TED英语演讲：你该如何面对艰难选择

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关于直面困难的英语演讲稿

关于直面困难的英语演讲稿Facing difficulties is a part of life, and it is how we deal with them that truly defines us. In today's speech, I would like to talk about the importance of facing difficulties and how it can help us grow and succeed.First and foremost, it is essential to acknowledge that difficulties are inevitable. No matter who we are or where we come from, we will all face challenges at some point in our lives. Whether it's a personal struggle, a professional setback, or a global crisis, difficulties are a part of the human experience. Instead of avoiding or denying them, we should confront them head-on.When we face difficulties, we are forced to step out of our comfort zones and confront our fears. This process can be uncomfortable and even painful, but it is necessary for personal growth. By facing our difficulties, we develop resilience, determination, and problem-solving skills. We learn to adapt, to persevere, and to find creative solutions to our problems. In the end, we emerge stronger, wiser, and more capable than before.Moreover, facing difficulties can also lead to unexpected opportunities and growth. When we are confronted with challenges, we are forced to think outside the box and explore new possibilities. We may discover hidden talents, passions, and strengths that we never knew we had. Difficulties can push us to reevaluate our priorities, set new goals, and pursue new paths. In this way, difficulties can be the catalyst for personal and professional development.It is also important to remember that difficulties are not meant to break us, but to build us. They are not signs of failure, but opportunities for growth. Instead of viewing them as obstacles, we should see them as stepping stones to success. By embracing difficulties and learning from them, we can become more resilient, more compassionate, and more empathetic individuals.In conclusion, facing difficulties is an essential part of life, and it is how we respond to them that truly matters. By confronting our difficulties head-on, we can develop resilience, discover new opportunities, and grow as individuals. Difficulties are not meant to defeat us, but to challenge us to become the best versions of ourselves. So let us embrace our difficulties, learn from them, and use them as stepping stones to success. Thank you.。

TED英语演讲：生命无限，勇往直前_英语演讲稿_

TED英语演讲：生命无限，勇往直前艾咪.普蒂19岁时，双脚膝盖以下遭截肢，但现在，她已成为滑雪专家。

在这则充满力量的演说中，她分享了如何从人生的阻碍中获得灵感和鼓舞。

那些局限和障碍只会造成两种结局：要么让我们停滞不前,要么逼我们迸发出巨大的创造力。

下面是小编为大家收集关于TED 英语演讲：生命无限，勇往直前，欢迎借鉴参考。

| 中英文 |If your life were a book and you were the author, how would you want your story to go? That's the question that changed my life forever. Growing up in the hot Last Vegas desert, all I wanted was to be free. I would daydream about traveling the world, living in a place where it snowed, and I would picture all of the stories that I would go on to tell.如果你的人生是一本书你是书的作者你会怎么写你的故事? 这个问题永远改变了我的一生生长在拉斯维加斯的炎热沙漠我一直向往自由我做着白日梦梦想周游世界住在能看见雪的地方编我想讲述的所有故事At the age of 19, the day after I graduated high school, I moved to a place where it snowed and I became a massage therapist. With this job all I needed were my hands and my massage table by my side and I could go anywhere. For the first time in my life, I felt free, independent and completely in control of my life. That is, until my life took a detour. I went home from work early one day with what I thought was the flu, and less than24 hours later I was in the hospital on life support with less thana two percent chance of living. It wasn't until days later as I lay in a coma that the doctors diagnosed me with bacterial meningitis, a vaccine-preventable blood infection. Over the course of two and a half months I lost my spleen, my kidneys, the hearing in myleft ear and both of my legs below the knee.19岁那年在我从高中毕业后我搬到了能见到雪的地方我成为一名按摩师这份工作只需要双手以及身边的按摩桌而且我可以去任何地方有生以来头一次我感到自由独立对生活充满把握直到人生出现了一个转折一天我下班比往常早以为自己得了流感 24小时不到我就进了医院生命垂危只有2%的存活几率之后的几天我陷入昏迷医生诊断我得了细菌性脑膜炎疫苗可预防性血液感染在为期两个半月的治疗中我切除了脾和肾左耳失聪膝盖以下截肢When my parents wheeled me out of the hospital I felt like I had been pieced back together like a patchwork doll. I thought the worst was over until weeks later when I saw my new legs for the first time. The calves were bulky blocks of metal with pipes bolted together for the ankles and a yellow rubber foot with a raised rubber line from the toe to the ankle to look like a vein. I didn't know what to expect, but I wasn't expecting that.当父母把我推出医院时我感到自己被重新拼凑起来像一个拼布娃娃我以为最惨的事已完结直到我第一次见到自己的新腿小腿是笨重的金属块脚踝用管子和螺丝固定外加黄色的橡胶脚突起的橡胶线从脚趾延伸到脚踝为了使它们看起来像血管我不知道我想要的结果是什么但绝不会是这个With my mom by my side and tears streaming down our faces, I strapped on these chunky legs and I stood up. They were so painful and so confining that all I could think was, how am I ever going to travel the world in these things? How was I ever going to live the life full of adventure and stories, as I always wanted? And how was I going to snowboard again?妈妈站在我旁边两个人泪水肆意我绑上这两条粗短腿然后站起来它们让我感到十分痛苦，并且充满限制我脑子里只有一个想法：用这些破玩意我怎么能周游世界? 我如何才能过我一直想要的异彩纷呈的生活?That day, I went home, I crawled into bed and this is what my life looked like for the next few months: me passed out, escaping from reality, with my legs resting by my side. I was absolutely physically and emotionally broken.我如何才能再玩单板滑雪? 那天，我回到家，爬上床这是我接下来几个月的生活状态: 我躺在床上, 淡出生活逃离现实我的腿放在床边.我在生理上和心理上完全崩溃了But I knew that in order to move forward, I had to let go of the old Amy and learn to embrace the new Amy. And that is when it dawned on me that I didn't have to be five-foot-five anymore.I could be as tall as I wanted! (Laughter) (Applause) Or as short as I wanted, depending on who I was dating. (Laughter) And if I snowboarded again, my feet aren't going to get cold. (Laughter) And best of all, I thought, I can make my feet the size of all the shoes that are on the sales rack. (Laughter) And I did! So there were benefits here.但是我知道为了向前走我必须放开过去的艾米学着接受新的艾米那时我突然想到我再也不只有5.5英尺高了我可以想多高有多高 (笑声)(掌声) 或者想多矮有多矮这得看我和谁约会 (笑声) 如果我再玩单板滑雪脚再也不会冷 (笑声) 我觉得最棒的是我可以调整脚的大小来适合货架上任何尺码的鞋子 (笑声) 我真那么干了! 所以这还是有些好处的It was this moment that I asked myself that life-defining question: If my life were a book and I were the author, how would I want the story to go? And I began to daydream. I daydreamed like I did as a little girl and I imagined myself walking gracefully, helping other people through my journey and snowboarding again. And I didn't just see myself carving down a mountain of powder, I could actually feel it. I could feel the wind against my face and the beat of my racing heart as if it were happening in that very moment. And that is when a new chapter in my lifebegan.那一刻我问了自己一个决定人生走向的问题如果人生是一本书而我是作者我会怎么写这个故事? 我开始做白日梦想小时候那样做梦我想象自己优雅地前行在路途中帮助别人再次玩单板滑雪我并不是仅仅看到自己从山上滑下来我可以真切感受到那个场景我可以感受到风扑面而来感受到心脏的韵律如同那一刻正在真实发生.那就是我开启人生新篇章的时刻Four months later I was back up on a snowboard, although things didn't go quite as expected: My knees and my ankles wouldn't bend and at one point I traumatized all the skiers on the chair lift when I fell and my legs, still attached to my snowboard — (Laughter) — went flying down the mountain, and I was on top of the mountain still. I was so shocked, I was just as shocked as everybody else, and I was so discouraged, but I knew that if I could find the right pair of feet that I would be able to do this again. And this is when I learned that our borders and our obstacles can only do two things: one, stop us in our tracks or two, force us to get creative.4个月之后，我重拾单板滑雪虽然事情并不像我期待的那样我的膝盖和脚踝无法弯曲在某一点上我吓坏了升降椅上所有的滑雪者(笑声)就是当我摔倒时,我的腿还连着滑板(笑声) 它们一起飞落到山脚而我依然在山顶(笑声)我被惊到了同其他人一样我惊呆了而且很失落但是我知道如果我找到了两条合适的腿我完全可以成功这时我明白了艰难险阻只能做两件事:一是将我们困在原来的轨道二是迫使我们充满创造力I did a year of research, still couldn't figure out what kind of legs to use, couldn't find any resources that could help me. So I decided to make a pair myself. My leg maker and I put random parts together and we made a pair of feet that I could snowboard in. As you can see, rusted bolts, rubber, wood and neon pink ducttape. And yes, I can change my toenail polish. It was these legs and the best 21st birthday gift I could ever receive —a new kidney from my dad —that allowed me to follow my dreams again. I started snowboarding, then I went back to work, then I went back to school.我研究了一年仍然不知道用什么样的腿也找不到任何有用的资源于是我决定自己做一副假腿我和制作者把各种部件拼在一起做了两条可以玩滑板的腿你可以看到生锈的螺栓、橡胶、木头和荧光粉胶带没错我可以换指甲颜色这双假腿以及我21岁生日收到的最好礼物————我爸爸的一个肾让我再次追逐梦想.我开始玩单板滑雪我重新工作并回到学校Then in 20xx I cofounded a nonprofit organization for youth and young adults with physical disabilities so they could get involved with action sports. From there, I had the opportunity to go to South Africa, where I helped to put shoes on thousands of children's feet so they could attend school.20xx年我创办了一个非盈利组织用来救助身体残疾的年轻人使他们能再次参加体育运动从那时起我有机会前往南非给千百儿童带来鞋子这样他们就可以去上学And just this past February, I won two back-to-back World Cup gold medals — (Applause) — which made me the highest ranked adaptive female snowboarder in the world.在刚刚过去的二月我相继取得两块世界金牌 (掌声) ——这使我成为世界上最高级别的残疾人女子单板滑雪运动员.Eleven years ago, when I lost my legs, I had no idea what to expect. But if you ask me today, if I would ever want to change my situation, I would have to say no. Because my legs haven't disabled me, if anything they've enabled me. They've forced me to rely on my imagination and to believe in the possibilities, and that's why I believe that our imaginations can be used as toolsfor breaking through borders, because in our minds, we can do anything and we can be anything.20xx年前当我失去腿时我不知道该期盼什么但是如果你现在问我是否愿意换个人生我会回答不因为我的双腿并没有阻碍我如果说它们给我带来了什么那就是它们让我依靠想象力让我相信一切皆有可能这就是为什么我相信想象可以成为工具用来冲破障碍因为在脑子里我们可以做任何事可以成为任何人It's believing in those dreams and facing our fears head-on that allows us to live our lives beyond our limits. And although today is about innovation without borders, I have to say that in my life, innovation has only been possible because of my borders. I've learned that borders are where the actual ends, but also where the imagination and the story begins.相信梦想直面恐惧能够让我们的生活超出局限虽然今天在讲无边界创新但我不得不说在我的生命里是我自身的种种局限让不可能变成可能我知道这些局限才是现实结束想象产生故事开始的地方So the thought that I would like to challenge you with today is that maybe instead of looking at our challenges and our limitations as something negative or bad, we can begin to look at them as blessings, magnificent gifts that can be used to ignite our imaginations and help us go further than we ever knew we could go. It's not about breaking down borders. It's about pushing off of them and seeing what amazing places they might bring us. Thank you.所以今天我想让你们挑战的是与其把挑战、局限看做不利或者坏事我们可以把它们看做恩惠可以点亮想象的神奇礼物能帮助我们走得更远远到我们从未想过这不是要打破局限而是把局限推得更广然后看看它们能把我们带到怎样美好的地方谢谢 (掌声)。

