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The second trap is a confusion between experience and memory;
第二個陷阱是經驗和記憶間的混淆：
basically, it's between being happy in your life,
基本上這是在生活中體會快樂
and being happy about your life or happy with your life.
與覺得生活很快樂以及對于你的生活滿意之間的差別。
And those are two very different concepts,
這兩者的意義相距甚遠，
and they're both lumped in the notion of happiness.
且在論及快樂時會混為一談。
And the third is the focusing illusion,
第三個陷阱則是聚焦錯覺，
and it's the unfortunate fact that we can't think about any circumstance
令人遺憾的是，任何情況下，當我們想到一些
that affects well-being without distorting its importance.
關于快樂生活的情景時，我們勢必會覺得它特別重要。
I mean, this is a real cognitive trap.
我的意思是，這是一個真正的認知陷阱。
There's just no way of getting it right.
它避無可避。
Now, I'd like to start with an example of somebody who had a question-and-answer session
現在，我想以一個例子來開頭，有個人上過我的課后
after one of my lectures reported a story, and that was a story
于答問之時向我講述了一則故事。
He said he'd been listening to a symphony, and it was absolutely glorious music
他說他有次在聽交響樂時，覺得音樂真是動聽極了，
and at the very end of the recording, there was a dreadful screeching sound.
但在演奏快結束之時，卻冒出了尖銳刺耳的聲音。
And then he added, really quite emotionally, it ruined the whole experience. But it hadn't.
接著他激動地表示，這就是一只老鼠壞了一鍋粥。但事實并非如此。
What it had ruined were the memories of the experience.
所發生的糟糕印象僅僅是對這段經驗的記憶。
He had had the experience. He had had 20 minutes of glorious music.
他經歷了這段經驗。他也經歷了20分鐘的聽覺盛會。
They counted for nothing because he was left with a memory;
但現在都已無足輕重了，因為他僅留下一段記憶；
the memory was ruined, and the memory was all that he had gotten to keep.
就是那段糟糕的記憶，而其它20分鐘的盛會則被完全遺忘了。
