2016TED演：更好对话的10种方式英文加中文翻译.docVIP

All right ,I want to see a show of hands:how many of you have,unfriended someone on Facebook because they said something offensive about politics or religon,childcare food? And how many of you know at least one person that you avoid because you just dont want to talk to them?You know,it used to be that in order to have a polite conversation we just had to follow the advice of Henry Higgins in My Fair Lady. Stick to the weather and your health.But these days,with climate change and anti-vaxxing,those subject… are not safe either.So this world that we live in, this world in which every conversation has the potential to devolve into an argument, where our politicians cant speak to one another and where even the most trivial of issues have someone fighting both passionately for it and against it,its not normal.Pew Research did a study of 10000 American adults,and they found that at this moment,we are more popularized,we are more divided,than we ever have been in history.Were less likely to compromise,which means were not listening to each other.And we make decisions about where to live,who to marry and even who our friends are going to be,based on what we already believe.Again,that means were not listening to each other.A conversation requires a balance between talking and listening,and somewhere along the way,we lost that balance.Now,part of that is due to technology.The smartphones that you all either have in your hands or close enough that you could grab them really quickly.According to Pew Research,about a third of American teenagers send more than a hundred text a day.And many of them,almost most of them, are more likely to text their friends than they are to talk to them face to face.Theres this great piece in The Atlantic.It was written by a high school teacher named Paul Barnwell. And he gave his kids a communication project.He wanted to teach them how to speak in a specific subject without using notes.And he said this I came to realize…I came to realize tha