TED最励志演讲：如何战胜绝望，走出困境？【尼克·胡哲】

TED最励志演讲：如何战胜绝望，走出困境？【尼克·胡哲】演说者：Nick Vujicic演说题目：如何战胜绝望，走出困境！在我们的人生中，常常需要面对各种困境，感到绝望。

此刻，我们总是祈祷奇迹会出现，但往往难拟踪迹。

本期TED演讲者：Nick Vujicic，出生时就没有四肢，陷入无限的绝望中，支撑他挺过绝境的究竟是什么呢？Remark：TED音频下载，网易云音乐搜索主播电台：TED英语演说如何战胜绝望！来自TED英语演说00:0014:53kaka福利：回复关键字'TED演讲资料下载'，即可免费下载。

100+精选TED演讲资料（包含TED视频、音频、中英文演讲稿）持续更新，百度网盘免费下载！中英对照演讲稿Guys, my name is Nick Vujicic, I was born in Australia in 1982, moved from Australia to California in the year 2006. And my life story，I’m just thankful that people have seen my life on some sort of level.大家好，我是尼克·胡哲，1982年出生在澳洲，2006年从澳洲搬到加州。

关于我的故事，我很感激。

就某个程度来说，大家都看到了我的人生。

Whether it’s just YouTube videos or seeing pictures of a limbless guy smile. You know, people always ask me you know, what happened to you and how did you overcome what you’ve been through? 不管是只在YouTube上看影片，或是看到一张没有四肢的人，微笑的照片。

ted：如何做出艰难的选择

TED：如何做出艰难的选择？最近几天，在线下和线下收到好几个关于选择的咨询，都是读者面临人生中的一些大事，不知道如何判断。

我不打算去代替别人选择人生，但一直在头疼如何回应，刚好遇到一个TED视频，解决了我的问题，也跟大家安利一下，希望也在你面临艰难选择时做出更好的判断关于选择方式还有推荐另一篇文章：如何在生活与工作中做出更好的选择?正文科学的思考可以解决世间一切重要之事。

所以越艰难的选择，我们变得越理性，枚举各种利弊条件，写了一页又一页。

但这时让我们抓狂的事情发生了：我们还是做不了决定！这是因为我们的无知吗？演讲者Ruth Chang亲身经历告诉你，一切不是我们想象得那么简单。

所以，艰难选择之所以艰难，并不是因为我们考虑的不周全，我们的无知，而是因为他们之间本来就没有最好的选择。

因为价值的世界不同于科学的世界。

科学的世界可以被量化，但前一种世界不可以被量化。

“越难的选择，越大程度取决于自己”。

所以，这是不是就验证了，我说的那句：你当时所做的选择，都是你当时认为的最好的选择呢？最后献上哲学家朱莉安的一句话：只有尊重你放弃的选项，才能让你选择的选项变得更有价值。

做出选择时，就是找出说服自己的理由，想想自己想成为怎样的人，比较外界的因素，确实更为有效。

有很多时候，选择之所以艰难，就是因为我们没有想清楚自己到底想要的是什么，从自身找原因去做出选择更有效。

换句说，做选择时是进行价值观的衡量，应该完全遵从自己的想法，选择自己愿意选择的选项。

艰难选择带给我们的是机遇——一个看清自身和遵从内心的方向前进的机遇。

这几天刚好在看几本哲学书籍，然后反复看了几遍视频之后，刚好理解了演讲者Ruth Chang的观点：当你面临人生重大选择的时候，应该选择你的世界观，而不是利益。

扩展阅读：20岁光阴不再来不要吞吃命运的饼干献给女生的毕业演讲：永远不要因为“你是个女人”而放弃什么是你这辈子最重要的东西，你将如何评价你的人生100天行动读者反馈@君月瑶汇报一下2.25以来成绩:一.扇贝打卡已坚持525天二.每天早晚刷牙时做20个深蹲，睡前做45个卷腹三.25天中有14天坚持了郑多燕小红帽和哑铃操二选一，剩余11天坚持了跳绳走路等运动。

TED演讲接受挑战,直面困难,把失败当做成功的垫脚石!

The Secret to Overcoming Failure接受挑战，直面困难，把失败当做成功的垫脚石！What is your biggest failure? Have you been able to move past it? Does it still impact daily life? Last year, I failed to accomplish a very important personal goal, something that brought me to my knees. Today, I’m going to share that story with you, and also the lessons that I’ve discovered about how to overcome it.你最大的失败是什么？你是否已经走出了它的阴影？它还会影响日常生活吗？去年，我没能完成一个非常重要的个人目标，这件事几乎把我击垮了。

今天，我将与大家分享这个故事，以及我是如何克服失败的。

Let’s start by doing a little visualization. So please get comfortable in your seat. Perhaps take a long, deep breath. And I’d like you to think about the greatest success that you’ve ever experienced. Now, take a little trip back in time. Can you remember when you set the goal? Can you remember all the planning that you did that helped you achieve that success? OK, now, clear your minds. One more visualization. This time, I want you to think about that big failure. Again, go back in time. Can you remember when you set that goal? Can you remember all the planning that you did that didn’t come to fruition? Perhaps you can remember the exact moment when you knew that you were going to fail. And maybe just the thought of that failure is bringing back lots of feelings of shame. If you’re anything like me, it was much easier to think about the failure and the planning that didn’t come to fruition than the success.让我们先来做一个小小想象。

