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There's more to life than being
happy
人生不只是要快乐
00:05
I
used
to
think
the
whole
purpose
of
life
was
pursuing
happiness.
Everyone said the path to happiness was
success, so I searched for that
ideal
job, that perfect boyfriend, that beautiful
apartment. But instead of
ever
feeling
fulfilled,
I
felt
anxious
and
adrift.
And
I
wasn't
alone;
my
friends
--
they struggled with this,
too.
我曾经认为人生的意义便是追寻快乐。
世人普遍认为成功是通往幸福
的道路,因此我寻找理想的工作,完美的伴侣
还有舒适的住处。可我
非但没有感到充实,
反而感到焦虑迷茫。
这种情况不止发生在我身上,
我身边的朋友也一样。
00:33
Eventually, I decided to go to graduate
school for positive psychology to
learn
what
truly
makes
people
happy.
But
what
I
discovered
there
changed
my
life.
The
data
showed
that
chasing
happiness
can
make
people
unhappy. And what really struck me was this: the
suicide rate has
been rising around the
world, and it recently reached a
30
-
year high in
America.
Even
though
life
is
getting
objectively
better
by
nearly
every
conceivable standard,
more people feel hopeless, depressed and alone.
There's an emptiness gnawing away at
people, and you don't have to be
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clinically
depressed
to
feel
it.
Sooner or
later,
I
think
we
all wonder:
Is
this
all
there
is?
And
according
to
the
research,
what
predicts
this
despair is not a lack
of happiness. It's a lack of something else, a
lack of
having meaning in life.
最终我决定去研修“积极心理学”
,
去研究什么才能让人们感到真正
幸福。
我的成果改变了我的人生
。
数据显示一味寻求快乐反而得不到
快乐。同时让我震惊的是:
全球的自杀率都在上升,最近美国的自杀
率达到了
30
年来的最高峰。但事实上人们的生活水平在你能想到的
< br>领域上都有所提升,越来越多的人感到绝望,抑郁以及孤独。即使你
不是抑郁症患
者,也能感受到空虚感正侵蚀着我们的内心。迟早,我
们都会疑惑:
人生就是如此了吗?研究显示造成这种绝望感的并不是
生活缺乏快乐。而是因为生命
缺少了人生的意义。
01:36
But that
raised some questions for me. Is there more to
life than being
happy?
And
what's
the
difference
between
being
happy
and
having
meaning
in
life?
Many
psychologists
define
happiness
as
a
state
of
comfort
and
ease,
feeling
good
in
the
moment.
Meaning,
though,
is
deeper.
The
renowned
psychologist
Martin
Seligman
says
meaning
comes
from
belonging
to
and
serving
something
beyond
yourself
and
from
developing
the
best
within
you.
Our
culture
is
obsessed
with
happiness, but I came to see that
seeking meaning is the more fulfilling
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path. And the studies show that people
who have meaning in life, they're
more
resilient, they do better in school and at work,
and they even live
longer.
因此我思索人生除了快乐还有什么更重要的事情?以及快乐的人生
与有意义的人生有什么不同?很多心理学家把快乐定义为一种安心
舒适的状态,在当下
感到开心。意义则有更深的含义。著名的心理学
家马丁·
赛里格
曼认为意义来源于归属和献身高于自我的事物还有塑
造最好的自己。
我们的文化醉心于寻求快乐,
但我意识到寻求意义更
能让你
有满足感。
研究显示有意义的人生让人更变得更坚毅,
在学业<
/p>
和事业上更成功,寿命也更长。
02:25
So this all
made me wonder: How can we each live more
meaningfully?
To
find
out,
I
spent
five
years
interviewing
hundreds
of
people
and
reading
through
thousands
of
pages
of
psychology,
neuroscience
and
philosophy. Bringing it
all together, I found that there are what I call
four
pillars of a meaningful life. And
we can each create lives of meaning by
building some or all of these pillars
in our lives.
这一切都让我思考:
如何才能让人生更有意义?为了找出答案,
我在
五年间采访了几百余人并翻阅了浩海如烟的心理学,
神经系统学和哲
学文献。
经过所有这些努力,
我发现构成有意义的人生需要
四大支柱。
只要我们能构建全部或部分支柱。
我们所有人都能拥
有有意义的人生。
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02:54
The first
pillar is belonging. Belonging comes from being in
relationships
where you're valued for
who you are intrinsically and where you value
others as well. But some groups and
relationships deliver a cheap form
of
belonging; you're valued for what you believe, for
who you hate, not
for who you are. True
belonging springs from love. It lives in moments
among
individuals,
and
it's
a
choice
--
you
can
choose
to
cultivate
belonging with others.
第一大支柱便是:
归属感。
归属感来源于人际关
系中你的内在价值在
哪里,
以及同时你对别人的价值认可。
p>
但某些组织和人际关系给予廉
价的归属感;
你的价值在于你的信仰,
在于你讨厌谁,
而不是你是谁。
真正的归属感来源于爱。
它时时刻刻都萦绕在你身边,
这是个选择—
—你可以选择跟谁培养归属感。
03:25
Here's an example. Each morning, my
friend Jonathan buys a newspaper
from
the
same
street
vendor
in
New
York.
