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This attachment to our own rightness keeps us from preventing mistakes when we absolutely need to and causes us to treat each other terribly.
我們的自以為是，讓我們在最需要的時候無法預防犯錯，更讓我們互相仇視。
But to me, what's most baffling and most tragic about this is that it misses the whole point of being human.
對我來說，最大的悲劇是它讓我們錯失了身為人的珍貴意義。
It's like we want to imagine that our minds are just these perfectly translucent windows
那就像是想象我們的心靈之窗完全透明，
and we just gaze out of them and describe the world as it unfolds.
我們向外觀看，描述在我們之前展開的世界。
And we want everybody else to gaze out of the same window and see the exact same thing.
我們想要每個人和我們有一樣的窗子，對世界做出一樣的觀察。
That is not true, and if it were, life would be incredibly boring.
那不是真的，如果是，人生將會多么無聊。
The miracle of your mind isn't that you can see the world as it is.
心靈的神奇之處不在你懂得這個世界是什么樣子。
It's that you can see the world as it isn't.
而是去理解那些你不懂的地方。
We can remember the past, and we can think about the future,
我們記得過去，思考未來，
and we can imagine what it's like to be some other person in some other place.
我們想象自己成為他人，在他方。
And we all do this a little differently,
我們的想象都有些不同，
which is why we can all look up at the same night sky and see this and also this and also this.
于是當我們抬頭看同一個夜空，我們看到這個，這個和這個。
And yeah, it is also why we get things wrong.
這也是我們搞錯事情的原因。
1,200 years before Descartes said his famous thing about "I think therefore I am," this guy, St. Augustine,
在笛卡兒說出那句有名的“我思故我在”的一千兩百年前，圣奧古斯丁，
sat down and wrote "Fallor ergo sum" -- "I err therefore I am."
坐下來寫下“Fallor ergo sum”--“我錯故我在”。
Augustine understood that our capacity to screw up,
奧古斯丁懂得我們犯錯的能力，
it's not some kind of embarrassing defect in the human system, something we can eradicate or overcome.
這并不是人性中一個令人難堪的缺陷，不是我們可以克服或消滅的。
It's totally fundamental to who we are.
這是我們的本質。
Because, unlike God, we don't really know what's going on out there.
因為我們不是上帝，我們不知道我們之外究竟發生了什么。
And unlike all of the other animals, we are obsessed with trying to figure it out.
而不同于其它動物的是，我們都瘋狂地想找出解答。
To me, this obsession is the source and root of all of our productivity and creativity.
對我來說，這種尋找的沖動就是我們生產力和創造力的來源。