TED演讲选择越多,困惑越多英文稿

I'm going to talk to you about some stuff that's in this book of mine that I hope will resonate with other things you've already heard, and I'll try to make some connections myself, in case you miss them. I want to start with what I call the "official dogma." The official dogma of what? The official dogma of all western industrial societies. And the official dogma runs like this: if we are interested in maximizing the welfare of our citizens, the way to do that is to maximize individual freedom. The reason for this is both that freedom is in and of itself good, valuable, worthwhile, essential to being human. And because if people have freedom, then each of us can act on our own to do the things that will maximize our welfare, and no one has to decide on our behalf. The way to maximize freedom is to maximize choice.The more choice people have, the more freedom they have, and the more freedom they have, the more welfare they have.This, I think, is so deeply embedded in the water supply that it wouldn't occur to anyone to question it. And it's also deeply embedded in our lives. I'll give you some examples of what modern progress has made possible for us. This is my supermarket. Not such a big one. I want to say just a word about salad dressing. 175 salad dressings in my supermarket, if you don't count the 10 different extra-virgin olive oils and 12 balsamic vinegars you could buy to make a very large number of your own salad dressings, in the off chance that none of the 175 the store has on offer suit you. So this is what the supermarket is like. And then you go to the consumer electronics store to set up a stereo system -- speakers, CD player, tape player, tuner, amplifier. And in this one single consumer electronics store, there are that many stereo systems. We can construct six and a half million different stereo systems out of the components that are on offer in one store.You've got to admit that's a lot of choice. In other domains -- the world of communications. There was a time, when I was a boy, when you could get any kind of telephone service you wanted, as long as it came from Ma Bell. You rented your phone. You didn't buy it. One consequence of that, by the way, is that the phone never broke. And those days are gone. We now have an almost unlimited variety of phones, especially in the world of cell phones. These are cell phones of the future. My favorite is the middle one -- the MP3 player, nose hair trimmer, and creme brulee torch. And if by some chance you haven't seen that in your store yet, you can rest assured that one day soon you will. And what this does is it leads people to walk into their stores asking this question. And do you know what the answer to this question now is? The answer is "No." It is not possible to buy a cell phone that doesn't do too much.So, in other aspects of life that are much more significant than buying things, The same explosion of choice is true. Health care -- it is no longer the case in the United States that you go to the doctor, and the doctor tells you what to do. Instead, you go to the doctor, and the doctor tells you, well, we could do A, or we could do B. A has these benefits, and these risks. B has these benefits, and these risks. What do you want to do? And you say, "Doc, what should I do?" And the doc says, A has these benefits and risks, and B has these benefits and risks. What do you want to do? And you say, "If you were me, Doc, what would you do?" And the doc says, "But I'm not you." And the result is -- we call it "patient autonomy," which makes it sound like a good thing. But what it really is is a shifting of the burden and the responsibility for decision-making from somebody whoknows something -- namely the doctor -- to somebody who knows nothing and is almost certainly sick and thus not in the best shape to be making decisions -- namely the patient.There's enormous marketing of prescription drugs to people like you and me, which, if you think about it, makes no sense at all, since we can't buy them. Why do they market to us if we can't buy them? The answer is that they expect us to call our doctors the next morning and ask prescriptions to be changed. Something as dramatic as our identity has now become a matter of choice, as this slide is meant to indicate. We don't inherit an identity, we get to invent it. And we get to re-invent ourselves as often as we like. And that means that every day when you wake up in the morning, you have to decide what kind of person you want to be. With respect to marriage and family, there was a time when the default assumption that almost everyone had is that you got married as soon as you could, and then you started having kids as soon as you could. The only real choice was who, not when, and not what you did after.Nowadays, everything is very much up for grabs. I teach wonderfully intelligent students, and I assign 20 percent less work than I used to. And it's not because they're less smart, and it's not because they're less diligent. It's because they are preoccupied, asking themselves, "Should I get married or not? Should I get married now? Should I get married later? Should I have kids first, or a career first?" All of these are consuming questions. And they're going to answer these questions, whether or not it means not doing all the work I assign and not getting a good grade in my courses. And indeed they should. These are important questions to answer. Work -- we are blessed, as Carl was pointing out, with the technology that enables us to work every minute of every day from any place on the planet -- except the Randolph Hotel.(Laughter)There is one corner, by the way, that I'm not going to tell anybody about, where the WiFi works. I'm not telling you about it because I want to use it. So what this means, this incredible freedom of choice we have with respect to work, is that we have to make a decision, again and again and again, about whether we should or shouldn't be working. We can go to watch our kid play soccer, and we have our cell phone on one hip, and our Blackberry on our other hip, and our laptop, presumably, on our laps. And even if they're all shut off, every minute that we're watching our kid mutilate a soccer game, we are also asking ourselves, "Should I answer this cell phone call? Should I respond to this email? Should I draft this letter?" And even if the answer to the question is "no," it's certainly going to make the experience of your kid's soccer game very different than it would've been. So everywhere we look, big things and small things, material things and lifestyle things, life is a matter of choice. And the world we used to live in looked like this. That is to say, there were some choices, but not everything was a matter of choice. And the world we now live in looks like this. And the question is, is this good news, or bad news? And the answer is yes.(Laughter)We all know what's good about it, so I'm going to talk about what's bad about it. All of this choice has two effects, two negative effects on people. One effect, paradoxically, is that it producesparalysis, rather than liberation. With so many options to choose from, people find it very difficult to choose at all. I'll give you one very dramatic example of this, a study that was done of investments in voluntary retirement plans. A colleague of mine got access to investment records from Vanguard, the gigantic mutual fund company of about a million employees and about 2,000 different workplaces. And what she found is that for every 10 mutual funds the employer offered, rate of participation went down two percent. You offer 50 funds -- 10 percent fewer employees participate than if you only offer five. Why? Because with 50 funds to choose from, it's so damn hard to decide which fund to choose that you'll just put it off until tomorrow. And then tomorrow, and then tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, and of course tomorrow never comes. Understand that not only does this mean that people are going to have to eat dog food when they retire because they don't have enough money to put away, it also means that making the decision is so hard that they pass up significant matching money from the employer. By not participating, they are passing up as much as 5,000 dollars a year from the employer, who would happily match their contribution. So paralysis is a consequence of having too many choices. And I think it makes the world look like this.(Laughter)You really want to get the decision right if it's for all eternity, right? You don't want to pick the wrong mutual fund, or even the wrong salad dressing. So that's one effect. The second effect is that even if we manage to overcome the paralysis and make a choice, we end up less satisfied with the result of the choice than we would be if we had fewer options to choose from. And there are several reasons for this. One of them is that with a lot of different salad dressings to choose from, if you buy one, and it's not perfect -- and, you know, what salad dressing is? It's easy to imagine that you could have made a different choice that would have been better. And what happens is this imagined alternative induces you to regret the decision you made, and this regret subtracts from the satisfaction you get out of the decision you made, even if it was a good decision. The more options there are, the easier it is to regret anything at all that is disappointing about the option that you chose.Second, what economists call opportunity costs. Dan Gilbert made a big point this morning of talking about how much the way in which we value things depends on what we compare them to. Well, when there are lots of alternatives to consider, it is easy to imagine the attractive features of alternatives that you reject, that make you less satisfied with the alternative that you've chosen. Here's an example. For those of you who aren't New Yorkers, I apologize.(Laughter)But here's what you're supposed to be thinking. Here's this couple on the Hamptons. V ery expensive real estate. Gorgeous beach. Beautiful day. They have it all to themselves. What could be better? "Well, damn it," this guy is thinking, "It's August. Everybody in my Manhattan neighborhood is away. I could be parking right in front of my building." And he spends two weeks nagged by the idea that he is missing the opportunity, day after day, to have a great parking space. Opportunity costs subtract from the satisfaction we get out of what we choose, even when whatwe choose is terrific. And the more options there are to consider, the more attractive features of these options are going to be reflected by us as opportunity costs. Here's another example. Now this cartoon makes a lot of points. It makes points about living in the moment as well, and probably about doing things slowly. But one point it makes is that whenever you're choosing one thing, you're choosing not to do other things. And those other things may have lots of attractive features, and it's going to make what you're doing less attractive.Third: escalation of expectations. This hit me when I went to replace my jeans. I wear jeans almost all the time. And there was a time when jeans came in one flavor, and you bought them, and they fit like crap, and they were incredibly uncomfortable, and if you wore them long enough and washed them enough times, they started to feel OK. So I went to replace my jeans after years and years of wearing these old ones, and I said, "You know, I want a pair of jeans, here's my size." And the shopkeeper said, "Do you want slim fit, easy fit, relaxed fit? You want button fly or zipper fly? You want stonewashed or acid washed? Do you want them distressed? You want boot cut, you want tapered, blah blah blah ..." On and on he went. My jaw dropped, and after I recovered, I said, "I want the kind that used to be the only kind."(Laughter)He had no idea what that was, so I spent an hour trying on all these damn jeans, and I walked out of the store -- truth be told -- with the best fitting jeans I had ever had. I did better. All this choice made it possible for me to do better. But I felt worse. Why? I wrote a whole book to try and explain this to myself. The reason I felt worse is that, with all of these options available, my expectations about how good a pair of jeans should be went up. I had very low expectations. I had no particular expectations when they only came in one flavor. When they came in 100 flavors, damn it, one of them should've been perfect. And what I got was good, but it wasn't perfect. And so I compared what I got to what I expected, and what I got was disappointing in comparison to what I expected. Adding options to people's lives can't help but increase the expectations people have about how good those options will be. And what that's going to produce is less satisfaction with results, even when they're good results. Nobody in the world of marketing knows this. Because if they did, you wouldn't all know what this was about. The truth is more like this.(Laughter)The reason that everything was better back when everything was worse is that when everything was worse, it was actually possible for people to have experiences that were a pleasant surprise. Nowadays, the world we live in -- we affluent, industrialized citizens, with perfection the expectation -- the best you can ever hope for is that stuff is as good as you expect it to be. You will never be pleasantly surprised because your expectations, my expectations, have gone through the roof. The secret to happiness -- this is what you all came for -- the secret to happiness is low expectations.(Laughter)(Applause)I want to say -- just a little autobiographical moment -- that I actually am married to a wife, and she's really quite wonderful. I couldn't have done better. I didn't settle. But settling isn't always such a bad thing. Finally, one consequence of buying a bad-fitting pair of jeans when there is only one kind to buy is that when you are dissatisfied, and you ask why, who's responsible, the answer is clear. The world is responsible. What could you do? When there are hundreds of different styles of jeans available, and you buy one that is disappointing, and you ask why, who's responsible? It is equally clear that the answer to the question is you. You could have done better. With a hundred different kinds of jeans on display, there is no excuse for failure. And so when people make decisions, and even though the results of the decisions are good, they feel disappointed about them, they blame themselves.Clinical depression has exploded in the industrial world in the last generation. I believe a significant -- not the only, but a significant contributor to this explosion of depression, and also suicide, is that people have experiences that are disappointing because their standards are so high. And then when they have to explain these experiences to themselves, they think they're at fault. And so the net result is that we do better in general, objectively, and we feel worse. So let me remind you. This is the official dogma, the one that we all take to be true, and it's all false. It is not true. There's no question that some choice is better than none, but it doesn't follow from that that more choice is better than some choice. There's some magical amount. I don't know what it is. I'm pretty confident that we have long since passed the point where options improve our welfare.Now, as a policy matter -- I'm almost done -- as a policy matter, the thing to think about is this. What enables all of this choice in industrial societies is material affluence. There are lots of places in the world, and we have heard about several of them, where their problem is not that they have too much choice. Their problem is that they have too little. So the stuff I'm talking about is the peculiar problem of modern, affluent, Western societies. And what is so frustrating and infuriating is this: Steve Levitt talked to you yesterday about how these expensive and difficult to install child seats don't help. It's a waste of money. What I'm telling you is that these expensive, complicated choices -- it's not simply that they don't help. They actually hurt. They actually make us worse off.If some of what enables people in our societies to make all of the choices we make were shifted to societies in which people have too few options, not only would those people's lives be improved, but ours would be improved also. This is what economists call a Pareto-improving move. Income redistribution will make everyone better off -- not just poor people -- because of how all this excess choice plagues us. So to conclude. You're supposed to read this cartoon, and, being a sophisticated person, say, "Ah! What does this fish know? You know nothing is possible in this fishbowl." Impoverished imagination, a myopic view of the world -- and that's the way I read it at first. The more I thought about it, however, the more I came to the view that this fish knows something. Because the truth of the matter is that if you shatter the fishbowl so that everything is possible, you don't have freedom. You have paralysis. If you shatter this fishbowl so that everything is possible, you decrease satisfaction. You increase paralysis, and you decrease satisfaction. Everybody needs a fishbowl. This one is almost certainly too limited -- perhaps evenfor the fish, certainly for us. But the absence of some metaphorical fishbowl is a recipe for misery, and, I suspect, disaster. Thank you very much.(Applause)。

ted演讲面对巨大的压力该如何应对？(下)

ted演讲面对巨大的压力该如何应对？（下）我不得不说，我觉得这是个巨大的错误。

单个的人，就像一艘战舰一样，功能齐全，是神的完完全全的化身，人的脆弱的心灵要承载太多的东西，创意的未知的永恒的谜题，就像让一个人吞下太阳一样，它歪曲了人性，使得人们背负着巨大的期望，我觉得这才是过去500年来困扰艺术家们的真正问题。