They
don't
just
conduct
a
transaction, though. They take a moment
to slow down, talk, and treat
each
other
like
humans.
But
one
time,
Jonathan
didn't
have
the
right
change,
and
the
vendor
said,
worry
about
it.
But
Jonathan
insisted
on
paying,
so
he
went
to
the
store
and
bought
something
he
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didn't need to make change. But when he
gave the money to the vendor,
the
vendor drew back. He was hurt. He was trying to do
something kind,
but Jonathan had
rejected him.
举一个例子。
我的朋友乔纳森每天都在纽约同一家小店里买报纸。
他
和店主不止是商业交易。
他们会花点时间聊聊天,
很亲切地对待
对方。
有一次乔纳森没有零钱,店主就说,
“没事,不用付了”
但乔纳森坚
持付钱,
为了换零钱他去店里买了些他不用的东西。
当他把钱给店主
的时候,店主拒绝了。他心里很受伤。他本想慷
慨对人,但乔纳森拒
绝了他的好意。
04:07
I think we
all reject people in small ways like this without
realizing it. I do.
I'll walk by
someone I know and barely acknowledge them. I'll
check my
phone when someone's talking
to me. These acts devalue others. They
make them feel invisible and unworthy.
But when you lead with love, you
create
a bond that lifts each of you up.
我想我们都会在无意中伤害他人。
我也如此。
我
有时撞见我认识的人
却没打招呼。
有时候我在别人和我说话时看
手机。
这种做法贬低了他
人。让他们觉得自己没有存在感和价值
。但当你用爱联系他人,你建
立的纽带就激励了你们双方。
04:30
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For
many
people,
belonging
is
the
most
essential
source
of
meaning,
those bonds to
family and friends. For others, the key to meaning
is the
second pillar: purpose. Now,
finding your purpose is not the same thing
as finding that job that makes you
happy. Purpose is less about what you
want
than
about
what
you
give.
A
hospital
custodian
told
me
her
purpose
is
healing
sick
people.
Many
parents
tell
me,
purpose
is
raising my children.
others.
Of
course,
for
many
of
us,
that
happens
through
work.
That's
how we contribute and
feel needed. But that also means that issues like
disengagement at work, unemployment,
low labor force participation
--
these
aren't
just
economic
problems,
they're
existential
ones,
too.
Without
something
worthwhile
to
do,
people
flounder.
Of
course,
you
don't have to find purpose at work, but
purpose gives you something to
live
for, some
对很多人来说,
归属感是人生意义的最重要来源,
那些与家人和朋友
的纽带。
而对其他人而言,
意义的关键来源的第二大支柱是:人生目
的。
找到人生目的和找到让你快乐的工作不一样。
人生目的并不在于
你所得而在于你所给。
一位医院的管理员说他的人生目的就是治
愈病
患。很多家长会说人生目的是“养育自己的孩子”
。人生目
的意味着
尽自己的能力去帮助他人。
当然对很多人来说,
我们通过工作来实现
人生目的。这是我们的贡献,也是感到被需要的方
式。但这也同时说
明工作中的疏离问题,
失业,
低劳动参与率——不仅是经济问题也是
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关乎生死存亡的问题。没
有值得做的事情,人们就会陷入困境。当然
不一定非得做份满足人生目的工作,
但目的给了你活着的意义,
这些
“为什么”能让
你坚持走下去。
05:36
The third
pillar of meaning is also about stepping beyond
yourself, but in
a
completely
different
way:
transcendence.
Transcendent
states
are
those rare moments when
you're lifted above the hustle and bustle of
daily
life,
your
sense
of
self
fades
away,
and
you
feel
connected
to
a
higher
reality.
For
one
person
I
talked
to,
transcendence
came
from
seeing art. For another
person, it was at church. For me, I'm a writer,
and
it happens through writing.
Sometimes I get so in the zone that I lose all
sense of time and place. These
transcendent experiences can change you.
One study had students look up at 200
p>
-
feet
-
ta
ll eucalyptus trees for one
minute.
But
afterwards
they
felt
less
self
-
centered,
and
they
even
behaved more generously when given the
chance to help someone.
第三大
支柱同样跟超越自我有关。但方式完全不一样,那就是超验。
超验的状态非常罕有,
p>
那一刻你忘却了日常中的繁琐喧嚣,
进入忘我
的状态,
你感到自己与更高的真实世界相连。
我聊过的某个人
说他欣
赏艺术时便会进入超验状态。
另一个说进入教堂时会如此
。
对我来说,
作为作家,这会发生在我写作时。有时候我太投入
了,以致忘记时间
流逝,忘记身处何处。这些超验的体验能真的改变你。有个让学生们<
/p>
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