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st 10 years. And this enabled us to do a really interesting kind of analysis, because it allowed us to pare the predictions of people, say, 18 years old, to the reports of people who were 28, and to do that kind of analysis throughout the lifespan.我想給你們展示一些數(shù)據(jù)來(lái)支持這個(gè)觀點(diǎn)。今天我想讓大家明白的是,我們所有人都在圍繞著一種錯(cuò)覺生活,這種錯(cuò)覺就是,我們每個(gè)人的過去,都已經(jīng)結(jié)束了,我們已經(jīng)成為了我們應(yīng)該成為的那種人,在余下的生命中也都會(huì)如此。作為一個(gè)心理學(xué)家,讓我感興趣的問題是,為什么我們會(huì)做出讓自己將來(lái)常常后悔的決定?Now, I think one of the reasons I39。所以年輕人花很多錢洗去當(dāng)還是青少年時(shí)花了很多錢做上的紋身。At every stage of our lives we make decisions that will profoundly influence the lives of the people we39。中年人急著跟年輕時(shí)迫不及待想結(jié)婚的人離婚。ll try to convince you today — is that we have a fundamental misconception about the power of time. Every one of you knows that the rate of change slows over the human lifespan, that your children seem to change by the minute but your parents seem to change by the year. But what is the name of this magical point in life where change suddenly goes from a gallop to a crawl? Is it teenage years? Is it middle age? Is it old age? The answer, it turns out, for most people, is now, wherever now happens to be. What I want to convince you today is that all of us are walking around with an illusion, an illusion that history, our personal history, has just e to an end, that we have just recently bee the people that we were always meant to be and will be for the rest of our lives.我認(rèn)為其中一個(gè)原因——而我今天想說服你們的——就是我們對(duì)時(shí)間的力量有個(gè)基本的錯(cuò)誤概念。Let me give you some data to back up that claim. So here39。這是一項(xiàng)關(guān)于人們的個(gè)人價(jià)值觀隨時(shí)間變化的研究。我們讓他們當(dāng)中一半的人預(yù)測(cè)了一下在未來(lái)10年中,他們的價(jià)值觀會(huì)發(fā)生多大的改變,讓另一半人告訴我們?cè)谶^去的10年中,他們的價(jià)值觀發(fā)生了多大的變化。re wrong, because it doesn39。在我們的數(shù)據(jù)庫(kù)從18歲到68歲的每一個(gè)年齡段中,人們大大的低估了在未來(lái)的10年他們會(huì)經(jīng)歷多少變化。s not just values. It39。比如說,人格。And