So, you know, this is my life. It’s like being both of them.
所以,你懂的,这就是我的生活。差不多就是这两样东西。
Some of my colleagues in academia think I completely lost my mind.
我学院里的一些同事觉得我彻底疯了。
But, it’s what I do.
不过,这就是我在做的事。
In the course of my life, I focus on 3 things mainly.
在我的生活中,我主要把注意力放在3件事情上。
One is academia, my engineering studies and my Ph.D.
一个是学术,也就是我的工程学研究以及Ph.D学位。
Fitness is another big thing in my life. You know I’m a fitness model.
健身是我生活中另一件很重要的事。你们也知道,我是个健体模特。
And a fashion model. So, fashion is another big thing.
我还是个时尚模特。所以,时尚也是我另一个很重要的东西。
So despite the diversity, I managed to survive pretty well, I think.
虽然这个跨度很大,但我觉得我把它们都搞得还不错。
So, from my life experience I could definitely support the physis that there exists an interdisciplinary approach of life, that anything you learn from one instance can all value to something apparently distant.
But I wanna be more generic. I wanna say that if you focus on something very specific of your life, that doesn’t mean you can’t excel at something completely different.
My question here is: can we apply this concept to our life in order to find our optimum?
我想问的是:我们能不能将这种思想运用到自己的生活当中,以此使人生达到最优化呢?
And I say why not?
我的答案是:有何不可?
But before we proceed any further, let me operate a little bit more on a couple of concepts from genetics, especially 2 genetic operators of mutation and crossover.
不过,在我们往深一层讲之前,让我先来多讲讲遗传学中的一些概念,尤其是突变和交叉互换这两个遗传算子。
Of course I could give the classic example of the poor giraffe who one day (she) just found herself with an ashy long neck because of genetic mutation.
当然,我可以举这只可怜长颈鹿的经典例子,一天她突然发现自己因为基因突变而有了一条灰色的长脖子。
And despite the bullying in early life from the other cubs, she suddenly realized that she had an advantage.
而虽然她在早年间一直(因此)受到其他幼崽的欺负,她后来突然发现其实自己是有优势的。
Confidence kicked in and her mates soon realized that maybe it was a good idea to pass on that freak genetic traits to other generations, if you know what I mean.#p#分页标题#e#
But the nature of my talk allows me to reinvent completely the way genetics is studied in schools.
不过,我今天的演讲需要我以完全不同于学校教学的方式来阐述遗传学的原理。
So, picture a child. If you can’t picture, there she is.
那么,大家来想象一个小孩。如果想象不出来,她在这呢。
She is given a magical box of colors for the very first time.
她头一次获得一个装满各种颜色的神奇盒子。
Her taste in picking a color from the box resembles natural selection.
她凭着喜好从盒子里选颜色的过程就像是自然选择。
You know, it’s an expression of the fitness of a color.
大家都明白啊,这个行为体现了一个颜色的适应性。
Because of her young age, her taste is untainted by empirical arational elements.
而由于她还很小,她的喜好并没有受到经验主义的非理性因素的干扰。
The colors are magic. So they can mix them with themselves.
颜色(对她来说)是种魔法,它们能互相混合。
2 colors can mix to create a third and, you know, be as promiscuous as they want, you know it’s more of a reproductive frenzy.
2个颜色混合在一起能创造出第3种颜色,对吧,你想怎么杂交就能怎么杂交,简直就像是生物的生殖狂热。
And 2 colors that are very similar who mix together don’t create something that is of interest to the child.
而2个相近的颜色混合在一起创造出来的东西,并不会让这个小孩太感兴趣。
For example blue and another different tone of blue are mixed together. Not much interest.
比如,一种蓝色和另一种不同色调的蓝色混合在一起,没什么意思。
But if blue and yellow are mixed together, how amazing, green is created.
但如果蓝色和黄色混合在一起,太神奇了,它们创造了绿色。
That would definitely be picked as a new favorite by this child.
而这个绿色必然会被这个小孩选为新的心头好。
But what would happen if colors just start to mix with themselves? Suddenly just decided to change radically, like dry more rapidly or slowly, change texture, become sparkly, fluorescent, matt.
Then, who knows, the child might absolutely love sparkles and hate the matt finish.
然后,谁知道呢,这个小孩可能超级喜欢闪光的而极其讨厌哑光材质。
And the new love for sparkles will surpass old. So a new sparkling green will be chosen over the old green.
