TED演讲：做事三分钟热度，怎么办？
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| 时间 | 英文 | 中文 |
|---|---|---|
| 0:12 | Raise your hand if you've ever been asked the question, | 如果你曾经被问到,举起手来 |
| 0:15 | what do you want to be when you grow up? | 长大后想当甚么. |
| 0:18 | Now, if you had to guess, | 现在,如果你不得不猜测, |
| 0:20 | how old would you say you were when you were first asked this question? | 当你第一次被问到这个问题的时候 你会说你多大? |
| 0:23 | You can just hold up fingers. | 你可以举起手指。 |
| 0:27 | Three三五,. | |
| 0:30 | Okay. | 摆 |
| 0:33 | Now, raise your hand. | 现在举起手来 |
| 0:34 | If the question, what do you want to be when you grow up, | 如果问题是你长大后想做什么 |
| 0:37 | has ever caused you any anxiety. | 曾经让你感到焦虑 |
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|---|---|---|
| 1 | Raise your hand if you've ever been asked the question, | 如果你曾经被问到,举起手来 |
| 2 | what do you want to be when you grow up? | 长大后想当甚么. |
| 3 | Now, if you had to guess, | 现在,如果你不得不猜测, |
| 4 | how old would you say you were when you were first asked this question? | 当你第一次被问到这个问题的时候 你会说你多大? |
| 5 | You can just hold up fingers. | 你可以举起手指。 |
| 6 | Three三五,. | |
| 7 | Okay. | 摆 |
| 8 | Now, raise your hand. | 现在举起手来 |
| 9 | If the question, what do you want to be when you grow up, | 如果问题是你长大后想做什么 |
| 10 | has ever caused you any anxiety. | 曾经让你感到焦虑 |
| 11 | Any anxiety at all. | 任何焦虑。 |
| 12 | I'm someone who's never been able to answer the question, | 我永远无法回答这个问题 |
| 13 | what do you want to be when you grow up? | 长大后想当甚么. |
| 14 | See, the problem wasn't that I didn't have any interests, | 问题不在于我没有任何兴趣 |
| 15 | it's that I had too many. | 是因为我喝多了 |
| 16 | In high school, I liked English and math and art, | 在高中,我喜欢英语 数学和艺术, |
| 17 | and I built websites, | 我建立了网站, |
| 18 | and I played guitar in a punk band called Frustrated Telephone Operator. | 我在朋克乐队里弹吉他 叫做"失落的电话操作员" |
| 19 | Maybe you've heard of us. | 也许你听说过我们 |
| 20 | This continued after high school, | 高中毕业后, |
| 21 | and at a certain point, | 在某一时刻, |
| 22 | I began to notice this pattern in myself, | 我开始注意到这种模式 |
| 23 | where I would become interested in an area, | 我对某个领域感兴趣 |
| 24 | and I would dive in and become all consumed, | 我会潜入 并变得消耗, |
| 25 | and I'd get to be pretty good at whatever it was. | 我会很擅长它是什么。 |
| 26 | And then I would hit this point, | 然后,我会达到这一点, |
| 27 | or I'd start to get bored. | 否则我会变得无聊 |
| 28 | And usually, I would try and persist anyway, | 通常我还是会坚持下去 |
| 29 | because I had already devoted so much time and energy | 因为我已经花了很多时间和精力 |
| 30 | and sometimes money into this field. | 有时候,金钱进入这个领域。 |
| 31 | But eventually, this sense of boredom, | 但最终 这种无聊的感觉, |
| 32 | this feeling of like, | 这种感觉, |
| 33 | yeah, I got this, this isn't challenging anymore. | 是的,我得到了这个, 这已经不是挑战了。 |
| 34 | It would get to be too much, | 它会变得太多, |
| 35 | and I would have to let it go. | 我不得不放弃它。 |
| 36 | But then I would become interested in something else, | 但之后我会对别的东西感兴趣 |
| 37 | something totally unrelated, | 完全无关的东西, |
| 38 | and I would dive into that and become all consumed, | 我将潜入其中 并被消耗, |
| 39 | and I'd be like, yes, I found my thing. | 我发现我的东西。 |
| 40 | And then I would hit this point again, | 然后,我会再次达到这一点, |
| 41 | or I'd start to get bored, | 或者我会变得无聊, |
