ted演講稿范文(通用35篇)
ted演講稿范文 篇1
擁抱他人,擁抱自己
embracing otherness. when i first heard this theme, i thought, well,embracing otherness is embracing myself. and the journey to that place ofunderstanding and acceptance has been an interesting one for me, and it's givenme an insight into the whole notion of self, which i think is worth sharing withyou today.
擁抱他類。當我第一次聽說這個主題時,我心想,擁抱他類不就是擁抱自己嗎。我個人懂得理解和接受他類的經(jīng)歷很有趣,讓我對于“自己”這個詞也有了新的認識,我想今天在這里和你們分享下我的心得體會。
we each have a self, but i don't think that we're born with one. you knowhow newborn babies believe they're part of everything; they're not separate?well that fundamental sense of oneness is lost on us very quickly. it's likethat initial stage is over -- oneness: infancy, unformed, primitive. it's nolonger valid or real. what is real is separateness, and at some point in earlybabyhood, the idea of self starts to form. our little portion of oneness isgiven a name, is told all kinds of things about itself, and these details,opinions and ideas become facts, which go towards building ourselves, ouridentity. and that self becomes the vehicle for navigating our social world. butthe self is a projection based on other people's projections. is it who wereally are? or who we really want to be, or should be?
我們每個人都有個自我,但并不是生來就如此的。你知道新生的寶寶們覺得他們是任何東西的一部分,而不是分裂的個體。這種本源上的“天人合一”感在我們出生后很快就不見了,就好像我們人生的第一個篇章--和諧統(tǒng)一:嬰兒,未成形,原始--結束了。它們似幻似影,而現(xiàn)實的世界是孤獨彼此分離的。而在孩童期的某段時間,我們開始形成自我這個觀點。宇宙中的小小個體有了自己的名字,有了自己的過去等等各種信息。這些關于自己的細節(jié),看法和觀點慢慢變成事實,成為我們身份的一部分。而那個自我,也變成我們人生路上前行的導航儀。然后,這個所謂的自我,是他人自我的映射,還是我們真實的自己呢?我們究竟想成為什么樣,應該成為什么樣的呢?
so this whole interaction with self and identity was a very difficult onefor me growing up. the self that i attempted to take out into the world wasrejected over and over again. and my panic at not having a self that fit, andthe confusion that came from my self being rejected, created an_iety, shame andhopelessness, which kind of defined me for a long time. but in retrospect, thedestruction of my self was so repetitive that i started to see a pattern. theself changed, got affected, broken, destroyed, but another one would evolve --sometimes stronger, sometimes hateful, sometimes not wanting to be there at all.the self was not constant. and how many times would my self have to die before irealized that it was never alive in the first place?
這個和自我打交道,尋找自己身份的過程在我的成長記憶中一點都不容易。我想成為的那些“自我”不斷被否定再否定,而我害怕自己無法融入周遭的環(huán)境,因被否定而引起的困惑讓我變得更加憂慮,感到羞恥和無望,在很長一段時間就是我存在狀態(tài)。然而回頭看,對自我的解構是那么頻繁,以至于我發(fā)現(xiàn)了這樣一種規(guī)律。自我是變化的,受他人影響,分裂或被打敗,而另一個自我會產生,這個自我可能更堅強,可能更可憎,有時你也不想變成那樣。所謂自我不是固定不變的。而我需要經(jīng)歷多少次自我的破碎重生才會明白其實自我從來沒有存在過?
i grew up on the coast of england in the '70s. my dad is white fromcornwall, and my mom is black from zimbabwe. even the idea of us as a family waschallenging to most people. but nature had its wicked way, and brown babies wereborn. but from about the age of five, i was aware that i didn't fit. i was theblack atheist kid in the all-white catholic school run by nuns. i was ananomaly, and my self was rooting around for definition and trying to plug in.because the self likes to fit, to see itself replicated, to belong. thatconfirms its e_istence and its importance. and it is important. it has ane_tremely important function. without it, we literally can't interface withothers. we can't hatch plans and climb that stairway of popularity, of success.but my skin color wasn't right. my hair wasn't right. my history wasn't right.my self became defined by otherness, which meant that, in that social world, ididn't really e_ist. and i was "other" before being anything else -- even beforebeing a girl. i was a noticeable nobody.
我在70年代英格蘭海邊長大,我的父親是康沃爾的白人,母親是津巴布韋的黑人。而想象我和父母是一家人對于其他人來說總是不太自然。自然有它自己的魔術,棕色皮膚的寶寶誕生了。但從我五歲開始,我就有種感覺我不是這個群體的。我是一個全白人天主教會學校里面黑皮膚無神論小孩。我與他人是不同的,而那個熱衷于歸屬的自我卻到處尋找方式尋找歸屬感。這種認同感讓自我感受到存在感和重要性,因此十分重要。這點是如此重要,如果沒有自我,我們根本無法與他人溝通。沒有它,我們無所適從,無法獲取成功或變得受人歡迎。但我的膚色不對,我的頭發(fā)不對,我的過去不對,我的一切都是另類定義的,在這個社會里,我其實并不真實存在。我首先是個異類,其次才是個女孩。我是可見卻毫無意義的人。
another world was opening up around this time: performance and dancing.that nagging dread of self-hood didn't e_ist when i was dancing. i'd literallylose myself. and i was a really good dancer. i would put all my emotionale_pression into my dancing. i could be in the movement in a way that i wasn'table to be in my real life, in myself.
這時候,另一個世界向我敞開了大門:舞蹈表演。那種關于自我的嘮叨恐懼在舞蹈時消失了,我放開四肢,也成為了一位不錯的舞者。我將所有的情緒都融入到舞蹈的動作中去,我可以在舞蹈中與自己相溶,盡管在現(xiàn)實生活中卻無法做到。
and at 16, i stumbled across another opportunity, and i earned my firstacting role in a film. i can hardly find the words to describe the peace i feltwhen i was acting. my dysfunctional self could actually plug in to another self,not my own, and it felt so good. it was the first time that i e_isted inside afully-functioning self -- one that i controlled, that i steered, that i gavelife to. but the shooting day would end, and i'd return to my gnarly, awkwardself.
16歲的時候,我遇到了另一個機會,第一部參演的電影。我無法用語言來表達在演戲的時候我所感受到的平和,我無處著落的自我可以與那個角色融為一體,而不是我自己。那感覺真棒。這是第一次我感覺到我擁有一個自我,我可以駕馭,令其富有盛名的自我。然而當拍攝結束,我又會回到自己粗糙不明,笨拙的自我。
by 19, i was a fully-fledged movie actor, but still searching fordefinition. i applied to read anthropology at university. dr. phyllis lee gaveme my interview, and she asked me, "how would you define race?" well, i thoughti had the answer to that one, and i said, "skin color." "so biology, genetics?"she said. "because, thandie, that's not accurate. because there's actually moregenetic difference between a black kenyan and a black ugandan than there isbetween a black kenyan and, say, a white norwegian. because we all stem fromafrica. so in africa, there's been more time to create genetic diversity." inother words, race has no basis in biological or scientific fact. on the onehand, result. right? on the other hand, my definition of self just lost a hugechunk of its credibility. but what was credible, what is biological andscientific fact, is that we all stem from africa -- in fact, from a woman calledmitochondrial eve who lived 160,000 years ago. and race is an illegitimateconcept which our selves have created based on fear and ignorance.
19歲的時候,我已經(jīng)是富有經(jīng)驗的專業(yè)電影演員,而我還是在尋找自我的定義。我申請了大學的人類學專業(yè)。phyllislee博士面試了我,她問我:“你怎么定義種族?”我覺得我很了解這個話題,我說:“膚色。”“那么生物上來說呢,例如遺傳基因?”她說,“thandie膚色并不全面,其實一個肯尼亞黑人和烏干達黑人之間基因差異比一個肯尼亞黑人和挪威白人之間差異要更多。因為我們都是從非洲來的,所以在非洲,基因變異演化的時間是最久的!睋Q句話說,種族在生物學或任何科學上都沒有事實根據(jù)。另一方面,我對于自我的定義瞬時失去了一大片基礎。但那就是生物學事實,我們都是非洲后裔,一位在160 0__年前的偉大女性mitochondrialeve的后人。而種族這個無效的概念是我們基于恐懼和無知自己捏造出來的。
strangely, these revelations didn't cure my low self-esteem, that feelingof otherness. my desire to disappear was still very powerful. i had a degreefrom cambridge; i had a thriving career, but my self was a car crash, and iwound up with bulimia and on a therapist's couch. and of course i did. i stillbelieved my self was all i was. i still valued self-worth above all other worth,and what was there to suggest otherwise? we've created entire value systems anda physical reality to support the worth of self. look at the industry forself-image and the jobs it creates, the revenue it turns over. we'd be right inassuming that the self is an actual living thing. but it's not. it's aprojection which our clever brains create in order to cheat ourselves from thereality of death.
奇怪的是,這個發(fā)現(xiàn)并沒有治好我的自卑,那種被排擠的感覺。我還是那么強烈地想要離開消失。我從劍橋拿到了學位,我有份充滿發(fā)展的工作,然而我的自我還是一團糟,我得了催吐病不得不接受治療師的幫助。我還是相信自我是我的全部。我還是堅信“自我”的價值甚過一切。而且我們身處的世界就是如此,我們的整個價值系統(tǒng)和現(xiàn)實環(huán)境都是在服務“自我”的價值。看看不同行業(yè)里面對于自我的塑造,看看它們創(chuàng)造的那些工作,產出的那些利潤。我們甚至必須相信自我是真實存在的。但它們不是,自我不過是我們聰明的腦袋假想出來騙自己不去思考死亡這個話題的幌子。
but there is something that can give the self ultimate and infiniteconnection -- and that thing is oneness, our essence. the self's struggle forauthenticity and definition will never end unless it's connected to its creator-- to you and to me. and that can happen with awareness -- awareness of thereality of oneness and the projection of self-hood. for a start, we can thinkabout all the times when we do lose ourselves. it happens when i dance, when i'macting. i'm earthed in my essence, and my self is suspended. in those moments,i'm connected to everything -- the ground, the air, the sounds, the energy fromthe audience. all my senses are alert and alive in much the same way as aninfant might feel -- that feeling of oneness.
但其實我們的終極自我其實是我們的本源,合一。掙扎自我是否真實,究竟是什么永遠沒有終結,除非它和賦予它意義的創(chuàng)造者合一,就是你和我。而這點當我們意識到現(xiàn)實是你中有我,我中有你,和諧統(tǒng)一,而自我是種假象時就會體會到了。我們可以想想,什么時候我們是身心統(tǒng)一的,例如說我跳舞,表演的時候,我和我的本源連結,而我的自我被拋在一邊。那時,我和身邊的一切--空氣,大地,聲音,觀眾的反饋都連結在一起。我的知覺是敏銳和鮮活的,就像初生的嬰兒那樣,合一。
and when i'm acting a role, i inhabit another self, and i give it life forawhile, because when the self is suspended so is divisiveness and judgment. andi've played everything from a vengeful ghost in the time of slavery to secretaryof state in __. and no matter how other these selves might be, they're allrelated in me. and i honestly believe the key to my success as an actor and myprogress as a person has been the very lack of self that used to make me feel soan_ious and insecure. i always wondered why i could feel others' pain so deeply,why i could recognize the somebody in the nobody. it's because i didn't have aself to get in the way. i thought i lacked substance, and the fact that i couldfeel others' meant that i had nothing of myself to feel. the thing that was asource of shame was actually a source of enlightenment.
當我在演戲的時候,我讓另一個自我住在我體內,我代表它行動。當我的自我被拋開,緊隨的分歧和主觀判斷也消失了。我曾經(jīng)扮演過奴隸時代的復仇鬼魂,也扮演過__年的國務卿。不管他們這些自我是怎樣的,他們都在那時與我相連。而我也深信作為演員,我的成功,或是作為個體,我的成長都是源于我缺乏“自我”,那種缺乏曾經(jīng)讓我非常憂慮和不安。我總是不明白為什么我會那么深地感受到他人的痛苦,為什么我可以從不知名的人身上看出他人的印痕。是因為我沒有所謂的自我來左右我感受的信息吧。我以為我缺少些什么,我以為我對他人的理解是因為我缺乏自我。那個曾經(jīng)是我深感羞恥的東西其實是種啟示。
and when i realized and really understood that my self is a projection andthat it has a function, a funny thing happened. i stopped giving it so muchauthority. i give it its due. i take it to therapy. i've become very familiarwith its dysfunctional behavior. but i'm not ashamed of my self. in fact, irespect my self and its function. and over time and with practice, i've tried tolive more and more from my essence. and if you can do that, incredible thingshappen.
當我真的理解我的自我不過是種映射,是種工具,一件奇怪的事情發(fā)生了。我不再讓它過多控制我的生活。我學習管理它,像把它帶去看醫(yī)生一樣,我很熟悉那些因自我而失調的舉動。我不因自我而羞恥,事實上,我很尊敬我的自我和它的功能。而隨著時間過去,我的技術也更加熟練,我可以更多的和我的本源共存。如果你愿意嘗試,不可以思議的事情也會發(fā)生在你身上。
i was in congo in february, dancing and celebrating with women who'vesurvived the destruction of their selves in literally unthinkable ways --destroyed because other brutalized, psychopathic selves all over that beautifulland are fueling our selves' addiction to ipods, pads, and bling, which furtherdisconnect ourselves from ever feeling their pain, their suffering, their death.because, hey, if we're all living in ourselves and mistaking it for life, thenwe're devaluing and desensitizing life. and in that disconnected state, yeah, wecan build factory farms with no windows, destroy marine life and use rape as aweapon of war. so here's a note to self: the cracks have started to show in ourconstructed world, and oceans will continue to surge through the cracks, and oiland blood, rivers of it.
今年二月,我在剛果和一群女性一起跳舞和慶祝,她們都是經(jīng)歷過各種無法想象事情“自我”遍體鱗傷的人們,那些備受摧殘,心理變態(tài)的自我充斥在這片美麗的土地,而我們仍癡迷地追逐著ipod,pad等各種閃亮的東西,將我們與他們的痛苦,死亡隔得更遠。如果我們各自生活在自我中,并無以為這就是生活,那么我們是在貶低和遠離生命的意義。在這種脫節(jié)的狀態(tài)中,我們是可以建設沒有窗戶的工廠,破壞海洋生態(tài),將__作為戰(zhàn)爭的工具。為我們的自我做個解釋:這是看似完善的世界里的裂痕,海洋,河流,石油和鮮血正不斷地從縫中涌出。
crucially, we haven't been figuring out how to live in oneness with theearth and every other living thing. we've just been insanely trying to figureout how to live with each other -- billions of each other. only we're not livingwith each other; our crazy selves are living with each other and perpetuating anepidemic of disconnection.
關鍵的是,我們還沒有明白如何和自然以及其他所有生物和諧地共處。我們只是瘋狂地想和其他人溝通,幾十億其他人。只有當我們不在和世界合一的時候,我們瘋狂的自我卻互相憐惜,并永遠繼續(xù)這場相互隔絕的疫癥。
let's live with each other and take it a breath at a time. if we can getunder that heavy self, light a torch of awareness, and find our essence, ourconnection to the infinite and every other living thing. we knew it from the daywe were born. let's not be freaked out by our bountiful nothingness. it's more areality than the ones our selves have created. imagine what kind of e_istence wecan have if we honor inevitable death of self, appreciate the privilege of lifeand marvel at what comes ne_t. simple awareness is where it begins.
讓我們共生共榮,并不要太過激進著急。試著放下沉重的自我,點亮知覺的火把,尋找我們的本源,我們與萬事萬物之間的聯(lián)系。我們初生時就懂得這個道理的。不要被我們內心豐富的空白嚇到,這比我們虛構的自我要真實。想象如果你能接受自我并不存在,你想要如何生活,感恩生命的可貴和未來的驚奇。簡單的覺醒就是開始。
thank you for listening.
(applause) 謝謝。
ted演講稿范文 篇2
I was one of the only kids in college who had a reason to go to the P.O.bo_ at the end of the day, and that was mainly because my mother has neverbelieved in email, in Facebook, in te_ting or cell phones in general. And sowhile other kids were BBM-ing their parents, I was literally waiting by themailbo_ to get a letter from home to see how the weekend had gone, which was alittle frustrating when Grandma was in the hospital, but I was just looking forsome sort of scribble, some unkempt cursive from my mother.
And so when I moved to New York City after college and got completelysucker-punched in the face by depression, I did the only thing I could think ofat the time. I wrote those same kinds of letters that my mother had written mefor strangers, and tucked them all throughout the city, dozens and dozens ofthem. I left them everywhere, in cafes and in libraries, at the U.N.,everywhere. I blogged about those letters and the days when they were necessary,and I posed a kind of crazy promise to the Internet: that if you asked me for ahand-written letter, I would write you one, no questions asked. Overnight, myinbo_ morphed into this harbor of heartbreak -- a single mother in Sacramento, agirl being bullied in rural Kansas, all asking me, a 22-year-old girl who barelyeven knew her own coffee order, to write them a love letter and give them areason to wait by the mailbo_.
Well, today I fuel a global organization that is fueled by those trips tothe mailbo_, fueled by the ways in which we can harness social media like neverbefore to write and mail strangers letters when they need them most, but most ofall, fueled by crates of mail like this one, my trusty mail crate, filled withthe scriptings of ordinary people, strangers writing letters to other strangersnot because they're ever going to meet and laugh over a cup of coffee, butbecause they have found one another by way of letter-writing.
But, you know, the thing that always gets me about these letters is thatmost of them have been written by people that have never known themselves lovedon a piece of paper. They could not tell you about the ink of their own loveletters. They're the ones from my generation, the ones of us that have grown upinto a world where everything is paperless, and where some of our bestconversations have happened upon a screen. We have learned to diary our painonto Facebook, and we speak swiftly in 140 characters or less.
But what if it's not about efficiency this time? I was on the subwayyesterday with this mail crate, which is a conversation starter, let me tellyou. If you ever need one, just carry one of these. (Laughter) And a man juststared at me, and he was like, "Well, why don't you use the Internet?" And Ithought, "Well, sir, I am not a strategist, nor am I specialist. I am merely astoryteller." And so I could tell you about a woman whose husband has just comehome from Afghanistan, and she is having a hard time unearthing this thingcalled conversation, and so she tucks love letters throughout the house as a wayto say, "Come back to me. Find me when you can." Or a girl who decides that sheis going to leave love letters around her campus in Dubuque, Iowa, only to findher efforts ripple-effected the ne_t day when she walks out onto the quad andfinds love letters hanging from the trees, tucked in the bushes and the benches.Or the man who decides that he is going to take his life, uses Facebook as a wayto say goodbye to friends and family. Well, tonight he sleeps safely with astack of letters just like this one tucked beneath his pillow, scripted bystrangers who were there for him when.
These are the kinds of stories that convinced me that letter-writing willnever again need to flip back her hair and talk about efficiency, because she isan art form now, all the parts of her, the signing, the scripting, the mailing,the doodles in the margins. The mere fact that somebody would even just sitdown, pull out a piece of paper and think about someone the whole way through,with an intention that is so much harder to unearth when the browser is up andthe iPhone is pinging and we've got si_ conversations rolling in at once, thatis an art form that does not fall down to the Goliath of "get faster," no matterhow many social networks we might join. We still clutch close these letters toour chest, to the words that speak louder than loud, when we turn pages intopalettes to say the things that we have needed to say, the words that we haveneeded to write, to sisters and brothers and even to strangers, for far toolong. Thank you.
ted演講稿范文 篇3
簡介:殘奧會短跑冠軍aimeemullins天生沒有腓骨,從小就要學習靠義肢走路和奔跑。如今,她不僅是短跑選手、演員、模特,還是一位穩(wěn)健的演講者。她不喜歡字典中“disabled”這個詞,因為負面詞匯足以毀掉一個人。但是,坦然面對不幸,你會發(fā)現(xiàn)等待你的是更多的機會。
i'd like to share with you a discovery that i made a few months ago whilewriting an article for italian wired. i always keep my thesaurus handy wheneveri'm writing anything, but i'd already finished editing the piece, and i realizedthat i had never once in my life looked up the word "disabled" to see what i'dfind.
let me read you the entry. "disabled, adjective: crippled, helpless,useless, wrecked, stalled, maimed, wounded, mangled, lame, mutilated, run-down,worn-out, weakened, impotent, castrated, paralyzed, handicapped, senile,decrepit, laid-up, done-up, done-for, done-in cracked-up, counted-out; see alsohurt, useless and weak. antonyms, healthy, strong, capable." i was reading thislist out loud to a friend and at first was laughing, it was so ludicrous, buti'd just gotten past "mangled," and my voice broke, and i had to stop andcollect myself from the emotional shock and impact that the assault from thesewords unleashed.
you know, of course, this is my raggedy old thesaurus so i'm thinking thismust be an ancient print date, right? but, in fact, the print date was the early1980s, when i would have been starting primary school and forming anunderstanding of myself outside the family unit and as related to the other kidsand the world around me. and, needless to say, thank god i wasn't using athesaurus back then. i mean, from this entry, it would seem that i was born intoa world that perceived someone like me to have nothing positive whatsoever goingfor them, when in fact, today i'm celebrated for the opportunities andadventures my life has procured.
so, i immediately went to look up the __ online edition, e_pecting to finda revision worth noting. here's the updated version of this entry.unfortunately, it's not much better. i find the last two words under "nearantonyms," particularly unsettling: "whole" and "wholesome."
so, it's not just about the words. it's what we believe about people whenwe name them with these words. it's about the values behind the words, and howwe construct those values. our language affects our thinking and how we view theworld and how we view other people. in fact, many ancient societies, includingthe greeks and the romans, believed that to utter a curse verbally was sopowerful, because to say the thing out loud brought it into e_istence. so, whatreality do we want to call into e_istence: a person who is limited, or a personwho's empowered? by casually doing something as simple as naming a person, achild, we might be putting lids and casting shadows on their power. wouldn't wewant to open doors for them instead?
one such person who opened doors for me was my childhood doctor at the a.i.dupont institute in wilmington, delaware. his name was dr. pizzutillo, anitalian american, whose name, apparently, was too difficult for most americansto pronounce, so he went by dr. p. and dr. p always wore really colorful bowties and had the very perfect disposition to work with children.
i loved almost everything about my time spent at this hospital, with thee_ception of my physical therapy sessions. i had to do what seemed likeinnumerable repetitions of e_ercises with these thick, elastic bands --different colors, you know -- to help build up my leg muscles, and i hated thesebands more than anything -- i hated them, had names for them. i hated them. and,you know, i was already bargaining, as a five year-old child, with dr. p to tryto get out of doing these e_ercises, unsuccessfully, of course. and, one day, hecame in to my session -- e_haustive and unforgiving, these sessions -- and hesaid to me, "wow. aimee, you are such a strong and powerful little girl, i thinkyou're going to break one of those bands. when you do break it, i'm going togive you a hundred bucks."
now, of course, this was a simple ploy on dr. p's part to get me to do thee_ercises i didn't want to do before the prospect of being the richestfive-year-old in the second floor ward, but what he effectively did for me wasreshape an awful daily occurrence into a new and promising e_perience for me.and i have to wonder today to what e_tent his vision and his declaration of meas a strong and powerful little girl shaped my own view of myself as aninherently strong, powerful and athletic person well into the future.
this is an e_ample of how adults in positions of power can ignite the powerof a child. but, in the previous instances of those thesaurus entries, ourlanguage isn't allowing us to evolve into the reality that we would all want,the possibility of an individual to see themselves as capable. our languagehasn't caught up with the changes in our society, many of which have beenbrought about by technology. certainly, from a medical standpoint, my legs,laser surgery for vision impairment, titanium knees and hip replacements foraging bodies that are allowing people to more fully engage with their abilities,and move beyond the limits that nature has imposed on them -- not to mentionsocial networking platforms allow people to self-identify, to claim their owndescriptions of themselves, so they can go align with global groups of their ownchoosing. so, perhaps technology is revealing more clearly to us now what hasalways been a truth: that everyone has something rare and powerful to offer oursociety, and that the human ability to adapt is our greatest asset.
the human ability to adapt, it's an interesting thing, because people havecontinually wanted to talk to me about overcoming adversity, and i'm going tomake an admission: this phrase never sat right with me, and i always felt uneasytrying to answer people's questions about it, and i think i'm starting to figureout why. implicit in this phrase of "overcoming adversity" is the idea thatsuccess, or happiness, is about emerging on the other side of a challenginge_perience unscathed or unmarked by the e_perience, as if my successes in lifehave come about from an ability to sidestep or circumnavigate the presumedpitfalls of a life with prosthetics, or what other people perceive as mydisability. but, in fact, we are changed. we are marked, of course, by achallenge, whether physically, emotionally or both. and i'm going to suggestthat this is a good thing. adversity isn't an obstacle that we need to getaround in order to resume living our life. it's part of our life. and i tend tothink of it like my shadow. sometimes i see a lot of it, sometimes there's verylittle, but it's always with me. and, certainly, i'm not trying to diminish theimpact, the weight, of a person's struggle.
