It was that question that essentially created the field of positive psychology as well as positive sociology. He was a sociologist by training as well as many other fields.
正是那個問題締造了 積極心理學和積極社會學 他是訓練有素的社會學家和其他領域的專家
Questions make a difference. Questions create reality. I want to do an exercise with you now.
問題導致改變 問題締造現實 現在我想和你們做一個練習
We'll do quite a few exercises in class. Here's the first one. To illustrate the importance of question.
我們在課堂上會做一些練習 這是第一個 為了闡明問題的重要性
Now I'm going to ask you to count the number of geometric shapes that you see on the screen no, not this screen.
我要讓你數幾何圖形的個數 你在屏幕上看到多少個. 不 不是這個屏幕
The next screen. And you are Harvard students. It's fine. The next screen.
是下一個屏幕 你們是哈佛大學的學生 沒問題的 下一個屏幕
I am going to ask you to count the number of geometric shapes that you see on the screen. It's a very difficult question. I've given it to people.
我要讓你們數幾何圖形的個數 你在屏幕上看到的 這是個非常難的問題 我把它給世界各地的人看過
Around the world i've given it to mathematicians, to artists who are very visual. And the challenge here is you are only going to have 30 seconds in which to do it.
我讓數學家和視覺藝術家看過 這里的挑戰是 你只有30秒去看它
30 seconds to tell me how many geometric shapes you see on the screen. Ready? 30 seconds.
30秒之后告訴我你在屏幕上你看到了 多少個幾何圖形 準備好了嗎?30秒
How many geometric shapes do you see on the screen? Go. Ok. So that's 31 seconds.
你看到屏幕上有多少個幾何圖形? 開始 好的 31秒過去了