Another thing is you're not very susceptible to pain. Pain doesn't bother you.

另一点就是这种人对疼痛不敏感 他们不怕痛

And also, when you're caught doing something, you have no tells.

而且 如果你被抓住做某事 你会说瞎话

You could be caught red handed having an affair with somebody and you could say 'No, that's not me.'

你可能当场被抓住跟别人私通 你也会说“不 那不是我”

It's like, are you going to believe me or your lying eyes?

你是相信我呢 还是你那双撒谎的眼睛？

And so it's the ability to lie without any tells.

这是一种睁眼说瞎话的能力

Those kinds of characteristics can actually really help us get along in life so let's give you a very simple example if you like.

这些特点对我们日常生活中的相处很有帮助 我来举个很简单的例子

The Nike slogan, Just Do It—there's a psychopathic slogan for you if ever there was one.

耐克的口号“想做就做”——如果精神病患者有标语的话 那大概就是这句话了

Psychopaths do not procrastinate.

精神病患者不会拖延

Psychopaths, if they want something, they go for it and they go for it now.

精神病患者 如果他们想要某个东西 他们现在立马就会去做

Top sportsmen are very high in certain psychopathic characteristics.

顶级运动员的某些心理特征具有精神病患者的特点

Now, let me just go through them.

我来阐明一下

You've got ruthlessness, you've got fearlessness, you've got mental toughness, you've got coolness under pressure, you've got the ability to focus remorselessly on a goal.

你冷酷无情 你无所畏惧 你意志坚强 面对压力时沉着冷静 你有能力坚决地专注于一个目标

I mean, these things are straight out of the sports psychology textbooks in many ways

我的意思是 这些东西在很多方面都是直接源自运动心理学教科书

so anyone from top golfers to top cyclists to top boxers to top athletes, they are going to be high on these psychopathic characteristics.

所以从顶级高尔夫球手到顶级自行车手到顶级拳击手 再到顶级运动员 他们都有很强的精神变态特征

Usually the question is what percent do you think is due to genetics and what percent is due to environment?

人们通常会问 基因和环境的影响各占多少百分比?

And it turns out not to be the great question to ask, because it looks like the answer is if you are born with the biological markers for psychopathy, for example,

事实表明这个问题没有太大意义 因为如果你生来就带有生理上的精神病标记 比如

that is the genetics and the altered brain pattern early on,

那么这个问题的答案就是基因 它从一开始就改变了大脑的思维模式

if you are a susceptible kid then environment means everything.

如果你是个比较敏感的孩子 那么环境就意味着一切

It means a lot, maybe 80 percent.

它有很大的关系 也许占到了80%

Where we start getting into the realms of criminal psychopaths is when we look at natural aggression levels and perhaps natural levels of intelligence.

当我们开始研究犯罪精神病患者领域时 我们会考虑自然攻击水平 或许还有自然智力水平

If you've got those characteristics right there that I've told you about and you happen to be naturally violent and you also happen to be naturally stupid—

如果你恰好有我刚才所说的那些特征 而你生来又比较暴力 而且你天生就比较愚蠢——

not a very politically correct word there—but you happen to be low in intelligence,

这个词政治上不太正确——不过你恰好智力低下

then your prospects, to be perfectly honest with you, are not going to be that great, okay.

那么说实话 你的未来不会太乐观

You're going to wind up smacking a bottle over someone's head in a bar and you are going to wind up in prison pretty quickly, okay.

你会在酒吧里用瓶子砸别人的头 你会很快被送进监狱

However, if you've got those traits I've just mentioned to you and you are not naturally violent and you are also intelligent then it's a different story altogether.

但是 如果你有我刚才提到的那些特征 而且你并非天生暴力 而且还很聪明 那情况就完全不一样了

Then, as the famous Reuter's headline once mentioned, you are more likely going to make a killing in the market than anywhere else.

然后 正如著名的《路透社》标题曾经说过的那样 你在市场上崭露头角的可能性比在任何其他地方都要高