--people who are stimulated somehow by chance;

并没有狂热于投机
that is a problem.

这确实是个问题
Magical thinking.

第六神奇式思考
This refers--this actually goes back to B.F. Skinner,

这要追溯到B.F.斯金纳
a psychologist who flourished in the first half of this century.

一位活跃在上世纪前期的心理学家
I actually had him as a next-door neighbor.

他曾是我的邻居
It was a strange thing.

说来离奇
I was visiting Harvard and MIT in Cambridge

我在剑桥市的哈佛和麻省理工访问时
and I rented a house and this guy was next door.

在校外租房这人恰好是我邻居
He and I both used to walk into work together

我们都习惯走去上班
-not together,

不是真的一起去上班
I never really met him,

我们从未碰面