如果是这样的话，而且我相信事实就是这样，我们能否做些改变呢？回到古代，也许可以帮助我们更好的理解人类和创意之谜之间的关系，也许没有什么用。

我们不可能在18分钟的演讲里就把过去500年来的理性人文主义的影响清除干净。

而且也许在座的某些人也对有精灵帮助我们完成伟大工作的说法持有合理的科学怀疑，所以，我并不试图说服大家。

但问题是，为什么，为什么我们不可以试图这样想想看呢？因为对于解释创意过程的中出现的完全疯狂的随意性，再也没有更好的解释了。

这个过程每个人都曾经历过，也体会过其中无法言说的非理智性，事实上，有时感觉是完全超自然的。

灵感来找你而不是来自于你本身或许更有帮助最近我遇到了著名的诗人Ruth Stone，感触尤深。

她今年90岁了，一直在坚持创作。

她告诉我，她小时候生活在弗吉尼亚州农村，有时在田间工作，她能感到诗歌正从地平线远方袭来，就像巨大的空气流，她能感到正向她脚下袭来，因为脚感受到了震动，那时，她脑子里只充斥着一件事，就是拼命的冲，她冲进屋里，就像被诗歌追赶着一样，她得找到一张纸和一支笔，要足够快，这样当诗歌从她身边席卷而过的时候，她能抓住它写到纸上。

有时她跑的不够快，她跑呀跑呀，在没到屋里之前，诗歌就从脚下溜走了，她错过了它，她望着它从地平线消失，说“它去找另一个诗人了”。

也有的时候，她说，她差点就错过它了，她跑到屋里，在她找纸的时候，诗歌从她身旁经过了，当时她一只手拿着一支笔，她会伸出另一只手，抓住诗歌，抓住它的尾巴把它拽回来，然后就跃然纸上了，但是这时候，诗歌是倒叙的，她先写的结尾，后写的开头。

TED英语演讲稿：如何让选择更容易_英语演讲稿_

TED英语演讲稿：如何让选择更容易简介：面对商场里五花八门的商品，你的选择恐惧症又犯了吗? 美国哥伦比亚大学商学教授sheena iyengar研究如何让你在做选择时更容易。

为了让你的选择省时省力，商家又会有哪些诀窍呢?do you know how many choices you make in a typical day? do you know how many choices you make in typical week? i recently did a survey with over 2,000 americans, and the average number of choices that the typical american reports making is about 70 in a typical day. there was also recently a study done with ceos in which they followed ceos around for a whole week. and these scientists simply documented all the various tasks that these ceos engaged in and how much time they spent engaging in making decisions related to these tasks. and they found that the average ceo engaged in about 139 tasks in a week. each task was made up of many, many, many sub-choices of course. 50 percent of their decisions were made in nine minutes or less. only about 12 percent of the decisions did they make an hour or more of their time. think about your own choices. do you know how many choices make it into your nine minute category versus your one hour category? how well do you think you're doing at managing those choices?today i want to talk about one of the biggest modern day choosing problems that we have, which is the choice overload problem. i want to talk about the problem and some potential solutions. now as i talk about this problem, i'm going to have some questions for you and i'm going to want to know your answers. so when i ask you a question, since i'm blind, only raise your hand if you want to burn off some calories. (laughter) otherwise, when i ask you a question, and if your answer is yes,i'd like you to clap your hands. so for my first question for you today: are you guys ready to hear about the choice overload problem? (applause) thank you.so when i was a graduate student at stanford university, i used to go to this very, very upscale grocery store; at least at that time it was truly upscale. it was a store called draeger's. now this store, it was almost like going to an amusement park. they had 250 different kinds of mustards and vinegars and over 500 different kinds of fruits and vegetables and more than two dozen different kinds of bottled water -- and this was during a time when we actually used to drink tap water. i used to love going to this store, but on one occasion i asked myself, well how come you never buy anything? here's their olive oil aisle. they had over 75 different kinds of olive oil, including those that were in a locked case that came from thousand-year-old olive trees.so i one day decided to pay a visit to the manager, and i asked the manager, "is this model of offering people all this choice really working?" and he pointed to the busloads of tourists that would show up everyday, with cameras ready usually. we decided to do a little experiment, and we picked jam for our experiment. here's their jam aisle. they had 348 different kinds of jam. we set up a little tasting booth right near the entrance of the store. we there put out six different flavors of jam or 24 different flavors of jam, and we looked at two things: first, in which case were people more likely to stop, sample some jam? more people stopped when there were 24, about 60 percent, than when there were six, about 40 percent. the next thing we looked at is in which case were people more likely to buy a jar of jam. now we see the opposite effect. of the people who stopped when there were 24, only three percent of them actually bought a jar of jam. of thepeople who stopped when there were six, well now we saw that 30 percent of them actually bought a jar of jam. now if you do the math, people were at least six times more likely to buy a jar of jam if they encountered six than if they encountered 24.now choosing not to buy a jar of jam is probably good for us -- at least it's good for our waistlines -- but it turns out that this choice overload problem affects us even in very consequential decisions. we choose not to choose, even when it goes against our best self-interests. so now for the topic of today: financial savings. now i'm going to describe to you a study i did with gur huberman, emir kamenica, wei jang where we looked at the retirement savings decisions of nearly a million americans from about 650 plans all in the u.s. and what we looked at was whether the number of fund offerings available in a retirement savings plan, the 401(k) plan, does that affect people's likelihood to save more for tomorrow. and what we found was that indeed there was a correlation. so in these plans, we had about 657 plans that ranged from offering people anywhere from two to 59 different fund offerings. and what we found was that, the more funds offered, indeed, there was less participation rate.so if you look at the extremes, those plans that offered you two funds, participation rates were around in the mid-70s -- still not as high as we want it to be. in those plans that offered nearly 60 funds, participation rates have now dropped to about the 60th percentile. now it turns out that even if you do choose to participate when there are more choices present, even then, it has negative consequences. so for those people who did choose to participate, the more choices available, the more likely people were to completely avoid stocks or equity funds. the more choices available, the more likely they were to put all their moneyin pure money market accounts. now neither of these extreme decisions are the kinds of decisions that any of us would recommend for people when you're considering their future financial well-being.well, over the past decade, we have observed three main negative consequences to offering people more and more choices. they're more likely to delay choosing -- procrastinate even when it goes against their best self-interest. they're more likely to make worse choices -- worse financial choices, medical choices. they're more likely to choose things that make them less satisfied, even when they do objectively better. the main reason for this is because, we might enjoy gazing at those giant walls of mayonnaises, mustards, vinegars, jams, but we can't actually do the math of comparing and contrasting and actually picking from that stunning display. so what i want to propose to you today are four simple techniques -- techniques that we have tested in one way or another in different research venues -- that you can easily apply in your businesses.the first: cut. you've heard it said before, but it's never been more true than today, that less is more. people are always upset when i say, "cut." they're always worried they're going to lose shelf space. but in fact, what we're seeing more and more is that if you are willing to cut, get rid of those extraneous redundant options, well there's an increase in sales, there's a lowering of costs, there is an improvement of the choosing experience. when proctor & gamble went from 26 different kinds of head & shoulders to 15, they saw an increase in sales by 10 percent. when the golden cat corporation got rid of their 10 worst-selling cat litter products, they saw an increase in profits by 87 percent -- a function of both increase in sales and lowering of costs. you know,the average grocery store today offers you 45,000 products. the typical walmart today offers you 100,000 products. but the ninth largest retailer, the ninth biggest retailer in the world today is aldi, and it offers you only 1,400 products -- one kind of canned tomato sauce.now in the financial savings world, i think one of the best examples that has recently come out on how to best manage the choice offerings has actually been something that david laibson was heavily involved in designing, which was the program that they have at harvard. every single harvard employee is now automatically enrolled in a lifecycle fund. for those people who actually want to choose, they're given 20 funds, not 300 or more funds. you know, often, people say, "i don't know how to cut. they're all important choices." and the first thing i do is i ask the employees, "tell me how these choices are different from one another. and if your employees can't tell them apart, neither can your consumers."now before we started our session this afternoon, i had a chat with gary. and gary said that he would be willing to offer people in this audience an all-expenses-paid free vacation to the most beautiful road in the world. here's a description of the road. and i'd like you to read it. and now i'll give you a few seconds to read it and then i want you to clap your hands if you're ready to take gary up on his offer. (light clapping) okay. anybody who's ready to take him up on his offer. is that all? all right, let me show you some more about this. (laughter) you guys knew there was a trick, didn't you. (honk) now who's ready to go on this trip. (applause) (laughter) i think i might have actually heard more hands.all right. now in fact, you had objectively more informationthe first time around than the second time around, but i would venture to guess that you felt that it was more real the second time around. because the pictures made it feel more real to you. which brings me to the second technique for handling the choice overload problem, which is concretization. that in order for people to understand the differences between the choices, they have to be able to understand the consequences associated with each choice, and that the consequences need to be felt in a vivid sort of way, in a very concrete way. why do people spend an average of 15 to 30 percent more when they use an atm card or a credit card as opposed to cash? because it doesn't feel like real money. and it turns out that making it feel more concrete can actually be a very positive tool to use in getting people to save more.so a study that i did with shlomo benartzi and alessandro previtero, we did a study with people at ing -- employees that are all working at ing -- and now these people were all in a session where they're doing enrollment for their 401(k) plan. and during that session, we kept the session exactly the way it used to be, but we added one little thing. the one little thing we added was we asked people to just think about all the positive things that would happen in your life if you saved more. by doing that simple thing, there was an increase in enrollment by 20 percent and there was an increase in the amount of people willing to save or the amount that they were willing to put down into their savings account by four percent.the third technique: categorization. we can handle more categories than we can handle choices. so for example, here's a study we did in a magazine aisle. it turns out that in wegmans grocery stores up and down the northeast corridor, the magazineaisles range anywhere from 331 different kinds of magazines all the way up to 664. but you know what? if i show you 600 magazines and i divide them up into 10 categories, versus i show you 400 magazines and divide them up into 20 categories, you believe that i have given you more choice and a better choosing experience if i gave you the 400 than if i gave you the 600. because the categories tell me how to tell them apart.here are two different jewelry displays. one is called "jazz" and the other one is called "swing." if you think the display on the left is swing and the display on the right is jazz, clap your hands. (light clapping) okay, there's some. if you think the one on the left is jazz and the one on the right is swing, clap your hands. okay, a bit more. now it turns out you're right. the one on the left is jazz and the one on the right is swing, but you know what? this is a highly useless categorization scheme. (laughter) the categories need to say something to the chooser, not the choice-maker. and you often see that problem when it comes down to those long lists of all these funds. who are they actually supposed to be informing?my fourth technique: condition for complexity. it turns out we can actually handle a lot more information than we think we can, we've just got to take it a little easier. we have to gradually increase the complexity. i'm going to show you one example of what i'm talking about. let's take a very, very complicated decision: buying a car. here's a german car manufacturer that gives you the opportunity to completely custom make your car. you've got to make 60 different decisions, completely make up your car. now these decisions vary in the number of choices that they offer per decision. car colors, exterior car colors -- i've got 56 choices. engines, gearshift -- four choices. so now what i'mgoing to do is i'm going to vary the order in which these decisions appear. so half of the customers are going to go from high choice, 56 car colors, to low choice, four gearshifts. the other half of the customers are going to go from low choice, four gearshifts, to 56 car colors, high choice.what am i going to look at? how engaged you are. if you keep hitting the default button per decision, that means you're getting overwhelmed, that means i'm losing you. what you find is the people who go from high choice to low choice, they're hitting that default button over and over and over again. we're losing them. they go from low choice to high choice, they're hanging in there. it's the same information. it's the same number of choices. the only thing that i have done is i have varied the order in which that information is presented. if i start you off easy, i learn how to choose. even though choosing gearshift doesn't tell me anything about my preferences for interior decor, it still prepares me for how to choose. it also gets me excited about this big product that i'm putting together, so i'm more willing to be motivated to be engaged.so let me recap. i have talked about four techniques for mitigating the problem of choice overload -- cut -- get rid of the extraneous alternatives; concretize -- make it real; categorize -- we can handle more categories, less choices; condition for complexity. all of these techniques that i'm describing to you today are designed to help you manage your choices -- better for you, you can use them on yourself, better for the people that you are serving. because i believe that the key to getting the most from choice is to be choosy about choosing. and the more we're able to be choosy about choosing the better we will be able to practice the art of choosing.thank you very much. (applause)。

