Brian Little: Who are you, really? The puzzle of personality
برايان ليتل: من أنت حقاً ؟ لغز الشخصية
Cambridge research professor Brian Little analyzes and redefines the threads of our personalities -- and suggests ways we can transform ourselves. Full bio
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group of individuals you are ...
over the last couple of days
على مدى اليومين الماضيين
of your conversations
I would like to discuss today.
like to know who you are.
a few facts and stories,
a glimpse of yourself.
لمحات عنكم.
known as personality psychology,
باسم علم نفس الشخصية
personality science
from neurons to narratives.
إلى القصص الشخصية.
be saying of yourself,
in the Western Hemisphere."
ممل في نصف الكرة الغربية"
as a great, thundering twit."
إثارة للسخرية".
and your inherent "twitiness"
والسخرية الكامنة داخلكم
really fascinated by you.
in personality science
في علم الشخصية
which are normally distributed,
أبعاد خمسة توزّع بشكل طبيعي
of difference between people.
يرمز إلى "منفتح على التجربة"
يرمز إلى"الوعي"
lackadaisical approach to life.
المتكاسلة في الحياة.
to more introverted people.
الأشخاص الأكثر انطوائية.
يرمز إلى "الأشخاص الموافقين"
decidedly not agreeable.
غير موافقين.
implications for our well-being,
are very good predictors of life success,
للنجاح في الحياة
through being audacious
عن طريق جرأتهم
achieve it through sticking to deadlines,
من خلال الالتزام بالمواعيد
having some passion.
are both conducive
I find intriguing.
مثييرين للاهتمام
give them a basic fact
with respect to their personality:
impossible for adults
بالنسبة للبالغين
to lick the outside of your own elbow.
الجانب الخارجي من كوعهم.
who have not only tried,
licked the elbow
with extroversion,
and it's intriguing,
what I call our three natures.
our neurophysiology.
علم وظائف الأعصاب خاصتنا
and social aspects of our lives.
والاجتماعية لحياتنا
individually you -- idiosyncratic --
الطبيعة الفردية
extroverts is they need stimulation.
هي أنهم يحتاجون التحفيز
by finding things that are exciting:
عند إيجاد أمر مثير
and social events here at TED --
الاجتماعية هنا في TED
forming a magnetic core.
to spend time in the quiet spaces
الوقت في الأماكن الهادئة
to reduce stimulation --
as being antisocial,
معادين للمجتمع
that you do better
to lower that level of stimulation.
stimulant, from your body.
with extroverts than it does introverts.
بالمنفتحين من تأثيره على الانطوائيين
at nine o'clock in the morning
في الساعة التاسعة صباحًا
they're engaged in --
of not being particularly quantitative.
كميّون على وجه الخصوص
that are really quite intriguing:
للاهتمام حقيقةً
individuals engage in the conjugal act,
بالعلاقة الزوجية
introvert, extrovert.
المنفتح والمنطوي
all the male extroverts,
extroverts and introverts.
المنفتحين والانطوائيين.
punctuated by closeness.
يتخللها التقارب.
for comfortable communication.
when they meet somebody.
عندما يجتمعون مع شخص ما.
and then "Chuck,"
a pass to be more intimate
بأن يكون حميميًا أكثر
concrete, simple language.
الملموسة واللغة البسيطة.
and I must again tell you
أن أخبركم مجددًا
as you could possibly imagine --
I shared with a colleague
مع أحد زملائي
as two people can possibly be.
بهذا الطول
a person as you could find.
after three in the afternoon
بعد الثالثة عصرًا
a fellow called Michael.
the project to a crashing halt.
asked Tom and me,
إليّ وإلى توم
what Tom said in a minute.
heard what I said,
a tendency at times
في أوقات محددة
that some of us might see
than is normally called for."
بشكل طبيعي".
"assholic" qualities
بحرف (أ).
like one, I call him one."
سأدعوه واحد"
that we should be heedful of?
or your neuroticism.
Elizabethan features of your behavior,
التي تميّز سلوكك
better than just a bunch of traits?
مجموعة من الصفات؟
a certain type of person.
people in pigeonholes.
في صناديق الحمام.
belong in pigeonholes.
إلى تلك الصناديق
in our life -- the personal projects.
مشاريعنا الشخصية
to the hospital,
but you act disagreeably
تتصرف بطريقة الرفض
of administrative torpor
من السبات الإداري
for your mom or your child.
a core project in our lives.
حياتنا الأساسي.
projects in your life?"
which is to profess.
about what's new, what's exciting,
أمر جديد ومشوّق
to keep them going
خارجة عن طبيعتنا.
that we don't take care of ourselves.
بحقّ أنفسنا
of pseudo-extroverted behavior,
من سلوك شبه انفتاحي
the strange Canadian professor
الكندي الغريب
of outrageous extroverts.
when I was retired to a cubicle,
in beside me -- not right in my cubicle,
ليس داخل ذات المقصورة
evacuatory noises,
during as well as after.
this gravelly voice saying,
to constipate an introvert for six months,
شخصًا انطوائيًا لمدة ستة أشهر
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Brian Little - Personality researcherCambridge research professor Brian Little analyzes and redefines the threads of our personalities -- and suggests ways we can transform ourselves.
Why you should listen
Brian Little is an unapologetic introvert -- but in front of a classroom or a lecture hall, he delivers impassioned and witty explorations of contemporary personality psychology. In Little's view, we are as driven by spontaneous, "out of character" moments (and the projects we are passionate about) as we are by innate and learned traits.
Little's book Me, Myself and Us not only beautifully outlines Little's personality theories, but also imparts potentially life-changing advice for readers, while it warns of the hidden costs of hiding your true personality.
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