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I want to say -- just a little autobiographical moment -- that I actually am married to a wife, and she's really quite wonderful.
我想抽一點時間說說自己，我娶了我現在的太太，她是一個很好的妻子。
I couldn't have done better. I didn't settle. But settling isn't always such a bad thing.
這件事上我沒有湊合，我盡力了。但是能湊合并不一定是壞事。
Finally -- One consequence of buying a bad-fitting pair of jeans when there is only one kind to buy is that when you are dissatisfied,
最后，買一條不合身的牛仔褲的結果之一就是，當商店里只有一種樣式可以買到時，你覺得不滿意，
and you ask why, who's responsible, the answer is clear: the world is responsible.
想知道為什么，這責任歸誰？答案很明顯。這個世界該為此負責。
What could you do? When there are hundreds of different styles of jeans available,
你有什么能做的么？現如今店里有上百種牛仔褲供你選擇，
and you buy one that is disappointing, and you ask why, who's responsible?
你買了一條回來，覺得不滿意，這時候你問為什么，誰的責任？
It is equally clear that the answer to the question is "you."
現在這個問題的答案顯然就是：你。
You could have done better. With a hundred different kinds of jeans on display, there is no excuse for failure.
你完全可以做得更好。那里擺著上百種牛仔褲，你沒有借口把事情搞砸。
And so when people make decisions, and even though the results of the decisions are good,
結果是，當人們做出決定時，即使那個決定達到的結果很好，
they feel disappointed about them; they blame themselves.
他們還是（對決定）感到失望，要責備自己。
Clinical depression has exploded in the industrial world in the last generation.
在我們過去的這一代人里，工業化世界中臨床壓抑癥爆炸性增長。
I believe a significant -- not the only, but a significant -- contributor to this explosion of depression, and also suicide,
我相信造成這種爆炸性增長的壓抑和自殺的一個重要的，不是唯一的，但是是重要的因素，
is that people have experiences that are disappointing because their standards are so high,
就是人們所有的那些的令人失望的經歷。原因就是他們的標準太高。
and then when they have to explain these experiences to themselves, they think they're at fault.
當他們必須去解釋這些經歷到底是怎么回事時，他們認為這是他們自己的過錯。
And so the net result is that we do better in general, objectively, and we feel worse.
最后的凈效果就是，盡管客觀上我們做得比以往好了，但是感覺上卻不如從前。
So let me remind you. This is the official dogma, the one that we all take to be true, and it's all false. It is not true.
我再提醒大家，這個（選擇帶來幸福）的公認的信條，我們都覺得是對的，其實是錯的。完全不對。
There's no question that some choice is better than none, but it doesn't follow from that that more choice is better than some choice.
毫無疑問有選擇比沒選擇要好，但是不能就此推論選擇越多越好。
There's some magical amount. I don't know what it is.
這里有一個關鍵值，我不知道是多少。
I'm pretty confident that we have long since passed the point where options improve our welfare.
但是我可以肯定我們早就遠遠超出了‘選擇令我們富有’所需要的這個關鍵值了。