TED英语演说-如何走出低谷？

如何走出低谷So, we all have bad seasons in life. And I had one in 2013. My marriage had just ended, and I was humiliated by that failed commitment. My kids had left home for college or were leaving. I grew up mostly in the conservative movement, but conservatism had changed, so I lost a lot of those friends, too.人生总会经历枯季。

我的枯季在2013年。

我的婚姻破裂了，我失败的婚姻让我感到羞辱。

我的孩子们离开家去上大学了。

我在保守派运动中成长，但如今，保守主义变了，因此我失去了不少老朋友。

And so what I did is, I lived alone in an apartment, and I just worked. If you opened the kitchen drawers where there should have been utensils, there were Post-it notes. If you opened the other drawers where there should have been plates, I had envelopes. I had work friends, weekday friends, but I didn't have weekend friends. And so my weekends were these long, howling silences. And I was lonely.我能做的仅是独居于公寓中，埋头工作。

TED英语演讲稿：勇敢面对挑战,不断学习

TED英语演讲稿：勇敢面对挑战，不断学习Ladies and gentlemen,It is a great honor to be speaking at TED today. I want to talk about something that is dear to my heart: the importance of facing challenges head-on and continually learning and growing throughout our lives.Life is full of challenges. Whether it's in our personal lives or our professional lives, we constantly face obstacles that can threaten to derail us. However, it's important to remember that these challenges are not there to defeat us, but to help us grow and improve.When we face challenges, we have a choice. We can either give up and accept defeat, or we can choose to be courageous and keep pushing forward. It's not always easy to choose the latter option, but it is always worth it in the end.One of the keys to facing challenges is to be open to learning. We cannot expect to know everything, and we should never stop learning or growing. It's important to be humble and recognize that there is always something we can improveupon. By continuously learning and growing, we set ourselves up for success in the long run.In our personal lives, this may mean trying new things or putting ourselves in unfamiliar situations. It may meanfacing our fears and pushing ourselves out of our comfort zones. When we do this, we not only become more resilient, but we also open ourselves up to new experiences and opportunities.In our professional lives, it's important to stay up-to-date with the latest trends and technologies in our fields. We should be continuously seeking out opportunities for professional development and growth. By doing so, we not only enhance our own abilities and value as employees, but we also contribute to the success of our organizations.The world is constantly changing, and it's up to us to keep up. This means being adaptable and willing to learn new skills and approaches. It also means being open to feedback and criticism, and using those opportunities to improve and grow.In conclusion, we must be brave and face challenges head-on, never giving up or accepting defeat. We must remain open to learning and growing throughout our lives, continuously seeking out new opportunities for personal and professional development.We all have the capacity to be resilient and courageous in the face of adversity. It's up to us to embrace that capacity, and to use it to achieve our goals and live our best lives. Thank you.。

TED英语演讲：你该如何面对艰难的选择_英语演讲稿_

TED英语演讲：你该如何面对艰难的选择人生的选择无处不在，有的选择很简单，有的选择则很艰难。

而艰难的选择并不都是大的抉择，甚至中午吃什么也会变得很艰难。

所以面对艰难选择，我们应该如何抉择?本期TED演讲者Ruth Chang将告诉我们，面对艰难选择，我们一开始的方向就错了。

下面是小编为大家收集关于TED英语演讲：你该如何面对艰难的选择，欢迎借鉴参考。

面对困难的选择，我们一开始就错了演讲者：Ruth ChangThink of a hard choice you'll face in the near future. It might be between two careers--artist and accountant--or places to live--the city or the country--or even between two people to marry--you could marry Betty or you could marry Lolita. Or it might be a choice about whether to have children, to have an ailing parent move in with you, to raise your child in a religion that your partner lives by but leaves you cold. Or whether to donate your life savings to charity.设想在不久的未来，你将面对一个艰难的决定。

这也许是在两份职业中做出一个选择，艺术家还是会计师;也许是选择居住的地方，城市还是乡村;也许是在两个人中选择和谁结婚，Betty 或者是Lolita;抑或思考是否要孩子;是否让年老体衰的父母跟你一起住;是否让你的孩子信奉你配偶信仰的宗教，即便你会因自身不信奉而被冷落;又或者说，是否将毕生积储捐赠给慈善机构。

T ed演讲稿选择

T ed演讲稿选择生活中，我们总会面临着许多的选择，有的人会选择活好今天，期盼明天，有的人会选择回到从前，而有的人选择随遇而安，每个大的选择各有不同，但我们必须选择正确的，坚定自己的方向和目标。

面对困难，学会选择。

面对困难的时候，有的人会选择逃避，有的人选择勇敢面对，然而，每个人作出选择时，有没有正确对待选择?例如，感动中国十大人物中的刘X，他一生坎坷,年少时，被电激中，导致没有了双臂，使他陷入了人生的低谷，然而，他的意志并没有丧失，他在困难面前选择勇敢面对，他用双脚弹奏起动人的钢琴曲，他说过这样一句话，我要不马上死，要不就活得好好的!这句话使我学会了要勇敢面对，不到最后也不能轻易说放弃。

刘X他的成功感动了每一个人的心，他的意志征服了困难，他的选择使他走向了成功，学会选择，勇敢地面对困难。

面对挫折，学会选择。

许多科学家说，失败乃是成功之母，每个人都会遇到挫折，但有的人会选择敢于接受挫折，从失败中找到成功的方法，然而有的人会选择不加以正视，结果注定失败，于其选择逃避，倒不如选择勇敢面对，活好今天，期待明天，寻找成功的方法，例如爱迪生，他一生发明了无数样东西，他发明电灯时，做过了无数次实验，一次又一次的失败，并没有使他放弃，他选择了坚持再实验，反复做，结果做了一百多次实验中，成功的发明了电灯，点亮了人们的家园，点亮了人类社会，如果爱迪生选择逃避，没有正视对待挫折，世界将会一片漆黑，学会选择，勇敢接受挫折的考验。

面对生活，学会选择，在生活中，有许多的人选择用积极的态度面对生活，有的人却迷恋着过去，可是，谁都知道，我们没有穿梭机，我们根本无法回到曾经，只有活好现在，选择现在的生活，生活中往往会遇到许多选择，例如怎样选择我今后的方向，如何选择工作，如今太多太多的诱惑，总会有许多人受不起生活的考验，选择用消极的生活态度，迷惑过去，活在了昨天，然而，我们要有对生活充满信心，积极面对生活，而不是沉迷着美好的过去，面对生活的考验，我们要积极向上，学会选择，怀着信心面对生活。

TED中英文演讲稿如何面对困境,坦然生活？

TED演讲稿如何面对困境，坦然生活？难度：✫✫✫Maybe you've crashed again -and you're in the dark familiar place.你或许又要崩溃了,再次陷入熟悉的黑暗中As ever, one mess-up reminds you of all the fiascos, you tell yourself you've generated in the past和以往一样搞砸一件事就让你回想起所有,自己以前闯下的祸and, more broadly, of your fundamental idiocy说严重点它让你想起自己是多么白痴and - beyond that -of the doubtful nature of your entire existence. The next steps from here are well known: retreat,despair, flagellation, feeling yet smaller, ever greater doubt and deeper self-loathing.除此之外，接下来会发生什么也是众所皆知的，还让你怀疑自己的存在，退缩绝望自我鞭笞自我菲薄，越来越深的自我怀疑和自我厌恶。

You have mined this cavern expertly over the years. Maybe - before this latest mini catastrophe- you'd been feeling a bit stronger, you've come to expect a little more of life.这些年来你深谙于此，也许在这场小灾难没发生之前，你还觉得自己坚强了一点儿，开始对生活有了更大的期待As if! This is a return to reality; you are back now where you assume you belong, the sad subterranean place from which you should've never have sought to escape.好像，突然被带回了现实，此刻你回到了你自认为本该呆的地方，一个你本不该试图逃离的悲伤的地下世界But what about if, this time, just for once, as a mad experiment in living (and with little left to lose), you tried a different route, you chose a fresh approach to despair,但如果这一次仅仅这一次，当一个疯狂的生命体验者（没有什么可以失去了），你尝试了不同的路线，你选择了一种全新的方式面对绝望you chose to argue with it using a strange weapon, moulded out of an attitude of radical melancholy and defiant vulnerability. What if you told yourself a few sharply different things?你选择了用一种特异的武器来与它对峙，这种武器的锻造同时熔合了极致的忧愁和对脆弱的蔑视。

