跟读练习: What Losing Everything Taught Me About Resilience | Jane Marie Chen | TED - 通过YouTube学习英语口语
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[This talk contains graphic language and descriptions of abuse] Do you ever wonder who you are beyond your job, your titles, your accomplishments?
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[This talk contains graphic language and descriptions of abuse] Do you ever wonder who you are beyond your job, your titles, your accomplishments?
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This is the question I was forced to confront when the company I'd spent a decade pouring my soul into shut down.
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My work had been my entire identity, and without it, I didn't know who I was anymore.
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Ten years earlier, I had co-founded Embrace, a social enterprise that created a low-cost portable incubator for premature babies in underserved communities.
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Our technology could work without constant electricity, making it usable in remote parts of the world.
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We set an audacious goal: to save a million babies.
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I moved to India, where over 20 percent of all the world's premature babies are born, and I made that mission my life.
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Over the years, we saved thousands of babies.
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Babies like Nathan, who was abandoned on a street weighing just two and a half pounds.
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He was rescued by an orphanage and kept inside our incubator for weeks.
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He survived.
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Seven months later, I visited the orphanage and I held him in my arms.
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A few months after that, he was adopted by a family in Chicago.
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Stories like this kept me going.
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Along the way, we were recognized by President Obama and funded by Beyonce.
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(Cheers) (Laughter) Our work was featured in headlines all over the world.
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On the outside, it looked like a success story.
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But the truth was, on the inside, I felt like I was drowning in stress, exhaustion, self-doubt.
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The work weighed so heavily on me, there were moments I felt like I could barely breathe.
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Ten years in, after countless setbacks from manufacturing to distribution to funding challenges, we had to shut down the company.
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I failed. I hit the lowest point of my life.
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I was having panic attacks, I was depressed, I couldn't sleep, I felt completely broken in mind, body and spirit.
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So I decided to set off on a healing journey.
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I packed a surfboard and a suitcase, and I bought a one-way ticket to Indonesia, where I threw myself into healing with the same intensity I'd once poured into my company.
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I was willing to do anything because this was a matter of survival.
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I was going to heal the shit out of myself.
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(Laughter) I meditated for days in silence in the jungle until I hallucinated.
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Although I'm pretty sure those cockroaches on steroids were real.
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(Laughter) I did psychedelic journeys.
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I dove with sharks so I could learn to relax.
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I don't know why I couldn't just get a massage like a normal person.
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(Laughter) I burned holes in my leg for a frog poison ceremony.
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It was supposed to purge my past.
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Instead, I think I purged everything I'd ever eaten in my entire life.
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(Laughter) But the real breakthroughs came only when I began to confront my childhood.
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Growing up, my father showed his love by pushing me to excel.
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I remember in second grade, on weekend mornings, I would cuddle with him and he would warm my cold feet under his as he quizzed me on my times tables.
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Thanks to those drills, I won all the math competitions in my class.
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When I didn't meet his expectations, I was punished.
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Violently. When I was 12 years old, I came home from school one day and I decided to read my history book on the front lawn.
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It was a beautiful sunny day.
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When my father came home and saw this, he flew into a rage.
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He decided homework shouldn't be done on a lawn, it should be done at a desk.
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And so he beat me.
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And he demanded that I apologize.
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I refused because for the first time in my life, I knew I had done nothing wrong.
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I also knew I was utterly powerless.
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As I did this healing work, I finally connected the dots.
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Feeling so powerless throughout my childhood had driven me to help the most powerless people in the world.
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My pain had become my purpose.
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But it had also become my shadow.
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No matter how many babies I saved or how much recognition I received, I never felt like I was enough.
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Sometimes our trauma gets channeled into drive, perfectionism, overwork.
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Some people numb their pain with substances.
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I numbed mine with productivity.
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I cared deeply about my work, but I also believe that my worth depended on what I achieved.
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I finally stopped trying to achieve my way out of pain.
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Here's how I found my way back to myself.
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First, I slowed down and I just let myself feel.
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For most of my life, I had disconnected from my emotions to survive.
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Research shows most of us do this.
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We avoid painful emotions through working, drinking, social media and other endless distractions.
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But when we suppress our emotions, they don't go away.
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They actually resurface more intensely, often as anxiety, depression or burnout.
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So I let myself feel it all.
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I got really comfortable with being uncomfortable.
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I sobbed until I had no more tears left.
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I trembled with fear.
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I raged with anger.
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I learned you can't think your way out of pain.
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You can't work your way out of it.
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You have to feel your way through it.
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Second, I learned to let go of outcomes.
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Everything is constantly changing.
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The only thing that is certain is uncertainty.
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Nothing teaches me this lesson more viscerally than being in the ocean, where my conditions are changing moment to moment, based on the winds, the tides, the swells.
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Because of this, it's so important to be present and to not be attached to anything, including outcomes.
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I realized I'd become so attached to an outcome for Embrace that I pushed past all my limits, and when the company failed, it shattered my sense of self.
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I now know I'm not defined by my external successes or failures.
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It's who I am on the inside that truly matters.
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Am I acting with love?
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Am I growing?
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Am I giving to others?
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I can't control the waves, but I can choose how I want to ride them.
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And lastly, I learned self-compassion.
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I did this through recognizing all the different parts of myself.
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The warrior who had fought every battle.
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One of my exes nicknamed this part of me “Jane-ghis” Khan.
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(Laughter) The overachiever who had pushed me to work past exhaustion.
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I discovered the part they were protecting, the little girl inside me who was so scared that she wasn't enough.
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For so long, I wanted everyone else to show her that she was worthy.
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It never worked.
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So I finally turned towards her and I finally said the things that she had always needed to hear.
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I'm so sorry.
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You didn't deserve that.
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You are enough and you are loved.
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And she believed me.
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I now know resilience isn't about toughness.
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It's about tenderness.
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It's about treating ourselves with compassion and knowing deep in our bones that we are enough just as we are, beyond our achievements or even our purpose.
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I once thought healing meant fixing myself.
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Now I know it means loving myself.
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And this is so important because the relationship we have with ourselves shapes every other relationship in our lives, both personally and professionally.
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In a miraculous turn of events, Embrace was saved.
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As of this year, it's impacted over a million babies.
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(Applause and cheers) I'm so proud of this accomplishment, but what I'm most proud of is learning to embrace myself.
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Thank you. (Applause)
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关键词汇与短语
- 复原力 (resilience) - 面对挑战时的恢复能力。
- 身份 (identity) - 个人对自我的认知和定义。
- 痛苦 (pain) - 精神或身体上的折磨。
- 自我怀疑 (self-doubt) - 对自我能力的不确定感。
- 疗愈之旅 (healing journey) - 寻找心理或情感上恢复的过程。
- 期望 (expectation) - 他人对个人的期待或要求。
- 无助感 (powerlessness) - 缺乏控制感的状态。
- 目的 (purpose) - 个人行为或生命的意义。
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