TED演讲:创意隐藏在哪里(11)

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and I think that's important for me -- to take on the beliefs, because that is where the story is real, 这对我来说是重要的--去真正接受这些信仰，因为这样，故事才能真实，

and that is where I'm gonna find the answers to how I feel about certain questions that I have in life. 那便是我找到的答案，来解决我人生问题的地方。

Years go by, of course, and the writing, it doesn't happen instantly, as I'm trying to convey it to you here at TED¹. 随着时间过去，我也写了很多作品，但这不是在一瞬间发生的，在这里，我想对你们说的是。

The book comes and it goes. When it arrives, it is no longer my book. 这些书来了又走。当它来到的时候，它已不再属于我。

It is in the hands of readers, and they interpret it differently. 而在每个读者手中，他们有不同的解读。

But I go back to this question of, how do I create something out of nothing? And how do I create my own life? 但我仍然回到同样的问题，我如何无中生有？我如何创造自己的生命？

And I think it is by questioning, and saying to myself that there are no absolute truths. 我对它提出问题，并告诉我自己，它没有一个确定的答案。

I believe in specifics, the specifics of story, 我相信那些具体的事，故事中的细节，

and the past, the specifics of that past, and what is happening in the story at that point. 以及往事，往事中的细节，当时故事中所发生的事。

I also believe that in thinking about things -- my thinking about luck, and fate, 我也相信，在我们考量着这些，有关运气、命运、

and coincidences and accidents, God's will, and the synchrony of mysterious forces 巧合和意外，天意和这些神秘力量的互动时，

I will come to some notion of what that is, how we create. I have to think of my role. 我将会对我们的创造力有些概念。我思考自己的角色。

Where I am in the universe, and did somebody intend for me to be that way, or is it just something I came up with? 在宇宙中的原因，是否有人要我成为现在这个样子，或是那完全出于我自己？

And I also can find that by imagining fully², and becoming what is imagined -- and yet is in that real world, the fictional³ world. 我可以借着想象来找到答案，或成为自己想象的模样，在那真实世界，虚构世界。

And that is how I find particles of truth, not the absolute truth, or the whole truth. 这便是我找到部分真理的办法，不是绝对的，或是完全的真理。

And they have to be in all possibilities, including those I never considered before. So, there are never complete answers. 它们仍有许多可能性，包括那些我从未想到的从没有完整的答案。

Or rather, if there is an answer, it is to remind myself that there is uncertainty⁴ in everything, and that is good, 就算有，也是为了提醒我自己，一切都是变化无常的，那是件好事，

because then I will discover something new. 因为我总能发现新东西。

And if there is a partial answer, a more complete answer from me, it is to simply imagine. 如果有一个片段的答案，一个更完整的答案，便是简单的想象。

And to imagine is to put myself in that story, until there was only there is a transparency between me and the story that I am creating. 想象便是将自己放进故事里，直到我和我的故事间完全透明，毫无距离。

And that's how I've discovered that if I feel what is in the story -- in one story 那便是我发现，若我能感觉到故事里的情节，

then I come the closest, I think, to knowing what compassion⁵ is, to feeling that compassion. 那么我便接近了懂得了什么是同感，去完整的感受这同感。

Because for everything, in that question of how things happen, it has to do with the feeling. 因为对每件事来说，当我们问事情是怎么发生的，那便和感受有关。

I have to become the story in order to understand a lot of that. 我必须成为故事的一部分才能理解。

We've come to the end of the talk, and I will reveal what is in the bag, and it is the muse⁶, 当我们来到演讲的最后，我将揭露袋子里的是什么，那是灵感，

and it is the things that transform in our lives, that are wonderful and stay with us. 是改变我们人生的事物，那些美好的，从不离弃的。

There she is. Thank you very much! 它在这里。非常感谢！

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