Name: 克里斯·達菲 TED 演講：如何在任何地方找到笑聲！ (How to Find Laughter Anywhere | Chris Duffy | TED)
Uploaded: 2026-02-27T08:13:38.000Z
Duration: 7 min 35 s

My favorite part about working in an elementary school is that I could never predict what was going to happen next.

我最喜歡在小學教書的原因是，我永遠猜不到下一秒會發生什麼事。

Sometimes you think that you're handing out a worksheet, just reviewing the names of shapes, but

有時候你以為你只是在發學習單，複習形狀的名稱，

then instead of getting back hexagon and octagon, you get back this.

結果拿回來的不是 hexagon 和 octagon，而是這個。

And I think we can agree that is just correct.

我想我們都同意，這完全是正確的。

Or another time I was teaching a class on human biology to my fifth grade students when one of them afterwards handed in this anonymous question card.

還有一次，我教五年級的學生人類生物學，課後有個學生交了這張匿名問卷卡。

And you know what really gets me about this?

知道這件事最讓我傻眼的是什麼嗎？

What kills me is we had spent so long studying punctuation situation and he still used a period instead of a question mark.

讓我崩潰的是，我們花了好久時間學標點符號，他竟然還是用了句號，而不是問號。

At the same time that I was teaching elementary school students, I was also teaching adults improv comedy at a local theater on the weekends.

同時，我在教小學生的時候，週末也在當地劇院教成人即興喜劇。

This was a group of retired folks, graduate students, and

這群人有退休人士、研究所學生，還有

semi successful business people who were paying money to spend their Saturday mornings in an unventilated basement with me.

一些事業小有成就的商界人士，他們付錢在一個通風不良的地下室裡，花費他們的週六早晨跟我一起。

And most of the exercises that we were doing together were to get them to let go of the self critical part of their brain, to release the idea that there was a right answer, to find, and

我們一起做的練習，大多是為了讓他們放下腦中自我批判的部分，釋放「有標準答案」的想法，去尋找，並且

to instead be more comfortable with their honest, creative, idiosyncratic thoughts.

讓他們更自在地表達自己真實、有創意的、獨特的想法。

Now any elementary school teacher can tell you that getting kids to share their honest, unexpected thoughts, that's not something you have to cultivate.

現在，任何小學老師都可以告訴你，要讓孩子們分享他們真實、出人意料的想法，這不是需要培養的。

They will do that whether you want them to or not.

無論你願不願意，他們都會這麼做。

I mean, here are some real questions that kids asked me out of the blue with no context during what was supposed to be a silent work time.

我想說的是，這些是孩子們在應該安靜工作的時間裡，毫無預警、沒有上下文問我的真實問題。

Is it possible to make myself live longer so that I can see the sun explode?

我可以活久一點看到太陽爆炸嗎？

Are pigs actually prejudiced against women or is that just an expression?

豬真的會歧視女性，還是這只是個說法？

If your brother isn't married yet, why doesn't he just marry your mom?

如果你哥哥還沒結婚，為什麼他不乾脆娶你媽媽？

And actually that brings up a really important point, which is that kids ideas are not always good, sometimes they're very bad.

事實上，這也引出了一個非常重要的點，那就是孩子們的想法不總是好的，有時候會非常糟。

I'm personally very grateful that my mom and my brother are not married.

我個人很慶幸我媽媽和我哥哥沒有結婚。

You know, there's some research that suggests that for many of us, fifth grade is close to the peak of this kind of wildly free, uninhibited creative thinking.

你知道，有些研究顯示，對我們許多人來說，五年級差不多是這種毫無拘束、自由奔放的創意思考的巔峰時期。

In my experience, the difference between people with an amazing sense of humor and those without is often just whether they are willing to accept and notice their honest reactions or whether they try their hardest to fit them into a box.

根據我的經驗，擁有驚人幽默感的人和沒有幽默感的人之間的差別，往往只在於他們是否願意接受並注意到自己真實的反應，還是他們努力想把這些反應塞進一個框架裡。

I saw that shift with my adult improv students.

我在我那些成年的即興喜劇學生身上看到了這種轉變。

At first, when we would do an exercise where they were asked to name seven things in a given category as quickly and creatively as possible, many of them would get stuck.

一開始，當我們做一個練習，請他們盡快且有創意地說出一個類別中的七樣東西時，許多人都會卡住。

One guy, Rick, a corporate tax lawyer, answered the prompt seven weird types of shoes by saying, brown shoes, white shoes, black shoes, gray shoes.

其中一位，Rick，一位公司稅務律師，他回答「七種奇怪的鞋子」這個提示時，說了棕色鞋子、白色鞋子、黑色鞋子、灰色鞋子。

But then, after we practiced celebrating our more bizarre thoughts instead of repressing them, Rick eventually came up with a list that included things like shoes covered in mud, shoes covered in gold, shoes covered in the blood of my enemies.

