ted每日必背口語（每日TED學習Youdon）

2023-04-14 19:29:44

為了鞏固和提升英語，同時也想多吸納一些有趣的想法和知識，決定每天堅持聽一期TED。

聽讀方法：第一遍聽大意理解speaker本次演講的主題和內容，第二遍聽第一遍沒太明白的句子，第三遍可以看原文和字幕，看看自己有沒有什麼沒聽對的，最後可以邊聽邊寫，

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https://www.ted.com/talks/shankar_vedantam_you_don_t_actually_know_what_your_future_self_wants/transcript

這一期的主題是關於「你其實不知道未來的你想要的是什麼」 。Shankar Vendantam說：「你一直在成為一個新的自我。」在演講中，他解釋隨著我們的成長，大多數的觀點都會在不斷的改變和更新，甚至可以說每一天的我們都是一個新的自我。現實是，因此我們其實無法預知讓未來的自己幸福的理由會是什麼。那麼怎樣更好地生活呢？Vendantam也提出了解決的建議。

my future was not just unknown; it was unknowable.

我的未來不僅是未知的; 這是不可知的。

There is a paradox here, and the paradox is when we look backwards, we can see enormous changes in who we have become. But when we look forwards, we tend to imagine that we're going to be the same people in the future.

這裡有一個悖論，這個悖論就是當我們回顧過去時，我們會發現自己發生了巨大的變化。 但當我們向前看的時候，我們傾向於想像未來我們，還是原來的自己。

Now sure, we imagine the world is going to be different. But we don't imagine that we ourselves will have different perspectives, different views, different preferences in the future.

當然，我們想像世界會變得不一樣。 但我們不會想像我們自己在未來會有不同的視角、不同的觀點、不同的偏好。

Our cells turn over all the time. The people you were 10 years ago are not the people you are today. Biologically, you have become a different person.

The famous plasticity of the brain that we've all heard so much about means that, on an ongoing basis, you are constantly becoming a new person.

眾所周知的大腦的可塑性意味著，在持續的基礎上，你不斷地成為一個新的人。

I have three pieces of advice

我有三條建議

So the first piece of advice is to stay curious. If you accept the idea that you're going to be a different person in 30 years' time, you should play an active role crafting the person you are going to become. You should be the curator of your future self. You should be the architect of your future self. Spend time on avocations and professional pursuits that are not just what you do regularly.

第一條建議就是要保持好奇心。如果你接受了30年後你會變成另外一個人的想法，你就應該積極參與塑造你要成為的那個人。 你應該成為未來自己的管理者。 你應該成為未來自己的建築師。花時間在業餘愛好和職業追求上，而不僅僅是那些你每天都在做的重複的事情。

Expand your horizons, because you're going to become someone different, you might as well be in charge of deciding who that person is going to be.

拓展你的視野，因為你將成為一個不同的人，你也可以負責決定那個人將成為什麼樣的人。

Second, as we make pronouncements on social media or in political forums, or at dinner parties, let's bear in mind that among the people who might disagree with us are our own future selves. So when we express views with great certitude and confidence, let's remember to add a touch of humility.

第二，當我們在社交媒體、政治論壇或晚宴上發表言論時，讓我們記住，可能與我們意見相左的人中，也有我們未來的自己。 因此，當我們滿懷信心地表達自己的觀點時，讓我們記得要多加一點謙遜。

lesson number three is to be brave. I've given you a number of ways in which our future selves are going to be weaker and frailer than we are today. And that is true, that is part of the story. But it is only a part of the story. Our future selves are also going to have capacities and strengths and wisdom that we do not possess today.

第三課是要勇敢。 我已經告訴過你們，未來的我們可能比今天的我們更加虛弱，更加脆弱。 這是真的，這是故事的一部分。 但這只是故事的一部分。 我們未來的自己也將擁有我們今天所不具備的能力、力量和智慧。

I believe if you can do these three things, if you can stay curious, you can practice humility and you can be brave, then your future self will look back at you in 20 or 30 years -- will look back, not with resentment or bewilderment

我相信，如果你能做到這三件事，如果你能保持好奇心，你能學會謙卑，你能變得勇敢，那麼未來的你在二三十年後回頭看你的時候，不會帶著怨恨或困惑