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　　晨讀英語美文：思維的飛躍

　　You’ve had a problem, you’ve thought about it tillyou were tired,forgotten it and perhaps slept on it,and then flash!When you weren’t thinking about itsuddenly the answer has come to you, as a gift fromthegods.

　　Of course all ideas don’t come like that, but theinteresting thing is that so many do,particularly themost important ones.They burst into the mind, glowing with the heat of creation. How theydo it is a mystery.Psychology does not yet understand even the ordinary processes ofconscious thought,but the emergence ofnew ideas by a “leap in thought” is particularlyintriguing,because they must have come from somewhere.For the moment let us assume thatthey come from the “unconscious”.This is reasonable, for the psychologists use this term todescribe mental processes which are unknown to the subject,and creative thought consistsprecisely in what was unknown becoming known.

　　It seems that all truly creative activity depends in some degree on these signals from theunconscious,andthe more highly intuitive the person, the sharper and more dramatic thesignals become.

　　But growth requires a seed,and the heart of the creative process lies in the production of theoriginal fertile nucleus from which growth can proceed.This initial step in all creationconsists in the establishment of a new unity from disparate elements, oforder out ofdisorder, of shape from what was formless. The mind achieves this by the plastic reshaping,so as to form a new unit, of a selection of the separate elements derived from experience andstored in memory. Intuitions arise from richly unified experience.

　　This process of the establishment of new form must occur in pattern of nervous activity in thebrain, lying below the threshold of consciousness, which interact and combine to form morecomprehensive patterns. Experimental physiology has not yet identified this process, for itsmethods are as yet insufficiently refined,but it may be significant that a quarter of the totalbodily consumption of energy during sleep goes tothe brain, even when the sense organs are atrest, to maintain the activity of ten million brain cells. These cells, acting together as a singleorgan, achieve the miracle of the production of new patterns of thought.No calculatingmachine can do that, for such machines can “only do what we know how to design them to do”,and these formative brain processes obey laws which are still unknown.

　　Can any practical conclusions be drawn from the experience of genius? Is there an art ofthought for the ordinary person? Certainly there is no single road to success; in the world of theimagination each has to find his own way to use his own gift.

　　你遇到了一個難題,為其絞盡腦汁，直至精疲力竭，將它置之腦后,或許帶養(yǎng)疑慮進(jìn)入夢鄉(xiāng)。然而，忽然之間靈光一閃，當(dāng)你沒在思考這一問題時，答案如同天賜神助一般，突然出現(xiàn)在你的腦子里。

　　當(dāng)然，并非所有的妙想都是這樣得來，可有趣的是，許多想 法，特別是那些至關(guān)重要的想法都是這樣產(chǎn)生的。它們倏忽之 間闖入腦海，散發(fā)著獨創(chuàng)的光熱。它們的形成過程是一個謎。 心理學(xué)迄今甚至連普通的有意識思維過程都沒有研究清楚，但 是依靠"思想的火花”產(chǎn)生創(chuàng)見的現(xiàn)象還是讓人特別感興趣，因 為這種創(chuàng)見必定有個出處。我們暫且假定它們來自于“潛意 識"。這也是有道理的，因為心理學(xué)家們利用這個術(shù)語來描述對 于未知研究對象的心理過程，而創(chuàng)造性思維正是在于認(rèn)清未曾 認(rèn)識到的東西。

　　在某種程度上,所有真正的創(chuàng)造性活動似乎都取決于這些 來自潛意識的信號，并且，一個人的直覺愈加強(qiáng)烈，這些信號就愈加鮮明，愈加富有戲劇性。

　　可是萌芽生長需要種子，而創(chuàng)造過程的核心也在于形成最 初的豐實的胚胎，使成長得以進(jìn)行。所有創(chuàng)造的第一步，均在于 把沒有聯(lián)系的因素重新結(jié)合，將無序變成有序，將無形變成有 形。要做到這一點，大腦就要選擇從經(jīng)驗中得到的或者存儲于 記憶之中的互無關(guān)聯(lián)的因素，并加以整理重塑，以形成新的統(tǒng)一 體。直覺來源于豐富的系統(tǒng)化的經(jīng)驗。

　　這種新形式的形成過程只能出現(xiàn)在大腦神經(jīng)活動模式之中，處子意識范圍的開端，相互作用又相互融合，而形成更加復(fù) 雜的模式。實驗生理學(xué)還無法識別這一過程，原因是其實驗方法仍不夠完善?？苫蛟S值得注意的是，人在睡眠的時候，盡管感 覺器官處于休息狀態(tài)，但是所有體能消耗的四分之一卻用于大 腦，以維持其上百億個腦細(xì)胞的活動。這些共同運(yùn)作的腦細(xì)胞 創(chuàng)造了產(chǎn)生思維新模式的奇跡。計算機(jī)不能做到這一點，因為它們“只能按照我們的設(shè)計力所能及的方式運(yùn)行”，而那些具有建構(gòu)能力的大腦活動過程遵循的卻是我們所未知的規(guī)律。

