想自我提升？那就行动起来

I feel like all of us at some point in our life

我想我们都会在生活中的某个时刻

have gotten into a bit of a rut,

感觉止步不前

a period of our life where motivation is hard to come by.

在这段时间里我们很难获得动力

We’re not feeling as energetic and motivated

我们不像平时在生活中那样

as we usually are about life in general.

感到精力充沛 动力十足

And the goals that we’ve set for ourselves

我们为自己设定好的那些目标

either have faded away from the forefront of our mind

要么已经从我们的脑海里消失了

or we’ve been so discouraged by them

要么就是它们没法鼓舞我们了

that they seem completely unattainable.

因为它们看起来遥不可及

I think periods like this in our life

我认为这样的时期

are pretty much unavoidable.

在我们的生活中难以避免

I don’t think it’s possible to feel 100% energetic

我们平时不可能时刻保持

and enthusiastic about life all the time.

百分百的积极和热情

You’re always gonna come down

你总是会慢慢从

from whatever high energy state that you’ve been in.

精力充沛的状态下冷静下来

It’s just a fact of human life.

这就是人生的现实

But I feel like a lot of people

但我发现有很多人

are prone to staying in these lows longer than is necessary,

都倾向于陷在这种低迷状态里 久到离谱

and a lot of people find it really hard

许多人会觉得从这种状态中

to climb out of these lower periods.

慢慢走出来极其困难

And I feel like I definitely fall into this category.

我感觉自己肯定也属于这一类人

If I’m not careful,

我一不小心

it’s really easy for me to slip into reclusiveness.

就会把自己封闭起来

I’ll just do my own thing on my computer

整天坐在电脑前

and days and weeks and months will pass by

周复一周 月复一月

and I will slowly become less and less inspired about life.

渐渐对生活失去兴趣

And you might totally relate to this.

你也许也是这样

Maybe it’s really difficult for you to muster up the energy

也许对你来说鼓起精神

to get out of these pseudo depressive, low periods of life.

走出这种假性消极的颓废期真的很难

Maybe you’re in one of those periods of life right now

也许你正处于生活的某个低谷

and you’re not sure how to get out of it

不知道该怎样走出来

and you want to get out of it.

并且你想要走出来

I mean, I feel like pretty much everybody who feels bad

我意思是 几乎每个沮丧的人

wants to not feel bad anymore.

都想要摆脱沮丧

And I think the natural thing that a lot of people do

我想许多人在心情糟糕时

when they feel like crap is they tend to wait around

都自然而然地都趋向于等待

for some kind of aha moment,

某个恍然大悟的时刻

some sort of quote or something that really just shifts our perspective

等一些格言警句 或期待有让我们突然转变思想

and launches us out of our depression

把我们从颓废中拖入

and into a life that we’ve always dreamed of.

我们理想生活的事情

But even though this is sort of the most common way

尽管这是我们在应对颓废时

of dealing with these lows,

最常见的方法

I feel like it’s also the most inefficient way

但这也是我觉得到目前为止

of dealing with it by far.

最低效的方法

And I would even go so far as saying

甚至我也可以说

that it’s the biggest mistake that people make

当人们想提升自己

when trying to improve themselves

或者尝试摆脱颓废时

or try to get out of a bad situation and into a new one.

等待自己豁然开朗简直是大忌

And it all stems from this idea

因为这种方法来自于以下思想

that if we want to change our behavior and change our life

如果我们想改变我们的行为和生活

then we must first change our thoughts.

就要先改变我们的思想

And while I think that’s true to an extent,

通过这么延伸

I also think it’s super inefficient to do that.

我更觉得这想法太低效了

How often do you come across a really, really good idea

你多久才能产生一个

that changes your mindset

能改变你思维

and launches you into a new way of living.

把你引向新生活的超赞方法呢？

Those types of nuggets of wisdom are extremely rare.

这些智慧金条极为稀少

You might only get a handful of those

你可能一辈子一共

in your entire lifetime.

