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if i had a chance to go to some place else, i will go to los angelus, america.
i’ll go there because i like the climate there. in spring, it will be drier than guangzhou, so things there won’t get moist. in summer, although it’s hot, but won’t be hot to death. in autumn and winter, it won’t get too cold. and it’s not semi-tropical, so there won’t be too moist in the forest. the air there is cool, dry. it’s also not polluted, so it smells good. the living area there is near-by. it won’t be tens or hundreds kilometers between a living area to another. it’s just some meters between.
that’s why i like going to los angelus.
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简介：残奥会短跑冠军aimee mullins天生没有腓骨，从小就要学习靠义肢走路和奔跑。如今，她不仅是短跑选手、演员、模特，还是一位稳健的演讲者。她不喜欢字典中 “disabled”这个词，因为负面词汇足以毁掉一个人。但是，坦然面对不幸，你会发现等待你的是更多的机会。
i"d like to share with you a discovery that i made a few months ago while writing an article for italian wired. i always keep my thesaurus handy whenever i"m writing anything, but i"d already finished editing the piece, and i realized that i had never once in my life looked up the word "disabled" to see what i"d find.
let me read you the entry. "disabled, adjective: crippled, helpless, useless, wrecked, stalled, maimed, wounded, mangled, lame, mutilated, run-down, worn-out, weakened, impotent, castrated, paralyzed, handicapped, senile, decrepit, laid-up, done-up, done-for, done-in cracked-up, counted-out; see also hurt, useless and weak. antonyms, healthy, strong, capable." i was reading this list out loud to a friend and at first was laughing, it was so ludicrous, but i"d just gotten past "mangled," and my voice broke, and i had to stop and collect myself from the emotional shock and impact that the assault from these words unleashed.
you know, of course, this is my raggedy old thesaurus so i"m thinking this must be an ancient print date, right? but, in fact, the print date was the early 1980s, when i would have been starting primary school and forming an understanding of myself outside the family unit and as related to the other kids and the world around me. and, needless to say, thank god i wasn"t using a thesaurus back then. i mean, from this entry, it would seem that i was born into a world that perceived someone like me to have nothing positive whatsoever going for them, when in fact, today i"m celebrated for the opportunities and adventures my life has procured.
so, i immediately went to look up the 2024 online edition, e_pecting to find a revision worth noting. here"s the updated version of this entry. unfortunately, it"s not much better. i find the last two words under "near antonyms," particularly unsettling: "whole" and "wholesome."
so, it"s not just about the words. it"s what we believe about people when we name them with these words. it"s about the values behind the words, and how we construct those values. our language affects our thinking and how we view the world and how we view other people. in fact, many ancient societies, including the greeks and the romans, believed that to utter a curse verbally was so powerful, because to say the thing out loud brought it into e_istence. so, what reality do we want to call into e_istence: a person who is limited, or a person who"s empowered? by casually doing something as simple as naming a person, a child, we might be putting lids and casting shadows on their power. wouldn"t we want to open doors for them instead?
one such person who opened doors for me was my childhood doctor at the a.i. dupont institute in wilmington, delaware. his name was dr. pizzutillo, an italian american, whose name, apparently, was too difficult for most americans to pronounce, so he went by dr. p. and dr. p always wore really colorful bow ties and had the very perfect disposition to work with children.
i loved almost everything about my time spent at this hospital, with the e_ception of my physical therapy sessions. i had to do what seemed like innumerable repetitions of e_ercises with these thick, elastic bands -- different colors, you know -- to help build up my leg muscles, and i hated these bands more than anything -- i hated them, had names for them. i hated them. and, you know, i was already bargaining, as a five year-old child, with dr. p to try to get out of doing these e_ercises, unsuccessfully, of course. and, one day, he came in to my session -- e_haustive and unforgiving, these sessions -- and he said to me, "wow. aimee, you are such a strong and powerful little girl, i think you"re going to break one of those bands. when you do break it, i"m going to give you a hundred bucks."
now, of course, this was a simple ploy on dr. p"s part to get me to do the e_ercises i didn"t want to do before the prospect of being the richest five-year-old in the second floor ward, but what he effectively did for me was reshape an awful daily occurrence into a new and promising e_perience for me. and i have to wonder today to what e_tent his vision and his declaration of me as a strong and powerful little girl shaped my own view of myself as an inherently strong, powerful and athletic person well into the future.
this is an e_ample of how adults in positions of power can ignite the power of a child. but, in the previous instances of those thesaurus entries, our language isn"t allowing us to evolve into the reality that we would all want, the possibility of an individual to see themselves as capable. our language hasn"t caught up with the changes in our society, many of which have been brought about by technology. certainly, from a medical standpoint, my legs, laser surgery for vision impairment, titanium knees and hip replacements for aging bodies that are allowing people to more fully engage with their abilities, and move beyond the limits that nature has imposed on them -- not to mention social networking platforms allow people to self-identify, to claim their own descriptions of themselves, so they can go align with global groups of their own choosing. so, perhaps technology is revealing more clearly to us now what has always been a truth: that everyone has something rare and powerful to offer our society, and that the human ability to adapt is our greatest asset.
