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The Power of Vulnerability

脆弱的力量

研究者布琳·布朗用大量幽默故事,讲述她六年研究「连接」与「羞耻」的历程。她发现:区分「全心投入」者与苦苦挣扎者的唯一变量,是相信自己值得被爱与归属,而这背后是敢于示弱的勇气。她坦言这一发现曾让她精神崩溃,最终领悟真正的活法是允许自己被看见、全心去爱、相信自己已经足够。语速快、俚语多、情感真挚,适合进阶听力与地道口语学习。

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台词(120 句)

00:16
So, I'll start with this: a couple years ago, an event planner called me because I was going to do a speaking event. And she called, and she said, "I'm really struggling with how to write about you on the little flyer."

我先讲这么件事:几年前,一位活动策划人给我打电话,因为我要去做一场演讲。她打来说:「我实在头疼,不知道在小传单上该怎么介绍你。」

00:27
And I thought, "Well, what's the struggle?" And she said, "Well, I saw you speak, and I'm going to call you a researcher, I think, but I'm afraid if I call you a researcher, no one will come, because they'll think you're boring and irrelevant."

我心想:「这有什么好头疼的?」她说:「我听过你演讲,本想把你写成一名研究者,可我怕一旦写成研究者,就没人来了,因为大家会觉得你既无聊又跟自己没关系。」

00:40
(Laughter) And I was like, "Okay." And she said, "But the thing I liked about your talk is you're a storyteller.

(笑声)我说:「好吧。」她又说:「但我喜欢你演讲的一点,是你很会讲故事。

00:46
So I think what I'll do is just call you a storyteller." And of course, the academic, insecure part of me was like, "You're going to call me a what?"

所以我打算干脆把你写成一个讲故事的人。」当然啦,我内心那个学术、又有点没安全感的部分立刻跳出来:「你要把我写成什么?」

00:55
And she said, "I'm going to call you a storyteller." And I was like, "Why not 'magic pixie'?" (Laughter) I was like, "Let me think about this for a second."

她说:「我要把你写成一个讲故事的人。」我说:「那干嘛不叫『魔法小精灵』呢?」(笑声)我说:「让我先想一想。」

01:07
I tried to call deep on my courage. And I thought, you know, I am a storyteller. I'm a qualitative researcher.

我努力鼓起深藏的勇气,然后心想:其实,我确实是个讲故事的人。我是做定性研究的。

01:14
I collect stories; that's what I do. And maybe stories are just data with a soul. And maybe I'm just a storyteller.

我收集故事,这就是我的工作。也许故事不过是有灵魂的数据。也许我就是个讲故事的人。

01:21
And so I said, "You know what? Why don't you just say I'm a researcher-storyteller." And she went, "Ha ha. There's no such thing."

于是我说:「这样吧,你干脆把我写成『研究型讲故事的人』。」她说:「哈哈,哪有这种头衔。」

01:29
(Laughter) So I'm a researcher-storyteller, and I'm going to talk to you today -- we're talking about expanding perception -- and so I want to talk to you and tell some stories about a piece of my research that fundamentally expanded my perception

(笑声)所以我就是个「研究型讲故事的人」。今天我要跟大家聊——我们这场的主题是「拓展认知」——我想给你们讲几个故事,关于我的一项研究,它从根本上拓展了我的认知,

01:45
and really actually changed the way that I live and love and work and parent. And this is where my story starts.

并且实实在在地改变了我生活、去爱、工作和养育孩子的方式。我的故事就从这里说起。

01:52
When I was a young researcher, doctoral student, my first year, I had a research professor who said to us, "Here's the thing, if you cannot measure it, it does not exist."

