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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&#39m 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&#39m gonna try and do that within the 18-min

We are all concerned with things that we see in the world that we are aware of.我们总是在意这世界上我们所感知的事物。We come to this point and say, what do I as an individual do?我们对自己说：我能做什么？Not all of us can go to Africa, or work at hospitals, so what do we do, if we have this moral response, this feeling?不是每个人都可以去非洲

Once I identified this question, it was all over the place.一旦你意识到这个问题，就发现它无所不在。I got these hints everywhere. And then, in a way, I knew that they had always been there.在哪里都能看到它的痕迹。同时我也知道，它们一直都在那里。And then writing, that&#39s what happens.在写作上就会有这些问题。I get these hints, these clues, and I realize that

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&#39s 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&#39m gonna find the

And this, then, led to my big questions. And they&#39re the same ones that I have today.这让我想到一个大问题。一些我今日仍然在想的问题。And they are: why do things happen, and how do things happen?为什么事情会发生，它们是怎么发生的？And the one my mother asked: how do I make things happen?和我母亲问的那句：我怎么让这些事情发生的？It&#39s a wonderful way to look

A big thing that I also think about is accidents.我也时常想到意外。And as I said, my mother did not believe in randomness. What is the nature of accidents?如我所说，我母亲从不相信偶然。那意外又是什么？And how are we going to assign what the responsibility and the causes are, outside of a court of law?对于那些法律以外的事件，我们又该如何处理面对它们的责任归属？

Now, what&#39s encapsulated in both these drowning metaphors -- actually, one of them is my mother&#39s interpretation,暗藏在这两个溺水故事中的比喻是其中一个说法来自我母亲，and it is a famous Chinese saying, because she said it to me: &quotsave a man from drowning, you are responsible to him for life.&quot中国人常说的“救一个溺水者，你便得为他的

There are also things, quite uncanny, which bring me information that will help me in the writing of the book.除此以外，还有一些离奇的事件在写作时为我带来了不同的写作资料。In this case, I was writing a story that included some kind of detail, period of history, a certain location.当时我正在写一个古代的故事，需要那个年代的历史和地理资料来补足故事中的细节。And I needed

Now in the nature area, we look at whether or not we are innately equipped with something,在天份的方面，我们必须要检视我们是否生来就有这天赋，perhaps in our brains, some abnormal chromosome that causes this muse-like effect.或者在我们的大脑里，是否有些一些不正常的染色体带来了这些像是灵感的效应。And some people would say that we&#39re born with it in some other

There is also the uncertainty principle, which is part of quantum mechanics, as I understand it.在量子力学中还有测不准原理，至少我想有。And this happens constantly in the writing.同样的事也时常发生在写作中。And there&#39s the terrible and dreaded observer effect, in which you&#39re looking for something,还有一种可怕的观者效应，当你在找寻一些事情的时候，and

Also, one of the principles of creativity is to have a little childhood trauma.创意的其中一项原则是拥有童年的心理创伤。And I had the usual kind that I think a lot of people had, and that is that, you know, I had expectations placed on me.我想我有的创伤和一般人一样，来自父母对子女过分热切的期望。That figure right there, by the way, figure right the

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