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Our heroes are human heroes. That's a very new situation.
我們的英雄是人類。這是一個嶄新的情況。
Most other societies have had, right at their center, the worship of something transcendent:
歷史中大部分的社會重心都是敬拜一位人類以外的靈體，
a god, a spirit, a natural force, the universe, whatever it is -- something else that is being worshiped.
神、自然力、宇宙，總之是人類以外的什么。我們逐漸失去了這種習慣。
We've slightly lost the habit of doing that, which is, I think, why we're particularly drawn to nature.
我想這也是我們越來越被大自然吸引的原因。
Not for the sake of our health, though it's often presented that way, but because it's an escape from the human anthill.
雖然我們時常顯示是為了健康，但我不這么認為，我認為是為了逃避人群的蟻丘。
It's an escape from our own competition, and our own dramas.
逃避人們的瘋狂競爭，我們的戲劇化。
And that's why we enjoy looking at glaciers and oceans, and contemplating the Earth from outside its perimeters, etc.
這便是為什么我們如此喜歡看海、觀賞冰山，從外太空觀賞地球等等。
We like to feel in contact with something that is non-human, and that is so deeply important to us.
我們希望重新和那些“非人類”的事物有所連接，那對我們來說很重要。
What I think I've been talking about really is success and failure.
我一直在談論成功和失敗。
And one of the interesting things about success is that we think we know what it means.
成功的有趣之處是我們時常以為我們知道成功是什么。
If I said that there's somebody behind the screen who's very successful, certain ideas would immediately come to mind.
如果我現在說，這個屏幕后面站著一個非常成功的人，你心里馬上就會產生一些想法。
You'd think that person might have made a lot of money, achieved renown in some field.
你會想，這個人可能很有錢，在某些領域赫赫有名。
My own theory of success -- I'm somebody who's very interested in success,
我對成功的理解是，首先我是一個對成功非常有興趣的人，
I really want to be successful, always thinking, how can I be more successful?
我想要成功，我總是想著“要怎樣我才能更成功？”
But as I get older, I'm also very nuanced about what that word "success" might mean.
但當我漸漸長大，我越來越疑惑究竟什么是“成功”的真正意義。
Here's an insight that I've had about success: You can't be successful at everything.
我對成功有一些觀察，你不可能在所有事情上成功。
We hear a lot of talk about work-life balance. Nonsense. You can't have it all. You can't.
我們常聽到有關工作和休閑的平衡。鬼話。你不可能全部擁有。你就是不能。
So any vision of success has to admit what it's losing out on, where the element of loss is.
所有對成功的想象，必須承認他們同時也失去了一些東西，放棄了一些東西。
And I think any wise life will accept, as I say, that there is going to be an element where we're not succeeding.
我想一個智者能接受，如我所說，總是有什么是我們得不到的。
