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One of those things was puberty. Beautiful time indeed. But moreover,
其中一件是青春期的到來。非常美麗的時期。但除此之外，
I got interested in building robots, and I wanted to teach myself about hardware.
我開始對搭建機器人感興趣，我還想自學硬件知識。
But building things with hardware, especially if you're teaching yourself, is something that's really difficult to do.
但搭建需要硬件的東西，尤其是當你是在自學的時候，是一件非常困難的事情。
It has a high likelihood of failure and moreover, it has a high likelihood of making you feel stupid.
失敗幾率非常高，并且，這很有可能讓你覺得自己超級智障。
And that was my biggest fear at the time. So I came up with a setup that would guarantee success 100 percent of the time.
而那就是我當時最大的恐懼。所以我做了一個一定能保證100%成功率的設定。
With my setup, it would be nearly impossible to fail.
根據我的設定，失敗可能性幾乎為零。
And that was that instead of trying to succeed, I was going to try to build things that would fail.
我打算再試著獲得成功，我要制作一個肯定失敗的機器。
And even though I didn't realize it at the time, building stupid things was actually quite smart,
盡管我當時并沒有意識到，但實際上，制作一無是處東西其實還是個挺聰明的點子，
because as I kept on learning about hardware, for the first time in my life, I did not have to deal with my performance anxiety.
因為當我對硬件的學習更加深入的時候，我人生中第一次，不用應對自我表現方面的焦慮。
And as soon as I removed all pressure and expectations from myself,
并且當我卸除了所有對自己的壓力與期待后，
that pressure quickly got replaced by enthusiasm, and it allowed me to just play.
壓力很快就被熱情取代，我就可以只是瞎玩了。
So as an inventor, I'm interested in things that people struggle with.
所以，作為一個發明者，我對人們很難做到的事情很感興趣。
It can be small things or big things or medium-sized things.
可以是小事，大事，或者二者之間的事。
And something like giving a TED talk presents this whole new set of problems that I can solve.
而做一場TED演講，帶來了一系列我能解決的全新問題。
And identifying a problem is the first step in my process of building a useless machine.
而發現問題則是搭建一個無用機器的第一步。
So before I came here, I sat down and I thought of some of the potential problems I might have in giving this talk.
在我來這里之前，我坐下來好好思考了一番演講時可能遇到的問題。
Forgetting what to say. That people won't laugh, that's you.
忘詞。沒人笑，說的就是你哦。
Or even worse, that you'll laugh at the wrong things, that was an OK part to laugh at, thank you.
或者更糟的是，你們笑錯地方了，這里你們其實是可以笑的，謝謝。
