Get comfortable with being uncomfortable | Luvvie Ajayi Jones | TED · TED
Luvvie Ajayi Jones鼓励我们接受不舒适，勇敢表达观点。她分享了三个问题帮助人们在犹豫时做出决定，适合练习自信表达和公众演讲。
I'm a professional troublemaker.
我是个专门“惹麻烦”的专业人士……
As my job is to critique the world, the shoddy systems and the people who refuse to do better,
我的工作就是批判这个世界、那些低效的体制，以及那些拒绝努力改进的人。
as a writer, as a speaker, as a shady Nigerian -- I feel like my purpose is to be this cat.
作为一名作家、一名演说家，以及一个来自尼日利亚的“神秘人物”——我觉得自己的使命就是成为这只猫。
I am the person who is looking at other people, like, "I need you to fix it."
我就是那种会看着别人，然后说“我需要你来解决这个问题”的人。
That is me.
那就是我。
I want us to leave this world better than we found it.
我希望我们离开这个世界时，能让这个世界变得比我们刚来到时更好。
And how I choose to effect change is by speaking up, by being the first and by being the domino.
而我选择实现变革的方式，就是勇于发声、率先行动，并成为那个能够引发连锁反应的“多米诺骨牌”。
For a line of dominoes to fall, one has to fall first, which then leaves the other choiceless to do the same.
要使一排多米诺骨牌倒下，首先必须有一块骨牌倒下；这样一来，其他骨牌就不得不跟着倒下。
And that domino that falls, we're hoping that, OK, the next person that sees this is inspired to be a domino.
当我们看到那块“多米诺骨牌”倒下时，我们希望接下来看到这个场景的人能够受到启发，也愿意成为那样“推动变革的人”（即成为推动社会进步或改变现状的力量）。
Being the domino, for me, looks like speaking up and doing the things that are really difficult, especially when they are needed,
对我来说，“扮演多米诺骨牌中的那块关键骨牌”意味着要勇敢地说出自己的想法，并去做那些真正困难的事情——尤其是当这些事情确实需要被完成的时候。
with the hope that others will follow suit.
希望其他人也能效仿他们的做法。
And here's the thing: I'm the person who says what you might be thinking but dared not to say.
事情是这样的：我就是那个会说出你们可能在心里想却不敢说出口的话的人。
A lot of times people think that we're fearless, the people who do this, we're fearless.
很多时候，人们会认为我们无所畏惧——那些从事这类工作的人，确实都是毫无畏惧的。
We're not fearless.
我们并非毫无畏惧。
We're not unafraid of the consequences or the sacrifices that we have to make by speaking truth to power.
我们并不害怕那些后果，也不害怕为了向当权者说出真相而必须做出的牺牲。
What happens is, we feel like we have to, because there are too few people in the world willing to be the domino,
实际情况是，我们觉得自己必须这么做，因为世界上愿意充当“多米诺骨牌”（即第一个采取行动的人）的人实在太少了。
too few people willing to take that fall.
愿意承担那种风险（或后果）的人实在太少了。
We're not doing it without fear.
我们做这件事时并非没有恐惧。
Now, let's talk about fear.
现在，让我们来谈谈恐惧吧。
I knew exactly what I wanted to be when I grew up.
我清楚地知道自己长大后想成为什么。
I was like, "I'm going to be a doctor!"
我当时就想：“我一定要成为一名医生！
Doctor Luvvie was the dream.
卢维医生简直就是梦想中的存在。
I was Doc McStuffins before it was a thing.
在“Doc McStuffins”这个角色正式被创造出来之前，我就已经是他的“原型”了（或者说，我早就具有了成为这个角色的所有特质）。
And I remember when I went to college, my freshman year, I had to take Chemistry 101 for my premed major.
我记得上大学的第一年，作为医学预科专业的学生，我必须修读《化学101》这门课程。
I got the first and last D of my academic career.
在我的学术生涯中，我拿到了第一个也是最后一个“D”等级的成绩。
So I went to my advisor, and I was like, "OK, let's drop the premed, because this doctor thing is not going to work,
于是我找到了我的导师，对他说：“好吧，我们放弃医学预科的学习吧，因为当医生的这条路根本行不通。
because I don't even like hospitals.
因为我甚至不喜欢医院。
So ..."
那么……
"Let's just consider that done for."
我们就先把这个事情当作已经解决了吧。
And that same semester, I started blogging.
就在那个学期，我开始写博客了。
That was 2003.
那是2003年的事。
So as that one dream was ending, another was beginning.
当那个梦想即将结束时，另一个梦想又开始了。
And then what was a cute hobby became my full-time job when I lost my marketing job in 2010.
2010年，当我失去了市场营销方面的工作后，这个原本只是个爱好、显得很有趣的活动便变成了我的全职工作。
But it still took me two more years to say, "I'm a writer."
不过，我又过了两年才终于敢承认：“我是一名作家。
Nine years after I had started writing, before I said, "I'm a writer," because I was afraid of what happens without 401ks,
在我开始写作九年之后，我还没有敢公开宣称“我是一名作家”——因为当时我担心如果没有 401(k) 退休计划，我的生活会面临怎样的困境。
without, "How am I going to keep up my shoe habit?
如果没有这个习惯，我该如何继续保持每天换鞋的习惯呢？
That's important to me."
这对我来说很重要。
So it took me that long to own this thing that was what my purpose was.
所以我花了这么长时间才买到这件对我来说非常重要的东西。
And then I realized, fear has a very concrete power of keeping us from doing and saying the things that are our purpose.
然后我意识到：恐惧有一种非常强大的力量，它会阻碍我们去做那些真正属于我们使命的事情，也会阻碍我们说出那些应该说的话。
And I was like, "You know what?
然后我就想：“你知道吗？