TED英语演讲稿：无所畏惧学无止境

1、iTED 英语演讲稿：无所畏惧学无止境this is tim ferriss circa 1979 a.d. age two. you can tell by the powersquat, i was a very con fide nt boy - and not without reas on. i had a verycharm ing routi ne at the time, which was to wait un til late in the eve ningwhe n my pare nts were decompress ing from a hard day s wor

2、k, doingtheir crossword puzzles, watchi ng televisio n. i would run into the livi ngroom, jump up on the couch, rip the cushi ons off, throw them on the floor,scream at the top of my lungs and run out because i was the in crediblehulk. (laughter) obviously, you see theresembla nee. and this routi ne

3、 went on for some time.when i was seven i went to summer camp. my parents found it necessary for peace of mind. and at noon each day the campers would goto a pond, where they had floating docks. you could jump off the end intothe deep end. i was born premature. i was always very small. my left lungh

4、ad collapsed when i was born. and i ve always had buoyancy problems.so water was something that scared me to begin with. but i would go in onoccasi on. and on one particular day, the campers were jumping throughinner tubes, they werediving through inner tubes. and i thought this would be greatfun. s

5、o i dove through the inner tube, and the bully of the camp grabbedmy an kles. and i tried to come up for air, and my lower back hit the2bottom of the inner tube. and i went wild eyed and thought i was going todie. a camp coun selor fortunately came over and separatedus. fromthat pointon ward i was t

6、errified of swimmi ng. thatis somethi ng that idid not get over. my in ability to swim has bee n one of my greatesthumiliationsand embarrassments. that is when irealized that i was not the in credible hulk.but there is a happy ending to this story. at age 31 - thats my age now - in august i took two

7、 weeks to re-examine swimming, andquestion all the of the obvious aspects of swimmi ng. and went fromswimmi ng one lap - so 20 yards -like a drow ning mon key, at about 200beats per minute heart rate - i measured it - to going to mon tauk on longisla nd,close to where i grew up, and jumping into the

8、 ocean and swimming onekilometer in open water, getting out and feeling better than when i went in.and i came out, in my speedos, europea n style, feeli ng like the incredible hulk.and that s what i want every one in here to feel like, thein crediblehulk, at the end of this prese ntati on.morespecif

9、icallywant you to feel like you re capable of beco ming anexcellent Iong-distaneeswimmer, a world-class Ianguagelearner, and a tango champi on. and i would like to share my art. if i have3an art, it s dec on structi ng things that really scare the livi ng hell out ofme. so, movi ng on ward.swimming,

10、 first principles. first principles, this is very importa nt. ifind that the best results in life are ofte n held back by false constructs anduntested assumptions. and the turnaround in swimming came when afriend of mine said, iwill goa year withoutanystimula nts- thisis asix-double-espresso-per-day

11、 type of guy - if you can completea onekilometeropenwater race. so theclockstarted ticking. i started seeking out triathletes because i found that lifelong swimmers ofte n could n t teach what they did. i tried kickboards. myfeet would slice through the water like razors, i would n t eve n move. iwo

12、uld leave demoralized,stari ng at my feet. hand paddles, everythi ng. eve n did less ons witholympia ns - no thi ng helped. and the n chris sacca, who is now a dearfrie nd mine, had completed an iron man with 103 degree temperature,said, i have the an swer to your prayers. and he introducedme to the

13、work of a man named terrylaughli n who is the foun der of total immersio n swimmi ng. that set me onthe road to exam ining biomecha ni cs.so here are the new rules of swim min g, if any of you areafraid of swimmi ng, or not good at it. the first is, forget about4kicking. very counterintuitive.so it

14、turns out that propulsionisn t really the problem. kicking harder doesn t solve the problem becausethe average swimmer only transfers about three perce nt of their en ergyexpe nditure into forward motio n.the problem is hydrod yn amics. so what you want to focus on in stead isallow ing your lower bo

15、dy to draft behi nd your upper body, much like asmall car beh ind a big car on the highway.and you do that by maintaining a horiz on tal body positi on. theon ly way you can do that is to not swim on top of the water.the body is denser than water. 95 percentof it would be, atleast, submerged n atura

16、lly.so you end up, nu mber three, not swim ming, in the caseof freestyle, on your stomach, as many people thi nk, reach ingon top of the water. but actually rotatingfrom streamlinedright to streamli ned left, main tai ning that fuselage positi on as long aspossible. so let s look at some examples. t

