點亮生命的故事—enlightening stories

姿勢決定你是誰!/Your body language shapes who you are 簡介： 身體語言影響別人對我們的觀感，亦改變我們如何看自己。社會心理學家 Amy Cuddy 說明「高權勢姿勢」。即使在不覺得充滿信心時，站起來裝出一副很有自信的樣子，也可以改變我們腦內睪固酮和腎上腺皮質醇的濃度，進而影響成功的機會。 (NOTE: Some of the findings presented in this talk have been referenced in an ongoing debate among social scientists about robustness and reproducibility. Read "Corrections & Updates" below for more details as well as Amy Cuddy's response.) Body language affects how others see us, but it may also change how we see ourselves. Social psychologist Amy Cuddy argues that "power posing" -- standing in a posture of confidence, even when we don't feel confident -- can boost feelings of confidence, and might have an impact on our chances for success. 中英逐字稿： 首先我要提供你們一個免費的 不涉科技的生活小撇步 你只要 改變你的姿勢二分鐘 在我說明前，我要先請大家 先檢視一下你的姿態 你們之中有多少人縮著身體？ 或許你現在駝著背 交叉著雙腳，或者腳踝互勾著 有時我們會這樣抱著手臂 有時我們張開雙臂（笑聲） 我看到囉（笑聲） 現在請大家專心在自己身上 我們等一下在回到這件事上 希望你們可以稍微改變一下 這會讓你的生活變得很不一樣 So I want to start by offering you a free no-tech life hack, a...

如何讓壓力成為你的朋友/How to make stress your friend 簡介： 壓力，讓你心跳加速、呼吸急促跟額頭開始冒汗。當壓力被一般大眾視為是有害於身體健康的同時，新的研究調查卻指出，只有當你相信壓力是有害的時候，它才會真正危害到你的健康。心理學家 Kelly McGonigal 督促我們將壓力視為正面助力，並介紹了一種前所未聞的新紓壓方法：多接觸身旁的人。 Stress. It makes your heart pound, your breathing quicken and your forehead sweat. But while stress has been made into a public health enemy, new research suggests that stress may only be bad for you if you believe that to be the case. Psychologist Kelly McGonigal urges us to see stress as a positive, and introduces us to an unsung mechanism for stress reduction: reaching out to others. 中英逐字稿： 00:03 我必須要坦誠一件事 但首先我希望在座的各位 也可以開誠布公一下 過去一年裡 有的話可不可以舉一下手 如果你曾感受到有一點點壓力的 有嗎？ I have a confession to make. But first, I want you to make a little confession to me. In the past year, I want you to just raise your hand if you've experienced relatively little stress. Anyone? 00:18 那如果說是一般的壓力呢？ 那有沒有人是承受了相當大壓力的？ 沒錯，我跟你們一樣 How about a moderate amount of stress? Who has experienced a lot of stress? Yeah. Me too. 00:...

為什麼你應該要定義你的恐懼而非你的目標？ 中英逐字稿： 我這張笑嘻嘻的照片 是 1999 年拍的， 我當時大學四年級， 是在一個跳舞派對之後拍的。 我那時非常非常開心， 我還記得大約十天後我在哪兒。 我坐在我的二手箱型車後面， 車停在校園的停車場裡。 那時我決定， 我要自殺， 下決定之後我很快就做好充分計畫， 我離懸崖的邊緣只有這麼近。 這是我最接近的一次， 我沒有扣下扳機的唯一原因 要感謝幾個幸運的巧合。 在那件事之後， 最讓我受驚的是：運氣的元素。 So, this happy pic of me was taken in 1999. I was a senior in college, and it was right after a dance practice. I was really, really happy. And I remember exactly where I was about a week and a half later. I was sitting in the back of my used minivan in a campus parking lot, when I decided I was going to commit suicide. I went from deciding to full-blown planning very quickly. And I came this close to the edge of the precipice. It's the closest I've ever come. And the only reason I took my finger off the trigger was thanks to a few lucky coincidences. And after the fact, that's what scared me the most: the element of chance. 00:48 所以我開始有條理地測試不同方法， 試著管理我的起起落落， 後來證明這是個值得的投資（笑聲）。 許多正常人一生會有 6 到 10 次 憂鬱發作， 我有躁鬱症，是家庭遺傳。 我已經發作過 50 次以上了， 我學到很多。 我有過很多的上壘打擊數，...

睡眠有理，再添一記/One more reason to get a good night's sleep 中英逐字稿： 00:04 睡眠 用掉我們生命整整 1/3 的時間。 但是有誰真正了解睡眠呢？ Sleep. It's something we spend about a third of our lives doing, but do any of us really understand what it's all about? 00:12 兩千年前，蓋倫， 古代數一數二的醫學專家， 認為我們醒著的時候 大腦的動力—腦汁， 會流出腦外，流到全身各部位 活絡全身， 但是讓大腦枯竭。 蓋倫認為當我們睡著， 身體的汁液 會流灌回大腦， 重新濕潤大腦， 使大腦甦活。 現在我們覺得這個看法很荒唐， 但蓋倫只是想解釋睡眠現象， 是我們每天都在面對的。 我們憑經驗都知道 睡眠會清理我們的頭腦。 不睡覺， 頭腦會變得昏昏沉沉。 我們現在雖然更認識睡眠， 比蓋倫的時代更了解， 但是我們還是搞不懂 為什麼所有人體活動中， 睡眠獨具這種奇妙的修復大腦功能。 Two thousand years ago, Galen, one of the most prominent medical researchers of the ancient world, proposed that while we're awake, our brain's motive force, its juice, would flow out to all the other parts of the body, animating them but leaving the brain all dried up, and he thought that when we sleep, all this moisture that filled the rest of the body would come rushing back, rehydrating the brain and refreshing the mind. Now, that sounds completely ridiculous to us now, but Galen was simply ...