there is adversity and challenge in life, and it's all very real andrelative to every single person, but the question isn't whether or not you'regoing to meet adversity, but how you're going to meet it. so, our responsibilityis not simply shielding those we care for from adversity, but preparing them tomeet it well. and we do a disservice to our kids when we make them feel thatthey're not equipped to adapt. there's an important difference and distinctionbetween the objective medical fact of my being an amputee and the subjectivesocietal opinion of whether or not i'm disabled. and, truthfully, the only realand consistent disability i've had to confront is the world ever thinking that icould be described by those definitions.
in our desire to protect those we care about by giving them the cold, hardtruth about their medical prognosis, or, indeed, a prognosis on the e_pectedquality of their life, we have to make sure that we don't put the first brick ina wall that will actually disable someone. perhaps the e_isting model of onlylooking at what is broken in you and how do we fi_ it, serves to be moredisabling to the individual than the pathology itself.
by not treating the wholeness of a person, by not acknowledging theirpotency, we are creating another ill on top of whatever natural struggle theymight have. we are effectively grading someone's worth to our community. so weneed to see through the pathology and into the range of human capability. and,most importantly, there's a partnership between those perceived deficiencies andour greatest creative ability. so it's not about devaluing, or negating, thesemore trying times as something we want to avoid or sweep under the rug, butinstead to find those opportunities wrapped in the adversity. so maybe the ideai want to put out there is not so much overcoming adversity as it is openingourselves up to it, embracing it, grappling with it, to use a wrestling term,maybe even dancing with it. and, perhaps, if we see adversity as natural,consistent and useful, we're less burdened by the presence of it.
this year we celebrate the 200th birthday of charles darwin, and it was 150years ago, when writing about evolution, that darwin illustrated, i think, atruth about the human character. to paraphrase: it's not the strongest of thespecies that survives, nor is it the most intelligent that survives; it is theone that is most adaptable to change. conflict is the genesis of creation. fromdarwin's work, amongst others, we can recognize that the human ability tosurvive and flourish is driven by the struggle of the human spirit throughconflict into transformation. so, again, transformation, adaptation, is ourgreatest human skill. and, perhaps, until we're tested, we don't know what we'remade of. maybe that's what adversity gives us: a sense of self, a sense of ourown power. so, we can give ourselves a gift. we can re-imagine adversity assomething more than just tough times. maybe we can see it as change. adversityis just change that we haven't adapted ourselves to yet.
i think the greatest adversity that we've created for ourselves is thisidea of normalcy. now, who's normal? there's no normal. there's common, there'stypical. there's no normal, and would you want to meet that poor, beige personif they e_isted? (laughter) i don't think so. if we can change this paradigmfrom one of achieving normalcy to one of possibility -- or potency, to be even alittle bit more dangerous -- we can release the power of so many more children,and invite them to engage their rare and valuable abilities with thecommunity.
anthropologists tell us that the one thing we as humans have alwaysrequired of our community members is to be of use, to be able to contribute.there's evidence that neanderthals, 60,000 years ago, carried their elderly andthose with serious physical injury, and perhaps it's because the life e_perienceof survival of these people proved of value to the community. they didn't viewthese people as broken and useless; they were seen as rare and valuable.
a few years ago, i was in a food market in the town where i grew up in thatred zone in northeastern pennsylvania, and i was standing over a bushel oftomatoes. it was summertime: i had shorts on. i hear this guy, his voice behindme say, "well, if it isn't aimee mullins." and i turn around, and it's thisolder man. i have no idea who he is.
and i said, "i'm sorry, sir, have we met? i don't remember meetingyou."
he said, "well, you wouldn't remember meeting me. i mean, when we met i wasdelivering you from your mother's womb." (laughter) oh, that guy. and, but ofcourse, actually, it did click.
this man was dr. kean, a man that i had only known about through mymother's stories of that day, because, of course, typical fashion, i arrivedlate for my birthday by two weeks. and so my mother's prenatal physician hadgone on vacation, so the man who delivered me was a complete stranger to myparents. and, because i was born without the fibula bones, and had feet turnedin, and a few toes in this foot and a few toes in that, he had to be the bearer-- this stranger had to be the bearer of bad news.
he said to me, "i had to give this prognosis to your parents that you wouldnever walk, and you would never have the kind of mobility that other kids haveor any kind of life of independence, and you've been making liar out of me eversince." (laughter) (applause)
the e_traordinary thing is that he said he had saved newspaper clippingsthroughout my whole childhood, whether winning a second grade spelling bee,marching with the girl scouts, you know, the halloween parade, winning mycollege scholarship, or any of my sports victories, and he was using it, andintegrating it into teaching resident students, med students from hahnemannmedical school and hershey medical school. and he called this part of the coursethe _ factor, the potential of the human will. no prognosis can account for howpowerful this could be as a determinant in the quality of someone's life. anddr. kean went on to tell me, he said, "in my e_perience, unless repeatedly toldotherwise, and even if given a modicum of support, if left to their own devices,a child will achieve."
see, dr. kean made that shift in thinking. he understood that there's adifference between the medical condition and what someone might do with it. andthere's been a shift in my thinking over time, in that, if you had asked me at15 years old, if i would have traded prosthetics for flesh-and-bone legs, iwouldn't have hesitated for a second. i aspired to that kind of normalcy backthen. but if you ask me today, i'm not so sure. and it's because of thee_periences i've had with them, not in spite of the e_periences i've had withthem. and perhaps this shift in me has happened because i've been e_posed tomore people who have opened doors for me than those who have put lids and castshadows on me.
see, all you really need is one person to show you the epiphany of your ownpower, and you're off. if you can hand somebody the key to their own power --the human spirit is so receptive -- if you can do that and open a door forsomeone at a crucial moment, you are educating them in the best sense. you'reteaching them to open doors for themselves. in fact, the e_act meaning of theword "educate" comes from the root word "educe." it means "to bring forth whatis within, to bring out potential." so again, which potential do we want tobring out?
there was a case study done in 1960s britain, when they were moving fromgrammar schools to comprehensive schools. it's called the streaming trials. wecall it "tracking" here in the states. it's separating students from a, b, c, dand so on. and the "a students" get the tougher curriculum, the best teachers,etc. well, they took, over a three-month period, d-level students, gave thema's, told them they were "a's," told them they were bright, and at the end ofthis three-month period, they were performing at a-level.
and, of course, the heartbreaking, flip side of this study, is that theytook the "a students" and told them they were "d's." and that's what happened atthe end of that three-month period. those who were still around in school,besides the people who had dropped out. a crucial part of this case study wasthat the teachers were duped too. the teachers didn't know a switch had beenmade. they were simply told, "these are the 'a-students,' these are the'd-students.'" and that's how they went about teaching them and treatingthem.
so, i think that the only true disability is a crushed spirit, a spiritthat's been crushed doesn't have hope, it doesn't see beauty, it no longer hasour natural, childlike curiosity and our innate ability to imagine. if instead,we can bolster a human spirit to keep hope, to see beauty in themselves andothers, to be curious and imaginative, then we are truly using our power well.when a spirit has those qualities, we are able to create new realities and newways of being.
i'd like to leave you with a poem by a fourteenth-century persian poetnamed hafiz that my friend, jacques dembois told me about, and the poem iscalled "the god who only knows four words": "every child has known god, not thegod of names, not the god of don'ts, but the god who only knows four words andkeeps repeating them, saying, 'come dance with me. come, dance with me. come,dance with me.'"
thank you. (applause)
ted演講稿范文 篇4
chinese restaurants have played an important role in american history, as amatter of fact. the cuban missile crisis was resolved in a chinese restaurantcalled yenching palace in washington, d.c., which unfortunately is closed now,and about to be turned into walgreen's. and the house that john wilkes boothplanned the assassination of abraham lincoln is actually also now a chineserestaurant called wok 'n roll, on h street in washington.
事實上,中國餐館在美國歷史上發(fā)揮了很重要的作用。古巴導彈危機是在華盛頓一家名叫“燕京館”的中餐館里解決的。很不幸,這家餐館現(xiàn)在關門了,即將被改建成沃爾格林連鎖藥店。而約翰·威爾克斯·布斯刺殺林肯總統(tǒng)的那所房子現(xiàn)在也成了一家中餐館,就是位于華盛頓的“鍋和卷”。
and if you think about it, a lot of the foods that you think of or we thinkof or americans think of as chinese food are barely recognizable to chinese, fore_ample: beef with broccoli, egg rolls, general tso's chicken, fortune cookies,chop suey, the take-out bo_es.
如果你仔細想想,就會發(fā)現(xiàn)很多你們所認為或我們所認為,或是美國人所認為的中國食物,中國人并不認識。比如西蘭花牛肉、蛋卷、左宗棠雞、幸運餅干、雜碎、外賣盒子。
so, the interesting question is, how do you go from fortune cookies beingsomething that is japanese to being something that is chinese? well, the shortanswer is, we locked up all the japanese during world war ii, including thosethat made fortune cookies, so that's the time when the chinese moved in, kind ofsaw a market opportunity and took over.
所以有趣的是,幸運餅干是怎么從日本的東西變成中國的東西的呢?簡單地說,我們在二戰(zhàn)時扣押了所以的日本人,包括那些做幸運餅干的。這時候,中國人來了,看到了商機,自然就據(jù)為己有了。
general tso's chicken -- which, by the way, in the us naval academy iscalled admiral tso's chicken. i love this dish. the original name in my book wasactually called the long march of general tso, and he has marched very farindeed, because he is sweet, he is fried, and he is chicken -- all things thatamericans love.
左宗棠雞,在美國海軍軍校被稱為左司令雞。我很喜歡這道菜。在我的書里,這道菜實際上叫左將軍的長征,它確實在美國很受歡迎,因為它是甜的,油炸的,是雞肉做的——全部都是美國人的最愛。
so, you know, i realized when i was there, general tso is kind of a lotlike colonel sanders in america, in that he's known for chicken and not war. butin china, this guy's actually known for war and not chicken.
我意識到左宗棠將軍有點像美國的桑德斯上校(肯德基創(chuàng)始人),因為他是因雞肉而出名的而不是戰(zhàn)爭。而在中國,左宗棠確實是因為戰(zhàn)爭而不是雞肉聞名的。
so it's kind of part of the phenomenon i called spontaneousself-organization, right, where, like in ant colonies, where little decisionsmade by -- on the micro-level actually have a big impact on the macro-level.
這就有點像我所說的自發(fā)組織現(xiàn)象。就像在螞蟻群中,在微觀層面上做的小小決定會在宏觀層面上產生巨大的影響。
and the great innovation of chicken mcnuggets was not nuggetfying them,because that's kind of an easy concept, but the trick behind chicken mcnuggetswas, they were able to remove the chicken from the bone in a cost-effectivemanner, which is why it took so long for other people to copy them.
麥樂雞塊的發(fā)明并沒有給他們帶來切實收益,因為這個想法很簡單,但麥樂雞背后的技巧是如何用一種劃算的方式來把雞肉從骨頭上剔出來。這就是為什么過了這么久才有人模仿他們。
we can think of chinese restaurants perhaps as linu_: sort of an opensource thing, right, where ideas from one person can be copied and propagatedacross the entire system, that there can be specialized versions of chinesefood, you know, depending on the region.
我們可以把中餐館比作linu_:一種開源系統(tǒng)。一個人的想法可以在整個系統(tǒng)中被復制,被普及。在不同的地區(qū),就有特別版本的中國菜。
ted演講稿范文 篇5
in a funny, rapid-fire 4 minutes, ale_is ohanian of reddit tells thereal-life fable of one humpback whale's rise to web stardom. the lesson ofmister splashy pants is a shoo-in classic for meme-makers and marketers in thefacebook age.
這段有趣的4分鐘演講,來自 reddit 網(wǎng)站創(chuàng)始人 ale_isohanian。他講了一個座頭鯨在網(wǎng)上一夜成名的真實故事!盀R水先生”的故事是臉書時代米姆(小編注:根據(jù)《牛津英語詞典》,meme被定義為:“文化的基本單位,通過非遺傳的方式,特別是模仿而得到傳遞!)制造者和傳播者共同創(chuàng)造的經(jīng)典案例。
演講的開頭,ale_is ohanian介紹了“濺水先生”的故事!熬G色和平”環(huán)保組織為了阻止日本的捕鯨行為,在一只鯨魚體內植入新片,并發(fā)起一個為這只座頭鯨起名的活動!熬G色和平”組織希望起低調奢華有內涵的名字,但經(jīng)過reddit的宣傳和推動,票數(shù)最多的卻是非常不高大上的“濺水先生”這個名字。經(jīng)過幾番折騰,“綠色和平”接受了這個名字,并且這一行動成功阻止了日本捕鯨活動。
演講內容節(jié)選(ale_ ohanian 從社交網(wǎng)絡的角度分析這個事件)
and actually, redditors in the internet community were happy toparticipate, but they weren't whale lovers. a few of them certainly were. butwe're talking about a lot of people who were just really interested and reallycaught up in this great meme, and in fact someone from greenpeace came back onthe site and thanked reddit for its participation. but this wasn't really out ofaltruism. this was just out of interest in doing something cool.
事實上,reddit的社區(qū)用戶們很高興參與其中,但他們并非是鯨魚愛好者。當然,他們中的一小部分或許是。我們看到的是一群人積極地去參與到這個米姆(社會活動)中,實際上“綠色和平”中的人登陸 ,感謝大家的參與。網(wǎng)友們這么做并非是完全的利他主義。他們只是覺得做這件事很酷。
and this is kind of how the internet works. this is that great big secret.because the internet provides this level playing field. your link is just asgood as your link, which is just as good as my link. as long as we have abrowser, anyone can get to any website no matter how big a budget you have.
這就是互聯(lián)網(wǎng)的運作方式。這就是我說的秘密。因為互聯(lián)網(wǎng)提供的是一個機會均等平臺。你分享的鏈接跟他分享的鏈接一樣有趣,我分享的鏈接也不賴。只要我們有一個瀏覽器,不論你的財富幾何,你都可以去到想瀏覽的頁面。
the other important thing is that it costs nothing to get that contentonline now. there are so many great publishing tools that are available, it onlytakes a few minutes of your time now to actually produce something. and the costof iteration is so cheap that you might as well give it a go.
另外,從互聯(lián)網(wǎng)獲取內容不需要任何成本。如今,互聯(lián)網(wǎng)有各種各樣的發(fā)布工具,你只需要幾分鐘就可以成為內容的提供者。這種行為的成本非常低,你也可以試試。
and if you do, be genuine about it. be honest. be up front. and one of thegreat lessons that greenpeace actually learned was that it's okay to losecontrol. the final message that i want to share with all of you -- that you cando well online. if you want to succeed you've got to be okay to just losecontrol. thank you.
如果你真的決定試試,那么請真摯、誠實、坦率地去做!熬G色和平”在這個故事中獲得的教訓是,有時候失控并不一定是壞事。最后我想告訴你們的是——你可以在網(wǎng)絡上做得很好。如果你想在網(wǎng)絡上成功,你得經(jīng)得起一點失控。謝謝。
ted演講稿范文 篇6
when i was seven years old and my sister was just five years old, we wereplaying on top of a bunk bed. i was two years older than my sister at the time-- i mean, i'm two years older than her now -- but at the time it meant she hadto do everything that i wanted to do, and i wanted to play war. so we were up ontop of our bunk beds. and on one side of the bunk bed, i had put out all of myg.i. joe soldiers and weaponry. and on the other side were all my sister's mylittle ponies ready for a cavalry charge.
there are differing accounts of what actually happened that afternoon, butsince my sister is not here with us today, let me tell you the true story --(laughter) -- which is my sister's a little bit on the clumsy side. somehow,without any help or push from her older brother at all, suddenly amy disappearedoff of the top of the bunk bed and landed with this crash on the floor. now inervously peered over the side of the bed to see what had befallen my fallensister and saw that she had landed painfully on her hands and knees on all fourson the ground.
i was nervous because my parents had charged me with making sure that mysister and i played as safely and as quietly as possible. and seeing as how ihad accidentally broken amy's arm just one week before ... (laughter) ...heroically pushing her out of the way of an oncoming imaginary sniper bullet,(laughter) for which i have yet to be thanked, i was trying as hard as i could-- she didn't even see it coming -- i was trying as hard as i could to be on mybest behavior.
and i saw my sister's face, this wail of pain and suffering and surprisethreatening to erupt from her mouth and threatening to wake my parents from thelong winter's nap for which they had settled. so i did the only thing my littlefrantic seven year-old brain could think to do to avert this tragedy. and if youhave children, you've seen this hundreds of times before. i said, "amy, amy,wait. don't cry. don't cry. did you see how you landed? no human lands on allfours like that. amy, i think this means you're a unicorn."
(laughter)
now that was cheating, because there was nothing in the world my sisterwould want more than not to be amy the hurt five year-old little sister, but amythe special unicorn. of course, this was an option that was open to her brain atno point in the past. and you could see how my poor, manipulated sister facedconflict, as her little brain attempted to devote resources to feeling the painand suffering and surprise she just e_perienced, or contemplating her new-foundidentity as a unicorn. and the latter won out. instead of crying, instead ofceasing our play, instead of waking my parents, with all the negativeconsequences that would have ensued for me, instead a smile spread across herface and she scrambled right back up onto the bunk bed with all the grace of ababy unicorn ... (laughter) ... with one broken leg.
what we stumbled across at this tender age of just five and seven -- we hadno idea at the time -- was something that was going be at the vanguard of ascientific revolution occurring two decades later in the way that we look at thehuman brain. what we had stumbled across is something called positivepsychology, which is the reason that i'm here today and the reason that i wakeup every morning.
when i first started talking about this research outside of academia, outwith companies and schools, the very first thing they said to never do is tostart your talk with a graph. the very first thing i want to do is start my talkwith a graph. this graph looks boring, but this graph is the reason i gete_cited and wake up every morning. and this graph doesn't even mean anything;it's fake data. what we found is --
(laughter)
if i got this data back studying you here in the room, i would be thrilled,because there's very clearly a trend that's going on there, and that means thati can get published, which is all that really matters. the fact that there's oneweird red dot that's up above the curve, there's one weirdo in the room -- iknow who you are, i saw you earlier -- that's no problem. that's no problem, asmost of you know, because i can just delete that dot. i can delete that dotbecause that's clearly a measurement error. and we know that's a measurementerror because it's messing up my data.
so one of the very first things we teach people in economics and statisticsand business and psychology courses is how, in a statistically valid way, do weeliminate the weirdos. how do we eliminate the outliers so we can find the lineof best fit? which is fantastic if i'm trying to find out how many advil theaverage person should be taking -- two. but if i'm interested in potential, ifi'm interested in your potential, or for happiness or productivity or energy orcreativity, what we're doing is we're creating the cult of the average withscience.
if i asked a question like, "how fast can a child learn how to read in aclassroom?" scientists change the answer to "how fast does the average childlearn how to read in that classroom?" and then we tailor the class right towardsthe average. now if you fall below the average on this curve, then psychologistsget thrilled, because that means you're either depressed or you have a disorder,or hopefully both. we're hoping for both because our business model is, if youcome into a therapy session with one problem, we want to make sure you leaveknowing you have 10, so you keep coming back over and over again. we'll go backinto your childhood if necessary, but eventually what we want to do is make younormal again. but normal is merely average.
and what i posit and what positive psychology posits is that if we studywhat is merely average, we will remain merely average. then instead of deletingthose positive outliers, what i intentionally do is come into a population likethis one and say, why? why is it that some of you are so high above the curve interms of your intellectual ability, athletic ability, musical ability,creativity, energy levels, your resiliency in the face of challenge, your senseof humor? whatever it is, instead of deleting you, what i want to do is studyyou. because maybe we can glean information -- not just how to move people up tothe average, but how we can move the entire average up in our companies andschools worldwide.
the reason this graph is important to me is, when i turn on the news, itseems like the majority of the information is not positive, in fact it'snegative. most of it's about murder, corruption, diseases, natural disasters.and very quickly, my brain starts to think that's the accurate ratio of negativeto positive in the world. what that's doing is creating something called themedical school syndrome -- which, if you know people who've been to medicalschool, during the first year of medical training, as you read through a list ofall the symptoms and diseases that could happen, suddenly you realize you haveall of them.
i have a brother in-law named bobo -- which is a whole other story. bobomarried amy the unicorn. bobo called me on the phone from yale medical school,and bobo said, "shawn, i have leprosy." (laughter) which, even at yale, ise_traordinarily rare. but i had no idea how to console poor bobo because he hadjust gotten over an entire week of menopause.
(laughter)
see what we're finding is it's not necessarily the reality that shapes us,but the lens through which your brain views the world that shapes your reality.and if we can change the lens, not only can we change your happiness, we canchange every single educational and business outcome at the same time.
when i applied to harvard, i applied on a dare. i didn't e_pect to get in,and my family had no money for college. when i got a military scholarship twoweeks later, they allowed me to go. suddenly, something that wasn't even apossibility became a reality. when i went there, i assumed everyone else wouldsee it as a privilege as well, that they'd be e_cited to be there. even ifyou're in a classroom full of people smarter than you, you'd be happy just to bein that classroom, which is what i felt. but what i found there is, while somepeople e_perience that, when i graduated after my four years and then spent thene_t eight years living in the dorms with the students -- harvard asked me to; iwasn't that guy. (laughter) i was an officer of harvard to counsel studentsthrough the difficult four years. and what i found in my research and myteaching is that these students, no matter how happy they were with theiroriginal success of getting into the school, two weeks later their brains werefocused, not on the privilege of being there, nor on their philosophy or theirphysics. their brain was focused on the competition, the workload, the hassles,the stresses, the complaints.
when i first went in there, i walked into the freshmen dining hall, whichis where my friends from waco, te_as, which is where i grew up -- i know some ofyou have heard of it. when they'd come to visit me, they'd look around, they'dsay, "this freshman dining hall looks like something out of hogwart's from themovie "harry potter," which it does. this is hogwart's from the movie "harrypotter" and that's harvard. and when they see this, they say, "shawn, why do youwaste your time studying happiness at harvard? seriously, what does a harvardstudent possibly have to be unhappy about?"
embedded within that question is the key to understanding the science ofhappiness. because what that question assumes is that our e_ternal world ispredictive of our happiness levels, when in reality, if i know everything aboutyour e_ternal world, i can only predict 10 percent of your long-term happiness.90 percent of your long-term happiness is predicted not by the e_ternal world,but by the way your brain processes the world. and if we change it, if we changeour formula for happiness and success, what we can do is change the way that wecan then affect reality. what we found is that only 25 percent of job successesare predicted by i.q. 75 percent of job successes are predicted by your optimismlevels, your social support and your ability to see stress as a challengeinstead of as a threat.
i talked to a boarding school up in new england, probably the mostprestigious boarding school, and they said, "we already know that. so everyyear, instead of just teaching our students, we also have a wellness week. andwe're so e_cited. monday night we have the world's leading e_pert coming in tospeak about adolescent depression. tuesday night it's school violence andbullying. wednesday night is eating disorders. thursday night is elicit druguse. and friday night we're trying to decide between risky se_ or happiness."(laughter) i said, "that's most people's friday nights." (laughter) (applause)which i'm glad you liked, but they did not like that at all. silence on thephone. and into the silence, i said, "i'd be happy to speak at your school, butjust so you know, that's not a wellness week, that's a sickness week. whatyou've done is you've outlined all the negative things that can happen, but nottalked about the positive."
the absence of disease is not health. here's how we get to health: we needto reverse the formula for happiness and success. in the last three years, i'vetraveled to 45 different countries, working with schools and companies in themidst of an economic downturn. and what i found is that most companies andschools follow a formula for success, which is this: if i work harder, i'll bemore successful. and if i'm more successful, then i'll be happier. thatundergirds most of our parenting styles, our managing styles, the way that wemotivate our behavior.
and the problem is it's scientifically broken and backwards for tworeasons. first, every time your brain has a success, you just changed thegoalpost of what success looked like. you got good grades, now you have to getbetter grades, you got into a good school and after you get into a betterschool, you got a good job, now you have to get a better job, you hit your salestarget, we're going to change your sales target. and if happiness is on theopposite side of success, your brain never gets there. what we've done is we'vepushed happiness over the cognitive horizon as a society. and that's because wethink we have to be successful, then we'll be happier.
but the real problem is our brains work in the opposite order. if you canraise somebody's level of positivity in the present, then their braine_periences what we now call a happiness advantage, which is your brain atpositive performs significantly better than it does at negative, neutral orstressed. your intelligence rises, your creativity rises, your energy levelsrise. in fact, what we've found is that every single business outcome improves.your brain at positive is 31 percent more productive than your brain atnegative, neutral or stressed. you're 37 percent better at sales. doctors are 19percent faster, more accurate at coming up with the correct diagnosis whenpositive instead of negative, neutral or stressed. which means we can reversethe formula. if we can find a way of becoming positive in the present, then ourbrains work even more successfully as we're able to work harder, faster and moreintelligently.
what we need to be able to do is to reverse this formula so we can start tosee what our brains are actually capable of. because dopamine, which floods intoyour system when you're positive, has two functions. not only does it make youhappier, it turns on all of the learning centers in your brain allowing you toadapt to the world in a different way.
we've found that there are ways that you can train your brain to be able tobecome more positive. in just a two-minute span of time done for 21 days in arow, we can actually rewire your brain, allowing your brain to actually workmore optimistically and more successfully. we've done these things in researchnow in every single company that i've worked with, getting them to write downthree new things that they're grateful for for 21 days in a row, three newthings each day. and at the end of that, their brain starts to retain a patternof scanning the world, not for the negative, but for the positive first.
journaling about one positive e_perience you've had over the past 24 hoursallows your brain to relive it. e_ercise teaches your brain that your behaviormatters. we find that meditation allows your brain to get over the cultural adhdthat we've been creating by trying to do multiple tasks at once and allows ourbrains to focus on the task at hand. and finally, random acts of kindness areconscious acts of kindness. we get people, when they open up their inbo_, towrite one positive email praising or thanking somebody in their social supportnetwork.
and by doing these activities and by training your brain just like we trainour bodies, what we've found is we can reverse the formula for happiness andsuccess, and in doing so, not only create ripples of positivity, but create areal revolution.
thank you very much.
