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Ed Diener, who is also, I just mentioned his research, he is also the president, first president of the International Positive Psychology Association, he's from Illinois.
艾德·狄纳，我刚提到他的研究，他也是国际积极心理学协会的第一任会长，他来自伊利诺州
After years of research, concludes, it appears that the way people perceive the world is much more important to happiness than objective circumstances.
经过多年研究，他发现，对幸福而言，人们感知世界的方式比客观环境更重要
Now if you think about it, that makes a lot of sense. We know a lot of people who seemingly have everything,
如果你想一下的话，很有道理。我们认识许多看起来拥有一切的人
whether it's wealth, whether it's wonderful friends and family, all their dreams have come true,
无论是财富，或很好的朋友或家人，他们的梦想都已成真
and they are still miserable. While there are people who have very little, who have experienced hardship after hardship and who never cease to celebrate life.
但仍很痛苦。而有些人拥有的很少，经历了一次次困境而从没停止为生活感到欢庆，
Then there are people who have everything going for them and really appreciate it, don't take it for granted and are happy.
还有些人，他们拥有一切并很感激这一切，不觉得理所当然，他们很快乐，有些人
And there are people who don't have much and never cease to complain.
拥有的不多，永远都在抱怨
In other words, it's not just the internal or... sorry, it's not just the external that matters, what matters more is the internal.
换句话说，不只是内在的……抱歉，重要的不只是外在，更重要的是内在
Happiness is not contingent on our status, or the state of our bank account,
幸福不是取决于我们的处境，或我们银行账户里的金额
it's much more dependent on our state of mind, on what we choose to focus on.
更依赖于我们的思想状态，依赖于我们选择关注什么
Because our emotions are determined by external circumstances as well as internal, interpretation matters. For example,
因为我们的感情由外部和内部状况一起决定，如何去诠释很重要。比如
look at what Edison did, 5,000 failures to the external observer, for him
看爱迪生如何对待5000次的失败，对他而言
the evaluation was very different. The internal evaluation, the subjective evaluation, it was 5, 000 times where I showed what doesn't work.
评估和常人不同。内部评估，主观的评估，我证明了5000种方法不管用