而这种对闪光的喜好会超越旧的喜好。于是一种新的闪光绿就会被她选择,旧的绿色就被抛弃了。
And maybe she will paint a long-necked giraffe with it.
说不定她决定用这个新颜色来画只长脖子的长颈鹿。
So, in our life, like the child slowly creates the painting that she’s in love with, every decision we take, every course of action, every opinion we form slowly goes to evolve our life to what it ultimately will be and to what we’ll ultimately be happy with.
In our life I like to compare the mixing of colors to crossovers. And crossover in our life is learning: how we take all the information from every different aspect of our life, that will put all our memories together and create our lightful thoughts.
The first step is to realize the analogies between all different extends of human endeavor.
首先要了解一切人类事业间的类比关系。
Then inventor and the artist used to be one of the same in the past, right?
发明家与艺术家在过去是同一种人,对不对?
They used to be ingenious in creative figures, just like the philosopher and the physicist. They were analyzers, investigators.
他们在过去都是善于发明的创造性人才,就和哲学家还有物理学家一样。他们是分析者,是研究者。
One single figure. And now this figures have been detached. And categories have been created.
(当时)只有一个共同的身份。而现在这种身份被割裂了,于是出现了不同的分类。
But we need these categories.
而我们需要这样的分类。
Isn’t modern physics truly a matter of physics?[/en]
(比如)难道现代物理学不是物理学的一个分支吗?
[en]The artist and engineer are both creators. One creates using paint, rhymes and music. the other uses mathematical modelling and physics as too for creation.
The final art piece is the result of the constraints that we have. So we have to place the layers of paint down one by one and only the painter can visualize the end product.
The infinite sentiment of the poet can only be materialized in the conscience of someone else through the vessel of language.
诗人那无穷的情怀只有通过语言这个躯壳才能被另一个人切实感受到。
If this artist could transmit these emotions, these visions to the next person directly, say, by telepathy, they wouldn’t be needing to master the use of colors or the use of rhymes.
Just like we don’t need a CD player if I can play the music in the phone right now.
这就好像我们现在不需要用CD机来放音乐,因为我们可以直接在手机上放。
In a similar way, the final form of the engineering design is dictated by the constraints and knowledge that we have in order to go find the function through the form.
And for example, architecture is a very clear example of how the balance between function and formbecomes a solid link.
比如,建筑就是一个非常清晰的例子,它平衡了功能与形式并使二者稳定地扣合在一起。
Architecture does not provide just a simple practical need but also it provides for us spiritually. It gives us identities, a society, or a family, a home.
And it pushes the boundary of technology while is heavily relying on them.
而它在高度依赖技术的同时也拓展着技术的边界。
In a similar way, all forms of art rely on technology. Imagine when photography or cinematography were invented, new forms of art were born.
同样,一切形式的艺术都依赖技术。想象一下,当摄影术和电影制片术被发明的时候,新的艺术形式诞生了。
In a similar way that a new digital area has expended the possibilities for creativeness.
相同的情况还包括数字化领域,它拓展了创造的可能性。
For example, I’ve been called a YouTube creator, how amazing, after years that I spent designing steam turbines.
例如,在花了这么多年设计蒸汽涡轮引擎之后,我现在却被叫做“油管UP主”,多么神奇。
It is also true, however, that modern economy rely heavily on specialization. And this complexity has increased the gap between creativity and functionality, the civil engineer and the architect are separated figures.
I’d like to give a message to you all today and that is: do not place boundaries in ourselves.
我今天想向你们所有人传达一个信息,那就是:不要自己为自己设定边界。
I wanna quote Michelangelo. I love this quote. He said the greatest danger for all of us is not setting our aim too high and falling short but setting our aim too low and not achieving our mark.
And whilst his masterpiece is a clear example of setting your aim high.
而他的杰作正是高远目标的清晰体现。
And I think that setting your aim high also means expending your horizons and venturing out there and exploring you’re your capability, all your talents even if it’s completely different from what you always have done.
We all have heard that saying ‘jack of all trades, master of none’ right?#p#分页标题#e#
我们都听过“博而不精”这个说法对吧?
And while admittedly very persuasive, it’s settled an elusive negativity. It’s also very dangerous.