　　從天才們的經(jīng)驗中，我們能得到任何實際的結(jié)論嗎?有沒有適用于普通人的思維藝術(shù)?成功之路不止一條。在一個提倡 想像力的世界中，每個人都要找到發(fā)揮自己天分的道路。

　　晨讀英語美文：做一個樂觀者

　　If you change your mind - from pessimism tooptimism - you can change your life.Do you see theglass as half-full rather than half empty?Do you keepyour eye upon the doughnut, ot upon the hole?Suddenly these cliches are scientific questions, asresearchers scrutinize the power of positivethinking.Research is proving that optimism can helpyou to be happier, healthier and moresuccessful.Pessimism leads, by contrast, tohopelessness, sickness and failure, and is linked todepression,loneliness and painful shyness. If we could teach people to think more positively,itwould be like inoculating them against these mental ills.

　　Your habits count but the belief that you can succeed affects whether or not you will.In part,that’s because optimists and pessimists deal with the same challenges and disappointments invery different ways.When things go wrong the pessimist tends to blame himself.“I’m not goodat this.”“I always fail.”He would say. But the optimist looks for loopholes.Negative or positive, itwas a self-fulfilling prophecy.If people feel hopeless they don’t bother to acquire the skillsthey need to succeed.

　　A sense of control is the litmus test for success. The optimist feels in control of his own life.Ifthingsare going badly, he acts quickly, looking for solutions, forming a new plan of action,andreaching out foradvice. The pessimist feels like fate’s plaything and moves slowly.He doesn’tseek advice, since he assumes nothing can be done.Many studies suggest that the pessimist’sfeeling of helplessness undermines the body’s natural defenses,the immune system. Researchhas found that the pessimist doesn’t take good care of himself.Feeling passive and unable tododge life’s blows, he expects ill health and other misfortunes,no matter what he does. Hemunches on junk food, avoids exercise, ignores the doctor, has another drink.

　　Most people are a mix of optimism and pessimism, but are inclined in one direction or theother.It is a pattern of thinking learned at our mothers’ knees.It grows out of thousands ofcautions or encouragements, negative statements or positive ones.Too many “don’t” andwarnings of danger can make a child feel incompetent, fearful and pessimistic. Pessimism isa hard habit to break - but it can be done.

　　如果你能將悲觀情緒轉(zhuǎn)化為樂觀情緒，那么你將改變自己的命運(yùn)。你看到的是杯子中的半杯水，還是空著的另一半?你的眼睛盯著的是炸面包圈，還是它當(dāng)中的圓洞?當(dāng)研究者們詳細(xì)檢 測積極思維的作用時，突然之間這些陳詞濫調(diào)都成為了科學(xué)問題。研究證實，樂觀能夠讓你更加快樂、更加健康、更加成功。相反，悲觀則會導(dǎo)致無望、疾病以及挫敗;其與消沉、孤獨和使人 痛苦的靦腆不無關(guān)系。假如我們能夠教導(dǎo)人們更加積極地去思考，那就會像給他們注射預(yù)防這些心理疾病的疫苗。

　　你的諸多習(xí)慣固然重要，但是你能夠成功的信念影響著你是否真的會成功。在某種程度上講，這是由于樂觀主義者和悲 觀主義者以迥異的方式對待相同的挑戰(zhàn)與失望。當(dāng)出了問題之后，悲觀主義者往往自我責(zé)備。他會說我不揸長做這種事”，“我總是失敗”。但是樂觀主義者則尋找疏漏之處。不管是消極還是積極的想法，都是一種本身會得以實現(xiàn)的預(yù)言。如果人們感覺毫無希望,那么他們就不會花費(fèi)力氣去獲得成功所需要的技能。

　　有無攀控感是成功的試金石。樂觀主義者感覺到能夠攀握自己的命運(yùn)。如果亊出不利，他立即作出反應(yīng)，尋求解決辦法，制定新的行動計劃，而且主動去請教他人。悲觀主義者則感覺到自己只能任憑命運(yùn)擺布，行動起來拖拖拉拉。既然認(rèn)為無計可施，他便不去尋求他人的意見。許多研究顯示，悲觀主義者的無助感會損害人體的自然防御體系，即免疫系統(tǒng)。研究發(fā)現(xiàn)悲觀主義者不會很好地照顧自己。這種人消極被動，不會避幵生活中的打擊,不管做什么都會擔(dān)心身體不好或者其他災(zāi)禍降臨。他吞吃著垃圾食品(不利子健康且營養(yǎng)價值低的食品),逃避體 育鍛煉，忽視醫(yī)生的勸告，總是要再貪一杯。

　　在大多數(shù)人身上，樂觀主義和悲觀主義兼而有之，但總是更加傾向于其中之一。這是在母親膝下之時就已經(jīng)形成的思維模式。它源自千萬次瞀告或者鼓勵，積極的或者消極的話語。過多的"不許"和危險警告會讓一個孩子感到無能、膽怯——以至于悲觀。悲觀是一種很難克服的習(xí)慣一但是其并非不能夠克服。