親愛的愛卿們，大家好，又到了我們學習英語的時間了，你準備好了麼？
今天小編為大家準備的一篇文章來自TED演講：長大後你想成為什麼樣的人？我們在以後的日子裡將採用「賽博學習法」進行英語閱讀的學習，她是由12個問題組成的，不過小編進行了改版哦！
好啦，那下面我們就正式開始了哦！
Step1：What's the purpose for you to read this article？
1. 掃除生詞，小編已經將重點短語給大家用黃色整理出來了哦；
2. 了解文章主要意思，提高閱讀速度
確保你自身想清楚這個問題之後再往下看文章哦，不要耍賴哦！
Step2: What kind of infos you have already got concerning this topic of what you want to be when you grow up?
花幾分鐘時間寫一下對於你想成為什麼樣的人這個話題你所了解或知道的信息有哪些，或對於這個問題你怎們看待，以便於你將你的觀點和文中觀點進行對比。
e.g. it is a hard question to answer, and my goal may be changed with time goes by and I have many dreams when I was young.
Step3：What is the main idea of this article？（現在花幾分鐘時間go through it, 一定要看完再往下翻哦，不然沒效果哦）
Raise your hand if you've ever been asked the question "What do you want to be when you grow up?"
Now if you had to guess, how old would you say you were when you were first asked this question?You can just hold up fingers（舉起手指頭）. Three. Five. Three. Five. Five. OK. Now, raise your hand if the question"What do you want to be when you grow up?" has ever caused you any anxiety.I'm someone who's never been able to answer the question "What do you want to be when you grow up?"See, the problem wasn't that I didn't have any interests -- it's that I had too many. In high school, I liked English and math and art and I built websites and I played guitar in a punk band called Frustrated Telephone Operator. Maybe you've heard of us.This continued after high school, and at a certain point, I began to notice this pattern in myself where I would become interested in an area and I would dive in（表意是潛入水中，在這裡是表示潛心鑽研）, become all-consumed, and I'd get to be pretty good at whatever it was, and then I would hit this point where I'd start to get bored. And usually I would try and persist anyway, because I had already devoted so much time and energy and sometimes money into this field. But eventually（最終） this sense of boredom, this feeling of, like, yeah, I got this, this isn't challenging anymore -- it would get to be too much. And I would have to let it go.But then I would become interested in something else, something totally unrelated, and I would dive into that, and become all-consumed, and I'd be like, "Yes! I found my thing," and then I would hit this point again where I'd start to get bored. And eventually, I would let it go. But then I would discover something new and totally different, and I would dive into that.This pattern caused me a lot of anxiety, for two reasons. The first was that I wasn't sure how I was going to turn any of this into a career. I thought that I would eventually have to pick one thing, deny all of my other passions, and just resign myself to being bored. The other reason it caused me so much anxiety was a little bit more personal. I worried that there was something wrong with this, and something wrong with me for being unable to stick with anything（朝三暮四）. I worried that I was afraid of commitment, or that I was scattered, or that I was self-sabotaging（自暴自棄，破罐子破摔）, afraid of my own success.If you can relate to my story and to these feelings, I'd like you to ask yourself a question that I wish I had asked myself back then. Ask yourself where you learned to assign the meaning of wrong or abnormal to doing many things. I'll tell you where you learned it: you learned it from the culture.We are first asked the question "What do you want to be when you grow up?" when we're about five years old. And the truth is that no one really cares what you say when you're that age.It's considered an innocuous（無傷大雅的） question, posed to little kids to elicit(引出，誘使） cute replies, like, "I want to be an astronaut（太空人）," or "I want to be a ballerina（芭蕾舞演員）," or "I want to be a pirate（海盜）." Insert Halloween costume here.But this question gets asked of us again and again as we get older in various forms -- for instance, high school students might get asked what major they're going to pick in college. And at some point, "What do you want to be when you grow up?" goes from being the cute exercise it once was to the thing that keeps us up at night（夜不能寐）. Why?
