(单词翻译:单击)
And that the simple act of really identifying the protagonist in your story itself can be quite profound.
在故事中识别出主角这个简单的行为本身就会产生深远的影响。
Are you the protagonist or is your funder the protagonist? Or is your beneficiary the protagonist? Is your employee?
你是主角还是你的投资人是主角? 还是你的受益人是主角? 还是你的员工是主角?
The simple act of assigning roles.
分配角色是简单行为。
Is there an antagonist? Is there an enemy that you’re fighting against?
有对手吗? 有没有你正在与之战斗的敌人？
And is that enemy an actual person or organization, or is the enemy a situation that you’re trying to defeat?
敌人是一个真实存在的人，还是组织，还是一个你想要打败的处境?
What is the arc of that story? What are the challenges that you face along the way?
这个故事的情节是怎么样的? 在这个过程中你会面临哪些挑战?
The basic frameworks of storytelling are immensely valuable in creating a basic strategic framework for just about anything that people do.
讲故事的基本框架可以为人们做的任何事情创建一个基本的战略框架。
What’s an example of that?
可以举个例子吗?
Well, I mean, we can think of perhaps the most classic example in modern American history would be Martin Luther King Jr.’s I have a dream speech where the protagonists are the children, arguably.
嗯，我们可能会想到美国现代史上最经典的例子是马丁·路德·金的演讲《我有一个梦想》，可以说，主角是孩子们。
There is a sense of narrative progress.
演讲叙事不断进展。
There are obstacles along the way.
一路上障碍重重。
And that allows people to imagine that future in a different way than a simple recitation of facts or a linear explanation of how we’re going to get somewhere.
这让人们可以用不同的方式来想象未来，而不是简单地背诵事实或线性地解释我们将如何到达某个地方。
Let’s try another tool.
让我们试试另一个工具。
Sure. I’ll mention complex systems science.
当然，我会提复杂系统科学。
To oversimplify, those cases when the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.
简单来说，就是整体大于部分之和的情况。
And there is extraordinary work being done in physics, in biology, in computer science, in economics about what does it take for a system to show emergent properties
在物理学、生物学、计算机科学和经济学领域，人们做了大量非凡的工作，研究如何才能让一个系统显示出新的特性，
where there is some phenomenon that couldn’t be predicted just by the behavior of the individual parts.
有些现象不能仅仅通过单个部分的行为来预测。
And this can be very powerful in social change work because most of the things we care about are complex systems.
这在社会变革工作中可能非常有影响力，因为我们关心的大多数事情都是复杂的系统。
A school district is a complex system. An ecosystem is a complex system.
一个学区是一个复杂的系统。一个生态系统是一个复杂的系统。
The criminal justice system is a complex system.
刑事司法系统是一个复杂的系统。
And so for us to be able to understand those interactions, there are incredible lessons to be drawn from science that I believe can be applied at least as metaphor to the work of social change.
对于我们来说，为了能够理解这些相互作用，我们可以从科学中获取经验，我相信这些科学经验至少可以用来比喻社会变革的工作。
I’ll also add that I think we need to hold a mirror up to ourselves, we in the social sector broadly defined, and think about are we a complex system?
我还要补充的是，我认为我们需要对自己进行反思，从广义上说，我们处在社会部门里，想想我们是一个复杂的系统吗？
