It was that question that essentially created the field of positive psychology as well as positive sociology. He was a sociologist by training as well as many other fields.
正是那个问题缔造了 积极心理学和积极社会学 他是训练有素的社会学家和其他领域的专家
Questions make a difference. Questions create reality. I want to do an exercise with you now.
问题导致改变 问题缔造现实 现在我想和你们做一个练习
We'll do quite a few exercises in class. Here's the first one. To illustrate the importance of question.
我们在课堂上会做一些练习 这是第一个 为了阐明问题的重要性
Now I'm going to ask you to count the number of geometric shapes that you see on the screen no, not this screen.
我要让你数几何图形的个数 你在屏幕上看到多少个. 不 不是这个屏幕
The next screen. And you are Harvard students. It's fine. The next screen.
是下一个屏幕 你们是哈佛大学的学生 没问题的 下一个屏幕
I am going to ask you to count the number of geometric shapes that you see on the screen. It's a very difficult question. I've given it to people.
我要让你们数几何图形的个数 你在屏幕上看到的 这是个非常难的问题 我把它给世界各地的人看过
Around the world i've given it to mathematicians, to artists who are very visual. And the challenge here is you are only going to have 30 seconds in which to do it.
我让数学家和视觉艺术家看过 这里的挑战是 你只有30秒去看它
30 seconds to tell me how many geometric shapes you see on the screen. Ready? 30 seconds.
30秒之后告诉我你在屏幕上你看到了 多少个几何图形 准备好了吗?30秒
How many geometric shapes do you see on the screen? Go. Ok. So that's 31 seconds.
你看到屏幕上有多少个几何图形? 开始 好的 31秒过去了