See, while this question inspires kids to dream about what they could be, it does not inspire them to dream about all that they could be. In fact, it does just the opposite, because when someone asks you what you want to be, you can't reply with 20 different things, though well-meaning（善意的） adults will likely chuckle （竊笑）and be like, "Oh, how cute, but you can't be a violin maker（小提琴製作商） and a psychologist. You have to choose."This is Dr. Bob Childs --and he's a luthier （制琴家）and psychotherapist（心理治療師）. And this is Amy Ng, a magazine editor turned illustrator（插畫師）, entrepreneur, teacher and creative director. But most kids don't hear about people like this. All they hear is that they're going to have to choose. But it's more than that. The notion of the narrowly focused life（目光狹隘的生活） is highly romanticized in our culture. It's this idea of destiny（宿命論） or the one true calling, the idea that we each have one great thing we are meant to do during our time on this earth, and you need to figure out what that thing is and devote your life to it.But what if you're someone who isn't wired this way（不按照這樣的方法去做）? What if there are a lot of different subjects that you're curious about, and many different things you want to do? Well, there is no room for someone like you in this framework. And so you might feel alone. You might feel like you don't have a purpose. And you might feel like there's something wrong with you. There's nothing wrong with you. What you are is a multipotentialite（多重潛能者）.A multipotentialite is someone with many interests and creative pursuits. It's a mouthful to say（太拗口）. It might help if you break it up into three parts: multi, potential, and ite. You can also use one of the other terms that connote（表述） the same idea, such as polymath（博學的）, the Renaissance person（文藝復興人士）. Actually, during the Renaissance period, it was considered the ideal to be well-versed（精通的） in multiple disciplines（學科）. Barbara Sher refers to us as "scanners." Use whichever term you like, or invent your own. I have to say I find it sort of （有點）fitting that as a community, we cannot agree on a single identity（單一身份）.It's easy to see your multipotentiality as a limitation or an affliction（苦惱） that you need to overcome. But what I've learned through speaking with people and writing about these ideas on my website, is that there are some tremendous strengths to being this way. Here are three multipotentialite super powers.One: idea synthesis（創意整合）. That is, combining two or more fields and creating something new at the intersection（結合處）. Sha Hwang and Rachel Binx drew from their shared interests in cartography（製圖）, data visualization, travel, mathematics and design, when they founded Meshu. Meshu is a company that creates custom geographically-inspired（具有地域特色）jewelry. Sha and Rachel came up with this unique idea not despite, but because of their eclectic mix（融合） of skills and experiences. Innovation happens at the intersections. That's where the new ideas come from. And multipotentialites, with all of their backgrounds, are able to access a lot of these points of intersection.The second multipotentialite superpower is rapid learning. When multipotentialites become interested in something, we go hard. We observe everything we can get our hands on（著手去做）. We're also used to being beginners, because we've been beginners so many times in the past, and this means that we're less afraid of trying new things and stepping out of our comfort zones（走出舒適區）. What's more, many skills are transferable across disciplines, and we bring everything we've learned to every new area we pursue,so we're rarely starting from scratch（從頭開始）.Nora Dunn is a full-time traveler and freelance writer. As a child concert pianist, she honed（磨練） an incredible ability to develop muscle memory. Now, she's the fastest typist she knows.Before becoming a writer, Nora was a financial planner. She had to learn the finer mechanics of sales（精細的銷售技巧） when she was starting her practice, and this skill now helps her write compelling pitches（推薦詞） to editors. It is rarely a waste of time to pursue something you're drawn to（被吸引）, even if you end up quitting. You might apply that knowledge in a different field entirely, in a way that you couldn't have anticipated.The third