Today I'm going to talk about work. And the question I want to ask and answer is this:
"Why do we work ?" Why do we drag ourselves out of bed every morning instead of living our lives just filled with bouncing from one TED-like adventure to another?
今天我要谈谈工作。我想问和回答的问题是：“我们为什么要工作？”为什么我们
每天早上都要把自己从床上拖起来，而不是过着我们的生活-从一次TED般的冒险中跳到
另一次呢？
You may be asking yourselves that very question.Now,I know of course,we have to
make a living, but nobody in this room thinks that that's the answer to the question,
"Why do we work?" For folks in this room,the work we do is challenging,it's engaging,it's stimulating, it's meaningful. And if we're lucky,it might even be important.
你们可能会问自己这个问题。现在，我当然知道了，我们得谋生，但这间屋子里没
有人认为这是问题的答案，“我们为什么要工作？”对这间屋子里的人来说，我们所做
的工作很有挑战性，很吸引人，很刺激，很有意义。如果我们幸运的话，甚至可能很重
要。
So,we wouldn't work if we didn't get paid, but that's not why we do what we do.And
in general, I think we think that material rewards are a pretty bad reason for doing the work that we do. When we say of somebody that he's " in it for the money," we are not just being descriptive.
所以，如果我们得不到报酬，我们就不会工作，但这不是我们做我们该做的事的原
因。总的来说，我认为我们认为物质奖励是做我们所做的工作的一个很坏的理由。当我
们说某人“为了钱”时，我们不仅仅是在描述。
Now,I think this is totally obvious, but the very obviousness of it raises what is for me
an incredibly profound question. Why,if this is so obvious,why is it that for the overwhelming majority of people on the planet, the work they do has none of the
characteristics that get us up and out of bed and off to the office every morning?How is
it that weallow the majority of people on the planet to do work that is monotonous,
meaning less and soul-deadening?
