And the third thing about intelligence is, it's distinct. 培养好学生的第三个原则就是个性化。 I'm doing a new book at the moment called "Epiphany," 我目前在写本书，书名叫《顿悟》， which is based on a series of interviews with people
I heard a great story recently -- I love telling it -- of a little girl who was in a drawing lesson. 最近我听到一个很不错的故事。我很愿意讲讲这个故事，说的是一个小女孩正在上绘画课。 She was six, and she was at the back, drawing, 小女孩只有六岁，她坐在
There's no question that technology is changing the way we court: 可以肯定的一点是，科技正在改变人类的求爱方式： emailing, texting, emojis to express your emotions, sexting, "liking" a photograph, selfies. 电子邮件、短信、表达情感的符号、色
I must say that before I went to the U.S., I didn't consciously identify as African. 我不得不强调，在我前往美国之前，我从来没有有意识地把自己当作个非洲人。 But in the U.S., whenever Africa came up, people turned to me. 但在美国的时候，每当人们提到“非
How about the next question? This is asking about what the average age is, 那么下一个问题呢？这是问关于年龄的中位数， so the age at which half the population are younger and half the population are older. 也就是该地区大于和小于这个年龄的
And I stumbled, then, on a statistic that really came home to me. 结果我发现了一个震惊的数据。 It was a very interesting academic article in which I found that 67 percent of singles in America today who are living
The best four minutes of my entire life were those in the Olympic stadium. 我一生中最伟大的四分钟就在这奥林匹克体育馆中。 My husband is offended when I say this 我的爱人听我这么描述，觉得没有受到尊重， although I have explained to him that wha
And that's a lot harder for me, because as honored as I am to be here with all of you right now, this is not my natural milieu. 这不是我拿手的事情，但能站在这里向你们说话，能对在坐的各为传达我的想法，是何等荣耀的事情。 So I prepared for moments
We all know this, and yet, in the checklisted childhood, 我们都已经清楚，在清单式童年中， we absolve our kids of doing the work of chores around the house, 我们不让孩子做家里的杂活， and then they end up as young adults in the wo
So a handshake, or the lack of a handshake, can have us talking for weeks and weeks and weeks. 所以一个握手，或不握手，我们都可以聊上好几个礼拜。 Even the BBC and The New York Times. 即使BBC和纽约时报也不例外。 So obviously when we think
So at the end of my first year at Harvard, a student who had not talked in class the entire semester, who I had said, 所以我在哈佛的第一年结束的时候，我对整个学期在课堂上都没有说话的一个学生说: "Look, you've gotta participate or else you
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
So let's say for instance that you're on your way to your best friend's wedding and you're trying to get to the airport and you're stuck in terrible traffic, and you finally arrive at your gate and yo
And here's Billie Jean running across the fountain, being chased by Hubie Pyatt's friends. 比利金跑过喷泉，被胡比·派特的朋友们追着。 And she jumps over here. And you can see the shot right here is what it looks like toda
Well it did. But it turns out, it doesn't remind me of the thing I thought it would; it reminds me constantly of something else instead. 不过确实是只是让我想起的不是我当初希望的；而常常是其他东西，它常常让我想起。 It actually reminds me o
The Value of Nothing: Out of Nothing Comes Something. 无的价值：无中生有的可能。 That was an essay I wrote when I was 11 years old and I got a B+. 这是一篇我在十一岁时写的作文，当时我拿了个乙等。 What I'm going to talk about: nothing out
So now we've spoken about on-screen sounds. But occasionally, the source of a sound cannot be seen. 那么，我们已经谈到了屏幕上的声音。但有时候，声源是看不到的。 That's what we call offscreen sounds, or "acousmatic." 我们称之为画外音，或者是“盲
How many people here are 40 years old or older? You're afraid to admit it now. 在座的有多少人已经四十多岁了？你不想承认了吗？ This initial step into the disease, this presence of amyloid plaques accumulating, can already be
I've been thinking a lot about the world recently and how it's changed over the last 20, 30, 40 years. 最近我常常思考我们的世界以及它在过去的20，30，40年里经历了何等的转变。 Twenty or 30 years ago, if a chicken caught a cold and sne
And then, in 2006, I met that guy. His name is Ze Frank. 然后，在2006年，我遇见了这个家伙。他叫泽·弗兰克。 I didn't actually meet him, just on the Internet. 其实我们没有真正见面，只是在网上。 Ze Frank was running, at the time, a show calle
