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Number two, there's power in promiscuous thinking.
第二，胡思亂想的力量
Another striking similarity among good problem-solvers is that they're all pragmatists.
另一個好的問題解決者的顯著相似點是他們都是實用主義者
They'll steal the best answers from wherever they find them,
他們會竊取最好的答案，不管這答案來自哪里
and they don't let details like party or ideology or sentimentality get in their way.
并且他們不會讓諸如政黨、意識形態或情感之類的細節來擋道
As I mentioned earlier, Indonesia's democrats were clever enough
正如我之前提到的，印尼的民主主義者非常聰明地
to steal many of the Islamists' best campaign promises for themselves.
竊取了很多伊斯蘭主義的競選承諾來為已所用。
They even invited some of the radicals into their governing coalition.
他們甚至邀請了一些激進派進入到執政聯盟。
Now, that horrified a lot of secular Indonesians.
這一舉動嚇壞了很多世俗的印尼人。
But by forcing the radicals to actually help govern,
但是通過迫使這些激進派去真正的幫助治理國家，
it quickly exposed the fact that they weren't any good at the job,
迅速地暴露出他們根本不能勝任這些工作的事實
and it got them mixed up in all of the grubby compromises
并且他們與那些骯臟的妥協混淆不清
and petty humiliations that are part of everyday politics.
而卑微是日常政治生活的一部分。
And that hurt their image so badly that they've never recovered.
這些使得他們的形象遭受重創，直到現在都沒翻過身來。
Number three, please all of the people some of the time.
第三，有時候需要取悅所有的人。
I know I just mentioned how crises can grant leaders extraordinary freedoms.
我知道我剛剛提到過危機能夠給領導人提供非凡的自由。
And that's true, but problem-solving often requires more than just boldness.
那是事實，但是解決問題通常不僅僅需要勇敢。
It takes showing restraint, too, just when that's the last thing you want to do.
當碰到你不愿意去做的事時，還要表現出克制
Take Trudeau: when he took office,
以特魯多為例：當他就任時
he could easily have put his core constituency, that is Canada's French community, first.
他可以輕易地把自己的核心支持者，也就是加拿大的法語群體放在優先的位置。
He could have pleased some of the people all of the time.
他可以一直取悅這一部分人。
And Pena could have used his power to keep attacking the opposition, as was traditional in Mexico.
而培尼亞也可以用他的權力去繼續攻擊反對派，就像之前的墨西哥傳統政壇一樣。
