1. **Another thing that I really believe is that inspiration is perishable, act on it immediately.** 我真正相信的另一件事是：灵感是稍纵即逝的，要立即行动。 2. **So when you're inspired to do something, do that thing.** 所以当你产生做某事的灵感时，就去做那件事。 3. **If I'm inspired to write a blog post, I want to do it at that moment.** 如果我产生写博客的灵感，我就想在那一刻完成它。 4. **If I'm inspired to send a tweet, I want to do it that moment.** 如果我产生发推特的灵感，我就想在那一刻发送。 5. **If inspired to solve a problem, I do it that moment.** 如果产生解决问题的灵感，我就在那一刻解决。 6. **If I'm inspired to read a book, I want to read it right then.** 如果我产生读书的灵感，我就想在那一刻阅读。 7. **If I'm inspired to solve a problem, I solve it right there.** 如果我产生解决问题的灵感，我就在当场解决。 8. **If I want to learn something, I do it at the moment of curiosity.** 如果我想学习某个东西，我就在好奇心涌现时学习。 9. **The moment the curiosity arrives, I go learn that thing immediately.** 当好奇心出现的那一刻，我立即去学习那个东西。 10. **I download the book, I get on Google, I get on ChatGPT...whatever.** 我会下载书籍、上谷歌搜索、打开ChatGPT...用尽各种方式。 11. **I will figure that thing out on the spot, and that's when the learning happens.** 我会当场弄明白，学习就发生在那一刻。 12. **It doesn't happen because I've scheduled time, because I've set an hour aside.** 学习不会发生在我安排好时间、专门留出时段的时候。 13. **Because when that time arrives, I might be in a different mood.** 因为当那个时间到来时，我的心情可能已经改变。 14. **I might just want to do something different.** 我可能只想做别的事情。 15. **So I think that spontaneity is really important.** 所以我认为自发性非常重要。 16. **You're going to learn best when you're having fun.** 当你在享受乐趣时，学习效果最好。 17. **When you genuinely are enjoying the process, not when you're forced to sit there and do it.** 是在你真正享受过程时，而不是被迫坐在那里完成任务时。 18. **How much do you remember from school, you know?** 你还记得多少在学校学的东西，知道吗？ 19. **You were forced to learn geography, history, mathematics on this schedule at this time according to this person.** 你被迫按照这个人的安排，在这个时间表上学习地理、历史和数学。 20. **Didn't happen. All the stuff that sticks with you is you learned it when you wanted to.** 那些都没记住。真正记住的都是你想学时学会的。 21. **When you genuinely had the desire.** 当你真正有学习欲望的时候。 22. **And that freedom, that ability to act on something the moment you want to, is so liberating.** 那种自由，那种能在想做的瞬间就行动的能力，是如此令人解放。 23. **That most of us go through our lives with very very little tastes of that.** 而我们大多数人一生中很少体验到这种感受。 24. **And if you live your entire life that way, that is a recipe for happiness.** 而如果你一生都这样生活，那就是幸福的秘诀。

1. **Contaminate**： - **发音**：[kənˈtæmɪneɪt] - **解释**：动词，意为污染、玷污。作为名词时，指被污染的状态或物质。 2. **Incredible**： - **发音**：UK: /ɪnˈkrɛd.ɪ.bəl/ US: /ɪnˈkrɛd.ə.bəl/ - **解释**：形容词，意为难以置信的、不可思议的。 3. **Potentially**： - **发音**：UK: /pəˈten.ʃəl.i/ US: /poʊˈten.ʃəl.i/ - **解释**：副词，意为可能地、潜在地。 4. **Temporariness**： - **发音**：/ˈtempəˌrərnəs/ - **解释**：名词，意为暂时性、临时状态。 5. **Coated over**： - **发音**：/koʊtɪd oʊvər/ - **解释**：短语，意为覆盖上、涂覆上。 6. **Implications**： - **发音**：/ˌɪm.plɪˈkeɪ.ʃənz/ - **解释**：名词，意为含义、暗示、影响。 1. By seeing that nothingness is the fundamental reality - 将虚无视作是一种基本的现实， 2. and you see it's your reality - 并且感知到你的现实， 3. that how can anything contaminate you? - 那么外物又怎能将你动摇呢？ 4. all the idea of you being scared and put out and worried and so on is just nothing - 你的恐惧、绝望、担忧等等的，只不过是虚无， 5. it's a dream - 这只是一场梦， 6. because you're really nothing. - 因为你自己也是一种虚无。 7. but this is the most incredible nothing. - 但这是一种最令人赞叹的虚无。 8. so cheer up - 所以振作， 9. you see? - 你明白了吗？ 10. when we are tuned into this nothingness of being - 当我们关注这种虚无， 11. and truly confront it as a potentially equal part - 直面它，并平等视之， 12. it could and likely should be followed with the deep recognition of the thin temporariness coated over everything - 也许能因此深刻认识到，一切如白驹过隙， 13. and thus the importance of focusing not on some ultimate end game goal - 因此，重要的是不要专注于什么终极目标， 14. but on the very real implications that there are none - 而是要关注一个非常现实的含义，即没有所谓的终极目标， 15. that the ever-fleeting present is all there is. - 转瞬即逝的当下就是一切。