| 42 | and eventually, I would let it go. | 最后,我会放弃它。 |
| 43 | But then I would discover something new and totally different, | 但我会发现一些新的和完全不同的东西, |
| 44 | and I would dive into that. | 我会潜入其中。 |
| 45 | This pattern caused me a lot of anxiety for two reasons. | 这种模式让我非常焦虑,原因有二. |
| 46 | The first was that I wasn't sure | 首先是我不确定 |
| 47 | how I was going to turn any of this into a career. | 我打算怎么把这一切变成事业 |
| 48 | I thought that I would eventually have to pick one thing, | 我以为我最终会选择一件事 |
| 49 | deny all of my other passions, | 否认我所有的激情 |
| 50 | and just resign myself to being bored. | 并只是辞去我自己的无聊。 |
| 51 | The other reason it caused me so much anxiety | 另一个原因让我如此焦虑 |
| 52 | was a little bit more personal. | 有点私人恩怨 |
| 53 | I worried that there was something wrong with this | 我担心这有什么不对劲 |
| 54 | and something wrong with me | 我有些不对劲 |
| 55 | for being unable to stick with anything. | 因为无法坚持任何东西。 |
| 56 | I worried that I was afraid of commitment, | 我担心我害怕承诺 |
| 57 | or that I was scattered, | 或者说我已经散了 |
| 58 | or that I was self-sabotaging, afraid of my own success. | 或者说我在自我破坏 害怕自己的成功 |
| 59 | If you can relate to my story and to these feelings, | 如果你能和我的故事和这些感情联系起来 |
| 60 | I'd like you to ask yourself a question | 我想问你一个问题 |
| 61 | that I wish I had asked myself back then. | 我希望那时我问过自己 |
| 62 | Ask yourself where you learned to assign the meaning of wrong | 问问你自己 你从哪里学来的错 |
| 63 | or abnormal to doing many things. | 或异常 做很多事情。 |
| 64 | I'll tell you where you learned it. | 我告诉你你在哪里学的 |
| 65 | You learned it from the culture. | 你从文化中学来的 |
| 66 | We were first asked the question, | 我们第一次被问到这个问题, |
| 67 | what do you want to be when you grow up | 你长大后想做什么? |
| 68 | when we're about five years old? | 当我们大约5岁吗? |
| 69 | And the truth is that no one really cares | 而事实是,没有人真正在乎 |
| 70 | what you say when you're that age. | 等你到那个年纪了再说吧 |
| 71 | It's considered an innocuous question | 这被认为是一个无害的问题 |
| 72 | posed to little kids to elicit cute replies, | 给小孩子们带来可爱的答案, |
| 73 | like, I want to be an astronaut, | 我想成为宇航员 |
| 74 | or I want to be a ballerina, | 或者我想当芭蕾舞演员 |
| 75 | or I want to be a pirate. | 或者我想成为一个海盗。 |
| 76 | Insert Halloween costume here. | 在这里插入万圣节服装. |
| 77 | But this question gets asked of us again and again | 但这个问题一再被问到我们身上 |
| 78 | as we get older in various forms. | 随着我们变老 各种形式。 |
| 79 | For instance, high school students might get asked | 比如,高中生可能会被问到 |
| 80 | what major they're going to pick in college. | 大学里会选什么专业 |
| 81 | And at some point, | 在某些时候, |
| 82 | what do you want to be when you grow up | 你长大后想做什么? |
| 83 | goes from being the cute exercise it once was | 从可爱的练习它曾经是 |
| 84 | {\fn黑体\fs22\bord1\shad0\3aHBE\4aH00\fscx67\fscy66\2cHFFFFFF\3cH808080}直到我们晚上睡不着 | |
| 85 | Why? | 为什么? |
| 86 | See, while this question inspires kids | 你看,虽然这个问题 激励孩子们 |
| 87 | to dream about what they could be, | 梦想他们能是什么, |
| 88 | it does not inspire them to dream about all that they could be. | 这并不激励他们梦想一切。 |
| 89 | In fact, it does just the opposite. | 事实上,情况恰恰相反。 |
| 90 | Because when someone asks you what you want to be, | 因为当有人问你你想成为什么 |
| 91 | you can't reply with 20 different things. | 你无法回答20种不同的东西。 |
| 92 | The well-meaning adults will likely chuckle and be like, | 善良的成年人可能会笑 并喜欢, |