当我还是个年轻研究者、读博第一年时,有位研究方法课的教授对我们说:「记住一句话:如果你无法测量它,它就不存在。」

02:05
And I thought he was just sweet-talking me. I was like, "Really?" and he was like, "Absolutely." And so you have to understand that I have a bachelor's and a master's in social work, and I was getting my Ph.D. in social work, so my entire academic career

我以为他不过是在哄我。我说:「真的假的?」他说:「千真万确。」你得知道,我念的是社会工作,本科、硕士都是,还在读社工的博士,所以我整个学术生涯,

02:19
was surrounded by people who kind of believed in the "life's messy, love it." And I'm more of the, "life's messy, clean it up, organize it and put it into a bento box."

周围都是那种信奉「生活一团糟,就爱它这团糟」的人。而我更属于「生活一团糟,那就把它收拾干净、归置整齐、装进便当盒里」的那种。

02:32
(Laughter) And so to think that I had found my way, to found a career that takes me -- really, one of the big sayings in social work is, "Lean into the discomfort of the work."

(笑声)所以我一度以为自己找到了方向、找到了适合的职业——社会工作里有句响当当的话,叫「迎着工作中的不适感俯身向前」。

02:46
And I'm like, knock discomfort upside the head and move it over and get all A's. That was my mantra.

而我却是:一巴掌把「不适感」拍晕,推到一边,然后门门拿 A。这就是我的座右铭。

02:54
So I was very excited about this. And so I thought, you know what, this is the career for me, because I am interested in some messy topics.

所以我对此非常兴奋。我心想:这份职业太适合我了,因为我对一些「乱糟糟」的课题很感兴趣。

03:02
But I want to be able to make them not messy. I want to understand them. I want to hack into these things that I know are important and lay the code out for everyone to see.

但我想把它们变得不再乱。我想弄懂它们。我想破解这些我明知很重要的东西,然后把「代码」摊开,让所有人都看得明明白白。

03:12
So where I started was with connection. Because, by the time you're a social worker for 10 years, what you realize is that connection is why we're here.

于是我的起点是「连接」。因为当你做了十年社工,你就会意识到:连接,正是我们活着的意义所在。

03:23
It's what gives purpose and meaning to our lives. This is what it's all about. It doesn't matter whether you talk to people who work in social justice, mental health and abuse and neglect, what we know is that connection, the ability to feel connected, is --

它赋予我们的人生以目标和意义。一切都归结于此。无论你面对的是做社会公平、心理健康,还是虐待与忽视问题的人,我们都清楚:连接,也就是感受到彼此相连的能力——

03:39
neurobiologically that's how we're wired -- it's why we're here. So I thought, you know what, I'm going to start with connection.

从神经生物学上讲,我们生来就是这样被「布线」的——它就是我们活着的理由。所以我想:好,那我就从连接入手。

03:47
Well, you know that situation where you get an evaluation from your boss, and she tells you 37 things that you do really awesome, and one "opportunity for growth?"

你一定遇到过这种情况:老板给你做评估,夸了你 37 件做得特别棒的事,外加一个「有待成长的地方」。

03:56
(Laughter) And all you can think about is that opportunity for growth, right? Well, apparently this is the way my work went as well, because, when you ask people about love, they tell you about heartbreak.

(笑声)结果你满脑子想的全是那个「有待成长的地方」,对吧?显然,我的研究也是同样的走向:当你问人们关于爱,他们跟你讲的却是心碎。

04:10
When you ask people about belonging, they'll tell you their most excruciating experiences of being excluded.

当你问人们关于归属,他们跟你讲的是自己被排斥时最痛彻心扉的经历。

04:17
And when you ask people about connection, the stories they told me were about disconnection. So very quickly -- really about six weeks into this research -- I ran into this unnamed thing that absolutely unraveled connection in a way that I didn't understand or had never seen.

而当你问人们关于连接,他们跟我讲的却是「断连」。所以很快——差不多研究进行到第六周——我就撞上了一样叫不出名字的东西,它以一种我从未见过、也无法理解的方式,把连接彻底瓦解。

04:35
And so I pulled back out of the research and thought, I need to figure out what this is. And it turned out to be shame.

