TED演讲通往美好人生的捷径（中英对照）每个人都想要美好的生活Everybody wants the good life,但不是人人都有好生活对吧but not everybody gets the good life, right?想象一下Imagine for a second就现在今天你会取得多大的成功if right now, today, how much more successful would you be如果你刚开始创办一个公司if you just started a company而比尔·盖茨是你的合伙人50/50 with Bill Gates as your business partner 他会运用他从创建微软公司到公司成为全世界第一的过程中的and he was using every trick of the trade that he used to build Microsoft每一个商业技巧into one of the biggest companies in the world?想象看你的账户现在有多少钱Im agine how much money you’d have in your bank account today –我应该说你的账号能有多少更多的钱how much more money, I should say –如果沃伦·巴菲特教你如果在股市中投资if Warren Buffet was teaching you how to invest in the stock market, 向你展示他曾经是如何将伯克希尔哈撒韦公司showing you what he used to build Berkshire Hathaway经营成为一个1400亿的大公司into a $140 billion company.想象一下你今天该有多高兴Imagine how much happier you’d be today如果达赖喇嘛是你的私人向导if the Dali Lama was your personal guide,教你如何在生活中showing you how to find fulfillment in life,从大部分人所忽视的小事中找到满足感in the little things that most people overlook.想象一下你今天该有多健康Imagine how healthy you’d be today当你醒来if when you woke up,你走向健身房you went down to your gym,阿诺德·施瓦辛格正在那里等你and Arnold Schwarzenegger was waiting there,而他正是你的私人教练who was your personal trainer,向你展示他是如何健身showing you how he built his body如何锻炼出最健美的身材into the most fit body maybe ever, right?想象一下你将如何改变这个世界Imagine the change you’d be making in the world,你将在今天解决什么不公平的事情the injustice you’d be solving today,如果你的妈妈和你将一起经营一个慈善机构if Mother Theresa and you were running a charity together然后她向你展示她在and she was showing you what she learned在加尔各答的街上帮助贫穷生病甚至即将死亡的人这一过程中学到了什么on the streets of Calcutta, helping the poor, the sick, and the dying.在你的生活中导师有能力做到这些Mentors have the power to do this in your life.我认为在这里的每个人都理解榜样的重要性I think everybody here recognizes the importance of a role model.但是在接下的几分钟里But in the next few minutes,我将要向你展示导师拥有I’m going to show you how mentors are more powerful比你想象中更强大的力量than you can possibly imagine他们有能力去改变你的生活in their ability to transform your life.有趣的是现在我在卢森堡这儿It’s interesting that I’m here in Luxembourg,因为我的祖母在离这不远的地方出生because my grandmother was born not too far from here,在德国的柏林in Berlin, Germany.顺便说一下她现在96岁了She’s 96 years old, by the way,她对我说“塔伊替我跟他们打声招呼”a nd she said, “Tai, tell them hello.”所以来自我96岁祖母的问候So, hello from my 96-year-old grandma.(笑声…..)(Laughter)她说“我曾有一个偶像一个导师She said, “There was a role model, a mentor that I had在我还是一个小女孩的时候”when I was a little girl.”她出生在1918年的柏林She was born in 1918 in Berlin,她说“我曾有一位租客”and she said, “We had a renter in our house.”一位有名的钢琴家伊迪丝·诺克斯Edith Knox, who was a famous piano player来自加利福尼亚在二十世纪二十年代from California in the 1920s.她说“塔伊那个女人对我有非常深厚的影响”She said, “Tai, this woman made such an impression on me.”她会租一间房间度过夏天She rented a room for a summer,她说“伊迪丝·诺克斯穿裤子”and she said, “Edith Knox wore pants.”我祖母说“那时我从未见过一位女性穿裤子”My grandma said, “I’d never seen a woman wear pants.”很显然在二十年代的德国没有一位女性穿裤子Apparently, in Germany in the ’20s, no women wore pants.她穿的不是普通的裤子而是一套橘色的连衣裤And not just regular pants. She had an orange jumpsuit on.