TED英文宣讲稿：内向性格得力量.docx

TED英文宣讲稿：内向性格得力量TED英文演讲稿 内向性格的力量when i was nine years old i went off to summer camp for the first time. and my mother packed me a suitcase full of books, which to me seemed like a perfectly natural thing to do. because in my family, reading was the primary group activity. an ust like this, but better. (laughter) i had a vision of 10 girls sitting in a cabin cozily reading books in their matching nightgowns.(laughter)camp was more like a keg party without any alcohol. and on the very first day our counselor gathered us all together and she taught us a cheer that she said be so rowdy, or why we had to spell this word incorrectly. (laughter) but i recited a cheer. i recited a cheer along with everybody else. i did my best. and i just waited for the time that i could go off and read my books.but the first time that i took my book out of my suitcase, the coolest girl in i made these self-negating choices so reflexively, that i wasn#39;t even aware that i was making them.now this is what many introverts do, and it#39;s our loss for sure, but it is also our colleagues#39; loss and our communities#39; loss. and at the risk of sounding grandiose, i we have this belief system right now that i call the new groupthink, which holds that all creativity and all productivity comes from a very oddly gregarious place.so if you picture the typical classroom nowadays: when i was going to school, we sat in rows. we sat in rows of desks like this, and we ights of contemporary psychology. it turns out that we can#39;t even be in a group of people without instinctively mirroring, mimicking their opinions. even about seemingly personal and visceral things like who you#39;re attracted to, you will start aping the beliefs of the people around y sma suddenly come to seem really important. and sure enough, the self-help books change to meet these new needs and they start to have names like quot;how to win friends and influence people.quot; and they feature as their role models really great salesmen. so that#39;s the world we#39;re living in today. that#39;s our cultural inheritance.now none of this is to say that social skills are unimportant, and i#39;m also not calling for the abolishing of teamwork at all. the same religions who send their sages off to lonely mountain tops also teach us love and trust. and the problems that we are facing today in fields like science and in economics are so vast and so complex that we are going to need armies of people coming together to solve them working together. but i am saying that the more freedom that we give introverts to be themselves, the more likely that they are to come up with their own unique solutions to these problems.so now i#39;d like to share with you what#39;s in my suitcase today. guess what? books. i have a suitcase full of books. here#39;s margaret atwood, quot;cat#39;s eye.quot; here#39;s a novel by milan kundera. and here#39;s quot;the guide for the perplexedquot; by maimonides. but these are not exactly my books. i brought these books with me because they were written by my grandfather#39;s favorite authors.my grandfather was a rabbi and he was a widower who lived alone in a small apartment in brooklyn that was my favorite place in the world when i was growing up, partly because it was filled with his very gentle, very courtly presence and partly because it was filled with books. i mean literally every table, every chair in this apartment had yielded its original function to now serve as a surface for swaying stacks of books. just like the rest of my family, my grandfather#39;s favorite thing to do in the whole world was to read.but he also loved his congregation, and you could feel this love in the sermons that he gave every week for the 62 years that he was a rabbi. he would takes the fruits of each week#39;s reading and he would weave these intricate tapestries of ancient and humanist thought. and people would come from all over to hear him speak.but here#39;s the thing about my grandfather. underneath this ceremonial role, he was really modest and really introverted - so much so that when he delivered these sermons, he had trouble making eye contact with the very same congre 3Word版本。