addictions [əˈdɪkʃənz]瘾，嗜好 traumas [ˈtraʊməs]创伤，外伤 freaking [ˈfriːkɪŋ]这个词是“freak”的现在分词形式，通常用在非正式的语境中，表示“非常”或“极度” As long as you train with weights three times a week. 只要你每周三次举重训练。 Run three times a week. 每周跑步三次。 Long, medium, and short it runs. 它跑得长、中、短距离。 And yeah... take a cold shower. 是的...洗个冷水澡。 And you eat mostly unprocessed and minimally processed foods. 而且你主要吃未加工和最少加工的食物。 And you try and get sleep. 并且你尝试获得充足的睡眠。 And you limit your alcohol. 并且你限制饮酒。 And you deal with any addictions you might have. 并且你处理任何你可能有的瘾症。 And you work on your traumas like. 并且你像这样处理你的创伤。 You're gonna have a great freaking life. 你将会有一个非常棒的生活。 You're going to be healthier than 90% of people in the world. 你将会比世界上90%的人更健康。

Setbacks (名词): 挫折；阻碍；失败。 Assignment (名词): 任务；作业。 Draft (动词/名词): 草拟；草稿。 Option (名词): 选择；期权。 Staying up (动词短语): 熬夜；不睡觉。 Literally (副词): 字面上地；确实地。 Broke down (动词短语): 崩溃；瓦解。 1. some of the big setbacks was after I just graduated from law school. 一些重大挫折发生在我刚毕业于法学院之后。 2. I worked in a law firm and I was on an assignment was trying to draft a document. 我在一家律师事务所工作，当时我正在执行一个任务，试图起草一份文件。 3. I had no idea how to draft the document. 我完全不知道如何起草这份文件。 4. I believe it was something like an employee stock option plan or something like that. 我相信那类似于员工股票期权计划之类的东西。 5. I remember staying up at 4 in the morning and literally just broke down and cried. 我记得自己熬到凌晨4点，然后真的崩溃了，哭了起来。 6. That was the first time for me to you know not be able to do something. 那是我第一次，你知道的，无法做成某件事。 7. And I was looking for help and that was an experience that taught me you have to go through moments like that. 我在寻求帮助，而那是一次教会我必须经历那样时刻的经历。 8. kind of a sense of helplessness and then you pick yourself back up and figure out a solution to go forward. 那种无助感，然后你得自己振作起来，找出解决问题的办法，继续前进。

