TED演讲之入门 学校扼杀创造力(10)

And the third thing about intelligence is, it's distinct. 培养好学生的第三个原则就是个性化。 I'm doing a new book at the moment called "Epiphany," 我目前在写本书,书名叫《顿悟》, which is based on a series of interviews with people about how they discovered their talent. 素材来自一些访谈,访谈内容是关于怎样发现自身的才能。 I'm fascinated by how people ...

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TED演讲之入门 学校扼杀创造力(3)

I heard a great story recently — I love telling it — of a little girl who was in a drawing lesson. 最近我听到一个很不错的故事。我很愿意讲讲这个故事,说的是一个小女孩正在上绘画课。 She was six, and she was at the back, drawing, 小女孩只有六岁,她坐在教室的后排,正在画画, and the teacher said this girl hardly ever paid attention, and in this drawing lesson, she di...

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TED演讲:科技并没有改变爱 为什么?(3)

There's no question that technology is changing the way we court: 可以肯定的一点是,科技正在改变人类的求爱方式: emailing, texting, emojis to express your emotions, sexting, "liking" a photograph, selfies. 电子邮件、短信、表达情感的符号、色情短信、给照片或自拍点赞。 We're seeing new rules and taboos for how to court. 关于如何求爱有了新的规则和禁忌。 But, yo...

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TED演讲之入门 单一故事的危险性(4)

I must say that before I went to the U.S., I didn't consciously identify as African. 我不得不强调,在我前往美国之前,我从来没有有意识地把自己当作个非洲人。 But in the U.S., whenever Africa came up, people turned to me. 但在美国的时候,每当人们提到“非洲”时,大家都回转向我, Never mind that I knew nothing about places like Namibia. 虽然说我对纳米比亚之类的地方一无所知。 Bu...

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TED演讲:为什么你应该热爱统计学(7)

How about the next question? This is asking about what the average age is, 那么下一个问题呢?这是问关于年龄的中位数, so the age at which half the population are younger and half the population are older. 也就是该地区大于和小于这个年龄的人口数相等。 And I thought 35 — that sounds middle-aged to me. 我以为是35–那对我来说是中年。 Actually, in Exeter, it's incre...

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TED演讲:科技并没有改变爱 为什么?(6)

And I stumbled, then, on a statistic that really came home to me. 结果我发现了一个震惊的数据。 It was a very interesting academic article in which I found that 67 percent of singles in America today who are living long-term with somebody, 一篇极其有趣的学术文章,发现67%的处于长期同居的美国未婚人士, have not yet married because they are terrified of divorce. 之所以还未结婚是...

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TED演讲:有关激情的故事(5)

The best four minutes of my entire life were those in the Olympic stadium. 我一生中最伟大的四分钟就在这奥林匹克体育馆中。 My husband is offended when I say this 我的爱人听我这么描述,觉得没有受到尊重, although I have explained to him that what we do in private usually takes less than four minutes — so he shouldn't take it personally. 即使我私下跟他解释到我们的事往...

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TED演讲之入门 内向性格的力量(11)

And that's a lot harder for me, because as honored as I am to be here with all of you right now, this is not my natural milieu. 这不是我拿手的事情,但能站在这里向你们说话,能对在坐的各为传达我的想法,是何等荣耀的事情。 So I prepared for moments like these as best I could. 所以我尽我所能,为了这一天做好准备。 I spent the last year practicing public speaking every chance I...

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TED演讲:如何培养出成功的小孩(7)

We all know this, and yet, in the checklisted childhood, 我们都已经清楚,在清单式童年中, we absolve our kids of doing the work of chores around the house, 我们不让孩子做家里的杂活, and then they end up as young adults in the workplace still waiting for a checklist, 当他们长大进入职场,还在等待一个清单, but it doesn't exist, and more importantly, lacking the impulse, ...

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TED演讲之入门 肢体语言塑造你自己(2)

So a handshake, or the lack of a handshake, can have us talking for weeks and weeks and weeks. 所以一个握手,或不握手,我们都可以聊上好几个礼拜。 Even the BBC and The New York Times. 即使BBC和纽约时报也不例外。 So obviously when we think about nonverbal behavior, or body language 说到非语言行为或身体语言时, but we call it nonverbals as social scientists — it's lan...