于是我从研究里抽身出来,心想:我得弄清楚这到底是什么。结果发现,它就是「羞耻」。

04:43
And shame is really easily understood as the fear of disconnection: Is there something about me that, if other people know it or see it, that I won't be worthy of connection?

羞耻其实很好理解,就是对「断连」的恐惧:我身上是不是有某种东西,一旦别人知道或看到,我就不配拥有连接了?

04:55
The things I can tell you about it: It's universal; we all have it. The only people who don't experience shame have no capacity for human empathy or connection.

关于羞耻,我能告诉你的是:它是普世的,人人都有。唯一不会体验到羞耻的人,是那些根本没有共情或连接能力的人。

05:03
No one wants to talk about it, and the less you talk about it, the more you have it. What underpinned this shame, this "I'm not good enough," -- which, we all know that feeling: "I'm not blank enough. I'm not thin enough,

没人愿意谈它,而你越不谈,它就越沉重。支撑起这种羞耻、这种「我不够好」的,是——那种感觉我们都懂:「我不够『某某』。我不够瘦、

05:17
rich enough, beautiful enough, smart enough, promoted enough." The thing that underpinned this was excruciating vulnerability.

不够有钱、不够漂亮、不够聪明、升职升得不够快。」而支撑起这一切的,是一种痛彻心扉的脆弱。

05:26
This idea of, in order for connection to happen, we have to allow ourselves to be seen, really seen.

也就是这样一个道理:要让连接真正发生,我们就得允许自己被看见,被真真切切地看见。

05:36
And you know how I feel about vulnerability. I hate vulnerability. And so I thought, this is my chance to beat it back with my measuring stick.

而你也知道我对脆弱是什么态度。我恨脆弱。于是我想:这正是我拿起「测量尺」把它打回去的好机会。

05:43
I'm going in, I'm going to figure this stuff out, I'm going to spend a year, I'm going to totally deconstruct shame, I'm going to understand how vulnerability works, and I'm going to outsmart it.

我要杀进去,把这些东西彻底搞清楚,花上一年时间,把羞耻完全拆解开,弄懂脆弱的运作机制,然后智取它。

05:54
So I was ready, and I was really excited. As you know, it's not going to turn out well.

所以我摩拳擦掌,兴奋得很。而你也知道,结果不会太妙。

06:02
(Laughter) You know this. So, I could tell you a lot about shame, but I'd have to borrow everyone else's time.

(笑声)你早就料到了。关于羞耻,我能讲的太多了,多到得把别人的演讲时间都借来用。

06:10
But here's what I can tell you that it boils down to -- and this may be one of the most important things that I've ever learned in the decade of doing this research.

但我可以告诉你它最终归结为什么——这也许是我做这项研究十年间学到的最重要的东西之一。

06:20
My one year turned into six years: Thousands of stories, hundreds of long interviews, focus groups.

我原本计划的一年,最后变成了六年:数千个故事,数百场长访谈,还有一场场焦点小组。

06:28
At one point, people were sending me journal pages and sending me their stories -- thousands of pieces of data in six years.

有段时间,人们纷纷把自己的日记页、把自己的故事寄给我——六年里,累积了数千份数据。

06:37
And I kind of got a handle on it. I kind of understood, this is what shame is, this is how it works. I wrote a book, I published a theory, but something was not okay -- and what it was is that, if I roughly took the people I interviewed

我算是把它摸出了点门道,大致明白了:羞耻是这么回事,它是这样运作的。我写了本书,发表了一套理论,可总觉得哪里不对劲——问题在于,如果我把访谈过的人大致

06:53
and divided them into people who really have a sense of worthiness -- that's what this comes down to, a sense of worthiness -- they have a strong sense of love and belonging -- and folks who struggle for it, and folks who are always wondering if they're good enough.

分成两类:一类是真正拥有「自我价值感」的人——归根结底就是这个,一种自我价值感——他们对爱和归属有着强烈的感受;另一类是为此苦苦挣扎、总在怀疑自己够不够好的人。

07:11
There was only one variable that separated the people who have a strong sense of love and belonging and the people who really struggle for it.