the human ability to adapt, it"s an interesting thing, because people have continually wanted to talk to me about overcoming adversity, and i"m going to make an admission: this phrase never sat right with me, and i always felt uneasy trying to answer people"s questions about it, and i think i"m starting to figure out why. implicit in this phrase of "overcoming adversity" is the idea that success, or happiness, is about emerging on the other side of a challenging e_perience unscathed or unmarked by the e_perience, as if my successes in life have come about from an ability to sidestep or circumnavigate the presumed pitfalls of a life with prosthetics, or what other people perceive as my disability. but, in fact, we are changed. we are marked, of course, by a challenge, whether physically, emotionally or both. and i"m going to suggest that this is a good thing. adversity isn"t an obstacle that we need to get around in order to resume living our life. it"s part of our life. and i tend to think of it like my shadow. sometimes i see a lot of it, sometimes there"s very little, but it"s always with me. and, certainly, i"m not trying to diminish the impact, the weight, of a person"s struggle.
there is adversity and challenge in life, and it"s all very real and relative to every single person, but the question isn"t whether or not you"re going to meet adversity, but how you"re going to meet it. so, our responsibility is not simply shielding those we care for from adversity, but preparing them to meet it well. and we do a disservice to our kids when we make them feel that they"re not equipped to adapt. there"s an important difference and distinction between the objective medical fact of my being an amputee and the subjective societal opinion of whether or not i"m disabled. and, truthfully, the only real and consistent disability i"ve had to confront is the world ever thinking that i could be described by those definitions.
in our desire to protect those we care about by giving them the cold, hard truth about their medical prognosis, or, indeed, a prognosis on the e_pected quality of their life, we have to make sure that we don"t put the first brick in a wall that will actually disable someone. perhaps the e_isting model of only looking at what is broken in you and how do we fi_ it, serves to be more disabling to the individual than the pathology itself.
by not treating the wholeness of a person, by not acknowledging their potency, we are creating another ill on top of whatever natural struggle they might have. we are effectively grading someone"s worth to our community. so we need to see through the pathology and into the range of human capability. and, most importantly, there"s a partnership between those perceived deficiencies and our greatest creative ability. so it"s not about devaluing, or negating, these more trying times as something we want to avoid or sweep under the rug, but instead to find those opportunities wrapped in the adversity. so maybe the idea i want to put out there is not so much overcoming adversity as it is opening ourselves up to it, embracing it, grappling with it, to use a wrestling term, maybe even dancing with it. and, perhaps, if we see adversity as natural, consistent and useful, we"re less burdened by the presence of it.
this year we celebrate the 200th birthday of charles darwin, and it was 150 years ago, when writing about evolution, that darwin illustrated, i think, a truth about the human character. to paraphrase: it"s not the strongest of the species that survives, nor is it the most intelligent that survives; it is the one that is most adaptable to change. conflict is the genesis of creation. from darwin"s work, amongst others, we can recognize that the human ability to survive and flourish is driven by the struggle of the human spirit through conflict into transformation. so, again, transformation, adaptation, is our greatest human skill. and, perhaps, until we"re tested, we don"t know what we"re made of. maybe that"s what adversity gives us: a sense of self, a sense of our own power. so, we can give ourselves a gift. we can re-imagine adversity as something more than just tough times. maybe we can see it as change. adversity is just change that we haven"t adapted ourselves to yet.
i think the greatest adversity that we"ve created for ourselves is this idea of normalcy. now, who"s normal? there"s no normal. there"s common, there"s typical. there"s no normal, and would you want to meet that poor, beige person if they e_isted? (laughter) i don"t think so. if we can change this paradigm from one of achieving normalcy to one of possibility -- or potency, to be even a little bit more dangerous -- we can release the power of so many more children, and invite them to engage their rare and valuable abilities with the community.
anthropologists tell us that the one thing we as humans have always required of our community members is to be of use, to be able to contribute. there"s evidence that neanderthals, 60,000 years ago, carried their elderly and those with serious physical injury, and perhaps it"s because the life e_perience of survival of these people proved of value to the community. they didn"t view these people as broken and useless; they were seen as rare and valuable.
a few years ago, i was in a food market in the town where i grew up in that red zone in northeastern pennsylvania, and i was standing over a bushel of tomatoes. it was summertime: i had shorts on. i hear this guy, his voice behind me say, "well, if it isn"t aimee mullins." and i turn around, and it"s this older man. i have no idea who he is.
and i said, "i"m sorry, sir, have we met? i don"t remember meeting you."
he said, "well, you wouldn"t remember meeting me. i mean, when we met i was delivering you from your mother"s womb." (laughter) oh, that guy. and, but of course, actually, it did click.
this man was dr. kean, a man that i had only known about through my mother"s stories of that day, because, of course, typical fashion, i arrived late for my birthday by two weeks. and so my mother"s prenatal physician had gone on vacation, so the man who delivered me was a complete stranger to my parents. and, because i was born without the fibula bones, and had feet turned in, and a few toes in this foot and a few toes in that, he had to be the bearer -- this stranger had to be the bearer of bad news.
