Name: 腦部損傷如何激發你內心的天才？ | 60 Minutes Australia (How brain damage can trigger the genius in you | 60 Minutes Australia)
Uploaded: 2026-03-27T23:07:19.000Z
Duration: 13 min 56 s
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It sounds like the plot of a Hollywood movie.

聽起來就像好萊塢電影的情節。

情態副詞

An ordinary bloke takes a blow to the head and then suddenly, incredibly, is transformed into a genius.

一個普通人頭部受到撞擊，然後突然、不可思議地變成了一個天才。

Well, you're about to meet three people who've gone through that experience in real life.

好了，你馬上就會認識三位親身經歷過這種情況的人。

They've all suffered some kind of brain damage and survived to become gifted musicians, mathematicians, and artists.

他們都遭受過某種腦損傷並倖存下來，成為了天賦異稟的音樂家、數學家和藝術家。

科學家稱他們為獲得性學者症候群。

這是一個引人入勝的研究領域，

and it could just hold the key to making us all a whole lot smarter.

它可能就是讓我們所有人都變得更聰明的關鍵。

Tony Ciccoria was 42, an orthopedic surgeon with no real interest in music, when a streak of genius came, literally, in a bolt from the blue.

Tony Ciccoria 當時 42 歲，是一位對音樂沒有真正興趣的骨科醫生，當時他確實是靈光乍現，簡直是 bolt from the blue。

I started having this incredible desire to hear classical piano music, which was a fairly large departure from anything I was interested in.

我開始有一種難以置信的渴望去聽古典鋼琴音樂，這與我當時感興趣的任何事物都大相逕庭。

Tony Ciccoria's remarkable story began here at Sleepy Hollow Lake in Upstate New York.

Tony Ciccoria 的奇妙故事就從紐約州北部的 Sleepy Hollow Lake 開始。

It was during a family picnic that Tony decided he wanted to use a public telephone that used to be attached to this building.

在一次家庭野餐時，Tony 決定要打公共電話，當時電話還裝在這棟建築上。

Incredibly, just as he held the receiver up to his ear, a bolt of lightning struck the roof.

難以置信的是，就在他把聽筒放到耳邊時，一道閃電擊中了屋頂。

And I saw this big flash of light come out of the phone and hit me in the face.

我看到一道強光從電話裡衝出來，打到我臉上。

And I remember it hit me right in the corner of the mouth,

我記得那閃電打在我嘴角的角落，

and it just sent me flying backwards like a ragdoll.

然後就把我像布娃娃一樣往後炸飛。

Tony wasn't breathing and was unconscious until a passing nurse administered CPR.

Tony 當時沒有呼吸，也失去意識，直到一位路過的護士對他實施 CPR。

But he remembers every moment because he watched it all happen.

但他記得當時的每一個瞬間，因為他親眼看著一切發生。

I was having an out-of-body experience, and I saw myself on the ground.

我經歷了一種靈魂出竅的感覺，我看見自己倒在地上。

And I remember when I saw the body there, I remember going I was surprised.

我記得當我看到地上的那具身體時，我感到很驚訝。

And if you think that experience is a bit on the strange side, what happened to Tony in the weeks that followed was even more extraordinary: developing an obsessional desire to hear and play classical music.

如果你覺得那次經驗有點奇怪，那麼 Tony 在接下來幾週的經歷更是非凡：他發展出強烈的渴望，想要聽和彈奏古典音樂。

And I was so taken with it that I listened to it all day long.

我對這件事如此著迷，以至於我一整天都在聽。

And I came to the realization that I wanted to learn how to play.

It clearly was an obsession beyond anything I'd ever experienced.

這顯然是一種我從未體驗過的著迷。

I really felt like the only reason I had survived the lightning was had something to do with music.

我真的覺得我之所以能從閃電中活下來，都跟音樂有關。

Tony began piano lessons, getting up at 4:00 AM to practice.

Tony 開始學鋼琴，早上四點就起床練習。

現在 60 歲的 Tony 是一位演奏家。

One of just a tiny number of people in the world known as an acquired savant.

世界上極少數被稱為獲得性學者症候群的人之一。

The acquired savant is, by definition, somebody who has had some sort of a central nervous system incident, and

獲得性學者症候群，顧名思義，是指某人經歷了某種中樞神經系統事件，

then this dormant potential floods forth.

Their gifts range from the extraordinary sculptural skills of Alonzo Clemens.

他們的才能範圍很廣，像是 Alonzo Clemens 令人驚嘆的雕塑技巧。

Saw the shine of clear skies on August 17th, 1979.

在 1979 年 8 月 17 日，看到了晴朗天空的光輝。

To the total recall of dates and events, exemplified by Orlando Sorrell.

到 Orlando Sorrell 那樣，能完全回憶起日期和事件。

What years has Christmas Day fallen on a Saturday?

All acquired their sudden ability from a traumatic injury.

這些獲得性學者症候群都是在創傷性腦損傷後突然獲得能力的。

And after 50 years studying them, psychiatry professor Darryl Trefort believes we all have an untapped potential.

精神科教授 Darryl Trefort 在研究他們 50 年後，相信我們每個人都有未被發掘的潛力。

Within each of us does lie this dormant potential.

我們內心深處確實潛藏著這股休眠的潛力。

And if triggered, however triggered, it can come to the surface.

而且一旦被觸發，無論如何被觸發，它都能浮現出來。

And it's what I call the little rainman within each of us.

這就是我所說的，我們每個人內心的「小雨人」。

There were 30 airline accidents, 211 were fatalities.

大陸航空墜機，1987年11月15日。

I think there is a little rainman within each of us.

我覺得我們每個人內心都有個「小雨人」。

The trick is to trigger that without some kind of a central nervous system incident.

訣竅在於，如何在不發生中樞神經系統損傷的情況下，激發出這個潛能。

The incident for Orlando Sorrell came when he was hit in the head by a baseball.

奧蘭多·索雷爾的契機，是頭部被棒球擊中。

Right up in here, right up in this area where I was hit at.

就是在這裡，就是我被擊中的這個區域。

How long after that did you realize that you had this amazing memory recall for dates and days?

之後多久你才發現自己有這麼驚人的日期和天數記憶力？

Like a month later, like when September I got hit by a baseball August 17th, 1979, on a Friday.

大概一個月後，像是九月，我在1979年8月17日星期五被棒球擊中。

Orlando was a 10-year-old street kid and joined this rare club of human specimens becoming an acquired savant.

奧蘭多是個10歲的街頭小子，加入了這個罕見的人類標本俱樂部，成為了獲得性學者症候群的案例。

In his case, he became a human calendar calculator.

在他的情況下，他變成了一個活生生的人類日曆計算機。

Well, if somebody asks me, "December 3rd, '83, Saturday," I see that date.

嗯，如果有人問我「1983年12月3日，星期六」，我就會看到那個日期。

You just see it in the front of your head?

If somebody asks me, "December 3rd, 1983," it's a Saturday, and it rained.

如果有人問我「1983年12月3日」，那天是星期六，而且下雨了。

And we quickly realized he's not faking it.

我們很快就發現他不是在裝的。

We have a big horse race in Australia called the Melbourne Cup.

在澳洲有個很盛大的賽馬活動叫做墨爾本盃。

If we go back to 1993, the Melbourne Cup was held on November 2nd.

如果我們回到1993年，墨爾本盃是在11月2號舉行的。

We have a football game in Australia called AFL, right?

在澳洲有個足球賽叫做AFL，對吧？

So the AFL final was played in Australia last year on October 1st.

所以去年AFL總決賽是在澳洲10月1號舉行的。