把「对爱和归属有强烈感受的人」与「为之苦苦挣扎的人」区分开来的,只有一个变量。

07:18
And that was, the people who have a strong sense of love and belonging believe they're worthy of love and belonging.

那就是:对爱和归属有强烈感受的人,相信自己值得被爱、值得拥有归属。

07:25
That's it. They believe they're worthy. And to me, the hard part of the one thing that keeps us out of connection is our fear that we're not worthy of connection, was something that, personally and professionally, I felt like I needed to understand better.

就这么简单。他们相信自己值得。对我来说,那个把我们挡在连接之外的东西,其难点就在于我们害怕自己不配拥有连接——而无论从个人还是职业角度,我都觉得自己必须把它理解得更透彻。

07:44
So what I did is I took all of the interviews where I saw worthiness, where I saw people living that way, and just looked at those.

于是我把所有能看到「价值感」、能看到人们以那种方式生活的访谈都挑出来,单单研究这些。

07:55
What do these people have in common? I have a slight office supply addiction, but that's another talk.

这些人有什么共同点?顺便说一句,我有点轻微的办公文具上瘾症,不过那是另一场演讲的话题了。

08:02
So I had a manila folder, and I had a Sharpie, and I was like, what am I going to call this research?

总之,我拿着一个牛皮纸文件夹,握着一支马克笔,心想:这项研究我该给它起个什么名字?

08:08
And the first words that came to my mind were "whole-hearted." These are whole-hearted people, living from this deep sense of worthiness.

第一个蹦进我脑海的词是「全心投入」。这些人就是「全心投入」的人,他们从一种深深的自我价值感出发去生活。

08:15
So I wrote at the top of the manila folder, and I started looking at the data. In fact, I did it first in a four-day, very intensive data analysis, where I went back, pulled the interviews, the stories, pulled the incidents.

于是我把它写在牛皮纸文件夹的顶端,开始梳理数据。事实上,我最先做的是一场为期四天、极其密集的数据分析:我一遍遍回头翻出那些访谈、那些故事,翻出一件件事例。

08:29
What's the theme? What's the pattern? My husband left town with the kids because I always go into this Jackson Pollock crazy thing, where I'm just writing and in my researcher mode.

主题是什么?规律是什么?我丈夫带着孩子出城躲开了,因为我每次都会陷入一种「杰克逊·波洛克」式的疯狂状态,只顾埋头写写画画,彻底进入研究者模式。

08:43
And so here's what I found. What they had in common was a sense of courage.

我发现的结果是这样的:他们的共同点,是一种勇气。

08:51
And I want to separate courage and bravery for you for a minute. Courage, the original definition of courage, when it first came into the English language -- it's from the Latin word "cor," meaning "heart" -- and the original definition was to tell the story of who you are

我想花点时间,帮大家把「courage(勇气)」和「bravery(英勇)」区分开。courage 最初的含义,是它刚进入英语时——它源自拉丁语「cor」,意思是「心」——最初指的是把「你是谁」这个故事,

09:04
with your whole heart. And so these folks had, very simply, the courage to be imperfect.

全心全意地讲出来。所以简单地说,这些人拥有的,是「敢于不完美」的勇气。

09:13
They had the compassion to be kind to themselves first and then to others, because, as it turns out, we can't practice compassion with other people if we can't treat ourselves kindly.

他们有那份慈悲,先善待自己,再善待他人。因为事实证明,如果我们不能温柔地对待自己,也就无法真正对他人施以慈悲。

09:24
And the last was they had connection, and -- this was the hard part -- as a result of authenticity, they were willing to let go of who they thought they should be in order to be who they were, which you have to absolutely do that

最后一点,是他们拥有连接。而难就难在——出于真实,他们愿意放下「自己以为应该成为的样子」,转而做真实的自己。而要想获得连接,

09:39
for connection. The other thing that they had in common was this: They fully embraced vulnerability.