he said to me, "i had to give this prognosis to your parents that you would never walk, and you would never have the kind of mobility that other kids have or any kind of life of independence, and you"ve been making liar out of me ever since." (laughter) (applause)
the e_traordinary thing is that he said he had saved newspaper clippings throughout my whole childhood, whether winning a second grade spelling bee, marching with the girl scouts, you know, the halloween parade, winning my college scholarship, or any of my sports victories, and he was using it, and integrating it into teaching resident students, med students from hahnemann medical school and hershey medical school. and he called this part of the course the _ factor, the potential of the human will. no prognosis can account for how powerful this could be as a determinant in the quality of someone"s life. and dr. kean went on to tell me, he said, "in my e_perience, unless repeatedly told otherwise, and even if given a modicum of support, if left to their own devices, a child will achieve."
see, dr. kean made that shift in thinking. he understood that there"s a difference between the medical condition and what someone might do with it. and there"s been a shift in my thinking over time, in that, if you had asked me at 15 years old, if i would have traded prosthetics for flesh-and-bone legs, i wouldn"t have hesitated for a second. i aspired to that kind of normalcy back then. but if you ask me today, i"m not so sure. and it"s because of the e_periences i"ve had with them, not in spite of the e_periences i"ve had with them. and perhaps this shift in me has happened because i"ve been e_posed to more people who have opened doors for me than those who have put lids and cast shadows on me.
see, all you really need is one person to show you the epiphany of your own power, and you"re off. if you can hand somebody the key to their own power -- the human spirit is so receptive -- if you can do that and open a door for someone at a crucial moment, you are educating them in the best sense. you"re teaching them to open doors for themselves. in fact, the e_act meaning of the word "educate" comes from the root word "educe." it means "to bring forth what is within, to bring out potential." so again, which potential do we want to bring out?
there was a case study done in 1960s britain, when they were moving from grammar schools to comprehensive schools. it"s called the streaming trials. we call it "tracking" here in the states. it"s separating students from a, b, c, d and so on. and the "a students" get the tougher curriculum, the best teachers, etc. well, they took, over a three-month period, d-level students, gave them a"s, told them they were "a"s," told them they were bright, and at the end of this three-month period, they were performing at a-level.
and, of course, the heartbreaking, flip side of this study, is that they took the "a students" and told them they were "d"s." and that"s what happened at the end of that three-month period. those who were still around in school, besides the people who had dropped out. a crucial part of this case study was that the teachers were duped too. the teachers didn"t know a switch had been made. they were simply told, "these are the "a-students," these are the "d-students."" and that"s how they went about teaching them and treating them.
so, i think that the only true disability is a crushed spirit, a spirit that"s been crushed doesn"t have hope, it doesn"t see beauty, it no longer has our natural, childlike curiosity and our innate ability to imagine. if instead, we can bolster a human spirit to keep hope, to see beauty in themselves and others, to be curious and imaginative, then we are truly using our power well. when a spirit has those qualities, we are able to create new realities and new ways of being.
i"d like to leave you with a poem by a fourteenth-century persian poet named hafiz that my friend, jacques dembois told me about, and the poem is called "the god who only knows four words": "every child has known god, not the god of names, not the god of don"ts, but the god who only knows four words and keeps repeating them, saying, "come dance with me. come, dance with me. come, dance with me.""
thank you. (applause)
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thank you. (applause.) thank you all so much. thank you. well, you guys rest yourselves. you’ve been very busy. (laughter.) you’re being spoken to a lot. i hear my husband was here. (laughter.) but it is truly a pleasure to be here with all of you today, and i want to thank you so much for joining us for this year’s college opportunity day of action. you should be proud. we’re already proud of you, and this day has just already been a tremendous success.
of course i want to start by thanking homero. i mean, he’s just an amazing story, an amazingperson, and i’m grateful for that wonderful introduction. we have to give him another round ofapplause. (applause.) a clear reminder of why we’re here today and what we’re working for.
i also want to recognize the jack kent cooke foundation, as well as the lumina foundation, forhelping to make this event possible. let’s give them a round of applause as well. (applause.)
and of course, as we come together to talk about the importance of college counseling, iespecially want to recognize all of the school counselors here today. yes! (applause.) you canraise the roof for yourselves. a little raising the roof. (laughter.) but i think we can all agreethat all of our counselors, all of you have one of the hardest, but most important jobs in oureducation system, yet too often you don’t get the resources, the support or the appreciationthat you need and deserve. and that has serious consequences not just for our kids, but forour country.
i mean, let’s be honest with ourselves – when it comes to college counseling in our nation’sschools, there are two worlds. as many of you know, while the american school counselorassociation recommends no more than 250 students per counselor, the national average is onecounselor for every 471 students. so too many of our kids go through high school with little, ifany, real guidance on how to get into college.
they don’t know what classes to take, or how to prepare for the sat or the act. no one helpsthem decide which colleges to apply to. no one reviews their applications. and plenty of kidshave no idea that they’re eligible for financial aid, so they assume they just can’t afford college,and they don’t even bother to apply.
now, that’s one world. the other world is much smaller – it’s a world of schools where thequestion isn’t where students are going to college, but – or whether they’re going to college,but where. kids in this world start preparing for college long before they even start high school.and from the first day of freshman year, they’ve been shepherded through every step of theprocess. they’ve got sat and act prep courses, they take those tests again and again toimprove their scores. counselors have much smaller caseloads, and they walk kids throughevery deadline, they edit every draft of their essays. honestly, when barack and i talk aboutthis, we look at the kind of college counseling many of the kids are getting today and we wonderhow we ever managed to get ourselves into college.
