Name: 為什麼你應該想吃苦頭|保羅-布魯姆 (Why you should want to suffer | Paul Bloom)
Uploaded: 2022-11-16T18:25:23.000Z
Duration: 5 min 41 s

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- 如果你想過一個有意義的生活

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you have to choose to some extent, a life of suffering.

你必須在某種程度上選擇痛苦的生活。

But there's actually a perfectly good evolutionary

就像飢餓感驅使你去吃東西一樣

pain pushes you away from things that would hurt you.

痛苦使你遠離那些會傷害你的東西。

But that sets up a puzzle, which is if the purpose of pain,

但這就設置了一個難題，那就是如果痛苦的目的。

and fear, and grief, and all of that is to avoid them,

和恐懼，以及悲傷，所有這些都是為了避免它們。

為什麼我們有時會去尋找它們？

為什麼我們會去看那些讓我們害怕的電影？

Why do we do things like push our bodies to the limit?

我們為什麼要做把身體推到極限這樣的事情？

And that's the puzzle, which I'm very interested in.

而這就是我非常感興趣的難題。

I'm a professor of psychology at the University of Toronto,

我是多倫多大學的一名心理學教授。

The Pleasures of Suffering and a Search for Meaning."

There's a world of difference between chosen suffering,

Sometimes they can build you up spiritually

有時，他們可以在精神上建立起你

But for the most part, they're bad for you.

但在大多數情況下，它們對你來說是有害的。

避免他們。如果你可以的話，避免他們。

the richness is found in chosen suffering.

豐富的內容是在選擇的痛苦中找到的。

So Alan Watts has this wonderful story he tells.

所以Alan Watts有這樣一個精彩的故事，他說。

He says, imagine you go to sleep one night

他說，想象一下，有一天晚上你去睡覺的時候

而你發現自己在一個清晰的夢中。

Any sort of joy, pleasure, any experience you want.

任何形式的快樂、愉悅，任何你想要的體驗。

If you could fantasize about it, you could experience it.

如果你能幻想它，你就能體驗它。

and you get to have whatever dream you want again.

而你可以再次擁有你想要的任何夢想。

And again, you explore pleasure and all sorts of excitement.

而且，你再次探索快樂和各種刺激。

is you're gonna throw out some obstacles.

You're gonna set up the possibility for failure.

You're gonna set up situations where you do fail,

你要設置一些你確實失敗的情況。

because if you don't fail, then the successes mean nothing

因為如果你不失敗，那麼成功就毫無意義。

and soon you'll be living a life in your dreams

only make sense relative to the bad things.

If you win every competition you engage in

如果你贏得了你所參與的每一次競爭

You have to have the possibility of loss.

they cease to become positive, you need a negative.

他們不再成為積極的，你需要一個消極的。

it's no mystery why we seek out good food,

我們為什麼要尋找好的食物，這並不神祕。

good sex, good company, all of that good stuff.

好的性生活，好的公司，所有這些好東西。

and they do so in ways that go from small to the big.

So the small, something like hot chilies,

是以，小的，類似於辣子的東西。

working your way through a crossword puzzle, saunas,

通過填字遊戲的方式工作，三溫暖。

熱水澡、恐怖電影、按摩疼痛。

Moving it up a bit, some people willingly engage in projects

再往上移一點，有些人願意從事的項目

that involve a lot of suffering and difficulty.

is unaware that this is gonna be difficult.

它對你來說就沒有什麼意義了。

But the difficulty is part and parcel of things.

但是，困難是事情的一部分和組成部分。

I've long been interested in the relationship

我長期以來一直對這一關係感興趣

between a life of meaning and chosen suffering.

在有意義的生活和選擇的痛苦之間。

Meaning, in the broad sense, is intimately related

to the more heavy duty suffering and difficulty.

if it's not hard at some level, if you don't look back on it

如果它在某種程度上不難，如果你不回頭看它

and sort of shudder a bit, it probably isn't meaningful.

並有點不寒而慄，這可能沒有什麼意義。

There was a survey done of over a million people

And then they asked how meaningful is your job?

然後他們問，你的工作有多大意義？

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