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7 Reasons Why You Will Never Do Anything Amazing With Your Life
讓你此生難成大器的七宗罪
I』m looking you in the eyes, (ok well, not really since you are probably reading this article, but figuratively, I am burning a cyclops type hole in your face right now) and telling you that you don』t stand a chance.
我此刻死盯著你的眼睛（好吧，也不是那麼名副其實的「盯著」，因為你看到的是這篇文章不是我，但請想像，我現在正在死盯著你，我的鐳射眼大概已經「看穿」你的臉了）告訴你，你一點兒機會都沒有。
I』m telling you that if you can read this article, look through this list and not claim it as your own, then you should be a little worried.
我肯定，如果你看完這文章這罪狀還不覺得這是你的問題所在，那你就該發愁了。
Actually, you should be very worried. You should drop everything and immediately question your existence on earth. You should find a mirror, look yourself in the eyes, raise your hand and slap yourself in the face.
其實你該愁死了才對。你該做的就是放下手頭一切事情，深刻反省自己的存在有何意義。你該照面鏡子，盯著自己的眼睛，舉起手來給自己一個大耳刮子才是。
Got it? Now repeat that until you come to your senses and continue reading whenever you』re ready.
聽明白了嗎？那就繼續重複這個動作直到你醒悟過來、準備好了的時候，再繼續往下看吧。
I』m not talking about the: study hard, party light, graduate top-of-your-class skills.
我說的是「真槍實彈」的實戰技能！
I』m not even talking about the: slack-off, skip class, smoke weed, drink and party but still graduate, skill-set your $50, 000+ diploma has lead you to believe you have.
不是所謂的「多學少玩第一名」，也不是你那本價值「五萬金」的文憑宣稱你身懷的「懶散逃課抽大麻照舊畢業」絕技。
「I』m talking 』bout, step out your door, make some moves, and get-some-shit-done, kind of skills! Some, move out your mama』s house, quit your job?—?say 「fuck the world」?—?and then actually go do it, kind of skills」.
我說的是，起身出門、有所行動、干出點兒屁事來的技能！就是那一套搬出老媽的房子、辭職再沖全世界吼一聲「草泥馬」然後真真正正干點兒事情的技能。
Skills that can be had by anyone willing to pay the price to get them. Skills that are quickly becoming extinct.
那套人人都願意為之付出學習代價的技能，那套已日漸消亡的技能。
I』m talking about skills that cannot be taught in a classroom or in a textbook. Skills you can only learn by doing; by learning how to fly after jumping off the cliff.
如此技能自然不能在課堂上或課本中習得。要掌握如此技能，實踐出真知是唯一方法，譬如，借從懸崖跳落之際習得飛翔技巧。
Skills that can only be developed when you find your true self. When you put yourself on the line or otherwise expose yourself to the possibility of failure.
如此技能只有在一個人發現了真正自我之時才能學會。也就是說，只有當你真正處於危險之中或直面失敗的時候，才能掌握。
The skills you can only develop when you are willing to risk it all in order to do that one amazing thing.
如此技能，只有在你願意付出一切只為做成一件大事的時候，才能習得。
Skills that up until now, you thought you had.
如此技能，在此刻之前，你以為你已經掌握。
1 :: Because You Have Not Failed Enough
第一宗罪：你失敗得還不夠。
Because you are comfortable in your mediocrity; because you choose not to try.
因為你滿足於平庸，因為你選擇不去嘗試。
Because it is easier to talk about learning that new (programming?) language as opposed to actually learning it.
因為只在嘴上說說學習一門新外語（或編程）比真正去學容易太多。
Because you think everything is too hard or too complicated so you will just 「sit this one out」, or maybe you』ll, 「do-it-tomorrow」!
因為在你看來，每件事都是「太難」或者「太複雜」，所以你選擇「等等看吧「或者」明天再做好了「。
Because you hate your job but won』t get a new one; because it is easy to reject rejection.
即便你討厭自己的工作，也不願意換另一份，因為你覺得自己可以輕易拒絕」被拒絕「這件事。
Because while you』re sitting around failing to try, I am out there trying to fail, challenging myself, learning new things and failing as fast as possible.
但就在你一事無成、敗於嘗試之際，我正在嘗試各種可能、哪怕失敗，我正在挑戰自我、學習新知識、如果失敗，那麼越早越好。
Because as I fail, I learn, and then adjust my course to make sure my path is always forward. Like the process of annealing steel, I』ve been through the fire and pounded into shape. The shape of a sword with polished edges and a razor sharp blade that will cut you in half if you are not equally hardened.