然后伊迪丝·诺克斯会把每个小时And then she’d play the piano, and Edith Knox, every hour,都用来练习弹钢琴would stand on her head for exercise.我祖母那时才7岁她说My grandma was like 7 and she said,“塔伊我当时常想加州福尼亚的女人都是什么样的“Tai, I thought if that’s how women are in California,总有一天我会去那里”one day I’m going to move to California.”果真她最终到了加州福尼亚And sure enough, she ended up in California.这个故事解释了我的家庭为什么最终在加利福尼亚定居That’s part of the story of how my family ended up in California.我来自加州福尼亚我乘飞机飞到这儿I’m from California. I flew here.花了20小时我来自好莱坞It took me 20 hours to get here, and I’m from Hollywood, specifically.好莱坞梦想之地So Hollywood, the “Land of Dreams.”也许对于大多数人来说那儿是梦碎之地Or for most people, it’s the land of b roken dreams.每年都有100万人移居和迁出那里Every year, 100,000 people move in and out of Hollywood.一些人来这成为了电影明星演员歌手作家喜剧演员Some come to be movie stars, actors, singers, writers, comedians.大部分却是两手空空地回家了Most go home empty-handed.所以我住在希尔斯So I live up in the Hills,会看见许多名人and I’m surrounded by all these celebrities.我的左邻右舍都是名人I have one on my left, one on my right.我经常想“为什么这些名人能成功I often think, “Why did these celebrities make it?他们做了什么与众不同的事情吗”What did they do differently that allowed them to make it?”因为在好莱坞每个人都有欲望Because in Hollywood, everybody wants something,但并不是每个人都得到了他们想要的but not everybody gets what they want.因此今天我想讲一点这方面的东西So I want to talk a little bit about that today.因为生命是短暂的Because life is short.我想我们都感受到到时间的流沙在生命中快速地溜走I think we all realize the sands of time quickly can slip by in your life.你们不会想到老了才能过上好日子And you don’t want to be old when you finally get the good life,或者更老时对吗or too old. Right?就像荷兰的一句谚语It’s like the Dutch saying,“我们太快变老太晚聪明”“We’re too soon old, too late smart.”史蒂夫·乔布斯说过“我不想在墓地里成为最富有的人”Steve Jobs said, “I didn’t want to be the richest man in the graveyard.”然后我意识到了这些And I realized this.回想起我年轻的时候I remember back, I was younger我的导师之一艾伦·内申曾对我说过and Alan Nation, one of my mentors, he had told me,“塔伊在你16岁的时候你想成为什么人“Tai, what did you want to be when you were 16?这是你最真实的愿望That’s the truest version of yourself.当你16岁时你想做什么”What did you want to be when you were 16?”然后我记起在我16岁时我想有一个美好的生活And I remember at 16, I wanted to find the good life.亚里士多德谈论幸福时他对美好生活的定义是Aristotle talks about eudaimonia, his definition of the good life.健康财富快乐爱所有的这些Health, wealth, happiness, love. All those things.我记得我说“太难了我怎么才能”达到这个目的呢I remember going, “It’s too hard. How am I ever going to figure this out?在我十六岁时有太多的难题There’s so many hard questions. I’m 16.我想弄清楚我会去哪所大学会信仰什么宗教I got to figure out what college to go to, what religion I’m going to follow,我将与谁结婚从事什么政治活动将会在哪儿生活who I’m going to marry, what politics, where to live,将从事的怎样的职业道路”what career and path to pursue.”然后我有了这个想法我说“我有一个好点子”And I had this idea. I was like, “I know the perfect idea.”我将找到一个人I’ll find one person –我想他必须是个天才不过事实证明他并不是特别聪明I thought this was so genius, it turned out to not be so smart –但我会找到一个人他能给出所有的答案But I’d find one person who had all the answers.所以我写了一封信So I wrote a letter.寄给了我的祖父他是我当时以为最聪明的人The smartest person I could think of was my grandfather.