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You the sort of educational experience at a place, the pre Stanford educational experience.
你們在來斯坦福之前接受的教育
There's always sort of a non-competitive characterization,
基本都沒有什么競爭
where I think most of the people in this room had machine guns,
坐在這件屋子里的人都是天之驕子
that were competing with people with bows and arrows.
與平凡的人進行競爭
So it wasn't exactly a parallel competition when you were in junior high school and high school.
你在初高中時期與他人進行的不是平等的競爭
There's always a question, does the tournament make sense as you keep going?
那么問題來了，這樣不斷競爭有意義嗎
And there is always this question if people go on to grad school, or post doctoral educations,
當人們進入研究生院或者去讀博后時
does the intensity of the competition really make sense?
這樣的競爭有意義嗎？
There's the classic Henry Kissinger line describing his fellow faculty at Harvard.
亨利·基辛格有句名言描述了哈佛大學的教授
That the battles were so ferocious, because the stakes were so small. Describing sort of academia.
職位很稀少，競爭很殘酷。這描述了學術界的景象
And you start to think on one level this is a description of insanity.
你可以想象那種瘋狂的樣子
Why would people fight like crazy when the stakes are so small?
為什么職位很少時人們還如此的瘋狂？
But it's also,I think simply a function of the logic of the situation.
但我想，其實這里面的邏輯很簡單
When it's really hard to differentiate yourself from other people.
當你和其他人差不多時
When the differences are, when the objective differences really are small.
當你和其他人的客觀差異非常小的時候
Then you have to compete ferociously to maintain a difference of one sort or another,
就必須通過殘酷的競爭來維持你的優勢
that's often more imaginary than real.
通常虛構要比實際的成分多