| 93 | oh, how cute, but you can't be a violin maker and a psychologist. | 哦,多可爱, 但你不能是一个小提琴家 和心理学家。 |
| 94 | You have to choose. | 你必须选择 |
| 95 | This is Dr. Bob Childs. | 这是鲍勃・柴尔斯博士。 |
| 96 | (*Laughter*) | (* 笑声*) |
| 97 | And he's a luthier and a psychotherapist. | 他是一个Luthier和精神治疗师。 |
| 98 | And this is Amy Ung, | 这位是艾米·翁格 |
| 99 | a magazine editor turned illustrator, entrepreneur, | 一个杂志编辑成为插画家 企业家 |
| 100 | teacher and creative director. | 老师和创意总监 |
| 101 | But most kids don't hear about people like this. | 但大多数孩子都听不懂这样的人 |
| 102 | All they hear is that they're going to have to choose. | 他们只听到他们要选择 |
| 103 | But it's more than that. | 然则不止. |
| 104 | The notion of the narrowly focused life | 狭隘的生活观念 |
| 105 | is highly romanticized in our culture. | 我们的文化非常浪漫 |
| 106 | It's this idea of destiny or the one true calling. | 是命运的念头 还是真正的召唤 |
| 107 | The idea that we each have one great thing | 我们每个人都有一个伟大的想法 |
| 108 | we are meant to do during our time on this earth, | 我们注定要在这世上完成 |
| 109 | and you need to figure out what that thing is | 你得弄清楚那东西是什么 |
| 110 | and devote your life to it. | 将生命奉献给它 |
| 111 | But what if you're someone who isn't wired this way? | 但如果你不是这种人呢? |
| 112 | What if there are a lot of different subjects that you're curious about | 如果你想知道很多不同的课题 |
| 113 | and many different things you want to do? | 和很多不同的事情 你想做吗? |
| 114 | Well, there is no room for someone like you in this framework. | 这个框架里没有你这样的人 |
| 115 | And so you might feel alone. | 你可能会觉得孤独 |
| 116 | You might feel like you don't have a purpose. | 你可能觉得你没有目的 |
| 117 | And you might feel like there's something wrong with you. | 你可能觉得自己有问题 |
| 118 | There's nothing wrong with you. | 尔时无上菩提. |
| 119 | What you are is a multi-potentialite. | 你是一个多潜力者。 |
| 120 | A multi-potentialite is someone with many interests and creative pursuits. | 多潜力者是一个有着许多兴趣和创造性追求的人。 |
| 121 | It's a mouthful to say. | 口口口口口语. |
| 122 | It might help if you break it up into three parts, | 如果你把它分成三个部分,可能会有帮助, |
| 123 | multi-potential and aite. | 多潜力和爱特。 |
| 124 | You can also use one of the other terms that connote the same idea, | 你也可以用另一个词来表达同样的想法, |
| 125 | such as the polymath, the Renaissance person. | 例如聚马思,文艺复兴人物. |
| 126 | Actually, during the Renaissance period, | 实际上 在文艺复兴时期 |
| 127 | it was considered the ideal to be well-versed in multiple disciplines. | 它被认为是在多个学科中通晓的理想. |
| 128 | Barber share refers to us as scanners. | 巴伯分公司称我们为扫描仪 |
| 129 | Use whichever term you like or invent your own. | 随便你喜欢哪个词 或者自己发明 |
| 130 | I have to say I find it sort of fitting that as a community, | 我不得不说,我发现它有点适合 作为一个社区, |
| 131 | we cannot agree on a single identity. | 我们不能就单一身份达成一致。 |
| 132 | It's easy to see your multi-potentiality as a limitation | 很容易将你的多重潜力视为一种限制 |
| 133 | or an affliction that you need to overcome. | 或你们需要克服的苦痛。 |
| 134 | But what I've learned through speaking with people | 但我从跟人说话学到的 |
| 135 | and writing about these ideas on my website | 在我的网站上写这些想法 |
| 136 | is that there are some tremendous strengths to being this way. | 以这种方式存在一些巨大的优势。 |
| 137 | Here are three multi-potentialite superpowers. | 这里有三个多潜力的超级大国。 |
| 138 | One, idea synthesis. | 一,思想综合. |
| 139 | That is combining two or more fields | 这是两个或多个字段的结合 |
