TED演讲之身体语言 一个编舞者的现场创作过程(10)

So this is a mental picture, I'm describing a mental, vivid picture that enables dancers to make choices for themselves about what to make. 所以这是一个脑海中的画面,我在描述一幅生动的思维图画,让舞者能够自己决定要创造什么。 Okay, you can open your eyes if you had them closed. 好的,如果你一直闭着眼睛的话,现在可以睁开了。 So the dancers have been working on them. So jus...

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TED演讲:我们不要一成不变的教育(9)

When the country cares about something, we'll spend a trillion dollars without blinking an eye. 当一个国家在乎一些事了,我们就算花一万亿美元也不会眨一下眼睛的。 When the safety of America is threatened, we will spend any amount of money. 当美国的安全受到威胁时,多少钱我们都会花。 The real safety of our nation is preparing this next generation so that they can take our pl...

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TED演讲:选择的困惑(8)

Sorry if you're not New Yorkers. 不过你如果不是纽约人的话,我先道个歉。 Here's what you're supposed to be thinking. Here's this couple on the Hamptons. 但这是你此时此刻应该想的事。看看汉普顿的这两口子。 Very expensive real estate. Gorgeous beach. Beautiful day. They have it all to themselves. What could be better? 昂贵的富人区,华丽的海滩,阳光明媚,他们拥有...

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TED演讲:和老年痴呆症说再见(6)

What about sleep? In slow-wave deep sleep, our glial cells rinse cerebral spinal fluid throughout our brains, 关于睡眠呢?在慢波深度睡眠时,我们的神经胶质细胞冲洗着我们大脑中的脑脊液, clearing away metabolic waste that accumulated in our synapses while we were awake. 清除掉当我们清醒时积累在突触的代谢废物。 Deep sleep is like a power cleanse for the brain. 深度睡眠就好像是...

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TED演讲之身体语言 一个编舞者的现场创作过程(9)

So I'd like us just to do, we're going to do a little mental dance, a little, in this little one minute, 所以我想让大家来体验一下,我们来做一个小小的思维的舞蹈,不多,只要短短一分钟, so what I'd love you to do is imagine, you can do this with your eyes closed, or open, and if you don't want to do it you can watch them, it's up to you. 所以我想要你们做的...

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TED演讲之败中求胜 解读羞耻(10)

The other thing you need to know about shame is it's absolutely organized by gender. 关于羞耻还需要知道的另一件事,就是它是完全被性别所导向的。 If shame washes over me and washes over Chris, it's going to feel the same. 当羞耻感涌上我的心头和克里斯的心头,那感觉都是一样的。 Everyone sitting in here knows the warm wash of shame. 这里每个人都知道那是一种什么滋味。 We&#...

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TED演讲:谈乌鸦的智慧(1)

How many of you have seen the Alfred Hitchcock film "The Birds"? 这里有多少人看过阿尔弗雷德·希区柯克的电影《鸟》? Any of you get really freaked out by that? You might want to leave now. 是不是认为那片子太过离奇了?要是那样的话,你现在可以走了。 So this is a vending machine for crows. Over the past few days, many of you have been asking, 大家看到的是一台专门为乌鸦...

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TED演讲:为什么要跟别人一样?(6)

And when I'm acting a role, I inhabit another self, and I give it life for awhile, 当我表演一个角色时,我进入了另一个自我,我在一段时间内赋予其生命, because when the self is suspended so is divisiveness and judgment. 当自我被抑制时,它的多样性和判断也会一同被抑制。 And I've played everything from a vengeful ghost in the time of slavery to Secretary of State in 2004....

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TED演讲:我们不要一成不变的教育(5)

Here's what we know. We know that the problem begins immediately. Right? 以下是我们所知道的东西。我们知道,问题很快就会来的。对吧? This idea, zero to three. 我们来谈谈婴儿从出生到三岁的变化情况。 My wife, Yvonne, and I, we have four kids, three grown ones and a 15-year-old. That's a longer story. 我的妻子Yvonne和我一共育有四个子女,其中三个已经成年,还有一个已经15岁...

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TED演讲之败中求胜 温和的成功哲学(6)

I'm drawn to a lovely quote by St. Augustine in "The City of God," where he says, "It's a sin to judge any man by his post." 我很喜欢圣奥古斯丁在“上帝之城”里的一句话,他说,“以社会地位评价人是一种罪”。 In modern English that would mean it's a sin to come to any view of who you should talk to, dependent on their business card. 用现在的口吻说,...

