A question that comes up a lot is how good is good enough?

一個經常出現的問題是，多好才算足夠好？

When can we stop calling this thing a work in progress and put it out into the world to find the answer.

我們什麼時候才能停止把這個東西稱為正在進行的工作，並把它放到外面的世界中去尋找答案。

You need to know the trinity of quality.

你需要了解品質的三位一體。

One how good your work actually is to how good you think it is and three how good you want it to be.

一是你的工作實際上有多好，二是你認為它有多好，三是你希望它有多好。

So the first part of the trinity is the actual quality itself.

所以三位一體的第一部分是實際的品質本身。

How good is your thing on an absolute scale?

你的東西在絕對規模上有多好？

How entertaining is it?

它的娛樂性如何？

How funny?

多麼有趣？

How well edited?

編輯得有多好？

How accurate is the science?

科學的準確性如何？

How good is the lighting, the resolution, etcetera?

照明、分辨率等方面有多好？

Some measures of quality are fairly objective, such as the accuracy of color reproduction or having sound levels in the audible range of human hearing, or how correctly you portray a technical idea.

一些衡量品質的標準是相當客觀的，如色彩再現的準確性，或在人類聽覺範圍內有聲音水準，或你如何正確描繪一個技術理念。

And there are some less objective measures, such as is the composition pleasing or is the narrator too snarky or is this just what I needed to brighten my day?

還有一些不太客觀的衡量標準，比如構圖是否悅目，敘述者是否太尖酸刻薄，或者這正是我需要的，以照亮我的一天？

Any creation, whether a video, a piece of art, a news article or a meal will have different levels of quality on different axes.

任何創作，無論是視頻、藝術作品、新聞文章還是飯菜，都會在不同的軸上有不同的品質水準。

A movie might have carefully designed lighting, high resolution imagery, painstaking sound design and mixing amazing visual effects, but the story might still be junk Internet videos historically have lower quality sound and visuals, but the content of the video and the story and editing and personality might all be high quality.

一部電影可能有精心設計的燈光，高分辨率的影像，艱苦的聲音設計和混合驚人的視覺效果，但故事可能仍然是垃圾互聯網視頻在歷史上有較低質量的聲音和視覺效果，但視頻的內容和故事和編輯和個性可能都是高質量的。

So the overall quality of something will be affected by how strongly you weigh the importance of the different possible axes, Whether you care more about humor or scientific accuracy or beautiful composition, but we're going to focus on the quality of each access independently and we'll pretend that quality is an absolute property of the video itself, independent of anyone's personal viewpoint.

是以，東西的整體品質將受到你對不同的可能軸的重要性的權衡的影響，無論你更關心幽默或科學的準確性或美麗的構圖，但我們將獨立地關注每個通道的品質，我們將假裝品質是視頻本身的一個絕對屬性，與任何人的個人觀點無關。

Personal viewpoints are where the second part of the trinity comes in.

個人觀點是三位一體的第二部分的內容。

Taste also known as preference.

味道也被稱為偏好。

If quality is where you are, taste is the target where you want your creation to be on the quality axis.

如果品質是你所在的位置，那麼品味就是你希望你的創作在品質軸上的目標。

Maybe you're what we call a perfectionist and want the quality to be as high as possible in every single possible axis.

也許你是我們所說的完美主義者，希望在每一個可能的軸線上都儘可能地提高質量。

Maybe you care a lot about scientific accuracy and clarity of communication but are fine with sloppy stick figure drawings, hands with chapped skin and no sound effects or maybe you just want to make as many videos as quickly as possible.

也許你非常關心科學的準確性和交流的清晰度，但對馬虎的棍子圖、皮膚乾裂的手和沒有聲音效果的手都無所謂，或者你只是想盡快製作儘可能多的視頻。

Taste is personal though there are some somewhat universal human tastes related to how our eyes and ears and brains process images and sound.

品味是個人的，儘管有一些有點普遍的人類品味與我們的眼睛、耳朵和大腦如何處理影像和聲音有關。

And there are also some broad, culturally learned tastes that have to do with the media landscape you grew up in, but whatever you want, that's fine, that's your taste.

還有一些廣泛的、文化上的品味，與你成長的媒體環境有關，但無論你想要什麼，那都很好，那是你的品味。

It's your target.

這是你的目標。

So quality represents how good our video actually is on various different axes and taste gives us the target, how good we want it to be on each of those axes.

是以，品質代表了我們的視頻在各種不同的軸上實際有多好，品味給了我們目標，我們希望它在每個軸上有多好。

You might think the next step is to figure out how to reach our targets from where we are.