(applause)
ted演講稿范文 篇7
try something new for 30 days 小計劃幫你實現(xiàn)大目標
a few years ago, i felt like i was stuck in a rut, so i decided to followin the footsteps of the great american philosopher, morgan spurlock, and trysomething new for 30 days. the idea is actually pretty simple. think aboutsomething you’ve always wanted to add to your life and try it for the ne_t 30days. it turns out, 30 days is just about the right amount of time to add a newhabit or subtract a habit — like watching the news — from your life.
幾年前, 我感覺對老一套感到枯燥乏味,所以我決定追隨偉大的美國哲學家摩根·斯普爾洛克的腳步,嘗試做新事情30天。這個想法的確是非常簡單。考慮下,你常想在你生命中做的一些事情 接下來30天嘗試做這些。這就是,30天剛好是這么一段合適的時間 去養(yǎng)成一個新的習慣或者改掉一個習慣——例如看新聞——在你生活中。
there’s a few things i learned while doing these 30-day challenges. thefirst was, instead of the months flying by, forgotten, the time was much morememorable. this was part of a challenge i did to take a picture everyday for amonth. and i remember e_actly where i was and what i was doing that day. i alsonoticed that as i started to do more and harder 30-day challenges, myself-confidence grew. i went from desk-dwelling computer nerd to the kind of guywho bikes to work — for fun. even last year, i ended up hiking up mt.kilimanjaro, the highest mountain in africa. i would never have been thatadventurous before i started my 30-day challenges.
當我在30天做這些挑戰(zhàn)性事情時,我學到以下一些事。第一件事是,取代了飛逝而過易被遺忘的歲月的是這段時間非常的更加令人難忘。挑戰(zhàn)的一部分是要一個月內每天我要去拍攝一張照片。我清楚地記得那一天我所處的位置我都在干什么。我也注意到隨著我開始做更多的,更難的30天里具有挑戰(zhàn)性的事時,我自信心也增強了。我從一個臺式計算機宅男極客變成了一個愛騎自行車去工作的人——為了玩樂。甚至去年,我完成了在非洲最高山峰乞力馬扎羅山的遠足。在我開始這30天做挑戰(zhàn)性的事之前我從來沒有這樣熱愛冒險過。
i also figured out that if you really want something badly enough, you cando anything for 30 days. have you ever wanted to write a novel? every november,tens of thousands of people try to write their own 50,000 word novel fromscratch in 30 days. it turns out, all you have to do is write 1,667 words a dayfor a month. so i did. by the way, the secret is not to go to sleep until you’vewritten your words for the day. you might be sleep-deprived, but you’ll finishyour novel. now is my book the ne_t great american novel? no. i wrote it in amonth. it’s awful. but for the rest of my life, if i meet john hodgman at a tedparty, i don’t have to say, “i’m a computer scientist.” no, no, if i want to ican say, “i’m a novelist.”
我也認識到如果你真想一些槽糕透頂?shù)氖,你可以?0天里做這些事。你曾想寫小說嗎?每年11月,數(shù)以萬計的人們在30天里,從零起點嘗試寫他們自己的5萬字小說。這結果就是,你所要去做的事就是每天寫1667個字要寫一個月。所以我做到了。順便說一下,秘密在于除非在一天里你已經(jīng)寫完了1667個字,要不你就甭想睡覺。你可能被剝奪睡眠,但你將會完成你的小說。那么我寫的書會是下一部偉大的美國小說嗎?不是的。我在一個月內寫完它。它看上去太可怕了。但在我的余生,如果我在一個ted聚會上遇見約翰·霍奇曼,我不必開口說,“我是一個電腦科學家!辈,不會的,如果我愿意我可以說,“我是一個小說家!
(laughter)
(笑聲)
so here’s one last thing i’d like to mention. i learned that when i madesmall, sustainable changes, things i could keep doing, they were more likely tostick. there’s nothing wrong with big, crazy challenges. in fact, they’re a tonof fun. but they’re less likely to stick. when i gave up sugar for 30 days, day31 looked like this.
我這兒想提的最后一件事。當我做些小的、持續(xù)性的變化,我可以不斷嘗試做的事時,我學到我可以把它們更容易地堅持做下來。這和又大又瘋狂的具有挑戰(zhàn)性的事情無關。事實上,它們的樂趣無窮。但是,它們就不太可能堅持做下來。當我在30天里拒絕吃糖果,31天后看上去就像這樣。
(laughter)
(笑聲)
so here’s my question to you: what are you waiting for? i guarantee you thene_t 30 days are going to pass whether you like it or not, so why not thinkabout something you have always wanted to try and give it a shot for the ne_t 30days.
所以我給大家提的問題是:大家還在等什么呀?我保準大家在未來的30天定會經(jīng)歷你喜歡或者不喜歡的事,那么為什么不考慮一些你常想做的嘗試并在未來30天里試試給自己一個機會。
thanks.
謝謝。
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ted演講稿范文 篇8
when i was nine years old i went off to summer camp for the first time. andmy mother packed me a suitcase full of books, which to me seemed like aperfectly natural thing to do. because in my family, reading was the primarygroup activity. and this might sound antisocial to you, but for us it was reallyjust a different way of being social. you have the animal warmth of your familysitting right ne_t to you, but you are also free to go roaming around theadventureland inside your own mind. and i had this idea that camp was going tobe just like this, but better. (laughter) i had a vision of 10 girls sitting ina cabin cozily reading books in their matching nightgowns.
當我九歲的時候 我第一次去參加夏令營 我媽媽幫我整理好了我的行李箱 里面塞滿了書 這對于我來說是一件極為自然的事情 因為在我的家庭里閱讀是主要的家庭活動 聽上去你們可能覺得我們是不愛交際的 但是對于我的家庭來說這真的只是接觸社會的另一種途徑 你們有自己家庭接觸時的溫暖親情 家人靜坐在你身邊但是你也可以自由地漫游 在你思維深處的冒險樂園里我有一個想法 野營會變得像這樣子,當然要更好些 (笑聲) 我想象到十個女孩坐在一個小屋里都穿著合身的女式睡衣愜意地享受著讀書的過程
(laughter)
(笑聲)
camp was more like a keg party without any alcohol. and on the very firstday our counselor gathered us all together and she taught us a cheer that shesaid we would be doing every day for the rest of the summer to instill campspirit. and it went like this: "r-o-w-d-i-e, that's the way we spell rowdie.rowdie, rowdie, let's get rowdie." yeah. so i couldn't figure out for the lifeof me why we were supposed to be so rowdy, or why we had to spell this wordincorrectly. (laughter) but i recited a cheer. i recited a cheer along witheverybody else. i did my best. and i just waited for the time that i could gooff and read my books.
野營這時更像是一個不提供酒水的派對聚會 在第一天的時候呢 我們的顧問把我們都集合在一起 并且她教會了我們一種今后要用到的慶祝方式在余下夏令營的每一天中 讓“露營精神”浸潤我們 之后它就像這樣繼續(xù)著 r-o-w-d-i-e 這是我們拼寫“吵鬧"的口號我們唱著“噪音,喧鬧,我們要變得吵一點” 對,就是這樣 可我就是弄不明白我的生活會是什么樣的 為什么我們變得這么吵鬧粗暴 或者為什么我們非要把這個單詞錯誤地拼寫(笑聲) 但是我可沒有忘記慶祝。我與每個人都互相歡呼慶祝了 我盡了我最大的努力 我只是想等待那一刻 我可以離開吵鬧的聚會去捧起我摯愛的書
but the first time that i took my book out of my suitcase, the coolest girlin the bunk came up to me and she asked me, "why are you being so mellow?" --mellow, of course, being the e_act opposite of r-o-w-d-i-e. and then the secondtime i tried it, the counselor came up to me with a concerned e_pression on herface and she repeated the point about camp spirit and said we should all workvery hard to be outgoing.
但是當我第一次把書從行李箱中拿出來的時候 床鋪中最酷的那個女孩向我走了過來 并且她問我:“為什么你要這么安靜?”安靜,當然,是r-o-w-d-i-e的反義詞 “喧鬧”的反義詞 而當我第二次拿書的時候 我們的顧問滿臉憂慮的向我走了過來接著她重復了關于“露營精神”的要點并且說我們都應當努力 去變得外向些
and so i put my books away, back in their suitcase, and i put them under mybed, and there they stayed for the rest of the summer. and i felt kind of guiltyabout this. i felt as if the books needed me somehow, and they were calling outto me and i was forsaking them.but i did forsake them and i didn't open thatsuitcase again until i was back home with my family at the end of thesummer.
于是我放好我的書 放回了屬于它們的行李箱中 并且我把它們放到了床底下 在那里它們度過了暑假余下的每一天 我對這樣做感到很愧疚不知為什么我感覺這些書是需要我的 它們在呼喚我,但是我卻放棄了它們 我確實放下了它們,并且我再也沒有打開那個箱子 直到我和我的家人一起回到家中在夏末的時候
now, i tell you this story about summer camp. i could have told you 50others just like it --all the times that i got the message that somehow my quietand introverted style of beingwas not necessarily the right way to go, that ishould be trying to pass as more of an e_trovert. and i always sensed deep downthat this was wrong and that introverts were pretty e_cellent just as they were.but for years i denied this intuition, and so i became a wall street lawyer, ofall things, instead of the writer that i had always longed to be -- partlybecause i needed to prove to myself that i could be bold and assertive too. andi was always going off to crowded bars when i really would have preferred tojust have a nice dinner with friends. and i made these self-negating choices sorefle_ively, that i wasn't even aware that i was making them.
現(xiàn)在,我向你們講述這個夏令營的故事 我完全可以給你們講出其他50種版本就像這個一樣的故事-- 每當我感覺到這樣的時候它告訴我出于某種原因,我的寧靜和內向的風格 并不是正確道路上的必需品 我應該更多地嘗試一個外向者的角色而在我內心深處感覺得到,這是錯誤的內向的人們都是非常優(yōu)秀的,確實是這樣 但是許多年來我都否認了這種直覺 于是我首先成為了華爾街的一名律師而不是我長久以來想要成為的一名作家 一部分原因是因為我想要證明自己 也可以變得勇敢而堅定 并且我總是去那些擁擠的酒吧 當我只是想要和朋友們吃一頓愉快的晚餐時我做出了這些自我否認的抉擇 如條件反射一般 甚至我都不清楚我做出了這些決定
now this is what many introverts do, and it's our loss for sure, but it isalso our colleagues' loss and our communities' loss. and at the risk of soundinggrandiose, it is the world's loss. because when it comes to creativity and toleadership, we need introverts doing what they do best. a third to a half of thepopulation are introverts -- a third to a half. so that's one out of every twoor three people you know. so even if you're an e_trovert yourself, i'm talkingabout your coworkers and your spouses and your childrenand the person sittingne_t to you right now -- all of them subject to this bias that is pretty deepand real in our society. we all internalize it from a very early age withouteven having a language for what we're doing.
這就是很多內向的人正在做的事情 這當然是我們的損失 但這同樣也是同事們的損失 我們所在團隊集體的損失當然,冒著被指為夸大其詞的風險我想說,更是世界的損失 因為當涉及創(chuàng)造和領導的時候 我們需要內向的人做到最好 三分之一到二分之一的人都是內向的--三分之一到二分之一 你要知道這可意味著每兩到三個人中就有一個內向的 所以即使你自己是一個外向的人 我正在說你的同事 和你的配偶和你的孩子還有現(xiàn)在正坐在你旁邊的那個家伙-- 他們都要屈從于這樣的偏見 一種在我們的社會中已經(jīng)扎根的現(xiàn)實偏見 我們從很小的時候就把它藏在內心最深處甚至都不說幾句話,關于我們正在做的事情。
now to see the bias clearly you need to understand what introversion is.it's different from being shy. shyness is about fear of social judgment.introversion is more about, how do you respond to stimulation, including socialstimulation. so e_troverts really crave large amounts of stimulation, whereasintroverts feel at their most alive and their most switched-on and their mostcapable when they're in quieter, more low-key environments.not all the time --these things aren't absolute -- but a lot of the time. so the key then toma_imizing our talents is for us all to put ourselves in the zone of stimulationthat is right for us.
現(xiàn)在讓我們來清楚地看待這種偏見 我們需要真正了解“內向”到底指什么 它和害羞是不同的 害羞是對于社會評論的恐懼 內向更多的是 你怎樣對于刺激作出回應包括來自社會的刺激 其實內向的人是很渴求大量的鼓舞和激勵的 反之內向者最感覺到他們的存在 這是他們精力最充足的時候,最具有能力的時候當他們存在于更安靜的,更低調的環(huán)境中 并不是所有時候--這些事情都不是絕對的-- 但是存在于很多時候 所以說,關鍵在于 把我們的天賦發(fā)揮到最大化這對于我們來說就足夠把我們自己 放到對于我們正確又合適的激勵的區(qū)域中去
but now here's where the bias comes in. our most important institutions,our schools and our workplaces, they are designed mostly for e_troverts and fore_troverts' need for lots of stimulation. and also we have this belief systemright now that i call the new groupthink,which holds that all creativity and allproductivity comes from a very oddly gregarious place.
但是現(xiàn)在偏見出現(xiàn)了 我們最重要的那些體系 我們的學校和工作單位 它們都是為性格外向者設計的 并且有適合他們需要的刺激和鼓勵當然我們現(xiàn)在也有這樣一種信用機制 我稱它為新型的“團隊思考” 這是一種包含所有創(chuàng)造力和生產力的思考方式 從一個社交非常零散的地方產生的
so if you picture the typical classroom nowadays: when i was going toschool, we sat in rows. we sat in rows of desks like this, and we did most ofour work pretty autonomously.but nowadays, your typical classroom has pods ofdesks -- four or five or si_ or seven kids all facing each other. and kids areworking in countless group assignments. even in subjects like math and creativewriting, which you think would depend on solo flights of thought, kids are nowe_pected to act as committee members. and for the kids who preferto go off bythemselves or just to work alone, those kids are seen as outliers often or,worse, as problem cases. and the vast majority of teachers reports believingthat the ideal student is an e_trovert as opposed to an introvert, even thoughintroverts actually get better grades and are more knowledgeable, according toresearch. (laughter)
當你描繪今天典型教室的圖案時 當我還上學的時候 我們一排排地坐著 我們靠著桌子一排排坐著就像這樣 并且我們大多數(shù)工作都是自覺完成的但是在現(xiàn)代社會,所謂典型的教室 是些圈起來并排的桌子-- 四個或是五個或是六、七個孩子坐在一起,面對面 孩子們要完成無數(shù)個小組任務 甚至像數(shù)學和創(chuàng)意寫作這些課程這些你們認為需要依靠個人閃光想法的課程 孩子們現(xiàn)在卻被期待成為小組會的成員 對于那些喜歡 獨處,或者自己一個人工作的孩子來說 這些孩子常常被視為局外人或者更糟,被視為問題孩子 并且很大一部分老師的報告中都相信 最理想的學生應該是外向的 相對于內向的學生而言 甚至說外向的學生能夠取得更好的成績更加博學多識據(jù)研究報道 (笑聲)
okay, same thing is true in our workplaces. now, most of us work in openplan offices,without walls, where we are subject to the constant noise and gazeof our coworkers. and when it comes to leadership, introverts are routinelypassed over for leadership positions,even though introverts tend to be verycareful, much less likely to take outsize risks --which is something we mightall favor nowadays. and interesting research by adam grant at the wharton schoolhas found that introverted leaders often deliver better outcomes than e_trovertsdo, because when they are managing proactive employees, they're much more likelyto let those employees run with their ideas, whereas an e_trovert can, quiteunwittingly, get so e_cited about things that they're putting their own stamp onthings, and other people's ideas might not as easily then bubble up to thesurface.
好了。同樣的事情也發(fā)生在我們工作的地方 現(xiàn)在呢,我們中的絕大多數(shù)都工作在寬闊沒有隔間的辦公室里 甚至沒有墻 在這里,我們暴露在不斷的噪音和我們同事的凝視目光下工作 而當談及領袖氣質的時候 內向的人總是按照慣例從領導的位置被忽視了 盡管內向的人是非常小心仔細的 很少去冒特大的風險--這些風險是今天我們可能都喜歡的 賓夕法尼亞大學沃頓商學院的亞當·格蘭特教授做了一項很有意思的研究 這項研究表明內向的領導們相對于外向領導而言總是會生產更大的效益 因為當他們管理主動積極的雇員的時候 他們更傾向于讓有主見的雇員去自由發(fā)揮 反之外向的領導就可能,當然是不經(jīng)意的對于事情變得十分激動 他們在事務上有了自己想法的印跡 這使其他人的想法可能就不會很容易地 在舞臺上發(fā)光了
now in fact, some of our transformative leaders in history have beenintroverts. i'll give you some e_amples. eleanor roosevelt, rosa parks, gandhi-- all these peopled described themselves as quiet and soft-spoken and even shy.and they all took the spotlight, even though every bone in their bodies wastelling them not to. and this turns out to have a special power all its own,because people could feel that these leaders were at the helm,not because theyenjoyed directing others and not out of the pleasure of being looked at;theywere there because they had no choice, because they were driven to do what theythought was right.
事實上,歷史上一些有改革能力的領袖都是內向的人 我會舉一些例子給你們 埃莉諾·羅斯福,羅沙·帕克斯,甘地 -- 所有這些人都把自己描述成內向,說話溫柔甚至是害羞的人 他們仍然站在了聚光燈下 即使他們渾身上下 都感知他們說不要這證明是一種屬于它自身的特殊的力量因為人們都會感覺這些領導者同時是掌舵者 并不是因為他們喜歡指揮別人 抑或是享受眾人目光的聚焦 他們處在那個位置因為他們沒有選擇因為他們行駛在他們認為正確的道路上
now i think at this point it's important for me to say that i actually lovee_troverts. i always like to say some of my best friends are e_troverts,including my beloved husband. and we all fall at different points, of course,along the introvert/e_trovert spectrum. even carl jung, the psychologist whofirst popularized these terms, said that there's no such thing as a pureintrovert or a pure e_trovert. he said that such a man would be in a lunaticasylum, if he e_isted at all. and some people fall smack in the middle of theintrovert/e_trovert spectrum, and we call these people ambiverts. and i oftenthink that they have the best of all worlds. but many of us do recognizeourselves as one type or the other.
現(xiàn)在我覺得對于這點我有必要說 那就是我真的喜愛外向的人 我總是喜歡說我最好的幾個朋友都是外向的人 包括我親愛的丈夫 當然了我們都會在不同點時偏向內向者/外向者的范圍 甚至是卡爾·榮格,這個讓這些名詞為大眾所熟知的心理學家,說道 世上絕沒有一個純粹的內向的人 或者一個純粹的外向的人他說這樣的人會在精神病院里 如果他存在的話 還有一些人處在中間的跡象 在內向與外向之間 我們稱這些人為“中向性格者” 并且我總是認為他們擁有世界最美好的一切但是我們中的大多數(shù)總是認為自己屬于內向或者外向,其中一類
and what i'm saying is that culturally we need a much better balance. weneed more of a yin and yang between these two types. this is especiallyimportant when it comes to creativity and to productivity, because whenpsychologists look at the lives of the most creative people, what they find arepeople who are very good at e_changing ideas and advancing ideas, but who alsohave a serious streak of introversion in them.
同時我想說從文化意義上講我們需要一種更好的平衡 我們需要更多的陰陽的平衡 在這兩種類型的人之間 這點是極為重要的 當涉及創(chuàng)造力和生產力的時候因為當心理學家們看待 最有創(chuàng)造力的人的生命的時候 他們尋找到的 是那些擅長變換思維的人 提出想法的人 但是他們同時也有著極為顯著的偏內向的痕跡
and this is because solitude is a crucial ingredient often to creativity.so darwin, he took long walks alone in the woods and emphatically turned downdinner party invitations.theodor geisel, better known as dr. seuss, he dreamedup many of his amazing creations in a lonely bell tower office that he had inthe back of his house in la jolla, california. and he was actually afraid tomeet the young children who read his books for fear that they were e_pecting himthis kind of jolly santa claus-like figure and would be disappointed with hismore reserved persona. steve wozniak invented the first apple computer sittingalone in his cubical in hewlett-packard where he was working at the time. and hesays that he never would have become such an e_pert in the first place had henot been too introverted to leave the house when he was growing up.
這是因為獨處是非常關鍵的因素 對于創(chuàng)造力來說 所以達爾文 自己一個人漫步在小樹林里 并且斷然拒絕了晚餐派對的邀約西奧多·蓋索,更多時候以蘇索博士的名號知名 他夢想過很多的驚人的創(chuàng)作 在他在加利福尼亞州拉霍亞市房子的后面的 一座孤獨的束層的塔形辦公室中 而且其實他很害怕見面見那些讀過他的書的年輕的孩子們 害怕他們會期待他 這樣一位令人愉快的,圣誕老人形象的人物 同時又會因發(fā)現(xiàn)他含蓄緘默的性格而失望史蒂夫·沃茲尼亞克發(fā)明了第一臺蘋果電腦 一個人獨自坐在他的機柜旁 在他當時工作的惠普公司 并且他說他永遠不會在那方面成為一號專家 但他還沒因太內向到要離開那里那個他成長起來的地方
now of course, this does not mean that we should all stop collaborating --and case in point, is steve wozniak famously coming together with steve jobs tostart apple computer -- but it does mean that solitude matters and that for somepeople it is the air that they breathe. and in fact, we have known for centuriesabout the transcendent power of solitude. it's only recently that we'vestrangely begun to forget it. if you look at most of the world's majorreligions, you will find seekers -- moses, jesus, buddha, muhammad --seekers whoare going off by themselves alone to the wilderness where they then haveprofound epiphanies and revelations that they then bring back to the rest of thecommunity. so no wilderness, no revelations.
當然了 這并不意味著我們都應該停止合作-- 恰當?shù)睦幽,是史蒂夫·沃茲尼亞克和史蒂夫·喬布斯的著名?lián)手 創(chuàng)建蘋果電腦公司--但是這并不意味著和獨處有重大關系 并且對于一些人來說 這是他們賴以呼吸生存的空氣 事實上,幾個世紀以來我們已經(jīng)非常明白獨處的卓越力量只是到了最近,非常奇怪,我們開始遺忘它了 如果你看看世界上主要的宗教 你會發(fā)現(xiàn)探尋者-- 摩西,耶穌,佛祖,穆罕默德 -- 那些獨身去探尋的人們在大自然的曠野中獨處,思索 在那里,他們有了深刻的頓悟和對于奧義的揭示 之后他們把這些思想帶回到社會的其他地方去沒有曠原,沒有啟示
this is no surprise though if you look at the insights of contemporarypsychology. it turns out that we can't even be in a group of people withoutinstinctively mirroring, mimicking their opinions. even about seemingly personaland visceral things like who you're attracted to, you will start aping thebeliefs of the people around you without even realizing that that's what you'redoing.
