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Here is a story just to illustrate it. So this is Michelangelo. One day he was asked by a journalist of his time,
我講個故事來說明吧 比如米開朗基羅 曾經有個記者問他
"how did you create this most amazing masterpiece, David?", to which Michelangelo responded, "it was easy.
您是如何創造出《大衛》這件巨作的? 米開朗基羅回答 很簡單
I went to the quarry. I saw this huge piece of marble. And in it I saw David.
我去了趟采石場 看見一塊巨大的大理石 我在它身上看到了大衛
All I needed to do was to chip away the excess stone, to get rid of the marble that shouldn't have been there. And when I got rid of this excess stone, there was David.
我只要鑿去多余的石頭 只留下有用的 鑿去多余的石頭之后 大衛就誕生了
" Not obviously easier said than done. But the story captured the metaphor of what this class very much is about. It's about chipping away the excess stone.
雖然說的比做的容易 但是這個故事抓住了這門課程精髓 即鑿除多余石塊
It's about getting rid of limitations, of barriers, whether it's the fear of failure, something that we didn't have as kids.
也就是擺脫限制 阻礙 或者對失敗的恐懼 這些東西在并不是與生俱來的
But today most people in our culture have it. It's about chipping away perfectionism that is debilitating and often hurts us. It's about chipping away our ability for success,
但如今卻出現在了大多數人身上 要鑿除削弱甚至傷害我們的完美主義 鑿除勝利的能力
Because maybe we are afraid of success. Maybe we feel guilty about some of the things that we have in our life, and that in turn limits us.
因為我們可能害怕勝利 可能對生命中一些東西感到內疚 這些都會反過來限制我們
Maybe it's about chipping away the limitations on our relationships in while we don't thrive within them. This is what this class is mostly about.
也許甚至還要鑿除兩性關系中的限制 尤其是帶來消極面的時候 這些就是本課程的主要內容
As Thoreau says, "soul grows more by subtraction than by addition", by getting rid of these limitations,
就像梭羅說的那樣 "做減法比做加法讓靈魂成長得更快" 減法包括除去那些
Limitations that are preventing us from fulfilling our potential. Because our potential is in there in nature. We talk a lot about human nature.
阻礙我們發揮潛能的限制 因為我們的潛能是天生的 我們關注人類本性
