So, for a lot of aspects of your life you only get feedback when you're good, when you do something good.
在你生活中很多时候,通常你收到评价,都是你做得好,或者你做了好事时。
You know, a lot of people like to be in the city, but I grew up in rural environments,
你知道,很多人都想在城市中生活,但我是在村庄里长大的,
Because I think that's actually the most satisfying life for us to live, personally, to feel that we are really making a difference somehow and we are not living just for ourselves.
我个人认为,最完满的生活,是那种,你能够感受到真正发挥了作用的生活,而不是完全地为自己而活。
.. How valuable-- how well off you are, how valuable your life is, is a function of the contents, the pleasure and the pain.
生命的价值-,你有多幸福,你的生活有多少价值,是生活内容的函数,即快乐与痛苦的函数。
So, you end up going through life assuming that there are no black swans.
于是你从生活中得出结论,黑色的天鹅是不存在的
In the arts generally people who teach you the arts are going to shudder if you would say oh I interesting in this because it's such fun, because it tells you what life is like or tells you a story and then you'll repeat the story.
艺术一般来说,如果你对教你们艺术的人,说,哦,我对这个很感兴趣,因为它很有趣,因为它告诉你生活是什么,或说它告诉了你一个很好的故事,他会很震惊。
or that you see the applications of, in day-to-day life and I'd say that's probably... had the biggest effect on me.
或者你能看见,日常生活的应用,让我说这或许是…他对我最大的影响。
And you're telling them about what's useful in life, what you need to do in life.
你在告诉他们生活中什么是有用的,什么是你们必须做的。
The kind of effort that it does require is the effort of application, of applying into your life, of introducing behavioral actual change to your life.
它所需要的努力是一种应用的努力,努力把它应用到你的生活里,努力把行为的实际改变带入你的生活。
You will find that, even if you succeed in discounting the attitudes of others to you and your life, you must wrestle with yourself most of all, fight with yourself, for there will surge up in you a strong desire to alter facts, to dress up your feelings.
你会发现,即使你可以忽略,其他人对你及你的生活的态度,你还得和自己战斗,几乎是和自己抗争,这样你就会有种强烈的欲望,要扭曲事实来添油加醋地描述你的感觉。
just because they are trying to prepare you to for their real life afterwards.
因为这是为你之后的真正的生活做准备。
What is your philosophy to live a contented life?
对于过着令人满足的生活,你的人生哲学是什么?
I mean, you have to go through another generation.
我是说,你必须经历他们那一年代的生活。
Actually, the truth is I sort of almost felt that once you were there, it's kind of easy to get lost there, to forget about it.
实际情况是,我觉得一旦你生活在那里,似乎很容易忘记这种冲突。
In terms of the contents of your life, being crude but you see the point, in terms of the contents of your life-- equally good.
在你的生活内容方面,图表是很简单,但是你能看明白,在你的生活内容方面-,都是一样好。
Now if you expand that to sicence and to practice and whatever. It's your pursuit of life.
如果你将之延展到科学或者实践或者其他什么,你那是你自己的生活追求。
Why is disease bad? Well, among other things, it means perhaps that you can't enjoy yourself.
疾病为什么是坏的?不算其他,它意味着你不能享受生活。
10 Even if your content subtotal was negative ten, that doesn't mean you're not better off alive, because negative ten plus the extra hundred points for the mere fact that you're alive is still going to give you a positive total, 90 plus 90.
就算你的生活内容部分总和是,那也不意味着你活得不够好,因为-10加上额外的100分说明了,你活着得到的总和仍然是正数,超过。
You're not actually getting the things out of life you thought you were getting.
你在生活实际上是一无所获,你以为自己有所收获。
We have, for example, bomb drills just in case something happens people think it's right When thing happens once and you move on, go back to life, just as something goes wrong and then you move on.
例如,我们有,炸弹演习以防发生什么事情,人们认为这是应该的,发生了一件事,你要继续正常的生活,正如某事出了点问题,然后你继续前行。
Would you be happy or would you be unhappy, to discover that you actually have been living ? a life on the experience machine?
你会开心还是不开心,如果你发现实际上,你一直都是在体验机器里生活?
But even if you do survive-- let's the ground floor-- even if you do survive, you would lead a life of constant frustration-- refusing to accept something that is there whether you like it or not.
即使你幸存下来-,比如你在一楼-,就算你真得幸存下来,你的生活将是处处受挫-,拒绝接受现实事物,不论你喜欢与否。
We could say-- you could imagine somebody saying, Williams" "Oh yes, you're right, Williams, " the contents get negative, " but that's still outweighed by the mere fact that you're alive.
我们可以说-,可以想象有些人会说,“你说得对,“生活内容的部分总和是负数,“但它还是会被你活着这个事实超越。
Now, notice that since we are adding extra positive facts, extra positive points, for the fact that you're alive, even if the contents subtotal is negative, the grand total could still be positive.
由于我们添加了额外的积极事物,额外的正数,因为你活着,就算生活内容的部分总和是负数,但它的总和可能仍然是正数。
The deprivation account says, death is bad for you insofar as, or it's bad for you when, by virtue of dying now, what you've been deprived of is, another chunk of life that would've been good for you to have.
剥夺解释认为,死亡对你来说是坏事,或者说它可能是坏事,如果你现在就死的话,你被剥夺的是,你可以拥有的另一段美好生活。
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