You also see young people using the tools and the sort of genres of the Internet in order to create places for intellectual engagement, 你还发现年轻人在使用互联网工具，来创建可以进行知识交流的空间， instead of the ironic detachment
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。
Something as dramatic as our identity has now become a matter of choice, as this slide is meant to indicate. 如今像我们的性别身份这类的事都成了选择的话题了，就像这张幻灯片试图说明的那样。 We don't inherit an identity; we get to invent it.
Now, as a policy matter -- I'm almost done -- as a policy matter, the thing to think about is this: 我快说完了。现在说说一个政策问题，我们该想想的一个政策问题是， what enables all of this choice in industrial societies is material
It's a bit of a cross of my arm. 一些手臂的交叉。 So all I'm doing is exploring this space of "T" and flashing through it with some action. 我在做的仅仅是探索“T”的空间，通过一些动作穿梭于这个空间。 I'm not remembering what I'm doing. 我
Now within that framework, we can obviously experience regret about a lot of different things. 在这个模式下，我们显然常常后悔很多事情。 This session today is about behavioral economics. And most of what we know about reg
Why do they do that? Well, we all do the same thing. 嫌疑人为什么会这样？这其实是人之常情。 We rehearse our words, but we rarely rehearse our gestures. 我们会事先想好说什么，但很少事先想好做什么样的动作。 We say "yes," we shake our heads "no." 我
A big thing that I also think about is accidents. 我也时常想到意外。 And as I said, my mother did not believe in randomness. What is the nature of accidents? 如我所说，我母亲从不相信偶然。那意外又是什么？ And how are we going to ass
So one contemporary equivalent of the Plaza Mayor in Salamanca is the Place de la Défense in Paris, 说一个与萨拉曼卡的马约尔广场相较衡的现代广场，巴黎的协和广场， a windswept, glass-walled open space that office workers hurry throu
And that's the difference between problems that are additive, like CO2, 这个就是可添加性问题，像二氧化碳问题， which we go slowly up and then we tip, and problems that are depletive, in which we lose what we have, which
How can this be? We think it's because these nuns had a high level of cognitive reserve, 这是怎么回事呢？我们认为这是因为这些修女拥有高级的认知储备， which is a way of saying that they had more functional synapses. 意味着她们有功能更强的突触。
But the truth is that these are mostly one-offs, boutique projects, not easily reproduced at a global scale. 但事实是这些往往都只是个例，精品工程没办法轻易的在全球范围内普及。 And that is the point. When you use materials that have a
Why do so many people reach success and then fail? 为什么有这么多人在成功以后失败？ One of the big reasons is, we think success is a one-way street. 最主要的原因之一是，我们把成功当作一条单行道。 So we do everything that leads up to succes
The first is: vulnerability is not weakness. 第一件事，脆弱不是弱点。 And that myth is profoundly dangerous. 并且这种错误理解非常危险。 Let me ask you honestly -- and I'll give you this warning, I'm trained as a therapist, so
In Oxford in the 1950s, there was a fantastic doctor, who was very unusual, named Alice Stewart. 在20世纪50年代的牛津，有一位相当优秀而又极不寻常的医生，她叫Alice Stewart Alice。 And Alice was unusual partly because, of course, s
This is a map of New York State that was made in 1937 by the General Drafting Company. 这是一张纽约州的地图，由通用制图公司在1937年绘制。 It's an extremely famous map among cartography nerds, 这张地图在地图发烧友中非常有名， because down h
If we aren't going to be afraid of conflict, we have to see it as thinking, and then we have to get really good at it. 如果我们不惧怕矛盾的话，我们必须把它当作思考，然后我们必须变得很擅长。 So, recently, I worked with an executive name
I'm a little nervous, because my wife Yvonne said to me, she said, "Geoff, you watch the TED Talks." 我有点紧张，因为我的妻子Yvonne对我说：“Geoff，你看TED演讲的，对吧？” I said, "Yes, honey, I love TED Talks." 我说：“对啊，亲爱的，我喜欢TE
Now this would have been a wonderful paper. 这本来是一篇极好的文章。 That's how I solved it in my head. 这便是我解决这个问题的过程。 It was a white paper I handed out to governments. 我把这分白皮书分发给不同的政府。 And some governments told
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
