想象力：共情的力量

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Now you might think that I chose my second theme, 现在你可能会想，我选择我的第二个主题，

the importance of imagination, because of the part it played in rebuilding my 想象力的重要性，是因为它在重建我的

life, 生活，

but that is not wholly 但这并非完全

so. 如此。

Though I personally will defend 虽然我个人会捍卫

the value of bedtime stories to my last gasp, 睡前故事的价值至死方休，

I have learned to value imagination in a much broader sense. 我学会了从更广阔的意义上珍视想象力。

Imagination 想象力

is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision 不仅是人类独有的构想

that which is not, 不存在的事物，

and therefore 从而

the fount of all invention 所有发明的源泉

and innovation, 和创新，

In its arguably most transformative 在其可以说最具变革性的

and revelatory capacity, 和启示性的能力中，

it is the power that enables us to empathize with humans 它是一种力量，使我们能够与人产生共情

whose experiences we have never shared. 他们的经历我们从未分享过。

One of the greatest formative experiences of my life preceded Harry Potter, 我生命中最伟大的塑造性经历之一发生在《哈利·波特》之前，

though it informed much of what I subsequently wrote in those books. 尽管它影响了我后来在那些书中写的大部分内容。

This revelation 这个启示

came in the form of one of my earliest day jobs. 以我最早的日常工作之一的形式出现。

Though I was sloping off to write stories during my lunch hours, 虽然我会在午休时间溜出去写故事，

I paid the rent in my early 20s 我二十多岁时靠此付房租

by working at the African Research Department 通过在非洲研究部工作

of Amnesty International's headquarters 大赦国际总部

in London. 在伦敦。