| 140 | and creating something new at the intersection. | 在十字路口创造新的东西。 |
| 141 | Shaw Wang and Rachel Binx drew from their shared interests | 萧王和瑞秋宾克斯都从他们的共同利益中汲取 |
| 142 | in cartography, data visualization, | 在制图、数据可视化、 |
| 143 | travel, mathematics and design when they founded Meshew. | 旅行,数学和设计 当他们创建了Mishew。 |
| 144 | Meshew is a company | 美雪是个公司 |
| 145 | that creates custom, geographically-inspired jewelry. | 这创造了风俗习惯, 地理灵感的珠宝。 |
| 146 | Shaw and Rachel came up with this unique idea | 肖和瑞秋想出了这个独特的主意 |
| 147 | not despite but because of their eclectic mix of skills and experiences. | 尽管如此,但并不是因为他们的技能和经验相互交织。 |
| 148 | Innovation happens at the intersections. | 创新发生在十字路口. |
| 149 | That's where the new ideas come from. | 新思想由此而来. |
| 150 | And multi-potentialized with all of their backgrounds | 和所有背景的多潜力 |
| 151 | are able to access a lot of these points of intersection. | 能够进入很多这些交叉点。 |
| 152 | The second multi-potentialized superpower is rapid learning. | 第二个多潜力的超级大国是快速学习. |
| 153 | When multi-potentialites become interested in something, we go hard. | 当多重潜力者对某件事感兴趣时,我们就会努力。 |
| 154 | We absorb everything we can get our hands on. | 我们吸收了我们手中的一切 |
| 155 | We're also used to being beginners | 我们也习惯了做初学者 |
| 156 | because we've been beginners so many times in the past. | 因为我们过去做过很多次初学者 |
| 157 | And this means that we're less afraid of trying new things | 这意味着我们不怕尝试新的事物 |
| 158 | and stepping out of our comfort zones. | 并走出我们的舒适地带。 |
| 159 | What's more, many skills are transferable across disciplines, | 此外,许多技能是跨学科的 |
| 160 | and we bring everything we've learned to every new area we pursue, | 我们把学到的一切带到我们追求的每一个新领域, |
| 161 | so we're rarely starting from scratch. | 所以我们很少从头开始 |
| 162 | Nora Dunn is a full-time traveler and freelance writer. | 诺拉·邓恩是一位全职的旅行家和自由撰稿人. |
| 163 | As a child concert pianist, | 作为一个儿童音乐会钢琴家, |
| 164 | she honed an incredible ability to develop muscle memory. | 她培养出惊人的肌肉记忆能力 |
| 165 | Now, she's the fastest typist she knows. | 她是她认识的最快的打字员 |
| 166 | Before becoming a writer, Nora was a financial planner. | 在成为作家之前,诺拉是一位金融策划者. |
| 167 | She had to learn the finer mechanics of sales | 她必须学习精细的销售力 |
| 168 | when she was starting her practice, | 当她开始练习时 |
| 169 | and this skill now helps her write compelling pitches to editors. | 而这种技巧现在帮助她给编辑们写出令人信服的投注. |
| 170 | It is rarely a waste of time to pursue something you're drawn to, | 追求你被吸引的东西很少是浪费时间, |
| 171 | even if you end up quitting. | 即使你最后辞职。 |
| 172 | You might apply that knowledge in a different field entirely | 你可以把知识完全应用到另一个领域 |
| 173 | in a way that you couldn't have anticipated. | 以你无法预料的方式 |
| 174 | The third multi-potentialized superpower is adaptability. | 第三个多潜力超能力是适应性. |
| 175 | That is, the ability to morph into whatever you need to be | 也就是说,能够改变你需要的 |
| 176 | in a given situation. | 在特定情况下。 |
| 177 | Abe Kahuto有时是视频导演, | |
| 178 | sometimes a web designer, | 有时是一个网络设计师, |
| 179 | 有时是Kickstarter顾问, | |
| 180 | sometimes a teacher, | 有时是老师 |
| 181 | and sometimes, apparently, James Bond. | 有时候,显然,詹姆斯邦德。 |
| 182 | He's valuable because he does good work. | 他很有价值 因为他做得很好 |
| 183 | He's even more valuable | 他更有价值 |
| 184 | because he can take on various roles depending on his clients' needs. | 因为他可以承担各种角色 根据客户的需要。 |