so the fact is that right now, a small number of students are getting every advantage in thecollege admissions race, while millions of other students who are just as talented can’t evenbegin to compete. (applause.) and as the college presidents here all know, the result is thatcolleges aren’t always getting all of the very best students. they’re getting the students whocan best afford to succeed in this system. and we are leaving behind so many bright, hungry,promise-filled kids. we are depriving ourselves of so much human potential in this country –from the scientific discoveries these kids might make, to the businesses that they might build,to the leadership that they might one day show in our communities.
we’re missing all of that. we’re also losing all of that simply because we aren’t making the basicinvestment in their future today, and that’s a tragedy. it’s a tragedy for our country. it’s atragedy for those kids and for their families, because we all know – we know – that if you wantto secure a decent-paying job in today’s economy, a high school diploma simply isn’t enough.
so unlike 40 or 50 years ago, higher education is no longer just for kids in the top quarter orthe top half of the class, it has to be for everyone. so we are going to need a college-counselingsystem that reflects this new reality. (applause.)
now, that’s easier said than done. we know that this isn’t going to happen overnight. we knowthat states and school systems are facing all kinds of budget challenges. but one of my coremessages to students through my reach higher initiative is that no matter what is going on attheir school or in their family, i’ve been trying to tell kids that no matter what resources theymay have or not have, that they still need to take responsibility for their education. i tell themthat they need to do the work to reach out to teachers who can help them. they need toresearch schools in their communities on their own. they need to find that fafsa form onlineand fill it out.
so my message to all of you is the same: we all need to step up and do what we can with theresources we have, especially when it comes to supporting our school counselors. and that ise_actly what so many of you have done through the commitments you’ve made as part of thissummit.
universities across the country have pledged to create college and career-readiness courses intheir masters programs for school counselors. school districts are partnering with nonprofits andcolleges to provide training for counselors once they’re in our schools. nonprofits are steppingup to improve student-and-counselor ratios and bringing recent graduates into schools toserve as role models and mentors.
and these are just the highlights. altogether, these commitments represent tens of millions ofdollars that will impact hundreds of schools and countless students. these are outstandingcommitments, and we need more efforts like these all across this country. every one of us has arole to play.
so for the superintendents here today, i know you all are struggling with so many demandsunder such tight budgets, but can you do more to support your counselors? can you find waysto – (applause) – yes – shift some of that e_tra burden that falls in their lap, like substituteteaching, case management, e_am proctoring? can you give them more time to actuallycounsel students?
to the college presidents here, can you do even more to make college counseling part of yourmission to get the very best students to your schools? and can the foundations and nonprofitorganizations help in that work? can you rethink the college admissions process to find more ofthose students who’ve got what it takes to succeed but haven’t had the chance to develop theirpotential? can you create college prep centers in your communities and ensure that test-prepclasses are affordable for all of our kids?
and for those of you who are concerned that perhaps this type of involvement might falselyraise hopes of admission to your school – because i’ve heard that as well – just consider the factthat while many of the kids you help might not be the right fit for your college or university,but they will be the right fit for another school, and maybe that other school will help preparestudents for admission to your school. (applause.)
so this is really a collective effort, and everyone can benefit. and as you all step up to take onthese issues, really, i really want to hear about what you’re doing. and that’s one of the reasonswhy i recently announced two new reach higher commencement challenges. i’m askingcolleges to create videos showcasing your work to bring low-income and first-generationstudents to your campuses for peer mentoring, college immersion e_periences and all kind ofwonderful opportunities.
and for the high schools, i want to see videos about what you’re doing to increase your fafsacompletion rates to help more students afford college. and for those schools with the winningvideos, i just might pay a visit around commencement time, if you know what i mean – (laughter) – to let you know how impressed i am.
so i hope that you all will go to reachhigher.gov and get more information, because i’m eagerto see what you all are doing. i know you’re going to do some great things. you see, i know thatthe smallest, most local efforts can make such a difference in the lives of our young people.
and i’m thinking today of a school called la cueva high school in albuquerque, new me_ico. afew years ago, the college counseling staff at that school met with a young woman namedroberta gutierrez during her sophomore year. roberta was an e_cellent student, so they urgedher to take the psat and come up with a list of colleges that she wanted to apply to. now, whileroberta took the test, she never came up with that list – and i’m sure you know why.
but then, at the beginning of roberta’s school year, her counselors learned that she had beennamed a national merit semi-finalist with a psat score in the top 1 percent of the entire state.so the counselors – yes, good stuff – (applause) – the counselors immediately informedroberta that she would be eligible for thousands of dollars in scholarships. and roberta, ofcourse, she was shocked. she told them that she never made the list of colleges because herfamily lived from paycheck to paycheck, so she didn’t think she could afford tuition. she toldthem that just to pay the $15 fee to take the psat, she had to skip lunch for a week.
and after meeting with roberta, the counseling staff decided that no student at their schoolwould ever again have to choose between eating and taking a test that opens the doors tocollege. so they now hold fundraisers – yes. (applause.) they hold fundraisers throughout theschool year to ensure that low-income students can take the psat for free. and they go out oftheir way to tell every family about the financial aid resources that are available for college.
and as for roberta, she is now in her junior year on a full scholarship at the university of newme_ico, and she’s planning to get a phd in psychology – yes. (applause.)