你就非这么做不可。他们另一个共同点是:他们全然拥抱脆弱。

09:55
They believed that what made them vulnerable made them beautiful.

他们相信,正是让他们变得脆弱的东西,让他们变得美丽。

10:06
They didn't talk about vulnerability being comfortable, nor did they really talk about it being excruciating -- as I had heard it earlier in the shame interviewing.

他们不说脆弱是舒服的,也不真的说它是痛彻心扉的——不像我早先在羞耻访谈里听到的那样。

10:15
They just talked about it being necessary. They talked about the willingness to say, "I love you" first ...

他们只说,脆弱是必要的。他们谈到,愿意先说出那句「我爱你」……

10:24
the willingness to do something where there are no guarantees ... the willingness to breathe through waiting for the doctor to call after your mammogram.

愿意去做一件没有任何保证的事……愿意在做完乳腺造影、等医生来电的煎熬中,稳住呼吸、撑过去。

10:38
They're willing to invest in a relationship that may or may not work out. They thought this was fundamental.

他们愿意在一段可能成、也可能不成的关系里投入。他们认为,这一点至关重要。

10:47
I personally thought it was betrayal. I could not believe I had pledged allegiance to research, where our job -- you know, the definition of research is to control and predict, to study phenomena for the explicit reason to control and predict.

而我个人却觉得,这简直是一种背叛。我不敢相信,我曾对研究宣誓效忠——我们的天职,你知道,研究的定义就是「掌控与预测」,研究现象的明确目的,就是为了掌控和预测。

11:04
And now my mission to control and predict had turned up the answer that the way to live is with vulnerability and to stop controlling and predicting.

可如今,我这场「掌控与预测」的使命,给出的答案竟然是:真正的活法是带着脆弱去生活,是停止掌控、停止预测。

11:14
This led to a little breakdown -- (Laughter) -- which actually looked more like this.

这让我小小地崩溃了一下——(笑声)——其实那场面更像是这样。

11:24
(Laughter) And it did. I call it a breakdown; my therapist calls it a spiritual awakening.

(笑声)真的就是这样。我管它叫崩溃,我的心理治疗师管它叫「精神觉醒」。

11:31
(Laughter) A spiritual awakening sounds better than breakdown, but I assure you, it was a breakdown. And I had to put my data away and go find a therapist.

(笑声)「精神觉醒」听起来是比「崩溃」体面,但我向你保证,那就是一场崩溃。我不得不把数据收起来,去找一位心理治疗师。

11:40
Let me tell you something: you know who you are when you call your friends and say, "I think I need to see somebody. Do you have any recommendations?"

我跟你说:当你打电话给朋友说「我觉得我得去看看心理医生,你有没有推荐?」的那一刻,你就看清自己是个怎样的人了。

11:47
Because about five of my friends were like, "Wooo, I wouldn't want to be your therapist." (Laughter) I was like, "What does that mean?"

因为我大概有五个朋友的反应都是:「哇哦,我可不想当你的心理治疗师。」(笑声)我说:「这话什么意思?」

11:56
And they're like, "I'm just saying, you know. Don't bring your measuring stick." (Laughter) I was like, "Okay."

他们说:「我就随口一说啦。记得别带上你那把『测量尺』。」(笑声)我说:「好吧。」

12:06
So I found a therapist. My first meeting with her, Diana -- I brought in my list of the way the whole-hearted live, and I sat down.

于是我找了位心理治疗师。第一次见她——她叫戴安娜——我把那份「全心投入者如何生活」的清单带了进去,然后坐下。

12:16
And she said, "How are you?" And I said, "I'm great. I'm okay." She said, "What's going on?"

她问:「你还好吗?」我说:「我挺好的,我没事。」她说:「那是遇到什么事了?」

12:23
And this is a therapist who sees therapists, because we have to go to those, because their B.S. meters are good.

