Name: 讓人生更快樂的 4 大關鍵，一次搞懂！ (Understand these 4 key concepts for a happier life | Arthur Brooks)
Uploaded: 2025-12-14T20:01:10.000Z
Duration: 7 min 5 s

One of the biggest mistakes that people make is confusing happiness and feelings of happiness.

人們常犯的一個大錯，就是把快樂跟快樂的感覺搞混。

Happiness is the feeling I get when I'm with the people that I love.

快樂是我跟所愛的人在一起時的感覺。

Or happiness is how I feel when I'm doing what I enjoy.

或者快樂就是我享受做某件事時的感受。

And I say, that's beautiful, that's great, that's wrong.

我說，這很美，很棒，但這是錯的。

Feelings are evidence of happiness, like the smell of your turkey is evidence of your Thanksgiving dinner.

感覺是快樂的證據，就像火雞的味道是感恩節晚餐的證據一樣。

And that's incredibly good news for everybody, because there's all kinds of reasons that you shouldn't just have happy feelings.

這對大家來說是個超級好消息，因為有很多理由讓你不能只追求快樂的感覺。

It's normal that you have negative emotions every single day, and

每天有負面情緒是很正常的，而且

if you didn't, you'd probably be dead in about a week.

如果沒有，你大概一週內就會死掉。

But if we really want to get at the phenomenon that's creating the feelings, we need to go underneath those emotions and find out what's actually driving them in the first place.

但如果我們真的想了解造成這些感覺的現象，我們就需要深入探究這些情緒，找出它們真正的原因。

I'm an author and a professor, and I specialize in the science of happiness.

我是一位作家和教授，專攻快樂的科學。

People talk a lot about bad feelings and good feelings, and that's a complete misunderstanding of emotion itself.

人們常說負面情緒和正面情緒，這完全誤解了情緒本身。

Emotion is nothing more than information about the outside world.

情緒不過是關於外部世界的資訊。

When there's something outside of you that's a threat, we have negative emotions.

當你身邊有威脅時，我們就會產生負面情緒。

And when there's something that's an opportunity for us, something that's lovely, something that we really want in our lives, then we have positive emotions of joy and interest or surprise.

而當有對我們來說是機會、是美好的、是我們生活中真正想要的事物時，我們就會產生喜悅、興趣或驚喜等正面情緒。

But we can't classify them as bad or good.

但我們不能把它們抽成好或壞。

We really could, I guess, classify them as all good because we need them all and they keep us alive.

我想我們真的可以說它們都是好的，因為我們都需要它們，而且它們讓我們活下來。

I've looked at data on millions of individuals who have the highest levels of well being, and

我看過數百萬擁有最高福祉的人的數據，

they all have three elements in common in their lives.

他們的生活都有三個共同的元素。

Now, enjoyment is something that people think they understand, but often don't.

好了，享受是大家以為自己懂，但常常不懂的東西。

Pleasure is kind of an animal phenomenon.

It's a signal, like any other feeling, that something can give you calories or mates that can help you survive and pass on your genes.

它就像其他感覺一樣，是一個訊號，告訴我們有些東西能提供你卡路里或伴侶，幫助你生存並延續你的基因。

It's not something that actually leads to happiness.

它並不是真正能帶來快樂的東西。

it's experienced in the prefrontal cortex of the brain, the executive center of the brain.

它是在我們大腦的前額葉皮質，也就是大腦的執行中心體驗到的。

Enjoyment is pleasure plus people, plus memory.

享受是愉悅加上人，加上記憶。

That's the reason a beer company doesn't have a commercial with a guy pounding a 12 pack in his apartment by himself.

這就是為什麼啤酒公司不會拍一個廣告，說一個人在公寓裡自己喝了十二罐啤酒。

The second macronutrient of happiness is satisfaction.

快樂的第二種巨量營養素是滿足。

Satisfaction is a real mystery because it's the joy we get after we struggle for something and if we don't struggle enough, it's not sweet.

滿足是一個真正的謎，因為這是我們在為某事奮鬥後得到的喜悅，如果我們不夠努力奮鬥，那就不會是甜美的。

My students, they could cheat to get an AMI exam, but

我的學生，他們可以作弊通過 AMI 考試，但是

if they did, it would give them no satisfaction.

如果他們這樣做了，就不會有任何滿足感。

最後但同樣重要的一點是意義。

I can go a long time without satisfaction and even enjoyment.

