我們創(chuàng)造那些讓快樂能夠存在的條件。也就是說,我們創(chuàng)造了快樂的棲息地。”哇,這真是有趣。而且他說他們在這種藝術的背后有一種科學他們實際上創(chuàng)造了四個重要的支柱,9個核心指標和72個不同的度量標準這些能夠幫助測量GNH。實際上,其中一個核心指標是如何讓不丹人感覺到他們是如何度過他們的每一天的呢?這是一個不錯的問題。如何感覺你的每一天是如何度過的呢?在現(xiàn)代社會社會中,時間是一種最稀缺的資源。可是,誠然這微小的不可見的數(shù)據(jù)并不影響我們對GDP的計算。
As I spent my week up in the Himalayas, I started to imagine what I call an emotional equation. And it focuses on something I read long ago from a guy named Rabbi Hyman Schachtel. How many know him? Anybody? 1954, he wrote a book called "The Real Enjoyment of Living," and he suggested that happiness is not about having what you want; instead, it's about wanting what you have. Or in other words, I think the Bhutanese believe happiness equals wanting what you have -- imagine gratitude -- divided by having what you want --gratification. The Bhutanese aren't on some aspirational treadmill, constantly focused on what they don't have. Their religion, their isolation, their deep respect for their culture and now the principles of their GNH movement all have fostered a sense of gratitude about what they do have. How many of us here, as TED sters in the audience, spend more of our time in the bottom half of this equation, in the denominator? We are a bottom-heavy culture in more ways than one.
所以當我把時間花在喜馬拉雅山脈的時候,我開始想象我所謂的一種情感方程式。這是很久以前我從拉比.海曼.斯佳特爾讀到的。有多少人知道他?有人知道么?在1954年,他寫過一本書,叫做《生活的真正樂趣》他提出快樂并不在于得到你所想要的。而在于你想往你所擁有的。也就是說,我認為不丹人相信快樂等同于想往你所擁有的東西想象一下感恩分割成擁有你所想要的東西滿足感。不丹人的志趣不至于一些有抱負但枯燥無趣的工作上持續(xù)關注與那些他們沒有的事物。他們的宗教,他們的與世隔離,他們深深的對自己文化的尊重以及現(xiàn)在GNH運動的原則,這所有的一切都培養(yǎng)了一種對他們所擁有的感恩的情結。我們之中有多少人,作為TED的擁護者,把更多的時間花在這個方程式的底端,分母上呢?我們總是一種底端受重文化所逼迫在很多方面都是如此。