女神韓雪TED英文演講:積極的悲觀主義者(附英文原文文本)

TED近日，韓雪分享了一段自己在TEDxSuzhou的英文演講視頻，配文稱，「第一次全程非母語演講，準備的時候很是緊張。」在這段長達15分鐘的演講中，她分享了自己工作、生活中的經歷，告訴大家，如何做一個積極的悲觀主義者（being a positive pessimist），如何面對生活，迎接挑戰。

(英文原文文本)

Being a Positive Pessimist

Good afternoon everyone.

First let me share a piece of music with you.I know it's terrible, because I played.And i'm sorry it's not the worst one.I still got something to show you.Don't laught, it's an entire story.If you really want to understand what it is talking about？You can check my weibo later.This picture I painted last year.I have another one to show you, this is much better.This picture I painted, twenty years ago.

So I know you might have a question.How it is getting worse?And I also understand that most of your conclusion must be:out of imagination.

But how it happened.I think it is because I become an adult.Since we became adults.We started being afraid of making mistakes.We choose to be the best or nothing. So, we do not dare to try any mistakes.It seems that we trapped ourselves in the overprotective world.I sense them we started to lose a lot of, ability, like imagination, and creativity.

What is the strategy? For me I have a special one.It's been a positive, pessimistic.Let me explain the concept first.To be a pessimist means, you get low, expectation to yourself.And you prepared to lose.And what about being positive.It is easy to understand the means you make best effort on, a reason.But if you combine this concept together.It seems that a paradox.Yes I think so, but I hope so think it is the way the world is it born to be.

And it really works in the reality.We can always find something around us.They have totally opposite sizes two sides.And they combined together, and, work well together.

So how to be a positive, pessimist.Let me share some experience with you.I know i'm not old enough to tell stories.By these stories really meant to me.

The first one back to 2012,It's the first time I become a tv series producer.But as you know.I am, on the actress and singer.Work as a producer was totally unfamiliar for me.So you remember first I have to be, to pessimist.So I had to imagine, what will be the worst, consequence.I think that was the result must be no one, would buy it.And I will lose both, time and money.And the whole investment equal to the, revenue, I earned by, acting for the past few years.

And what about the whole market.You know in China, only 20% of the tv series, can finally, saddam, brown broadcast on tv.What about the rest 80%？In the past, they just change into, a pipe or of tapes.And now even worse, we just only datas left.

So I asked myself several times ,Can you really accept the worst, consequences?I think yes, at least, I could try, so I started shooting.Remember, next step, I have to be positive.Because I am a huge digital fan,I decided to use some high technique to my tv series.So I focused on 4k resolution.What 4k is?

Let me explain.Usually, you see a film on the screen in the movie theater the size is 2k.What 4k means is four times larger than 2k.And also means 50mb per frame.You might still be a little bit confused.It's okay don't worry, you just have to remember, it was a Huge obstacle.

In front of all the tv series a group in china.Because before us, only a few groups try to 4k Resolution.They input 4k, but no one really tried to output 4k productions.Because it was really hard.

Only director zhang yimou was trying in his film, Coming Home, for the first time.And when we finished the shooting work when we entered The post production work,the real nightmare came.I still remember we want to output a five-minute trail for beijing tv festival.But after a whole day's working until the computer crashed, we just got 50 seconds trails.

I was crazy, what can I do ?This is a 30 episodes tv series.I just got 50 seconds, so I asked Our counselor, because at that time,our technical support was RED,Which is the biggest Digital camera Company, in america.Their feedback was, they use Hp base station in america.But we didn't have any hp base station in china.it was too expensive, we can not even afford that.

So we decided to assemble out black apple and we tried the outcome mode from dozens of combinations.After six months work we succeed.My tv series the ladies, Became the first tv series Which output real 4k a resolution production.And I succeeded in selling it And with a very good performance, on tv.

So after this experience,I learned, don't be afraid to take a huge challenges.You can prepared to lose, but conquer it with grit.

The next story happened last year,I took an invitation from BEAR GRYLLS is there anyone know that? If you know that you might thought I was crazy.

Yes, this man who stands on the top of the food chain.He almost eat everything.You might think I was crazy, yeah before that I did not, physical activities, I have very bad body condition.I was afraid of a lot of things, I was afraid of height and insects.I didn't even dare to take a roller coaster.

But I almost took this invitation immediately.Because I truly understand if I lost this chance.I would never earn it back in the rest of my life.So I decided to take the adventure.During the twenty days adventure, I caught rats,i  caught mice, I ate insects.But I didn't drink the urine.

And I almost cried every day in the first half journey.And the most impressive moment, was the day before the last day.I still remember that day, our mission was to across a canyon just through a rope hanging between two cliffs.You can see from the picture, but you can't see the width it's very long.And, the, standard posture is leaning your whole body on to the rope.And use one of your legs backside to hookup the rope with the ankle.I'm pull yourself from side to the other.

When it was my turn, BEAR said,Cecilia, are you really sure you want to try that?If you want to quit you can quit now because I know you can't make balance.You can't use your left arm.Because I was not lucky before that mission, about two days ago.

I hurt my left arm, my nerves system got injured.And my little finger kept shaking for a whole day, I can't even control that.I barely can not use my left arm.So as a pessimist I have to imagine the worst consequence.Because, it was a reality show.You know, reality show is very dangerous if you can't perform 100% well.Sometimes it means you will face savage criticism on line later.And I might fall down again, or I hurt my right arm as well.

So I have been thinking about, should I really have to try that?I think at least I won't die.So what?I decided to take that mission.But I really lean my body onto that rope.It was far more, scary than I thought.You can see from the picture because my posture as My team member said my posture was so ugly.Because she said I was just like dead caterpillar hanging there.

I just kept my half body on one side, I left the rest part on the other side.And it was not the worst one.The worst was because my arm could not hold my upper body and my head.So I could not face up I could not see the end.

So what could I do?I know that I have to think positive, I also know that sometimes been positive doesn't mean you just speak out some propagandas.You have to do something for real.But at that moment, the only thing I could see was a rock just three meters ahead nothing else.

So I decided to set small targets, so I focus on that rock.There is something magical happens, when I really concentrated to that rock.I forgot about the height, I forgot about keeping balance.I even forget about the end.I just remembered to focus on that, and pull myself.

Then I started seeking more tigers in front of me.And any tiny objects, became, glittering image in front of me.After child several times, I realized that I was so close to the end.And finally, I succeed.

So after that experience, I learned there is no shame to be a loser.You just need to set small targets, and devote yourself. So these stories which happened to me, shaped me either positive pessimist.

And until today I know that I am still a bad piano player,a bad painter.And not a very successful producer.But I love to be a positive pessimist.And I know nothing can stop me being better.

Thank you.

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