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Now in the nature area, we look at whether or not we are innately equipped with something,
在天份的方面，我們必須要檢視我們是否生來就有這天賦，
perhaps in our brains, some abnormal chromosome that causes this muse-like effect.
或者在我們的大腦里，是否有些一些不正常的染色體帶來了這些像是靈感的效應。
And some people would say that we're born with it in some other means.
有些人會用別的方法說這是我們與生俱來的。
And others, like my mother, would say that I get my material from past lives.
還有一些人，像我的母親，會說我是從前世里找到這些寫作材料的。
Some people would also say that creativity may be a function of some other neurological quirk -- van Gogh syndrome
有些人會說創作力是一種精神異常的副作用--類似梵高癥候群，
that you have a little bit of, you know, psychosis, or depression.
就是你有一點精神失常，或是憂郁癥。
I do have to say, somebody -- I read recently that van Gogh wasn't really necessarily psychotic,
但我必須告訴這些人--最近我才讀到梵高其實不一定是精神病患，
that he might have had temporal lobe seizures, and that might have caused his spurt of creativity,
而更可能得了一種顳葉癲癇癥，造成了他這種突然性的創作力，
and I don't -- I suppose it does something in some part of your brain.
我想那的確會影響你一部分的大腦。
And I will mention that I actually developed temporal lobe seizures a number of years ago,
我也必須提到，事實上數年前我也有過這種顳葉癲癇，
but it was during the time I was writing my last book, and some people say that book is quite different.
那時我正在寫我的上一本書，有些人說那本書很不同。
I think that part of it also begins with a sense of identity crisis:
還有一部分是從身份危機開始的：
you know, who am I, why am I this particular person, why am I not black like everybody else?
我是誰，為什么我是這個我，為什么我不像別人一樣是黑人？
And sometimes you're equipped with skills, but they may not be the kind of skills that enable creativity.
有時候，你裝備著那些技能，但它們可能不是一些能帶來創造力的技能。
I used to draw. I thought I would be an artist. And I had a miniature poodle.
我以前還會畫畫。我曾以為我會成為一個畫家。這是我畫的迷你貴賓狗。
And it wasn't bad, but it wasn't really creative.
似乎還不壞，但實在算不上什么創意。
Because all I could really do was represent in a very one-on-one way.
因為我所能做的不過是把它們一個個畫下來。
And I have a sense that I probably copied this from a book.
而且我很有可能還是從一本書上抄繪下來的。
And then, I also wasn't really shining in a certain area that I wanted to be,
但是我在我真正想要的地方又似乎表現的不是太出色，
and you know, you look at those scores, and it wasn't bad,
你知道，你看著那些成績，是不很差，
but it was not certainly predictive that I would one day make my living out of the artful arrangement of words.
但也絕不可能讓我預測到有天我竟然能用寫作來謀生。