你可能認為下一步是要想出如何從我們所處的位置達到我們的目標。

But focusing on how to make something good skips over a more important and fundamentally useful skill, how good you are at telling whether something is good because while in many fields or industries there are sometimes rules of thumb or best practices for making things good, even though sometimes fail or need to be broken or you find yourself in a new creative situation that the rule of thumb doesn't say anything about and a lot of times, even if you know something is good, you don't necessarily know why it's good, which makes it hard to reproduce its goodness and that's why we need the third and most underappreciated part of the trinity, discernment, discernment is how well you can perceive quality, how accurately and reliably you can tell how good something is.

但專注於如何使某樣東西好，卻忽略了一個更重要的、根本上有用的技能，即你有多大能力來判斷某樣東西是否好，因為雖然在許多領域或行業，有時有經驗法則或最佳做法來使東西好，但即使有時失敗或需要被打破，或你發現自己處於一個新的創造性情況，而經驗法則並沒有說什麼，很多時候。即使你知道某樣東西是好的，你也不一定知道它為什麼是好的，這使得它很難再現它的好，這就是為什麼我們需要三位一體中第三個也是最不被重視的部分，辨別力，辨別力是你如何能夠感知品質，如何準確和可靠地告訴你東西有多好。

If quality is where you actually are and taste is where you want to be, then discernment is how accurately, you know where you are.

如果品質是你實際所處的位置，品味是你想要的位置，那麼辨別力就是如何準確地知道你在哪裡。

It's the size of that blue circle of uncertainty on your gps being discerning or not is essentially the difference between perceiving something on a scale of 1 to 51 to 10, 1, 200 or whatever.

這就是你的GPS上那個不確定的藍色圓圈的大小，是否有辨別力，本質上是在1到51到10、1、200或其他規模上感知事物的區別。

If I'm a stick figure, connoisseur and you're not, you might say this stick figure is a perfect four out of four.

如果我是一個棒子，鑑賞家，而你不是，你可能會說這個棒子是一個完美的四分。

While I'd say it's a pretty good eight out of 10, both of which would be totally reasonable for us to say.

雖然我說這是一個相當不錯的八分，但這兩點對我們來說是完全合理的。

But if our target stick figure quality is here, then we're going to disagree on whether or not we're there yet because on your scale we are and on my scale or not, if we don't realize this is a difference in discernment, you might think I'm nitpicking and want something better than perfection while I might think you secretly lowered your standards, discernment is important because you want to know when you reach your target and you definitely don't want to think you've reached the target when you haven't.

但是，如果我們的目標棒形品質在這裡，那麼我們就會在是否已經達到的問題上產生分歧，因為在你的尺度上我們是，而在我的尺度上或者不是，如果我們沒有意識到這是辨別力的差異，你可能認為我在吹毛求疵，想要比完美更好的東西，而我可能認為你暗中降低了標準，辨別力很重要，因為你想知道你何時達到目標，你絕對不想在沒有達到目標的時候認為你已經達到了。

Of course maybe there really is no such thing as an intrinsic quality to discern and maybe our disagreement really is just a difference in taste.

當然，也許真的沒有什麼內在的品質可言，也許我們的分歧真的只是品味上的差異。

But I think that's just a confusion while it's true that taste and discernment are linked.

但我認為這只是一種混淆，而品味和鑑別力確實是相關的。

You know, like after learning to discern the difference between different kinds of hot chocolate, you might develop a taste for one kind over others.

你知道，就像在學會辨別不同種類的熱巧克力的區別之後，你可能會發展出一種比其他種類更喜歡的口味。

So improving your discernment leads you to change your taste, but it's also possible to be discerning without letting it affect your taste.

所以提高你的辨別力會導致你改變你的品味，但也有可能在不讓它影響你的品味的情況下有辨別力。

Like how a writer can know about and still ignore general concepts about prepositions and not using them to end sentences with.

就像一個作家如何知道並仍然忽視關於介詞的一般概念，不使用它們來結束句子。

I mean like how a writer can know the practice of not ending sentences with prepositions but still decide it's a place worth going to.

我的意思是，就像一個作家如何知道不以介詞結束句子的做法，但仍然決定那是一個值得去的地方。

Is this a hill?

這是一座山嗎？

I'll die on.

我會死在。

Is it something I'll fight you over or is it grammar I know nothing about the point is there's often an absolute underlying truth.

這是我要和你爭奪的東西，還是我一無所知的文法，關鍵是往往有一個絕對的潛在真理。

Does the sentence ends in a preposition or not?

該句子是否以介詞結束？

Is the note in tune or not?

這個音符是否在調上？

Discernment of that truth is a real skill and the more discerning you are, the better you can decide what level of quality is appropriate for what circumstance, pairing different hot chocolates with different cookies or different cameras with different projects.

