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I'll give you an analogy. 让我给你一个例子。 Do you remember that Loony Tunes cartoon where there's this pathetic coyote who's always chasing and never catching a roadrunner? 你记得卡通里那个总是在追逐却从未抓到猎物的土狼吗？ In pretty much every episode of this cartoon, 几乎在每一集里， there's a moment where the coyote is chasing the roadrunner and the road...
So it's 1995, I'm in college, and a friend and I go on a road trip from Providence, Rhode Island to Portland, Oregon. 当时是95年，我在上大学，我和一个朋友开车去玩，从罗得岛的普罗旺斯区出发到奥勒冈州的波特兰市。 And you know, we're young and unemployed, so we do the whole thing on back roads through state parks and national forests 我们年轻，无业，于是整个旅程都在...
Last year, for various reasons, I found myself listening to a lot of episodes of the Public Radio show This American Life. 因为一些缘故，去年我在广播上听了很多集的“我们的美国人生”。 And so I'm listening and I'm listening, and at some point, I start feeling like all the stories are about being wrong. 我听着听着，突然发现这些故事全和犯错有关。 And my first thought was,...
But, you know, our stories are like this because our lives are like this. 但，故事会这样写是因为人生就是这样。 We think this one thing is going to happen and something else happens instead. 我们以为某些事情会这样发生，发生的却是其它事。 George Bush thought he was going to invade Iraq, find a bunch of weapons of mass destruction, 乔治·布什以为他入侵伊拉克会找到大规模毁灭性武...
This internal sense of rightness that we all experience so often 我们心中时常感觉到的理直气壮的感觉， is not a reliable guide to what is actually going on in the external world. 在真实世界中并不是个可靠的向导。 And when we act like it is, and we stop entertaining the possibility that we could be wrong, 当我们依此行事，不再思考我们是否犯错， well that's when we end up doi...
I think this is a problem. I think it's a problem for each of us as individuals, in our personal and professional lives, 我认为这是个问题。我认为这是每个人私人生活和职业生活中的问题， and I think it's a problem for all of us collectively as a culture. 我认为我们身为群体，这也造成了文化问题。 So what I want to do today is, first of all, talk about why we get stuck ins...
This attachment to our own rightness keeps us from preventing mistakes when we absolutely need to and causes us to treat each other terribly. 我们的自以为是，让我们在最需要的时候无法预防犯错，更让我们互相仇视。 But to me, what's most baffling and most tragic about this is that it misses the whole point of being human. 对我来说，最大的悲剧是它让我们错失了身为人的珍贵意义...
We learn these really bad lessons really well. 我们很早就得到这些错误信息。 And a lot of us — and I suspect, especially a lot of us in this room 而我们，尤其是这个大厅里的许多人， deal with them by just becoming perfect little A students, perfectionists, over-achievers. 都因此成为好学生，拿全A、完美主义、永不满意。 Right, Mr. CFO, astrophysicist, ultra-marathoner? 不是...
I've spent the last five years of my life thinking about situations exactly like this 过去的五年，我一直在思考刚刚我所描述的状况， why we sometimes misunderstand the signs around us, and how we behave when that happens, and what all of this can tell us about human nature. 为什么我们会对身边的征兆产生误解，当误解发生时我们作何反应，以及这一切所告诉我们的人性。 In other wo...
今天听到三个工作上犯了些小错误的人。两个是朋友公司的员工，一个因为发错了账号导致没有按期收到客户的汇款，在发现错误前曾几次催促客户，因为对客户的歉意而深深自责；一个是年轻气盛的老师，面对顽皮的孩子采取了体罚措施，结果被家长的投诉，朋友做为学校校长不得不亲自出面去道歉安抚；一个是我自己的员工，因为所负责的工作出了一些状况，被很多员工质疑，最终终于被我知道。当我找到她谈话时，显...
我和许多家长一样，都望子成龙心切，只要儿子的表现有不尽人意之处，我就立刻会纠正、教育他。但是，事与愿违，儿子对我的话常常是一只耳朵进一只耳朵出。 前几天，我去参加同学聚会，有一位老同学恰好是儿童教育专家，我就把有关情况作了陈述。他听了之后，略作思索，说：“其实，大多数孩子对于错误都能够自己察觉到，父母的批评可能会起到当头棒喝的作用。但批评过多，也许反而会让孩子对错误采取...
孩子为何沉迷网络游戏无法自拔？为何打架、逃学、离家出走？……当家长们纷纷抱怨孩子的行为让人头痛时，曾经成功帮教1200多名问题青少年的广州志愿者赵广军却说，孩子“变坏”往往是家庭教育出了问题，在“问题孩子”的背后有着各种各样的“问题父母”。 “看到我变坏，你还能不理我吗？” “为让父母关注自己，有些孩子故意不停地犯错。&rdquo...
很多家长在面对孩子犯错时是否该罚，存在争议。罚吧，就一个孩子，疼还来不及，万一留下心理阴影怎么办；不罚吧，屡屡犯错，真担心对他／她成长不利。那么，怎么把握教子的尺度呢？听听以下看法。 主罚派 读者李先生：无规矩不成方圆 小孩子，犯了错误，就要接受相应的批评教育和适当的惩罚。这些惩罚，对他将来的发展，都是很有好处的，他会知道，做错事情是有代价的。相反，如果犯了错误家长无所作为，...