17、his is terry.and you can see that he s exte nding his right arm below his head and farin front. and so his entire body really is un derwater. the arm is exte ndedbelow the head. the head is held in line with the spine, so that you usestrategic water pressure to raise your legs up - very importa nt,e

18、specially for people with lower body fat. here is an example of the stroke.so you don t kick. but you do use a small flick. you can see this is the left5exte nsion. the n you see his left leg. small flick, and the only purpose ofthat is to rotate his hips so he can get to the opposite side. and the

19、entrypoint for his right hand -no tice this, he s not reachi ng in front and catching the water.rather, he is en teri ng the water at a 45-degree an gle with his forearm,and the n propelli ng himself by streamli ning - very importa nt.incorrect,above, which is what almost everyswim ming coach will t

20、each you. not their fault, hon estly. and ill get to implicit versus explicit in a moment. below is what most swimmerswill find en ables them to do what i did, which is going from 21 strokes per20-yard len gth to 11 strokes in two workouts with no coach, no video monitori ng. and now i love swimming

21、. i can t wait to go swimming. i ll be doinga swimmi ng less on later, for myself, if anyone wants to joi n me.last thi ng, breath ing. a problem a lot of us have, certa inly, whe nyou re swimmi ng. in freestyle, easiest way to remedy this is to turn withbody roll, and just to look at your recovery

22、hand as it en ters the water.and that will get you very far. that s it.that s really all you n eed to know.Ian guages. material versus method. i, like many people,came to the conclusion that i was terrible at Ianguages. i suffered throughspanish for junior high, first year of high school, and the su

23、m total of mykno wledge was pretty much, donde esta el bano? and i would n t eve n6catch the resp on se. a sad state of affairs. then i transferred to adifferent schoolsophomore year, and i had a choice of other Ian guages. most of myfriends were taking japanese. so i thoughtwhy notpunish myself? i

24、ll do japa nese. six mon ths later i had the cha nee to goto japa n. my teachers assured me, they said, don t worry. you ll havejapanese Ianguage classes every day to help you cope. it will be anamazing experienee.my firstoverseas experie nee in fact. so my pare nts en couraged me to do it. ileft.i

25、arrived in tokyo. amaz in g. i could n t believe i was on the otherside of the world. i met my host family. things went quite well i thi nk, all things con sidered. my first eve ning, before my first day of school, i said tomy mother, very politely, please wake me up at eight a.m. so, (japanese)but

26、i didn t say (japanese). i said, (japanese). pretty close. but i said,please rape me at eight a.m. (laughter) you ve never seen a more confused japa nese woma n. (laughter)i walked in to school. and a teacher came up to me andhanded me a piece of paper. i couldn t read any of it -hieroglyphics, itco

27、uld have been - because it was kanji, chin ese characters adapted intothe japa nese Ian guage. asked him what this said. and he goes, ahh,okay okay, eehto, world history, ehh, calculus, traditi onal japa nese. and7so on. and so it came to me in waves. there had been something lost intran slati on. t

28、he japa nese classes were no t japa nese in structi onclasses, per se. they were the n ormal high school curriculum for japanese stude nts - the other 4,999 stude nts in the school, who werejapanese, besides the american. and that s pretty much my resp on se.(laughter)and that set me on this panic d

29、riven search for theperfectIan guagemethod.i tried everything.i wenttokinokuniya. i triedeverypossible book, everypossiblecd.nothing worked un til i found this. this is the joyo kanji. this is a tabletrather, or a poster of the 1,945 com mon-use characters as determ inedby the mini stry of educati o

30、n in 1981. many of the publicati ons in japa nlimit themselves to these characters, to facilitate literacy - some arerequired to. and this became my holy grail, my rosetta stone.as soon as i focused on this material, i took off. i en ded up beingable to read asahi shin bu, asahi n ewspaper, about si

31、x mon ths later - soa total of 11 mon ths later - and went from japa nese i to japa nese vi. ended up doing tran slati on work at age 16 when i returned to the u.s.,and have continued toapply this material over method approach to close to a doze n Ian guagesnow. some one who was terrible at Ian guag

