The Trick to Regaining Your Childlike Wonder | Zach King | TED

譯者: Lilian Chiu 審譯者: Val Zhang

Chris Anderson: Our first speaker was supposed to be

克里斯．安德森： 第一位講者原定是

the amazing creative filmmaker from LA, Zach King.

來自洛杉磯的出色 影片製作人──扎克．金。

But unfortunately, he's gone missing.

但可惜的是……

他失蹤了，我們一直在找他。

We've been trying to track him down.

(Ringing)

（來電鈴聲）

Ah!

啊！

Zach King: Hey, I’m so sorry I’m not at the conference.

扎克．金：抱歉我沒在現場， 不能出席，我困在機場。

I'm not going to make it, I'm stuck at the airport.

這個太大了，他們不放行。

They wouldn't let me in with this, apparently, it's oversized.

Wait, you’re onstage.

等等，你在台上！

Hold on, I have an idea.

等等，我有個點子！

If I just set the phone down here.

如果我把手機擺在這兒……

OK.

好了！

This might ...

這樣或許……

喔！

Oh.

(Laughter)

（笑聲）

Hey.

嘿！

Sorry I'm late.

抱歉，我遲到了！

CA: People of TED, Zach King.

安：TED 的大家，歡迎扎克．金！

(Applause and cheers)

（掌聲及歡呼聲）

ZK: I'm glad that worked

金：很高興剛成功了，

because sometimes I get stuck in the screen

有時我會卡在螢幕上， 卡住反而變成演說的焦點。

and it becomes a whole thing.

I have a question for you this morning.

今早我想向各位提問：

What is this?

這是什麼？

You can have -- a box, yeah.

箱子，是的！

I ask a lot of people that question,

我問過許多人，大都說是個箱子。

and most people say it's a box.

But I've met a small group of people who have told me that this is not a box.

但我遇過少數人，他們跟我說：

這不是箱子。

And what's fascinating about this group of people

這些人不可思議之處在於──

is they're the ones that have pioneered space travel,

他們是太空旅行的先鋒，

explored the depths of our oceans

海洋深處的探險家，

and created some of the most impenetrable fortresses,

堅固堡壘的建造者，

all before the age of five.

且都未滿五歲。

Of course, I'm talking about my kids.

當然，我指的是我的孩子。

See, when I showed them this,

當我給孩子看這東西，

they told me that this was not a box,

他們告訴我，這不是箱子，

but rather a rocket ship,

而是太空梭、潛水艇和城堡的合體。

a submarine and a castle all at once, somehow combined.

So why is it that you and I, as adults,

為什麼你我這般的成人，

we look at something like this and we just call it what it is, a box.

就只會「見箱是箱」，

But our children, they can see it for more possibilities.

但我們的孩子能看見更多可能？

Over the past decade as a filmmaker,

在過去十年，身為影片製作人，

I've been on a quest to see with this childlike wonder again.

我一直追求以童心看世界。

所以當我看到撞球 （字同「池」）桌，

So now when I see something such as a pool table,

well, I see an entirely different type of pool.

我看見完全不同的池子。

(Laughter)

（笑聲）

And I no longer see a little soccer ball here.

而我看到的也不再是顆小足球──

It's actually got some life to it, it's a little Dalmatian puppy.

而是活生生的大麥町幼犬。

I no longer see the glass as half empty.

我看到的不再是半空的杯子──

In fact, I don't even see a glass at all.

我根本沒看到杯子，對我來說，

For me, it's actually a tasty piece of chocolate cake.

它其實是塊好吃的巧克力蛋糕。

(Murmurs and laughter)

（低語聲和笑聲）

See, you and I can still access this childlike wonder.

你我都還能以童心看世界，

We can still see and dream with this wonder,

although it may have been a while since we've experienced it.

即便我們或許已生疏。

So today what I want to do for you

今天我想為各位

is have you regain your sense of childlike wonder

重拾童心異想，並親身示範。

and show you how to do that.

