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 TED 你到底是誰？人格特質的謎團(6) (英文演講稿) 

演講者 Brian Little博士

(12:44)  What are these free traits? They're where we enact a script in order to advance a core project in our lives. And they are what matters. Don't ask people what type you are; ask them, "What are your core projects in your life?" And we enact those free traits. I'm an introvert, but I have a core project, which is to profess. I'm a professor. And I adore my students, and I adore my field. And I can't wait to tell them about what's new, what's exciting, what I can't wait to tell them about. And so I act in an extroverted way, because at eight in the morning, the students need a little bit of humor, a little bit of engagement to keep them going in arduous days of study. 

(13:35)  But we need to be very careful when we act protractedly out of character. Sometimes we may find that we don't take care of ourselves. I find, for example, after a period of pseudo-extroverted behavior, I need to repair somewhere on my own. As Susan Cain said in her "Quiet" book, in a chapter that featured the strange Canadian professor who was teaching at the time at Harvard, I  sometimes go to the men's room to escape the slings and arrows of outrageous extroverts.

(14:13)  I remember one particular day when I was retired to a cubicle, trying to avoid overstimulation. And a real extrovert came in beside me -- not right in my cubicle, but in the next cubicle over -- and I could hear various evacuatory noises, which we hate -- even our own, that's why we flush during as well as after.

(14:39)  And then I heard this gravelly voice saying, "Hey, is that Dr. Little?"

(14:49)  If anything is guaranteed to constipate an introvert for six months, it's talking on the john.

(14:59)  That's where I'm going now. Don't follow me.

(15:03) Thank you.