微信“看一看”裡的精選有很多幹貨呢，這個視頻原本以為是又長又臭的雞湯，沒想到11分鐘就過去了，很有啟發呢，自己點開來看吧。

英文原文也寫得很美和很朗朗上口呀，適合晨讀和找語感來朗誦。

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中英對照全文

大多數人永遠不會真正成功。將人拉向平庸的吸引力太大了。大衛·施瓦茨曾經寫道：“你周圍所有的環境正試圖把你拉向一條平庸的道路”。大多數人永遠無法逃脫這種誘惑。我們周圍的很多想法都是狹隘的，大多數人過分關注“打敗別人”，通常是通過操縱和政治的手段。結果，他們只能和其他99%的人爭奪殘羹剩飯。人生不一定要這樣。

Most people will never be truly successful.The pull towards mediocrity is too strong. As David Schwartz once penned: “all around you is an environment that is trying to pull you down to Second-class Street.’ Most people will never escape the pull. Much of the thinking around us is small-minded. Most people are overly concerned with “beating the other guy” usually through manipulation and politics. As a result, they’re left fighting for scraps with the other 99%. It doesn’t have to be this way.

你人生中最深切的夢想，100%的經濟獨立，做自己的老闆，和家人一起環遊世界。無論什麼都是可以實現的，只要你知道該從哪開始。但是大多數人永遠不會為了實現這些，而放棄人群帶來的安全和保障。

A life of your deepest dreams, 100% financial independence, being your own boss, travelling the world with your family. Whatever, is available, if you know where to start. But most people will never turnaway from the safety and security of the crowed to realize this.

大多數人不願意接受失敗

Most People Are Not Willing to Fail

“只有在我們願意承受失敗，我們才能真正成功。——馬克·曼森”

“We can be truly successful only at things we are willing to fail at. —Mark Manson”

大多數人討厭失敗，逃避失敗。在他們眼裡，如果把某件事搞砸了，那就意味著他們本身很糟糕。因為自我價值與表現直接相關，任何失敗都會證明不夠好。但這也正是保持平庸的原因，如果不願意失敗，就無法從錯誤中吸取教訓；如果不從中學習，永遠不會成長，不會發展得更好。

Most people hate failure. They run from it.In their eyes, if they suck at something, it means they suck. Since their self-worth is tied directly to their performance, any failure is proof they aren’t good enough. But this is exactly why they’ll stay in mediocrity. If they aren’t willing to fail, they aren’t able to learn from their mistakes. If they never learn, they’ll never grow and develop into something more.

“你想讓我給你一個成功的公式嗎？其實真的很簡單：把失敗率提高一倍。你可以因失敗而氣餒或者你也可以從中學習，所以放手去犯錯吧，盡你所能。因為只有這樣，才能找到成功。”——托馬斯·沃森。

“Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It’s quite simple, really: Double your rate of failure. You are thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn’t at all. You can be discouraged by failure or you can learn from it, so go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can.

如果你不願意失敗，那麼你也只能保持一般水平。如果你想成長為一個非凡的自己，你必須願意失敗，很多次。

Because remember that’s where you will find success.”-Thomas J. Watson . If you’re not willing to fail, you guarantee you’ll stay average-at-best. If you want to grow into an extraordinary version of yourself, you must be willing to fail -- a lot. Failure brings humility. It develops your character. It helps you laugh at your mistakes and not take things so seriously. Like a plant placed from the shade into sunlight, your growth rate will accelerate 10x.

當我開始寫博客的時候，特別害怕一件事：負面的反饋。我至今還記得看到網絡評論：“這是我讀過的最糟糕的文章”。為此傷心了好幾個月，在那之後，我把我所有的文章儘可能地寫得平淡無奇，我害怕失敗和拒絕，因此，我的寫作水平多年來一直普普通通，直到我最終開始接受批評。本傑明·哈迪這樣說：“不要尋求表揚，要尋求批評。”如果你接受失敗的可能性，你就有可能獲得成功。

When I first started blogging, I was terrified of one thing in particular -- negative feedback. I still remember to this day a comment from an early article that read, “This is the worst article I’ve ever read.” I was broken up about it for months. After that, I made all my articles as vanilla and non-controversial as possible. Before I hit “publish,”I would ask myself: “No one could criticize this, right??” I was terrified of failure and rejection. As a result, my writing stayed mediocre and average for years until I finally started to embrace the possibility of failure. Benjamin Hardy put it this way: “Don’t seek praise, seek criticism.” If you embrace the possibility of failure, you open yourself up to enormous success you’ve never seen before.

