And I thought about it. I thought about it a lot. The whole pattern from the beginning. And I think I understand why they expected someone different.
我考虑了很久 仔细思量了 整件事从头到尾 我似乎明白为什么他们期望不同了
You see they had to explain to themselves as well as the audience, "how come this lecture is larger than the Introduction to Economics?" And the way to explain it must be that
因为他们要说服自己 说服观众 "这门课怎么会比经济学导论更热门?" 唯一的解释就是
The teacher is very outgoing, extremely charismatic, very cheerful and extrovert and of course, tall.
导师非常外向 充满领袖气质 乐观开朗 当然了 还很高
Well, there is one L missing there. But... Yeah.
可惜我的名字少了一个L 但是 是啊
If only. So the problem though is that they were looking in the wrong place for the explanation.
真可惜 所以问题是 他们找答案找错了地方
In other words, they were looking at the messenger. What they needed to look at was the message. Now how do I know that?
也就是说 他们不该关注信息传达者 而应该关注信息本身 我怎么知道的呢
You see because I see other positive psychology classes on other campuses around the country and around the world. There are over 200 hundred campuses here in United States that teach positive psychology.
因为我参与过其他大学积极心理学课 遍及全国 乃至全球 美国有超过200所大学开设了本课程
On almost every campus where this class is taught, it's either one of the or the largest class. It's about the message.
而且几乎其中所有院校 这门课 都是参与人数最多的或者最多的之一 信息是关键
I see more and more organizations taking up positive psychology in their, as consultant companies, some of them the leading big consultant companies are taking it on.
越来越多的机构组织开设这门课 还有咨询公司 其中一些甚至是全球知名咨询公司
More and more high schools are introducing positive psychology class. Elementary schools are introducing it. The governments around the world are expressing interest in this new emerging field.
越来越多的中学开始引入积极心理学 小学也是 各国政府都对这一新领域表现出兴趣
Why? Because it works. Because it really works. You see this whole realm on life flourishing, on happiness, on well-being
为什么?因为它有效 它的的确确有效 殷盛人生 快乐 幸福感这一整个领域在此之前
Has been until recently dominated by the self-health movement. What do we have in the self-health movement? We have books that are very interesting,
一直被心理自助运动统治 心理自助运动带来了什么 生动有趣