总统大选太紧张？4个处里生活压力的TED演讲

总统大选太紧张？4个处里生活压力的TED演讲偕诗敏美国的总统大选日，一定是许多人目不转睛盯着新闻、神经紧绷的一天。

而压力往往影响着我们情绪、行为的重要因素，但其实善用它，我们也可以表现得更好，让自己在工作面试、向客户、投资者介绍新产品或是台上演讲更出色！为洛杉矶时报、Los Angeles CityBeat及多家杂志撰稿的Kim Lachance Shandrow在《Entrepreneur》中分享了四个解除焦虑的Ted演讲。

1. Daniel Levitin: How to Stay Calm When You Know You’ll Be Stressed感到压力时，我们往往会深呼吸并数到10再返回岗位，在那段时间里我们至少是心无旁鹜的。

但是往往先释放压力并非最好的办法，来听听神经学家博士Daniel Levitin的说法。

Levitin解释，在压力*** 内会释放皮质醇，让我们心跳加快、思考混浊。

因此要对抗、处理压力时，你应该做「事前剖析」──想想这个情况会产生什么结果。

事后剖析则是你在事后寻思什么地方出错和事情原因；而事前剖析能让你预想事情的结果、会出什么差错，进而透过这一连串的推敲来执行你的动作，以减少压力。

或许做的比说的难多了，但我们可以试试看，让自己习惯这样的程序。

2. Kelly McGonigal: How to Make Stress Your Friend在短短14分钟、充满活力的演讲中，这位来自史丹佛大学心理学家Kelly McGonigal特别说明为何压力对于大众健康并非首要敌人。

压力只有在你不认同它时，对你才有害。

Kelly McGoniga致力于帮助压力患者活得更快乐、健康，她也告诉大家改变自己对压力的心态，并改变自己内心对压力的回应。

3. Pico Iyer: The Art of Stillness走访多国的作家Pico Iyer已出版十多本书，并以他在各国旅程纪录而闻名。

TED演讲：如何面对缺憾和不幸？

TED演讲：如何面对缺憾和不幸？澳大利亚著名的DJ汤姆·纳什（Tom Nash）乍一眼看就像一个加勒比海盗，他的双手是铁钩子，两脚都是义肢，还喜欢和烈酒。

在这场充满魅力和幽默的演讲中，他讲述了自己如何因残疾而面临人生的各种困境，又如何从困境中学习、收获的故事。

纳什认为，“我们都有自己独特的弱点，如果我们坦诚对待这些弱点，我们便可以学会如何更好地利用它们。

”演讲者：Tom Nash故事讲述者，DJ，他通过自我反省和自我实现吸引观众，鼓励人们以全新的视角看待自我的经历TED演讲稿Often when I'm out in public, a child will stare at me. And if the child is particularly brave, they'll approach me and ask: "Are you a pirate?"当我在公共场所的时候，总会有个小孩盯着我。

如果这个小孩比较勇敢，他会走过来问我：“你是海盗吗？”To which I then need to respond, once again, "Yes."而我就得再一次回答，“没错。

”I mean, let's be honest: I've got two hooks, prosthetic legs and a penchant for hard liquor.我是说，大家都知道的：我手装俩钩子，双腿义肢，还嗜好烈酒。

All I need is an eye-patch and a parrot, and I'm basically there.再加一个眼罩和一只鹦鹉就齐活了。

But I like being a pirate. I find many advantages to having a disability, and I'm not just talking about the money I save on gloves ...不过我喜欢当海盗。

TED英语演讲稿：如何让选择更容易

TED英语演讲稿：如何让选择更容易Good afternoon everyone,As we all know, making choices is an essential part of our daily lives. From the moment we wake up until we go to bed at night, we make countless decisions, ranging from what to wear to what to eat for dinner. However, sometimes making decisions can be a daunting task, and we find ourselves struggling to come to a conclusion.This is where I come in. Today, I am going to talk about how we can make the process of decision-making easier and more efficient.Firstly, let us understand why decision-making can be so difficult. One of the primary reasons is the fear of making the wrong choice. We are often afraid of the consequences of our decisions, which can lead to anxiety and stress. Another reason is the abundance of choices available to us. With the rise of technology, the internet, and e-commerce platforms, we are presented with an overwhelming number of options, making it challenging to pick just one.So, how can we overcome these obstacles and make the decision-making process more accessible? Here are some tips to get you started:1. Identify Your PrioritiesThe first step to making a decision is to identify what is most important to you. This will help you narrow down your options andmake an informed choice. Think about what you want to achieve, your values, and what matters most to you.2. Gather InformationOnce you have identified your priorities, gather as much information as you can about your options. Whether it is a new car, a vacation spot, or a career path, research about the various options available to you. The internet is an excellent resource, but don't stop there. Talk to people who have experience in the field or have gone through a similar decision-making process.3. Use the Pros and Cons MethodMake a list of the pros and cons of each option. This will help you weigh the advantages and disadvantages of each choice. It is best to be as objective as possible and consider the potential outcomes of each option.4. Give Yourself a DeadlineGiving yourself a deadline can help you make a decision quickly and avoid overthinking. This will also prevent you from getting stuck in the decision-making process and help you move forward.5. Trust YourselfRemember, you are the best judge of what is right for you. Trust your instincts and make a decision based on what feels right. Don't worry too much about making the perfect choice. It's okay to makemistakes and learn from them.In conclusion, decision-making is a skill that can be developed over time. By following these tips, you can make the process of making choices more manageable and efficient. Remember, making decisions is a part of life, and we should not shy away from it. Embrace the process, trust yourself, and enjoy the journey. Thank you, and have a great day!。