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TED演讲:书呆子教你如何在线学习(3)

I believe that what we map changes the life we lead. 我相信我们为自己绘制的地图能改变我们的人生。 And I don't mean that in some, like, secret-y Oprah's Angels network, like, you-can-think-your-way-out-of-cancer sense. 我说的并不是类似神秘的“奥普拉天使网络”计划,或者“人定胜天”之类的心灵鸡汤。 But I do believe that while maps don't show you where you will go in you...

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TED演讲:书呆子教你如何在线学习(8)

Or here's a video that I made as part of my show "Crash Course," talking about World War I: 还有这个视频,是我的节目《速成班》中的一期,讲的是第一次世界大战: The immediate cause was of course the assassination in Sarajevo of the Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand, 直接起因当然是发生在萨拉热窝的刺杀事件,奥地利大公弗朗茨·费迪南遇刺身亡, on June 28, 1914, by a B...

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TED演讲:对最近气候趋势的警告(5)

Finally, the positive alternative meshes with our economic challenge and our national security challenge. 最后是这个正面的方案,可以应对经济挑战和国家安全挑战。 America is in crisis — the economy, national security, the climate crisis. 美国正处于危机当中–经济的、国家安全的、气候的危机。 The thread that links them all: our addiction to carbon based fuels, like dir...

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TED演讲之败中求胜 解读羞耻(1)

I'm going to tell you a little bit about my TEDxHouston Talk. 我要跟大家讲一点关于我TEDxHouston演讲的事。 I woke up the morning after I gave that talk with the worst vulnerability hangover of my life. 在演讲之后的那个早上,是我这辈子经历过最糟糕,最脆弱的宿醉。 And I actually didn't leave my house for about three days. 而且我有三天都足不出户。 The first time I left w...

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TED演讲:我们不要一成不变的教育(3)

Now look, I'm a technology fan, but I have to admit to you all I'm a little old. 我是一个技术发烧友,但我得承认我年纪是大了点。 So I was a little slow, and I did not trust technology, and when they first came out with those new contraptions, 所以,我会有点跟不上形势,我也不相信技术,尤其是我第一次看到的新玩意儿, these tellers that you put in a card and they give you...

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TED演讲:我那曝光政府腐败的战斗(10)

So what is the solution? It is, I believe, to embody within the rule of law rights to information. 那么怎样解决呢?我相信那就是有接近信息的法律权力。 At the moment our rights are incredibly weak. 现在我们的权力还十分微弱。 In a lot of countries, we have Official Secrets Acts, including in Britain here. 在很多国家,我们还有官方保密法,包括在英国。 We have an Official Secrets ...

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TED演讲之败中求胜 不要一悔再悔(10)

Now there is a case to be made that control freaks and perfectionists should not get tattoos, and I'm going to return to that point in a few minutes. 那么有一点就是控制狂和完美主义者千万别纹身,一会儿我会提到这一点。 But first I want to say that the intensity and persistence with which we experience these emotional components of regret is obviously going to vary depending...

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TED演讲之败中求胜 解读羞耻(13)

And so I'll leave you with this thought. 所以我想把这些思考留给大家。 If we're going to find our way back to each other, vulnerability is going to be that path. 如果我们想找到重归彼此的方法。脆弱将会是正确的路径。 And I know it's seductive to stand outside the arena, 我知道站在竞技场外面是很诱人的, because I think I did it my whole life, and think to myself, 因...

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TED演讲:书呆子教你如何在线学习(4)

And then, when I was in tenth grade, I went to this school, Indian Springs School, a small boarding school, 后来,在我十年级的时候,我转学了,我转到了一家名叫“印第安泉”的小型寄宿学校, outside of Birmingham, Alabama. And all at once I became a learner. 位于阿拉巴马州伯明翰市郊区。一夜之间我就成了个好学的人。 And I became a learner, because I found myself in a community of le...

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TED演讲:创意隐藏在哪里(11)

So I remained with them, and the more I wrote that story, the more I got into those beliefs, 所以我决定留下来和他们一起,我写的越多,我便越相信这些信仰, and I think that's important for me — to take on the beliefs, because that is where the story is real, 这对我来说是重要的–去真正接受这些信仰,因为这样,故事才能真实, and that is where I'm gonna find the...

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