但後來，在我們練習慶祝那些比較奇怪的想法而不是壓抑它們之後，Rick 最後提出了一個清單，裡麵包含像「沾滿泥巴的鞋子」、「沾滿黃金的鞋子」、「沾滿我敵人血液的鞋子」之類的。

But it's also definitely more interesting.

And I think that's the point when we turn off our self judgment and we just notice the things that stand out to us or that we think we can surprise ourselves in ways that are hilarious and delightful.

而且我認為，當我們關掉自我批判，只是注意到那些讓我們印象深刻，或是我們覺得能讓自己驚喜、又好笑又開心的點子時，就是這個道理了。

Every comedian that I know has a notebook or some sort of document where they keep track of all the little odd things that they notice or think throughout the day.

我認識的每個喜劇演員都有個筆記本或某種文件，記錄著他們一天中注意到或想到的各種小怪事。

And what you find when you start keeping track is that there is no shortage of material out there.

當你開始記錄時，你會發現根本不缺題材。

And if you have a little bit of courage to allow yourself to be laughed at and to laugh at yourself, you can make discoveries that you never would have otherwise, right?

如果你有點勇氣，允許自己被嘲笑，也允許自己嘲笑自己，你就能發現意想不到的東西，對吧？

If you want to know what balls are for, sometimes you gotta ask.

如果你想知道球是幹嘛的，有時候你得問問。

I have found that you can find laughter in even the driest places if you bring some of that mischievous fifth grade energy to the instructions and to what you're supposed to be doing right.

我發現，即使在最枯燥的地方，只要你把那種頑皮的五年級精神帶到訓示和該做的事情上，你就能找到歡笑。

It can be an opportunity for you to hang out with your good friend Gabriela.

它可以是你和好朋友 Gabriela 一起打發時間的機會。

Now, I have had the most fun when I applied these lessons that I got from my 5th graders to self serious adult spaces, to places where I maybe feel intimidated or like I don't necessarily belong.

現在，當我把這些從五年級學生那裡學到的教訓應用到嚴肅的成人場合，應用到我可能感到害怕或覺得自己不屬於的地方時，我玩得最開心了。

So for example, for me personally, LinkedIn, terrifying.

所以舉例來說，對我個人而言，LinkedIn，超可怕的。

I've never been comfortable with business networking.

我一直都不習慣跟商界人士打交道。

But I've also always been kind of fascinated by LinkedIn.

Like they let you make a profile and they don't verify that you work at the place you say you work.

像是他們讓你建立個人檔案，而且他們不會去驗證你說你在哪個公司上班。

So I decided I was going to test this out and have some fun.

所以我決定我要來測試一下，玩得開心一點。

I made a profile on LinkedIn where I said that I was the CEO of LinkedIn and I didn't think they would even let me do that.

我在 LinkedIn 上創了一個檔案，說我是 LinkedIn 的 CEO，我本來以為他們根本不會讓我這樣做。

After I made the profile, one of the most incredible things that has ever happened in my entire life happened, which is that LinkedIn sent this email to everyone in my contact list.

在我創完檔案後，我這輩子發生過最不可思議的事情之一發生了，那就是 LinkedIn 寄了一封信給我通訊錄裡的所有人。

They sent that email, congratulate Chris on the new job.

他們寄了那封信，恭喜 Chris 找到新工作。

Chris Duffy 現在是 LinkedIn 的 CEO。

That's a better joke than anything I could ever write in my entire life.

這比我這輩子寫過的任何笑話都好笑。

I was the CEO of LinkedIn on LinkedIn for one year.

我在 LinkedIn 上當了一年的 LinkedIn CEO。

And at that one year, Mark, LinkedIn sent yet another email to everyone in my contact list asking them to congratulate me on my work anniversary.

在我任職滿一年時，Mark，LinkedIn 又寄了一封信給我的通訊錄裡所有人，祝賀我工作週年快樂。

And at that point, I received a message from a woman named Faith who worked on LinkedIn's Trust and Security team.

就在那時，我收到一位名叫 Faith 的女士傳來的訊息，她是在 LinkedIn 的信任與安全團隊工作。

She said my account was being locked due to concerns about its inaccuracy.

她說我的帳號因為準確性問題被鎖定了。

So I sent her back a photo of my license front and back to prove that my name was, in fact, Chris Duffy.

所以我回傳了我的駕照正反面照片給她，證明我的名字確實是 Chris Duffy。

Faith responded, the thing that we are concerned about is not that your name is not Chris Duffy.

Faith 回覆說，我們擔心的是你的名字不是 Chris Duffy。

It's that you are claiming to be the CEO of LinkedIn.

而是你聲稱自己是 LinkedIn 的 CEO。

So I responded, faith, you are taking a pretty disrespectful tone for someone who works for me.

所以我回覆說，Faith，你對一個為我工作的人講話，語氣實在太不尊重了。

Ten seconds later, she permanently deactivated my account.

十秒後，她永久停用了我的帳號。

It was a short but glorious stint running my own personal social network.

經營自己的個人社群網站，雖然短暫但很精彩。

I'm more than just a fifth grade graduate.

我可不只是個五年級的研究所學生。