我写信说“你能告诉我该怎么规划我以后的生活吗”I wrote this letter: “Will you tell me how to design my life?”TED是由T E D组成TED is about T-E-D.其中“D”指的是计划一个有计划的生活The “D” is about Design, the designed life.因此我问“你能帮助我构思我的将来的生活吗”So I said, “Will you help me design my life?”我当时非常兴奋And I was so excited.四天后我收到了祖父的回信Four days later I got this letter back from my grandpa我阅读了信中的内容里面说“抱歉塔伊我不能帮你”I read it a nd it said, “Sorry, Tai, I can’t help you.现代世界太复杂了The modern world’s too complicated.你不能只从一个人身上找到所有的答案You will never find all the answers from just one person.如果你够幸运的话沿途的少数人将会为你指明方向If you’re lucky, a handful of people along the way will point the way.”我心想“啊！” 走捷径是行不通了And I was like, “Ugh!” So much for my shortcut.但是七天之后我收到了一个包裹But seven days later, a package came.里面是书It was books.我的祖父拥有一间内有两万本藏书的藏书库My grandfather had a 20,000-book library,他寄给了我一些又旧又脏的书and he had sent me some old dusty ones.一本有1000页11卷的书A 1,000-page volume. 11 books.是由威尔和阿里埃尔·杜兰特著的“文明与意志”“The Story of Civilization,” by Will and Ariel Durant.我说“一千页这太多了”I was like, “1,000 pages? This is too much.”但我现在发现他给我的是一种暗示但我当时不能理解But I see now, he was giving me a hint, I did n’t understand it.有一个神话说我们必须向内寻找真相There’s this myth that you have to go inward to find truth.但事实上他说的是你必须自己去发现去寻找But the truth he was saying is you have to go outward.如果你可以拥有这些觉悟人们的心态If you can download the consciousness, the mindset of people那些离去的人们who have gone before you –那些最机智最聪明智力最发达的人the smartest, the wisest, the most intelligent,最老练的人的心态the most experienced people –那么你会得到你想要的答案then you will get what you want.因此我继续并开始写下笔记卡片And so I went on, and I started writing down note cards.我叫他们精神捷径当我读这些书时I called them mental shortcuts. And I was reading these books.我开始旅行我去了51个国家And then I started traveling. I went to 51 countries.我读了一本书上说“让我来亲自拜访他们”I’d read a book and say, “Let me go visit this person in person.”于是我去了新西兰和澳大利亚So I went to New Zealand and Australia,南美洲阿根廷爱尔兰世界各地South America, Argentina, Ireland, all over the world.以前我关注四样东西健康财富爱和快乐I was focused on those 4 things: health, wealth, love, and happiness.我当时决定聚焦健康和快乐I decided to focus on health and happiness.我和乔尔·萨拉汀在他的著名的I lived for two years with Joel Salatin可持续有机农场里住了两年on his famous sustainable agricultural organic farm.然后我又和阿米什人一起度过了两年半的时间Then I spent 2 1/2 years with the Amish.我们生活在没有电的社区怒力去发现生活的本质No electricity, trying to see what was life when we lived in community.我犯了一个错误我忘了钱I made one mistake. I forgot about money.这是我关注点中的一个于是最后我花光了所有钱That’s one of the things, so eventually, I ran out of money.我不得不去做那件没人愿做的事我打电话给我妈说I had to do the thing nobody wants to do, call my mom and be like,“妈我知道我现在是成年人了但我现在真的没有一分钱了“Mom, I know I’m an adult, but I don’t have any money.你介意我走回家后住在家里吗”Do you mind if I come stay at home until I get back on my feet?”她在卡罗莱纳州北部有辆房车She had a mobile home in Clayton, North Carolina.我到了那儿她说I went and she said,“对不起塔伊没有你的房间不过你可以睡在沙发上”“Sorry, Tai, I don’t have a room for you, but you can sleep on this couch.”我记得那晚我躺在沙发上想“我搞砸了一切吗So I remember laying there at night, like: “Did I mess up?我错过了好日子吗Did I miss out on the good life?现在我没有一个大学学位Here I am, I have no college degree.