And I thought about it. I thought about it a lot. The whole pattern from the beginning. And I think I understand why they expected someone different.
我考慮了很久 仔細思量了 整件事從頭到尾 我似乎明白為什么他們期望不同了
You see they had to explain to themselves as well as the audience, "how come this lecture is larger than the Introduction to Economics?" And the way to explain it must be that
因為他們要說服自己 說服觀眾 "這門課怎么會比經濟學導論更熱門?" 唯一的解釋就是
The teacher is very outgoing, extremely charismatic, very cheerful and extrovert and of course, tall.
導師非常外向 充滿領袖氣質 樂觀開朗 當然了 還很高
Well, there is one L missing there. But... Yeah.
可惜我的名字少了一個L 但是 是啊
If only. So the problem though is that they were looking in the wrong place for the explanation.
真可惜 所以問題是 他們找答案找錯了地方
In other words, they were looking at the messenger. What they needed to look at was the message. Now how do I know that?
也就是說 他們不該關注信息傳達者 而應該關注信息本身 我怎么知道的呢
You see because I see other positive psychology classes on other campuses around the country and around the world. There are over 200 hundred campuses here in United States that teach positive psychology.
因為我參與過其他大學積極心理學課 遍及全國 乃至全球 美國有超過200所大學開設了本課程
On almost every campus where this class is taught, it's either one of the or the largest class. It's about the message.
而且幾乎其中所有院校 這門課 都是參與人數最多的或者最多的之一 信息是關鍵
I see more and more organizations taking up positive psychology in their, as consultant companies, some of them the leading big consultant companies are taking it on.
越來越多的機構組織開設這門課 還有咨詢公司 其中一些甚至是全球知名咨詢公司
More and more high schools are introducing positive psychology class. Elementary schools are introducing it. The governments around the world are expressing interest in this new emerging field.
越來越多的中學開始引入積極心理學 小學也是 各國政府都對這一新領域表現出興趣
Why? Because it works. Because it really works. You see this whole realm on life flourishing, on happiness, on well-being
為什么?因為它有效 它的的確確有效 殷盛人生 快樂 幸福感這一整個領域在此之前
Has been until recently dominated by the self-health movement. What do we have in the self-health movement? We have books that are very interesting,
一直被心理自助運動統治 心理自助運動帶來了什么 生動有趣