因為就算失敗也是寶貴的一課，我會調整方向，保證自己一路向前。正如鍊鋼，烈火錘鍊我已經歷。一把磨得尖利的寶劍，必能把未經歷練的你，切成兩半。
2 :: Because You Care What Others Think About You
第二宗罪：你在乎別人對你的看法。
Because you have to fit in.
因為你要合群。
Because you believe that being different is only cool if you』re different in the same way that other people are different.
因為你堅信，與眾不同的你，要跟大眾一起用同樣的方法與眾不同，才算酷。
Because you are afraid to embrace your true self for fear of how the world will see you. You think that because you judge others, this means that those people must, in-turn, be judging you.
因為你害怕面對真正的自己，因為你害怕世界會對你另眼相看。就因為你會對別人評頭論足，你非認為別人也在做同樣的事。
Because you care more about the stuff you have as opposed to the things you』ve done.
你在乎擁有的東西多過做過的事情。
Because while you』re out spending your money on new outfits, new cars, overpriced meals or nights at the bar, I』ll be investing in myself. And while you try to fit in with the world I』ll make the world fit in with me.
但當你在不斷買新衣、新車、光顧昂貴餐廳和各色酒吧之時，我正在不斷投資自己。你在不斷努力求得主流認可，而我將讓主流認可我。
Because I will recklessly abandon all insecurities and expose my true self to the world. I will become immune to the impact of your opinion and stand naked in a crowd of ideas; comfortable in knowing that while you married the mundane I explored the exceptional.
我會一窩蜂拋掉所有不安全感，讓世界看見真正的我。你怎麼看我，我不再在乎。我會只身受信念大潮的沖洗，怡然自得地看你與世俗聯姻，而我卻與超凡攜手。
3 :: Because You Think You Are Smarter Than You Are
第三宗罪：因為你自覺十分聰明。
Because you did what everyone else did; you studied what they studied and read what they read.
因為別人幹什麼你就幹什麼，別人學什麼你就學什麼，別人讀什麼書你也依葫蘆畫瓢讀同一本。
Because you learned what you had to learn in order to pass their tests and you think that makes you smart.
因為你學習是為了通過考試，通過既定的考試又讓你覺得自己很聰明。
Because you think learning is only something people do in schools.
因為你覺得學習那是只發生在學校里的事。
Because while you were away at college, I was studying life; because instead of learning about the world in a classroom I went out and learned it by living.
但你讀大學的時候，我正在學習人生；我選擇不在教室里學習這個世界，而是真正闖進去，活在真實世界裡，以此為我的課堂。
Because I know more than any piece of paper you could ever frame from a university. Because smart is not what you learn, it』s how you live.
因為我懂的，遠比任何一張文憑賦予的都多。因為聰明從來都不是學來的，聰明是從生活中來的。
Because I might not have a degree but I challenge you to find a topic that I can』t talk to you about cohesively.
也許我沒有文憑，但我打賭，你找不出任何一個讓我啞口無言的話題。
Because I could pass your tests if I had to, but you couldn』t stand for a single second in the face of the tests that life has thrown me. Tests that are not graded on a bell curve or by percentages; tests that are graded by one simple stipulation: survival!
你的所謂考試，如果有必要去考，那我也能考過，但我所經歷的生活的考試，你連一丁點兒通過的機會都沒有。生活的考試，從不依據什麼貝爾曲線、通過率來評分，生活的考試有且僅有那麼一條評分依據：生存！
4 :: Because You Don』t Read
第四宗罪：你從不閱讀。
Because you read the things you are required to read or nothing at all.
因為你要麼就是讀些必讀的書，要麼就是根本連讀都不讀。
Because you think history is boring and philosophy is stupid.
因為你覺得歷史枯燥無味，哲學更是愚蠢可笑。
Because you would rather sit and watch 「E!」 or 「MTV」 instead of exploring something new, instead of diving head first, into the brain of another man in an attempt to better understand the world around you.
因為你寧可坐在那看八卦新聞、音樂台，也不願意去學點新東西，不願一頭扎進其他人的思想里去更好地了解這個世界。
Because you refuse to acknowledge that all the power in the world comes from the words of those that lived before us. That anything you desire can be had by searching through the multitude of words that are available to us now more abundantly than ever before.
你不願承認，世界上所有的力量都源自先人的思想。你不願承認你想要的所有東西，都能從那前人無數的思想里尋獲，且在當下，尋獲這些信息是前所未有的便捷。
Because you are probably not reading this article even though you know you should.
