TED演讲:书呆子教你如何在线学习(5)-英语课

时间：2019-01-03 作者：英语课 分类：TED演讲科技篇

英语课

But I learned what opportunity cost is. 但（通过这件事）我学会了什么是“机会成本”。

And along the way, the map of my life got better. 就这样，我人生的地图慢慢完整起来。
It got bigger; it contained more places. 版图不断扩大，地方也不断增多。
There were more things that might happen, more futures 1 I might have. 可能性越来越多，我的未来选择也越来越多。
It wasn't a formal, organized learning process, and I'm happy to admit that. 当然这不是正规的，有条理的学习过程，我对此毫不避讳。
It was spotty, it was inconsistent, there was a lot I didn't know. 这个过程断断续续，有时还前后矛盾，很多事情我也没彻底弄明白。
I might know, you know, Cantor's idea that some infinite sets are larger than other infinite sets, 比如说，我可能知道康托尔的理论，无限集合也有大小之分，
but I didn't really understand the calculus 2 behind that idea. 但支持这个理论的微积分我就完全不懂。
I might know the idea of opportunity cost, but I didn't know the law of diminishing returns. 我也许明白“机会成本”这个概念，但是我不懂收益递减法则。
But the great thing about imagining learning as cartography, 但将学习想象成绘制地图，
instead of imagining it as arbitrary hurdles 3 that you have to jump over, 而不是想象成一系列障碍，需要你一个个去跨越，好处就在于，
is that you see a bit of coastline, and that makes you want to see more. 你能看见一点点海岸线，这让你想更进一步，发现更多的东西。
And so now I do know at least some of the calculus that underlies 4 all of that stuff. 所以我现在至少了解了微积分中最最基础的知识。
So, I had one learning community in high school, then I went to another for college, 因此我在高中加入了一个学习社团，然后在大学加入了另一个，
and then I went to another, when I started working at a magazine called "Booklist," 工作后又加入另一个，当时我刚刚开始在一家名为《书单》的杂志社工作，
where I was an assistant, surrounded by astonishingly well-read people. 职务是助理，身边是一群热爱读书的朋友。
And then I wrote a book. And like all authors dream of doing, I promptly 5 quit my job. 之后我写了一本书。就像所有作家梦想的一样，我迅速辞职了。
And for the first time since high school, I found myself without a learning community, and it was miserable 6. I hated it. 这是我自高中以来，第一次脱离了学习社团，这很痛苦。我很不爽。
I read many, many books during this two-year period. 在这两年期间，我读了很多书。
I read books about Stalin, and books about how the Uzbek people came to identify as Muslims, 有关于斯大林的，关于乌兹别克斯坦人民是怎么被视为穆斯林的，
and I read books about how to make atomic bombs, but it just felt like I was creating my own hurdles, 甚至还有关于怎么制造原子弹的，但我的感觉并不好，像是给自己制造了障碍，
and then jumping over them myself, instead of feeling the excitement of being part of a community of learners, 然后还要自己跨过去，我完全感受不到身处学习社团里时的那种兴奋，
a community of people who are engaged together in the cartographic enterprise of trying to better understand and map the world around us. 当时的我们就像一群地图发烧友，聚集在地图制作公司，试图更好地理解和描绘我们所处的世界。