虽然似乎很有说服力,但它散发着阴郁的负能量。而且这是种非常危险的想法。
I always wonder what would be Leonardo da Vinchi’s reaction to the saying ‘Hi foolio, jack of all trades, master of none.’
我一直很好奇,如果有人对列奥纳多•达•芬奇说:“嗨,你这博而不精的傻子~”的时候他会有何反应。
And I’m 27 years old, and limited to that life experience, I have not achieved anything too remarkable.
我现在27岁了,由于阅历有限,我还并没有太多辉煌的成就。
However, I have my fair share of naysayers.
不过,给我泼冷水的人我倒是见过不少。
I have heard all time that I couldn’t be a model and a mechanic engineer, that I couldn’t have a high fitness regime and focus on my studies, that I was working out way too much for fashion.
And more generally, moving on from my personal life, too often people dismiss the ability of the mathematician or a computer scientist to appreciate art. The accuracy and meticulousness of the performing artist are always overlooked by academic community.
The politicians smile at the problematic ability of economists.
政客们对经济学家解决问题的能力表示嘲笑。
And the fashion choices of, say, the construction worker are frown upon.
而建筑工人一类人的着装选择也时常遭人轻蔑。
But perhaps, somewhere out there, someone is pushing his boundaries away. Someone is precipitating these stereotypes into unavoidable thinking.
但或许,在远方的某处,某人正在拓展自己的边界,某人正在将这些成见沉淀成不可回避的严肃思考。
(这一句真的无能为力,欢迎高人指点)
I have surpassed all awkwardness. Many awkward moments in my life.
我本人已经便尝并克服了各种尴尬。我的一生中有很多尴尬的瞬间。
I have explained to a fellow model that the book I was reading was on mathematics despite only letters are appearing in it and elucidating fellow engineers that a runway show is not an activist protest on a planned expansion or that again successing fashion comes at the price of hard work just as much as engineering.#p#分页标题#e#
I will never now again hide my talents as no one of us should.
我不会再隐藏我的任何才能,我们都不该隐藏。
And we all have more than one.
而我们都不止拥有一种才能。
Being a visionary is simply a simultaneous expression of all talents within ourselves.
所谓的前瞻者,只不过是自然而然地发挥TA全部的内在才能而已。
Thank you.
谢谢大家。
Good evening. My name is Pietro Boselli.
晚上好。我的名字是Pietro Boselli。
And I’m an engineer and a model.
我是一名工程师兼模特。
So, you know, this is my life. It’s like being both of them.
所以,你懂的,这就是我的生活。差不多就是这两样东西。
Some of my colleagues in academia think I completely lost my mind.
我学院里的一些同事觉得我彻底疯了。
But, it’s what I do.
不过,这就是我在做的事。
In the course of my life, I focus on 3 things mainly.
在我的生活中,我主要把注意力放在3件事情上。
One is academia, my engineering studies and my Ph.D.
一个是学术,也就是我的工程学研究以及Ph.D学位。
Fitness is another big thing in my life. You know I’m a fitness model.
健身是我生活中另一件很重要的事。你们也知道,我是个健体模特。
And a fashion model. So, fashion is another big thing.
我还是个时尚模特。所以,时尚也是我另一个很重要的东西。
So despite the diversity, I managed to survive pretty well, I think.
虽然这个跨度很大,但我觉得我把它们都搞得还不错。
So, from my life experience I could definitely support the physis that there exists an interdisciplinary approach of life, that anything you learn from one instance can all value to something apparently distant.
But I wanna be more generic. I wanna say that if you focus on something very specific of your life, that doesn’t mean you can’t excel at something completely different.
My question here is: can we apply this concept to our life in order to find our optimum?
我想问的是:我们能不能将这种思想运用到自己的生活当中,以此使人生达到最优化呢?
And I say why not?
我的答案是:有何不可?#p#分页标题#e#
But before we proceed any further, let me operate a little bit more on a couple of concepts from genetics, especially 2 genetic operators of mutation and crossover.
不过,在我们往深一层讲之前,让我先来多讲讲遗传学中的一些概念,尤其是突变和交叉互换这两个遗传算子。
Of course I could give the classic example of the poor giraffe who one day (she) just found herself with an ashy long neck because of genetic mutation.
当然,我可以举这只可怜长颈鹿的经典例子,一天她突然发现自己因为基因突变而有了一条灰色的长脖子。
And despite the bullying in early life from the other cubs, she suddenly realized that she had an advantage.