而她是那种「专给心理治疗师做治疗」的治疗师,因为我们这行的人得找这种人——他们「识破废话」的雷达特别灵。

12:31
(Laughter) And so I said, "Here's the thing, I'm struggling."

(笑声)于是我说:「是这样的,我最近很挣扎。」

12:37
And she said, "What's the struggle?" And I said, "Well, I have a vulnerability issue. And I know that vulnerability is the core of shame and fear and our struggle for worthiness, but it appears that it's also the birthplace of joy, of creativity,

她问:「你在挣扎什么?」我说:「呃,我在脆弱这件事上有困扰。我知道脆弱是羞耻、恐惧,以及我们为价值感苦苦挣扎的核心,可它似乎同时又是欢乐、创造力、

12:55
of belonging, of love. And I think I have a problem, and I need some help."

归属和爱的发源地。我觉得我出了点问题,需要一些帮助。」

13:03
And I said, "But here's the thing: no family stuff, no childhood shit." (Laughter) "I just need some strategies."

我又说:「不过有言在先:不许聊家庭那一套,不许翻童年那些破事。」(笑声)「我只想要几招应对策略。」

13:13
(Laughter) (Applause) Thank you.

(笑声)(掌声)谢谢。

13:24
So she goes like this. (Laughter) And then I said, "It's bad, right?"

结果她就这么看着我。(笑声)然后我说:「很糟糕,对吧?」

13:32
And she said, "It's neither good nor bad." (Laughter) "It just is what it is."

她说:「无所谓好,也无所谓坏。」(笑声)「它就是它本来的样子。」

13:39
And I said, "Oh my God, this is going to suck." (Laughter) And it did, and it didn't.

我说:「天哪,这下有得受了。」(笑声)后来确实有得受,可又没那么糟。

13:47
And it took about a year. And you know how there are people that, when they realize that vulnerability and tenderness are important, that they surrender and walk into it.

整整花了大约一年。你知道,有些人一旦意识到脆弱和柔软很重要,就会缴械投降,坦然走进去。

13:59
A: that's not me, and B: I don't even hang out with people like that. (Laughter) For me, it was a yearlong street fight.

第一,那不是我;第二,我压根就不跟那种人来往。(笑声)对我来说,那是一场长达一年的街头肉搏。

14:09
It was a slugfest. Vulnerability pushed, I pushed back. I lost the fight, but probably won my life back.

那是一场硬碰硬的拉锯战。脆弱进逼,我就反推。我输掉了这场仗,却大概赢回了我的人生。

14:18
And so then I went back into the research and spent the next couple of years really trying to understand what they, the whole-hearted, what choices they were making, and what we are doing with vulnerability.

于是我又回到研究里,用接下来的两年,认真去弄懂那些「全心投入」的人到底在做怎样的选择,以及我们究竟是怎么对待脆弱的。

14:31
Why do we struggle with it so much? Am I alone in struggling with vulnerability? No.

我们为什么会为它挣扎得这么厉害?在与脆弱的搏斗中,只有我一个人吗?不是。

14:38
So this is what I learned. We numb vulnerability -- when we're waiting for the call.

我学到的是这个:我们会麻痹脆弱——就在我们苦苦等待那通电话的时候。

14:46
It was funny, I sent something out on Twitter and on Facebook that says, "How would you define vulnerability? What makes you feel vulnerable?"

有意思的是,我在推特和脸书上发了个问题:「你会怎么定义脆弱?什么会让你觉得脆弱?」

14:53
And within an hour and a half, I had 150 responses. Because I wanted to know what's out there. Having to ask my husband for help because I'm sick, and we're newly married; initiating sex with my husband; initiating sex with my wife;

一个半小时内,我就收到了 150 条回复,因为我很想知道大家的答案。有人说:生病了不得不开口求丈夫帮忙,而我们才新婚;主动向丈夫求欢;主动向妻子求欢;

15:11
being turned down; asking someone out; waiting for the doctor to call back; getting laid off; laying off people.