平庸的大多數人不重視學習

The Mediocre Majority Doesn’t Value Learning

“你學到的每一項技能都會使你成功的幾率加倍。”——斯科特·亞當斯

“Every skill you acquire doubles our odds of success.” _ Scott Adams

大多數人會選擇娛樂和消遣，而不是學習和成長，這並不奇怪，學習是困難的。去諮詢，成為一項技能的學徒，不斷失敗並不有趣。用哈爾·埃爾羅德的話說：“重複可能會無聊，這就是為什麼很少有人能掌握任何東西。”不過，這對我們其他人來說是個好消息，成功的企業家達倫·哈迪曾經說過：當遇到困難時，他總是很高興，因為這意味著大多數人永遠不會做這件事，競爭不會很激烈。

Most people would choose entertainment and distraction instead of learning and growing. It’s not surprising. Learning is hard. Going to counseling, becoming a student of your craft, and constantly failing aren’t fun. In the words of Hal Elrod: “Repetition can be boring or tedious, which is why so few people ever master anything.” This is great news for the rest of us,though. Uber-successful entrepreneur Darren Hardy once remarked that he’s always glad when something is difficult, because that means most people won’t ever do it. The competition will always be low.

優先學習和自我教育對你來說可能是新的，但要知道：每天你讀的一本書，都有成千上萬人沒有讀過；每個你早起創造和生產的清晨，成千上萬人還在睡著；你堅持下去的每一天，都有成千上萬的人選擇放棄。諷刺的是，最激烈的競爭，往往存在於平庸的人群中。一旦你把學習放在首位，你會意識到那1%的機會，才是真正改變生活的。更重要的是，這些機會的競爭，少得令人難以置信。大多數人將繼續與“平庸的大多數”為殘羹冷炙而戰，那會是一場你不想贏得的比賽。相反，完全退出這場比賽，

Prioritizing learning and self-education maybe new for you. But know this: For every day you read a book, millions of others didn’t. For every morning you woke up early to create and produce, millions of others slept in. For every day you kept going, millions of others quit .Ironically,the fiercest competition is for the second-class prizes. Once you prioritize learning, you become aware of the 1% of opportunities that are truly life-changing. More importantly -- these opportunities have incredibly less competition! Most people will continue fighting for scraps with the “mediocre majority.” That’s a game you don’t want to win. Instead, quit the game entirely. Leave the crowd. Choose learning and self-education instead of entertainment and distraction.

成功者在成為成功者之前就像成功者一樣行動

Winners Act Like Winners Before They Become a Winner

在內心深處，大多數人認為自己不具備成為非凡人物的條件。這是一個自我實現需要的預言，當然如果你不相信自己能做到的話，你肯定不會成功。

Deep down, most people don’t think they have what it takes to be extraordinary. It’s a self-fulfilling prophecy, of course-- if you don’t believe you can, you surely won’t!

我寫了四年博客，從來沒有超過200個訂閱者，回首往事，我發現我從未真正相信自己能寫出真正偉大的作品。在過去的幾個月裡，我已經獲得了5000多名訂閱者，這是因為我開始認真對待我的寫作，開始認真對待自己，我開始相信自己。在我取得任何成功之前，我就開始表現得像個成功者。我做了什麼？我花了500美元買了一門寫作課，我每天早上6點起床寫作，我花了幾百美元買個人發展方面的書，我對待自己就像一個知道自己是互聯網上最好的作家之一的人。很快，我就會實現。

I blogged for 4 years and never got more than 200 subscribers. Looking back, I see now that I never really believed I could produce truly great writing. In the past couple months, I’ve gained more than 5,000 subscribers. This is because I started to take my writing seriously --started to take myself seriously. I began believing in myself. I started acting like a winner before I found any success. So what did I do? I bought a $500 writing course. I started waking up at 6 A.M. every day to write. I’ve spent hundreds of dollars on personal development books. I treat myself like someone who knows they’re one of the best writers on the Internet. Soon, I will be.

