How to fix the exhausted brain | Brady Wilson | TEDxMississauga · TEDx Talks
Brady Wilson分享如何通过激发大脑连接与动机来恢复精力。适合练习职场沟通与自我激励技巧。
Translator: Rhonda Jacobs Reviewer: Ellen Maloney I am definitely not the hero of this talk, but if I do my job properly,
翻译者：Rhonda Jacobs 审稿人：Ellen Maloney 我绝对不是这次演讲的主角，但如果我能够尽职尽责地完成自己的工作的话……
you will be.
你将会成为那样的人。
You will be the hero that goes on a journey today and discovers a gift that could change your world.
今天，你将成为那位踏上旅程的英雄，发现一份能够改变你世界的礼物。
First let me tell you a story that will give you context for everything I'm about to share with you.
首先，让我给你们讲一个故事，这个故事将为我接下来要分享的所有内容提供一个背景说明。
I was nine years old, and I was horror stricken as I watched my two older brothers, Perry and Mark,
我当时九岁，当看到我的两个哥哥——佩里和马克时，我被吓得魂不附体。
in a vicious fight.
在一场激烈的争斗中……
They were strangling each other on the floor.
他们在地板上互相掐脖子。
My nine-year-old brain actually believed that I was about to lose one or maybe both of my brothers.
我那只有九岁思维能力的小脑袋，真的以为自己即将失去一个，甚至两个兄弟。
When it was all done, they vowed that they would never speak to each other again.
当一切结束后，他们发誓再也不互相说话了。
And they didn't ...
他们并没有……
for several years.
在过去的几年里。
So here's how it went down in my house.
以下就是事情在我家里发生的经过。
The phone would ring, and Perry would answer it, discover that it was for Mark; he would say to me,
电话会响起，佩里会接听，然后发现来电是马克打来的；接着他会告诉我……
"Go tell your brother Paul wants to talk to him."
去告诉你哥哥，保罗想和他谈谈。
I was drawn into the space between ...
我被吸引到了那个位于……之间的空间之中。
for years.
多年来。
Fast-forward - my brother Mark got into trouble.
时间快进一下：我的哥哥马克遇到了麻烦。
My dad kicked him out of the house, held the hard line, even though my mother's heart was breaking.
我爸爸把他赶出了家门，坚决不妥协；尽管我妈妈的心都碎了。
She would secretly bake cinnamon buns, and come to me and say, "Would you take these to your brother,
她会偷偷地烤好肉桂面包，然后来找我，说：“你能把这些面包带给你的弟弟吗？
and tell him that I love him."
然后告诉他，我爱他。
I was drawn into the space between.
我被吸引到了那个“中间空间”之中。
That was 50 years ago.
那是50年前的事了。
And I have lived in and have worked in the space between ever since.
从那以后，我就一直生活在那个“中间地带”（即既不属于传统社会结构，也不属于现代社会结构的特殊空间），并在那里工作。
And what I want to do today is to help you understand the power of what can happen when we step into that space.
今天我想做的，就是帮助大家理解：当我们真正进入那个“空间”（即那个特定的情境或状态）时，究竟会发生什么样的奇妙变化。
In order to do that, I'm going to share a true and remarkable story with you about Paula and her manager,
为了做到这一点，我打算和大家分享一个真实而令人印象深刻的故事，关于保拉和她的经理。
Ziad, in which they go on a journey from depleted brains to very energized brains.
在这部作品中，扎伊德（Ziad）带领观众经历了一段从“大脑功能衰退”到“大脑重新充满活力”的转变过程。
So I'd like you to meet Paula.
那么，我想让你们认识一下保拉。
Paula started her job, like most of us do, wanting to be a high performer.
像我们大多数人一样，宝拉开始工作时也希望能成为表现优异的员工。
She was highly engaged, wanted to contribute to the organization, but what happened in her company was there was a reorg,
她非常投入，希望能够为这个组织做出贡献。然而，她所在的公司却进行了一次重组。
and leaders took their eye off the ball, leaving Paula without the support, the guidance, the coaching that she so desperately needed.
领导们没有履行好自己的职责，导致保拉缺乏她迫切需要的支持、指导和帮助。
And although Paula had started out engaged, she became exhausted.
尽管宝拉一开始是怀着结婚的打算开始这段关系的，但她最终还是感到精疲力竭。
Although she had started out dedicated, her brain became depleted.
尽管她一开始非常投入、充满热情，但最终她的精力逐渐耗尽（或者说她的“大脑资源”被耗尽了）。
And here's what we are seeing across North America: massive amounts of employees, managers and leaders who are engaged but exhausted;
以下是我们在整个北美地区观察到的情况：大量员工、管理者及领导者虽然积极参与工作，但却感到精疲力竭。
they're dedicated but depleted.
他们非常敬业，但已经精疲力竭了。
So it's very difficult to become our best selves when our brain is depleted.
因此，当大脑处于“能量枯竭”状态时，我们很难发挥出自己的最佳水平（即成为最好的自己）。
But why is that?
但为什么会这样呢？
Let's take a minute and peek inside this three-pound blob of tofu that nestles into your cranium and understand why that is.
让我们花点时间，仔细看看这个重约三磅的豆腐块（它其实就“藏”在你的颅骨里），并弄清楚为什么会这样。
This brain of ours, it only comprises two percent of our body weight.
我们的大脑仅占我们体重的2%。
But how much energy does it burn every day?
但是它每天究竟会消耗多少能量呢？
It is metabolically expensive.
从代谢角度来看，这种过程需要消耗大量的能量（即具有较高的代谢成本）。