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在谷歌每日心怀恻隐之心——陈一鸣
讲座背景
陈一鸣(Chade Meng Tan),是谷歌公司总部最受欢迎的工程师之一,这位华裔工程师喜欢与名人合影。此篇讲座为2012年8月3日,陈一鸣在TED大会上所发表,这位谷歌公司的知名“善良好汉”,讲述了一个企业如何在日常工作中践行恻隐之心,并通过大量举例,详细阐述了企业恻隐之心的概念、创造过程及实际意义。
在讲座中,陈一鸣首先讲述了心怀恻隐之心是达到快乐的最好方法,并通过实例让众人明白,心怀恻隐之心能让人收获快乐、提高工作效率。随后,他以自己所供职的谷歌公司为例,详细讲述了谷歌公司根深蒂固的恻隐之心思想,列举了谷歌公司的三个例子,用来阐明谷歌公司所特有的恻隐之心文化。陈一鸣在讲座中指出,在公司环境下酝酿恻隐之心的秘密法则主要包括三种:一是创造一种热切、追求更好的文化氛围;二是自治;三是专注于内部发展及个人成长。最后,富有恻隐之心不管是对个人还是对公司,都是有益的。
So what does the happiest man in the world look like? He certainly doesnt look like me.He looks like this.His name is Matthieu Ricard.So how do you get to be the happiest man in the world? Well it turns out there is a way to measure happiness in the brain.And you do that by measuring the relative activation of the left prefrontal cortex in the fMRI,versus the right prefrontal cortex.And Matthieus happiness measure is off the charts.Hes by far the happiest man ever measured by science.Which leads us to a question:What was he thinking when he was being measured? Perhaps something very naughty.Actually,he was meditating on compassion.Matthieus own experience is that compassion is the happiest state ever.
Reading about Matthieu was one of the pivotal moments of my life.My dream is to create the conditions for world peace in my lifetime—and to do that by creating the conditions for inner peace and compassion on a global scale.And learning about Matthieu gave me a new angle to look at my work.Matthieus brain scan shows that compassion is not a chore.Compassion is something that creates happiness.Compassion is fun.And that mindblowing insight changes the entire game.Because if compassion was a chore,nobodys going to do it.But if compassion was fun,everybodys going to do it.Therefore,to create the conditions for global compassion,all we have to do is to reframe compassion as something that is fun.
全世界最幸福的人是什么样子?肯定不是我这样,应该像马修·里卡德那样。那么怎样才能成为全世界最幸福的人呢?实际上,有种方法可以测出大脑中的幸福指数。通过采用功能磁共振成像测量大脑左侧前额皮质的相对活性,并与大脑右侧前额皮质相比较,以此测出大脑中的幸福指数。最后马修的幸福度测量结果打破了此前的记录,到目前为止,他是科学测量出的世界上最快乐的人。这让我们禁不住思考这样一个问题:当他在接受测量时究竟在想些什么?或许是些调皮捣蛋的想法。实际上,他是在用心思索恻隐之心。马修自己的经历说明心怀恻隐之心是最幸福的状态。
读马修的故事,是我人生中的重要时刻。我的梦想就是在有生之年为世界和平创造条件,为实现这一目标,需要实现内心的平静和对世界的每一个角落心怀恻隐之心。向马修学习使我拥有了一个全新的视角来看待我的工作。马修的大脑扫描证明心怀恻隐并非繁琐无趣之事。恻隐之心能带来幸福,是一件有趣的事。这个令人兴奋的想法,可以改变整个游戏过程,因为如果心怀恻隐是件苦差事,那么就无人去做了。但如果心怀恻隐是有趣的,人人都会去做。因此,要想让地球人都心怀恻隐,我们要做的就是要重构恻隐之心,将其打造成一种快乐的事。
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