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Now I think at this point it's important for me to say that I actually love extroverts.
現在我必須申明，我其實非常喜歡外向的人。
I always like to say some of my best friends are extroverts, including my beloved husband.
我很多知心友人都是外向者，我心愛的丈夫也是。
And we all fall at different points, of course, along the introvert/extrovert spectrum.
內向外向就像個光譜，而我們坐落在不同程度的兩端。
Even Carl Jung, the psychologist who first popularized these terms,
甚至是卡爾·榮格，這個讓這些名詞為大眾所熟知的心理學家，
said that there's no such thing as a pure introvert or a pure extrovert.
說道世上絕沒有一個純粹的內向的人，或者一個純粹的外向的人。
He said that such a man would be in a lunatic asylum, if he existed at all.
他說這樣的人會在精神病院里，如果他存在的話。
And some people fall smack in the middle of the introvert/extrovert spectrum, and we call these people ambiverts.
還有一些人處在中間的跡象，在內向與外向之間，我們稱這些人為“中向性格者”。
And I often think that they have the best of all worlds.
并且我總是認為他們擁有世界最美好的一切。
But many of us do recognize ourselves as one type or the other.
但是我們中的大多數總是認為自己屬于內向或者外向其中一類。
And what I'm saying is that culturally, we need a much better balance.
同時我想說，從文化意義上講，我們需要一種更好的平衡。
We need more of a yin and yang between these two types.
我們在這兩種類型的人之間需要更多的陰陽的平衡。
This is especially important when it comes to creativity and to productivity,
當涉及創造力和生產力的時候，這點是極為重要的，
because when psychologists look at the lives of the most creative people,
因為當心理學家們看待最有創造力的人的生命的時候，
what they find are people who are very good at exchanging ideas and advancing ideas,
他們尋找到的是那些擅長變換思維的人，提出想法的人，
but who also have a serious streak of introversion in them.
但是他們同時也有著極為顯著的偏內向的痕跡。
And this is because solitude is a crucial ingredient often to creativity.
這是因為獨處對于創造力來說是非常關鍵的因素。
So Darwin, he took long walks alone in the woods and emphatically turned down dinner-party invitations.
所以達爾文自己一個人漫步在小樹林里，并且斷然拒絕了晚餐派對的邀約。
Theodor Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss, he dreamed up many of his amazing creations in a lonely bell tower office
西奧多·蓋索，更多時候以蘇索博士的名號為人所知，他在一個寂寞鐘塔里的書房中構思出很多驚人的創作，
that he had in the back of his house in La Jolla, California.
在他在加利福尼亞州拉霍亞市房子的后面。
And he was actually afraid to meet the young children who read his books
而且其實他很害怕與那些讀過他的書的年輕的孩子們見面，
for fear that they were expecting him this kind of jolly Santa Claus-like figure and would be disappointed with his more reserved persona.
害怕他們會期待他這樣一位令人愉快的、圣誕老人形象的人物，同時又會因發現他含蓄緘默的性格而失望。
Steve Wozniak invented the first Apple computer sitting alone in his cubicle in Hewlett-Packard where he was working at the time.
史蒂夫·沃茲尼亞克發明了第一臺蘋果電腦，一個人獨自坐在他的機柜旁，在他當時工作的惠普公司。
And he says that he never would have become such an expert in the first place had he not been too introverted to leave the house when he was growing up.
并且他說他永遠不會在那方面成為一號專家，但他還沒因太內向到要離開那里，那個他成長起來的地方。