被人拒绝;开口约人出去;等着医生回电;被裁员;裁掉别人。

15:18
This is the world we live in. We live in a vulnerable world. And one of the ways we deal with it is we numb vulnerability.

这就是我们身处的世界。我们活在一个充满脆弱的世界里。而我们应对它的方式之一,就是麻痹脆弱。

15:27
And I think there's evidence -- and it's not the only reason this evidence exists, but I think it's a huge cause -- We are the most in-debt ...

我认为是有证据的——它不是唯一原因,但我认为是一大诱因——我们是美国历史上负债最重、

15:38
obese ... addicted and medicated adult cohort in U.S. history.

最肥胖、最上瘾、也最依赖药物的一代成年人。

15:48
The problem is -- and I learned this from the research -- that you cannot selectively numb emotion.

问题在于——这是我从研究里学到的——你无法有选择地麻痹某种情绪。

15:55
You can't say, here's the bad stuff. Here's vulnerability, here's grief, here's shame, here's fear, here's disappointment.

你没法说:这些是坏东西——这是脆弱,这是悲伤,这是羞耻,这是恐惧,这是失望。

16:02
I don't want to feel these. I'm going to have a couple of beers and a banana nut muffin. (Laughter) I don't want to feel these.

我不想感受这些,我要来上两瓶啤酒、一个香蕉核桃松饼。(笑声)我不想感受这些。

16:11
And I know that's knowing laughter. I hack into your lives for a living. God.

我知道你们这是心领神会的笑。我可是靠「破解你们的生活」为生的。天哪。

16:18
(Laughter) You can't numb those hard feelings without numbing the other affects, our emotions.

(笑声)你想麻痹那些难受的感觉,就不可能不同时麻痹其他情感、其他情绪。

16:26
You cannot selectively numb. So when we numb those, we numb joy, we numb gratitude, we numb happiness.

你没法有选择地麻痹。所以当我们麻痹那些感觉时,我们也麻痹了欢乐、麻痹了感恩、麻痹了幸福。

16:37
And then, we are miserable, and we are looking for purpose and meaning, and then we feel vulnerable, so then we have a couple of beers and a banana nut muffin.

接着,我们变得痛苦,四处寻找目标和意义,然后又感到脆弱,于是再来上两瓶啤酒、一个香蕉核桃松饼。

16:46
And it becomes this dangerous cycle. One of the things that I think we need to think about is why and how we numb.

于是这就成了一个危险的循环。我认为我们需要思考的一点是:我们为什么麻痹,又是如何麻痹的。

16:56
And it doesn't just have to be addiction. The other thing we do is we make everything that's uncertain certain.

而且这并不一定表现为上瘾。我们做的另一件事,是把一切不确定的东西都变成确定的。

17:05
Religion has gone from a belief in faith and mystery to certainty. "I'm right, you're wrong. Shut up."

宗教已经从对信仰与神秘的笃信,滑向了对「确定」的执着。「我对,你错,闭嘴。」

17:14
That's it. Just certain. The more afraid we are, the more vulnerable we are, the more afraid we are.

就这样,只要确定。我们越害怕,就越脆弱;越脆弱,就越害怕。

17:22
This is what politics looks like today. There's no discourse anymore. There's no conversation. There's just blame.

这就是今天政治的模样。再也没有真正的论辩,再也没有对话,剩下的只有指责。

17:29
You know how blame is described in the research? A way to discharge pain and discomfort. We perfect.

你知道研究里是怎么描述「指责」的吗?它是一种发泄痛苦和不适的方式。我们还爱追求完美。

17:38
If there's anyone who wants their life to look like this, it would be me, but it doesn't work. Because what we do is we take fat from our butts and put it in our cheeks.

要说谁最想让自己的人生看上去完美无瑕,那非我莫属,可这行不通。因为我们的做法,无非是把屁股上的脂肪抽出来,填到脸颊上。

17:47
(Laughter) Which just, I hope in 100 years, people will look back and go, "Wow."