對這一真理的辨別是一項真正的技能，你的辨別力越強，你就越能決定哪種品質水準適合什麼情況，將不同的熱巧克力與不同的餅乾或不同的相機與不同的項目搭配。

What's more improving your discernment abilities is critical to improving the consistency of the quality of your creative work.

更重要的是，提高你的鑑別能力對提高你的創作品質的一致性至關重要。

Because if you can't reliably tell whether or not something is good, how can you make sure it is, however good you want it to be, You'll just be fumbling around in the dark.

因為如果你不能可靠地判斷一件事是否是好的，你怎麼能確保它是好的，無論你希望它是多麼好，你只是在黑暗中摸索。

This is all to say, discernment and taste are indeed different and pretending they aren't or confusing them can cause problems, especially when you work with other people.

這都是說，辨別力和品味確實是不同的，假裝它們不是，或者混淆它們會造成問題，特別是當你與其他人一起工作時。

In fact, there are three different ways that discernment and taste can combine to cause problems.

事實上，有三種不同的方式可以使鑑別力和品味結合起來，從而導致問題。

First, if one person is much better at discerning the level of quality than the other, then you can be aiming for the same creative target, but one person will think you've arrived and the other will think you have a long way to go?

首先，如果一個人比另一個人更善於辨別品質水準，那麼你們的目標可以是相同的創意目標，但一個人會認為你們已經到達，而另一個人會認為你們還有很長的路要走？

We might both want a painting to be hung level and centered on the wall and I think it is level while you can tell it's slightly lopsided.

我們可能都希望一幅畫能水準地掛在牆上並居中，而我認為它是水準的，而你可以看出它稍微有點傾斜。

On the other hand, if two people have the same discernment capacity but different tastes, that is different creative targets, then they'll also disagree on whether or not they've reached the target, even if they agree on where they are.

另一方面，如果兩個人有相同的鑑別能力，但品味不同，也就是有不同的創作目標，那麼他們也會對是否達到目標產生分歧，即使他們對自己的位置達成一致。

Like maybe we both can tell that the painting isn't level, but it doesn't bother me as much.

就像也許我們都能看出這幅畫並不平整，但它並沒有讓我感到困擾。

I think this is the most common source of creative disagreement where two people just have different standards or goals, but it's also incredibly common for people to think they're disagreeing on taste when they actually have different capacities to discern and last.

我認為這是最常見的創作分歧的來源，兩個人只是有不同的標準或目標，但人們認為他們在品味上有分歧，而實際上他們有不同的辨別能力和持久性，這也是非常普遍的。

Sometimes you have both differing discernment capacities and differing targets.

有時你既有不同的鑑別能力，也有不同的目標。

Maybe one person is more discerning about the lighting of the scene and they also care more about making sure the lighting is perfect when it comes to the question of how good is good enough.

也許一個人對場景的照明更有鑑別力，當涉及到多好才算好的問題時，他們也更在乎確保照明的完美。

So much of the time people focus on the taste aspect, how good you want something to be without realizing that discernment plays a huge role in determining whether or not you think you've achieved your target and therefore whether or not you actually have.

很多時候，人們專注於口味方面，你希望某樣東西有多好，卻沒有意識到辨別力在決定你是否認為你已經實現了你的目標，從而決定你是否真的實現了目標方面發揮著巨大作用。

So remember the trinity of quality, quality is how good it is, taste is, how good you want it to be and discernment is how good you are at knowing the difference.

是以，請記住品質的三位一體，品質是指它有多好，品味是指，你希望它有多好，而鑑別力是指你有多大的能力知道區別。

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好了，假設你想提高你的科學和數學的品質、品味和辨別力，你會想看看輝煌這個視頻的贊助商，你以前聽說過輝煌，它是一個基於主動解決問題的互動科學和數學學習平臺。

A very fast path towards mastery of a new concept or skill, brilliant has interactive courses ranging from logical thinking to gravitational physics, to the math and computer science behind neural networks and Cryptocurrency.

這是一條掌握新概念或技能的非常快速的途徑，輝煌有互動課程，從邏輯思維到引力物理，到神經網絡和加密貨幣背後的數學和計算機科學。

To improve your science and math taste and discernment, and to sign up for free, go to brilliant dot org slash minute physics.

要提高你的科學和數學品味和鑑別力，並免費註冊，請到輝煌點org斜線分鐘物理學。

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前200人將獲得20%的年度高級訂閱，可以完全訪問所有的Brilliance課程和謎題。

That's brilliant dot org slash minute physics.

那是輝煌的點狀組織斜線分鐘物理學。

And thanks to brilliant for their support.

並感謝輝煌公司的支持。