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　　”。感覺對(duì)”。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(shí)候 你的問(wèn)題就大了 因?yàn)槿绻闶菍?duì)的 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(shuō)法 我們便覺得他們無(wú)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(shí) 他們便會(huì)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(gè)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(wú)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(gè)定論也不成立 當(dāng)這些反對(duì)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(gè)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(gè)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?cè)谧钚枰臅r(shí)候 無(wú)法預(yù)防犯錯(cuò) 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(duì)我來(lái)說(shuō) 最大的悲劇是 它讓我們錯(cuò)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(gè)人和我們有一樣的窗子 對(duì)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(huì)多么無(wú)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(gè)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(guò)去 思考未來(lái) 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(gè)夜空 我們看到這個(gè) 這個(gè) 和這個(gè)
　　and yeah, it is also why we get things wrong.
　　這也是我們搞錯(cuò)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(shuō)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(lái) 寫下amp。quot。fallor ergo sumamp。quot。 amp。quot。我錯(cuò)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(cuò)的能力 這并不是人性中 一個(gè)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(dòng)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(duì)我來(lái)說(shuō) 這種尋找的沖動(dòng) 就是我們生產(chǎn)力和創(chuàng)造力的來(lái)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(guó)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(cuò)有關(guān)
　　and my first thought was, amp。quot。iamp。39。ve lost it.
　　我的第一個(gè)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(cuò)的幻覺”。
　　which has happened.
　　說(shuō)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(gè)月后 我訪問(wèn)了那個(gè)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(duì)的”。他說(shuō) “。我們這些工作人員總是 開玩笑說(shuō)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(gè)秘密主題就是 amp。quot。我以為這件事會(huì)這樣發(fā)生 結(jié)果其它事情發(fā)生了amp。quot。 他說(shuō)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(cuò)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