演讲MP3+双语文稿:20岁，不可挥霍的光阴

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【演讲者及介绍】Meg Jay

梅格·杰——临床心理学家。梅格·杰在她的《决定性的十年》一书中指出，在对之后的成人生活起到最关键的变革性、决定性的时期，许多20多岁的人感到自己很平凡。

【演讲主题】20岁，不可挥霍的光阴

【中文配音版】https://www.ximalaya.com/jiaoyu/34748376/287229311

【中英文字幕】

翻译者明宽 张，校对者 盧曉天

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When I was in my 20s, I saw my very firstpsychotherapy client. I was a Ph.D. student in clinical psychology at Berkeley.She was a 26-year-old woman named Alex.

当我20几岁时，我见到了我的第一个需要精神疗法的病人。当时我是一个在伯克利大学读临床心理学的Ph.D学生。她是一位叫Alex的26岁女性。

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Now Alex walked into her first sessionwearing jeans and a big slouchy top, and she dropped onto the couch in myoffice and kicked off her flats and told me she was there to talk about guyproblems. Now when I heard this, I was so relieved. My classmate got anarsonist for her first client.

第一次会面时Alex穿了牛仔裤以及略微不修边幅的上衣，进来后直接坐到我办公室中的沙发上，踢掉她的鞋子，然后跟我说她是来跟我讲男性问题的。当我听到这个时，我松了一口气。我的一个同学的第一个病人是一个纵火犯。

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(Laughter)

（笑声）

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And I got a twentysomething who wanted totalk about boys. This I thought I could handle. But I didn't handle it. Withthe funny stories that Alex would bring to session, it was easy for me just tonod my head while we kicked the can down the road. "Thirty's the new20," Alex would say, and as far as I could tell, she was right. Workhappened later, marriage happened later, kids happened later, even deathhappened later. Twentysomethings like Alex and I had nothing but time.

所以说，有一个二十几岁的人想跟我谈谈男生。我以为我能处理好这事。但我没能办到。Alex在每一次会面时都会带来好笑的故事，因此对我而言点点头，不断拖延出结果的时间是一件非常轻松的事情。Alex会说“三十就是新的二十”，而且就我知道的，她是对的。工作要以后才有，结婚以后才有，孩子以后才有，连死亡都是以后才有。像Alex和我一样是二十几岁的人除了时间外一无所有。

01:20

But before long, my supervisor pushed me topush Alex about her love life. I pushed back. I said, "Sure, she's datingdown, she's sleeping with a knucklehead, but it's not like she's going to marrythe guy." And then my supervisor said, "Not yet, but she might marrythe next one. Besides, the best time to work on Alex's marriage is before shehas one."

但没过多久，我的监督就催我开始推动Alex的爱情生活。我拒绝了。我说：“没错，她现在在约会，她和一个笨蛋同床，但这并不表示她会和他结婚。”然后我的监督说：“现在还没，但她可能会和下一个这样的人结婚。再说，在Alex的婚事上花费精力的最好时间就是在她结婚之前。”

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That's what psychologists call an"Aha!" moment. That was the moment I realized, 30 is not the new 20.Yes, people settle down later than they used to, but that didn't make Alex's20s a developmental downtime. That made Alex's 20s a developmental sweet spot,and we were sitting there, blowing it. That was when I realized that this sortof benign neglect was a real problem, and it had real consequences, not justfor Alex and her love life but for the careers and the families and the futuresof twentysomethings everywhere.

这就是心理学家们所说的“原来如此！”瞬间。在那一瞬间，我明白了三十岁并不是新的二十岁。没错，人们比以前更晚安顿下来，但这并不说明Alex的二十几岁这个时间段是她的发展低谷。这使Alex的二十几岁一个发展的良好时期，而我们就坐在那儿荒废它。这时我才明白这种“善意的疏忽”是一个非常现实的问题，而且它有严重的后果，不仅是对于Alex和她的爱情生活，也对于各地的二十几岁的人的家庭与未来。

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There are 50 million twentysomethings inthe United States right now. We're talking about 15 percent of the population,or 100 percent if you consider that no one's getting through adulthood withoutgoing through their 20s first.

现在美国有大约5千万二十几岁的人。这大概是总人口的15%，或者说100%，如果你考虑到没人能在不经历二十几岁这个阶段的情况下经过成人期。

02:42

(Laughter)

笑声。

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Raise your hand if you're in your 20s. Ireally want to see some twentysomethings here. Oh, yay! You are all awesome. Ifyou work with twentysomethings, you love a twentysomething, you're losing sleepover twentysomethings, I want to see — Okay. Awesome, twentysomethings reallymatter.

如果你是二十几岁的话举一下手。我非常想在这儿看到一些二十几岁的人。太好了！你们都棒极了。如果你和二十几岁的人工作，如果你爱一个二十几岁的人，如果你因为二十几岁的人而失眠，我就想看到——好的。棒极了，二十几岁的人非常重要。

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So, I specialize in twentysomethingsbecause I believe that every single one of those 50 million twentysomethingsdeserves to know what psychologists, sociologists, neurologists and fertilityspecialists already know: that claiming your 20s is one of the simplest, yetmost transformative, things you can do for work, for love, for your happiness,maybe even for the world.

我专门研究二十几岁的人，因为我相信这5千万个二十几岁的人中每一个都应该知道每一个心理学家，社会学家，神经学家以及生育专家都知道的：那就是把握你的二十岁这一个阶段是最简单的，但又是最有影响力的你能为你的职业，爱情，幸福，甚至是全世界做的事。

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