“在人們相信自己可以成功做某件事之前，是無法為之做好準備的。”——拿破崙·希爾

“No one is ready for a thing until he believe he can acquire it.”——Napoleon Hill

我發現一旦你告訴自己該做什麼，它就會實現。現在我唯一的目標是在6個月內，獲得10萬人的電子郵件訂閱。瘋狂的是，我真的相信這是可能發生的。因此，我的大腦總是下意識地尋找解決方案來實現這一點。大多數人永遠不會體驗到在你相信巨大的成功是可能實現的之後，那種興奮的浪潮，成功者在成為成功者之前就像成功者一樣行動，他們相信他們能成功，於是他們的大腦開始思考如何才能成功。

I’ve found that once you tell your mind what to do, it will make it happen. Right now, my sole goal is to gain 100,000 email subscribers over 6 months. What’s crazy is I actually believe this can happen. As a result, my mind is always subconsciously finding solutions to make this happen. Most people will never experience the surge of excitement after beginning to truly believe enormous success is possible. Winners act like winners before they become winners. They believe they can succeed, and their mind starts working on how to get there.

你追求的是金錢和頭銜，而不是經驗和轉變

You Seek Money and Titles Not Experience and Transformation

“人們不快樂在很大程度上是因為他們對什麼是有價值的感到困惑。”——威廉·歐文

“People are unhappy in large part because they are confused about what is valuable” ——William Irvine

我23歲的時候，只有一個每天瀏覽量不到50次的小博客。我加入了一個企業家人脈小組，這些人把我嚇壞了，穿著西裝，講著古怪的笑話，喜歡去一杯啤酒要11美元的酒吧。稱自己為“創始人”、“首席執行官”和“投資者”。幾周後我就不參加了，在那個小組裡有很多很棒的人，他們善良而熱情。但也有很多成員，只是喜歡談論他們的頭銜。頭銜其實沒有太多意義，任何人都可以成為任何事情的“專家”或“CEO”，如果你追求的是金錢和頭銜，我保證你走到這條路的盡頭時，會感到空虛和悲傷。

Back when I was 23, and all I had was a little blog with less than 50 views a day, I joined an entrepreneur networking group. These guys were intimidating. They wore suits and laughed at weird jokes and liked going to bars where a beer cost $11. They called themselves “Founders” and “CEO’s” and “Investors.” I quit going after a few weeks. There were many great guys and girls in that group who were kind and passionate. But there were also many members who just liked talking about their title. Titles don’t mean much anymore. Anyone can be an “expert” or a “CEO” of anything. If titles and money are what you chase, I guarantee you’ll reach the end of that road feeling empty and sad.

你應該追求的最重要的目標，應該是經驗學習和個人轉變。如果你總是追求成功，它就會不斷地離你而去。用維克多·弗蘭克的話說：“因為成功和幸福一樣，是無法追求的，它必須隨著你的努力而發生”。但如果你總是優先考慮驚人的個人轉變和範式轉換的經驗，成功就會想你自身具備磁場一樣跑向你。

The most important goals you should have should be experiential learning and personal transformation. If you’re always chasing success, it will constantly elude you. In the words of Victor Frankl, “For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue.” But if you always prioritize incredible personal transformation and paradigm-shifting experiences, success will gravitate towards you as if you were a magnet.

我剛讀完《藝妓回憶錄》，這是關於一個被賣為取悅男人而努力的女孩的一個非常悲傷的故事。最悲傷的部分是年輕的藝伎，甚至沒有意識到她用她的一生追求錯誤的東西，試著讓一個男人愛上她，她相信如果她能表現得足夠好，這個男人的愛最終會給她帶來她一直想要的治癒和滿足。大多數人一生都在追求錯誤的東西，金錢、性、安全和認可，這些不會給你想要的，忘掉頭銜、忘掉給別人留下深刻印象、專注於成為一個讓你自己無比自豪的人。

I just finished reading Memoirs of a Geisha. It’s an incredibly sad story of a girl sold into slavery of pleasing men. The saddest part is that the young geisha doesn’t even realize she’s spending her whole life chasing the wrong thing: trying to make a man love her.She believed if she could perform well enough, the affections of this man would finally give her the healing and fulfillment she always wanted. Most people spend their lives chasing the wrong things -- money, sex, security, and recognition. These won’t give you what you want. Forget about titles and impressing others. Focus on becoming a person you are incredibly proud to be.