So, if you will,

若各位願意聽，我想說個故事，

I want to tell you a story,

and I invite you to imagine with me

並邀你一同想像：

that one Christmas, a box just like this is wrapped

某個聖誕節，這樣的箱子 被包裝好放在樹下。

and placed under a tree.

And an excited little boy comes running down the stairs

聖誕節早晨，興奮的 小男孩衝下樓梯，

on Christmas morning

and he unwraps the box and inside is a bike.

他拆開箱子，裡面──

是台腳踏車。

And although he rides the bike for a few moments around the room,

雖然他騎腳踏車 繞著房間一會兒，

he ends up playing with the box instead.

最後他反而玩起了箱子。

Because to him it's a deep, dark cave.

因為對他而言， 那是又深又黑的洞穴。

Hello.

哈囉！

(Echoes)

（迴音）

And at the bottom of that cave

在洞穴的底部，

is an X marks the spot.

有個✖標記。

And of course, he's the best pirate on the seas,

身為最強的海盜，

so he's going to dig for buried treasure.

他可不會放過深埋的寶藏！

(Panting)

（喘氣）

It's a lot of work digging for treasure.

挖寶藏真累人……。

(Metallic sound)

（金屬聲）

And that's when he discovered ...

此時，他發現……

That he -- (Screams)

他──（尖叫聲）

Whoa.

哇啊！

That he was not the first pirate to look for this treasure.

他不是第一位來找寶藏的海盜。

But that boy had many adventures with this box over the years.

多年來，男孩藉著箱子 踏上許多冒險。

Once, it was his time machine

有一次，它是他的時光機，

that took him back to the age of the dinosaurs.

帶他回到恐龍時代，

(Dinosaur screeching)

（恐龍叫聲）喔！

Oh!

有回它是地下碉堡， 他藉此躲過末日的喪屍。

Another time it was actually his bunker to hide from the zombie apocalypse.

(Screaming)

（尖叫聲）

And once he even dreamed that it was a submarine

還有次他想像它是艘潛水艇，

that took him to the depths of the ocean

帶他到海洋深處，

until he could no longer hold his breath.

直到他無法再憋氣。

(Water splashing)

（水濺聲）

But one day, the boy couldn't find the box.

但有天男孩找不到箱子，

He looked in his room.

他找遍他的房間，

He searched the backyard.

他搜索了後院，

And then he found it in the garage.

他在車庫找到它。

And when he ran to go play with it,

他跑過去要玩，打開時，

he opened it up.

And inside were winter jackets.

裡面裝著冬天的外套。

And this was the day that the boy learned

那天，男孩明白了 箱子原本的用途：

what the box was actually made to do.

To store things.

裝東西。

Now the box is just a regular box.

現在，箱子就只是個普通箱子。

The boy ended up packing up his things to go to college in that box

最後，男孩用箱子打包 要帶去大學的東西，

a couple of years later.

那是幾年後的事。

Soon after that, he used that box

不久他結婚了，用箱子 搬東西到他的第一個家。

to move to his first home when he got married.

之後為了騰出空間給寶寶， 他把影像設備裝箱，

And then after that, to make room for the baby,

he packed some of his film gear in this box,

放在車庫的置物架 頂層許久，積了灰塵。

placed it in the top shelf of his garage,

where it sat for a while collecting dust.

See, I was that boy

我就是那個男孩，

and I'm embarrassed to admit that that box sat on the top shelf of the garage

我幾乎羞於承認──

那箱子後來又在 車庫的架上待了多年，

for many more years after that, not being dreamed with.

不再陪著男孩一起做夢。

So, one night I heard a sound.

有一晚，我聽見一個聲音。

(Crashing)

（撞擊聲）

It was coming from the garage and I thought someone was breaking in,

聲音來自車庫，我以為 有人闖入，跑去查看。

so I went to go check it out.

我驚訝地發現箱子在地上，

To my surprise, the box was on the ground,

and my kids were dreaming with the box.

