Name: 【TEDx】半杯水是「半滿」還是「半空」? 最後的證明! (Is the glass half full or half empty? The final proof! Leo Bormans at TEDxGhent)
Uploaded: 2014-06-28T15:20:00.000Z
Duration: 17 min 18 s

這時候我想到我們可能會忽略的

有個全世界的人總是在問的問題

當我們談到快樂這件事時，總會問:

is whether the glass is half full  or half empty.

你覺得這杯水是半滿還是半空的?

that we'll give the answer  to that question today.

今天我們就會給你們這個問題的答案

You have become  an ambassador of creativity,

you are an ambassador of courage, of innovation, of organisation.

而你是勇氣的大使， 或是創新或是組織的大使

We all are ambassadors  of some strength.

但我們是從哪裡學得這些事情的?

當我還是個小孩，大約四五歲的時候

my father was a salesman. He took me to small grocery shops

我爸是個推銷員，他會帶我到那些小型的雜貨店

那是在林堡，在比利時的一個省份

They turned upside down  an old vegetable box.

他們把原本拿來裝蔬菜的盒子倒著放在地上

I would be standing on it  and recite poems.

而我就會站在盒子上，朗誦詩詞

這樣子我就可以獲得冰淇淋當作獎賞

在我小時候可是吃了不少的冰淇淋

In fact, when I'm talking today, on this thing, what did they do?

其實，我今天藉此要講的是，他們是怎麼做的?

They turned an old vegetable box  upside down,

and I hopefully  get an ice cream afterwards.

於是我就可以指望事後能夠得到冰淇淋

We learn to support  through positive engagement,

透過鼓勵對方，而學會支持自己

We don't learn anything  through cynicism

我們不會從他人的譏笑或是漠不關心

in Nepal and in India I met the word 'namaste'.

在尼泊爾和印度，我聽到了這個詞: namaste

But when an American says 'hello',  it doesn't mean anything.

但是當美國人說hello的時候，這個字其實沒有太深的涵意

There is something positive in you  and I bow for that, deeply.

在你心中有著某樣正向的存在，而我對此深深的地鞠躬

Students to teachers,  all over, everyday, 100 times.

而學生也都會這麼回應，每天總共會說上百次

I've seen you.  There is a positive strength in you.

我看到了你，在你心中有種正向的力量

要是全世界的人都會誠心誠意地對他人說這句話

那我們的世界是否會因此全然不同?

I'm not driving the country  in a car full of balloons.

我也並不是像是開著一輛載滿汽球的車那樣悠閒地帶領這個國家

If I open the door of your heart,  there is a lot of sadness

要是我打開你的心門，那我會發現許多的悲傷

我很討厭那首叫做 別擔心，要快樂 的歌

I changed the motto to 'Do worry, be happy'.

我擅自把歌名改成了 要擔心，也要快樂

There is something going wrong  in the world,

但那並不代表我們就快樂不起來了

Everyone is looking  for happiness, all over,

我拜託過五十個國家的一百名教授

to summarize in 1000 words  what we know about happiness,

要他們列出一千個我們所知與快樂相關的詞

not what we believe,  but what we know about happiness.

不是我們認為的，而是我們所知道的與快樂有關的詞

We have been studying psychology,  sociology, economics.

我們研究心理學，社會學以及經濟

That's what's it about:  not only philosophy.

這些都與快樂有關，不只是哲學

It's not about sunflowers and balloons,  it's about science.

快樂與向日葵以及氣球無關，而是跟科學有關

We know quite a lot  about schizophrenia, paranoia,

我們是很了解人格分裂，或是偏執

but most of the people are not  schizophrenics or paranoiacs.

但是我們大部分的人都不是人格分裂者或是偏執狂

但 不壞 與 好 又是不一樣的意思

The opposite of unhappy  is 'not unhappy',

So if we could study  what makes people happy

那麼要是我們能夠研究是什麼使得人類快樂

We know that the relationship  between optimism and happiness

我們都知道正面樂觀與快樂之間的關係

The relationship between  smoking and lung cancer

is the same as the relationship  between optimism and happiness.

也如同正面樂觀與快樂之間的關係一樣密切

When you are an optimist,  you become happy.

要是你是個樂觀的人，就會快樂

And when you're happier,  you're healthier

and successful, in sports,  in science, in friendship.

就能在運動或科學領域，還有朋友關係上取得成功

Why don't you want  to become an optimist?

你怎麼會不想當一個樂觀的人呢?

We know from science that 50 percent  of optimism is about genetics.

根據我們所知的科學知識，大約有百分之五十的樂觀是取決於基因

It's about what we got from our parents,  our grandparents and so on.

那些是來自於我們的父母，或是祖父母以及祖先

that is the house we have,  the job we have.

比方說你的居住環境或是你的工作

40 percent is left  for what is between our ears.

剩下的百分之四十，就在我們的雙耳之間

That's the mindset,  the way we look at things.

也就是我們的心態，我們看待事物的態度

The 50 percent of genetics, we cannot change.

或許那來自基因的百分之五十，我們無法改變

The 10 percent of circumstances,  are what we focus on all day long.

那環境的百分之十，是我們成天注目的

And the 40 percent  is what we have in our own hands.

而剩下的百分之四十，就是我們能夠掌握的

Don't you think that happy people  experience more happy things

你會不會覺得快樂的人所經歷的快樂，

We all experience  more or less the same things in our lives

我們在人生中的經歷，其實都差不多

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