你花在嫉妒上的時間比花在成功上的時間還多

You Spend More Time Being Jealous Than Working on Succeeding

“你用來嫉妒別人成功的時間，就是別人用來努力的時間。”——喬恩·韋斯滕博格

“The time you spending jealous of others’ success is time they spent working, guess which one is more valuable.”—— Jon·Westerberg

你花在嫉妒上的每一刻都是在浪費時間，我們在這個世界上沒有多少時間。那些最成功和最有名的人，常常在晚年評論說一切都過去的如此之快。你沒時間去嫉妒，如果你經常觀察別人的行為，你就會變得不像自己，你的價值觀和行為很難保持一致，這會讓你不快樂和空虛。

Every moment you spend being jealous is a moment wasted. We don’t have much time in this world. The most successful and renowned individuals have often commented later in life how surprisingly fast it all went. You don’t have time to be jealous. If you constantly look to the actions of others, you rarely act like yourself. Your values and behavior have a harder time aligning, making you unhappy and empty.

“個人的不協調是造成我們如此多痛苦的原因，不做自己只會毀掉你。”——蒂姆·丹寧

“Personal incongruency is what causes so much of our pain. Not being you will destroy you.”-Tim Denning

不要把時間浪費在平庸的比較遊戲中，選擇把時間花在自己身上。我曾經聽過嫉妒和怨恨，就像自己喝下毒藥，卻期待著另一個人死去。我認為這是一個非常準確的描述。

Instead of wasting away in mediocrity playing the comparison game, choose to spend that time working on yourself instead. I once heard being jealous and resentful is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.

我聽過的關於這個話題最好的建議之一，就是簡單的四個字：走你的路。其他人前進得多快並不重要，你自己有多快也不重要。如果繼續看別的車道，你會撞車的。

I thought that was an eerily accurate description. One of the best pieces of advice I’ve heard on this topic was four simple words:

“Stay in your lane.”

It doesn’t matter how much faster they’re going.

It doesn’t matter how much faster you’re going.

If you keep looking at other lanes, you’re going to crash.

專注於你自己，盡你所能學習、實驗、失敗，去發現什麼是有效的。很快你就會產生動力，有朝一日回頭看，天哪，我怎麼成長得這麼快！

Focus on you. Learn all you can. Experiment, fail, and discover what works. Soon, you’ll build momentum. And one day, you’ll look around you, and marvel at just how damn fast you’re going.

停止嫉妒，把你所有的空閒時間都用來學習和成長。

Cut out jealousy. Spend all your spare time learning and growing.

總結

In Conclusion

“當你為生命中的每一件事承擔起全部責任的那一刻，你就擁有的改變生活的力量。”——哈兒·艾爾羅德

“The moment you accept total responsibility for everything in your life is the day you claim the power that will change anything in your life ”——Hal Elrod

大多數人將保持平庸，他們將繼續與大多數人爭奪普通的、一般的獎品。人生不一定這樣。通往令人難以置信的、令人幸福的充實生活的道路正在等著你。它是免費的、開放的，並且沒有擁擠的人群。從平凡的生活到非凡的生活的轉變，是你能做的最令人興奮的決定之一。在這條道路上學習、成長和發展，會讓你感受到前所未有的活力。

Most people will stay in mediocrity. They’ll continue fighting with the majority for average, subpar prizes. It doesn’t have to be this way. The road that leads to an incredibly exciting, fulfilling life is waiting for you. It’s free and open, and there are no crowds. Making the shift from an ordinary life to an extraordinary life is one of the most exciting decisions you’ll ever make. The learning, growing, and development on this path will make you feel more alive than you’ve ever felt.

選擇成功而不是平庸，

選擇學習而不是娛樂，

選擇個人成長而不是嫉妒，

選擇你想要的，而不是別人想要的！

Choose success over mediocrity.

Choose learning instead of entertainment.

Choose personal growth instead of jealousy.

Choose what you want, not what anyone else wants.

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