對著紙箱，我的孩子們 正發揮著想像力。

(Kids laugh)

（孩子笑聲）

And they said, “Daddy, we’re playing rocket ship.

他們說：「爹地，我們在 玩太空梭，來陪我們玩！」

Come play with us.”

It had been a while since I played with the box,

我沒玩箱子好久了， 但我為他們點燃了引擎。

but I fired on the engine for them.

Sure enough,

當然，這麼多年後她還能運作，

after all these years, she still ran and we headed into space.

我們朝向太空前進。

Houston, we're ready for liftoff.

「休士頓，我們準備起飛了。」

(Rocket lifts off)

（太空梭起飛聲）

We ended up going just a little past Jupiter,

抵達在比木星遠一些的位置，

where we met some friendly space aliens who taught us a really cool sport

我們在那遇到友善的外星人，

教我們很酷的運動， 我想秀給各位看，

that I want to show you, called space soccer.

叫「太空足球」──

It's a really slow sport, requires a lot of yoga.

它是很緩慢的運動， 需要許多瑜伽技巧，

(Laughter)

（笑聲）

But it is more fun than golf.

但比高爾夫有趣。

So.

在車庫裡，我發現了

It was there in that garage

that I learned the key to why all our kids see with childlike wonder.

孩子們能以童心看世界的關鍵：

It's because they don't have assumptions.

因為他們沒有預設。

They don't have assumptions about the box yet.

他們對箱子還沒有預設，

They haven't been told what it's supposed to do

還沒人告訴他們：箱子的 使用方法或原本用途，

or what it's supposed to be used for.

Therefore, they have all these other possibilities.

因而他們對此有無限想像。

So for you and I,

對你我而言，

as we approach life and try to solve new problems,

當我們面對人生， 試圖解決新問題時，

if we're able to remove our assumptions for a moment,

若能暫時放下我們的預設，

we can see with this new childlike wonder once again.

便能再次以童心看世界。

So I want to test this out and see if this worked,

我想測試這方法是否可行，

if this experience regained a little sense of your wonder.

這體驗能否讓你 重拾一絲童心異想。

So I’m going to throw up my desktop image on the screen

我將投影出電腦桌面， 請各位克制自己的預設。

and I want you to hold back your assumptions.

So on the desktop screen,

看到電腦桌面上，

you might have a few assumptions that you can't hold back,

各位可能不由自主地預設：

you're looking at it going, I'm really disorganized,

我不太有條理，或預設 我有太多專案進行中，

or you’re assuming that I’ve got too many projects going on,

and both of those are true.

兩者皆對。

But I want us to look a little deeper to see the possibility.

但我希望我們看得 更深入些，看見其他可能，

So let me help clear the way here.

讓我幫大家開路。

(Leaf blower)

（吹葉機運作聲）

I was actually looking at the background.

吸引我目光的其實是背景，

Maybe I need a vacation.

也許我需要放個假。

You know, it's actually super nice here.

這兒超讚的！

Hey, I'll take that.

我要享用啦！

So the next time somebody tells you...

所以，下次有人告訴你……

Oh, wait, that doesn't make sense.

喔，等等，那不合理！

How do I get out of here?

我要怎麼離開這兒？

OK, I can figure this out.

我能想通的！

If that's not a box,

如果那不是個箱子，

maybe it's something else entirely.

也許它是完全不同的東西。

Maybe ...

也許……

It's a portal.

它是個傳送門！

(Applause and cheers)

（掌聲及歡呼聲）

So the next time ...

所以，下次……

(Applause)

（掌聲）

So the next time somebody tells you to think outside the box,

下次有人叫你跳脫 框架（箱子）思考，

you can tell them,

你可以告訴他們：

"Hey, this is not a box."

「嘿，這不是個箱子！」

Because when we remove our assumptions,

因為當我們放下預設，

we're able to then see with this childlike sense of wonder.

我們就能以童心看世界──

And that's the moment when new ideas can enter the world.

那就是新點子誕生的時刻。

(Applause and cheers)

（掌聲及歡呼聲）