32、es, and at any give n time,speak, read and write five or six. this brings us to the point, which is, it s8ofte ntimes what you do, not how you do it, that is the determ ining factor.this is the differe nee betwee n being effective - doing the right thi ngs -and being efficie nt - doing thi ngs well

33、whether or not they re importa nt.you can also do this with grammar. i came up with thesesix sentences after much experimentation.having a nativespeaker allow you to dec on struct their grammar, by tran slat ing thesesenten ces into past, prese nt, future,will show yousubject, object, verb, placeme

34、nt of in direct,direct objects,gen der and so forth. from that point, you can the n, if you want to, acquiremultiple Ian guages, alternate them so there is nointerferenee. we can talk about that if anyone in interested. and now i loveIan guages.so ballroom dancing, implicit versus explicit - very im

35、porta nt. youmight look at me and say, that guy must be a ballroom dan cer. butno, you d be wrong because my body is very poorly desig ned formost thi ngs - pretty well desig ned for lifting heavy rocks perhaps.i used to be much bigger, much more muscular. and so i ended upwalking like this. i looke

36、d a lot like an orangutan, our close cousins,or the in credible hulk. not very good for ballroom dancing.i found myself in argentinain XX, decided to watch atango class - had no inten tio n of participat ing. went in, paid my tenpesos, walked up - 10 women two guys, usually a good ratio. the in9stru

37、ctor says, you are participati ng. immediately: death sweat. (laughter)fight-or-flight fear sweat, because i tried ballroom dancing in college -stepped on the girl s foot with my heel. she screamed. i was so concernedwith her percepti on of what i was doing, that it exploded in my face, never to ret

38、ur n to the ballroom dancing club. she comes up, and this washer approach, the teacher. okay, come on, grab me. gorgeous assista ntin structor. she was very pissed off that i had pulled her from her advaneed practice. so i did my best. i did n t know where to put my han ds. andshe pulled back, threw

39、 down her arms, put them on her hips, turnedaround and yelled across the room, this guy is built like a god-da mnedmountain of muscle, and he s grabbing me like a fucking frenchman,(laughter) which i found encouraging. (laughter) every one burst intolaughter. i was humiliated. she came back.she goes

40、, come on. i don t have all day. as some one who wrestled sinceage eight, i proceeded to crush her, of mice and men style. and shelooked up and said, now that s better. so i bought a month s worth ofclasses. (laughter)and proceeded to look at - i wan ted to set competiti onso i d have a deadline - p

41、arkinsons law, the perceivedcomplexity of a task will expa nd to fill the time you allot it. so i had a veryshort deadline for a competition. i got a female instructorfirst, to teachme the female role, the follow,10because i wan ted to un dersta nd the sen sitivities and abilities that thefollow n e

42、eded to develop, so i would n t have a repeat of college. and then i took an inven tory of the characteristics, along with her, of the of thecapabilities and elements of differe nt dan cers who d won champi onships.i in terviewedthese peoplebecause they all taught in buenos aires. icompared the two

43、lists, and what you find is that there is explicitly,expertise they recomme nded,certa intrai ningmethods. the n there were implicit com mon alities that none of themseemed to be practicing.now the protectionismofarge ntine dance teachers aside, i found this very in terest ing.so i decided to focus

44、on three of those com mon alities.longsteps. so a lot of mil on gueros - the tango dan cers will use very shortsteps. i found that Ion ger steps were much more elega nt. so you canhave - and you can do it in a very small space in fact. sec on dly, differenttypes of pivots. thirdly,variati on in temp

45、o. these seemed to be the three areas that i could exploitto compete if i wan ted to compteteaga instpeople who d bee n practic ing for 20 to 30 years.that photo is of the semi-finals of the buenos aires champi on ships,four mon ths later. the n one mon th later, went to the world champi onships,mad

46、e it to the semi-fi nal. and11the n set a world record, followi ng that, two weeks later. i want you to seepart of what i practiced. i m going to jump forward here. this is the instructor that alicia and i chose for the male lead. his name is gabriel misse.one of the most elegant dancers of his gene

47、ration, known for his longsteps, and his tempo changes and his pivots. alicia, in her own right, veryfamous. so i thi nk you ll agree, they look quite good together. now what ilike about this video is it s actually a video of the first time they everdanced together because of his lead. he had a strong lead. he did n t leadwith his chest, which requires you lea n forward. i could n t develop theattributes in my toes,the strength in my