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Raise your hand if you've ever been asked the question
如果你们曾被问过这个问题，请举手

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"What do you want to be when you grow up?"
“你长大之后想干什么？”

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Now if you had to guess,
现在大家回想一下，

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how old would you say you were when you were first asked this question?
你们第一次被问这个问题是多大？

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You can just hold up fingers.
你们可以举手指头来示意一下。

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Three. Five. Three. Five. Five. OK.
三岁，五岁，三岁，五岁，五岁，好的。

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Now, raise your hand if the question
接下来，如果刚刚说的这个问题，

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"What do you want to be when you grow up?"
“你长大之后想干什么？”

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has ever caused you any anxiety.
曾经让你感到焦虑，请举手。

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(Laughter)
（笑声）

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Any anxiety at all.
哪怕一点点焦虑。

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I'm someone who's never been able to answer the question
我永远无法回答这个问题，

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"What do you want to be when you grow up?"
“你长大之后想干什么？”

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See, the problem wasn't that I didn't have any interests --
并不是说我没有兴趣爱好，

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it's that I had too many.
而是我的兴趣爱好太多。

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In high school, I liked English and math and art and I built websites
高中的时候，我喜欢英语、 数学和艺术，建过网站

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and I played guitar in a punk band called Frustrated Telephone Operator.
在一个叫“失意电话话务员” 的朋克乐队当吉他手。

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Maybe you've heard of us.
也许你们还听说过我们乐队呢。

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(Laughter)
（笑声）

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This continued after high school,
高中毕业后我也依旧兴趣广泛，

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and at a certain point, I began to notice this pattern in myself
某一天，我发现自己有一个行为模式，

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where I would become interested in an area
我会对某一个领域感兴趣，

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and I would dive in, become all-consumed,
然后一头扎进去，认真钻研，

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and I'd get to be pretty good at whatever it was,
变得越来越擅长，

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and then I would hit this point where I'd start to get bored.
但到了某一个阶段， 我就会开始觉得无聊。

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And usually I would try and persist anyway,
通常我会继续坚持下去，

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because I had already devoted so much time and energy
因为我已经投入了很多时间和精力，

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and sometimes money into this field.
有时候还有金钱。

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But eventually this sense of boredom,
但是最终这种无聊的感觉，

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this feeling of, like, yeah, I got this, this isn't challenging anymore --
就像在说，哦，这事我已经会了， 已经没有任何挑战了，

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it would get to be too much.
再继续也不会有多大成就了。

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And I would have to let it go.
我必须要放手。

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But then I would become interested in something else,
但之后我可能又会对另一些事感兴趣，

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something totally unrelated, and I would dive into that,
跟之前完全不同的领域， 我又会一头扎进去，

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and become all-consumed, and I'd be like, "Yes! I found my thing,"
认真钻研，然后说， “太棒了！这就是我的菜！”

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and then I would hit this point again where I'd start to get bored.
之后我又会达到那个阶段， 开始觉得无聊。

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And eventually, I would let it go.
最后，我又会放弃。

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But then I would discover something new and totally different,
之后我又会发现新的兴趣，不同的领域

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and I would dive into that.
然后一头扎进去。

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This pattern caused me a lot of anxiety,
这种模式让我非常焦虑，

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for two reasons.
原因有两点。

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The first was that I wasn't sure
一是我不确定

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how I was going to turn any of this into a career.
如何才能将这些兴趣变成我的职业。

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I thought that I would eventually have to pick one thing,
我觉得自己最终会从 （这些兴趣）里面挑一个，

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deny all of my other passions,
而对其他爱好忍痛割爱，

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and just resign myself to being bored.
做好将来一定会无聊的心理准备。

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The other reason it caused me so much anxiety
让我非常焦虑的第二个原因，

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was a little bit more personal.
跟我自身有关。

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I worried that there was something wrong with this,
我担心自己的这种行为模式是错的，

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and something wrong with me for being unable to stick with anything.
自己这么朝三暮四，是不是错了。

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I worried that I was afraid of commitment,
我是不是害怕做出承诺，

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or that I was scattered, or that I was self-sabotaging,
或者自由散漫，破罐子破摔，

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afraid of my own success.
惧怕成功。

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If you can relate to my story and to these feelings,
如果你能理解我的故事和我的感受，

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I'd like you to ask yourself a question
请你们问自己一个问题，

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that I wish I had asked myself back then.
这个问题我早就该问自己的。

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Ask yourself where you learned to assign the meaning of wrong or abnormal
就是，你是从哪里学到该如何判断 我们的所作所为

