No, it is. You know why this place is amazing? 不，它就是。为什么这地方很神奇？ Because very few people here are afraid to fail. 因为这里几乎没有人 是害怕失败的。 And no one who gets on the stage, so far that I've seen, has not fail
So I signed the discharge papers, and an ambulance came, paramedics came to take her home. 我在出院单上签了名， 一辆救护车来后急救人员将她送回了家。 And I went back to my work on the wards. 之后我回到了我在诊所的工作。 All the rest of that da
I know those things that happened to you growing up. 我知道你从小到大的糗事。 I know you don't think that you're pretty, smart, talented or powerful enough. 我知道你也清楚自己不够漂亮，或者不够聪明或者不够有才或者不够强壮。 I know your dad never
There is also the uncertainty principle, which is part of quantum mechanics, as I understand it. 在量子力学中还有测不准原理，至少我想有。 And this happens constantly in the writing. 同样的事也时常发生在写作中。 And there's the terribl
My students produced these info-graphics 我的学生们制作了这些信息图表， as a result of a unit that we decided to do at the end of the year responding to the oil spill. 结果是我们决定以这个汇报作为我们学年的总结报告，内容是回应漏油事件。 I asked them
Even before scientists sort this out, this information is actually really good news for us, 即使科学家还尚未解决问题，这一好消息确实振奋人心， because it turns out that the way we live can influence the accumulation of amyloi
So how do organizations think? Well, for the most part, they don't. 那么这些组织是怎么想的呢？其实大多数情况下，他们是不思考的。 And that isn't because they don't want to, it's really because they can't. 这不是因为他们不想，而是因为他们无法思考。 And
Once upon a time, the world was a big, dysfunctional family. 很久以前，世界是个很大却不和谐的大家庭。 It was run by the great and powerful parents, and the people were helpless and hopeless naughty children. 这个家庭被“伟大的”、“
I'm not even telling you the story because I think we should be running more carefully controlled randomized trials in all aspects of public policy, 我跟你说这个故事也不是因为我认为，我们在公共政策的各个方面，做随机抽样试验时，应该更小心， altho
So that's Johnny Depp, of course. And that's Johnny Depp's shoulder. 这是强尼·德普，很显然，这是他的肩膀。 And that's Johnny Depp's famous shoulder tattoo. Some of you might know that, in 1990, Depp got engaged to Wino
Embracing otherness. When I first heard this theme, I thought, well, embracing otherness is embracing myself. 拥抱他人。当我第一次听到这个主题时，我觉得拥抱他人就是拥抱我自己。 And the journey to that place of understanding and accep
So before I get started, what I'm going to do is I'm going to clarify my goal for you, which is not to teach a game of Gotcha. 切入主题之前，我先澄清一下，我演讲的目的不是叫你们玩测谎游戏。 Liespotters aren't those nitpicky kids, t
Okay, now I don't want to alarm anybody in this room, but it's just come to my attention that the person to your right is a liar. 我不想吓唬你们，但是我发现坐在你右边的那个人是个骗子。 Also, the person to your left is a liar. 坐
And I was shocked and shaken to the core. 我震惊不已， 吓得不得了。 And I went through this roller coaster, because after they stabilized her, she went to the intensive care unit, and I hoped against hope that sh
And then I hear, "Vulnerability TED!" I turn around, I go, "Hi." 然后我听到：“脆弱TED！” 我转过身，说：“嗨。” She's right here and she said, "You're the shame researcher who had the breakdown." 她就在这儿，然后她说：“你就是那个崩溃了的羞耻研
Well, I'm the girl in that story, and the secret documents that I was interested in were located in this building, 对，我就是故事里的小女孩，而我感兴趣的秘密就藏在这栋楼里， the British Parliament, and the data that I wanted to g
We have no idea why it works, no idea at all. 我们不知道，为什么它那么高效，根本不知道。 And the moment you step back from the God complex -- let's just try to have a bunch of stuff; 当你不再认为自己有万能神力——而是开始尝试一些东西； let's have
We all know what's good about it, so I'm going to talk about what's bad about it. 我们都知道它的好处。那么就让我来说说它的不好之处吧。 All of this choice has two effects, two negative effects on people. 所有这些选择对人们有两个影响，而且是两个负面的
How many people here would like to live to be at least 80 years old? Yeah. 在座有多少人希望能活到八十岁以上？好。 I think we all have this hopeful expectation of living into old age. 我想我们每个人都渴望能够长寿。 Let's project out in
Also, one of the principles of creativity is to have a little childhood trauma. 创意的其中一项原则是拥有童年的心理创伤。 And I had the usual kind that I think a lot of people had, and that is that, you know, I had expect
