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The second trap is a confusion between experience and memory; 第二个陷阱是经验和记忆间的混淆： basically, it's between being happy in your life, 基本上这是在生活中体会快乐 and being happy about your life or happy with your life. 与觉得生活很快乐以及对于你的生活满意之间的差别。 And those are two very different concepts, 这两者的意义相距甚远， and they're both lumped i...
There's so many of you. 好多人呀。 When I was a kid, I hid my heart under the bed, because my mother said, 当我还是小孩子的时候，我把自己的心藏在床底下，因为我的妈妈告诉我， "If you're not careful, someday someone's going to break it." “你要是不小心保管，终有一天有人会摧毁它。” Take it from me. Under the bed is not a good hiding spot. 听我说，床底下并不...
And that's one of the things that I enjoy most about this convention. 关于这大会我最享受的事之一就是 It's not so much, as so little as to do with what everything is. 都跟"万物为何"这个话题有着多多少少的关系 But it is within our self-interest to understand the topography of our lives unto ourselves. 了解一下生命的崎岖和我们自身的关系是为了自身利益 The future...
It's shocking to realize that only 28 percent of American adults 你们或许会惊讶于，只有28%的美国成年人 have even a very basic level of science literacy, 具备基本的科学知识， and this was tested by asking simple questions like, 而测试用的问题都是非常简单的： "Did humans and dinosaurs inhabit the Earth at the same time?" 例如“人类和恐龙是生活在一个时代的么？” and...
When I was a kid, I used to think that pork chops and karate chops were the same thing. 当我是小孩子的时候，我曾经认为“猪排骨”和“空手劈”是一样的。 I thought they were both pork chops. 我以为它们都是猪排的意思。 And because my grandmother thought it was cute, 而我的奶奶觉得我这样很可爱， and because they were my favorite, she let me keep doing it. 而因为我喜欢这些，所以她并没...
I should tell you that when I was asked to be here, I thought to myself that well, it's TED. 我要告诉你们当我接到大会邀请的时候，我对自己说，这可是TED呀 And these TEDsters are — you know, as innocent as that name sounds — 这些TEDsters虽然名字听起来是那么单纯而简单 these are the philanthropists and artists and scientists who sort of shape our world. 可都很不简...
First, we all need to get out in the forest. 首先，我们都得走出家门，走进森林。 We need to reestablish local involvement in our own forests. 我们需要重新使当地的居民融入到我们森林中去。 You see, most of our forests now are managed using a one-size-fits-all approach, 其实，现在我们的大部分林业实践采用的都是一体通用的方法， but good forest stewardship requires knowledge of loc...
So they spread out all the census data, 他们分析了所有的人口统计数据， and what they found, the guy described to me as a shocker, 他们发现，他的描述对我而言是一个震惊， which is that in 1,997 out of 2,000 communities, 在一九九七年，两千个社区中， women, young women, were making more money than young men. 女性，年轻女性比年轻男性挣得更多。 So here you have a generation of you...
You see, you can take out one or two hub trees, 你们看，我们可以拿走一两颗中心树， but there comes a tipping point, 但这样就会达到森林承受极限了， because hub trees are not unlike rivets in an airplane. 因为森林里的中心树就像是飞机里的铆钉。 You can take out one or two and the plane still flies, but you take out one too many, 你卸下一两个铆钉的话飞机还能飞，但是如果你一次卸...
I think I never drink as much tea as I did in Egypt. 我感觉我从来没喝过这么多的茶 And to be honest with you, we could have finished earlier, 老实说，我们其实可以提前竣工 but I think it took us three weeks because of all those tea breaks. 但我认为这个项目花费了我们三个星期是因为那些喝茶的休息时间 In Egypt, they have another expression, which is "Nawartouna," which m...
Our son Burhan is five years old, and he's learning to read and do basic maths. 我们的儿子Burhan现年5岁，而他正在学习阅读和作基础运算。 Here's another confession: 这是我另一个忏悔： I have found that our daughter is actually more successful at teaching him these skills than I am. 我发现我们的女儿实际上比起我更成功地在教他这些技能。 It started as a game, but Alia love...
In my previous job, well before my current firm, 在进入我现在这间公司之前，在我的工作中， I was working with a man, we will call John. 我与一个男人共事，我们称他约翰好了。 I had teamed up with John and was working hard, 我跟约翰组成一组，很努力地工作， hoping he would notice how great I was 希望他能注意到我很能干。 and that he would come to support my case to make partner at...
Now, this is a particularly remarkable example of creativity. 这是个非常杰出的创新例子。 But this sort of cross-pollination happens for each of us in small ways thousands of times per day. 但这种跨界转型每天正以难以察觉的方式在我们身边，发生成千上百次。 Machines cannot compete with us when it comes to tackling novel situations, 在创新方面，机器无法与我们抗衡。 and this puts ...
And if you would choose a different vacation, 如果你选了个不同的假期， there is a conflict between your two selves, 你的两个自我之间将会产生冲突， and you need to think about how to adjudicate that conflict, 你得想法来裁决这场冲突， and it's actually not at all obvious, because if you think in terms of time, 这并不怎么容易，因为假若你仅考虑时间 then you get one answer, a...
He was a broken branch grafted onto a different family tree, adopted, 这个男生被嫁接在另外一个家庭上，被人领养， not because his parents opted for a different destiny. 并不是因为他的父母离婚了。 He was three when he became a mixed drink of one part left alone and two parts tragedy, 他在三岁的时候就饮下了一杯孤独、两杯苦难勾兑的酒， started therapy in eighth grade, had a pers...
Our poor dog Jigs had slipped and fallen into the pit. 我们可怜的狗吉格斯，脚一滑跌进了一个坑里。 So grandpa ran up with his shovel to rescue the poor dog. 爷爷匆忙抄起一把铁铲，跑过去救那只可怜的狗。 He was down there, swimming in the muck. 那狗掉进了深处，在淤泥里挣扎。 But as grandpa dug through that forest floor, I became fascinated with the roots, 但在爷爷挖开森林的地面...
Let's come back to our tech CEO's question. 再来说说科技公司老板的问题 Where better to turn for advice than nature, 哪里有向比大自然求教更好的呢？ that's been in the business of life and death for longer than any company? 大自然已经在生死轮回的游戏中比任何公司存活得都要久了 As a lapsed biologist, I decided to immediately call a real biologist, 作为一个不务正业的...
In other words, we need to think more modestly and subtly 换言之，我们得更为谦虚和细致地考虑 about when and how we can shape, rather than control, unpredictable and complex situations. 何时、怎样塑造而不是控制不可预测的复杂情况 It's a little like the difference between throwing a ball and releasing a bird. 这有点像扔一个球和放飞一只鸟的区别 The ball would head in a strai...
From age 15 to 18, I hated myself for becoming the thing that I loathed: a bully. 在15到18岁之间，我憎恨自己，憎恨我变成了我厌恶的样子：一个恃强凌弱的人。 When I was 19, I wrote, "I will love myself despite the ease with which I lean toward the opposite." 19岁的时候，我写道:“我将爱我自己，不去在乎自己是否站在自己讨厌的位置。” Standing up for yourself doesn't ha...
If we went with Bob's philosophy, I think we'd actually end up with a more efficient immune system. 如果我们同意鲍勃的观点，我们实际上肯定了一种更为高效的免疫系统 And efficiency is always important in the short term. 而且效率在短期来说往往十分重要 Less complex, more efficient, more bang for the buck. Who could say no to that? 少些复杂，多些效率，更合算些。谁会拒绝这...