How To Eliminate Self Doubt Forever & The Power of Your Unconscious Mind | Peter Sage | TEDxPatras · TEDx Talks
Peter Sage探讨自我怀疑与潜意识如何影响人的成功，适合练习成长、心理、自我提升类英语表达。
Thank you.
谢谢。
Why is it that intelligent people procrastinate?
为什么聪明的人也会拖延呢？
Why is it that people that are so self -motivated, often self -sabotage,
为什么那些自我激励能力很强的人，往往会自我破坏（即做出损害自己利益的行为）呢？
and why is it that no matter how many new business opportunities we get or new skills we try to learn,
为什么无论我们获得多少新的商业机会，或者尝试学习多少新技能，情况依然没有改变呢？
many of us just are simply finding different ways of earning the same amount of money
我们中的许多人只是在寻找不同的方式来赚取同样数额的钱而已。
or achieving the same kind of level of success
或者取得同样程度的成功
as if there was kind of a glass ceiling above our head that we were trying to break through but didn't know how?
就好像我们头顶上有一层“玻璃天花板”，我们试图突破它，但却不知道该怎么做……
Now, one thing we do know is that it's not down to lack of resources or opportunity.
现在，我们确实知道的一点是：问题并不出在资源或机会的缺乏上。
We live in a time in history where there are more resources and opportunity than ever before.
我们生活在一个历史时期，这个时期的资源与机遇比以往任何时候都要丰富。
In fact, there's many people that have
事实上，有很多人都是这样（或拥有某种东西）。
access to resources and opportunity that really never get the battle for the shoulder and take a swing at life
能够获得各种资源与机会；然而，真正为这些资源与机会而奋斗、并努力改变自己命运的人却寥寥无几。
and the results are mediocre or disappointing.
结果要么平平无奇，要么令人失望。
And then there's other people, those who
然后还有其他人，那些……
have access to virtually no resources or
几乎无法获得任何资源；
no opportunity and against all of the odds went out and created magic for the rest of us to go,
尽管没有机会，且面临重重困难，他们依然挺身而出，为我们所有人创造了奇迹（让我们能够继续前行）。
wow, and stand in awe of.
哇，真是令人惊叹不已。
People like Colonel Sanders who retired broke at 65 before starting KFC,
像桑德斯上校这样的人：他在65岁时破产退休，之后才创立了肯德基（KFC）。
obviously Oprah, people like Helen Keller, or even Albert Einstein
显然，还有奥普拉（Oprah）、海伦·凯勒（Helen Keller）这样的人，甚至阿尔伯特·爱因斯坦（Albert Einstein）也是如此。
who dropped out of school at 15 and then failed the entrance exam for the Zurich Polytechnic.
这个人15岁时就辍学了，后来又未能通过苏黎世理工学院的入学考试。
Now, you see, if you want to masterclass in taking away the excuse that resources and opportunity
现在，你们应该明白了：如果你们想彻底消除“资源不足或机会有限”这种借口的话……
are the reason why you're not successful, go study any of the lives of the people on screen.
这些因素正是你无法取得成功的原因；去研究一下屏幕上那些人物的生平吧。
But you see, as human beings, our nervous system is hardwired for comfort.
但你们要知道，作为人类，我们的神经系统天生就倾向于追求舒适感（即避免痛苦或不适）。
Whereas the essence of what makes us, us, someone say our soul,
而构成我们“自我”的本质，有人称之为我们的“灵魂”。
is hardwired for growth and it's managing
这种机制天生就具备促进成长的能力，而且它正在有效地发挥这种能力（即正在实现预期的增长目标）。
that dynamic tension between how good a
那种动态的紧张感——即事物本身有多好（或有多出色）与人们对其期望之间的差距……
comfort zone feels and the innate calling
舒适区”的感觉，以及人与生俱来的使命感……
of our potential that lies outside of that that causes the frustration for most people and keeps them on that hamster wheel of mediocrity.
我们的潜力中有一部分存在于那些“常规框架”之外；然而，正是这些被大多数人忽视的潜力，导致了他们的挫败感，并使他们一直陷入平庸的循环之中（就像那些在跑轮上不断奔跑的仓鼠一样）。
So how do we unravel that?
那么，我们该如何解开这个谜团呢？
Well, let's look at the human brain.
那么，让我们来看看人类的大脑吧。
See, what separates us from almost all of the animal kingdom, the crowning achievement of human biology
你看，正是这一点将我们与几乎所有动物区分开来；这也是人类生物学的最高成就。
is the front part of the brain, what's known as the neocortex or the frontal lobe.
大脑的前部被称为新皮质（neocortex）或前额叶（frontal lobe）。
And that neocortex operates at a brave way, a brain wavelength of alpha or beta.
新皮质的工作方式非常“高效”——它以阿尔法（alpha）或贝塔（beta）波段的脑电波频率进行运作。
And one of the challenges is that that doesn't get turned on until we're about seven years old.
其中一个挑战在于：这个功能直到我们大约七岁的时候才会被激活（也就是说，直到那个年龄我们才能使用这个功能）。
See, kids operate in Delta and Theta, which is why babies sleep so much and why kids live in that magical fantasy world
孩子们所处的意识状态属于“Delta”和“Theta”阶段，这就是为什么婴儿会睡很多觉，以及为什么孩子们会生活在那个充满魔力的幻想世界中的原因。
where they're operating at Theta with no critical thinking.
他们在“Theta”状态下进行操作，完全没有运用批判性思维。
Now, it also means children are very impressionable
现在，这也意味着孩子们很容易受到外界的影响（或：他们很容易被他人或事物所影响）。
and why Aristotle is widely quoted as saying that give me the child for seven years and I'll give you the man.
为什么亚里士多德的名言被广泛引用呢？那句名言是：“把孩子交给我七年，七年后我就能把他培养成一个成年人。
But what happens when we drill down on that?
但是，当我们进一步深入研究这个问题时，会发现什么呢？
Why is that important to why we procrastinate or self sabotage?
为什么这一点与我们拖延行为或自我破坏的行为有关呢？
Well, I'll give you an example.
好吧，我来举个例子。