful.和现在的乐趣。
253One person said his ego is shrinking, which I think was a compliment,一个人说他的自尊心在缩小 我认为那是在恭维
254and another person said he's finding his heart,另一个人说他正在寻找他的心脏,
255which the new me let pass.新的我让通过。
256After she finished reading, my wife turned to me and said,读完书后,我妻子转过来对我说
257congratulations, now you're boring.恭喜,现在你很无聊了
258(*Laughter*)(* 笑声*)
259I'm hoping that was a joke, because in my opinion,我希望那是个玩笑 因为我认为
260upping your love game is anything but boring.升起你的爱游戏 除了无聊什么。
261It's countercultural because it cuts against the never-enoughness这是反文化的,因为它削减 与永远不够
262and always-behindness that society seems to want us to feel.社会似乎希望我们感受
263It's courageous because it's hard to look at your demons,这是勇敢的,因为很难看你的恶魔,
264and it's happiness-producing because when you high-five your demons,这是幸福的产生 因为当你击掌你的恶魔,
265they don't own you as much.他们没有拥有你那么多。
266And all of that makes you more generous and more available.所有这一切都让你 更加慷慨,更多的可用。
267If that sounds grandiose or touchy-feely to you,如果这听起来很壮观或敏感
268let me put it to you another way.让我用另一种方式告诉你
269The view is so much better when you pull your head out of your ass.风景好得多 当你把头从屁股里拉出来。
270(*Laughter*)(* 笑声*)
271Thank you very much.谢谢
272(*Applause*)(*鼓掌*)
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