【文章內(nèi)容簡介】 ght.
　　”。感覺對”。究竟是什么意思
　　it means that you think that your beliefs just perfectly reflect reality.
　　這代表著你認(rèn)為你的信念 和真實(shí)是一致的
　　and when you feel that way, youamp。39。ve got a problem to solve, which is, how are you going to explain all of those people who disagree with you?
　　當(dāng)你有這種感覺的時候 你的問題就大了 因?yàn)槿绻闶菍Φ?為甚么還有人和你持不同意見?
　　it turns out, most of us explain those people the same way, by resorting to a series of unfortunate assumptions.
　　于是我們往往用同一種 思考方式去解釋這些異議
　　the first thing we usually do when someone disagrees with us is we just assume theyamp。39。re ignorant.
　　第一是當(dāng)他人不同意我們的說法 我們便覺得他們無知
　　they donamp。39。t have access to the same information that we do, and when we generously share that information with them, theyamp。39。re going to see the light and e on over to our team.
　　他們不像我們懂得這么多 當(dāng)我們慷慨地和他們分享我們的知識 他們便會理解，并加入我們的行列
　　when that doesnamp。39。t work, when it turns out those people have all the same facts that we do and they still disagree with us, then we move on to a second assumption,
　　如果不是這樣 如果這些人和我們獲得的信息一樣多 卻仍然不認(rèn)同我們 我們便有了下一個定論
　　which is that theyamp。39。re idiots.
　　那就是他們是白癡
　　(laughter) they have all the right pieces of the puzzle, and they are too moronic to put them together correctly.
　　(笑聲) 他們已經(jīng)有了所有的信息 卻笨到無法拼湊出正確的圖像
　　and when that doesnamp。39。t work, when it turns out that people who disagree with us have all the same facts we do and are actually pretty smart,
　　一旦第二個定論也不成立 當(dāng)這些反對我們的人 和我們有一樣的信息 又聰明
　　then we move on to a third assumption: they know the truth, and they are deliberately distorting it for their own malevolent purposes.
　　我們便有了第三個結(jié)論 他們知道事實(shí)是甚么 但卻為了自己的好處 故意曲解真實(shí)。
　　so this is a catastrophe.
　　這真是個大災(zāi)難
　　this attachment to our own rightness keeps us from preventing mistakes when we absolutely need to and causes us to treat each other terribly.
　　我們的自以為是 讓我們在最需要的時候 無法預(yù)防犯錯 更讓我們互相仇視
　　 to me, whatamp。39。s most baffling and most tragic about this is that it misses the whole point of being human.
　　對我來說 最大的悲劇是 它讓我們錯失了身為人的珍貴意義
　　itamp。39。s like we want to imagine that our minds are just these perfectly translucent windows and we just gaze out of them and describe the world as it unfolds.
　　那就像是想象 我們的心靈之窗完全透明 我們向外觀看 描述在我們之前展開的世界
　　and we want everybody else to gaze out of the same window and see the exact same thing.
　　我們想要每個人和我們有一樣的窗子 對世界做出一樣的觀察
　　that is not true, and if it were, life would be incredibly boring.
　　那不是真的 如果是，人生將會多么無聊
　　the miracle of your mind isnamp。39。t that you can see the world as it is.
　　心靈的神奇之處 不在你懂得這個世界是甚么樣子
　　itamp。39。s that you can see the world as it isnamp。39。t.
　　而是去理解那些你不懂的地方
　　we can remember the past, and we can think about the future, and we can imagine what itamp。39。s like to be some other person in some other place.
　　我們記得過去 思考未來 我們想象 自己成為他人，在他方
　　and we all do this a little differently, which is why we can all look up at the same night sky and see this and also this and also this.
　　我們的想象都有些不同 于是當(dāng)我們抬頭看同一個夜空 我們看到這個 這個 和這個
　　and yeah, it is also why we get things wrong.
　　這也是我們搞錯事情的原因
　　1,200 years before descartes said his famous thing about amp。quot。i think therefore i am,amp。quot。
　　在笛卡兒說出那句有名的”。我思故我在”。 的一千兩百年前
　　this guy, st. augustine, sat down and wrote amp。quot。fallor ergo sumamp。quot。 amp。quot。i err therefore i am.amp。quot。
　　圣奧古斯丁，坐下來 寫下amp。quot。fallor ergo sumamp。quot。 amp。quot。我錯故我在amp。quot。
　　augustine understood that our capacity to screw up, itamp。39。s not some kind of embarrassing defect in the human system, something we can eradicate or overe.
　　奧古斯丁懂得 我們犯錯的能力 這并不是人性中 一個令人難堪的缺陷 不是我們可以克服或消滅的
　　itamp。39。s totally fundamental to who we are.
　　這是我們的本質(zhì)
　　because, unlike god, we donamp。39。t really know whatamp。39。s going on out there.
　　因?yàn)槲覀儾皇巧系?我們不知道我們之外究竟發(fā)生了甚么
　　and unlike all of the other animals, we are obsessed with trying to figure it out.
　　而不同于其它動物的是 我們都瘋狂地想找出解答
　　to me, this obsession is the source and root of all of our productivity and creativity.
　　對我來說 這種尋找的沖動 就是我們生產(chǎn)力和創(chuàng)造力的來源
　　last year, for various reasons, i found myself listening to a lot of episodes of the public radio show this american life.
　　因?yàn)橐恍┚壒?去年我在廣播上 聽了很多集的amp。quot。我們的美國人生amp。quot。
　　and so iamp。39。m listening and iamp。39。m listening, and at some point, i start feeling like all the stories are about being wrong.
　　我聽著聽著 突然發(fā)現(xiàn) 這些故事全和犯錯有關(guān)
　　and my first thought was, amp。quot。iamp。39。ve lost it.
　　我的第一個念頭是 “。我完了
　　iamp。39。ve bee the crazy wrongness lady.
　　我寫書寫瘋了
　　i just imagined it everywhere,amp。quot。
　　四處都看到有關(guān)犯錯的幻覺”。
　　which has happened.
　　說真的是這樣
　　but a couple of months later, i actually had a chance to interview ira glass, whoamp。39。s the host of the show.
　　但幾個月后 我訪問了那個廣播節(jié)目的主持人 ira glass
　　and i mentioned this to him, and he was like, amp。quot。no actually, thatamp。39。s true.
　　我向他提到這件事 他回答我”。事實(shí)上
　　in fact,amp。quot。 he says, amp。quot。as a staff, we joke that every single episode of our show has the same cryptotheme.
　　你是對的”。他說 “。我們這些工作人員總是 開玩笑說每集節(jié)目之中的 秘密主題都是一樣的
　　and the cryptotheme is: amp。39。i thought this one thing was going to happen and something else happened instead.amp。39。 and thing is,amp。quot。 says ira glass, amp。quot。we need this.
　　這個秘密主題就是 amp。quot。我以為這件事會這樣發(fā)生 結(jié)果其它事情發(fā)生了amp。quot。 他說amp。quot。但是，這就是我們需要的
　　we need these moments of surprise and reversal and wrongness to make these stories work.amp。quot。
　　我們需要這些意外 這些顛倒和錯誤 這些故事才能成立。amp。quot。
　　and for the rest of us, audience members, as listeners, as readers, we eat this stuff up.
　　而我們身為觀眾 聽眾、讀者 我