能有一把就不错了

Like seriously, ask yourself the last time you read a quote

我是说真的 问问你自己上次在Ins上读到

on Instagram that launched you out of depression,

格言警句后走出抑郁

or launch you…

或让你……

that completely changed the way you run your business,

完全改变工作方式

or made you go after the girl, or…you know,

让你敢去追某个女孩是什么时候的事了

I feel like after a certain amount of time

我觉着每次你花费大量时间

you read so many quotes,

读许多格言警句

or you read so many self-improvement books,

读很多自我提升的书

or you watch so many self-improvement videos like this one,

看超多自我提升的视频 比如本视频

and it all just becomes the same bleh,

最终还不是 呃……

it doesn’t really matter.

和没看过一样

Words are just words, they can only do so much.

文字仅是文字 它的力量仅限于此

That being said though, I read a quote the other day, that really…

尽管如此 前几天我读到一条格言 它真的……

that changed my perspective.

转变了我的思想

And now you can disregard everything I said at the first part of this video.

现在请你们把我刚说的话全忘了吧

But this quote was interesting

不过这格言真挺有趣的

because it’s kind of an anti-quote quote.

因为它是反格言之格言

The quote said,

它写道

“We don’t think ourselves into new ways of living,

“思考不会给我们新生活

we live ourselves into new ways of thinking.”

生活会给我们新思考”

And that’s a quote by Richard Rohr.

这话出自理查德·罗尔

And I don’t know anything about Richard Rohr.

我对理查德·罗尔一无所知

I did a quick Google search of him

我快速在浏览器搜索了一下

and I think he’s some Christian writer of sorts.

我想他是个基督教作家

I think this quote really spoke to me

我感觉这格言说到我心里去了

because it’s different than most quotes.

因为它和其他格言不一样

This quote reminded me of the fact

这格言提醒我一个事实

that every time that my life has changed radically,

每次我的生活发生彻底的改变

it’s always because I’ve forced myself

都是因为我先强迫自己

to live a different way first.

活出了一种新的方式

And by living that way, I changed the way I thought.

通过用那种方式生活 我改变了自己的思考方式

The action proceeds the thoughts.

行动带动思想

A really good example of this

有个很好的例子是

is when I was going absolutely stir crazy a couple months ago.

我几个月前有段时间宅到发疯

I just wasn’t getting outside very often

尽管我有时间出门

even though I was totally allowed to.

但我还是宅着

I was just used to being in front of my computer all the time.

我就一直坐在电脑前面

Days and weeks were going by like this

时间就这样一天天流逝

where I was just literally addicted to the Internet

我基本上可以说是有网瘾了

that I pretty much snapped.

我非常焦躁

I just said to myself,

我对自己说

“I need to go jump in a lake or something.”

“我需要跳入湖里之类的”

So that’s what I did.

所以我还真跳了

I grabbed a towel.

我带上毛巾

I drove to my nearest body of water and I jumped in a lake.

开车到了最近的水域 跳入了一个湖里

And even though it was the beginning of April

尽管是四月初

and the water was freezing cold,

那水简直太冰了

just that jolt of doing something I hadn’t done before,

可就是做了一些我从未做过的事

breaking out of the pattern, doing something different,

打破常规 尝试新事物 使我大受震撼

I was suddenly more optimistic

我突然变得积极

and full of energy and vitality.

充满能量和活力

Maybe it’s just the effect of the cold water

可能这只是冷水的作用

and that created some kind of endorphin rush

它使我分泌了内啡肽

or something like that.

之类的物质

But the important takeaway is that

但最重要的启示是

by doing something that I hadn’t done before,

通过做些我没做过的事

I started thinking things I hadn’t thought before.

我开始思考一些我从未思考过的事

And I can’t drill this point home hard enough,

我无法通过宅在家自己钻研出这些

stop waiting around for some quotes or some video.

别再等着某些格言和视频来让你清醒

Ironically, this might be the video

讽刺的是 本视频也许就是个

that springs you into action,

让你行动起来的视频

so I don’t know how that works out philosophically.

我不知道从哲学角度看到底有没有用

Maybe this whole video is bullshit.

可能这整个视频就是个屁

But either way, action is a far more reliable source

无论如何 行动比起灵感本身

of inspiration than inspiration itself.

更能成为灵感的来源

We don’t think ourselves into new ways of living,

思考不会给我们新生活

we live ourselves into new ways of thinking.

生活会给我们新思考