编者按: 有句古话说：“如果你没犯错误，就说明你没有尽力。” 所以，勇往直前，去犯错误吧。然后学习、成长，最后成功。 Good Mistakes 有益的错误 It's good to make mistake, and here is why. First of all, mistakes are a clear sign that you are trying new things.
Admitting guilt 承认错误 Giving advice is a lot easier than receiving it. 给予建议比接受建议更容易。 Telling someone that he was wrong is a lot easier than admitting that you made a mistake. 当然告诉别人他是错的比承认自己犯错误更容易。 Wri
Now I've been sort of banging on about this for the last couple of months, 在过去的几个月里，我反复在讨论这个问题， and people sometimes say to me, "Well Tim, it's kind of obvious. Obviously trial and error is very impor
Five thousand products -- that's still nothing. 5000个产品，这还没什么。 Five thousand products -- imagine counting every product category in Cesar Hidalgo's data. 5000个产品，想象我们来数塞萨尔·伊达尔戈数据中的每个产品的目录。 Imagine you
From Kansas, I moved on to lovely Arizona, 离开堪萨斯后，我搬到美丽的亚利桑纳州， where I taught in Flagstaff for a number of years, this time with middle school students. 我在Flagstaff小镇教了几年书，这次是教初中的学生。 Luckily, I didn't
And it wasn't because of my attending; he was a doll. 而这也不是因为我的主治；他人非常好。 He talked to the family, and I'm quite sure that he smoothed things over and made sure that I didn't get sued. 他和那家人好好的谈过。我确定他为
In the time that passes between when I was a kid in high school and when I started teaching, 在过去的这几年间，从我还在念高中到我开始教书的时候， we really see the advent of the Internet. 我们真的亲眼目睹网络的发展。 Right about the time th
Fast-forward to Pennsylvania, where I find myself today. 快进到宾州，我现在住的地方。 I teach at the Science Leadership Academy, 我在科学领导学院教书， which is a partnership school between the Franklin Institute and the scho
It's a system in which there are two kinds of physicians -- those who make mistakes and those who don't, 在这个制度当中，只有两种人 -- 犯错的不犯错的， those who can't handle sleep deprivation and those who can, those who
And you sometimes need to be shocked out of that. 而有的时候我们需要把这种感觉抖掉。 Now I'm not going to pretend that this is easy. It isn't easy. It's incredibly painful. 现在我不想假装这是件容易的事情。这并不容易。这会是个痛苦的过程。 And since I
So Archie splits the men under his care as best he can into two equal groups. 所以阿奇就把他的病人平分成两组人。他给其中的一半维他命C。他给另一半维他命B12。 He gives half of them vitamin C. He gives half of them vitamin B12. 他给其中的一半维他命C。
And two days later I came to do my next emergency shift, and that's when my chief asked to speak to me quietly in her office. 两天后，又轮到我在急诊室值班。那时我的主任要我去她的办公室里私下谈谈。 And she said the three words: Do you r
And that was the message that I absorbed when I was in med school. 这就是我在医学院时得到的信息。 I was an obsessive compulsive student. 我是一个有着强迫症倾向的学生。 In high school, a classmate once said that Brian Goldman would
I have been teaching for a long time, and in doing so have acquired a body of knowledge about kids 我从事教师工作很长一段时间了，而在我教书的过程当中我学了很多关于孩子与学习的知识， and learning that I really wish more people would understan
Now let's take this back into my world of medicine where I'm a lot more comfortable, 现在让我们回到我的世界，医疗领域。这个领域我比较熟悉， or perhaps a bit less comfortable after what I'm going to talk to you about. 但我接下来要说的却让
But each time, they were gnawing at me, eating at me. 但每当我想到这两起病例，那种感觉都会折磨啃噬我。 And I'd like to be able to say to you that my worst mistakes only happened in the first five years of practice as many of
So this is the complexity of the world that surrounds us. 所以这就是我们所处环境的复杂性。 This perhaps is why we find the God complex so tempting. 这也许正是为什么我们发现“万能神力”这么有吸引力的原因。 We tend to retreat and say, "We can dra
It is dangerous for patients to recover from heart attacks at home. 让心脏病人在家康复是危险的。 They should be in hospital." And there's this uproar, 他们应该留在医院里。”这引起了一片哗然， and all the doctors start pounding the tab
Until then, until then I'm going to keep banging on about trial and error and why we should abandon the God complex. 到那时候，到那时候，我会继续讨论测试和排除错误这个话题，以及为什么我们需要抛弃“万能神力”的态度。 Because it's so hard to admit our
I think we have to do something about a piece of the culture of medicine that has to change. 我觉得在当今的医学文化中，有一部份文化必须要开始改变。 And I think it starts with one physician, and that's me. 而这个改变可以从一个医生开始，那就是我。 A