盡管這并不令人驚訝 如果你注意到現(xiàn)代心理學的思想理論 它反映出來我們甚至不能和一組人待在一起 而不去本能地模仿他們的意見與想法甚至是看上去私人的,發(fā)自內心的事情 像是你被誰所吸引 你會開始模仿你周圍的人的信仰 甚至都覺察不到你自己在做什么
and groups famously follow the opinions of the most dominant or charismaticperson in the room, even though there's zero correlation between being the besttalker and having the best ideas -- i mean zero. so ... (laughter) you might befollowing the person with the best ideas, but you might not. and do you reallywant to leave it up to chance? much better for everybody to go off bythemselves, generate their own ideas freed from the distortions of groupdynamics, and then come together as a team to talk them through in awell-managed environment and take it from there.
還曾跟隨群體的意見 跟隨著房間里最具有統(tǒng)治力的,最有領袖氣質的人的思路 雖然這真的沒什么關系 在成為一個卓越的演講家還是擁有最好的主意之間--我的意思是“零相關” 那么...(笑聲) 你們或許會跟隨有最好頭腦的人 但是你們也許不會 可你們真的想把這機會扔掉嗎?如果每個人都自己行動或許好得多發(fā)掘他們自己的想法 沒有群體動力學的曲解 接著來到一起組成一個團隊 在一個良好管理的環(huán)境中互相交流 并且在那里學習別的思想
now if all this is true, then why are we getting it so wrong? why are wesetting up our schools this way and our workplaces? and why are we making theseintroverts feel so guilty about wanting to just go off by themselves some of thetime? one answer lies deep in our cultural history. western societies, and inparticular the u.s., have always favored the man of action over the man ofcontemplation and "man" of contemplation. but in america's early days, we livedin what historians call a culture of character, where we still, at that point,valued people for their inner selves and their moral rectitude. and if you lookat the self-help books from this era, they all had titles with things like"character, the grandest thing in the world." and they featured role models likeabraham lincoln who was praised for being modest and unassuming. ralph waldoemerson called him "a man who does not offend by superiority."
如果說現(xiàn)在這一切都是真的 那么為什么我們還得到這樣錯誤的結論? 為什么我們要這樣創(chuàng)立我們的學校,還有我們的工作單位?為什么我們要讓這些內向的人覺得那么愧疚 。對于他們只是想要離開,一個人獨處一段時間的事實? 有一個答案在我們的文化史中埋藏已久 西方社會特別是在美國總是偏愛有行動的人 而不是有深刻思考的人 有深刻思考的“人” 但是在美國早期的時候 我們生活在一個被歷史學家稱作“性格特征”的文化那時我們仍然,在這點上,判斷人們的價值 從人們的內涵和道義正直 而且如果你看一看這個時代關于自立的書籍的話 它們都有這樣一種標題: “性格”,世界上最偉大的事物并且它們以亞伯拉罕·林肯這樣的為標榜 一個被形容為謙虛低調的男人 拉爾夫·瓦爾多·愛默生稱他是 “一個以‘優(yōu)越’二形容都不為過的人”
but then we hit the 20th century and we entered a new culture thathistorians call the culture of personality. what happened is we had evolved anagricultural economy to a world of big business. and so suddenly people aremoving from small towns to the cities.and instead of working alongside peoplethey've known all their lives, now they are having to prove themselves in acrowd of strangers. so, quite understandably, qualities like magnetism andcharisma suddenly come to seem really important. and sure enough, the self-helpbooks change to meet these new needs and they start to have names like "how towin friends and influence people." and they feature as their role models reallygreat salesmen. so that's the world we're living in today. that's our culturalinheritance.
但是接著我們來到了二十世紀 并且我們融入了一種新的文化 一種被歷史學家稱作“個性”的文化 所發(fā)生的改變就是我們從農業(yè)經(jīng)濟發(fā)展為 一個大商業(yè)經(jīng)濟的世界而且人們突然開始搬遷從小的城鎮(zhèn)搬向城市 并且一改他們之前的在生活中和所熟識的人們一起工作的方式 現(xiàn)在他們在一群陌生人中間有必要去證明自己 這樣做是非?梢岳斫獾南耦I袖氣質和個人魅力這樣的品質 突然間似乎變得極為重要 那么可以肯定的是,自助自立的書的內容變更了以適應這些新的需求 并且它們開始擁有名稱像是《如何贏得朋友和影響他人》(戴爾?卡耐基所著《人性的弱點》) 他們的特點是做自己的榜樣 不得不說確實是好的推銷員 所以這就是我們今天生活的世界這是我們的文化遺產
now none of this is to say that social skills are unimportant, and i'm alsonot calling for the abolishing of teamwork at all. the same religions who sendtheir sages off to lonely mountain tops also teach us love and trust. and theproblems that we are facing today in fields like science and in economics are sovast and so comple_ that we are going to need armies of people coming togetherto solve them working together. but i am saying that the more freedom that wegive introverts to be themselves, the more likely that they are to come up withtheir own unique solutions to these problems.
現(xiàn)在沒有誰能夠說 社交技能是不重要的 并且我也不是想呼吁 大家廢除團隊合作模式 但仍是相同的宗教,卻把他們的圣人送到了孤獨的山頂上仍然教導我們愛與信任 還有我們今天所要面對的問題 像是在科學和經(jīng)濟領域 是如此的巨大和復雜 以至于我們需要人們強有力地團結起來 共同解決這些問題但是我想說,越給內向者自由讓他們做自己 他們就做得越好 去想出他們獨特的關于問題的解決辦法
so now i'd like to share with you what's in my suitcase today. guess what?books. i have a suitcase full of books. here's margaret atwood, "cat's eye."here's a novel by milan kundera. and here's "the guide for the perple_ed" bymaimonides. but these are not e_actly my books. i brought these books with mebecause they were written by my grandfather's favorite authors.
所以現(xiàn)在我很高興同你們分享 我手提箱中的東西 猜猜是什么? 書 我有一個手提箱里面裝滿了書 這是瑪格麗特·阿特伍德的《貓的眼睛》這是一本米蘭·昆德拉的書 這是一本《迷途指津》 是邁蒙尼德寫的 但這些實際上都不是我的書 我還是帶著它們,陪伴著我 因為它們都是我祖父最喜愛的作家所寫
my grandfather was a rabbi and he was a widower who lived alone in a smallapartment in brooklyn that was my favorite place in the world when i was growingup, partly because it was filled with his very gentle, very courtly presence andpartly because it was filled with books. i mean literally every table, everychair in this apartment had yielded its original function to now serve as asurface for swaying stacks of books. just like the rest of my family, mygrandfather's favorite thing to do in the whole world was to read.
我的祖父是一名猶太教祭司 他獨身一人 在布魯克林的一間小公寓中居住 那里是我從小到大在這個世界上最喜愛的地方部分原因是他有著非常溫和親切的,溫文爾雅的舉止 部分原因是那里充滿了書 我的意思是,毫不夸張地說,公寓中的每張桌子,每張椅子 都充分應用著它原有的功能就是現(xiàn)在作為承載一大堆都在搖曳的書的表面 就像我其他的家庭成員一樣 我祖父在這個世界上最喜歡做的事情就是閱讀
but he also loved his congregation, and you could feel this love in thesermons that he gave every week for the 62 years that he was a rabbi. he wouldtakes the fruits of each week's reading and he would weave these intricatetapestries of ancient and humanist thought. and people would come from all overto hear him speak.
但是他同樣也熱愛他的宗教 并且你們可以從他的講述中感覺到他這種愛 這62年來每周他都作為一名猶太教的祭司 他會從每周的閱讀中汲取養(yǎng)分并且他會編織這些錯綜復雜的古代和人文主義的思想的掛毯 并且人們會從各個地方前來 聽他的講話
but here's the thing about my grandfather. underneath this ceremonial role,he was really modest and really introverted -- so much so that when he deliveredthese sermons, he had trouble making eye contact with the very same congregationthat he had been speaking to for 62 years. and even away from the podium, whenyou called him to say hello, he would often end the conversation prematurely forfear that he was taking up too much of your time. but when he died at the age of94, the police had to close down the streets of his neighborhood to accommodatethe crowd of people who came out to mourn him. and so these days i try to learnfrom my grandfather's e_ample in my own way.
但是有這么一件關于我祖父的事情 在這個正式的角色下隱藏著 他是一個非常謙虛的非常內向的人 是那么的謙虛內向以至于當他在向人們講述的時候他都不敢有視線上的接觸 和同樣的教堂會眾 他已經(jīng)發(fā)言有62年了 甚至都還遠離領獎臺 當你們讓他說“你好”的時候 他總會提早結束這對話 擔心他會占用你太多的時間但是當他94歲去世的時候 警察們需要封鎖他所居住的街道鄰里 來容納擁擠的人們 前來哀悼他的人們 這些天來我都試著從我祖父的事例中學習 以我自己的方式
so i just published a book about introversion, and it took me about sevenyears to write.and for me, that seven years was like total bliss, because i wasreading, i was writing, i was thinking, i was researching. it was my version ofmy grandfather's hours of the day alone in his library. but now all of a suddenmy job is very different, and my job is to be out here talking about it, talkingabout introversion. (laughter) and that's a lot harder for me,because as honoredas i am to be here with all of you right now, this is not my natural milieu.
所以我就出版了一本關于內向性格的書 它花了我7年的時間完成它 而對我來說,這七年像是一種極大的喜悅 因為我在閱讀,我在寫作 我在思考,我在探尋這是我的版本 對于爺爺一天中幾個小時都要獨自待在圖書館這件事 但是現(xiàn)在突然間我的工作變得很不同了 我的工作變成了站在這里講述它 講述內向的性格 (笑聲)而且這對于我來說是有一點困難的 因為我很榮幸 在現(xiàn)在被你們所有人所傾聽 這可不是我自然的文化背景
so i prepared for moments like these as best i could. i spent the last yearpracticing public speaking every chance i could get. and i call this my "year ofspeaking dangerously." (laughter) and that actually helped a lot. but i'll tellyou, what helps even more is my sense, my belief, my hope that when it comes toour attitudes to introversion and to quiet and to solitude, we truly are poisedon the brink on dramatic change. i mean, we are. and so i am going to leave younow with three calls for action for those who share this vision.
所以我準備了一會就像這樣 以我所能做到的最好的方式 我花了最近一年的時間練習在公共場合發(fā)言 在我能得到的每一個機會中我把這一年稱作我的“危險地發(fā)言的一年” (笑聲) 而且它的確幫了我很大的忙 但是我要告訴你們一個幫我更大的忙的事情 那就是我的感覺,我的信仰,我的希望當談及我們態(tài)度的時候 對于內向性格的,對于安靜,對于獨處的態(tài)度時 我們確實是在急劇變化的邊緣上保持微妙的平衡 我的意思是,我們在保持平衡現(xiàn)在我將要給你們留下一些東西 三件對于你們的行動有幫助的事情 獻給那些觀看我的演講的人
number one: stop the madness for constant group work. just stop it.(laughter) thank you. (applause) and i want to be clear about what i'm saying,because i deeply believe our offices should be encouraging casual, chattycafe-style types of interactions -- you know, the kind where people cometogether and serendipitously have an e_change of ideas.that is great. it's greatfor introverts and it's great for e_troverts. but we need much more privacy andmuch more freedom and much more autonomy at work. school, same thing.we need tobe teaching kids to work together, for sure, but we also need to be teachingthem how to work on their own. this is especially important for e_trovertedchildren too.they need to work on their own because that is where deep thoughtcomes from in part.
第一: 停止對于經(jīng)常要團隊協(xié)作的執(zhí)迷與瘋狂 停止它就好了 (笑聲) 謝謝你們 (掌聲) 我想讓我所說的事情變得清晰一些 因為我對于我們的辦公深信不疑應該鼓勵它們 那種休閑隨意的,聊天似的咖啡廳式的相互作用-- 你們知道的,道不同不相為謀,人們聚到一起 并且互相交換著寶貴的意見 這是很棒的這對于內向者很好,同樣對于外向者也好 但是我們需要更多的隱私和更多的自由 還有更多對于我們本身工作的自主權 對于學校,也是同樣的。我們當然需要教會孩子們要一起學習工作 但是我們同樣需要教會孩子們怎么樣獨立完成任務 這對于外向的孩子們來說同樣是極為重要的 他們需要獨立完成工作因為從某種程度上,這是他們深刻思考的來源
okay, number two: go to the wilderness. be like buddha, have your ownrevelations. i'm not saying that we all have to now go off and build our owncabins in the woods and never talk to each other again, but i am saying that wecould all stand to unplug and get inside our own heads a little more often.
好了,第二個:去到野外(打開思維) 就像佛祖一樣,擁有你們自己對于事物的揭示啟迪 我并不是說 我們都要跑去小樹林里建造我們自己的小屋并且之后就永遠不和別人說話了 但是我要說我們都可以堅持去去除一些障礙物 然后深入我們自己的大腦思想 時不時得再深入一點
number three: take a good look at what's inside your own suitcase and whyyou put it there. so e_troverts, maybe your suitcases are also full of books. ormaybe they're full of champagne glasses or skydiving equipment. whatever it is,i hope you take these things out every chance you get and grace us with yourenergy and your joy. but introverts, you being you, you probably have theimpulse to guard very carefully what's inside your own suitcase. and that'sokay. but occasionally, just occasionally, i hope you will open up yoursuitcases for other people to see, because the world needs you and it needs thethings you carry.
第三點: 好好看一眼你的旅行箱內有什么東西 還有你為什么把它放進去 所以外向者們 也許你們的箱子內同樣堆滿了書 或者它們裝滿了香檳的玻璃酒杯或者是跳傘運動的設備 不管它是什么,我希望每當你們有機會你們就把它拿出來 用你的能量和你的快樂讓我們感受到美和享受 但是內向者們,你們作為內向者你們很可能有仔細保護一切的沖動 在你箱子里的東西 這沒有問題 但是偶爾地,只是說偶爾地 我希望你們可以打開你們的手提箱,讓別人看一看因為這個世界需要你們,同樣需要你們身上所攜帶的你們特有的事物
so i wish you the best of all possible journeys and the courage to speaksoftly.
所以對于你們即將走上的所有旅程,我都給予你們我最美好的祝愿 還有溫柔地說話的勇氣
thank you. thank you.
非常感謝你們!
ted演講稿范文 篇9
when i was nine years old i went off to summer camp for the first time. andmy mother packed me a suitcase full of books, which to me seemed like aperfectly natural thing to do. because in my family, reading was the primarygroup activity. and this might sound antisocial to you, but for us it was reallyjust a different way of being social. you have the animal warmth of your familysitting right ne_t to you, but you are also free to go roaming around theadventureland inside your own mind. and i had this idea that camp was going tobe just like this, but better. (laughter) i had a vision of 10 girls sitting ina cabin cozily reading books in their matching nightgowns.
(laughter)
camp was more like a keg party without any alcohol. and on the very firstday our counselor gathered us all together and she taught us a cheer that shesaid we would be doing every day for the rest of the summer to instill campspirit. and it went like this: "r-o-w-d-i-e, that's the way we spell rowdie.rowdie, rowdie, let's get rowdie." yeah. so i couldn't figure out for the lifeof me why we were supposed to be so rowdy, or why we had to spell this wordincorrectly. (laughter) but i recited a cheer. i recited a cheer along witheverybody else. i did my best. and i just waited for the time that i could gooff and read my books.
but the first time that i took my book out of my suitcase, the coolest girlin the bunk came up to me and she asked me, "why are you being so mellow?" --mellow, of course, being the e_act opposite of r-o-w-d-i-e. and then the secondtime i tried it, the counselor came up to me with a concerned e_pression on herface and she repeated the point about camp spirit and said we should all workvery hard to be outgoing.
and so i put my books away, back in their suitcase, and i put them under mybed, and there they stayed for the rest of the summer. and i felt kind of guiltyabout this. i felt as if the books needed me somehow, and they were calling outto me and i was forsaking them. but i did forsake them and i didn't open thatsuitcase again until i was back home with my family at the end of thesummer.
now, i tell you this story about summer camp. i could have told you 50others just like it -- all the times that i got the message that somehow myquiet and introverted style of being was not necessarily the right way to go,that i should be trying to pass as more of an e_trovert. and i always senseddeep down that this was wrong and that introverts were pretty e_cellent just asthey were. but for years i denied this intuition, and so i became a wall streetlawyer, of all things, instead of the writer that i had always longed to be --partly because i needed to prove to myself that i could be bold and assertivetoo. and i was always going off to crowded bars when i really would havepreferred to just have a nice dinner with friends. and i made theseself-negating choices so refle_ively, that i wasn't even aware that i was makingthem.
now this is what many introverts do, and it's our loss for sure, but it isalso our colleagues' loss and our communities' loss. and at the risk of soundinggrandiose, it is the world's loss. because when it comes to creativity and toleadership, we need introverts doing what they do best. a third to a half of thepopulation are introverts -- a third to a half. so that's one out of every twoor three people you know. so even if you're an e_trovert yourself, i'm talkingabout your coworkers and your spouses and your children and the person sittingne_t to you right now -- all of them subject to this bias that is pretty deepand real in our society. we all internalize it from a very early age withouteven having a language for what we're doing.
now to see the bias clearly you need to understand what introversion is.it's different from being shy. shyness is about fear of social judgment.introversion is more about, how do you respond to stimulation, including socialstimulation. so e_troverts really crave large amounts of stimulation, whereasintroverts feel at their most alive and their most switched-on and their mostcapable when they're in quieter, more low-key environments. not all the time --these things aren't absolute -- but a lot of the time. so the key then toma_imizing our talents is for us all to put ourselves in the zone of stimulationthat is right for us.
but now here's where the bias comes in. our most important institutions,our schools and our workplaces, they are designed mostly for e_troverts and fore_troverts' need for lots of stimulation. and also we have this belief systemright now that i call the new groupthink, which holds that all creativity andall productivity comes from a very oddly gregarious place.
so if you picture the typical classroom nowadays: when i was going toschool, we sat in rows. we sat in rows of desks like this, and we did most ofour work pretty autonomously. but nowadays, your typical classroom has pods ofdesks -- four or five or si_ or seven kids all facing each other. and kids areworking in countless group assignments. even in subjects like math and creativewriting, which you think would depend on solo flights of thought, kids are nowe_pected to act as committee members. and for the kids who prefer to go off bythemselves or just to work alone, those kids are seen as outliers often or,worse, as problem cases. and the vast majority of teachers reports believingthat the ideal student is an e_trovert as opposed to an introvert, even thoughintroverts actually get better grades and are more knowledgeable, according toresearch. (laughter)
okay, same thing is true in our workplaces. now, most of us work in openplan offices, without walls, where we are subject to the constant noise and gazeof our coworkers. and when it comes to leadership, introverts are routinelypassed over for leadership positions, even though introverts tend to be verycareful, much less likely to take outsize risks -- which is something we mightall favor nowadays. and interesting research by adam grant at the wharton schoolhas found that introverted leaders often deliver better outcomes than e_trovertsdo, because when they are managing proactive employees, they're much more likelyto let those employees run with their ideas, whereas an e_trovert can, quiteunwittingly, get so e_cited about things that they're putting their own stamp onthings, and other people's ideas might not as easily then bubble up to thesurface.
now in fact, some of our transformative leaders in history have beenintroverts. i'll give you some e_amples. eleanor roosevelt, rosa parks, gandhi-- all these peopled described themselves as quiet and soft-spoken and even shy.and they all took the spotlight, even though every bone in their bodies wastelling them not to. and this turns out to have a special power all its own,because people could feel that these leaders were at the helm, not because theyenjoyed directing others and not out of the pleasure of being looked at; theywere there because they had no choice, because they were driven to do what theythought was right.
now i think at this point it's important for me to say that i actually lovee_troverts. i always like to say some of my best friends are e_troverts,including my beloved husband. and we all fall at different points, of course,along the introvert/e_trovert spectrum. even carl jung, the psychologist whofirst popularized these terms, said that there's no such thing as a pureintrovert or a pure e_trovert. he said that such a man would be in a lunaticasylum, if he e_isted at all. and some people fall smack in the middle of theintrovert/e_trovert spectrum, and we call these people ambiverts. and i oftenthink that they have the best of all worlds. but many of us do recognizeourselves as one type or the other.
and what i'm saying is that culturally we need a much better balance. weneed more of a yin and yang between these two types. this is especiallyimportant when it comes to creativity and to productivity, because whenpsychologists look at the lives of the most creative people, what they find arepeople who are very good at e_changing ideas and advancing ideas, but who alsohave a serious streak of introversion in them.
and this is because solitude is a crucial ingredient often to creativity.so darwin, he took long walks alone in the woods and emphatically turned downdinner party invitations. theodor geisel, better known as dr. seuss, he dreamedup many of his amazing creations in a lonely bell tower office that he had inthe back of his house in la jolla, california. and he was actually afraid tomeet the young children who read his books for fear that they were e_pecting himthis kind of jolly santa claus-like figure and would be disappointed with hismore reserved persona. steve wozniak invented the first apple computer sittingalone in his cubical in hewlett-packard where he was working at the time. and hesays that he never would have become such an e_pert in the first place had henot been too introverted to leave the house when he was growing up.
now of course, this does not mean that we should all stop collaborating --and case in point, is steve wozniak famously coming together with steve jobs tostart apple computer -- but it does mean that solitude matters and that for somepeople it is the air that they breathe. and in fact, we have known for centuriesabout the transcendent power of solitude. it's only recently that we'vestrangely begun to forget it. if you look at most of the world's majorreligions, you will find seekers -- moses, jesus, buddha, muhammad -- seekerswho are going off by themselves alone to the wilderness where they then haveprofound epiphanies and revelations that they then bring back to the rest of thecommunity. so no wilderness, no revelations.
this is no surprise though if you look at the insights of contemporarypsychology. it turns out that we can't even be in a group of people withoutinstinctively mirroring, mimicking their opinions. even about seemingly personaland visceral things like who you're attracted to, you will start aping thebeliefs of the people around you without even realizing that that's what you'redoing.
and groups famously follow the opinions of the most dominant or charismaticperson in the room, even though there's zero correlation between being the besttalker and having the best ideas -- i mean zero. so ... (laughter) you might befollowing the person with the best ideas, but you might not. and do you reallywant to leave it up to chance? much better for everybody to go off bythemselves, generate their own ideas freed from the distortions of groupdynamics, and then come together as a team to talk them through in awell-managed environment and take it from there.
now if all this is true, then why are we getting it so wrong? why are wesetting up our schools this way and our workplaces? and why are we making theseintroverts feel so guilty about wanting to just go off by themselves some of thetime? one answer lies deep in our cultural history. western societies, and inparticular the u.s., have always favored the man of action over the man ofcontemplation and "man" of contemplation. but in america's early days, we livedin what historians call a culture of character, where we still, at that point,valued people for their inner selves and their moral rectitude. and if you lookat the self-help books from this era, they all had titles with things like"character, the grandest thing in the world." and they featured role models likeabraham lincoln who was praised for being modest and unassuming. ralph waldoemerson called him "a man who does not offend by superiority."
but then we hit the 20th century and we entered a new culture thathistorians call the culture of personality. what happened is we had evolved anagricultural economy to a world of big business. and so suddenly people aremoving from small towns to the cities. and instead of working alongside peoplethey've known all their lives, now they are having to prove themselves in acrowd of strangers. so, quite understandably, qualities like magnetism andcharisma suddenly come to seem really important. and sure enough, the self-helpbooks change to meet these new needs and they start to have names like "how towin friends and influence people." and they feature as their role models reallygreat salesmen. so that's the world we're living in today. that's our culturalinheritance.
now none of this is to say that social skills are unimportant, and i'm alsonot calling for the abolishing of teamwork at all. the same religions who sendtheir sages off to lonely mountain tops also teach us love and trust. and theproblems that we are facing today in fields like science and in economics are sovast and so comple_ that we are going to need armies of people coming togetherto solve them working together. but i am saying that the more freedom that wegive introverts to be themselves, the more likely that they are to come up withtheir own unique solutions to these problems.
so now i'd like to share with you what's in my suitcase today. guess what?books. i have a suitcase full of books. here's margaret atwood, "cat's eye."here's a novel by milan kundera. and here's "the guide for the perple_ed" bymaimonides. but these are not e_actly my books. i brought these books with mebecause they were written by my grandfather's favorite authors.
my grandfather was a rabbi and he was a widower who lived alone in a smallapartment in brooklyn that was my favorite place in the world when i was growingup, partly because it was filled with his very gentle, very courtly presence andpartly because it was filled with books. i mean literally every table, everychair in this apartment had yielded its original function to now serve as asurface for swaying stacks of books. just like the rest of my family, mygrandfather's favorite thing to do in the whole world was to read.
but he also loved his congregation, and you could feel this love in thesermons that he gave every week for the 62 years that he was a rabbi. he wouldtakes the fruits of each week's reading and he would weave these intricatetapestries of ancient and humanist thought. and people would come from all overto hear him speak.
but here's the thing about my grandfather. underneath this ceremonial role,he was really modest and really introverted -- so much so that when he deliveredthese sermons, he had trouble making eye contact with the very same congregationthat he had been speaking to for 62 years. and even away from the podium, whenyou called him to say hello, he would often end the conversation prematurely forfear that he was taking up too much of your time. but when he died at the age of94, the police had to close down the streets of his neighborhood to accommodatethe crowd of people who came out to mourn him. and so these days i try to learnfrom my grandfather's e_ample in my own way.
so i just published a book about introversion, and it took me about sevenyears to write. and for me, that seven years was like total bliss, because i wasreading, i was writing, i was thinking, i was researching. it was my version ofmy grandfather's hours of the day alone in his library. but now all of a suddenmy job is very different, and my job is to be out here talking about it, talkingabout introversion. (laughter) and that's a lot harder for me, because ashonored as i am to be here with all of you right now, this is not my naturalmilieu.
so i prepared for moments like these as best i could. i spent the last yearpracticing public speaking every chance i could get. and i call this my "year ofspeaking dangerously." (laughter) and that actually helped a lot. but i'll tellyou, what helps even more is my sense, my belief, my hope that when it comes toour attitudes to introversion and to quiet and to solitude, we truly are poisedon the brink on dramatic change. i mean, we are. and so i am going to leave younow with three calls for action for those who share this vision.
number one: stop the madness for constant group work. just stop it.(laughter) thank you. (applause) and i want to be clear about what i'm saying,because i deeply believe our offices should be encouraging casual, chattycafe-style types of interactions -- you know, the kind where people cometogether and serendipitously have an e_change of ideas. that is great. it'sgreat for introverts and it's great for e_troverts. but we need much moreprivacy and much more freedom and much more autonomy at work. school, samething. we need to be teaching kids to work together, for sure, but we also needto be teaching them how to work on their own. this is especially important fore_troverted children too. they need to work on their own because that is wheredeep thought comes from in part.
okay, number two: go to the wilderness. be like buddha, have your ownrevelations. i'm not saying that we all have to now go off and build our owncabins in the woods and never talk to each other again, but i am saying that wecould all stand to unplug and get inside our own heads a little more often.
number three: take a good look at what's inside your own suitcase and whyyou put it there. so e_troverts, maybe your suitcases are also full of books. ormaybe they're full of champagne glasses or skydiving equipment. whatever it is,i hope you take these things out every chance you get and grace us with yourenergy and your joy. but introverts, you being you, you probably have theimpulse to guard very carefully what's inside your own suitcase. and that'sokay. but occasionally, just occasionally, i hope you will open up yoursuitcases for other people to see, because the world needs you and it needs thethings you carry.
so i wish you the best of all possible journeys and the courage to speaksoftly.
thank you very much.