1. Mortal • 音标: /ˈmɔːr.təl/ • 释义: 凡人的，终有一死的；致命的。 2. Count • 音标: /kaʊnt/ • 释义: 计算；数数；计算在内；认为。 3. Socrates • 音标: /ˈsɒk.rə.t̬iz/ • 释义: 苏格拉底（古希腊哲学家）。 4. Broaden • 音标: /ˈbrɔː.dn/ • 释义: 使变宽；扩大；拓宽视野。 5. Existentialist • 音标: /ˌɛɡ.zɪˈsɪs.tʃə.nəl.ɪst/ • 释义: 存在主义者；存在主义的。 6. Authentically • 音标: /ˌɔː.θɛnˈtɪk.li/ • 释义: 真实地；真正地；可靠地。 7. Ultimate • 音标: /ˈʌl.tɪ.mət/ • 释义: 最终的；极限的；根本的。 8. Deliberately • 音标: /dɪˈlɪb.ə.rət.li/ • 释义: 故意地；蓄意地；谨慎地。 All men are mortal. 所有人都是凡人。 Socrates is a man. 苏格拉底是一个人。 Therefore Socrates is mortal. 因此苏格拉底是凡人。 If we knew that we had exactly one year to live, I think most of us would say we must make the year count. 如果我们知道自己只有一年的生命，我想我们大多数人会说我们必须让这一年变得有意义。 Broaden our experience deepen it. 在我们的经历中深化它。 Question ourselves and our lives. 在我们的生活中质疑自己。 Suppose we had five years or ten, we would still feel that if we must die, then what we do now must count. 假设我们有五年或十年，我们仍然会觉得如果我们终将死去，那么我们现在所做的必须有意义。 But what is the difference between five years or ten years or three score years and ten, especially since for most of us it will not be three score years and ten? 但五年、十年、七十年和十年之间有什么区别呢，尤其是对于我们大多数人来说，生命不会超过七十年。 The existentialist feel that we do not really live authentically unless we do confront this fact of our ultimate death and deliberately and fully choose the kind of life we want to have ，in the face of it. 存在主义者们觉察到，我们并非真切的活着，除非我们面对我们最终的死亡这一事实，并有意识地、完全地选择我们想要的生活，在死亡的注视下。

It's okay to have desires. 有欲望是正常的。 You're a biological creature. 你是一个生物体。 You're put on this earth, and you have to do something. 你被放在这个地球上，你必须做一些事情。 You have to have desires; you have a mission. 你必须有欲望；你有使命。 But don't have too many. 但不要有太多。 Don't pick them up unconsciously. 不要无意识地选择它们。 Don't pick them up randomly. 不要随机选择。 Don't have thousands of them. 不要有成千上万个。 My coffee is too cold, and it doesn't taste quite right. 我的咖啡太冷了，味道不太对。 I'm not sitting perfectly. 我坐得不完美。 Oh, I wish it were warmer. 哦，我希望它能更温暖一些。 You know, my dog pooped in the lawn. 你知道，我的狗在草坪上便便了。 I didn't like that... whatever it is. 我不喜欢那样……不管它是什么。 Pick your one overwhelming desire. 选择一个压倒性的欲望。 It's okay to suffer over that one. 为那一个受苦是可以的。 But on all the others, you want to let them go. 但对所有其他的，你要放手。 So you can be calm and peaceful and relaxed, 这样你就可以保持冷静、平和和放松， and then you'll perform a better job. 然后你就能更好地工作。 Most people, when you are unhappy, like a depressed person, 大多数人当你不快乐，像一个沮丧的人， it’s not that they have a very clear calm mind, they are too busy in their mind, their sense of self is too strong, they are sitting indoors all the time, their minds are working, working, working; they are thinking too much. 并不是他们有一个非常清晰、冷静的头脑，他们的头脑太忙了，自我意识太强了，他们总是坐在室内，他们的头脑一直在工作，工作，工作；他们想得太多了。 The same way, if you want to be effective in business, you need a clear, calm, cool, collected mind. 同样，如果你想在商业上有效，你需要一个清晰、冷静、冷静的头脑。 Warren Buffett plays bridge all day long, and goes for walks in the sun. 沃伦·巴菲特整天玩桥牌，在阳光下散步。 He doesn't sit around, constantly loading his brain with nonstop information and getting worked up about every little thing. 他不会坐在那里不断地给他的大脑加载不停的信息，并对每一件小事感到不安。 A clear mind leads to better judgment, which leads to better outcome. 一个清晰的头脑会带来更好的判断，更好的判断会带来更好的结果。 So a happy, calm, peaceful person will make better decisions and have better outcomes. 所以一个快乐、平静、平和的人会做出更好的决定，并有更好的结果。 If you want to operate at peak performance, you have to learn how to tame your mind. 如果你想在巅峰状态下运作，你必须学会如何驯服你的头脑。 Just like you have to learn how to tame your body. 就像你必须学会如何驯服你的身体一样。

