Name: 【TED】紹恩．阿克爾 (Shawn Achor): 優質工作的快樂秘訣 (The happy secret to better work | Shawn Achor)
Uploaded: 2013-03-26T14:30:34.000Z
Duration: 12 min 21 s

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When I was seven years old and my sister was just five years old,

I was two years older than my sister at the time --

I mean, I'm two years older than her now --

我想，我現在還是比她大兩歲 --

but at the time it meant she had to do everything that I wanted to do,

也就是說在當時，她要跟著我做我想做的事

I had put out all of my G.I. Joe soldiers and weaponry.

放著我所有的特種部隊士兵及武器

And on the other side were all my sister's My Little Ponies

在另一邊則是我妹妹的各式彩虹小馬

There are differing accounts of what actually happened that afternoon,

那天下午到底發生了什麼事其實是各說各話

but since my sister is not here with us today,

which is my sister's a little bit on the clumsy side.

Somehow, without any help or push from her older brother at all,

不知為何，她哥哥我既沒幫她也沒有推她

suddenly Amy disappeared off of the top of the bunk bed

Now I nervously peered over the side of the bed

to see what had befallen my fallen sister

到底是什麼東西讓我妹妹成了墜落天使

and saw that she had landed painfully on her hands and knees

我看到我妹妹趴在地上，五體投地的樣子

I was nervous because my parents had charged me

我好緊張，因為我的父母才命令我

played as safely and as quietly as possible.

And seeing as how I had accidentally broken Amy's arm

... heroically pushing her out of the way

為了要閃一顆想像的狙擊手子彈

I was trying as hard as I could to be on my best behavior.

this wail of pain and suffering and surprise

threatening to erupt from her mouth and threatening to wake

my parents from the long winter's nap for which they had settled.

從深冬的午睡吵醒，他們才剛剛睡著

所以我試圖用我慌亂的七歲小腦袋

my little frantic seven year-old brain could think to do to avert this tragedy.

And if you have children, you've seen this hundreds of times before.

如果你有孩子，你一定看過幾百次這種場面

I said, "Amy, Amy, wait. Don't cry. Don't cry.

我說：「愛咪，愛咪，等等，不哭，不哭，

Amy, I think this means you're a unicorn."

愛咪，我想你一定是獨角獸。」

Now that was cheating, because there was nothing in the world my sister would want more

那當然是哄騙，因為在這世界上我妹妹

than not to be Amy the hurt five year-old little sister,

絕不想做痛痛的五歲小妹妹愛咪

Of course, this was an option that was open to her brain at no point in the past.

當然，之前她從沒想過這個選擇

And you could see how my poor, manipulated sister faced conflict,

然後你想像一下，我可憐又被耍了的妹妹一臉掙扎

as her little brain attempted to devote resources

to feeling the pain and suffering and surprise

or contemplating her new-found identity as a unicorn.

又要思索著她剛剛才發現的獨角獸新身分

Instead of crying, instead of ceasing our play,

所以她不但沒哭，沒有停止玩耍

with all the negative consequences that would have ensued for me,

所有可能發生在我身上的負面後果都沒有發生

and she scrambled right back up onto the bunk bed with all the grace of a baby unicorn ...

然後以小獨角獸的翩翩姿態爬回雙層床去 ...

at this tender age of just five and seven --

was something that was going be at the vanguard of a scientific revolution

occurring two decades later in the way that we look at the human brain.

二十年後人類的確以這種方法探討腦部

What we had stumbled across is something called positive psychology,

這個偶然的經歷被稱作正向心理學

and the reason that I wake up every morning.

When I first started talking about this research

outside of academia, out with companies and schools,

就是對公司及學校談論這個研究主題時

the very first thing they said to never do

The very first thing I want to do is start my talk with a graph.

但我還是要從一張圖表開始這個主題

but this graph is the reason I get excited and wake up every morning.

但這張圖正是我每天早上能興奮的起床的原因

And this graph doesn't even mean anything; it's fake data.

這張表沒有任何意義；上面的數據是假的

If I got this data back studying you here in the room, I would be thrilled,

如果這張圖是我研究在場各位的結果，我會很激動

because there's very clearly a trend that's going on there,

代表著我可以發表這個研究結果

而發表結果是我做研究最主要的原因

The fact that there's one weird red dot that's up above the curve,

但有一個怪怪的小紅點在曲線的上方

也就是說這個講座裡有個怪胎 --

我知道你是誰，我剛剛看到你了 --

真的沒關係，大部份的人都知道這不影響

I can delete that dot because that's clearly a measurement error.

我可以刪掉它，很明顯它是個測量偏誤

So one of the very first things we teach people

所以在經濟學、統計學、商業學

in economics and statistics and business and psychology courses

及心理學課程裡，我們教大家的第一件事

is how, in a statistically valid way, do we eliminate the weirdos.

就是如何在統計容許範圍內，把怪怪的數據刪掉

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