(applause)
thank you. thank you.
ted演講稿范文 篇10
尊敬的老師、同學們:
大家好!
社會是一個變化萬千的群體,要想跟上社會的腳步,需要進行適當?shù)母淖,以便更好的和社會融合在一起?/p>
改變環(huán)境不如改變自己。社會是個包羅萬象、千奇百怪的群體。周圍的環(huán)境一旦形成就很難用自己的力量去變改。所以我們應該去試著改變自己。一位老者曾對自己的弟子說他擁有移山的本事,只要說“山過來”,山就會自己過來,于是他當著弟子們的面對前面的山說“山過來”,但是山卻絲毫未動,對此老者并沒有顯得很尷尬,他說道:“既然山不會過來,那么我們就向它靠近吧!杯h(huán)境不會因一個人而改變,所以你要努力適應。托爾斯泰說過:“世界上有兩種人,一種是行動者,一種是觀望著。很多人都想著要改變世界,卻從未想過改變自己。”可見,改變自己,才能與環(huán)境更好融合。
改變別人不如改變自己。每個人都有自己的優(yōu)點和缺點,所以才會存在妒忌和看不慣,但是我們無法讓別人改變他的缺點和優(yōu)點,所以我們要改變自己,讓自己學會欣賞和包容。
一位老師總是抱怨班上有很多調皮的孩子上課不聽講,教導之后也屢教不改,很是苦惱,她經(jīng)常想盡辦法想要改變那些調皮的孩子,這時另一個老師說:“孩子們不聽課也許是老師口才不好,講課的魅力不夠大,所以孩子們對老師的課興趣不濃。好好改變一下自己吧!庇谑抢蠋熼_始努力改變自己,改變上課的形式,很快孩子們不再調皮了。改變別人不如改變自己,地球不會因一個人而轉,當一根手指指向別人的時候,其他四根手指都指向自己,就算錯的不是自己,那也應該檢討為什么別人會那么對我,從而改變自己,學會包容欣賞。
改變自己。雖然我們不能改變天氣的惡劣,但我們能改變自己的心情;雖然我們不能改變自己的生命的長短,但是我們能改變自己生命的價值。有些事情無法改變事實,但是我們能改變自己。下定決心改變自己吧,我們將擁有的是改變后的變化。
ted演講稿范文 篇11
my subject today is learning. and in that spirit, i want to spring on youall a pop quiz. ready? when does learning begin? now as you ponder thatquestion, maybe you're thinking about the first day of preschool orkindergarten, the first time that kids are in a classroom with a teacher. ormaybe you've called to mind the toddler phase when children are learning how towalk and talk and use a fork. maybe you've encountered the zero-to-threemovement, which asserts that the most important years for learning are theearliest ones. and so your answer to my question would be: learning begins atbirth.
well today i want to present to you an idea that may be surprising and mayeven seem implausible, but which is supported by the latest evidence frompsychology and biology. and that is that some of the most important learning weever do happens before we're born, while we're still in the womb. now i'm ascience reporter. i write books and magazine articles. and i'm also a mother.and those two roles came together for me in a book that i wrote called"origins." "origins" is a report from the front lines of an e_citing new fieldcalled fetal origins. fetal origins is a scientific discipline that emerged justabout two decades ago, and it's based on the theory that our health andwell-being throughout our lives is crucially affected by the nine months wespend in the womb. now this theory was of more than just intellectual interestto me. i was myself pregnant while i was doing the research for the book. andone of the most fascinating insights i took from this work is that we're alllearning about the world even before we enter it.
when we hold our babies for the first time, we might imagine that they'reclean slates, unmarked by life, when in fact, they've already been shaped by usand by the particular world we live in. today i want to share with you some ofthe amazing things that scientists are discovering about what fetuses learnwhile they're still in their mothers' bellies.
first of all, they learn the sound of their mothers' voices. because soundsfrom the outside world have to travel through the mother's abdominal tissue andthrough the amniotic fluid that surrounds the fetus, the voices fetuses hear,starting around the fourth month of gestation, are muted and muffled. oneresearcher says that they probably sound a lot like the the voice of charliebrown's teacher in the old "peanuts" cartoon. but the pregnant woman's own voicereverberates through her body, reaching the fetus much more readily. and becausethe fetus is with her all the time, it hears her voice a lot. once the baby'sborn, it recognizes her voice and it prefers listening to her voice over anyoneelse's.
how can we know this? newborn babies can't do much, but one thing they'rereally good at is sucking. researchers take advantage of this fact by rigging uptwo rubber nipples, so that if a baby sucks on one, it hears a recording of itsmother's voice on a pair of headphones, and if it sucks on the other nipple, ithears a recording of a female stranger's voice. babies quickly show theirpreference by choosing the first one. scientists also take advantage of the factthat babies will slow down their sucking when something interests them andresume their fast sucking when they get bored. this is how researchersdiscovered that, after women repeatedly read aloud a section of dr. seuss' "thecat in the hat" while they were pregnant, their newborn babies recognized thatpassage when they hear it outside the womb. my favorite e_periment of this kindis the one that showed that the babies of women who watched a certain soap operaevery day during pregnancy recognized the theme song of that show once they wereborn. so fetuses are even learning about the particular language that's spokenin the world that they'll be born into.
a study published last year found that from birth, from the moment ofbirth, babies cry in the accent of their mother's native language. french babiescry on a rising note while german babies end on a falling note, imitating themelodic contours of those languages. now why would this kind of fetal learningbe useful? it may have evolved to aid the baby's survival. from the moment ofbirth, the baby responds most to the voice of the person who is most likely tocare for it -- its mother. it even makes its cries sound like the mother'slanguage, which may further endear the baby to the mother, and which may givethe baby a head start in the critical task of learning how to understand andspeak its native language.
but it's not just sounds that fetuses are learning about in utero. it'salso tastes and smells. by seven months of gestation, the fetus' taste buds arefully developed, and its olfactory receptors, which allow it to smell, arefunctioning. the flavors of the food a pregnant woman eats find their way intothe amniotic fluid, which is continuously swallowed by the fetus. babies seem toremember and prefer these tastes once they're out in the world. in onee_periment, a group of pregnant women was asked to drink a lot of carrot juiceduring their third trimester of pregnancy, while another group of pregnant womendrank only water. si_ months later, the women's infants were offered cerealmi_ed with carrot juice, and their facial e_pressions were observed while theyate it. the offspring of the carrot juice drinking women ate morecarrot-flavored cereal, and from the looks of it, they seemed to enjoy itmore.
a sort of french version of this e_periment was carried out in dijon,france where researchers found that mothers who consumed food and drink flavoredwith licorice-flavored anise during pregnancy showed a preference for anise ontheir first day of life, and again, when they were tested later, on their fourthday of life. babies whose mothers did not eat anise during pregnancy showed areaction that translated roughly as "yuck." what this means is that fetuses areeffectively being taught by their mothers about what is safe and good to eat.fetuses are also being taught about the particular culture that they'll bejoining through one of culture's most powerful e_pressions, which is food.they're being introduced to the characteristic flavors and spices of theirculture's cuisine even before birth.
now it turns out that fetuses are learning even bigger lessons. but beforei get to that, i want to address something that you may be wondering about. thenotion of fetal learning may conjure up for you attempts to enrich the fetus --like playing mozart through headphones placed on a pregnant belly. but actually,the nine-month-long process of molding and shaping that goes on in the womb is alot more visceral and consequential than that. much of what a pregnant womanencounters in her daily life -- the air she breathes, the food and drink sheconsumes, the chemicals she's e_posed to, even the emotions she feels -- areshared in some fashion with her fetus. they make up a mi_ of influences asindividual and idiosyncratic as the woman herself. the fetus incorporates theseofferings into its own body, makes them part of its flesh and blood. and oftenit does something more. it treats these maternal contributions as information,as what i like to call biological postcards from the world outside.
so what a fetus is learning about in utero is not mozart's "magic flute"but answers to questions much more critical to its survival. will it be borninto a world of abundance or scarcity? will it be safe and protected, or will itface constant dangers and threats? will it live a long, fruitful life or ashort, harried one? the pregnant woman's diet and stress level in particularprovide important clues to prevailing conditions like a finger lifted to thewind. the resulting tuning and tweaking of a fetus' brain and other organs arepart of what give us humans our enormous fle_ibility, our ability to thrive in ahuge variety of environments, from the country to the city, from the tundra tothe desert.
to conclude, i want to tell you two stories about how mothers teach theirchildren about the world even before they're born. in the autumn of 1944, thedarkest days of world war ii, german troops blockaded western holland, turningaway all shipments of food. the opening of the nazi's siege was followed by oneof the harshest winters in decades -- so cold the water in the canals frozesolid. soon food became scarce, with many dutch surviving on just 500 calories aday -- a quarter of what they consumed before the war. as weeks of deprivationstretched into months, some resorted to eating tulip bulbs. by the beginning ofmay, the nation's carefully rationed food reserve was completely e_hausted. thespecter of mass starvation loomed. and then on may 5th, 1945, the siege came toa sudden end when holland was liberated by the allies.
the "hunger winter," as it came to be known, killed some 10,000 people andweakened thousands more. but there was another population that was affected --the 40,000 fetuses in utero during the siege. some of the effects ofmalnutrition during pregnancy were immediately apparent in higher rates ofstillbirths, birth defects, low birth weights and infant mortality. but otherswouldn't be discovered for many years. decades after the "hunger winter,"researchers documented that people whose mothers were pregnant during the siegehave more obesity, more diabetes and more heart disease in later life thanindividuals who were gestated under normal conditions. these individuals'prenatal e_perience of starvation seems to have changed their bodies in myriadways. they have higher blood pressure, poorer cholesterol profiles and reducedglucose tolerance -- a precursor of diabetes.
why would undernutrition in the womb result in disease later? onee_planation is that fetuses are making the best of a bad situation. when food isscarce, they divert nutrients towards the really critical organ, the brain, andaway from other organs like the heart and liver. this keeps the fetus alive inthe short-term, but the bill comes due later on in life when those other organs,deprived early on, become more susceptible to disease.
but that may not be all that's going on. it seems that fetuses are takingcues from the intrauterine environment and tailoring their physiologyaccordingly. they're preparing themselves for the kind of world they willencounter on the other side of the womb. the fetus adjusts its metabolism andother physiological processes in anticipation of the environment that awaits it.and the basis of the fetus' prediction is what its mother eats. the meals apregnant woman consumes constitute a kind of story, a fairy tale of abundance ora grim chronicle of deprivation. this story imparts information that the fetususes to organize its body and its systems -- an adaptation to prevailingcircumstances that facilitates its future survival. faced with severely limitedresources, a smaller-sized child with reduced energy requirements will, in fact,have a better chance of living to adulthood.
the real trouble comes when pregnant women are, in a sense, unreliablenarrators, when fetuses are led to e_pect a world of scarcity and are borninstead into a world of plenty. this is what happened to the children of thedutch "hunger winter." and their higher rates of obesity, diabetes and heartdisease are the result. bodies that were built to hang onto every calorie foundthemselves swimming in the superfluous calories of the post-war western diet.the world they had learned about while in utero was not the same as the worldinto which they were born.
here's another story. at 8:46 a.m. on september 11th, __, there were tensof thousands of people in the vicinity of the world trade center in new york --commuters spilling off trains, waitresses setting tables for the morning rush,brokers already working the phones on wall street. 1,700 of these people werepregnant women. when the planes struck and the towers collapsed, many of thesewomen e_perienced the same horrors inflicted on other survivors of the disaster-- the overwhelming chaos and confusion, the rolling clouds of potentially to_icdust and debris, the heart-pounding fear for their lives.
about a year after 9/11, researchers e_amined a group of women who werepregnant when they were e_posed to the world trade center attack. in the babiesof those women who developed post-traumatic stress syndrome, or ptsd, followingtheir ordeal, researchers discovered a biological marker of susceptibility toptsd -- an effect that was most pronounced in infants whose mothers e_periencedthe catastrophe in their third trimester. in other words, the mothers withpost-traumatic stress syndrome had passed on a vulnerability to the condition totheir children while they were still in utero.
now consider this: post-traumatic stress syndrome appears to be a reactionto stress gone very wrong, causing its victims tremendous unnecessary suffering.but there's another way of thinking about ptsd. what looks like pathology to usmay actually be a useful adaptation in some circumstances. in a particularlydangerous environment, the characteristic manifestations of ptsd -- ahyper-awareness of one's surroundings, a quick-trigger response to danger --could save someone's life. the notion that the prenatal transmission of ptsdrisk is adaptive is still speculative, but i find it rather poignant. it wouldmean that, even before birth, mothers are warning their children that it's awild world out there, telling them, "be careful."
let me be clear. fetal origins research is not about blaming women for whathappens during pregnancy. it's about discovering how best to promote the healthand well-being of the ne_t generation. that important effort must include afocus on what fetuses learn during the nine months they spend in the womb.learning is one of life's most essential activities, and it begins much earlierthan we ever imagined.
thank you.
ted演講稿范文 篇12
長大以后,我只能奔跑,一邊失去,一邊在尋找,明天你好,即使含著淚微笑!}記
青島一五年的第一場雪在一中校園里紛飛,我獨自站在窗口望那“鵝毛”紛紛落落,心無感觸似是無稽之談,但是要我說出那其中的感觸,我只能笑而不語。不是一個人獨行慣了才獨自賞雪,只是認為唯有一人才能體會到一片雪花飄蕩在這萬千孤獨的迷茫。路漫漫,及行迷之未遠,歸。
喧鬧的環(huán)境伴隨著階梯教室那扇門打開而漸漸平息。我望著一身材平平的男人向我們走來,在無盡的掌聲中向我們鞠躬,那瞬間我是木訥的,為什么如此成功之人會這般謙遜,我瞇起眼,妄想從其中汲取些許。身邊的朋友無一不被外籍校長抓住了眼球,而我的目光一直停留在他的身上未曾離去。隨著講座的開始,那段往事漸漸地浮現(xiàn)在我們的眼前。聽他講到那坎坷崎嶇的路程,我的眉頭不由緊皺,心也隨之觸痛。的確!誰能想象到一雙彈鋼琴的手竟然曾經(jīng)承擔過這般的苦痛!董榮璨博士輕松的言語講述著他在外奔波的三十年,而那些經(jīng)歷牽動著臺下的我們每一個人的心。還好,一切的一切都是有用的,他成為了偉大的作曲家,鋼琴家,藝術家,一個大寫的中國人!
崇敬在我的眼眶流露,只是隔著那遙遠的距離而無法傳達,那炙熱的情感流露無一不表達著我對他的敬仰之情!一曲現(xiàn)場創(chuàng)作像一股暖流涌向心頭,簡單的音符在他的手指下編織成婉轉、悠揚的曲子,飄到我們的心中飄到我們的靈魂里!我的手指不由隨著節(jié)奏敲打著桌面,用心去感受其中的情感。一曲《梁!坊厥幵诙裕渲刑N含著的是三十多年的心血和汗水,滿滿的感情流露讓我的內心有所觸動,也許那天收獲的不僅僅是聽覺的盛宴,也是滿滿的內心感動。
臨近一五年的尾聲,忙忙碌碌的自己也似乎找到了目標。內心懷著那份信仰,馬不停蹄地走著。不做無庸的事,不做無庸的人。時光荏苒,卻沖刷不掉我內心懷揣的前進的激情;白駒過隙,只希望留下的是美好的回憶。懷揣著這份信念前進,讓我強忍住淚水,高昂著頭前進。我不畏艱難困苦,只望見了黎明的一縷曙光便會前行,那等待我的必定是我的信仰,在最后的最后,我們會相擁,擁抱明天!
我不是作曲家,無法用跳躍的音符譜寫深情;我不是鋼琴家,我不會用流暢的樂章流露傳情;我不是藝術家,無法用高端的美展現(xiàn)自己。但是我心懷理想又怎么肯輕易折服?負面、消極的全都拋之腦后,趁現(xiàn)在,努力給自己“藝術人生”!
長大以后,我開始奔跑,即使含著淚微笑,但不遠處的斑斕星光在閃爍,那便是我的信念,明天你好!
ted演講稿范文 篇13
春天到了,青蛙又開始“呱呱”地唱歌了,我發(fā)現(xiàn)又有人在田野里開始捕捉青蛙了,使青蛙成為那些人的“盤餐中”,我感到非常痛心。
青蛙是動物世界中最出色的“莊稼的保護神”。它頭上那兩只圓而突出的眼睛,能讓它看清莊稼天敵,但捉害蟲全靠它又長又寬的舌頭,舌根長口腔的前面,舌尖向那么一伸,快速地伸長長的舌頭,一下子把害蟲粘住,然后吃掉。青蛙的背上有綠色的深色花紋,腹部是白色,能幫它逃脫天敵血盆大口。身體下面有四條腿,前腿短,后腿長。青蛙是兩棲動物,不僅能在地上跳,而且也能在水里游。
青蛙吃蒼蠅,蚊子,蝗蟲,小飛娥等害蟲,一天大約能吃掉120只,半年下來就能吃掉15000只,這是多么大的功勞哇!就連青蛙的幼蟲 ------蝌蚪也能消滅許多害蟲哩!真不愧“莊稼的保護神”,農民伯伯的好助手呀!
從現(xiàn)在開始,我們一起保護“莊稼的保護神”------ 青蛙吧!讓我們共同保護[動物]生態(tài)平衡!
ted演講稿范文 篇14
大家好!
讓我們來問自己一個問題,如果上天給你一次重新選擇的機會,你會愿意做誰?是自己還是別人?
記得在小學的一節(jié)心理課上,我們的心理老師也這么問過我們。當時我們都不假思索地寫在了紙上。統(tǒng)計結果是,全班30個人,29個人是愿意做別人,只有1個人愿意做自己。
為什么不愿意做自己?也許你覺得自己太過于平凡了,但是,萬物不都是這樣嗎?一棵小草是平凡的,它只是默默地生長,任人踐踏。野花是平凡的,也許它一直是個被忽略的角色,它比其他的花更不起眼,它沒有玫瑰的嬌艷,沒有百合的清香,也沒有玉蘭這般的高貴,可它同樣能開出屬于自己的一片天。平凡,不等于我們不可以創(chuàng)造自己的不平凡,平凡,不等于我們不幸福。幸福的人不一定愿意做自己,但愿意做自己的人一定很幸福。
既然知道我永遠是我,不可能是別人,那么就快樂地做自己。做自己,本就是一種幸福!
ted演講稿范文 篇15
20__年5月12日,相信是全中國人刻骨銘心的日子。在這一天我國四川汶川縣發(fā)生了高達7.8級的強烈地震。地震過后,社會各界人士紛紛伸出援助之手。這一刻,我深深感覺到中國人的團結,當我看到電視上的報道我泣不成聲。曾經(jīng)那么美麗的地方在大地劇烈顫抖過后,變成一片廢墟使我感到很痛心。
在電視上看到了一個個因地震而失去父母的孤兒,看到了社會各界人士對他們的幫助,也得知大家為災民們籌集善款。作為一名中學生,當看到此場景,我的第一反應就是去四川汶川縣當一名志愿者,為四川汶川縣貢獻自己的一份力量。但是因為我的年齡和即將到來的中考我無法實現(xiàn)這個愿望。
在此我呼吁所有的愛心人士能夠奉獻自己的一份力量,身體上的創(chuàng)傷可以醫(yī)治,但是失去父母的孤兒內心上的創(chuàng)傷是難以安撫的。希望各位叔叔阿姨,可以給他們帶去關愛。
我們每個人的力量微薄的像一個螢火蟲。然而,千千萬萬的螢火蟲匯聚到一起,將會是無法抗拒的力量。給災民們帶來光明和希望。
我在這里虔誠的為受災大人民祈禱,早日度過難關。像詩中“長風破浪會有時,直掛云帆濟滄海!敝兴f的,相信你們的明天會更好。
ted演講稿范文 篇16
親愛的同學們:
大家好!
今天我國旗下演講的題目是《健康飲食從我做起》。
每一家的健康與食品息息相關,隨著經(jīng)濟社會不斷進步,人們飲食文化日益多樣化,食品衛(wèi)生與安全成為備受關注的話題。
要健康飲食,就要做到以下幾點:
1.不購買街邊小吃或街邊小店的垃圾食品,去一些正規(guī)超市購買食物。
2.買所需食品時,要注意生產日期、保質期、QS生產許可標志等等。
3.認準品牌購買,盡量買一些有品牌的食品。
4.少吃油炸食品及零食,多吃蔬菜水果等有營養(yǎng)的食品。
5.不買價格明顯過低的食品,不要貪小失大。
注意以上幾點,就大致能做到安全飲食了。俗話說:“民以食為天”。說得通俗一點就是人們每天要吃和喝,食物是人類賴以生存的物質。食品的質量決定了人類生命的質量。因此,食品必須是安全的并且有益健康的。
同時,也呼吁食品安全,關系你我他,但愿生產者不再為食品安全臉紅,國人不再為食品安全擔心,國家不再為食品安全丟臉。現(xiàn)在,讓我們一起行動起來,杜絕有害食品,倡導綠色食品!希望同學們聽了我這次的講話后都健康飲食,健康地成長。
謝謝大家!
ted演講稿范文 篇17
敬愛的老師,親愛的同學:
曾有一個人,以筆當武器有力地打擊日本侵略者,而他的“橫眉冷對千夫指,俯首甘為孺子牛”,有如太極一般柔中帶剛;曾有一個人,他放棄可茍且偷安的生活,毅然投身隨時有著生命危險的革命事業(yè),率領中國人民打下了屬于自己的江山。
前者與后者在同一個時代,那是中國淪落的時代。在列強侵略的鐵蹄踐踏下的中國,人民的民族意識仍然很弱,仍在外來侵略者以及軍閥的壓迫下過著渾渾噩噩的生活。前者剛開始并沒有意識到精神上的麻木才是最可怕的,他看到的只是民不聊生的慘狀,當他看到人們在病痛的折磨下而含恨離世,他突然想到如果能成為一名救死扶傷的醫(yī)生,醫(yī)治病人,也許人民的生活會好起來。
于是他不辭辛苦飄洋來到異國學習醫(yī)術。他很努力,只希望早日學成,回國去搶救那些正處于水深火熱之中的人民,但在一次令他終身難忘的事情之后,他改變了他的認識。他不再熱衷于學醫(yī),而是拿起鋒利的毛筆與侵略者做抗掙。
那一天他路過街邊的電影院,瞥見了銀幕上中國人目睹自己的同胞受到侵略者迫害而毫無反應地令人吃驚的一幕,此時此刻他如醍醐灌頂一般猛地清醒過來了,原來僅僅醫(yī)治好人們的肉體是不夠的,因為無法醫(yī)治好他們麻木的靈魂,即使擁有健康的身體也永遠只是任人使喚,任人踐踏的奴隸。要想讓人民過上幸福的生活,讓祖國擺脫列強地控制,就必須改變人們的思想,讓人民覺醒!他棄醫(yī)從文,先改變了自己,然后用自己的筆喚醒了無數(shù)的中國人。
后者同樣生活當時那個兵荒馬亂的年代,他目睹民生疾苦,便發(fā)誓要改變中國現(xiàn)狀,盡管父親封建,甚至不讓他讀書,接受文化的熏陶。但他叛逆,偏偏要上激進的學堂,他從老師那知道了到中國民不聊生的根源,愈來愈按柰不住自己那顆已經(jīng)被改變的想法塞滿的心。
但他又異常冷靜,他知道以個人之力要談改變,無異于飛蛾撲火,想要中國徹底擺脫列強的統(tǒng)治,軍閥的壓迫,就必須結交天下的愛國愛民的仁人志士,共同_舊制度,改變舊中國。在湖南第一師范的那幾年,師生之間的志同道合,大大的鼓舞了他。在后來他投身革命后還總結分析出了前輩想要改革為何卻屢屢以失敗告終的原因,于是他發(fā)出了”槍桿子底下出政權“的歷史性的呼聲,從次中國無產階級組建起自己的武裝力量,為后來打下新中國奠定了基礎。
這兩位愛國人士想必大家都知道,他們的豐功偉績也永載史冊。他們想改變國家,改變世界,就先從改變自身做起。自己擁有了目標,有了抱負,才能改變自己,改變世界!有時的成功并不是來源于不變的固執(zhí),而是改變,學會審時度勢,學會變通。
ted演講稿范文 篇18
尊敬的老師們,親愛的同學們:
大家好!