我有什么技术呢我可以和阿米什人一起给母牛挤奶”My skills? I could milk a cow with the Amish.”那可不是一个赚钱的手艺That wasn’t a very marketable skill.我记得我当时银行账户上只有47美元I remember I had like $47 in my bank account.我有一辆车但车上有破洞I had a car, but it had holes in the floor.莫名其妙地彻头彻尾地生锈了Somehow it had rusted through,如果你突然把你的脚放在那上面and if you accidentally would put your foot down,它会砍掉你的脚所以我一点都不想开它it would chop your foot off. So I didn’t want to drive it anywhere,或者拉其他人or pick anybody up in that car.我回想起我祖父说的话“寻求外界的帮助”I re membered back to what my grandpa said, “Look outwards.”于是我问我周围的人“有人愿意帮我吗”So I started asking around: “Will somebody help me?”我舅舅说“你需要一个告诉你该怎么赚钱的人”My uncle said: “You need somebody who’ll show you how to make money.”于是我说好主意我去找这个人So I was like, “Great idea. I’m going to go find somebody.”但我没有汽油钱But I didn’t have any gas money.我呆在了我妈妈的房子里只有40美元I was stuck there at my mom’s house. I had $40.我走向厨房这是我能做的I walked to the kitchen. That’s what I could afford to do.我找到了黄页打开了它I found the yellow pages and opened them up.我看到了财务处的电话地址然后我找到了那个人I looked in the finance section and I found this guy.我说“我将去拜访这个家伙”I said, “I’m going to visit this guy.”于是我拿了一件挂在壁橱外的西装So I got a suit out of the closet.它不是我的它太大了穿在我身上看起来很怪异It wasn’t mine, it was too big. It looked weird on me.当我到那个人家时候我不知道当时我看起来怎么样I don’t know what I looked like when I showed up at that guy’s house.我找了个人开车送我过去I got somebody to drive me in,我到了之后他的秘书凯西打开了门我向后走去I showed up and Kathy, his secretary, opened the door and I walked back,我向那个我从电话本里知道了名字的人迈克·斯坦巴克走去我说and Mike Steinback, from the phone book, I walked up to him and I said,“迈克你不认识我如果你教我“Mike, you don’t know me. If you show me what you know,你能承担在电话簿里打全页广告的费用的话– figure you must know a lot about money, if you can afford a full-page ad你一定很有钱in the yellow pages –如果你能教我我会为你免费工作”if you show me what you know I’ll work for you for free.”我永远不会忘记他当时坐在椅子上I’ll never forget. He was sitting in this chair.留着大胡子看起来有点像汤姆·赛利克He had a big mustache. He looked kind of like Tom Selick.他就坐在那儿把椅子朝我转过来He was sitting there, and he just rolled his chair towards me.他说“你知道吗塔伊我找你这样的人用了20年And he said, “You know, Tai? I’ve been looking for someone like you for 20 years.明天早上过来我会告诉你我知道的东西”Show up in the morning, I’ll show you what I know.”然后当然地他教了我很多And sure enough, he did show me.他开始指导我做生意And he began to mentor me on business.现在我是一名企业家也是一名投资者And now I’m an entrepreneur. I’m an investor.但我还是继续走那条路旅行寻找导师阅读But I’ve continued on that path, traveling, finding mentors, reading.我一天读一本书I read a book a day.我有个小小的读书俱乐部我还写作I have a little book club, I write.我在研究中发现我并不是一个反面典型And what I’ve found in my research is that I wasn’t the abnormal pattern.导师你复制的能力是你一生中Mentors – your ability to copy – is the biggest predictor影响你成功的最大的因素of the success that you will have in life.正如毕加索所说“优秀的艺术家抄袭但伟大的艺术家偷窃”As Picasso said, “Good artists copy, but great artists steal.”对吧Right?我环顾四周发现一件很有意思的事And I looked around, and it’s interesting.你知道阿尔伯特·爱因斯坦有一个导师吗Did you know Albert Einstein had a mentor?每周四他会和一位导师一起共进午餐Every Thursday, he would have lunch with a mentor growing up.