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to doing many things.
是错误的或者不正常的。

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I'll tell you where you learned it:
我来告诉你答案：

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you learned it from the culture.
是从我们的文化中学到的。

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We are first asked the question "What do you want to be when you grow up?"
我们第一次被问到“你长大之后想干什么？”

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when we're about five years old.
是在差不多五岁的时候。

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And the truth is that no one really cares what you say when you're that age.
其实像你那么大的时候 没有人会真的关心你说了什么。

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(Laughter)
（笑声）

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It's considered an innocuous question,
这仅仅是一个无伤大雅的问题，

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posed to little kids to elicit cute replies,
为的是让小朋友做出可爱的回应，

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like, "I want to be an astronaut," or "I want to be a ballerina,"
比如，“我想当宇航员”， 或者“我想当芭蕾舞演员”，

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or "I want to be a pirate."
或者“我想当海盗”。

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Insert Halloween costume here.
此处应加万圣节服装的特效。

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(Laughter)
（笑声）

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But this question gets asked of us again and again as we get older
然而这个问题，在我们 成长的过程中会不断被问到

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in various forms -- for instance, high school students might get asked
形式多种多样，比如，高中生会被问到，

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what major they're going to pick in college.
你们在大学准备选什么专业。

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And at some point,
突然有一天，

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"What do you want to be when you grow up?"
“你长大之后想干什么？”

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goes from being the cute exercise it once was
从原本一种秀可爱的方式

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to the thing that keeps us up at night.
变成了让我们寝食难安的难题。

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Why?
为什么会这样？

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See, while this question inspires kids to dream about what they could be,
尽管这个问题鼓励小朋友 想象自己将来要做什么，

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it does not inspire them to dream about all that they could be.
但它并未给小朋友充分想象的自由。

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In fact, it does just the opposite,
恰恰相反，它限制了小朋友想象的自由，

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because when someone asks you what you want to be,
因为有人问你长大后想做什么，

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you can't reply with 20 different things,
你不可能回答20种不同的职业，

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though well-meaning adults will likely chuckle and be like,
尽管有些善良的大人会笑呵呵地说，

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"Oh, how cute, but you can't be a violin maker and a psychologist.
“哦，你太可爱了，但是你不能 同时成为小提琴制作家和心理学家啊。

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You have to choose."
你必须选一个。”

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This is Dr. Bob Childs --
这位是鲍勃·柴尔兹博士，

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(Laughter)
（笑声）

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and he's a luthier and psychotherapist.
他是一名弦乐器工匠和心理医生。

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And this is Amy Ng, a magazine editor turned illustrator, entrepreneur,
这位是艾米·恩，之前是杂志编辑， 后来成为插画作家，企业家

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teacher and creative director.
教师和创意总监。

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But most kids don't hear about people like this.
但大部分孩子都没听说过他们。

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All they hear
他们听到的

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is that they're going to have to choose.
只是要他们进行选择和取舍。

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But it's more than that.
事情远不止这么简单。

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The notion of the narrowly focused life
一生都心无旁骛的这一观念，

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is highly romanticized in our culture.
在我们的文化中被过分浪漫化了。

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It's this idea of destiny or the one true calling,
这种命运论或者说 “命中注定的职业”的概念，

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the idea that we each have one great thing
意思是我们每个人都有一份

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we are meant to do during our time on this earth,
命中注定的伟大事业，

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and you need to figure out what that thing is
我们需要找到它，

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and devote your life to it.
并为之奋斗一生。

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But what if you're someone who isn't wired this way?
但如果你不是这样的人呢？

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What if there are a lot of different subjects that you're curious about,
如果你对很多事都有好奇心，

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and many different things you want to do?
想去尝试各种各样的职业呢？

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Well, there is no room for someone like you in this framework.
那么在现有体系中，你很难有容身之处。

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And so you might feel alone.
你也许会感到孤独。

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You might feel like you don't have a purpose.
你也许会觉得自己没有目标。

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And you might feel like there's something wrong with you.
你也许会觉得自己是不是有问题。

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There's nothing wrong with you.
你没有问题。

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What you are is a multipotentialite.
你是一名“多重潜力者”。

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(Laughter)
（笑声）

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(Applause)
（掌声）

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A multipotentialite is someone with many interests and creative pursuits.
“多重潜力者”拥有多种兴趣并且追求创新。

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It's a mouthful to say.
听起来很费解吧。

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It might help if you break it up into three parts:
如果把它拆成三部分可能比较好理解：