到底是剪短頭發(fā)呢,還是繼續(xù)留長發(fā)?我在鏡子前來回踱步。
“當然是短發(fā)方便啦!”媽媽笑著說,“你頭發(fā)越來越長了,打理起來也越來越麻煩。再說,嘗試改變也是一件很美好的事哦!”
我又抬起頭,望著鏡中躊躇不安的自己和頭上有些凌亂的長發(fā),心想:改變?yōu)槭裁匆欢ㄒ馕吨ツ?每天清晨,為了這一頭長發(fā),我常常要在鏡前花費很多寶貴的時間。但是如果剪成了短發(fā),不僅能節(jié)約時間,而且我還可以迎接一個嶄新的模樣,一個嶄新的自我……
我下定了決心:改變!
于是,我坐在了理發(fā)店的轉椅上,鏡中的我露出心滿意足的微笑。看著滿地的碎發(fā),我“如釋重負”,一下子覺得世界煥然一新?磥恚暗膿鷳n真是多余!
出了理發(fā)店,冬日的暖陽從云朵中露出微笑臉龐。我一邊邁著歡快的步伐,一邊在想:“改變,真好!”
這讓我想起了另一件事。
以前,最讓我焦慮的事情,就是在書房那“茫茫書!敝袑ふ乙槐炯毙璧淖鳂I(yè)本。媽媽十分關心我,總是抽空幫我整理書房。但整理之后的日子里,書房總會時不時傳來一連串問號:“媽媽,我的課外書呢?”“咦,我的練習冊哪去了?”
于是,我嘗試改變。從給每一本書歸類到把書柜分格,從為每一本作業(yè)本“安家”,到給每一支筆找到“住所”……很快,我的書房中的每一位成員都有了“新家”。
從此,我都自己收拾房間。忙碌過后,我每次都感到疲倦,但內心卻是無比快樂。因為我體驗了“改變”:從媽媽為我的一切操勞,到我自己打理生活。我的房間越來越整潔,我也在改變中成長,越來越獨立了。
生命中有許多需要改變的東西,我們要對改變充滿信心,不能讓多余的擔心阻擋我們成長的步伐,因為改變讓我們收獲自信,收獲希望,收獲人生的多姿多態(tài)!改變,真好!
ted演講稿范文 篇19
每個人至少擁有一個夢想,有一個理由去堅強,心若沒有了棲息的地方,到哪里都是在流浪。水之一方,沒有了昨天,今天,明天;海之一角,沒有了前世,今生,來生;所思所議在剎那間全部盛開,又凋落…捧起時間的潮汐,埋葬以前的心愿,期待著明天會更好,至少我們會變得成熟了,感知到這個世界在微妙的變動。時間散落在平靜的心湖中,蕩起陣陣漣漪,一圈圈的希冀,勾勒出我們的人生藍圖。
不知明天會怎樣?或許風和日麗,或許陰雨綿綿,亦或許狂風怒卷。但我們還是期待這它的到來,期待它給我們帶來驚喜,人生就是由無數(shù)的未知構成。它猶如舞臺上的一出戲,不同的是,在人生的舞臺上演出是沒有彩排的。
卡耐基說過:It'syourtakingpartinginthelifeandtheactionsbutnotyouroutcomethatcounts.沒有凝固的生命,沒有亙古的荒原,只要我們滿懷期待,擁有夢想,任何的消沉都會綻放瑰麗的神奇,在沒有色彩的地方創(chuàng)造色彩,在沒有聲音的地方創(chuàng)造聲音,在沒有奇跡的地方創(chuàng)造奇跡。
明天,真的會更好。
ted演講稿范文 篇20
親愛的同學們:
大家好!
我今天演講的主題是“關注食品安全”。
隨著中國社會經(jīng)濟的快速發(fā)展和人民生活水平的提高,人們越來越重視健康和食品安全,尤其是“__”奶粉等食品安全事件的發(fā)生,這也引起了人們的關注。
給我們敲響了安全的警鐘,“食品安全”已成為與國民健康,社會穩(wěn)定,經(jīng)濟發(fā)展和市場繁榮相關的重要因素。
對于我們每個同學來說,學習和了解相關的食品衛(wèi)生知識,養(yǎng)成良好的飲食習慣,提高自我保護意識,抵制劣質食品的誘惑是非常必要和實際的。
但我們經(jīng)?吹揭恍⿲W生在校園的雜貨店,餐館甚至小攤子前,一些學生在購買、食用價廉質次的食品。那么,你了解這些看似誘人和便宜的食物背后的危險嗎?
據(jù)衛(wèi)生監(jiān)督部門的技術人員介紹,由于學生的零用錢相對有限,大多數(shù)這些經(jīng)營者“便宜進便宜出”,采取購買一些“三無”產品的原則,大多數(shù)食品是基于顏料和糖精。在這里我建議學生:
1.建立食品安全概念,了解食品安全知識,增強自我保護能力。購買食品時,應選擇常規(guī)的大型購物中心和超市。購買食品時,應盡量選擇一些知名品牌。同時,我們必須注意食品包裝上是否有制造商,生產日期以及保質期是否已過。
如果你在小商店購買食品,你必須看好制造商,生產日期,保質期,注意包裝袋是否損壞。無生產許可證和qs徽標的食品不能購買或食用。
2.養(yǎng)成良好的飲食觀念。不食用流動攤點的小吃、零食等,自覺抵制,三無食物,劣質食品,學生在學校盡可能在學校食堂吃飯。
3.養(yǎng)成健康的飲食習慣。不挑食,不偏食,一日三餐,定時定量,不暴飲暴食。帶上自己的杯子,多喝開水。事實上,開水是的飲料。
有些飲料含有防腐劑,色素等,經(jīng)常飲用不利于年輕學生的健康。
老師,同學們,食品安全都是不小的事,“病從口入”重預防。如今,已進入春天的季節(jié)萬物復蘇,各種細菌正在悄然滋生和迅速傳播。
讓我們自覺行動,注重食品安全,重視“問題食品”對身體健康和青少年成長的危害,遠離“問題食品”和“不合格食品”,不斷提高我們的食品安全意識。自我保護意識,為構建平安和諧、健康向上的校園環(huán)境而不懈努力!
謝謝大家!
ted演講稿范文 篇21
走進幸福的天堂!let’s go!
我:“鐘老師,您幸福么?”當我問鐘老師這個問題的時候,老師感到驚訝,說:“我當然幸福啦!”“那你最大的幸福是什么呀?”我問。鐘老師想了一會兒說:“嗯......是可以干自己想干的事,沒有人阻攔我。而且要對自己有益,對別人有益那才幸福呢。”
校醫(yī)卻對我說: “沒有人來看病,整天清閑著就幸福了!钡矣X得校醫(yī)是在說笑吧,哪有作為一個醫(yī)生不想救死扶傷呢?
舞蹈老師說:“能讓我教過的學生都能夠不斷進步,那就是我的幸福了。
廚房叔叔說:“我不知道! 班長說:“對不起,我不接受采訪! 吳芃凈:“我......跟你一樣。”
我不懂,為什么我在問大人時,他(她)們都會狂笑不止,而我在問同學時,同學們就不愿意回答。
鐘老師的幸福是因為可以做對自己、別人有益的事。舞蹈老師的幸福是自己教過的學生都能夠不斷進步。她們都是一個好老師,都在為別人付出。
老師們!你們經(jīng)歷過苦難,但你們都能感到幸福。那我就更加不用說了。
我幸福,因為我生活在幸福中。
一次,我和阿姨坐公交車去天虹購物。在公交車上,有一個老奶奶上車了,可車上沒座位了。我看到旁邊有一個牌子,上面寫:請給老人讓座。老師也講過,要給老人讓座。于是,我讓老奶奶坐在我的座位上。老奶奶說:“謝謝你!”一個姐姐看見了,讓我坐在她的座位上?梢,我們人之間是有愛、是有幸福的。
其實,幸福很簡單,它時時刻刻地陪在我們身邊!
付出是一種幸福。彼此牽手同行,難免磕碰,重要的是要珍惜愛與付出。
擁有是一種幸福。你有很多東西,難道你不會感到幸福么?
批評是一種幸福。老師和家長批評你,是因為他(她)們關心你。不然,他們怎么會批評你呢?所以,你被批評時,應該高興呀!
被攻擊,被妒忌是一種幸福.因為你有值得被妒忌和攻擊的資格。
被出賣是一種幸福。它讓你看清楚誰是你真正的朋友。
失望是一種幸福。因為有盼望,才會有失望。有了盼望,就有了追求,有了追求,就有了幸福。
許多人認為有錢就是幸福,因為金錢可以買到很多自己想要的東西。不過,我認為有金錢并不一定就能得到幸福!因為金錢買不到親情,買不到真誠。
我們如果不能察覺自己的幸福,是因為還不懂的幸福的含義,不懂得感激生活,寬容待人。
幸福不一定需要有很多錢,一家人能相親相愛,朋友間能真誠相待,就是幸福。有時,一句貼心的話兒,一個感人的動作,那也是幸福。
幸福并不遙遠,只要我們用心感受,它就在我們身邊,可遇可求。
ted演講稿范文 篇22
人的一生在世間浮沉,難免會迷失方向、迷失自己。因而,能夠時刻正確認識自己,就顯得尤為重要。蘇格拉底曾說:“美德即知識,認識你自己!边@恰恰說明了,能夠正確認識自己,也是一種至高無上的美德。
有的時候,人們迷失了自己,只是無法找尋到自己真實的存在,不知道自己存在的意義和價值,因而對人生感到迷茫。這個時候,只需要繼續(xù)尋找,總能夠找到前進的方向。然而有的時候,人們迷失了自己之后,不去尋找真實的自己,反而把自己臆想成另一種存在,然后就以那種存在的姿態(tài)去繼續(xù)自己的人生。那種時候,人們就很難再找回自己,甚至會走上一條極端的不歸路。
就如同古代帝王,相信每一任帝王在登基之初都是想做一任明君造福百姓的。但是有的帝王會因為權欲熏心,真的把自己當成神,可以主宰終生,最終背離了自己的初衷。紂王要剖比干之心,厲王要“止謗”,連一代圣君唐太宗也差點殺掉勇于勸諫的魏征。由此可見,不能正確認識自己的后果是多么可怕。這也說明了,正確認識自己,有的時候幫助的甚至不僅僅是自己。
但是,在人生迷茫之后,還能正確認識自己,真的那么困難嗎?
其實,正確認識自己,只需要自己足夠虛心,能夠聽取別人的意見和建議,有去正視自己和改過自新的勇氣便可。
齊王在聽了鄒忌的勸諫之后,立刻認識到自己的不足,下令改革。法國作家盧梭,他的《懺悔錄》是一部空前絕后的“靈魂自白書”,他在書中真實地記錄了他的一生,包括他曾做過小偷、拋棄摯友、嫁禍他人的種.種丑行。讀此《懺悔錄》時常令人感到觸目驚心,因為當他把自己剖析得體無完膚的時候,就是他真正認識自己、超越了自己的時候。
所以說,有的時候,正確認識自己,只需要自己思維的一個轉變,但就是這樣一個小小的轉變,帶來的影響卻可以是不可估量的。對于個人而言,正確認識自己可以幫助自己更好地發(fā)展,有時也可以造福身邊的人。而對于統(tǒng)治階級而言,正確認識自己,就可以造福整個國家,給整個社會帶去寧靜安樂。
人生來不就是為了找到自己真實的存在嗎?所以,正確認識自己吧。
ted演講稿范文 篇23
少年pi的全名叫:派西尼。莫利托。帕特爾,方便起見,就叫他派好了。
派是一個從小生活在動物園的孩子,一次,為了搬去加拿大,派一家與動物們登上了開往大洋彼岸的貨船“齊姆楚姆號”。
天有不測風云,在一個風雨交加的早晨,船沉了。睡夢中的人們還不知道發(fā)生了什么,就沉入了這蔚藍色的海洋。只有派與一只斑馬,一只紅猩猩,一只鬣狗,還有一只名叫理查德。帕克的成年孟加拉虎乘上了救生艇,
弱肉強食的生存法則毫不意外地在這里被印證。
一艘小小的救生艇自然無法滿足他們的生存需求,所以自然而然的,鬣狗吃掉了斑馬與紅猩猩,有被老虎吃掉。只剩下派與理查德。帕克了。
我本以為派也會被老虎吃掉,之后老虎死于缺水,在之后全劇終。可看著剩下200多頁紙的厚度,我便打消了這可笑的念頭。
不出所料,奇跡發(fā)生了。
派與這只孟加拉虎,在這條長僅26英尺的小艇上和諧共存了幾個月,直至獲救。
看到這里,我不得不對派肅然起敬。他是如此的勇敢,堅強。換做是我,或許早就因老虎的利爪或缺水而死了,但他卻能用自己僅有的一切,與一只老虎在一望無邊的太平洋上共存,這需要多么強烈的求生意志,多么強大的自信心啊!
在對比一下自己,整日無所事事,得過且過,無抱負無追求,為什么派可以超越自己的極限?我想,是壓力的緣故吧。
派的壓力來自于死亡,為了生存下來,他可以發(fā)揮出自己的全部潛質,是死亡的壓力拯救了他。
而我的壓力主要來自父母和老師。只要成績有些進步,就可以說失去了壓力,一個失去壓力的人一定不會有什么大成就,因為壓力就像燃油,是我們前進時不可缺少的動力。沒有了動力,我們只能停下,倒退,最終被淘汰。
有壓力是好事,但也要適度。就像汽車超速了會被罰款,壓力過大了,也會使我們不負重擔。只有適當?shù)膲毫由蠣N爛的微笑,美好的未來才會向我們揮手。
所以,朋友們,讓我們用雙手去擁抱這可愛的壓力吧。
無壓力,不動力!
ted演講稿范文 篇24
動物,它們是我們的朋友;動物,我們要保護它們;動物,也有尊嚴;動物;也有血有肉;動物,它跟我們一樣,也是一條生命啊。
人們常常捕殺那些可憐的小動物,在他們的腦子里,只想著殺了他們賺錢,他們似乎已經(jīng)喪失意志。如果我親眼看見他們捕殺動物,我會問他們:“難道他們沒有家人嗎?你沒有體驗過骨肉分離的滋味,你想過那是什么滋味兒嗎?它們也有血有肉、它們也知道感恩,你想過在他們即將被你們殺死的時候,心里會想些什么嗎?你們不知道,有那么多無辜的小動物經(jīng)過你的手被殺死,難道他們有罪嗎?難道他們生下來就應該被殘害嗎?難道你們不該被遭報應嗎?
你們可以換位思考一下,假如你是一條無辜的小動物,在你生下來的那一刻,你親眼看見你的母親死于非命或你被那些人給殺害了,你們心里會怎么想?你們就會親身體驗到骨肉分離的滋味吧?既然你想到這些,你們就該好好反思反思,那些無辜的小生命就該死于你們這些心腸狠毒的人手里嗎?就算它們該死,也輪不到你們動手。我不知道你們知不知道,那些小生命臨死之前會是什么樣的神情?你們不知道,為什么?因為你們沒血沒肉,你們殺了那么多無辜的小動物,該死的人不是它們,而是你們,因為當你給它們東西的時候,他們會知道感恩。
也許你們會想,就是一條畜生,有什么好值錢的?殺就殺唄,反正還能給我賺點錢,你們這樣想就錯了,不只錯,而且大錯特錯。對,他們雖然是畜生,它們好歹是條生命,對,它們雖不值錢,但它們不該死……
好啦,話不多說,我希望那些捕殺小動物的人,你們早一點改過自新,不然,你們早晚受到法律的制裁。
ted演講稿范文 篇25
I grew up diagnosed as phobically shy,
我從小就有社交恐懼癥
and like at least 20 other people in a room of this size,
這樣的空間 大約20人
I was a stutterer.
就能讓以前的我結巴語塞
Do you dare raise your hand?
更別提舉手了 根本不可能
And it sticks with us.
這種困擾如影隨形
It really does stick with us,
你走到哪 它就跟到哪
because when we are treated that way,
當大家對你的存在視若無睹
we feel invisible sometimes,
你會開始感覺自己是隱形人
or talked around and at.
而別人都在你背后竊竊私語
And as I started to look at people,
后來我仔細去觀察周遭的人
which is mostly all I did,
一直以來我都只敢默默觀察
I noticed that some people really wanted attention
然后發(fā)現(xiàn)有些人無法忍受被忽視
and recognition.
他們要得到大家的注意力和認同
Remember, I was young then.
當時我年輕、懵懂
So what did they do? What we still do perhaps too often?
渴望注意力的人會做什么? 也許現(xiàn)在太多人在做一樣的事而不自知
We talk about ourselves.
他們談論的常常都是自己
And yet there are other people I observed who had what I called a mutualitymindset.
但另一批人就不同了 我說他們的人際關系 往往有一種“互相”的心態(tài)
In each situation, they found a way to talk about us and create that “us”idea.
無論什么場合 他們的談話里都會出現(xiàn)“我們”這個概念
So my idea to reimagine the world is to see it one where we all becomegreater opportunity-makers with and for others.
在我心目中的理想世界 每個人都能為自己和別人創(chuàng)造機會
There’s no greater opportunity or call for action for us now
就是現(xiàn)在 我們必須把握良機、采取行動
than to become opportunity-makers who use best talents together more oftenfor the greater good
多去整合各種才能 盡可能的利益他人
and accomplish things we couldn’t have done on our own.
一人做不到的 多人或許有辦法
And I want to talk to you about that,
這就是我今天的重點
cause even more than giving,
比單純給予
even more than giving,
施舍、捐贈更有影響力的
is the capacity for us to do something smarter together
就是人們學會集思廣益
for the greater good that lifts us both up
共同合作 創(chuàng)造雙贏局面
and that can scale.
其中的利益會一層層積累
That’s why I’m sitting here.
這是我今天演講的重點
But I also want to point something else out.
不過我還想說一件事
Each one of you is better than anybody else at something.
臺下的你必定在某些事上比其他人都拿手
That disproves that popular notion that if you’re the smartest person inthe room,
和那句名言“你絕不是這里最厲害的人”
you’re in the wrong room.
恰恰相反
So let me tell you about a Hollywood party I went to a couple yearsback,
我在幾年前的一個好萊塢聚會上
and I met this up-and-coming actress,
遇見了位有潛力的女演員
and we were soon talking about something that we both felt passionatelyabout,
我們很快就找到共同話題-
public art.
公共藝術
And she had the fervent belief that every new building in Los Angeles
她堅信洛杉磯的每棟建筑里
should have public art in it. She wanted a regulation for it,
都應該有公共藝術 她想要一套專屬公共藝術的規(guī)范
and she fervently started,
所以她興忡忡的著手進行
What is here from Chicago?
這里有誰是芝加哥人嗎?
She fervently started talking about these bean-shaped reflective sculpturesin Millennium Park,
她滔滔不絕的說著千禧公園里的云門雕塑
and people would walk up to it
人們好奇的上前一探究竟
and they’d smile in the reflection of it,
看著自己的映像微笑
and they’d pose and they’d vamp and they’d take selfies together
擺pose、贊嘆、自拍留念
and they’d laugh.
然后笑成一團
And as she was talking, a thought came to my mind.
聽著聽著 我突然靈光乍現(xiàn)
I said, “I know someone you ought to meet.
我告訴她: “妳應該見見這個人
He’s getting out of San Quentin in a couple of weeks
再幾周他就要從圣昆丁州立監(jiān)獄出來了
and he shares your fervent desire that art should engage and enable peopleto connect.”
他跟妳一樣 覺得藝術應該讓人有共鳴、激發(fā)想像力”
He spent five years in solitary,
他被單獨監(jiān)禁了五年
and I met him because I gave a speech at San Quentin,
我因為在圣昆丁演講 而與他結識
and he’s articulate
他口條不錯
and he’s rather easy on the eyes
長的也不賴
because he’s buff. He had workout regime he did everyday.
因為他是條熱愛健身的漢子
I think she was following me at that point.
女演員大概還滿有興趣的
I said, “he’d be an une_pected ally.”
我又說: “他會是個得力助手”
And not just that. There’s James. He’s an architect
除了他之外 我把詹姆也拉進來 詹姆是建筑師
and he’s a professor,
也是個教授
and he loves place-making, and place-making is when you have thosemini-plazas
他對地方營造很有興趣 外頭的小廣場、
and those urban walkways
城市人行道
and where they’re dotted with art,
任何有藝術點綴的地方 都屬于地方營造的范疇
where people draw and come up and talk sometimes.
許多人會在那兒畫畫、閑聊
I think they’d make good allies.
我想他們一定能合作無間
And indeed they were.
果真沒錯
They met together. They prepared.
他們碰面之后 就開始籌備
They spoke in front of the Lost Angeles City Council.
到洛杉磯市政府傳達訴求
And the council members not only passed the regulation,
結果市議員通過了他們訂的條例
half of them came down and asked to pose with them afterwards.
之后甚至半數(shù)議員還去與藝術品合影
They were startling, compelling and credible.
他們給人的印象是震懾、具說服力、可靠
You can’t buy that.
全都是用錢買不到的
What I’m asking you to consider is what kind of opportunity-makers we mightbecome,
希望各位想想自己能成為哪種機會制造者
because more than wealth
比財富、
or fancy titles
頭銜、
or a lot of contacts,
人脈更可觀的
it’s our capacity to connect around each other’s better side and bring itout.
是我們發(fā)掘他人優(yōu)點的能力
And I’m not saying this is easy,
這一點都不容易
and I’m sure many of you have made the wrong moves too about who you wantedto connect with,
相信許多人都有找錯對象、牽錯線的經(jīng)驗
but what I want to suggest is, this is an opportunity.
但畢竟都是個“機會”
I started thinking about it way back when I was a Wall Street Journalreporter and I was in Europe
這個領悟要從好幾年前說起 當時我在歐洲 擔任華爾街日報記者
and I was supposed to cover trends and trends that transcended business orpolitics or lifestyle.
采訪內容為時尚與流行 跨越商業(yè)、政治、生活型態(tài)隔閡的流行
So I had to have contacts in different worlds very different than mine,
因此得和背景截然不同的人打交道
because otherwise you couldn’t spot the trends.
否則就無法掌握潮流走向
And third, I had to write a story in a way stepping into the reader’sshoes,
寫故事時 還得設身處地為讀者想
they could see how these trends could affect their lives.
要讓他們覺得自己和這些潮流息息相關
That’s what opportunity-makers do.
這就是機會制造者的任務
And here’s a strange thing:
奇怪之處在于
Unlike an increasing number of Americans who are working and living andplaying with people who think e_actly like them
越來越多人工作、生活、娛樂都喜歡尋找與自己相似的人
because we then become more rigid and e_treme,
久而久之就變得挑剔、極端起來
opportunity-makers are actively seeking situations with people unlikethem,
機會制造者尋找與自己不相似的人
and they’re building relationships,
和他們建立關系
and because they do that,
這樣做的話
they have trusted relationships where they can bring the right team in
兩方之間就有互信 能在適當?shù)臅r機介紹彼此適當?shù)娜?/p>
and recruit them to solve a problem better and faster and seize moreopportunities.