而虽然她在早年间一直(因此)受到其他幼崽的欺负,她后来突然发现其实自己是有优势的。
Confidence kicked in and her mates soon realized that maybe it was a good idea to pass on that freak genetic traits to other generations, if you know what I mean.
But the nature of my talk allows me to reinvent completely the way genetics is studied in schools.
不过,我今天的演讲需要我以完全不同于学校教学的方式来阐述遗传学的原理。
So, picture a child. If you can’t picture, there she is.
那么,大家来想象一个小孩。如果想象不出来,她在这呢。
She is given a magical box of colors for the very first time.
她头一次获得一个装满各种颜色的神奇盒子。
Her taste in picking a color from the box resembles natural selection.
她凭着喜好从盒子里选颜色的过程就像是自然选择。
You know, it’s an expression of the fitness of a color.
大家都明白啊,这个行为体现了一个颜色的适应性。
Because of her young age, her taste is untainted by empirical arational elements.
而由于她还很小,她的喜好并没有受到经验主义的非理性因素的干扰。
The colors are magic. So they can mix them with themselves.
颜色(对她来说)是种魔法,它们能互相混合。
2 colors can mix to create a third and, you know, be as promiscuous as they want, you know it’s more of a reproductive frenzy.
2个颜色混合在一起能创造出第3种颜色,对吧,你想怎么杂交就能怎么杂交,简直就像是生物的生殖狂热。
And 2 colors that are very similar who mix together don’t create something that is of interest to the child.#p#分页标题#e#
而2个相近的颜色混合在一起创造出来的东西,并不会让这个小孩太感兴趣。
For example blue and another different tone of blue are mixed together. Not much interest.
比如,一种蓝色和另一种不同色调的蓝色混合在一起,没什么意思。
But if blue and yellow are mixed together, how amazing, green is created.
但如果蓝色和黄色混合在一起,太神奇了,它们创造了绿色。
That would definitely be picked as a new favorite by this child.
而这个绿色必然会被这个小孩选为新的心头好。
But what would happen if colors just start to mix with themselves? Suddenly just decided to change radically, like dry more rapidly or slowly, change texture, become sparkly, fluorescent, matt.
Then, who knows, the child might absolutely love sparkles and hate the matt finish.
然后,谁知道呢,这个小孩可能超级喜欢闪光的而极其讨厌哑光材质。
And the new love for sparkles will surpass old. So a new sparkling green will be chosen over the old green.
而这种对闪光的喜好会超越旧的喜好。于是一种新的闪光绿就会被她选择,旧的绿色就被抛弃了。
And maybe she will paint a long-necked giraffe with it.
说不定她决定用这个新颜色来画只长脖子的长颈鹿。
So, in our life, like the child slowly creates the painting that she’s in love with, every decision we take, every course of action, every opinion we form slowly goes to evolve our life to what it ultimately will be and to what we’ll ultimately be happy with.
In our life I like to compare the mixing of colors to crossovers. And crossover in our life is learning: how we take all the information from every different aspect of our life, that will put all our memories together and create our lightful thoughts.
The first step is to realize the analogies between all different extends of human endeavor.
首先要了解一切人类事业间的类比关系。
Then inventor and the artist used to be one of the same in the past, right?
发明家与艺术家在过去是同一种人,对不对?
They used to be ingenious in creative figures, just like the philosopher and the physicist. They were analyzers, investigators.
他们在过去都是善于发明的创造性人才,就和哲学家还有物理学家一样。他们是分析者,是研究者。
One single figure. And now this figures have been detached. And categories have been created.
(当时)只有一个共同的身份。而现在这种身份被割裂了,于是出现了不同的分类。
But we need these categories.
而我们需要这样的分类。
Isn’t modern physics truly a matter of physics?[/en]
(比如)难道现代物理学不是物理学的一个分支吗?
[en]The artist and engineer are both creators. One creates using paint, rhymes and music. the other uses mathematical modelling and physics as too for creation.
The final art piece is the result of the constraints that we have. So we have to place the layers of paint down one by one and only the painter can visualize the end product.
The infinite sentiment of the poet can only be materialized in the conscience of someone else through the vessel of language.
诗人那无穷的情怀只有通过语言这个躯壳才能被另一个人切实感受到。
If this artist could transmit these emotions, these visions to the next person directly, say, by telepathy, they wouldn’t be needing to master the use of colors or the use of rhymes.
