TED演讲：你为何不会成就伟业(1)
I want to discuss with you this afternoon why you're going to fail to have a great career. 今天下午我想和你们讨论一下你为什么不会成就伟业。 I'm an economist. I do dismal. End of the day, it's ready for dismal remarks. 我是个经
TED演讲：你为何不会成就伟业(2)
I'm not quite sure why you decide not to do it. You're too lazy to do it. It's too hard. 我不太确定你为什么决定不去做。你太懒了。这事太难。 You're afraid if you look for your passion and don't find it, you'll feel like you're
TED演讲：你为何不会成就伟业(3)
And then, of course, another excuse: Well, I would do this, I would do this, but, but -- well, after all, I'm not weird. 然后，当然，另外一个借口：嗯，我会做这个，我会做这个，但是，但是，嗯，毕竟，我不是个怪人
TED演讲：你为何不会成就伟业(4)
So let's deal with those of you who are trying to find your passion. 所以咱们假设，咱们来处理一下你们当中想追寻梦想的人。 You actually understand that you really had better do it, never mind the excuses. 你实际上明白你最
TED演讲：你为何不会成就伟业(5)
I have a friend, proposed to his sweetie. He was an economically rational person. 我有个朋友，向他女友求婚。他是个会过日子的人。 He said to his sweetie, Let us marry. Let us merge our interests. 他对他女友说，咱们结婚吧
TED演讲：你为何不会成就伟业(6)
And if you don't find the highest expression of your talent, if you settle for interesting, 而且如果你找不到你才能的最高表达，如果你在有意思这里止步不前， what the hell ever that means, do you know what will happen at t
TED演讲：你为何不会成就伟业(7)
What do you want me to say? 你们想让我说什么？ Now, do you really want me to say now, tell you, Really, I swear I don't kick children. 现在，你们真的想让我说，告诉你们，真的，我发誓我不踢小孩。 Look at the worldv
TED演讲：你为何不会成就伟业(8)
And what do you say? You say, you say, That's risky, kid. Might fail, kid. 然后你说什么？你说，你说，嗯...那样比较不保险，孩子。有可能会失败，孩子。 Don't make a lot of money at that, kid. I don't know, kid, you sho
TED演讲：你为何不会成就伟业(9)
And so the sins of the parents are visited on the poor children. 然后父母的罪恶就在可怜的孩子们身上应验了。 Why will you seek refuge in human relationships as your excuse not to find and pursue your passion? You know why. 你为什
TED演讲：温和的成功哲学(1)
For me they normally happen, these career crises, often, actually, on a Sunday evening, just as the sun is starting to set, 我经常对事业感到恐慌，周日下午，晚霞洒满天空， and the gap between my hopes for myself and the reality
TED演讲：温和的成功哲学(2)
And the dominant kind of snobbery that exists nowadays is job snobbery. 今天，最主要的势利就是对职业的势利。 You encounter it within minutes at a party, 你在派对中不用一分钟就能体会到， when you get asked that famous
TED演讲：温和的成功哲学(3)
There are other reasons why it's perhaps harder now to feel calm than ever before. 还有一些其他理由让我们比过去更难获得平静。 One of these, and it's paradoxical, because it's linked to something that's rather nice, is the hope we
TED演讲：温和的成功哲学(4)
It's probably as unlikely that you would nowadays become as rich and famous as Bill Gates, 今日你变得像比尔盖茨一样，有钱又出名的机会， as it was unlikely in the 17th century that you would accede to the ranks of the French aris
TED演讲：温和的成功哲学(5)
You know, in the Middle Ages, in England, when you met a very poor person, that person would be described as an unfortunate 你知道，在中世纪的英国，当你遇见一个非常穷苦的人，你会认为他不走运， literally, somebody who
TED演讲：温和的成功哲学(6)
I'm drawn to a lovely quote by St. Augustine in The City of God, where he says, It's a sin to judge any man by his post. 我很喜欢圣奥古斯丁在上帝之城里的一句话，他说，以社会地位评价人是一种罪。 In modern English th