TED英语演讲：勇敢，是度过难关的唯一方法_英语演讲稿_

TED英语演讲：勇敢，是度过难关的唯一方法在这篇感人的演讲中，艾许.贝克汉提出了一个同情与心胸开放的全新方式——首先要理解每个人在生命中皆曾经历过困难。

艾许说，度过难关唯一的方法，就是要开启柜门，勇敢的踏出柜子。

下面是小编为大家收集关于TED英语演讲：勇敢，是度过难关的唯一方法，欢迎借鉴参考。

演说题目：勇敢，是度过难关的唯一方法演说者：艾许.贝克汉I'm going to talk to you tonight about coming out of the closet, and not in the traditional sense, not just the gay closet. I think we all have closets. Your closet may be telling someone you love her for the first time, or telling someone that you're pregnant, or telling someone you have cancer, or any of the other hard conversations we have throughout our lives. All a closet is is a hard conversation, and although our topics may vary tremendously, the experience of being in and coming out of the closet is universal. It is scary, and we hate it, and it needs to be done.Several years ago, I was working at the South Side Walnut Cafe, a local diner in town, and during my time there I would go through phases of militant lesbian intensity: not shaving my armpits, quoting Ani DiFranco lyrics as gospel. And depending on the bagginess of my cargo shorts and how recently I had shaved my head, the question would often be sprung on me, usually by a little kid:"Um, are you a boy or are you a girl?"And there would be an awkward silence at the table. I'd clench my jaw a little tighter, hold my coffee pot with a little more vengeance. The dad would awkwardly shuffle his newspaper andthe mom would shoot a chilling stare at her kid. But I would say nothing, and I would seethe inside. And it got to the point where every time I walked up to a table that had a kid anywhere between three and 10 years old, I was ready to fight. (Laughter) And that is a terrible feeling. So I promised myself, the next time, I would say something. I would have that hard conversation.So within a matter of weeks, it happens again."Are you a boy or are you a girl?"Familiar silence, but this time I'm ready, and I am about to go all Women's Studies 101 on this table. (Laughter) I've got my Betty Friedan quotes. I've got my Gloria Steinem quotes. I've even got this little bit from "Vagina Monologues" I'm going to do. So I take a deep breath and I look down and staring back at me is a four-year-old girl in a pink dress, not a challenge to a feminist duel, just a kid with a question: "Are you a boy or are you a girl?"So I take another deep breath, squat down to next to her, and say, "Hey, I know it's kind of confusing. My hair is short like a boy's, and I wear boy's clothes, but I'm a girl, and you know how sometimes you like to wear a pink dress, and sometimes you like to wear your comfy jammies? Well, I'm more of a comfy jammies kind of girl."And this kid looks me dead in the eye, without missing a beat, and says, "My favorite pajamas are purple with fish. Can I get a pancake, please?" (Laughter) And that was it. Just, "Oh, okay. You're a girl. How about that pancake?"It was the easiest hard conversation I have ever had. And why? Because Pancake Girl and I, we were both real with each other.So like many of us, I've lived in a few closets in my life, and yeah, most often, my walls happened to be rainbow. But inside, in the dark, you can't tell what color the walls are. You just knowwhat it feels like to live in a closet. So really, my closet is no different than yours or yours or yours. Sure, I'll give you 100 reasons why coming out of my closet was harder than coming out of yours, but here's the thing: Hard is not relative. Hard is hard. Who can tell me that explaining to someone you've just declared bankruptcy is harder than telling someone you just cheated on them? Who can tell me that his coming out story is harder than telling your five-year-old you're getting a divorce? There is no harder, there is just hard. We need to stop ranking our hard against everyone else's hard to make us feel better or worse about our closets and just commiserate on the fact that we all have hard. At some point in our lives, we all live in closets, and they may feel safe, or at least safer than what lies on the other side of that door. But I am here to tell you, no matter what your walls are made of, a closet is no place for a person to live.Thanks. (Applause)So imagine yourself 20 years ago. Me, I had a ponytail, a strapless dress, and high-heeled shoes. I was not the militant lesbian ready to fight any four-year-old that walked into the cafe.I was frozen by fear, curled up in the corner of my pitch-black closet clutching my gay grenade, and moving one muscle is the scariest thing I have ever done. My family, my friends, complete strangers -- I had spent my entire life trying to not disappoint these people, and now I was turning the world upside down on purpose. I was burning the pages of the script we had all followed for so long, but if you do not throw that grenade, it will kill you.One of my most memorable grenade tosses was at my sister's wedding. (Laughter) It was the first time that many in attendance knew I was gay, so in doing my maid of honor duties, in my black dress and heels, I walked around to tables and finallylanded on a table of my parents' friends, folks that had known me for years. And after a little small talk, one of the women shouted out, "I love Nathan Lane!" And the battle of gay relatability had begun."Ash, have you ever been to the Castro?""Well, yeah, actually, we have friends in San Francisco.""Well, we've never been there but we've heard it's fabulous.""Ash, do you know my hairdresser Antonio? He's really good and he has never talked about a girlfriend.""Ash, what's your favorite TV show? Our favorite TV show? Favorite: Will & Grace. And you know who we love? Jack. Jack is our favorite."And then one woman, stumped but wanting so desperately to show her support, to let me know she was on my side, she finally blurted out, "Well, sometimes my husband wears pink shirts." (Laughter)And I had a choice in that moment, as all grenade throwers do. I could go back to my girlfriend and my gay-loving table and mock their responses, chastise their unworldliness and their inability to jump through the politically correct gay hoops I had brought with me, or I could empathize with them and realize that that was maybe one of the hardest things they had ever done, that starting and having that conversation was them coming out of their closets. Sure, it would have been easy to point out where they felt short. It's a lot harder to meet them where they are and acknowledge the fact that they were trying. And what else can you ask someone to do but try? If you're going to be real with someone, you gotta be ready for real in return.So hard conversations are still not my strong suit. Ask anybody I have ever dated. But I'm getting better, and I followwhat I like to call the three Pancake Girl principles. Now, please view this through gay-colored lenses, but know what it takes to come out of any closet is essentially the same.Number one: Be authentic. Take the armor off. Be yourself. That kid in the cafe had no armor, but I was ready for battle. If you want someone to be real with you, they need to know that you bleed too.Number two: Be direct. Just say it. Rip the Band-Aid off. If you know you are gay, just say it. If you tell your parents you might be gay, they will hold out hope that this will change. Do not give them that sense of false hope. (Laughter)And number three, and most important -- (Laughter) Be unapologetic. You are speaking your truth. Never apologize for that. And some folks may have gotten hurt along the way, so sure, apologize for what you've done, but never apologize for who you are. And yeah, some folks may be disappointed, but that is on them, not on you. Those are their expectations of who you are, not yours. That is their story, not yours. The only story that matters is the one that you want to write. So the next time you find yourself in a pitch-black closet clutching your grenade, know we have all been there before. And you may feel so very alone, but you are not. And we know it's hard but we need you out here, no matter what your walls are made of, because I guarantee you there are others peering through the keyholes of their closets looking for the next brave soul to bust a door open, so be that person and show the world that we are bigger than our closets and that a closet is no place for a person to truly live.Thank you, Boulder. Enjoy your night. (Applause)今晚我会和大家讲述如何走出柜但不是传统意义上的层面不只是成为同性恋那样的出柜我想大家都有个柜你所谓的出柜有的或许是你跟她第一次说我爱你或许告诉别人你怀孕了或许告诉别人你患有癌症甚至是其他我们都经历过的难以启齿的谈话所谓的柜就是一次说不出口的谈话虽然我们的话题涉及广泛在柜中和出柜的经历都是相通的这种感觉很可怕尽管我们都不喜欢但是还得这样做几年以前我在South Side Walnut咖啡店工作一个当地的餐厅那段时间我经历了激进女同性恋的紧张没有刮我的腋毛引用福音Ani DiFranco的歌词由于我宽松的工装短裤还有我最近的发型经常会有人问我通常是小孩儿问我“嗯，你是男孩还是女孩?”随之而来的是一阵尴尬的寂静我紧咬牙关怀着报复的心紧握着咖啡罐爸爸尴尬地乱翻着报纸妈妈冷漠地盯着孩子但是我说不出口内心却在沸腾重点是每次我走到旁边有3到10岁小孩儿的桌子时我都准备好要干一架了(笑声) 这种感觉非常不好所以我跟自己讲下一次我一定会说什么我会把话说出口所以过了几个星期又出现这种状况了“你是男孩还是女孩?”熟悉的沉寂但是这次我准备好了这次我要把所有女性的话说出来(笑声) 我准备好引用Betty Friedan的话准备好引用Gloria Steinem 的话我甚至从《阴道独白》中选了几句话我深吸了口气我低下头看迎来的是一个穿着粉色裙子的4岁小女孩儿的目光这个小菜一碟只是个小孩儿问问题“你是男孩还是女孩?”我又深吸了口气在她身旁蹲下来说“我知道有点不好理解我的头发像男生的那样短我还穿着男生的衣服但是我是个女孩有时候你喜欢穿粉色的裙子有时候喜欢穿舒服的睡衣对吧那我就是那种喜欢穿舒服睡衣的那种女孩这个小孩儿死死的盯着我都不带眨的说”我最喜欢的睡衣是紫色的上面还有鱼能给我块煎饼吗?“ (笑声) 就是这样”哦好吧你是个女孩来块煎饼怎么样?“这是有史以来最简单的一次艰难对话为什么呢因为这个煎饼女孩和我我们对彼此都很真诚所以跟很多人一样我住在自己的几个柜里是的而且我的四面墙常常会变成彩色但是墙的里面黑暗中你却不知道内墙是什么颜色你就是知道在柜里是什么感觉所以真的我的柜和你的你的所有人的柜都是一样的当然我会告诉你100个理由来解释为什么我出柜会比你出柜要难但是重点是难并不是相对的各有各的难处谁能告诉我是跟一个人讲你刚刚破产难还是跟一个人讲你背叛他难呢谁能告诉我是一个人说自己出柜难还是告诉你5岁的孩子你要离婚了难呢没有谁更难一些就只是很难而已我们不能把各自的难处排个1234 以此来让我们对自己的柜更好过或更难过些然后又互相怜悯大家都很难在生活中的某些时刻我们都闷在柜里这样我们感到很安全至少比在柜外面更安全些但是我要告诉大家不管你的柜是什么材质那都不是一个人应该住的地方谢谢 (掌声)想想20xx年前的你那时的我扎着马尾穿着没有肩带的裙子蹬着高跟鞋我不是那个紧张的女同性恋随时准备迎战走进咖啡厅的4岁孩童恐惧使我不得动弹缩在我那个黑漆漆的柜里绷紧身为同性恋的神经我从未放松过紧绷的那根弦我的家人朋友陌生人我一直都努力不让这些人失望然而现在我却故意把事情弄的一团糟我把我们一直沿用的脚本都烧掉但是如果你不丢掉手中的手榴弹它会至你于死地让我印象最深刻的一次爆发是在我姐姐的婚礼上 (笑声) 很多在场的人知道我是同性恋这还是头一回所以我作为伴娘穿着一袭黑裙和高跟鞋我游走在桌边最后决定坐在我父母的朋友的那一桌上他们认识我很久了说了一会儿话后有个女人大叫着说“我超爱Nathan Lane!” 就这样一场关于同性恋的话题拉开帷幕”Ash 你去过Castro吗?“”恩内什么实际上我们在旧金山有朋友“”内什么我们没去过那儿但是听说那儿挺棒的“”Ash 你知道我的理发师Antonio吗? 他人很好但是从没听他谈过女性朋友”"Ash 你最喜欢哪个电视节目我们最喜欢的? 最喜欢的电视节目非Will & Grace莫属你知道我们最爱谁吗最爱Jack了我们最喜欢Jack 了“然后另一个女人张口结舌但是极力变现出她的支持让我明白她是站在我这一边的她最终脱口而出”有时候我丈夫穿粉色的T恤“ (笑声)在那一刻和所有爆发者一样我作出了选择我可以回到我女性朋友和支持同性恋的那一桌去对他们这些人的反应嘲笑一番说他们什么都不懂他们不能理解我身上所带的同性恋的标签或者我可以选择感同身受理解那可能是他们从未做过的最难的事情开始并进行那样的对话是他们出柜的表现当然指出他们不对的地方很容易但是和他们在同一层面上理解并知道他们在努力却很难除了让人家努力尝试你还能要求人家什么呢如果你想对某人坦诚那你就要准备好别人同样对你完全坦白所以进行难的对话仍不是我的强项去问问我从未约过会的人就知道了但是我做好的更好了因为我遵循我称之为煎饼女孩三原则请各位带上同性恋有色眼镜来看待这个但是要明白出任何的柜所需的努力都是一样的原则一要真实卸下你的防御做真实的自己那个在咖啡厅的女孩就没有防御然而我却是准备开战如果你想让别人对你坦诚你得让他们知道你也有所付出原则二要直接有什么说什么不要绷着你知道你是同性恋那就说出来如果你告诉你的父母你可能是同性恋他们会心有一丝希望你会改变的不要让他们有这样的错觉 (笑声)原则三最重要的一点 (笑声) 不要有负罪感你是在坦言有关自己的事情不要对此感到抱歉可能会有人受伤这是一定的对你所做的事情道歉但是不要为你的本质而道歉是的有些人会很失望但是他们对自己失望而不是对你那是他们所期望的你的样子而不是你自己的期望那是他们的故事而不是属于你的故事唯一重要的故事是你想要书写的那一个那么下回你发现自己窝在柜里手里紧攥着手榴弹时要知道我们都经历过这个阶段你可能会感到孤独但实际上不是的虽然很难但是你需要走出柜不管你的墙是什么我向你保证还有些人从他们柜的锁眼里寻找下一个勇敢的人推开们所以做那个勇敢的人吧让人们知道柜已容不下我们一个柜不是一个人能活出真实自己的地方谢谢 Boulder 祝各位晚上愉快 (掌声)。

【精编范文】TED英语演讲稿：如何让选择更容易-范文word版 (6页)

本文部分内容来自网络整理，本司不为其真实性负责，如有异议或侵权请及时联系，本司将立即删除！== 本文为word格式，下载后可方便编辑和修改！ ==TED英语演讲稿：如何让选择更容易简介：面对商场里五花八门的商品，你的选择恐惧症又犯了吗? 美国哥伦比亚大学商学教授Sheena Iyengar研究如何让你在做选择时更容易。