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TED演讲之入门 肢体语言塑造你自己(13)

So at the end of my first year at Harvard, a student who had not talked in class the entire semester, who I had said, 所以我在哈佛的第一年结束的时候,我对整个学期在课堂上都没有说话的一个学生说: "Look, you've gotta participate or else you're going to fail," came into my office. “你得参与进来,否则你不会过这一科的,来我的办公室吧。 I really didn't know he...

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TED演讲之败中求胜 试验 排除错误和万能神力(9)

Now I've been sort of banging on about this for the last couple of months, 在过去的几个月里,我反复在讨论这个问题, and people sometimes say to me, "Well Tim, it's kind of obvious. Obviously trial and error is very important. 有时有人跟我说:“提姆,这不是很显然么,很显然试验和排除错误很重要, Obviously experimentation is very important. Now why are you just wand...

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TED演讲:美国废弃的购物中心(6)

And here's Billie Jean running across the fountain, being chased by Hubie Pyatt's friends. 比利金跑过喷泉,被胡比·派特的朋友们追着。 And she jumps over here. And you can see the shot right here is what it looks like today. 她从这里跳过去。你能看到这里的镜头,就和今天看起来一样。 It's pretty incredible. I mean, honestly, it's exactly the same. 这很神奇。我是说...

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TED演讲之败中求胜 不要一悔再悔(5)

So let's say for instance that you're on your way to your best friend's wedding and you're trying to get to the airport and you're stuck in terrible traffic, and you finally arrive at your gate and you've missed your flight. 比如,你在去你朋友婚礼的路上,机场的路上塞车,你最终到了登机口,却错过飞机了。 You're going to experience more regret in tha...

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TED演讲之败中求胜 不要一悔再悔(13)

Well it did. But it turns out, it doesn't remind me of the thing I thought it would; it reminds me constantly of something else instead. 不过确实是只是让我想起的不是我当初希望的;而常常是其他东西,它常常让我想起。 It actually reminds me of the most important lesson regret can teach us, which is also one of the most important lessons life teaches us. 关于遗憾的教训也是生...

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TED演讲:创意隐藏在哪里(1)

The Value of Nothing: Out of Nothing Comes Something. 无的价值:无中生有的可能。 That was an essay I wrote when I was 11 years old and I got a B+. 这是一篇我在十一岁时写的作文,当时我拿了个乙等。 What I'm going to talk about: nothing out of something, and how we create. 今天我要谈的是创作和无中生有的艺术。 And I'm gonna try and do that within the 18-minute time span ...

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TED演讲:你在电影里听到的都是假的(8)

So now we've spoken about on-screen sounds. But occasionally, the source of a sound cannot be seen. 那么,我们已经谈到了屏幕上的声音。但有时候,声源是看不到的。 That's what we call offscreen sounds, or "acousmatic." 我们称之为画外音,或者是“盲听”。 Acousmatic sounds — well, the term "acousmatic" comes from Pythagoras in ancient Greece, 盲听...

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TED演讲:和老年痴呆症说再见(3)

How many people here are 40 years old or older? You're afraid to admit it now. 在座的有多少人已经四十多岁了?你不想承认了吗? This initial step into the disease, this presence of amyloid plaques accumulating, can already be found in your brains. 老年痴呆症的起步,淀粉样斑块的累积,也许已经在你的大脑初步产生。 The only way we could be sure of this would be through a PET s...

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TED演讲:哪个国家对世界最有益(1)

I've been thinking a lot about the world recently and how it's changed over the last 20, 30, 40 years. 最近我常常思考我们的世界以及它在过去的20,30,40年里经历了何等的转变。 Twenty or 30 years ago, if a chicken caught a cold and sneezed and died in a remote village in East Asia, 20或30年前,如果在东亚一个遥远村落里,一只鸡患了感冒,打个喷嚏然后死了, it would have be...

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TED演讲:书呆子教你如何在线学习(6)

And then, in 2006, I met that guy. His name is Ze Frank. 然后,在2006年,我遇见了这个家伙。他叫泽·弗兰克。 I didn't actually meet him, just on the Internet. 其实我们没有真正见面,只是在网上。 Ze Frank was running, at the time, a show called "The Show with Ze Frank," and I discovered the show, 当时他在做一个名叫“泽·弗兰克秀”的节目,我发现了这个节目, and that wa...

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