我可以很長一段時間沒有滿足感，甚至沒有享受。

I'm a pretty self disciplined person, but I can't go an hour without meaning and be happy.

我是一個相當自律的人，但我無法在沒有意義的情況下度過一小時並感到快樂。

That's a big question and it's really three sub questions.

這是一個大問題，其實是三個子問題。

We call them coherence, significance and purpose.

我們稱之為連貫性、重要性和目的。

Coherence is why do things happen the way they do.

連貫性是事情為何會以這種方式發生。

Significance is why does it matter that I'm alive?

重要性是我活著為什麼有意義？

And purpose is what's the direction and goals involved in my life.

而目的則是我生命中的方向和目標是什麼。

And if you have answers to those questions, you have meaning.

如果你能回答這些問題，你就擁有了意義。

But if you don't have answers or you don't have good answers to your own satisfaction, that's what you need to go looking for.

但如果你沒有答案，或者你的答案無法讓你滿意，那就是你需要去尋找的。

Ancient philosophers, really, starting with Aristotle, but

古代哲學家，其實，從亞里斯多德開始，但

most importantly Thomas aquinas in the 13th century, classified the worldly rewards that we crave so much into four categories.

最重要的是十三世紀的湯瑪斯·阿奎那，將我們如此渴望的世俗回報分為四類。

There's a ton of scientific literature out there that says that Thomas Aquinas and Aristotle and everybody else in between was spot on the money.

有大量的科學文獻指出，湯瑪斯·阿奎那、亞里斯多德以及他們之間的所有人，都說得非常準確。

If those are not the things that you should try to accumulate, what should you be going after?

如果這些不是你應該努力累積的東西，那應該追求什麼呢？

不是金錢、權力、愉悅和名聲。

It's faith, family, friendship and work that serves others.

而是信仰、家庭、友誼，以及服務他人的工作。

Now when I say faith, I have to be a little bit careful because people could misinterpret that.

說到信仰，我必須稍微小心一點，因為人們可能會誤解。

They could think it's some specific religious faith.

他們可能會認為是某種特定的宗教信仰。

There are many ways where people can find the peace and perspective they need in life, philosophy or meditation, or walking in nature without devices or studying the fugues of Johann Sebastian Bach.

人們有很多方式可以在生活中找到他們需要的平靜和觀點，像是哲學、冥想、不帶電子設備地在大自然中散步，或是研究約翰·塞巴斯蒂安·巴赫的賦格曲。

But you need to stand in awe of something bigger than you.

但你需要對比你更偉大的事物懷有敬畏之心。

我們是演化成以親屬為基礎的物種。

We have to know our own and take care of them even if we don't like them.

我們必須認識自己的家人，即使不喜歡他們，也要照顧他們。

And if you pass on those relationships, if you neglect those relationships, if you create a schism in those relationships, you sacrificed your happiness.

如果你斷送了這些關係，如果你忽略了這些關係，如果你在這些關係中製造了分裂，你就犧牲了自己的快樂。

People my age will say, I don't have time to keep up with.

我這個年紀的人會說，我沒時間維繫。

My high school buddies say, you can't afford not to man.

我高中時期的哥們會說，你不能不這樣做啊，老兄。

Now that doesn't mean you have to have a hundred, but

這不代表你一定要有一百個，但

it means you have to have more than one and certainly more than your spouse.

這代表你得要有一個以上的，而且絕對要比你的伴侶多。

And that does not mean over indexing on working, working all day and all night.

這不是說要過度投入工作，整天整夜地工作。

It turns out there's only two things from work that bring true joy, earned success and service to others.

結果發現，工作能帶來真正喜悅的只有兩件事：努力得來的成功，以及服務他人。

Earned success is creating value with your life through your hard work.

努力得來的成功，就是透過你的辛勤工作，為生命創造價值。

Even if you're working in a workplace where you don't know the point of your work, but

即使你在一個工作場合，不清楚工作的意義在哪裡，但

you're doing something that lessens the load for the person in the next cubicle, then it can be a source of real satisfaction for you.

你正在做的事情，能減輕隔壁同事的負擔，這會讓你獲得真正的滿足。

That's your happiness, pension plan, faith, family, friends, and work.

這就是你的快樂、終身俸計畫、信仰、家人、朋友和工作。

Pursue those things and you're pursuing happiness.

追求這些事物，就是在追求快樂。

Getting happier requires knowledge and work.