TED演讲训练稿件 The search for “aha!” moment.docx

PAGE 231 Lesson27当你和世界不一样，追寻“顿悟”时刻 The search for “aha!” moment Speaker：Matt Goldman · Entrepreneur 英文版 00:12 So its 1969, New York City,? third grade music class,? and our teacher brings us into a room with nothing but a piano and chairs.? And one by one, he calls us up,? and he plays middle C, and he asks us to sing it. 00:34 (Singing) 00:37 And youre either instructed to go to the right of the room? or the left side of the room. 00:44 And when all 35 kids are done,? the left side of the room, which I was a part of,? was told to stand up and go back to home room. 00:56 (Laughter)? And none of us ever received another music class again? in elementary school.? An in club and an out club was established,? and I didnt even know what the gating test was in the moment. 01:16 A few years later, English class ... 01:22 first paper of a new semester,? and I get the paper back,? and its C+,? with the comment, Good as can be expected. 01:38 Now, honestly, I didnt mind a C+.? I was just happy it wasnt a C- or a D.? But the good as can be expected comment ... even at that young age, it didnt seem right.? It seemed somehow limiting. 01:57 Now, how many people here have had an experience similar to that,? either at school or the workplace?? Were not alone. 02:10 So I guess it might be ironic? that my life path would lead me to a career? of making music and writing for Blue Man Group 02:24 and starting a school. 02:28 But school was torture for me.? As someone who didnt have a natural proclivity for academics,? and my teachers never seemed to understand me,? I didnt know how to navigate schools? and schools didnt know what to do with me.? So I started to ask the question, even back then,? if these environments didnt know what to do? with people who didnt fit a standard mold,? why werent we reshaping the environments? to take advantage of peoples strengths?? What Ive come to beli