杰斯一位饶舌歌手他也有导师Jay-Z, the rapper, he had a mentor.奥普拉·温弗瑞说她有两个导师Oprah Winfrey said she had two mentors.甘地也有导师Gandhi had a mentor.亚历山大大帝有亚里士多德Alexander, the Great, had Aristotle.比尔·盖茨有保罗·艾伦Bill Gates had Paul Allen.沃伦·巴菲特有本杰明·格雷厄姆Warren Buffet had Benjamin Graham.我们大多数人都错过了There’s something here that most of us一些东西have missed out on.所以我想分享给你一些我发现的事So I want to share with you some things that I’ve found,一些你导师能发掘的你的一些特性some specifics that you can do with mentors.第一条我称之为导师准则The first rule, I call it the Mentor Rules.它占33％It’s the Law of 33%.你应该分配好你的生活花33％的时间You should divide up your life and spend 33% of your time和比你水平低的人在一起around people lower than you.你可以指导帮助他们You can mentor and help them.他们也会帮助你让你自我感觉良好And they’ll help you back by making you feel good about yourself.知道一个人比你做的差是有益处的那是30％It’s good to know somebody’s doing worse than you. That’s that 30%.之后就会有33％的人和你在同一水平了Then you have 33% of people that are on your level.他们成为你的朋友你的同伴These become your friends, your peers.然而剩下的33％是大多数人忘记的But that last 33% is what most people forget about.他们是比你领先10或20年的人Those are people 10, 20 years ahead of you.他们会让你觉得有点不舒服They’ll make y ou feel a little bit uncomfortable,但是那就是你想要的记住but that’s what you want, and remember不要像其他人一样对导师有错误的认知you don’t want to make the mistake most people make with mentors,找个只比他们厉害一点的人finding somebody just a little bit better than them.你不想成为领导盲人的盲人You d on’t want to be the blind leading the blind.我称之为10X准则找到一个比你厉害十倍的人So I call it the 10x rule; find somebody ten times further ahead than you.如果你想学习如何拥有一个价值一百万的公司If you want to learn how to grow a $1 million company,你就找到一个拥有价值一千万公司的人you have to find somebody who has a $10 million company.不要害怕与成功者对话Don’t be afraid to go to the top.导师的亲自指导总是效果惊人In-person mentors are amazing.如果你能找到比尔·盖茨和巴菲特作导师And you can get people like Warren Buffet, Bill Gates.你会有惊人的收获You’d be surprised!我朋友弗兰克听了一场演讲他是一名在好莱坞工作的主管My friend Frank heard a talk. He’s a director in Hollywood.他说“塔伊你不会相信我经历了什么我听了你的演讲后给一些人发了邮件He’s like, “Tai, you won’t believe this. I heard your talk and emailed some people.伊隆·马斯克他是贝宝公司的创始人And Elon Musk, the founder of Paypal,同时拥有三家价值十亿的公司他给了我回信然后我们一起吃了饭”the only man to own three companies worth $1 billion wrote me back and we had lunch.你会有惊喜的收获因为人们的记忆You’d be surprised people remember他们会回忆起他们的奋斗经历所以他们也会伸出手帮助你Because people remember their struggle, and they’ll reach out and help you, too.记住任何人都想拥有美好的生活Remember, everybody wants the good life,但是并不是每一个人都愿意遵守规则but not everybody’s willing to follow these rules.但你必须遵守规则You must follow these rules.Next, humility.有一个我非常喜欢的发生在商场上的故事山姆·沃尔顿One of my favorite stories in business, Sam Walton.他是美国最富有的人He becomes the richest man in America.他创立了沃尔玛这个大企业He starts Walmart, this big empire.一次他去巴西的圣保罗旅游And he takes a trip to São Paulo, Brazil.接待他的家庭接到警察的电话And when he’s there, his host family gets a call from the police department.警察说“来保释山姆·沃尔顿吧他被关押了”They’re like, “Come bail out Sam Walton. He’s in jail.”这时他只是一个年老的亿万富翁By this time, he’s an older guy. Billionaire.他们立刻赶过去They rushed down.