you all know these stories. there are so many kids just like roberta all across this country, andthey’re bright. these kids are determined. these are the kids who have everything it takes tosucceed if we would just give them that chance. and that’s what the counselors and leaders atla cueva high school did for roberta – they gave her a shot at the future she deserved.
and just think about the ripple effect that those counselors will have in transforming just onestudent’s life. think about the difference roberta can make when she gets that phd. think of allthe patients she might treat, all the groundbreaking research she might do. think of the rolemodel that she will be – she already is – inspiring countless young people just like her topursue their dreams.
there are millions of young people like roberta all across this country, and they are counting onus to step up for them. they’re counting on us to give them opportunities worthy of theirpromise. and that is e_actly what all of you are doing every single day. that is the purpose ofthe commitments that you’ve made as part of this summit. that’s why i’m proud and honoredto be here.
and i want to close today simply by saying thank you, truly. thank you. thank you for yourpassion. thank you for your dedication. thank you for your tremendous contributions to thiscountry. i look forward to continuing our work together. we got a lot more stuff to do. and icannot wait to see all that you are going to achieve in the months and years ahead.
so thank you so much. keep it up. and let’s bring more people to the table. you all take care.thanks so much. (applause.)
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kare anderson: be an opportunity maker
【ted】凯儿˙安德森: 给自己和别人带来希望与意外斩获-机会制造者
i grew up diagnosed as phobically shy,
我从小就有社交恐惧症
and like at least 20 other people in a room of this size,
这样的空间 大约20人
i was a stutterer.
就能让以前的我结巴语塞
do you dare raise your hand?
更别提举手了 根本不可能
and it sticks with us.
这种困扰如影随形
it really does stick with us,
你走到哪 它就跟到哪
because when we are treated that way,
当大家对你的存在视若无睹
we feel invisible sometimes,
你会开始感觉自己是隐形人
or talked around and at.
而别人都在你背后窃窃私语
and as i started to look at people,
后来我仔细去观察周遭的人
which is mostly all i did,
一直以来我都只敢默默观察
i noticed that some people really wanted attention
然后发现有些人无法忍受被忽视
and recognition.
他们要得到大家的注意力和认同
remember, i was young then.
当时我年轻、懵懂
so what did they do? what we still do perhaps too often?
渴望注意力的人会做什么? 也许现在太多人在做一样的事而不自知
we talk about ourselves.
他们谈论的常常都是自己
and yet there are other people i observed who had what i called a mutuality mindset.
但另一批人就不同了 我说他们的人际关系 往往有一种“互相”的心态
in each situation, they found a way to talk about us and create that “us” idea.
无论什么场合 他们的谈话里都会出现“我们”这个概念
so my idea to reimagine the world is to see it one where we all become greater opportunity-makers with and for others.
在我心目中的理想世界 每个人都能为自己和别人创造机会
there’s no greater opportunity or call for action for us now
就是现在 我们必须把握良机、采取行动
than to become opportunity-makers who use best talents together more often for the greater good
多去整合各种才能 尽可能的利益他人
and accomplish things we couldn’t have done on our own.
一人做不到的 多人或许有办法
and i want to talk to you about that,
这就是我今天的重点
cause even more than giving,
比单纯给予
even more than giving,
施舍、捐赠更有影响力的
is the capacity for us to do something smarter together
就是人们学会集思广益
for the greater good that lifts us both up
共同合作 创造双赢局面
and that can scale.
其中的利益会一层层积累
that’s why i’m sitting here.
这是我今天演讲的重点
but i also want to point something else out.
不过我还想说一件事
each one of you is better than anybody else at something.
台下的你必定在某些事上比其他人都拿手
that disproves that popular notion that if you’re the smartest person in the room,
和那句名言“你绝不是这里最厉害的人”
you’re in the wrong room.
恰恰相反
so let me tell you about a hollywood party i went to a couple years back,
我在几年前的一个好莱坞聚会上
and i met this up-and-coming actress,
遇见了位有潜力的女演员
and we were soon talking about something that we both felt passionately about,
我们很快就找到共同话题-
public art.
公共艺术
and she had the fervent belief that every new building in los angeles
她坚信洛杉矶的每栋建筑里
should have public art in it. she wanted a regulation for it,
都应该有公共艺术 她想要一套专属公共艺术的规范
and she fervently started,
所以她兴忡忡的着手进行
what is here from chicago?
这里有谁是芝加哥人吗?
she fervently started talking about these bean-shaped reflective sculptures in millennium park,
她滔滔不绝的说着千禧公园里的云门雕塑
and people would walk up to it
人们好奇的上前一探究竟
and they’d smile in the reflection of it,
看着自己的映像微笑
and they’d pose and they’d vamp and they’d take selfies together
摆pose、赞叹、自拍留念
and they’d laugh.
然后笑成一团
and as she was talking, a thought came to my mind.
听着听着 我突然灵光乍现
i said, “i know someone you ought to meet.
我告诉她: “妳应该见见这个人
he’s getting out of san quentin in a couple of weeks
再几周他就要从圣昆丁州立监狱出来了
and he shares your fervent desire that art should engage and enable people to connect.”
他跟妳一样 觉得艺术应该让人有共鸣、激发想像力”
he spent five years in solitary,
他被单独监禁了五年
and i met him because i gave a speech at san quentin,
我因为在圣昆丁演讲 而与他结识
and he’s articulate
他口条不错
and he’s rather easy on the eyes
长的也不赖
because he’s buff. he had workout regime he did everyday.