- **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。

- **immensely** - 音标：\[ɪˈmensli\] - 释义：adv. 极大地；无限地；非常 - **financial** - 音标：\[fəˈnænʃəɫ\] - 释义：adj. 财政的，金融的；财务的，财务状况的 And my personal question to you is why not you? 我问你，为什么不是你？ You've got the brains, you can make decisions. 你有头脑，你可以做决定。 You can study the plan, you can change your life. 你可以学习计划，你可以改变你的生活。 You can grow immensely in the next few years. 在接下来的几年里，你可以取得巨大的成长。 You can make your dreams come true. 你可以实现你的梦想。 You can build a financial wall around your family, nothing can get through. 你可以为你的家庭筑起一道财务之墙，没有什么可以穿透。 You can become healthy. 你可以变得健康。 You can become powerful. 你可以变得强大。 Why not you？ 为什么不是你？ if you wanna win 如果你赢了， You don't need to be the smartest. 你不需要是最聪明的。 A lot of times you don't even need to be the best. 很多时候，你甚至不需要是最好的。 You just need to be that fucking guy that never gives up. 你只需要成为那个永不放弃的家伙。

I used to use the phrase "I'll take care of you, you take care of me." 我过去常常用这句话：“我会照顾你，你照顾我。” I find out how short-ended that was. 我发现这是多么短暂。 I changed it ,here it is, "I'll take care of me for you, if you will take care of you for me." 我改变了它，这里是：“我会为你照顾我自己，如果你会为你自己照顾你自己。” The best contribution I can make to you if you're my friend is my personal development. 如果我是你的朋友，我能为你做出的最好的贡献就是我的个人发展。 What if I become ten times wiser, ten times stronger, ten times better, ten times more unique? 如果我变得更聪明十倍、更强大十倍、更好十倍、更独特十倍会怎样？ Think of what that will do for our friendship. 想想这会给我们友谊带来什么。 Self-sacrifice usually earns contempt. 自我牺牲通常会换来轻视。 Self-development, self-investment earns respect. 自我发展、自我投资赢得尊重。

If you're harmless,. You're not virtuous. You're just harmless. You're like a rabbit. 如果你无害，你并不高尚。你只是无害。你就像一只兔子。 Rabbit isn't virtuous .it's just ...just can't do anything except get eaten. 兔子并不高尚，它只是...除了被吃以外什么也做不了。 It's not virtuous. 这并不高尚。 if you're a monster and you don't act monstrously , then you're virtuous. 如果你是一个怪物，但你不表现得像怪物，那么你就是高尚的。 But you also have to be a monster, well you see this all the time. 但你也必须成为一个怪物，好吧，你总是看到这些。 Harry potters like that too. 哈利·波特也是这样。 It's like he.. he's flawed, he's hurt. He's got to evil in him, he can talk to snakes . 就像他...他有缺陷，他受伤了。他内心有邪恶，他能和蛇说话。 He breaks rules all the time, all the time. 他总是打破规则，总是。 He's not obedient at all. 他一点也不听话。 But you know, he has a good reason for breaking the rules. 但你知道，他打破规则有正当理由。 And if he couldn't break the rules, him and his little cleek of rule breaking, you know, trouble makers, if they didn't break the rules, they wouldn't attain the highest goal. 而且，如果他不能打破规则，他和他的小团体，你知道，那些制造麻烦的人，如果他们不打破规则，他们就无法达到最高目标。 So you have to develop your inner monster a little bit. 所以你必须稍微培养一下自己内心的怪物。 And then that makes you a better person. Not a worst person.It's weird. But but that's just how it is. 然后这会让你成为一个更好的人。而不是一个更坏的人。这很奇怪。但事实如此。

Remember you won't get everything you want . 记住，你不会简单地得到你想要的一切。 Simply sometimes it hails on your crop and rains on your parade. 有时你的庄稼会遭遇冰雹，你的游行会被雨淋。 It's that kind of planet. 这就是这样的星球。 You must learn to handle the negative. 你必须学会处理消极情绪。 Don't ignore it, handle it. 不要忽视它，要处理它。