(笑声)我只希望一百年后,人们回头看会感叹一句:「哇……」

17:54
(Laughter) And we perfect, most dangerously, our children. Let me tell you what we think about children.

(笑声)而最危险的是,我们还想把自己的孩子雕琢得完美无缺。我来告诉你我们是怎么看待孩子的。

18:02
They're hardwired for struggle when they get here. And when you hold those perfect little babies in your hand, our job is not to say, "Look at her, she's perfect.

他们一来到这世上,就天生带着「为挣扎而生」的编码。当你把那些完美的小宝宝捧在手心里时,我们的任务不是说:「瞧她,多完美。

18:11
My job is just to keep her perfect -- make sure she makes the tennis team by fifth grade and Yale by seventh." That's not our job.

我的任务就是维持她的完美——保证她五年级进网球队,七年级考上耶鲁。」那不是我们的任务。

18:17
Our job is to look and say, "You know what? You're imperfect, and you're wired for struggle, but you are worthy of love and belonging."

我们的任务,是看着孩子说:「你知道吗?你并不完美,你天生要经历挣扎,但你值得被爱、值得拥有归属。」

18:25
That's our job. Show me a generation of kids raised like that, and we'll end the problems, I think, that we see today.

这才是我们的任务。给我看一代这样养大的孩子,我想,我们今天所见的许多问题都会就此终结。

18:31
We pretend that what we do doesn't have an effect on people. We do that in our personal lives.

我们总假装自己的所作所为不会影响到别人。在私人生活里,我们这么干。

18:40
We do that corporate -- whether it's a bailout, an oil spill ... a recall.

在企业层面,我们也这么干——不管是金融纾困、石油泄漏,还是产品召回。

18:46
We pretend like what we're doing doesn't have a huge impact on other people. I would say to companies, this is not our first rodeo, people.

我们假装自己的所作所为不会给别人带来巨大冲击。我想对这些公司说:各位,我们又不是头一回见识这种事了。

18:55
We just need you to be authentic and real and say ... "We're sorry. We'll fix it."

我们只需要你们真诚、坦率地说一句……「我们很抱歉,我们会补救。」

19:05
But there's another way, and I'll leave you with this. This is what I have found: To let ourselves be seen, deeply seen, vulnerably seen ...

但还有另一条路,我想用它来作结。这是我的发现:让自己被看见,被深深地看见,带着脆弱被看见……

19:16
to love with our whole hearts, even though there's no guarantee -- and that's really hard, and I can tell you as a parent, that's excruciatingly difficult -- to practice gratitude and joy in those moments of terror, when we're wondering, "Can I love you this much?

全心全意地去爱,哪怕没有任何保证——这真的很难,作为一位母亲我可以告诉你,那难得让人痛彻心扉——在那些恐惧的时刻仍去练习感恩与欢乐,哪怕我们心里在犯嘀咕:「我能这样深地去爱你吗?

19:35
Can I believe in this this passionately? Can I be this fierce about this?" just to be able to stop and, instead of catastrophizing what might happen, to say, "I'm just so grateful, because to feel this vulnerable means I'm alive."

我能这样满腔热忱地相信它吗?我能为它这样奋不顾身吗?」——只求能够停下来,不去把可能发生的一切想成灾难,而是说:「我只是心怀感激,因为能感到如此脆弱,说明我还活着。」

19:48
And the last, which I think is probably the most important, is to believe that we're enough. Because when we work from a place, I believe, that says, "I'm enough" ...

最后一点,我认为大概是最重要的,就是相信「我们已经足够」。因为我相信,当我们从一个「我已经足够」的位置出发去生活时……

20:00
then we stop screaming and start listening, we're kinder and gentler to the people around us, and we're kinder and gentler to ourselves.

我们就会停止叫嚷、开始倾听,我们会对身边的人更友善、更温柔,也会对自己更友善、更温柔。

20:10
That's all I have. Thank you. (Applause)

我要讲的就这些。谢谢。(掌声)