因为他是条热爱健身的汉子
i think she was following me at that point.
女演员大概还满有兴趣的
i said, “he’d be an une_pected ally.”
我又说: “他会是个得力助手”
and not just that. there’s james. he’s an architect
除了他之外 我把詹姆也拉进来 詹姆是建筑师
and he’s a professor,
也是个教授
and he loves place-making, and place-making is when you have those mini-plazas
他对地方营造很有兴趣 外头的小广场、
and those urban walkways
城市人行道
and where they’re dotted with art,
任何有艺术点缀的地方 都属于地方营造的范畴
where people draw and come up and talk sometimes.
许多人会在那儿画画、闲聊
i think they’d make good allies.
我想他们一定能合作无间
and indeed they were.
果真没错
they met together. they prepared.
他们碰面之后 就开始筹备
they spoke in front of the lost angeles city council.
到洛杉矶市政府传达诉求
and the council members not only passed the regulation,
结果市议员通过了他们订的条例
half of them came down and asked to pose with them afterwards.
之后甚至半数议员还去与艺术品合影
they were startling, compelling and credible.
他们给人的印象是震慑、具说服力、可靠
you can’t buy that.
全都是用钱买不到的
what i’m asking you to consider is what kind of opportunity-makers we might become,
希望各位想想自己能成为哪种机会制造者
because more than wealth
比财富、
or fancy titles
头衔、
or a lot of contacts,
人脉更可观的
it’s our capacity to connect around each other’s better side and bring it out.
是我们发掘他人优点的能力
and i’m not saying this is easy,
这一点都不容易
and i’m sure many of you have made the wrong moves too about who you wanted to connect with,
相信许多人都有找错对象、牵错线的经验
but what i want to suggest is, this is an opportunity.
但毕竟都是个“机会”
i started thinking about it way back when i was a wall street journal reporter and i was in europe
这个领悟要从好几年前说起 当时我在欧洲 担任华尔街日报记者
and i was supposed to cover trends and trends that transcended business or politics or lifestyle.
采访内容为时尚与流行 跨越商业、政治、生活型态隔阂的流行
so i had to have contacts in different worlds very different than mine,
因此得和背景截然不同的人打交道
because otherwise you couldn’t spot the trends.
否则就无法掌握潮流走向
and third, i had to write a story in a way stepping into the reader’s shoes,
写故事时 还得设身处地为读者想
they could see how these trends could affect their lives.
要让他们觉得自己和这些潮流息息相关
that’s what opportunity-makers do.
这就是机会制造者的任务
and here’s a strange thing:
奇怪之处在于
unlike an increasing number of americans who are working and living and playing with people who think e_actly like them
越来越多人工作、生活、娱乐都喜欢寻找与自己相似的人
because we then become more rigid and e_treme,
久而久之就变得挑剔、极端起来
opportunity-makers are actively seeking situations with people unlike them,
机会制造者寻找与自己不相似的人
and they’re building relationships,
和他们建立关系
and because they do that,
这样做的话
they have trusted relationships where they can bring the right team in
两方之间就有互信 能在适当的时机介绍彼此适当的人
and recruit them to solve a problem better and faster and seize more opportunities.
用更快、更好的方法解决问题 同时也抓住了更多机会
they’re not affronted by differences.
机会创造者不会被歧异冒犯
they’re fascinated by them,
反而深受吸引
and that is a huge shift in mindset,
这是心态上的极端不同
and once you feel it, you want it to happen a lot more.
你一旦意识到 就会为它的魅力着迷
this world is calling out for us to have a collective mindset,
和别人形成“共同体”才是王道
and i believe in doing that.
我个人深信
it’s especially important now.
携手合作在这世代特别重要
why is it important now?
为什么呢?
because things can be devised like drones
机器小帮手
and drugs and data collection,
药物开发、数据收集
and they can be devised by more people.
都可以让更多人参与其中
and cheaper ways for beneficial purposes
用更经济的方式创造收益
and then, as we know from the news every day, they can be used for dangerous ones.
只是水能载舟 亦能复舟 也可能被有心人士利用
it calls on us, each of us, to a higher calling.
这个理念非常需要大家的重视
but here’s the icing on the cake:
成为机会制造者是一箭双雕
it’s not just the first opportunity that you do with somebody else that’s probably your greatest,
除了获得和更高竿对象合作的机会
as an institution or an individual.
无论对于机构或个人来说
it’s after you’ve had that e_perience and you trust each other.
都是开启了这扇门 建立信任后
it’s the une_pected things that you devise later on you never could have predicted.
团队合作带来的惊人成果
for e_ample, marty is the husband of that actress i mentioned,
麦迪是那位女演员的丈夫
and he watched them when they were practicing,
詹姆等三人排练时 他就在旁边看
and he was soon talking to wally, my friend the e_-con,
并很快和韦利聊开了 就是刚出狱的那位
about that e_ercise regime.
大概在聊健身吧?
and he thought, i have a set of racquetball courts.
麦迪心想: “我有个壁球馆
that guy could teach it. a lot of people who work there are members at my courts.
韦利可以来当教练 很多教练都是体育馆的会员
they’re frequent travelers.