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multi, potential, and ite.
多重的，有潜力的，人。

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You can also use one of the other terms that connote the same idea,
你也可以用其他词来表述类似的意思，

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such as polymath, the Renaissance person.
比如“博学者”，或者“文艺复兴者”。

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Actually, during the Renaissance period,
实际上，在文艺复兴时代，

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it was considered the ideal to be well-versed in multiple disciplines.
精通多个学科是非常被推崇的。

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Barbara Sher refers to us as "scanners."
芭芭拉·谢尔称我们为“扫描仪”。

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Use whichever term you like, or invent your own.
你可以选择一个自己喜欢的词， 或者创造一个新的。

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I have to say I find it sort of fitting that as a community,
我感觉自己找到了组织，

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we cannot agree on a single identity.
因为我们无法接受只有一种身份。

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(Laughter)
（笑声）

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It's easy to see your multipotentiality
人们很容易把多重潜力

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as a limitation or an affliction that you need to overcome.
视为一种局限或者痛苦，需要克服。

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But what I've learned through speaking with people
但我通过与人们交流，

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and writing about these ideas on my website,
以及把这些观点发到我的网站上，

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is that there are some tremendous strengths to being this way.
我发现多重潜力者有很多优点。

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Here are three
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multipotentialite super powers.
拥有三种“超能力”。

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One: idea synthesis.
第一是产生创意。

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That is, combining two or more fields
就是说，结合两个或两个以上领域

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and creating something new at the intersection.
从结合处寻求创新。

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Sha Hwang and Rachel Binx drew from their shared interests
黄沙和瑞秋·宾克斯 找到了共同的兴趣爱好，

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in cartography, data visualization, travel, mathematics and design,
像制图，数据可视化，旅行，数学和设计，

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when they founded Meshu.
之后他们创办了Meshu。

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Meshu is a company that creates custom geographically-inspired jewelry.
Meshu是一家定制珠宝公司， 专门制作具有地域特色的珠宝。

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Sha and Rachel came up with this unique idea
黄沙和瑞秋之所以能产生这个独特的创意，

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not despite, but because of their eclectic mix of skills and experiences.
正是因为他俩博学多才，经历丰富。

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Innovation happens at the intersections.
创新来源于交叉处。

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That's where the new ideas come from.
新创意（大都）来源于此。

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And multipotentialites, with all of their backgrounds,
而多重潜力者，拥有丰富的（知识）背景，

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are able to access a lot of these points of intersection.
能够在各领域交叉处找到突破点。

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The second multipotentialite superpower
多重潜力者的第二种超能力

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is rapid learning.
是快速学习。

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When multipotentialites become interested in something,
当多重潜力者对某件事产生兴趣时，

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we go hard.
我们会全身心投入。

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We observe everything we can get our hands on.
我们仔细观察，勤于实践。

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We're also used to being beginners,
我们已经习惯于当初学者，

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because we've been beginners so many times in the past,
因为我们过去曾当过无数次初学者，

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and this means that we're less afraid of trying new things
我们不怕尝试新事物，

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and stepping out of our comfort zones.
勇于走出舒适区。

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What's more, many skills are transferable across disciplines,
除此以外，很多能力在各个学科都是通用的，

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and we bring everything we've learned to every new area we pursue,
我们将之前所学用于新领域，

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so we're rarely starting from scratch.
而不用从零开始。

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Nora Dunn is a full-time traveler and freelance writer.
诺拉·邓恩是一位全职旅行家和自由作家。

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As a child concert pianist, she honed an incredible ability
作为一名儿童钢琴演奏家， 她磨练出了非凡的能力

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to develop muscle memory.
来发展肌肉记忆。

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Now, she's the fastest typist she knows.
因此，她是她所有认识的人中打字最快的。

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(Laughter)
（笑声）

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Before becoming a writer, Nora was a financial planner.
在当作家之前，诺拉是一名理财师。

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She had to learn the finer mechanics of sales
在初入这行的时候，

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when she was starting her practice,
她不得不学习一些高明的销售技巧，

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and this skill now helps her write compelling pitches to editors.
如今这项技能被她用来 给编辑写精彩的推荐语。

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It is rarely a waste of time to pursue something you're drawn to,
追求你感兴趣的东西并不是浪费时间，

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even if you end up quitting.
即使最后你并没有坚持到底。

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You might apply that knowledge in a different field entirely,
也许将来你会把这些知识 用在一个完全不同的领域，