Just like we don’t need a CD player if I can play the music in the phone right now.#p#分页标题#e#
这就好像我们现在不需要用CD机来放音乐,因为我们可以直接在手机上放。
In a similar way, the final form of the engineering design is dictated by the constraints and knowledge that we have in order to go find the function through the form.
And for example, architecture is a very clear example of how the balance between function and formbecomes a solid link.
比如,建筑就是一个非常清晰的例子,它平衡了功能与形式并使二者稳定地扣合在一起。
Architecture does not provide just a simple practical need but also it provides for us spiritually. It gives us identities, a society, or a family, a home.
建筑不光提供一个实用性的功能,它也满足我们的精神需求,它为我们提供身份、社群、家庭、归属。
And it pushes the boundary of technology while is heavily relying on them.
而它在高度依赖技术的同时也拓展着技术的边界。
In a similar way, all forms of art rely on technology. Imagine when photography or cinematography were invented, new forms of art were born.
同样,一切形式的艺术都依赖技术。想象一下,当摄影术和电影制片术被发明的时候,新的艺术形式诞生了。
In a similar way that a new digital area has expended the possibilities for creativeness.
相同的情况还包括数字化领域,它拓展了创造的可能性。
For example, I’ve been called a YouTube creator, how amazing, after years that I spent designing steam turbines.
例如,在花了这么多年设计蒸汽涡轮引擎之后,我现在却被叫做“油管UP主”,多么神奇。
It is also true, however, that modern economy rely heavily on specialization. And this complexity has increased the gap between creativity and functionality, the civil engineer and the architect are separated figures.
I’d like to give a message to you all today and that is: do not place boundaries in ourselves.
我今天想向你们所有人传达一个信息,那就是:不要自己为自己设定边界。
I wanna quote Michelangelo. I love this quote. He said the greatest danger for all of us is not setting our aim too high and falling short but setting our aim too low and not achieving our mark.#p#分页标题#e#
And whilst his masterpiece is a clear example of setting your aim high.
而他的杰作正是高远目标的清晰体现。
And I think that setting your aim high also means expending your horizons and venturing out there and exploring you’re your capability, all your talents even if it’s completely different from what you always have done.
We all have heard that saying ‘jack of all trades, master of none’ right?
我们都听过“博而不精”这个说法对吧?
And while admittedly very persuasive, it’s settled an elusive negativity. It’s also very dangerous.
虽然似乎很有说服力,但它散发着阴郁的负能量。而且这是种非常危险的想法。
I always wonder what would be Leonardo da Vinchi’s reaction to the saying ‘Hi foolio, jack of all trades, master of none.’
我一直很好奇,如果有人对列奥纳多•达•芬奇说:“嗨,你这博而不精的傻子~”的时候他会有何反应。
And I’m 27 years old, and limited to that life experience, I have not achieved anything too remarkable.
我现在27岁了,由于阅历有限,我还并没有太多辉煌的成就。
However, I have my fair share of naysayers.
不过,给我泼冷水的人我倒是见过不少。
I have heard all time that I couldn’t be a model and a mechanic engineer, that I couldn’t have a high fitness regime and focus on my studies, that I was working out way too much for fashion.
And more generally, moving on from my personal life, too often people dismiss the ability of the mathematician or a computer scientist to appreciate art. The accuracy and meticulousness of the performing artist are always overlooked by academic community.
The politicians smile at the problematic ability of economists.#p#分页标题#e#
政客们对经济学家解决问题的能力表示嘲笑。
And the fashion choices of, say, the construction worker are frown upon.
而建筑工人一类人的着装选择也时常遭人轻蔑。
But perhaps, somewhere out there, someone is pushing his boundaries away. Someone is precipitating these stereotypes into unavoidable thinking.
但或许,在远方的某处,某人正在拓展自己的边界,某人正在将这些成见沉淀成不可回避的严肃思考。
(这一句真的无能为力,欢迎高人指点)
I have surpassed all awkwardness. Many awkward moments in my life.
我本人已经便尝并克服了各种尴尬。我的一生中有很多尴尬的瞬间。
I have explained to a fellow model that the book I was reading was on mathematics despite only letters are appearing in it and elucidating fellow engineers that a runway show is not an activist protest on a planned expansion or that again successing fashion comes at the price of hard work just as much as engineering.