他们很常来我这边
they could practice in their hotel room, no equipment provided.
旅馆房间里没有设备 也照样能练习”
that’s how wally got hired.
韦利就这样得到了板球教练的工作
not only that, years later he was also teaching racquetball.
几年后他也开始教壁球学生
years after that, he was teaching the racquetball teachers.
再过了几年则是教壁球老师
what i’m suggesting is, when you connect with people
我想说的是 当你把周遭有相同兴趣、
around a shared interest and action,
喜好的人圈在一块
you’re accustomed to serendipitous things happening into the future,
就会逐渐适应随之而来、意想不到的收获
and i think that’s what we’re looking at.
我想这才是至关重要
we open ourselves up to those opportunities,
面对机会 我们敞开心胸
and in this room are key players and technology,
关键推手-这里的你们 再加上科技
key players who are uniquely positioned to do this,
每个人各司其职 有自己的位置
to scale systems and projects together.
提升制度和计划的整体价值
so here’s what i’m calling for you to do. remember the three traits of opportunity-makers.
opportunity-makers keep honing their top strength
一、机会制造者不断磨练自己专长
and they become pattern seekers.
开拓事物运作的新方式
they get involved in different worlds than their worlds
二、他们乐于接触不同人的世界
so they’re trusted and they can see those patterns,
获取信任 学习各种合作方式
and they communicate to connect around sweet spots of shared interest.
三、他们周旋于各方之间 让参与的人都分一杯羹
so what i’m asking you is, the world is hungry.
我想说的是 人与人之间太缺乏连结
i truly believe, in my firsthand e_perience,
根据亲身经验 我相信
the world is hungry for us to unite together as opportunity-makers
这世界很需要机会制造者
and to emulate those behaviors as so many of you already do, i know that firsthand,
可能台下的你已经是其中之一 大家都应该效仿机会制造者
and to reimagine a world where we use our best talents together
重塑我们的世界 融合各领域人才
more often to accomplish greater thing together than we could on our own.
一人不能做的事 借由合作来完成
just remember,
请把这句话放在心上
as dave liniger once said,
大卫˙林杰说过
“you can’t succeed coming to the potluck with only a fork.”
“只带一只叉子就来百乐餐的人 永远无法成功”(注: 后衍伸为商业成长需要集体合作、贡献)
thank you very much.
谢谢大家
thank you.
谢谢
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how many of you are tired of seeingcelebrities adopting kids from the african continent?
你们之中有多少人已经对那些从非洲领养小孩的明星而感到厌倦了?
well, it"s not all that bad. i was adopted.i grew up in rural uganda, lost both my parents when i was very, very young.and when my parents passed, i e_perienced all the negative effects of poverty,from homelessness, eating out of trash piles, you name it.
嗯，那也不全是坏事。我就是被其中领养的一员。我在乌干达的郊区长大，在我很小的时候，我的父母就去世了。在我父母离世之后，我经历了所有贫困带来的困难，从无家可归，到捡食路边的垃圾，所有你能想得到的。
but my life changed when i got acceptedinto an orphanage. through one of those sponsor-an-orphan programs, i wassponsored and given an opportunity to acquire an education. i started off inuganda. i went through school, and the way this particular program worked, youfinished high school and after high school, you go learn a trade -- to become acarpenter, a mechanic or something along those lines.
但自从我被一家孤儿院收养 我的生活就发生了巨变。通过孤儿院的一个补助项目，我获得了接受教育的机会，以及相应的资助。一开始是在乌干达。我去了学校念书，而根据这个项目的运作流程，他们会在你读完高中以后，送你去学一门手艺，比如木匠，或者机修工或者其他的一些专业技术。
my case was a little different. the sponsorfamily that was sending these 25 dollars a month to this orphanage to sponsorme, which -- i had never met them -- said, "well ... we would like to sendyou to college instead." oh -- it gets better.
而我的情况却有所不同。每个月我会在孤儿院收到25美元补助。这钱来自资助我的家庭，我从未见过他们他们说，"我们希望资助你去上大学" 哦，那再好不过了。
and they said, "if you get thepaperwork, we"ll send you to school in america instead." so with theirhelp, i went to the embassy and applied for the visa. i got the visa.
他们还说："如果你能通过申请 我们会把你送到美国的大学读书。" 所以，在他们的帮助下，我去大使馆申请了签证。并且通过了签证。
i remember this day like it was yesterday.i walked out of the embassy with this piece of paper in my hand, a hop in mystep, smile on my face, knowing that my life is about to change. i went homethat night, and i slept with my passport, because i was afraid that someonemight steal it.
那一天对我来说就像昨天一样。我拿着手里的文件走出大使馆，一路蹦跳，难掩笑意，我明白我的生活将不复从前。那天晚上我回到家里，抱着我的护照睡着了，因为我担心有人会把它偷走。
i couldn"t fall asleep. i kept feeling it.i had a good idea for security. i was like, "ok, i"m going to put it in aplastic bag, and take it outside and dig a hole, and put it in there." idid that, went back in the house. i could not fall asleep. i was like,"maybe someone saw me." i went back --
而我辗转反侧。那念头依然挥之不去。我突然想到了一个万全的主意。我说："好吧，我可以把它放进一个塑料袋里然后在外面地上挖一个洞，把袋子放进去。" 我真的做了，然后又回到屋子里。但我依然无眠，我想，"也许有人看到我了。" 我又回去了
i pulled it out, and i put it with me theentire night -- all to say that it was an an_iety-filled night.
