How to Find Laughter Anywhere | Chris Duffy | TED · TED
喜剧演员Chris Duffy分享如何培养幽默感，通过像孩子一样看待世界，释放创造力和自由思维。适合练习幽默表达和创意思维。
My favorite part about working in an elementary school is that I could never predict what was going to happen next.
在小学工作最让我喜欢的一点是：我永远无法预测接下来会发生什么。
Every day was a new, incredible day.
每一天都是全新而奇妙的一天。
There was never a boring moment.
整个过程中没有一刻是无聊的。
Sometimes, you think that you're handing out a worksheet just reviewing the names of shapes.
有时候，你会觉得自己只是在发一份用来复习各种形状名称的工作表而已。
But then instead of getting back hexagon and octagon, you get back this.
但是，你得到的并不是六边形和八边形，而是别的东西。
["Amy" "Gabriella"]
["艾米" "加布里埃拉"]
And I think we can agree that is just correct.
我想我们都可以认同，这确实是正确的。
That’s right, that is Gabriella.
没错，那就是加布里埃拉。
Or, another time I was teaching a class on human biology to my fifth-grade students when one of them afterwards handed in this anonymous question card.
还有一次，我正在给五年级的学生讲授人体生物学课程，课后其中一名学生交上来了一张匿名问题卡片。
[What are balls for.]
[球是用来做什么的？]
And you know what really gets me about this, what kills me, is we had spent so long studying punctuation.
你知道真正让我感到沮丧、甚至让我崩溃的是什么吗？那就是我们花了很长时间来研究标点符号的使用规则。
And he still used a period instead of a question mark.
而且他仍然使用句号而不是问号。
“What are balls for.”
球是用来做什么的？
Period.
就这样。
At the same time that I was teaching elementary school students, I was also teaching adults improv comedy at a local theater on the weekends.
在我教授小学生的同时，每周周末我还会在当地的剧院里为成年人教授即兴喜剧表演技巧。
This was a group of retired folks, graduate students and semi-successful business people who were paying money to spend their Saturday mornings
这群人包括退休人员、研究生以及一些事业还算成功的企业家；他们花钱参加这个活动，目的是在每个周六的早晨度过一段特别的时光。
in an unventilated basement with me.
在一个没有通风设备的地下室里，和我待在一起。
And most of the exercises that we were doing together were to get them to let go of the self-critical part of their brain,
我们共同进行的大多数练习，目的都是帮助他们放下大脑中那种自我批评的思维模式。
to release the idea that there was a "right" answer to find, and to instead be more comfortable with their honest,
放弃“存在一个正确答案需要被找到”的这种观念，转而更加坦然地接受自己的真实想法（即那些未必符合他人期望或标准的答案）。
creative, idiosyncratic thoughts.
富有创意、独具个性的思想。
Now any elementary school teacher can tell you that getting kids to share their honest, unexpected thoughts, that's not something you have to cultivate.
现在，任何小学老师都会告诉你：让孩子们表达自己真实且出乎意料的想法，其实并不需要刻意去培养他们的这种能力。这种表达意愿的意愿本身，就是孩子们与生俱来的。
They will do that whether you want them to or not.
无论你是否希望他们这么做，他们都会这么做。
I mean, here are some real questions that kids asked me out of the blue with no context,
我的意思是，这里有一些孩子们突然提出的问题，他们完全没有提供任何背景信息或上下文。
during what was supposed to be a silent work time.
本应是一个安静的工作时间……
"Is it possible to make myself live longer so that I can see the Sun explode?"
有没有办法让自己活得更久一些，从而能够亲眼看到太阳爆炸的那一天？
"Are pigs actually prejudiced against women, or is that just an expression?"
猪真的对女性有偏见吗？还是说这只是某种表达方式罢了？
"If your brother isn't married yet, why doesn't he just marry your mom?"
如果你的哥哥还没结婚，为什么他不干脆娶你妈妈呢？
And actually, that brings up a really important point, which is that kids' ideas are not always good.
实际上，这引出了一个非常重要的观点：孩子们的想法并不总是正确的。
Sometimes they're very bad.
有时候，它们的质量非常差。
I'm personally very grateful that my mom and my brother are not married.
我个人非常庆幸，我的妈妈和哥哥都没有结婚。
There's some research that suggests that for many of us, fifth grade is close to the peak of this kind of wildly free,
有一些研究表明，对我们中的许多人来说，五年级差不多是这种极度自由状态的巅峰时期。
uninhibited, creative thinking.
不受束缚的、富有创造力的思维方式。
But that does not have to be the case.
但情况并不一定非得如此。
In my experience, the difference between people with an amazing sense of humor
以我的经验来看，那些拥有出色幽默感的人与其他人之间的区别在于……（具体区别内容在原文未提供）。
and those without is often just whether they are willing to accept and notice their honest reactions,
而那些没有（某种能力或特质）的人，往往只是看他们是否愿意接受并正视自己真实的反应罢了。
or whether they try their hardest to fit them into a box.
或者，他们是否竭尽全力试图将这些事物强行归入某个既定的框架（或“盒子”）之中。
And that can shift over time.
而且这种情况会随着时间的推移而发生变化。
I saw that shift with my adult improv students.
我在自己的成人即兴表演学生身上观察到了这种变化。
At first, when we would do an exercise where they were asked to name seven things in a given category as quickly and creatively as possible,
起初，当我们进行一项练习时，要求参与者尽可能快速且富有创意地列举某个特定类别中的七样物品，
many of them would get stuck.
它们中的很多都会卡住（或无法正常运行）。