Finding a purpose in work we do or the way that we spend our time,

在我們所做的事情或是所花的時間之中

which resonates deeply with who we think we are,

找到與我們設想的自己 相互共鳴的目標

is an essential part of knowing who we are.

是產生自我認知的重要部分

In a way, if you don't know what you can do,

某種程度來說 你不知道自己能做什麼的話

you don't really know what you might be.

那也不太可能知道自己會變成什麼樣子

The human talent, human ability, like the world's natural resources,

人類的天賦 才能 就跟自然資源一樣

is often buried deep.

深埋在地底

It's not just lying on the surface. You have to go looking for it.

他不是躺在地表上 你得去找他

That's why so many people don't know what their talents are.

這就是為何許多人 並不知道自己才能的原因

They've never actually come upon them yet.

因為他們往往還來沒遇到它

One of the things that stops us doing what we might want to do

一件阻礙我們做自己想做的事

is our own self-censorship, a fear that we'll fall flat on our face.

是自我審查 一種害怕摔的狗吃屎的恐懼

"Me? I'm not even entitled to it."

我嗎？ 我根本沒有那種本事

A second, I think, is other people's attitudes -

第二 我想 是其他人的態度

friends and family, often well-intentioned.

朋友 家庭 常常是出於善意

There are forms of tacit disapproval that prevent us moving forward.

有許多暗示性的否定 不斷阻礙這我們前進

It can be the raised eyebrow of a friend, or a group culture.

可能只是朋友抬個眉毛 或是團體文化

"What? You? Seriously? You would do that? OK."

什麼？ 你？ 認真的嗎？ 你會這樣做？ 好吧

Or cultural constraints about the roles of women or the communities.

或是加諸在女性或團體成員的文化限制

So I'm not trying to say that this is easy,

所以我不是想說這個很簡單

but I'm saying it's essential and that there are things we CAN do,

我要說的是 這很重要 而且有一些事情是我們「可以」做的

particularly in the systematic process we put forward

尤其在我們施行的系統化流程

through education and organization of communities, that can assist it.

透過教育或是社會組織 這都可以拿來做輔助

The old model is predicated on a particular view of intelligence

舊的模型 在檢視智慧與才能 是站在一個先入為主的

and talent.

觀點

I think, for the future, we need to evolve systems of education

我想 在未來 我們需要發展教育系統

and of organizational planning and community development

作組織規劃 以及社區發展

which are based on a model of diversity,

在多樣化的模型基礎之上

rather than of conformity.

向對於 齊一性

We still run our education systems as if life is linear,

我們現在運作教育系統 仍將生命視為線性的

as if it's mechanistic.

同時又是機械性的

This is one reason so many things get phased out of education.

這就是為什麼這麼多東西被排除在教育之外

People say, "You'll never get a job if you do that."

人們常說：「你假如那樣做就會找不到工作」

Education is not a mechanistic process

教育不是一個機械化的過程

and organizations are not mechanisms.

組織也不是器械

The management charter of most organizations

很多組織的管理企劃書

looks like a wiring diagram.

看起來就像線路圖

It kind of suggests that these are like mechanisms and they're not.

這似乎表達這些東西就像機械 但他們不是

Human life and communities are much more like organisms,

人類生命 與社群 應該像是有機的生命體

in the sense that we flourish under certain conditions

某種層面上 我們會在特定條件下蓬勃發展

and we fade under certain conditions.

而在一些條件下我們凋零

Our success is always synergistic with our environment.

我們的成功跟環境之間永遠是相輔相成的

It IS about human flourishing.

這「就是」在講人類的發展

It's also about recognizing that education and our communities

這也是認知到我的教育 社群

are part of cultures and are not independent and insulated from them.

是文化的一部分 而不是孑然獨立被隔離出來的

But at the heart of it, the elemental bit of it,

但在最核心 最基礎的內涵上

is a different conception of human possibility -

這是對人類可能性的全新見解

finding your passion does change everything.

找到你的熱情 會改變一切