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Also, one of the principles of creativity is to have a little childhood trauma.
創意的其中一項原則是擁有童年的心理創傷。
And I had the usual kind that I think a lot of people had, and that is that, you know, I had expectations placed on me.
我想我有的創傷和一般人一樣，來自父母對子女過分熱切的期望。
That figure right there, by the way, figure right there was a toy given to me when I was but nine years old,
那具人體模型，是我在九歲的時候得到的一件玩具，
and it was to help me become a doctor from a very early age.
以助我在童年時期就能踏上成為醫生康莊大道。
I have some ones that were long lasting:
還有一些持續比較久的心理創傷：
from the age of five to 15, this was supposed to be my side occupation, and it led to a sense of failure.
從五到十五歲，成為一個鋼琴家理應變成我的第二職業，但最終它只變成我感覺失敗的來源。
But actually, there was something quite real in my life that happened when I was about 14.
但事實上，在我人生中是有一些真實的心理創傷，發生在我十四歲的時候。
And it was discovered that my brother, in 1967, and then my father, six months later, had brain tumors.
就是在1967年發現我的兄弟，以及六個月后發現我的父親，雙雙長了腦瘤。
And my mother believed that something had gone wrong, and she was gonna find out what it was, and she was gonna fix it.
我母親相信有些事情出錯了，她想找出原因，然后解決它。
My father was a Baptist minister, and he believed in miracles, and that God's will would take care of that.
我父親是個牧師，他相信神跡，他相信神會解決那些問題。
But, of course, they ended up dying, six months apart.
但當然，他們都過世了，中間隔了六個月。
And after that, my mother believed that it was fate, or curses
在那之后，我母親相信那是命運，是詛咒，
she went looking through all the reasons in the universe why this would have happened.
她找遍了宇宙間為什么這件事會發生的所有可能的理由。
Everything except randomness. She did not believe in randomness. There was a reason for everything.
除了偶然以外所有的理由。她不相信偶然。每件事都有原因。
And one of the reasons, she thought, was that her mother, who had died when she was very young, was angry at her.
她相信其中一件原因是在她的母親，她相信在她幼年就過世的母親怨恨她。
And so, I had this notion of death all around me, because my mother also believed that I would be next, and she would be next.
所以我總被死亡的陰影籠罩著，因為我母親還相信我會是下一個，或是她會是下一個。
And when you are faced with the prospect of death very soon, you begin to think very much about everything.
當你面對死亡的時候，你開始認真思考每件事情。
You become very creative, in a survival sense.
從一種爭取生存的角度來說，你開始非常有創造力。