Everything changed for me when I understood this philosophy. Learn to work harder on yourself than you do on your job. 当我理解了这种哲学时，一切都改变了。学会在自己身上比在工作上投入更多的努力。 （"philosophy" 的音标是：/fəˈlɒsəfi/） If you work hard on your job, you can make a living, which is fine. 如果你努力工作，你可以谋生，这很好。 If you work hard on yourself, you can make a fortune, which is super fine. 如果你在提升自己上努力，你可以赚大钱，这非常好。 Success is something you attract. Success is not something you pursue. It's something you attract by becoming attractive. 成功是你吸引来的东西，而不是你追求的东西。它是你通过变得有吸引力而吸引来的。 If you can multiply your value by three, by five, you can easily multiply your income by three, by five, by ten, but the key to doing it is to work hard on yourself. 如果你能将自己的价值提高三倍、五倍，你就能轻易地将自己的收入提高三倍、五倍、甚至十倍，但做到这一点的关键是努力提升自己。

Bird doesn't land on a branch trusting that the branch won't break but rather trusting in its ability to fly away. 鸟儿落在树枝上，不是因为它相信树枝不会断，而是因为它相信自己有飞翔的能力。 You are the bird, life is the branch. Don't waste your entire life over-analyzing the safest place to land. 你就是那只鸟，生活就是那根树枝。不要浪费你的一生去过度分析最安全的降落地点。 Make a decision, enjoy the view, while you're there and trust that you'll be able to move on if and when the time comes. 做一个决定，享受风景，享受你所处的位置，并相信如果时机到来，你将能够继续前进。

Nobody really knows how the job market would look like in 2040， so they should be suspicious of all these kinds of advices by people who pretend that they know what the job market would need in twenty years. 没有人真正知道2040年的就业市场会是什么样子，所以他们应该对那些假装知道二十年后就业市场需要什么的建议持怀疑态度。 The best investments I would say is in emotional intelligence, in mental balance, and these kinds of skills of how to keep changing throughout your life, how to keep learning throughout your life. 我认为最好的投资是在情感智能、心理平衡以及如何在生活中不断变化、如何不断学习的技能上。 Now how do you learn that, that's very very difficult. We don't have a college degree. In mental flexibility but these are the most important tools. 现在你如何学习这些呢？那是非常非常困难的。我们没有大学学位。只能通过自我实践来培养，在心理灵活性方面，但这些是最重要的工具。 So whatever you choose, you can go to law school, you can go to ballet school, but you should keep in mind that much of what I'm learning might be irrelevant in twenty or thirty years. 所以无论你选择什么，你可以去法学院，你可以去芭蕾舞学校，但你应该记住，我现在学习的很多东西在二三十年后可能会变得无关紧要。 So whatever else I'm doing, I should also invest in developing my emotional intelligence, my mental balance, my ability to keep changing and learning and reinventing throughout my life. 所以无论我还在做什么，我也应该投资于发展我的情感智能、心理平衡、以及我在生活中不断变化、学习和重塑自己的能力。 suspicious 美 [səˈspɪʃəs] adj. 可疑的；猜疑的，怀疑的；多疑的，不信任的；多心 flexibility 美 [ˌflɛksəˈbɪləti] n. 灵活性；弹性；适应能力 irrelevant 美 [ɪˈreləvənt] adj. 不相干的；不恰当的；无关系的；不相干的 reinvent 美 [ˌriɪnˈvɛnt] vt. （在不知他人已发明的情况下）重复发明，彻底改造，重新使用

Now fear is going to be a player in your life but you get to decide how much. 现在恐惧将成为你生活中的一个角色，但你决定它扮演多大的角色。 You can spend your whole life imagining ghosts, worrying about the pathway of the future. 你可以用一生去想象鬼魂，担心未来的路。 But all there will ever be is what's happening here in the decisions we make in this moment which are based in either love or fear. 但所有的一切都只存在于此刻正在发生的事情，我们的决定基于爱或恐惧。 So many of us choose our path out of fear, disguised as practicality. 我们中的许多人出于恐惧选择我们的道路，掩饰这种实用性。 What we really want seems impossibly out of reach, and ridiculous to expect, so we never dared to ask the universe for it. 我们真正想要的东西似乎不可能得到，期望它是荒谬的，所以我们从未敢向宇宙请求。 I'm saying that you can ask the universe for it, please! 我要说的是，你可以向宇宙请求它，请！