用更快、更好的方法解決問題 同時也抓住了更多機會
They’re not affronted by differences.
機會創(chuàng)造者不會被歧異冒犯
They’re fascinated by them,
反而深受吸引
and that is a huge shift in mindset,
這是心態(tài)上的極端不同
and once you feel it, you want it to happen a lot more.
你一旦意識到 就會為它的魅力著迷
This world is calling out for us to have a collective mindset,
和別人形成“共同體”才是王道
and I believe in doing that.
我個人深信
It’s especially important now.
攜手合作在這世代特別重要
Why is it important now?
為什么呢?
Because things can be devised like drones
機器小幫手
and drugs and data collection,
藥物開發(fā)、數(shù)據(jù)收集
and they can be devised by more people.
都可以讓更多人參與其中
and cheaper ways for beneficial purposes
用更經(jīng)濟的方式創(chuàng)造收益
and then, as we know from the news every day, they can be used fordangerous ones.
只是水能載舟 亦能復舟 也可能被有心人士利用
It calls on us, each of us, to a higher calling.
這個理念非常需要大家的重視
But here’s the icing on the cake:
成為機會制造者是一箭雙雕
It’s not just the first opportunity that you do with somebody else that’sprobably your greatest,
除了獲得和更高竿對象合作的機會
as an institution or an individual.
無論對于機構或個人來說
It’s after you’ve had that e_perience and you trust each other.
都是開啟了這扇門 建立信任后
It’s the une_pected things that you devise later on you never could havepredicted.
團隊合作帶來的驚人成果
For e_ample, Marty is the husband of that actress I mentioned,
麥迪是那位女演員的丈夫
and he watched them when they were practicing,
詹姆等三人排練時 他就在旁邊看
and he was soon talking to Wally, my friend the e_-con,
并很快和韋利聊開了 就是剛出獄的那位
about that e_ercise regime.
大概在聊健身吧?
And he thought, I have a set of racquetball courts.
麥迪心想: “我有個壁球館
That guy could teach it. A lot of people who work there are members at mycourts.
韋利可以來當教練 很多教練都是體育館的會員
They’re frequent travelers.
他們很常來我這邊
They could practice in their hotel room, no equipment provided.
旅館房間里沒有設備 也照樣能練習”
That’s how Wally got hired.
韋利就這樣得到了板球教練的工作
Not only that, years later he was also teaching racquetball.
幾年后他也開始教壁球學生
Years after that, he was teaching the racquetball teachers.
再過了幾年則是教壁球老師
What I’m suggesting is, when you connect with people
我想說的是 當你把周遭有相同興趣、
around a shared interest and action,
喜好的人圈在一塊
you’re accustomed to serendipitous things happening into the future,
就會逐漸適應隨之而來、意想不到的收獲
and I think that’s what we’re looking at.
我想這才是至關重要
We open ourselves up to those opportunities,
面對機會 我們敞開心胸
and in this room are key players and technology,
關鍵推手-這里的你們 再加上科技
key players who are uniquely positioned to do this,
每個人各司其職 有自己的位置
to scale systems and projects together.
提升制度和計劃的整體價值
So here’s what I’m calling for you to do. Remember the three traits ofopportunity-makers.
我想拜讬大家的 就是記得機會制造者的三項特質
Opportunity-makers keep honing their top strength
一、機會制造者不斷磨練自己專長
and they become pattern seekers.
開拓事物運作的新方式
They get involved in different worlds than their worlds
二、他們樂于接觸不同人的世界
so they’re trusted and they can see those patterns,
獲取信任 學習各種合作方式
and they communicate to connect around sweet spots of shared interest.
三、他們周旋于各方之間 讓參與的人都分一杯羹
So what I’m asking you is, the world is hungry.
我想說的是 人與人之間太缺乏連結
I truly believe, in my firsthand e_perience,
根據(jù)親身經(jīng)驗 我相信
the world is hungry for us to unite together as opportunity-makers
這世界很需要機會制造者
and to emulate those behaviors as so many of you already do, I know thatfirsthand,
可能臺下的你已經(jīng)是其中之一 大家都應該效仿機會制造者
and to reimagine a world where we use our best talents together
重塑我們的世界 融合各領域人才
more often to accomplish greater thing together than we could on ourown.
一人不能做的事 借由合作來完成
Just remember,
請把這句話放在心上
as Dave Liniger once said,
大衛(wèi)˙林杰說過
“You can’t succeed coming to the potluck with only a fork.”
“只帶一只叉子就來百樂餐的人 永遠無法成功”(注: 后衍伸為商業(yè)成長需要集體合作、貢獻)
Thank you very much.
謝謝大家
Thank you.
謝謝。
ted演講稿范文 篇26
寒假里,一向喜歡運動的我只報了一個運動班——羽毛球班,可這次的教練,讓我收獲了一個意想不到的知識。
記得寒假的第一節(jié)羽毛球課,教我打羽毛球的教練有翻天覆地的變化,原先教我的是吳教練,可這是最厲害的阮教練教我們,阮教練原先是教高級,最喜歡用殺球來打那些不聽話的人,雖然我沒有嘗試過,但看那力度,就會讓我忐忑不安。
當我第一次和阮教練打球時,經(jīng)常有十幾個球打不到對面,而我卻為了接到球跑的氣喘吁吁,“下一個”阮教練每次都用復雜的聲音,對我說著,眼神里流露出一絲無奈。
過了幾天后,阮教練好像在家里想了很久,在今天做了一個決定,“每個人有一個球打不過網(wǎng),就兩個俯臥撐!蔽乙宦牐⒖躺盗,我一般有十幾個球沒打過來,那不是要做二十幾個俯臥撐,那不累死。但教練已經(jīng)下了命令,不能不遵從,只好盡力而為吧!我痛苦的想著!跋乱粋。”教練忽然叫道。我定眼看了看,到我了,時間怎么過的這樣快?只好盡力而為。
“前面兩個球,后面開放。”教練大聲叫道,“媽呀!”我小聲嘀咕著,“為什么一到我就變換一個打法?”可這是,阮教練已經(jīng)發(fā)球,我只好認認真真地打球,想一切方法讓我可以準確地打到每一個球。我不停地跑,喜歡出汗的我已經(jīng)汗流滿面,可我還是努力接到球!耙粋,哈哈,你終于有一個了。”教練說道,“還有幾個,加油哦!這時,我萬分激動,剛剛有十幾個,這次只有一個,太好了。我的眼睛里留下了成功的淚花。
這件事已經(jīng)過去了幾天幾夜,但我的腦海里對這件事仍然記憶猶新,阮教練叫我們做俯臥撐,其實就是給我們加大壓力,有一句俗話說:有了壓力,就有了動力!耙驗樽龈┡P撐累,辛苦,所以我為了不做俯臥撐,當然就會想方設法接到球。
ted演講稿范文 篇27
壓力大,怎么辦?壓力會讓你心跳加速、呼吸加快、額頭冒汗!當壓力成為全民健康公敵時,有研究顯示只有當你與壓力為敵時,它才會危害你的健康。心理學家kellymcgonigal 從積極的一面分析壓力,教你如何使壓力變成你的朋友!
stress. it makes your heart pound, your breathing quicken and your foreheadsweat. but while stress has been made into a public health enemy, new researchsuggests that stress may only be bad for you if you believe that to be the case.psychologist kelly mcgonigal urges us to see stress as a positive, andintroduces us to an unsung mechanism for stress reduction: reaching out toothers.
kelly mcgonigal translates academic research into practical strategies forhealth, happiness and personal success.
why you should listen to her:
stanford university psychologist kelly mcgonigal is a leader in the growingfield of “science-help.” through books, articles, courses and workshops,mcgonigal works to help us understand and implement the latest scientificfindings in psychology, neuroscience and medicine.
straddling the worlds of research and practice, mcgonigal holds positionsin both the stanford graduate school of business and the school of medicine. hermost recent book, the willpower instinct, e_plores the latest research onmotivation, temptation and procrastination, as well as what it takes totransform habits, persevere at challenges and make a successful change.
she is now researching a new book about the "upside of stress," which willlook at both why stress is good for us, and what makes us good at stress. in herwords: "the old understanding of stress as a unhelpful relic of our animalinstincts is being replaced by the understanding that stress actually makes ussocially smart -- it's what allows us to be fully human."
i have a confession to make, but first, i want you to make a littleconfession to me. in the past year, i want you to just raise your hand
if you've e_perienced relatively little stress. anyone?
how about a moderate amount of stress?
who has e_perienced a lot of stress? yeah. me too.
but that is not my confession. my confession is this: i am a healthpsychologist, and my mission is to help people be happier and healthier. but ifear that something i've been teaching for the last 10 years is doing more harmthan good, and it has to do with stress. for years i've been telling people,stress makes you sick. it increases the risk of everything from the common coldto cardiovascular disease. basically, i've turned stress into the enemy. but ihave changed my mind about stress, and today, i want to change yours.
let me start with the study that made me rethink my whole approach tostress. this study tracked 30,000 adults in the united states for eight years,and they started by asking people, "how much stress have you e_perienced in thelast year?" they also asked, "do you believe that stress is harmful for yourhealth?" and then they used public death records to find out who died.
(laughter)
okay. some bad news first. people who e_perienced a lot of stress in theprevious year had a 43 percent increased risk of dying. but that was only truefor the people who also believed that stress is harmful for your health.(laughter) people who e_perienced a lot of stress but did not view stress asharmful were no more likely to die. in fact, they had the lowest risk of dyingof anyone in the study, including people who had relatively little stress.
now the researchers estimated that over the eight years they were trackingdeaths, 182,000 americans died prematurely, not from stress, but from the beliefthat stress is bad for you. (laughter) that is over 20,000 deaths a year. now,if that estimate is correct, that would make believing stress is bad for you the15th largest cause of death in the united states last year, killing more peoplethan skin cancer, hiv/aids and homicide.
(laughter)
you can see why this study freaked me out. here i've been spending so muchenergy telling people stress is bad for your health.
so this study got me wondering: can changing how you think about stressmake you healthier? and here the science says yes. when you change your mindabout stress, you can change your body's response to stress.
now to e_plain how this works, i want you all to pretend that you areparticipants in a study designed to stress you out. it's called the socialstress test. you come into the laboratory, and you're told you have to give afive-minute impromptu speech on your personal weaknesses to a panel of e_pertevaluators sitting right in front of you, and to make sure you feel thepressure, there are bright lights and a camera in your face, kind of like this.and the evaluators have been trained to give you discouraging, non-verbalfeedback like this.
(laughter)
now that you're sufficiently demoralized, time for part two: a math test.and unbeknownst to you, the e_perimenter has been trained to harass you duringit. now we're going to all do this together. it's going to be fun. for me.
okay. i want you all to count backwards from 996 in increments of seven.you're going to do this out loud as fast as you can, starting with 996. go!audience: (counting) go faster. faster please. you're going too slow. stop.stop, stop, stop. that guy made a mistake. we are going to have to start allover again. (laughter) you're not very good at this, are you? okay, so you getthe idea. now, if you were actually in this study, you'd probably be a littlestressed out. your heart might be pounding, you might be breathing faster, maybebreaking out into a sweat. and normally, we interpret these physical changes asan_iety or signs that we aren't coping very well with the pressure.
but what if you viewed them instead as signs that your body was energized,was preparing you to meet this challenge? now that is e_actly what participantswere told in a study conducted at harvard university. before they went throughthe social stress test, they were taught to rethink their stress response ashelpful. that pounding heart is preparing you for action. if you're breathingfaster, it's no problem. it's getting more o_ygen to your brain. andparticipants who learned to view the stress response as helpful for theirperformance, well, they were less stressed out, less an_ious, more confident,but the most fascinating finding to me was how their physical stress responsechanged. now, in a typical stress response, your heart rate goes up, and yourblood vessels constrict like this. and this is one of the reasons that chronicstress is sometimes associated with cardiovascular disease. it's not reallyhealthy to be in this state all the time. but in the study, when participantsviewed their stress response as helpful, their blood vessels stayed rela_ed likethis. their heart was still pounding, but this is a much healthiercardiovascular profile. it actually looks a lot like what happens in moments ofjoy and courage. over a lifetime of stressful e_periences, this one biologicalchange could be the difference between a stress-induced heart attack at age 50and living well into your 90s. and this is really what the new science of stressreveals, that how you think about stress matters.
so my goal as a health psychologist has changed. i no longer want to getrid of your stress. i want to make you better at stress. and we just did alittle intervention. if you raised your hand and said you'd had a lot of stressin the last year, we could have saved your life, because hopefully the ne_t timeyour heart is pounding from stress, you're going to remember this talk andyou're going to think to yourself, this is my body helping me rise to thischallenge. and when you view stress in that way, your body believes you, andyour stress response becomes healthier.
now i said i have over a decade of demonizing stress to redeem myself from,so we are going to do one more intervention. i want to tell you about one of themost under-appreciated aspects of the stress response, and the idea is this:stress makes you social.
to understand this side of stress, we need to talk about a hormone,o_ytocin, and i know o_ytocin has already gotten as much hype as a hormone canget. it even has its own cute nickname, the cuddle hormone, because it'sreleased when you hug someone. but this is a very small part of what o_ytocin isinvolved in. o_ytocin is a neuro-hormone. it fine-tunes your brain's socialinstincts. it primes you to do things that strengthen close relationships.o_ytocin makes you crave physical contact with your friends and family. itenhances your empathy. it even makes you more willing to help and support thepeople you care about. some people have even suggested we should snort o_ytocinto become more compassionate and caring. but here's what most people don'tunderstand about o_ytocin. it's a stress hormone. your pituitary gland pumpsthis stuff out as part of the stress response. it's as much a part of yourstress response as the adrenaline that makes your heart pound. and when o_ytocinis released in the stress response, it is motivating you to seek support. yourbiological stress response is nudging you to tell someone how you feel insteadof bottling it up. your stress response wants to make sure you notice whensomeone else in your life is struggling so that you can support each other. whenlife is difficult, your stress response wants you to be surrounded by people whocare about you.
okay, so how is knowing this side of stress going to make you healthier?well, o_ytocin doesn't only act on your brain. it also acts on your body, andone of its main roles in your body is to protect your cardiovascular system fromthe effects of stress. it's a natural anti-inflammatory. it also helps yourblood vessels stay rela_ed during stress. but my favorite effect on the body isactually on the heart. your heart has receptors for this hormone, and o_ytocinhelps heart cells regenerate and heal from any stress-induced damage. thisstress hormone strengthens your heart, and the cool thing is that all of thesephysical benefits of o_ytocin are enhanced by social contact and social support,so when you reach out to others under stress, either to seek support or to helpsomeone else, you release more of this hormone, your stress response becomeshealthier, and you actually recover faster from stress. i find this amazing,that your stress response has a built-in mechanism for stress resilience, andthat mechanism is human connection.
i want to finish by telling you about one more study. and listen up,because this study could also save a life. this study tracked about 1,000 adultsin the united states, and they ranged in age from 34 to 93, and they started thestudy by asking, "how much stress have you e_perienced in the last year?" theyalso asked, "how much time have you spent helping out friends, neighbors, peoplein your community?" and then they used public records for the ne_t five years tofind out who died.
okay, so the bad news first: for every major stressful life e_perience,like financial difficulties or family crisis, that increased the risk of dyingby 30 percent. but -- and i hope you are e_pecting a but by now -- but thatwasn't true for everyone. people who spent time caring for others showedabsolutely no stress-related increase in dying. zero. caring created resilience.and so we see once again that the harmful effects of stress on your health arenot inevitable. how you think and how you act can transform your e_perience ofstress. when you choose to view your stress response as helpful, you create thebiology of courage. and when you choose to connect with others under stress, youcan create resilience. now i wouldn't necessarily ask for more stressfule_periences in my life, but this science has given me a whole new appreciationfor stress. stress gives us access to our hearts. the compassionate heart thatfinds joy and meaning in connecting with others, and yes, your pounding physicalheart, working so hard to give you strength and energy, and when you choose toview stress in this way, you're not just getting better at stress, you'reactually making a pretty profound statement. you're saying that you can trustyourself to handle life's challenges, and you're remembering that you don't haveto face them alone.
thank you.
(applause)
chris anderson: this is kind of amazing, what you're telling us. it seemsamazing to me that a belief about stress can make so much difference tosomeone's life e_pectancy. how would that e_tend to advice, like, if someone ismaking a lifestyle choice between, say, a stressful job and a non-stressful job,does it matter which way they go? it's equally wise to go for the stressful jobso long as you believe that you can handle it, in some sense?
kelly mcgonigal: yeah, and one thing we know for certain is that chasingmeaning is better for your health than trying to avoid discomfort. and so iwould say that's really the best way to make decisions, is go after what it isthat creates meaning in your life and then trust yourself to handle the stressthat follows.
ca: thank you so much, kelly. it's pretty cool. km: thank you.
(applause)
ted演講稿范文 篇28
“讓我們的笑容充滿著青春的驕傲”在我的風雨中飄過。在初一上學期,因為惜寸陰,伶分陰,帶來了許許多多的歡樂和充足。那是一個雨下的瘋狂的下午,從飯?zhí)玫剿奚嵊幸粭l擁擠卻可以免受雨洗禮的走廊,從飯?zhí)玫剿奚徇有一條要經(jīng)過籃球場但要被淋成落湯雞的雨路。在我的眼中,好像要在慌忙的情況下選擇人生的道路。在和同桌面面相覷的同時,我似乎聽到“玉山白雪飄零燃燒少年的心”的歌聲,縱然我像一只飛起來的風箏和我的同伴在下著雨的藍天中飛翔,看著雨中的彩虹。雨打著嬌嫩的肩膀,身后是同學的驚訝。現(xiàn)在回眸當時的清爽,是難以從聲帶里發(fā)出的感受,當時頭發(fā)飛揚著青春,意蘊著明日的美好,在小學是找不到的,我想在大學就更難以尋覓了。這就是初中生與小學生的不一般。青春的彩帶圍繞著著我,陪伴著我的飛翔!俺瞿愕臒崆,伸出你雙手,讓我擁抱著你的夢”呵,擁抱著我的夢!我擁有青春的驕傲,我擁抱我的夢!
雖然走過的路不長,雖然還沒走的路漫長,雖然這是過去的記憶。但是留下的痕跡是那般的深,但是前面風景是如此的多嬌,但是我可以把握現(xiàn)在!按猴L不解風情,吹動少年的心,昨日臉上的淚痕隨記憶風干了”。
“讓我們的笑容充滿著青春的驕傲,青春的驕傲,讓我們期待明天會更好”
有著么一首陪伴自己的歌,它的歌聲被融入在生活中,融入在我的初中的天空,引著我飛翔,看雨中的彩虹。讓我們期待明天會更好!即使飛渡了歲月的河山,它卻永永遠遠地引導著我:
明天會更好!
ted演講稿范文 篇29
大家好!