为了让你的选择省时省力，商家又会有哪些诀窍呢?Do you know how many choices you make in a typical day? Do you know how many choices you make in typical week? I recently did a survey with over 2,000 Americans, and the average number of choices that the typical American reports making is about 70 in a typical day. There was also recently a study done with CEOs in which they followed CEOs around for a whole week. And these scientists simply documented all the various tasks that these CEOs engaged in and how much time they spent engaging in making decisions related to these tasks. And they found that the average CEO engaged in about 139 tasks in a week. Each task was made up of many, many, many sub-choices of course. 50 percent of their decisions were made in nine minutes or less. Only about 12 percent of the decisions did they make an hour or more of their time. Think about your own choices. Do you know how manychoices make it into your nine minute category versus your one hour category? How well do you think you're doing at managing those choices?Today I want to talk about one of the biggest modern day choosing problems that we have, which is the choice overload problem. I wantto talk about the problem and some potential solutions. Now as I talk about this problem, I'm going to have some questions for you and I'm going to want to know your answers. So when I ask you a question, since I'm blind, only raise your hand if you want to burn off some calories. (Laughter) Otherwise, when I ask you a question, and ifyour answer is yes, I'd like you to clap your hands. So for my first question for you today: Are you guys ready to hear about the choice overload problem? (Applause) Thank you.So when I was a graduate student at Stanford University, I usedto go to this very, very upscale grocery store; at least at that time it was truly upscale. It was a store called Draeger's. Now this store,it was almost like going to an amusement park. They had 250 different kinds of mustards and vinegars and over 500 different kinds of fruits and vegetables and more than two dozen different kinds of bottled water -- and this was during a time when we actually used to drinktap water. I used to love going to this store, but on one occasion I asked myself, well how come you never buy anything? Here's theirolive oil aisle. They had over 75 different kinds of olive oil, including those that were in a locked case that came from thousand-year-old olive trees.So I one day decided to pay a visit to the manager, and I asked the manager, "Is this model of offering people all this choice really working?" And he pointed to the busloads of tourists that would show up everyday, with cameras ready usually. We decided to do a little experiment, and we picked jam for our experiment. Here's their jam aisle. They had 348 different kinds of jam. We set up a littletasting booth right near the entrance of the store. We there put out six different flavors of jam or 24 different flavors of jam, and we looked at two things: First, in which case were people more likely to stop, sample some jam? More people stopped when there were 24, about 60 percent, than when there were six, about 40 percent. The nextthing we looked at is in which case were people more likely to buy a jar of jam. Now we see the opposite effect. Of the people who stopped when there were 24, only three percent of them actually bought a jarof jam. Of the people who stopped when there were six, well now wesaw that 30 percent of them actually bought a jar of jam. Now if you do the math, people were at least six times more likely to buy a jarof jam if they encountered six than if they encountered 24.Now choosing not to buy a jar of jam is probably good for us --at least it's good for our waistlines -- but it turns out that this choice overload problem affects us even in very consequential decisions. We choose not to choose, even when it goes against ourbest self-interests. So now for the topic of today: financial savings. Now I'm going to describe to you a study I did with Gur Huberman,Emir Kamenica, Wei Jang where we looked at the retirement savings decisions of nearly a million Americans from about 650 plans all in the U.S. And what we looked at was whether the number of fundofferings available in a retirement savings plan, the 401(k) plan, does that affect people's likelihood to save more for tomorrow. And what we found was that indeed there was a correlation. So in these plans, we had about 657 plans that ranged from offering people anywhere from two to 59 different fund offerings. And what we found was that, the more funds offered, indeed, there was lessparticipation rate.So if you look at the extremes, those plans that offered you two funds, participation rates were around in the mid-70s -- still not as high as we want it to be. In those plans that offered nearly 60 funds, participation rates have now dropped to about the 60th percentile. Now it turns out that even if you do choose to participate when there are more choices present, even then, it has negative consequences. So for those people who did choose to participate, the more choices available, the more likely people were to completely avoid stocks or equity funds. The more choices available, the more likely they wereto put all their money in pure money market accounts. Now neither of these extreme decisions are the kinds of decisions that any of us would recommend for people when you're considering their future financial well-being.Well, over the past decade, we have observed three main negative consequences to offering people more and more choices. They're more likely to delay choosing -- procrastinate even when it goes against their best self-interest. They're more likely to make worse choices -- worse financial choices, medical choices. They're more likely to choose things that make them less satisfied, even when they do objectively better. The main reason for this is because, we might enjoy gazing at those giant walls of mayonnaises, mustards, vinegars, jams, but we can't actually do the math of comparing and contrasting and actually picking from that stunning display. So what I want to propose to you today are four simple techniques -- techniques that we have tested in one way or another in different research venues --that you can easily apply in your businesses.The first: Cut. You've heard it said before, but it's never been more true than today, that less is more. People are always upset when I say, "Cut." They're always worried they're going to lose shelf space. But in fact, what we're seeing more and more is that if youare willing to cut, get rid of those extraneous redundant options,well there's an increase in sales, there's a lowering of costs, there is an improvement of the choosing experience. When Proctor & Gamble went from 26 different kinds of Head & Shoulders to 15, they saw an increase in sales by 10 percent. When the Golden Cat Corporation got rid of their 10 worst-selling cat litter products, they saw an increase in profits by 87 percent -- a function of both increase in sales and lowering of costs. You know, the average grocery storetoday offers you 45,000 products. The typical Walmart today offersyou 100,000 products. But the ninth largest retailer, the ninth biggest retailer in the world today is Aldi, and it offers you only 1,400 products -- one kind of canned tomato sauce.。

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TED英语演讲：你该如何面对艰难选择人生的选择无处不在，有的选择很简单，有的选择则很艰难。

而艰难的选择并不都是大的抉择，甚至中午吃什么也会变得很艰难。

所以面对艰难选择，我们应该如何抉择本期TED演讲者Ruth Chang将告诉我们，面对艰难选择，我们一开始的方向就错了。

下面是为大家收集关于TED英语演讲：你该如何面对艰难选择，欢迎借鉴参考。

How to make hard choices演讲者：Ruth Chang| 中英对照演讲稿 |Think of a hard choice you'll face in the near future. It might be between two careersartist and accountantor places to livethe city or the countryor even between two people to marryyou could marry Betty or you could marry Lolita. Or it might be a choice about whether to have children, to have an ailing parent move in with you, to raise your child in a religion that your partner lives by but leaves you cold. Or whether to donate your life savings to charity.设想在不久的未来，你将面对一个艰难的决定。

Chances are, the hard choice you thought of was something big, something momentous, something that matters to you. Hard choices seem to be occasions for agonizing, handwringing, the gnashing of teeth. But I think we've misunderstood hard choices and the role they play in our lives. Understanding hard choicesuncovers a hidden power each of us possesses.有可能，你所思考的这些艰难抉择都十分庞大，十分重要你也十分重视。

每当困难的选择出现，他都会让你感到痛苦、绝望，让你咬牙切齿。

但我认为我们误解了艰难抉择的定义，更误解了其在我们生活中扮演的角色。

倘若能理解这些艰难决定，我们每个人便会发掘出一种隐藏的潜力。

What makes a choice hard is the way the alternatives relate. In any easy choice, one alternative is better than the other. In a hard choice, one alternative is better in some ways, the other alternative is better in other ways, and neither is better than the other overall. You agonize over whether to stay in yourcurrent job in the city or uproot your life for more challenging work in the country, because staying is better in some ways,moving is better in others, and neither is better than the other overall.一个抉择之所以难是由于选项之间相互关联。

任何简单的抉择中，总有一种选择比另一种要好。

可在艰难抉择中，一种选择在某些方面较好，另一种选择在其他方面较好，二者各有千秋让人无法定夺。

你痛苦地纠结于应该继续呆在这座城市里干这份工作，还是改变一下你的生活方式到乡村去接受更具挑战性的工作，因为留下有留下的好处，离开也有好处，两种选择各有千秋难以定夺。

We shouldn't think that all hard choices are big. Let's say you're deciding what to have for breakfast. You could have high fiber bran cereal or a chocolate donut. Suppose what matters in the choice is tastiness and healthfulness. The cereal is better for you, the donut tastes way better, but neither is better than the other overall, a hard choice.我们不应该认为所有的艰难抉择都很庞大。

打个比方，你正决定吃什么早餐。

你可以吃高纤维全谷干麦片，或者吃巧克力甜甜圈。

假设在此抉择中的决定性因素是美味程度和健康程度。

麦片对你身体好，甜甜圈却好吃很多，但两者都有自身优势，这就是一个艰难抉择。

Realizing that small choices can also be hard, may make big hard choices seem less intractable. After all, we manage to figure out what to have for breakfast, so maybe we can figure out whether to stay in the city or uproot for the new job in the country.如果意识到小的选择也可能会变得困难，那面对大的艰难抉择时我们可能就不会觉得那么棘手了。

毕竟，我们总能决定早餐吃什么，所以我们也许能够想明白，究竟要留在市区，还是到乡下接手新的工作。

We also shouldn't think that hard choices are hard because we are stupid. When I graduated from college, I couldn't decide between two careers, philosophy and law. I really loved philosophy. There are amazing things you can learn as a philosopher, and all from the comfort of an armchair. But I came from a modest immigrant family where my idea of luxury was having a pork tongue and jelly sandwich in my school lunchbox, so the thought of spending my whole life sitting around in armchairs just thinking ... Well, that struck me as the height of extravagance and frivolity.同时，我们也不应该觉得，选择之所以难是因为自己很愚蠢。

在我刚大学毕业的时候，我无法从两种职业中抉择，哲学还是法律。

我真心喜欢哲学，若能成为哲学家，便能学到很多惊奇的东西，而且舒舒服服地坐在椅子上就好。

可我出生自一个朴实简素的移民家庭，我对奢侈的概念，就是能在上学的午餐盒里找到一块猪舌和一份果冻三明治。

所以这种一辈子仅坐在椅子上思考的想法，其实，对我来说只是一种奢侈和轻浮的假象罢了。

So I got out my yellow pad, I drew a line down the middle, and I tried my best to think of the reasons for and against each alternative. I remember thinking to myself, if only I knew what my life in each career would be like. If only God or Netflix would send me a DVD of my two possible future careers, I'd be set. I'd compare them side by side, I'd see that one was better, and the choice would be easy.所以我拿出自己黄色笔记本，在中间划了一条线，然后竭尽所能地写出每种选择的利与弊。

当时我就想：如果能知道选择某种职业后我的人生会变成怎样就好了。

如果上帝或者飞公司能送我一张DVD来向我描述这两种充满可能性的职业生涯，那我就能做出选择了。

我就能一一对比，看看哪种更好，这样一来抉择就简单多了。

But I got no DVD, and because I couldn't figure outwhich was better, I did what many of us do in hard choices: I took the safest option. Fear of being an unemployed philosopher led me to become a lawyer, and as I discovered, lawyering didn't quite fit. It wasn't who I was.但我没有收到这种DVD，而且由于我实在想不出哪一种更优，我就和大多数人一样：选择了最安全的一项。