我把袋子拿出来，然后抓着它度过了一宿 我只想说那真是焦虑的一晚。
going to the us was, just like anotherspeaker said, was my first time to see a plane, be on one, let alone sit on itto fly to another country. december 15, 20__. 7:08pm. i sat in seat 7a. flyemirates. one of the most gorgeous, beautiful women i"ve ever seen walked up,red little hat with a white veil. i"m looking terrified, i have no idea whati"m doing. she hands me this warm towel -- warm, steamy, snow white. i"mlooking at this warm towel; i don"t know what to do with my life, let alonewith this damn towel --
来到美国的感受，和其他初来乍到的人一样 那是我第一次坐飞机，坐在座位上，飞向另一个国家。20__年12月15日 晚上7点08分 我坐在7a座位上。乘坐阿联酋航班。一个我有生以来见过的最美的女人朝我走来，她戴着红色的帽子和白色的口罩。我真的吓坏了，我简直手足无措。她递给我一张温热的纸巾 温暖，湿润，白净如雪。我盯着这张温暖的纸巾; 我都不知道我该拿我的生活怎么办，更别说这张纸巾了
i did one of the -- you know, anythinganyone could do in that situation: look around, see what everyone else isdoing. i did the same. mind you, i drove about seven hours from my village tothe airport that day. so i grab this warm towel, wipe my face just likeeveryone else is doing, i look at it -- damn.
我做了一件——你懂的，任何人都会做的事：我环顾四周，看其他人的举动。然后我也跟着他们做。顺便一提，从村子到机场，那一天我开了7个小时的车。所以我拿起那张温暖的纸，效仿着别人擦拭了自己的脸，我看了看纸巾——该死。
it was all dirt brown.i remember being so embarrassed that whenshe came by to pick it up, i didn"t give mine.i still have it.
已经变成屎黄色了。我记得我是那么的尴尬，以至于当她来回收纸巾的时候，我没好意思给她。我现在都还带着它。
going to america opened doors for me tolive up to my full god-given potential. i remember when i arrived, the sponsorfamily embraced me, and they literally had to teach me everything from scratch:this is a microwave, that"s a refrigerator -- things i"d never seen before. andit was also the first time i got immersed into a new and different culture.these strangers showed me true love. these strangers showed me that i mattered,that my dreams mattered.thank you.
美国向我敞开了大门让我能够发挥自己最大的潜力。我记得我刚到的时候，我的资助家庭迎接了我，然后他们就把一切从头开始教给我：这是一个微波炉，那是一个冰箱——那些都是我以前闻所未闻的东西。那也是我第一次 被放置在全新的文化环境当中。这些陌生人向我展示了真正的关爱。这些陌生人让我明白，我很重要 我的梦想很重要。谢谢。
these individuals had two of their ownbiological children. and when i came in, i had needs. they had to teach meenglish, teach me literally everything, which resulted in them spending a lotof time with me. and that created a little bit of jealousy with their children.so, if you"re a parent in this room, and you have those teenager children whodon"t want anything to do with your love and affection -- in fact, they find itrepulsive -- i got a solution: adopt a child.
他们有两个亲生孩子。当我走进他们家庭的时候，我急需帮助。他们要教我英文，教我几乎所有的事情，这导致他们要在我的身上 花费很多的精力。而这致使他们的亲生孩子对我产生了一丝妒忌。所以，如果你们有人是家长，而你又有这样一群青少年小孩 他们对你们的爱和关心置若罔闻 事实上，还对你们很冷淡 我有一个办法： 领养一个孩子。
it will solve the problem.
问题就会迎刃而解。
i went on to acquire two engineeringdegrees from one of the best institutions in the world. i"ve got to tell you:talent is universal, but opportunities are not. and i credit this to theindividuals who embrace multiculturalism, love, empathy and compassion forothers. we live in a world filled with hate: building walls, bre_it, _enophobiahere on the african continent. multiculturalism can be an answer to many ofthese worst human qualities.
在一所世界一流学府中 我习得了两个工程师学位。我必须要说： 天赋人人都有，但机会一缘难求。我想要赞美 那些拥抱多元文化的人，那些关爱，理解并且同情他人的人。我们生活在一个充满憎恨的世界上：高筑围墙，英国脱欧，非洲大陆的仇外心理。而这些人类最负面的东西 都可以被多元文化海涵。
today, i challenge you to help a youngchild e_perience multiculturalism. i guarantee you that will enrich their life,and in turn, it will enrich yours. and as a bonus, one of them may even give ated talk.
今天，我挑战你们在座的观众们 去帮助一个年轻的孩子 感受多元文化的魅力。我保证那会充实他的生活，作为回报，你们的生活也会得到升华。而作为奖励，他们其中之一也许还会在ted演讲。
we may not be able to solve the bigotry andthe racism of this world today, but certainly we can raise children to create apositive, inclusive, connected world full of empathy, love and compassion.
我们也许无力解决 当今社会的种族歧视与偏见，但我们完全可以引导我们的孩子 去创建一个积极的，包容的，紧密相连的世界。那里将充满理解，关爱，同情。
love wins.thank you.
真爱无敌。谢谢
