How I stopped being an overthinker | Tally Feingold | TEDxLFHS · TEDx Talks
高中生Tally Feingold分享如何通过蝴蝶效应这一概念，学会理性决策，摆脱过度思考的困扰。适合练习逻辑思维和自我调节。
Transcriber: Sarah M Reviewer: Anna Sobota Well, I want to tell you a story.
转录者：Sarah M 审稿人：Anna Sobota 好吧，我想给你们讲一个故事。
When I was little, I loved butterflies.
我小时候非常喜欢蝴蝶。
And, I guess this isn’t very unusual for little kids, but I remember literally spending hours in my backyard with a pink net,
我想这对小孩子来说并不算什么奇怪的事情；但我确实记得自己曾经在后院里花了好几个小时的时间，手里拿着一张粉色的网……
patiently waiting for a butterfly to land, so I could swoop one up.
我耐心地等待着蝴蝶降落，这样就能把它抓到手了。
I wanted to capture their beauty.
我想留住他们的美丽。
However, in actuality, I pretty much only caught common moths, and my sister was scared of them, so that didn’t work out the best for me.
然而，实际上我捕捉到的几乎都是普通的蛾子；而我妹妹对这些蛾子非常害怕，因此这件事对我来说并没有什么好的结果（或者说，并没有达到预期的效果）。
But, I never could’ve imagined how impactful butterflies would be on my life.
但我从未想过，蝴蝶会对我的生活产生如此深远的影响。
Not butterflies specifically, per se, but the butterfly effect.
具体来说，并不是指蝴蝶本身，而是指“蝴蝶效应”（即一个微小的变化可能会引发一系列连锁反应）。
Now, I think most people have heard the term butterfly effect thrown around, even if just in a casual sense.
现在，我想大多数人应该都听说过“蝴蝶效应”这个术语，即使只是偶尔在非正式的场合中听到过而已。
How many of you guys have heard of this phenomenon, or at least the phrase?
在你们当中，有多少人听说过这种现象，或者至少听说过这个说法？
There we go, some of you, yeah, most of you, okay.
好了，你们中的一些人……是的，其实大多数人都这样。
Well, for those of you who don't know, this term was coined in 1960 by a meteorologist named Edward Lorenz.
嗯，对于那些还不了解的人来说，这个术语是由气象学家爱德华·洛伦兹（Edward Lorenz）在1960年提出的。
And the idea can be defined basically that something as minuscule as the flap of a butterfly's wings can cause something as gigantic as a tornado.
这个概念可以简单地理解为：像蝴蝶翅膀的轻微振动这样微不足道的事物，也可能引发龙卷风这样极其强大的自然现象。
Let me say that again: the flap of a butterfly’s wings can cause a tornado.
让我再说一遍：蝴蝶翅膀的扇动竟然可以引发一场龙卷风。
If you’ve never heard of the butterfly effect before, you probably are rolling your eyes, and that’s okay,
如果你以前从未听说过“蝴蝶效应”，那你可能会翻白眼——这也没关系。
because the first time I heard of this, I thought it was crazy.
因为第一次听到这个消息时，我觉得这简直太荒谬了。
That is, until I realized how big of an impact this simple concept could have on my own life.
直到我意识到这个简单的概念对我的生活可能产生多么巨大的影响，情况才发生了改变。
Let me give you some context.
让我先给你讲一些背景情况。
I am a little bit of an overthinker.
我有点过于爱思考了。
Every small thing in my life is, for some reason, 1000 times more important.
我生活中的每一件小事，不知为何，都显得重要了上千倍。
Like I save all of my work until the last minute because I’m so scared that it won’t be perfect.
我总是把所有的工作都拖到最后一刻才完成，因为我非常害怕自己的作品不够完美。
Ask me to pick a restaurant, I promise you, you've never seen anybody sweat more in your entire life.
让我来选一家餐厅吧……我敢保证，你这辈子绝对没见过有人像我这样紧张得直冒汗。
But that’s just the way it’s always been for me.
但对我来说，事情一直都是这样的。
And I don’t know why, but that’s just the way my head works.
我不知道为什么，但我的思维方式就是这样的。
And so actually, when I found out about the butterfly effect, I was terrified, like, oh, terrific, now I’m scared that if I make a decision,
事实上，当我了解到“蝴蝶效应”时，我感到非常害怕。我想：“哦，太可怕了……现在我担心，如果我做出了某个决定，可能会产生不可预知的后果。
I’m going to accidentally cause the end of the world or something.
我可能会不小心导致世界末日之类的灾难发生……
That’s what I need, that’s great.
这正是我所需要的，太棒了！
But I was also really intrigued by it, and maybe this was just because it had butterfly in the name,
但我确实对它感到非常好奇；也许只是因为它的名字里包含了“蝴蝶”这个词罢了。
I won’t even lie to you.
我甚至都不会对你撒谎。
But the more I read on it, the more I got sucked in,
但我读得越多，就越被这个话题吸引住了。
and I realized this is actually an incredibly complex idea that deals with one of my biggest fears,
我意识到这其实是一个极其复杂的概念，它涉及到我最大的恐惧之一。
a loss of control, and also the academic.
控制能力的丧失，以及学术方面的问题。
And by that I do mean the slightly nerdy part of me knew that this idea made logical sense.
我的意思是，我内心那个有点“书呆子气”的部分觉得这个想法在逻辑上是合理的。
It’s grounded in science, the science that Edward Lorenz created to support it.
这一理论建立在科学的基础上，具体来说，就是爱德华·洛伦兹（Edward Lorenz）所创立的科学体系。
And that science is basically this.
而这门科学的基本内容就是这样的。
Now hold on.
等等，先别急。
Science isn’t really my cup of tea.
科学其实并不是我感兴趣的领域。
Don’t worry, I won’t get sciency.
别担心，我不会讲得太复杂（或太专业）。
I’ll just say it in the simplest possible terms.
我就用最简单的语言来说吧。
Nature is infinitely connected and intertwined, so therefore, any tiny thing can cause anything else to happen and well,
自然界中的各种事物之间存在着无限的联系与相互作用；因此，任何微小的变化都可能引发其他一系列的变化。