In my line of work, you'll hear a lot about talent, which is an idea we mostly invented to give ourselves an excuse to be lazy.

在我这个行业里，你会听到很多关于天赋的说法，这主要是我们为了给自己找借口偷懒而编造的说辞。

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To give ourselves more control, however, we decided not to do this.

但是，为了保持更大的控制能力，我们决定不这么做。

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We all want some sort of power inour lives, if only to give ourselves choices.

人生中我们都需要某种能量，哪怕只是给我们一些选择。

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Trying to understand, not just on the cognitive level of the research, but also to experience on the visceral emotional level, what it really means to give ourselves the permission to be human.

希望你们理解，不只是在研究的认知层面上，还要在内心情感层面上去体会，准许自己为人的真正含义。

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As kids, as babies-- going back to the baby's scene, we give ourselves the permission to be human, we know that it's natural.

孩子和婴儿-,回到婴儿期，我们准许自己为人，我们知道那是自然的。

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It's absolutely constitutive of the ideal of freedom, of our freedom; because if we don't try everything, if we don't give ourselves an opportunity to decide for ourselves, then, of course, someone will invariably be making those decisions for us.

它也构成了自由的理念，我们的自由;,因为如果我们不是尝试过所有东西，如果我们不给自己做决定的机会，当然，总是有人会帮我们做决定。

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No - I didn't think were going to win but I wanted us to give ourselves an opportunity.

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And it gives us the need to try to give ourselves the illusion of control over these kinds of events.

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We need to give ourselves credit for the things we do well.

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