如果你见过巴西监狱的内部If you’ve ever seen the inside of a Brazilian jail cell,那个可不是一个好地方对于一个60岁的亿万富翁来说it’s not a good place for a 60-year-old billionaire.所以他们问警察“你疯了吗你真的逮捕了他”And they asked the police, “Are you crazy? Are you arresting him?”警察说“我们不知道他是谁They’re like, “We didn’t know who he was,但我们发现他在商店里到处闲逛”and we found him crawling around the fl oors of stores.”警察问他在干什么They asked him what he was doing,他说“我只是在用卷尺测量过道的宽度and he’s like, “I was just measuring how wide the aisles were with a tape measurer.我想弄清楚这些巴西人是否知道I was trying to figure out if these Brazilians knew一些我不知道的事”something that I didn’t know.”你会认为他作为一个亿万富翁太狂妄了Already a billionaire. You’d think he’d be cocky.你看每个人都想要美满的生活You see, everybody wants the good life,但不是每个人都愿意像沃尔顿一样谦虚but not everybody’s willing to be humble like Sam Walton was.但你必须要谦虚You have to be humble.Next, perseverence.媒体使我们感到不安The media has tricked us.他们只向我们展示最后的成功但比尔·盖茨从12岁开始努力They only show us the success at the end, but Bill Gates started at 12.直到31岁才成为亿万富翁It wasn’t until 31 years old that he was a billionaire.他说他20岁到30岁从不休假一天都没有He said from age 20 to 30, he never took a day off. Not even one.你必须坚持You must persevere,在寻找导师的过程中你也必须坚持不懈and in your search for mentors you must persevere, as well.我很幸运能与I’ve been lucky to become friends世界顶级房地产投资者之一做朋友with one of the top real estate investors in the world.我问“你从什么时候开始努力”I said, “How did you get started?”他说“在我19岁的时候我决定开始我的房地产生意He said, “Back when he was 19, I decided I wanted to do real estate.我住的地方是一个小镇但那有一个非常厉害的开发商I lived in a little town, but there was one developer who was pretty good.所以我去了开发商办公室见到了秘书So I went down to the developer’s office. I met the secretary.我说‘我想见一见这个开发商’I said, ‘I’d like to meet this developer.’秘书说‘抱歉他很忙没有时间见你’She said, ‘Sorry. He’s a busy man. He doesn’t have time to meet you.'”第二天他又去了秘书又把他赶了出来He said I came back the next day. She turned me away.来来回回17次17 times!在第17次的时候秘书实在是不耐烦了她说He said on the 17th time, the lady felt bad for him and she said, “有一个方法可以教给你你就躲在电梯旁的植物后面“Here’s what you do. Hide behind the plant by the elevator.当他在工作结束后离开办公室时When he comes out of his office at the end of the day,你就跳进电梯里jump into the elevator.他没其他的选择只能见你因为电梯门关上了And he won’t have a choice. The doors will close.你有四个楼层的时间让这个家伙相信And you’ve got four floors to convince this guy和你谈话是值得的”that you’re worth talking to.”我不知道我的朋友后来说了什么但我知道I don’t know what my friend said, but he said enough当他们到了楼下时他说得足够多了that when they got to the bottom of the elevator,开发商说“明天早上在机场等我that developer said, “Meet me at the airport in the morning.你可以和我一起做私人飞机去佛罗里达We’ll go down to my private jet. You can come down with me to Florida.在那里我会来告诉你我是如何投资旅馆的”I’ll show you how I invested in hotels down there.”果然我的朋友从他的导师那里学到了很多东西Sure enough, my friend learned from this mentor后来成为世界上最富有的房地产投资者之一and became one of the wealthiest real estate investors in the world.他非常有毅力你看每个人都想过好日子He persevered, because, you see, everybody wants the good life,但并不是每个人都能坚持到成功but not everybody’s willing to persevere to get it.你必须坚持You must persevere.下一个书籍Next, books.