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0- **urgent**
- 音标：\[ˈɜːrdʒənt\]（美式发音）
- 释义：adj. 紧急的；迫切的；催促的
- **trifles**
- 音标：\[ˈtraɪfəlz\]（美式发音）
- 释义：n. 小事；琐事
- **status**
- 音标：\[ˈstætəs\]（美式发音）
- 释义：n. 地位；状态；身份
- **random**
- 音标：\[ˈrændən\]（美式发音）
- 释义：adj. 随机的；任意的
- **piles**
- 音标：\[ˈpaɪəlz\]（美式发音）
- 释义：n. 堆；叠
- **budget**
- 音标：\[ˈbʌdʒɪt\]（美式发音）
- 释义：n. 预算；v. 规划
- **cognitive**
- 音标：\[ˈkɑɡnətɪv\]（美式发音）
- 释义：adj. 认知的；感知的
- **retrospect**
- 音标：/ˈrɛtrəspɛkt/（美式发音）
- 释义：adj. 回顾的；怀旧的
“incredibly”的音标是 /ɪnˈkrɛdəbli/。
释义：这个词的意思是“非常”或“极其”
I think it's very easy to spend a decade being incredibly busy and incredibly stressed every day and feeling like you're working incredibly hard and creating a ton of movement but not moving forward.
我认为，人们很容易在十年里每天都非常忙碌和极度压力，感觉自己非常努力工作，制造了很多动作，但没有向前发展。
And I think this is like a big trap and it's so easy to get caught up in things that are urgent but unimportant.
我认为这是一个大陷阱，人们很容易陷入那些紧急但不重要的事情。
Or it is so easy to get caught up in like the trifles of office politics and playing status and power games that don't matter but feel so fun and so important.
或者很容易陷入办公室政治的琐事、玩弄地位和权力游戏，这些不重要但感觉很有趣很重要。
Or just like random other like bullshit that piles up in life.
或者就像生活中堆积的随机其他废话。
And I've at least found for myself I have like a fixed budget of cognitive output per day.
至少我发现，我自己每天的认知输出有固定的预算。
And I can spend that on whatever but if I let it go on unimportant stuff then I never have time to get to the really important stuff.
我可以随意花费这些，但如果我让它浪费在不重要的事情上，那么我就永远没有时间去做真正重要的事情。
And it's so easy to get heads(things) done and (stay)focused and to miss, sort of like what I'm actually accomplishing.
而且很容易让人完成工作，保持专注，有点像我实际上完成了什么。
Yes, the number of people who said to me like: man, I thought for ten years I was doing incredible work because I felt like I was creating a huge amount of output but in retrospect it was in the wrong direction.
是的，有很多人对我说，天啊，我原以为十年来我做了不可思议的工作，因为我感觉自己创造了大量的产出，但回顾起来却是方向错误。
Um, is always depressing.
嗯，总是令人沮丧。
You do need to focus and do stuff ,but you know I think it's like really good to like focus for some period of time and then step back and think like, am I doing the right thing.
你确实需要专注和做事，但你知道，我认为专注于一段时间，然后退后一步思考我是否在做正确的事情，这真的很不错。