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in a way that you couldn't have anticipated.
用一种你完全预料不到的方式。

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The third multipotentialite superpower
第三种“超能力”

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is adaptability;
是适应性。

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that is, the ability to morph into whatever you need to be
也就是说，如果有需要， 你能变成任何角色，

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in a given situation.
以适应不同的情况。

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Abe Cajudo is sometimes a video director, sometimes a web designer,
艾比·卡胡多有时候是视频导演， 有时候是网站设计师，

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sometimes a Kickstarter consultant, sometimes a teacher,
有时候是众筹顾问， 有时候是老师，

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and sometimes, apparently, James Bond.
有时候，很明显，是詹姆斯·邦德。

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(Laughter)
（笑声）

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He's valuable because he does good work.
他拥有出色的工作能力。

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He's even more valuable because he can take on various roles,
更重要的是他可以随时切换自己的角色，

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depending on his clients' needs.
来满足客户的需要。

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Fast Company magazine identified adaptability
《快公司》杂志认为，

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as the single most important skill to develop in order to thrive
要想在21世纪取得成功，适应性是

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in the 21st century.
最重要的一项技能。

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The economic world is changing so quickly and unpredictably
经济界的变化如此迅速且无法预测，

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that it is the individuals and organizations that can pivot
那些能够根据市场需要进行调整

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in order to meet the needs of the market that are really going to thrive.
的个人和公司才有可能取得成功。

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Idea synthesis, rapid learning and adaptability:
产生创意，快速学习和适应性

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three skills that multipotentialites are very adept at,
是多重潜力者非常擅长的三种能力，

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and three skills that they might lose if pressured to narrow their focus.
如果强迫他们缩小自己的关注范围， 这三种能力也许就会丧失。

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As a society, we have a vested interest in encouraging multipotentialites
作为一个社会，鼓励多重潜力者保持本色

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to be themselves.
对我们有利。

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We have a lot of complex, multidimensional problems in the world right now,
我们如今面临许多复杂问题，涉及许多方面，

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and we need creative, out-of-the-box thinkers to tackle them.
我们需要有创意的、能破除思维定式的 思想者来解决这些问题。

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Now, let's say that you are, in your heart, a specialist.
我们假设，内心深处，你是一名专家。

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You came out of the womb knowing you wanted to be a pediatric neurosurgeon.
你从打娘胎里出来就知道 你想当一名儿童神经外科医生。

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Don't worry -- there's nothing wrong with you, either.
别担心，即使这样你也挺正常的。

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(Laughter)
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In fact, some of the best teams are comprised of a specialist
事实上，一些顶尖团队就是由专家

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and multipotentialite paired together.
和多重潜力者搭配组成。

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The specialist can dive in deep and implement ideas,
专家可以深入研究，实践想法，

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while the multipotentialite brings a breadth of knowledge to the project.
而多重潜力者可以为项目 带来更广泛的知识支持。

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It's a beautiful partnership.
这是一种美妙的合作。

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But we should all be designing lives and careers
但是我们都应该根据自己的天赋

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that are aligned with how we're wired.
来规划与之相适应的人生和职业。

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And sadly, multipotentialites are largely being encouraged
不幸的是，多重潜力者往往被要求

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simply to be more like their specialist peers.
成为（刚刚提到的）团队中的那个专家。

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So with that said,
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if there is one thing you take away from this talk,
如果你从今天的演讲中学到了一件事的话，

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I hope that it is this:
我希望会是：

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embrace your inner wiring, whatever that may be.
接受你内心的真实想法。

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If you're a specialist at heart,
如果你是专家型的人，

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then by all means, specialize.
那就用尽一切办法，成为专家。

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That is where you'll do your best work.
你会干得非常不错。

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But to the multipotentialites in the room,
但对于在座的多重潜力者们，

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including those of you who may have just realized
包括那些在过去的12分钟里

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in the last 12 minutes that you are one --
刚刚意识到自己是多重潜力者的人，

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(Laughter)
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to you I say:
我要对你们说：

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embrace your many passions.
接受你的众多爱好。

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Follow your curiosity down those rabbit holes.
保持你的好奇心。

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Explore your intersections.
探索（不同领域的）交叉地带。

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Embracing our inner wiring leads to a happier, more authentic life.
让真实的自我引领我们 去过更快乐、更真实的人生。

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And perhaps more importantly --
也许更重要的是，

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multipotentialites, the world needs us.
（我们是）多重潜力者， 这个世界需要我们。

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Thank you.
谢谢大家。

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(Applause)
（掌声）