Name: 【TED】アラン・ド・ボトン：親切で、優しい成功哲学 (A kinder, gentler philosophy of success | Alain de Botton)
Uploaded: 2013-03-28T04:39:45.000Z
Duration: 16 min 52 s

For me they normally happen, these career crises,

（翻訳: Kayo Mizutani 校正: Akira KAKINOHANA）私にとってこれらのキャリア悲観は

様態の副詞

日曜日の夕方に太陽が沈もうとしている

程度の副詞

ちょうどその時によく起こります

and the reality of my life, start to diverge so painfully

that I normally end up weeping into a pillow.

I'm mentioning all this because I think  this is not merely a personal problem.

これが単に私個人の問題ではないと思うからです

貴方は間違っていると思うかもしれませんが

but I think that we live in an age when our lives are regularly

私達は経歴の転機によって人生が

区切られる時代に生きています

comes into contact with a threatening sort of reality.

It's perhaps easier now than ever before to make a good living.

今までに無い程簡単に豊かな生活が出来るのに

落ち着いてキャリアの不安から開放されるのは

to stay calm, to be free of career anxiety.

we might be feeling anxiety about our careers.

Why we might be victims of these career crises,

as we're weeping softly into our pillows.

One of the reasons why we might be suffering

私達が俗物に取り囲まれているからです

さて、外国からオックスフォードに来る人にとって

particularly to anybody who's come to Oxford from abroad.

そこに俗物精神の本当の問題があります

Because sometimes people from outside the U.K.

imagine that snobbery is a distinctively U.K. phenomenon

俗物主義は田舎の邸宅や称号に固執した

イギリス特有の現象だと思いますが

俗物精神は地球規模の現象です

We are a global organization. This is a global phenomenon.

我々はグローバルな組織で、これはグローバルな現象です

A snob is anybody who takes a small part of you

それはあなたの一部のみを取り上げ

and uses that to come to a complete vision of who you are.

あたかもそれが貴方の全てであるように見る人です

You encounter it within minutes at a party,

パーティに行くと、一分以内に

when you get asked that famous iconic question

21世紀で最も代表的な質問をされます

of the early 21st century, "What do you do?"

And according to how you answer that question,

その質問にどう答えるかによって

people are either incredibly delighted to see you,

相手は貴方に会えた事を大そう喜ぶか

or look at their watch and make their excuses.

または、時計を見て言い訳をします

Now, the opposite of a snob is your mother.

Not necessarily your mother, or indeed mine,

あなたの母親や私の母親と言うわけではなく

somebody who doesn't care about your achievements.

貴方の業績を気にしない人の事です

But unfortunately, most people are not our mothers.

でも、残念なことに殆んどの人は私達の母親ではありません

Most people make a strict correlation between how much time,

and if you like, love -- not romantic love,

ロマンチックとは限らない一般的な"愛"や

敬意の間に厳格な相互関係を築き

they are willing to accord us, that will be strictly defined

And that's a lot of the reason why we care so much about our careers

だから私達は経歴を気に掛けるのです

and indeed start caring so much about material goods.

そして、身の回りの物質に気を配ります

You know, we're often told that we live in very materialistic times,

私達はしごく物質的な時代を生きており

I don't think we are particularly materialistic.

which has simply pegged certain emotional rewards

ある種の感情的な報酬に結びついた

社会に生きているのだと思います

It's not the material goods we want. It's the rewards we want.

私達が欲しいのは物質でなく、報酬なのです

And that's a new way of looking at luxury goods.

これは贅沢品への新しい見方を提供します

The next time you see somebody driving a Ferrari

もし、フェラーリに乗っている人を見かけたら

don't think, "This is somebody who is greedy."

Think, "This is somebody who is incredibly vulnerable and in need of love."

「すごく傷つきやすく、愛に飢えた人だ」と思ってください

軽蔑でなく、同情してあげて下さい

there are other reasons  why it's perhaps harder now

今までに無い程難しい理由は他にあります

One of these, and it's paradoxical because it's linked to something that's rather nice,

逆説的ですが、一つは私達の自分のキャリアに対する

Never before have expectations been so high

人類がその生涯で成し遂げられることへの

about what human beings can achieve with their lifespan.

We're told, from many sources, that anyone can achieve anything.

誰でも何でも出来ると聞かされ

We are now in a system where anyone can rise

Along with that is a kind of spirit of equality. We're all basically equal.

私達は基本的に平等だという平等精神：

There is one really big problem with this,

ここに大きな問題があるのです

嫉妬、羨望を口にするのはタブーですが

but if there is one dominant emotion in modern society, that is envy.

現代社会を支配する感情があるとすれば、それは妬みです

And it's linked to the spirit of equality.  Let me explain.

そして、それが平等精神に繋がるのです。説明しましょう

I think it would be very unusual for anyone here, or anyone watching,

ここにいる人、またこれを見ている人で

英国女王を嫉妬する人はいないでしょう

Even though she is much richer than any of you are.

すごく大きな家に住んでいるのにです

The reason why we don't envy her is because she's too weird.

私達が彼女を羨まないのは彼女が違いすぎるからです

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