书籍是隐藏的宝藏Books you should see as hidden treasure.认真思考一下Think about it,因为我说过导师非常重要because as I said, mentors are great in person,但有些伟大的导师已经死去了but some of the great mentors are no longer alive –就像莎士比亚达尔文弗洛伊德还有圣雄甘地Shakespeare, Darwin, Freud, Mahatma Gandhi.但如果我告诉你这些人就在我家里But if I told you all those people were in my house并且他们会在这周六在那里答疑解惑and they’re going to be there this Saturday answering questions,我可以让这件神奇的事发生你会来找我吗– magically I can make that happen – would you show up at my house?当然每个人都可以买一张机票到加利福尼亚去Of course everybody would buy a plane ticket and end up in California.他们就在我家They are there in my house.他们在我的书房里他们也在你的书房里They’re on my library. They can be in your library, too.说到山姆·沃尔特Talking about Sam Walton.这个身价1600亿的男人This is a man who made $160 billion for himself,比其他亿万富翁加起来还富有more than all the other billionaires, basically, combined.临终前写了一本书He wrote a book on his death bed.有多少人读过How many people have read it?悲剧的是没多少商人读过这个缔造了这样It’s a tragedy that not every businessperson’s read a $5 book一个商业帝国的人写的书by a man who built an empire.这是因为现在的教育体系让人们远离了书籍It’s because the modern education system has turned people off from books.你必须改变让我教你几个技巧You have to rewire your brain. Let me show you a few quick tricks.第一:不要把书看做一次性的东西First thing: stop seeing a book like a one-time event.把书当做一个朋友See a book like a friend.你要一遍一遍地去读它重复地看它You read it over and over. You come back.就像挑朋友你要挑一些书看And just like friends, you pick a handful of them.我建议你选150本书I recommend you find 150 books.世界上有很多书你不可能都读完There’s 130 million. You can’t read that many.但你可以一遍一遍地读这150本书But 150 you can read over and over for the rest of your life.对于你读书的速度在哪读There’s no rule, either, at how fast you have to read them,也没什么要求我就设定了自己的步调at what pace. I set my own pace.有人问“你是一天读一本书吗”People say, “How do you read a book a day?”有时我一周读一本Sometimes I take a week.但有时一本书只有一处或两处值得读But sometimes, books only have one or two things worth reading.事实上大多数书都这样In fact, most books only have that.所以在我翻书时So I’ll flip through the pages.我喜欢翻三遍I like to go through it three times.第一遍时我读书后的目录First time, I read the table of contents at the back.第二遍我快速地读一遍书The second time, I go a little faster.第三遍我只专注于读其中的一章The third time, I just focus on one chapter.把自己看成一个淘金者寻找那块金子See yourself like a gold miner just looking for that one nugget.然后把书放回书架Then put it back on the shelf.美国人一年平均买17本书The average American buys 17 books a year.大约一个月读一本书而你应该至少一周读一本书Maybe reads one a month. You should read at least one book a week,因为记住每个人都想要好的生活because remember, everybody wants the good life,但并不是每个人都愿意通过阅读去达到这个目的but not everybody’s willing to read to get it.你必须大量的阅读You must read more.最后禁欲与享乐And lastly, stoic versus epicurean.我读的第一本书是我祖父给我的有11卷One of the first books that I read, this 11-set volume I got from my grandfather,我引述书里的一句话there was a quote that I wrote down.“生于忧患死于安乐”“A nation is born stoic and dies epicurean.”禁欲主义者愿意牺牲现在的快乐Stoics were people willing to sacrifice present pleasure以换取更好未来for something better later.你可能说他们是投资者You could say they were investors.享乐主义者更注重活在当下Epicureans live for now.。