| 185 | Fast Company magazine identified adaptability | 快公司杂志确定适应性 |
| 186 | as the single most important skill to develop | 作为发展的唯一最重要的技能 |
| 187 | in order to thrive in the 21st century. | 为了在21世纪蓬勃发展 |
| 188 | The economic world is changing so quickly and unpredictably | 经济世界变化如此之快 难以预料 |
| 189 | that it is the individuals and organizations that can pivot | 是个人和组织可以引导 |
| 190 | in order to meet the needs of the market that are really going to thrive. | 以满足市场的需求 真正要繁荣的市场。 |
| 191 | Idea synthesis, rapid learning and adaptability, | 思想合成、快速学习和适应能力, |
| 192 | three skills that multi-potentialized are very adept at | 三种具有多种潜力的技能非常适合 |
| 193 | and three skills that they might lose if pressured to narrow their focus. | 和他们可能失去的三种技能 如果压力 缩小他们的焦点。 |
| 194 | As a society, we have a vested interest | 作为一个社会,我们有既得利益 |
| 195 | in encouraging multi-potentialized to be themselves. | 在鼓励多种潜力成为自己方面。 |
| 196 | We have a lot of complex, multidimensional problems in the world right now, | 世界上有很多复杂多方面的问题 |
| 197 | and we need creative, out-of-the-box thinkers to tackle them. | 我们需要有创造力的 外头的思想家来对付它们。 |
| 198 | Now, let's say that you are, in your heart, a specialist. | 现在,让我们假设,你,在你心中,是一个专家。 |
| 199 | You came out of the womb knowing you wanted to be a pediatric neurosurgeon. | 你从子宫里出来 知道你想做个儿科神经外科医生 |
| 200 | Don't worry, there's nothing wrong with you either. | 别担心,你也没什么问题 |
| 201 | In fact, some of the best teams | 事实上,一些最好的团队 |
| 202 | are comprised of a specialist and multi-potentialized paired together. | 由专家组成,并具有多种潜力。 |
| 203 | The specialist can dive in deep and implement ideas, | 专家可以潜入深处 执行想法, |
| 204 | while the multi-potentialized brings their breadth of knowledge to the project. | 而多潜力化则为项目带来了知识的广度. |
| 205 | It's a beautiful partnership. | 这是一个美丽的伙伴关系。 |
| 206 | But we should all be designing lives and careers | 但我们都应该设计生活和职业 |
| 207 | that are aligned with how we're wired. | 和我们被窃听的方式一致 |
| 208 | And sadly, multi-potentialized are largely being encouraged | 可悲的是,多潜力化在很大程度上得到了鼓励 |
| 209 | simply to be more like their specialist peers. | 只是更像他们的专家同行。 |
| 210 | So with that said, | 这么说 |
| 211 | if there is one thing you take away from this talk, | 如果有一件事 你带走了这个谈话, |
| 212 | I hope that it is this. | 我希望是这样。 |
| 213 | Embrace your inner wiring, whatever that may be. | 拥抱你的内线 不管是什么 |
| 214 | If you're a specialist at heart, then by all means specialize. | 如果你是一个专家在心脏, 那么所有手段专门。 |
| 215 | That is where you'll do your best work. | 那就是你尽力的地方 |
| 216 | But to the multi-potentialized in the room, | 但对于房间里的多重潜力, |
| 217 | including those of you who may have just realized | 包括那些刚刚意识到 |
| 218 | in the last 12 minutes that you are one, | 在过去的12分钟里,你是一个, |
| 219 | to you, I say, embrace your many passions. | 对你,我说, 拥抱你的很多激情。 |
| 220 | Follow your curiosity down those rabbit holes. | 跟着你的好奇心 沿着兔子洞走 |
| 221 | Explore your intersections. | 探索你的交叉点。 |
| 222 | Embracing our inner wiring leads to a happier, more authentic life. | 拥抱我们的内线 导致一个更快乐,更真实的生活。 |
| 223 | And perhaps more importantly, | 也许更重要的是, |
| 224 | multi-potentialized. | 多潜力化. |
| 225 | The world needs us. | 世界需要我们。 |
| 226 | Thank you. | 谢谢 |
| 227 | Thank you very much. | 谢谢 |
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