Name: 【TED】珍·芳達: 生命的第三幕 (Jane Fonda: Life's third act)
Uploaded: 2013-04-10T12:10:07.000Z
Duration: 11 min 21 s

34 years longer than our great-grandparents did.

our culture has not come to terms with what this means.

我們的文化卻尚未意識到它所代表的涵意。

我們仍然照著舊式生命拱形曲線

老化是跟著病理學曲線而行的。

philosophers, artists, doctors, scientists --

哲學家、藝術家、醫生、科學家﹣

are taking a new look at what I call the third act,

對我所謂的”生命的第三幕“，也就是

生命中最後的30年有了新的看法。

They realize that this is actually a developmental stage of life

他們認為它事實上是別具意義的

就有如從兒童時期到青少年時期般的不同。

And they are asking -- we should all be asking --

他們因而提出了疑問﹣我們應該也要想想﹣

I've spent the last year researching and writing about this subject.

去年我一直在研究及撰寫這個議題。

that a more appropriate metaphor for aging

the upward ascension of the human spirit,

也就是帶領我們朝向智慧、完整

自我感覺較良好、較少有壓力感

相信我，這樣的結論跟我原先預期的不同。

my first six thoughts would all be negative.

I'm going to become a crotchety old lady.

我快變成思想怪異的老女人了。

But now that I am actually smack-dab in the middle of my own third act,

I have such a powerful feeling of well-being.

當我們的內在，相對於從外表來看

as opposed to looking at it from the outside,

Picasso once said, "It takes a long time to become young."

畢卡索曾說＂經歷歲月後才能變年輕＂。

that it can be a time of fruition and growth.

事實上三分之一的原因是遺傳。

And there isn't much we can do about that.

to make these added years really successful

Now let me say something about the staircase,

讓我來說說“爬樓梯”這件事，

which may seem like an odd metaphor for seniors

這個比喻對於上樓梯有困難的長者

given the fact that many seniors are challenged by stairs.

the entire world operates on a universal law:

世界都是以不變的定律來運作：

entropy, the second law of thermodynamics.

Entropy means that everything in the world, everything,

There's only one exception to this universal law,

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【TED】珍·芳達: 生命的第三幕 (Jane Fonda: Life's third act)

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