multipotentialite superpower is adaptability; that is, the ability to morph into（成為）whatever you need to be in a given situation. Abe Cajudo is sometimes a video director, sometimes a web designer,sometimes a Kickstarter consultant（Kickstarter眾籌網站諮詢師）, sometimes a teacher, and sometimes, apparently, James Bond.He's valuable because he does good work. He's even more valuable because he can take on various roles, depending on his clients' needs. Fast Company《快公司》 magazine identified adaptability as the single most important skill to develop in order to thrive in the 21st century. The economic world is changing so quickly and unpredictably that it is the individuals and organizations that can pivot in order to meet the needs of the market that are really going to thrive.Idea synthesis, rapid learning and adaptability: three skills that multipotentialites are very adept at, and three skills that they might lose if pressured to narrow their focus. As a society, we have a vested interest（有利於自身） in encouraging multipotentialites to be themselves. We have a lot of complex, multidimensional problems in the world right now, and we need creative, out-of-the-box（打破傳統思維） thinkers to tackle them.Now, let's say that you are, in your heart, a specialist. You came out of the womb（娘胎） knowing you wanted to be a pediatric neurosurgeon（兒科神經外科醫生）. Don't worry -- there's nothing wrong with you, either.In fact, some of the best teams are comprised of a specialist and multipotentialite paired together. The specialist can dive in deep and implement ideas, while the multipotentialite brings a breadth of knowledge（廣博的知識） to the project. It's a beautiful partnership. But we should all be designing lives and careers that are aligned with how we're wired（天賦）. And sadly, multipotentialites are largely being encouraged simply to be more like their specialist peers.So with that said, if there is one thing you take away（學到，吸收） from this talk, I hope that it is this: embrace your inner wiring（內心的想法）, whatever that may be. If you're a specialist at heart, then by all means（用盡一切辦法）, specialize. That is where you'll do your best work. But to the multipotentialites in the room, including those of you who may have just realized in the last 12 minutes that you are one --to you I say: embrace your many passions. Follow your curiosity down those rabbit holes. Explore your intersections. Embracing our inner wiring leads to a happier, more authentic life. And perhaps more importantly -- multipotentialites, the world needs us.
看到這，我相信大家都已經把文章都瀏覽一遍了，那麼小編要公布主要內容啦，看看和大家想的有木有默契哦！
這篇文章主要講的是：對於從小就被問到的問題：長大後你想成為一個什麼樣的人？由於很多小朋友在家長的教導下應該術業有專攻，並且找到一份命中注定的事業，為之奮鬥終生，這種思想阻礙了孩子發展成一名多重潛能者，進而闡述了多重潛能者的優勢，最終對專攻者和多重潛能者均給與肯定，並鼓勵多重潛能者探索交叉地帶。（可練視譯哦）
Step4：What problem, or new idea you can extract from this article？
Ask yourself several questions such as:
1. What kind of super power does multipotentialite have?
2. Should we become expert in certain field or a multipotentialite? Why?
3. Why does the author feel anxious when he got interested in many things?
4. Who killed our potentials?
通過自問自答的方式找出文章中大開腦洞的點，就是我們俗稱的「新的或突破性的思維」，這點很重要，能幫助我們找到新的方法。
Step5：How can the creative ideas involved in the article be used in our daily life？
e.g. No matter you are an expert or a multipotentialite, you just need to embrace your inner feeling, if you want to be an expert, just put your heart and soul into the
thing you are really interested in, instead, you are good at different things, figure out the intersection and try your best to enjoy success.
因為我們總是被教育，或者說很多文章中都提到要學得精，要專注於一件你所感興趣的事情，興趣太多不利於職業發展和形成自己的核心競爭力。但是這篇文章中給了我們新的觀點：興趣多並不是一件壞事，即便最後我們沒有達成我們所有的目標，但我們在某個興趣上所get到的技能很有可能運用到其他的領域，所以對於多重潛能者，最重要的一點是找到各種興趣的結合點。
A simple example, I like psychology, I also like training, so how can I integrate together? If I could use some skills in psychology to help me to do training more freely, such as self-talk?
想一想文中的觀點怎麼樣運用到我們的實際生活中？
以上就是英語文章閱讀的五步法，既練習了英語，還交流了思想，get到了新思維，何樂而不為呢？
光看不練鬼把戲，所以小編要留作業了哦！
1. 如果你想成為一個專家，怎麼樣更好地朝這個方向努力？
2. 如果你是一個跨行業者，或多潛能者，怎麼更好地實現各興趣之間的整合，如你喜歡英語，然後你又喜歡寫作，這兩者的交叉點在哪裡呢？
3. 引申寫作/口語話題練習：What are the pros and cons of being an expert or multipotentialite?
用英語作答哦，可以在下方留言區直接回答，來吧，練起來。
最後，願大家在我的英語閱讀分享中既收穫知識，又獲得快樂，還學到英語，英語閱讀下周二見啦！
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