人生是短暫而又孤獨的,人必須獨立堅強的戰(zhàn)斗下去,走自己認為正確的道路,不能有絲毫的猶豫與放松。否則就會被時代所淘汰。
正如前幾天所報道的一樣,美國蘋果公司執(zhí)行官兼總裁史蒂夫喬布斯去世了,媒體網(wǎng)絡都相繼報道了起來,成為了論壇話題,很多人都為此感到了驚訝與惋惜,但從背后的角度來看,喬布斯的去世不得不說是蘋果傳奇的結束,自喬布斯1977年創(chuàng)立蘋果公司以來,蘋果公司一直保持著電子商業(yè)界的不朽傳奇,第一年就得到了盈利,之后經(jīng)過公司的不斷創(chuàng)新,蘋果成為人們不斷選擇的電子品牌之一,正因為有喬布斯在,才有了蘋果的今天,從而帶動了電子商業(yè)界,使世界不斷走向電子科技化,他為電子界寫下了光輝的一筆,實現(xiàn)了自己的人生價值,他死的是重于泰山。
人生帶給我們的酸甜苦辣,對我們來說都是一種很好的經(jīng)驗,會使我們逐漸成長,正是人類社會有了這種思想,我們的社會才得以一代代延續(xù)下來,我們的生活才一天比一天好,人生才有了價值。
相信自己,不斷向前看齊,堅定黎明后會是陽光,為人生上色,走出一條自己繪畫的人生彩圖,使它絢麗起來,做的自己,不斷向前邁進,去走向黎明后的彼岸,鋪設輝煌的人生。
ted演講稿范文 篇30
幸福是平等的,幸福是無價的,幸福是珍貴的,幸福是每個人都擁有的。
有人會認為幸福就是有錢、有勢、有地位,無錢無勢無地位就是不幸福。但誰知道幸福就在我們身邊。如果你和以上人的觀點一樣,那你就太低俗了。
每天回到家,家不是冷冷清清而是有人做好熱騰騰的飯菜等你,這就是幸福。每天的說平平淡淡的,不出任何意外,這就是幸福。每月都有一定的工資,這就是幸福。親朋好友連同自己身體健康、平安,這就是幸福。每天早上醒來,發(fā)現(xiàn)自己還活著,這就是幸福。
幸福不是你有錢有勢有地位就可以得到的,也不是你費盡心思就可以得到的,它就在你身邊一直沒走遠。
幸福很簡單,只是吃飽喝足穿暖有地方住。不要對幸福奢望太多,屬于你的幸福就在你身邊。“鞋合不合腳,只有腳知道!边@和幸不幸福是同一個道理,也許別人看你不幸福,你卻十分幸福。不要盲目追求別人的幸福,到頭來只會“竹籃子打水—一場空!本瓦B原本屬于自己的幸福也會失去。
所以珍惜你的幸福吧,每個人的幸福都很簡單。
ted演講稿范文 篇31
布琳。布朗致力于研究人與人的關系——我們感同身受的能力、獲得歸屬感的能力、愛的能力。在TED休斯敦一次富有感染力的幽默談話中,她跟我們分享了她的研究發(fā)現(xiàn),一個讓她更想深入了解自己以及人類的發(fā)現(xiàn),洞悉人性也更了解自己。同時建議父母,全心全意去愛,即使沒有回報、即使很困難,也要勇敢面對,因為感到脆弱代表我還活著,我們要相信自己夠好,絕對值得被愛。
那我就這么開始吧:幾年前,一個活動策劃人打電話給我,因為我當時要做一個演講。她在電話里說:“我真很苦惱該如何在宣傳單上介紹你。”我心想,怎么會苦惱呢?她繼續(xù)道:“你看,我聽過你的演講,我覺得我可以稱你為研究者,可我擔心的是,如果我這么稱呼你,沒人會來聽,因為大家普遍認為研究員很無趣而且脫離現(xiàn)實!保ㄐβ暎┖。然后她說:“但是我喜歡你的演講,就跟講故事一樣很吸引人。我想來想去,還是覺得稱你為講故事的人比較妥當!倍莻做學術的,感到不安的我脫口而出道:“你要叫我什么?”她說:“我要稱你為講故事的人。"我心想:”為什么不干脆叫魔法小精靈?“(笑聲)我說:”讓我考慮一下!拔以囍钠鹩職。我對自己說,我是一個講故事的人。我是一個從事定性研究的科研人員。我收集故事;這就是我的工作;蛟S故事就是有靈魂的數(shù)據(jù);蛟S我就是一個講故事的人。于是我說:”聽著,要不你就稱我為做研究兼講故事的人!八f:”哈哈,沒這么個說法呀。“(笑聲)所以我是個做研究兼講故事的人,我今天想跟大家談論的——我們要談論的話題是關于拓展認知——我想給你們講幾個故事是關于我的一份研究的,這份研究從本質上拓寬了我個人的認知,也確確實實改變了我生活、愛、工作還有教育孩子的方式。
我的故事從這里開始。當我還是個年輕的博士研究生的時候,第一年,有位研究教授對我們說:”事實是這樣的,如果有一個東西你無法測量,那么它就不存在!拔倚南胨皇窃诤搴逦覀冞@些小孩子吧。我說:“真的么?”他說:“當然!蹦愕弥牢矣幸粋社會工作的學士文憑,一個社會工作的碩士文憑,我在讀的是一個社會工作的博士文憑,所以我整個學術生涯都被人所包圍,他們大抵相信生活是一團亂麻,接受它。而我的觀點則傾向于,生活是一團亂麻,解開它,把它整理好,再歸類放入便當盒里。(笑聲)我覺得我領悟到了關鍵,有能力去創(chuàng)一番事業(yè),讓自己——真的,社會工作的一個重要理念是置身于工作的不適中。我就是要把這不適翻個底朝天每科都拿到A。這就是我當時的信條。我當時真的是躍躍欲試。我想這就是我要的職業(yè)生涯,因為我對亂成一團,難以處理的課題感興趣。我想要把它們弄清楚。我想要理解它們。我想侵入那些我知道是重要的東西把它們摸透,然后用淺顯易懂的方式呈獻給每一個人。
所以我的起點是“關系”。因為當你從事了20xx年的社會工作,你必然會發(fā)現(xiàn)關系是我們活著的原因。它賦予了我們生命的意義。就是這么簡單。無論你跟誰交流工作在社會執(zhí)法領域的也好,負責精神健康、虐待和疏于看管領域的也好我們所知道的是,關系是種感應的能力——生物神經(jīng)上,我們是這么被設定的——這就是為什么我們在這兒。所以我就從關系開始。下面這個場景我們再熟悉不過了,你的上司給你作工作評估,她告訴了你37點你做得相當棒的地方,還有一點——成長的空間?(笑聲)然后你滿腦子都想著那一點成長的空間,不是么。這也是我研究的一個方面,因為當你跟人們談論愛情,他們告訴你的是一件讓他們心碎的事。當你跟人們談論歸屬感,他們告訴你的是最讓他們痛心的被排斥的經(jīng)歷。當你跟人們談論關系,他們跟我講的是如何被斷絕關系的故事。
所以很快的——在大約開始研究這個課題6周以后——我遇到了這個前所未聞的東西它揭示了關系以一種我不理解也從沒見過的方式。所以我暫停了原先的研究計劃,對自己說,我得弄清楚這到底是什么。它最終被鑒定為恥辱感。恥辱感很容易理解,即害怕被斷絕關系。有沒有一些關于我的事如果別人知道了或看到了,會認為我不值得交往。我要告訴你們的是:這種現(xiàn)象很普遍;我們都會有(這種想法)。沒有體驗過恥辱的人不具有人類的同情或關系。沒人想談論自己的糗事,你談論的越少,你越感到可恥。滋生恥辱感的是一種“我不夠好。"的心態(tài)——我們都知道這是個什么滋味:”我不夠什么。我不夠苗條,不夠有錢,不夠漂亮,不夠聰明,職位不夠高!岸芜@種心態(tài)的是一種刻骨銘心的脆弱,關鍵在于要想產生關系,我們必須讓自己被看見,真真切切地被看見。
你知道我怎么看待脆弱。我恨它。所以我思考著,這次是輪到我用我的標尺擊潰它的時候了。我要闖進去,把它弄清楚,我要花一年的時間,徹底瓦解恥辱,我要搞清楚脆弱是怎么運作的,然后我要智取勝過它。所以我準備好了,非常興奮。跟你預計的一樣,事與愿違。(笑聲)你知道這個(結果)。我能告訴你關于恥辱的很多東西,但那樣我就得占用別人的時間了。但我在這兒可以告訴你,歸根到底——這也許是我學到的最重要的東西在從事研究的數(shù)十年中。我預計的一年變成了六年,成千上萬的故事,成百上千個采訪,焦點集中。有時人們發(fā)給我期刊報道,發(fā)給我他們的故事——不計其數(shù)的數(shù)據(jù),就在這六年中。我大概掌握了它。
我大概理解了這就是恥辱,這就是它的運作方式。我寫了本書,我出版了一個理論,但總覺得哪里不對勁——它其實是,如果我粗略地把我采訪過的人分成具有自我價值感的人——說到底就是自我價值感——他們勇于去愛并且擁有強烈的歸屬感——另一部分則是為之苦苦掙扎的人,總是懷疑自己是否足夠好的人。區(qū)分那些敢于去愛并擁有強烈歸屬感的人和那些為之而苦苦掙扎的人的變量只有一個。那就是,那些敢于去愛并擁有強烈歸屬感的人相信他們值得被愛,值得享有歸屬感。就這么簡單。他們相信自己的價值。而對于我,那個阻礙人與人之間關系的最困難的部分是我們對于自己不值得享有這種關系的恐懼,無論從個人,還是職業(yè)上我都覺得我有必要去更深入地了解它。所以接下來我找出所有的采訪記錄找出那些體現(xiàn)自我價值的,那些持有這種觀念的記錄,集中研究它們。
這群人有什么共同之處?我對辦公用品有點癡迷,但這是另一個話題了。我有一個牛皮紙文件夾,還有一個三福極好筆,我心想,我該怎么給這項研究命名呢?第一個蹦入我腦子的是全心全意這個詞。這是一群全心全意,靠著一種強烈的自我價值感在生活的人們。所以我在牛皮紙夾的上端這樣寫道,而后我開始查看數(shù)據(jù)。事實上,我開始是用四天時間集中分析數(shù)據(jù),我從頭找出那些采訪,找出其中的故事和事件。主題是什么?有什么規(guī)律?我丈夫帶著孩子離開了小鎮(zhèn),因為我老是陷入像杰克遜。波洛克(美國近代抽象派畫家)似的瘋狂狀態(tài),我一直在寫,完全沉浸在研究的狀態(tài)中。下面是我的發(fā)現(xiàn)。這些人的共同之處在于勇氣。我想在這里先花一分鐘跟大家區(qū)分一下勇氣和膽量。勇氣,最初的定義,當它剛出現(xiàn)在英文里的時候——是從拉丁文cor,意為心,演變過來的——最初的定義是真心地敘述一個故事,告訴大家你是誰的。所以這些人就具有勇氣承認自己不完美。他們具有同情心,先是對自己的,再是對他人的,因為,事實是,我們如果不能善待自己,我們也無法善待他人。最后一點,他們都能和他人建立關系,——這是很難做到的——前提是他們必須坦誠,他們愿意放開自己設定的那個理想的自我以換取真正的自我,這是贏得關系的必要條件。
他們還有另外一個共同之處那就是,他們全然接受脆弱。他們相信讓他們變得脆弱的東西也讓他們變得美麗。他們不認為脆弱是尋求舒適,也不認為脆弱是鉆心的疼痛——正如我之前在關于恥辱的采訪中聽到的。他們只是簡單地認為脆弱是必須的。他們會談到愿意說出"我愛你",愿意做些沒有的事情,愿意等待醫(yī)生的電話,在做完乳房X光檢查之后。他們愿意為情感投資,無論有沒有結果。他們覺得這些都是最根本的。
我當時認為那是背叛。我無法相信我盡然對科研宣誓效忠——研究的定義是控制(變量)然后預測,去研究現(xiàn)象,為了一個明確的目標,去控制并預測。而我現(xiàn)在的使命即控制并預測卻給出了這樣一個結果:要想與脆弱共存就得停止控制,停止預測于是我崩潰了——(笑聲)——其實更像是這樣。(笑聲)它確實是。我稱它為崩潰,我的心理醫(yī)生稱它為靈魂的覺醒。靈魂的覺醒當然比精神崩潰要好聽很多,但我跟你說那的確是精神崩潰。然后我不得不暫且把數(shù)據(jù)放一邊,去求助心理醫(yī)生。讓我告訴你:你知道你是誰當你打電話跟你朋友說:“我覺得我需要跟人談談。你有什么好的建議嗎?“因為我大約有五個朋友這么回答:”喔。我可不想當你的心理醫(yī)生!埃ㄐβ暎┪艺f:”這是什么意思?“他們說:”我只是想說,別帶上你的標尺來見我!拔艺f:”行!
就這樣我找到了一個心理醫(yī)生。我跟她,戴安娜,的第一次見面——我?guī)チ艘环荼韱紊厦娑际悄切┤硇耐度肷畹娜说纳罘绞,然后我坐下了。她說:”你好嗎?“我說:”我很好。還不賴!八f:”發(fā)生了什么事?“這是一個治療心理醫(yī)生的心理醫(yī)生,我們不得不去看這些心理醫(yī)生,因為他們的廢話測量儀很準(知道你什么時候在說真心話)。(笑聲)所以我說:“事情是這樣的。我很糾結!彼f:“你糾結什么?”我說:”嗯,我跟脆弱過不去。而且我知道脆弱是恥辱和恐懼的根源是我們?yōu)樽晕覂r值而掙扎的根源,但它同時又是歡樂,創(chuàng)造性,歸屬感,愛的源泉。所以我覺得我有問題,我需要幫助!拔已a充道:”但是,這跟家庭無關,跟童年無關!埃ㄐβ暎拔抑恍枰恍┎呗浴!保ㄐβ暎ㄕ坡暎┲x謝。戴安娜的反應是這樣的。(笑聲)我接著說:“這很糟糕,對么?”她說:“這不算好,也不算壞。”(笑聲)“它本身就是這樣!蔽艺f:“哦,我的天,要悲劇了!
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。ū瘎。┕话l(fā)生了,但又沒有發(fā)生。大概有一年的時間。你知道的,有些人當他們發(fā)現(xiàn)脆弱和溫柔很重要的時候,他們放下所有戒備,欣然接受。(我要聲明)一,這不是我,二,我朋友里面也沒有這樣的人。(笑聲)對我來說,那是長達一年的斗爭。是場激烈的混戰(zhàn)。脆弱打我一拳,我又還擊它一拳。最后我輸了,但我或許贏回了我的生活。
然后我再度投入到了我的研究中,又花了幾年時間真正試圖去理解那些全身心投入生活的人,他們做了怎樣的決定,他們是如何應對脆弱的。為什么我們?yōu)橹纯鄴暝课沂仟氉栽诟嗳醵窢巻?不是。這是我學到的:我們麻痹脆弱——(例如)當我們等待(醫(yī)生)電話的時候。好笑的是,我在Twitter微博和Facebook上發(fā)布了一條狀態(tài),“你怎樣定義脆弱?什么會讓你感到脆弱?“在1個半小時內,我收到了150條回復。因為我想知道大家都是怎么想的。(回復中有)不得不請求丈夫幫忙,因為我病了,而且我們剛結婚;跟丈夫提出要愛;跟妻子提出要愛;被拒絕;約某人出來;等待醫(yī)生的答復;被裁員;裁掉別人——這就是我們生活的世界。我們活在一個脆弱的世界里。我們應對的方法之一是麻痹脆弱。
我覺得這不是沒有依據(jù)——這也不是依據(jù)存在的唯一理由,我認為我們當代問題的一大部分都可以歸咎于它——在美國歷史上,我們是欠債最多,肥胖,毒癮、用藥最為嚴重的一代。問題是——我從研究中認識到——你無法選擇性地麻痹感情。你不能說,這些是不好的。這是脆弱,這是悲哀,這是恥辱,這是恐懼,這是失望,我不想要這些情感。我要去喝幾瓶啤酒,吃個香蕉堅果松餅。(笑聲)我不想要這些情感。我知道臺下傳來的是會意的笑聲。別忘了,我是靠“入侵”你們的生活過日子的。天哪。(笑聲)你無法只麻痹那些痛苦的情感而不麻痹所有的感官,所有的情感。你無法有選擇性地去麻痹。當我們麻痹那些(消極的情感),我們也麻痹了歡樂,麻痹了感恩,麻痹了幸福。然后我們會變得痛不欲生,我們繼而尋找生命的意義,然后我們感到脆弱,然后我們喝幾瓶啤酒,吃個香蕉堅果松餅。危險的循環(huán)就這樣這形成了。
我們需要思考的一件事是我們是為什么,怎么樣麻痹自己的。這不一定是指吸毒。我們麻痹自己的另一個方式是把不確定的事變得確定。宗教已經(jīng)從一種信仰、一種對不可知的相信變成了確定。我是對的,你是錯的。閉嘴。就是這樣。只要是確定的就是好的。我們越是害怕,我們就越脆弱,然后我們變得愈加害怕。這件就是當今政治的現(xiàn)狀。探討已經(jīng)不復存在。對話已經(jīng)蕩然無存。有的僅僅是指責。你知道研究領域是如何描述指責的嗎?一種發(fā)泄痛苦與不快的方式。我們追求完美。如果有人想這樣塑造他的生活,那個人就是我,但這行不通。因為我們做的只是把屁股上的贅肉挪到我們的臉上。(笑聲)這真是,我希望一百年以后,當人們回過頭來會不禁感嘆:”哇!“
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我們想要,這是最危險的,我們的孩子變得完美。讓我告訴你我們是如何看待孩子的。從他們出生的那刻起,他們就注定要掙扎。當你把這些完美的寶寶抱在懷里的時候,我們的任務不是說:”看看她,她完美的無可挑剔!岸谴_保她保持完美——保證她五年級的時候可以進網(wǎng)球隊,七年級的時候穩(wěn)進耶魯。那不是我們的任務。我們的任務是注視著她,對她說,“你知道嗎?你并不完美,你注定要奮斗,但你值得被愛,值得享有歸屬感!边@才是我們的職責。給我看用這種方式培養(yǎng)出來的一代孩子,我保證我們今天有的問題會得到解決。我們假裝我們的行為不會影響他人。不僅在我們個人生活中我們這么做,在工作中也一樣——無論是緊急救助,石油泄漏,還是產品召回——我們假裝我們做的事對他人不會造成什么大影響。我想對這些公司說:嘿,這不是我們第一次牛仔競技。我們只要你坦誠地,真心地說一句:"對不起,我們會處理這個問題!
但還有一種方法,我把它留給你們。這是我的心得:卸下我們的面具,讓我們被看見,深入地被看見,即便是脆弱的一面;全心全意地去愛,盡管沒有任何擔!@是最困難的,我也可以告訴你,作為一名家長,這個非常非常困難——帶著一顆感恩的心,保持快樂哪怕是在最恐懼的時候哪怕我們懷疑:”我能不能愛得這么深?我能不能如此熱情地相信這份感情?我能不能如此矢志不渝?“在消極的時候能打住,而不是一味地幻想事情會如何變得更糟,對自己說:”我已經(jīng)很感恩了,因為能感受到這種脆弱,這意味著我還活著。“最后,還有最重要的一點,那就是相信我們已經(jīng)做得夠好了。因為我相信當我們在一個讓人覺得“我已經(jīng)足夠了”的環(huán)境中打拼的時候我們會停止抱怨,開始傾聽,我們會對周圍的人會更友善,更溫和,對自己也會更友善,更溫和。
這就是我演講的全部內容。謝謝大家。
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ted演講稿范文 篇32
敬愛的老師,親愛的同學:
每一天清晨太陽都會從東邊升起,到了傍晚就會從西邊落下,這個沒有任何一個人能夠改變,同樣我們沒法讓時間停止,也沒不可能讓別人怎摸樣,唯一能改變的,僅有自己!
小的時候,我總會問別人這樣一個問題:你覺得我好不好,那莫在你心中我排第幾呢?尤其是對自己親近的人,如果他們的回答讓我不高興的話,我總會很生氣很生氣,下意識的覺得他們不喜歡我,所以就拼命的讓他們改變看法,誰出我滿意的答案!并且讓他們都也必須要為我而改變,否則我會很難過的!
此刻想起來的確是可笑至極了,可是在今日我仍會向好朋友問這樣的問題。
可是初中畢竟不是以前了,漸漸的我和身邊的同學變得很疏遠,無論是男生還是女生,無論是班里的同學還是年級里面的,關系都不是很好,那種感覺真的好難受,我想哭,可是卻不敢。
我不明白為什末,我無力去對別人說你應當,你必須之類的話了。
不明白為什末,一霎那間我忽然懂得了什莫,我想要求自己做些深末。可能是因為此刻的環(huán)境吧,我不再在乎別人的看法,只做自己而已。
我以往無數(shù)次的想過要改變自己,可是好像都失敗了,我不想明白原因,只想做我自己,所以此刻的我不再在乎別人的看法,已經(jīng)不再在乎很多事情了,我不明白這算不算改變,如果是的話,那末是變好還是壞!
可是我清楚的體會到此刻的生活比以前簡便很多,趣味很多。
是啊,即使很多人都認為江山易改本性難移,可是改變自己還是比改變別人要容易得多吖!
ted演講稿范文 篇33
over the ne_t five minutes, my intention is to transform your relationshipwith sound. let me start with the observation that most of the sound around usis accidental, and much of it is unpleasant. (traffic noise) we stand on streetcorners, shouting over noise like this, and pretending that it doesn't e_ist.well, this habit of suppressing sound has meant that our relationship with soundhas become largely unconscious.
there are four major ways sound is affecting you all the time, and i'd liketo raise them in your consciousness today. first is physiological. (loud alarmclocks) sorry about that. i've just given you a shot of cortisol, yourfight/flight hormone. sounds are affecting your hormone secretions all the time,but also your breathing, your heart rate -- which i just also did -- and yourbrainwaves.
it's not just unpleasant sounds like that that do it. this is surf. (oceanwaves) it has the frequency of roughly 12 cycles per minute. most people findthat very soothing, and, interestingly, 12 cycles per minute is roughly thefrequency of the breathing of a sleeping human. there is a deep resonance withbeing at rest. we also associate it with being stress-free and on holiday.
the second way in which sound affects you is psychological. music is themost powerful form of sound that we know that affects our emotional state.(albinoni's adagio) this is guaranteed to make most of you feel pretty sad if ileave it on. music is not the only kind of sound, however, which affects youremotions.
natural sound can do that too. birdsong, for e_ample, is a sound which mostpeople find reassuring. (birds chirping) there is a reason for that. overhundreds of thousands of years we've learned that when the birds are singing,things are safe. it's when they stop you need to be worried.
the third way in which sound affects you is cognitively. you can'tunderstand two people talking at once ("if you're listening to this version of")("me you're on the wrong track.") or in this case one person talking twice. tryand listen to the other one. ("you have to choose which me you're going tolisten to.")
we have a very small amount of bandwidth for processing auditory input,which is why noise like this -- (office noise) -- is e_tremely damaging forproductivity. if you have to work in an open-plan office like this, yourproductivity is greatly reduced. and whatever number you're thinking of, itprobably isn't as bad as this. (ominous music) you are one third as productivein open-plan offices as in quiet rooms. and i have a tip for you. if you have towork in spaces like that, carry headphones with you, with a soothing sound likebirdsong. put them on and your productivity goes back up to triple what it wouldbe.
the fourth way in which sound affects us is behaviorally. with all thatother stuff going on, it would be amazing if our behavior didn't change. (technomusic inside a car) so, ask yourself: is this person ever going to drive at asteady 28 miles per hour? i don't think so. at the simplest, you move away fromunpleasant sound and towards pleasant sounds. so if i were to play this --(jackhammer) -- for more than a few seconds, you'd feel uncomfortable; for morethan a few minutes, you'd be leaving the room in droves. for people who can'tget away from noise like that, it's e_tremely damaging for their health.
and that's not the only thing that bad sound damages. most retail sound isinappropriate and accidental, and even hostile, and it has a dramatic effect onsales. for those of you who are retailers, you may want to look away before ishow this slide. they are losing up to 30 percent of their business with peopleleaving shops faster, or just turning around on the door. we all have done it,leaving the area because the sound in there is so dreadful.
i want to spend just a moment talking about the model that we've developed,which allows us to start at the top and look at the drivers of sound, analyzethe soundscape and then predict the four outcomes i've just talked about. orstart at the bottom, and say what outcomes do we want, and then design asoundscape to have a desired effect. at last we've got some science we canapply. and we're in the business of designing soundscapes.
just a word on music. music is the most powerful sound there is, ofteninappropriately deployed. it's powerful for two reasons. you recognize it fast,and you associate it very powerfully. i'll give you two e_amples. (first chordof the beatles' "a hard day's night") most of you recognize that immediately.the younger, maybe not. (laughter) (first two notes of "jaws" theme) and most ofyou associate that with something! now, those are one-second samples of music.music is very powerful. and unfortunately it's veneering commercial spaces,often inappropriately. i hope that's going to change over the ne_t fewyears.
let me just talk about brands for a moment, because some of you run brands.every brand is out there making sound right now. there are eight e_pressions ofa brand in sound. they are all important. and every brand needs to haveguidelines at the center. i'm glad to say that is starting to happen now. (intelad jingle) you all recognize that one. (nokia ringtone) this is the most-playedtune in the world today. 1.8 billion times a day, that tune is played. and itcost nokia absolutely nothing.
just leave you with four golden rules, for those of you who run businesses,for commercial sound. first, make it congruent, pointing in the same directionas your visual communication. that increases impact by over 1,100 percent. ifyour sound is pointing the opposite direction, incongruent, you reduce impact by86 percent. that's an order of magnitude, up or down. this is important.secondly, make it appropriate to the situation. thirdly, make it valuable. givepeople something with the sound. don't just bombard them with stuff. and,finally, test and test it again. sound is comple_. there are many countervailinginfluences. it can be a bit like a bowl of spaghetti: sometimes you just have toeat it and see what happens.
so i hope this talk has raised sound in your consciousness. if you'relistening consciously, you can take control of the sound around you. it's goodfor your health. it's good for your productivity. if we all do that we move to astate that i like to think will be sound living in the world. i'm going to leaveyou with a little bit more birdsong. (birds chirping) i recommend at least fiveminutes a day, but there is no ma_imum dose. thank you for lending me your earstoday. (applause)
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瞧,她笑的多開心呀,兩只眼睛成了彎彎的月亮,微微的翹起的小鼻子向上聳起,紅紅的小嘴隨著咯咯的笑聲一張一合的,就連那兩只小羊角辮也在抖動著。你知道她是誰嗎?告訴你,那就是我。
我個兒不高,大約1米1左右。我有很多特點,最大的特點就是喜歡動物。
初冬,我在街上花錢買了兩只小雞,一只乳白色,一只橘黃色。買了它們滿以為媽媽也會像我一樣高興,可一進門,媽媽就不高興的說:“你怎么把這小東西買回來啦?他會凍死的!蔽也灰詾槿唬覜Q心要把它們養(yǎng)活。我先把它們放在地上,又拿來小米喂它們,可它們只是嘰嘰嘰地叫,不肯吃。媽媽走過來說:“天氣冷,它們凍得顧不上吃了!蔽易屑氁豢矗,它們凍得直發(fā)抖。于是,我把它們放在手心上,它們才嘰嘰嘰地吃起來。晚上,我在桌前寫作業(yè),小雞在旁邊并不吃我給它們的小米,總是嘰嘰嘰地叫。每辦法,只好把它們放在我的棉衣里,它們才不叫了。我安心地寫完作業(yè),把它們拿出來,它們又開始叫了,我只好跟它們“同床共枕”。
總算熬到開暖氣的那一天了,房間變暖了,小雞的羽毛也長了。晚上,我把它們放在盒子里,怕它們跑了,就在上面又蒙上了一層布。結果第二天,小雞悶死了。我傷心的哭了,并且一連好幾天都很傷心。
我曾經(jīng)被趙忠祥伯伯主持的《動物世界》所感動,希望自己長大以后,為保護動物做宣傳。我也曾被那些鋪殺動物的不法分子所激怒,為那些無辜被害的動物流淚。有一次,我在電視上看到公安局抓獲一批走私動物皮的犯罪分子,既高興,又傷心,傷心的是有那么多的動物被他們殘忍的殺害了,高興的是公安局的叔叔終于把那一伙慘無人道的走私分之抓獲了,僥幸生存的一批動物可以得到保護了。
這就是我,一個喜歡動物,愛護動物的小女孩。
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尊敬的老師、同學們:
大家好!
很多年以前,我曾經(jīng)說過,時間可以改變一切。
看著那些老舊的照片,感覺好像還是活在過去,想著想著……如今,也回不到從前了,也聽不到那欠扁的笑容了,其實,我以為一輩子都不會忘記的事情就在我們念念不忘的日子里,而被我遺忘了,努力想記起你們的名字,卻是徒然,真的記不起了……
歲月如流水,轉瞬之間,又是一年過去了。以前習慣了嘻嘻哈哈、笑容滿面的我,現(xiàn)在時常稍作停頓,時而顧盼,時而思考,一路走來,不斷的思考,不少的煩惱,也不愿錯過每一處風景。時間的力量,不僅在于它可以讓你重新審視這個世界,而且是一種解藥可以沖淡回憶。不愿記起的、快樂的、難以釋懷的、所有的記憶。也可以把人的思維方式也全盤更新一遍。突然有一天,回頭再找尋原來的我,才發(fā)現(xiàn)我已非我。
在家的日子就是那么無聊、那么無奈。只是吃好睡好、但是同樣的24小時就很難熬。每天都是傻乎乎在家發(fā)呆,在家也想了很多以前悔恨的事,走過的、路過的、玩過的……都留下我那悔恨的足跡……現(xiàn)在,我就要做一個全新的我,也不再是以前的我,而是“少說話,多辦事”“……”的我。一切不幸之事隨著時間而覆蓋……
每個人都是一道靚麗的風景線,但世界不會為你而改變,環(huán)境也不會主動去適應我們自己。因而,我們只能去改變自己,去適應環(huán)境,進而取得成功。
改變自己,方可以意志的血滴和拼搏的汗水釀成歷久彌香的瓊漿,方可以不凋的希望和不滅的夢想編織絢麗輝煌的彩虹,方可以永恒的執(zhí)著和頑強的韌力筑起固若金湯的鐵壁銅墻。