你大概連這篇文章都看不完吧，即使你清楚自己應該從頭到尾看一遍。
Because the people that are reading this already know these things.
現在正在看這文章的人，都已經懂得這些道理。
Because you can lead a horse to water but you can』t make him drink.
而你，雖可引馬到水邊，卻不能讓馬低頭飲。
5 :: Because You Lack Curiosity
第五宗罪：你毫無好奇心。
Because you get your news from copy-cat members of the state-controlled media.
因為就連你看的新聞，也全是從政府掌控的媒體上來的。
Because you are unwilling to ask this simple question… 「What if it』s all a lie?」, and accept the possibility that maybe it is; that just maybe, the methods of mass media are under direct orders to: keep you distracted.
因為你連「如果這些全是假的怎麼辦？」這麼簡單的問題都不願意問，更別說接受如此假設成真的可能了，或許，主流媒體都是言聽計從混淆大眾的呢。
Because you call me a know-it-all but refuse to call yourself a know-nothing-at-all.
你說我「自以為無所不知」，卻不肯承認自己一無所知。
Because I thirst for knowledge, regardless the topic.
我渴望知識，任何知識。
Because while you』re busy playing Candy Crush, or Megalopolis, I am reading about string theory and quantum mechanics.
因為你在玩糖果粉碎傳奇、在玩大富翁，我卻在學習弦理論和量子力學。
Because while you waste your time with Tosh.o I am learning how to edit video, build websites and design mobile apps.
因為你在看連續劇，我卻在學習怎麼編輯視頻、建立網站和開發手機應用。
Because if we were to go heads-up in a debate, I would crush you. I would make it a point to defeat my own argument; from every imaginable angle; in order to understand everything you might be able to use against me.
如果我們在一場辯論中針鋒相對，那我必定會讓你一敗塗地。因為我首先會自己試著從所有能設想到的方面摧毀自己的論點，如此，我就能從你的角度，了解你有可能用來反駁我的所有觀點。
Because I would dedicate myself to understanding both sides of the argument so thoroughly that I could argue your side for you and win; even after having just handed you a defeat in the same debate.
我會去透徹了解論點的兩個對立面，透徹到雖然我已打敗了你，但如果我倆互換立場，我仍能辯勝。
6 :: Because You Don』t Ask Enough Questions
第六宗罪：因為你問得太少。
Because you do not question authority.
因為你從不質問權威。
Because you don』t question yourself.
因為你從不質問自己。
Because you don』t understand the power of properly placed questioning in life, respectful disagreements and standing up for what you know to be right in the face of someone telling you otherwise. Unable to question reality; stuck in a self imposed survival strategy within a matrix-style monotony.
因為你不明白正確的問題在生活中有著怎樣的意義、你不懂禮貌的反對和在與自己意見相悖的人面前捍衛自己正確觀點的力量幾何。不能真正提出疑問，無疑等於被困在自我欺騙的牢籠里，以此為生存策略。
Because I know that you will give me all the information I need to destroy you by letting you talk.
因為我知道，只要傾聽，就能知道怎樣可以摧毀你了。
Because I study human behaviors and you ignore everyone but yourself.
因為我研究人類行為，而你，除了自己誰都不在乎。
Because I watch how you say the things you say just as closely as I listen to what you say; and you say way too much!
因為我不但聽你說話，而且看你說話，而你一開口就停不下來！
Because control comes, not from spewing your ignorance like some incurable case of logorrhea, but from properly structuring the context of your questions.
因為不是不停地說說說像是無葯可治的多言癖並不能給你控制權，真正的控制權來源於合理提問。
Because I study the premise of your argument and destroy it from the ground level before you even get a chance to establish your ideas.
你的論點的前提我已掌握，且我可以在你張口建立自己的論點之前就徹底摧毀你。
7 :: Because You Can』t Handle The Truth
第七宗罪：因為你不能直面真相
Because you refuse to admit that you don』t even know the things you don』t know.
因為你不願承認你不懂的事情，你是真的不懂。
Because there isn』t an article online that would make up for all the time you have wasted in life.
因為世界上任何一篇網上的文章都不可能足以挽回你浪費了的時間。
Because even if I told you everything could be different tomorrow you would wait until then to begin doing anything about it.
因為就算我告訴你，明天一切都會改變，你也會等到明天才開始行動。
Because even when you think I』m not, I』m aware of my surroundings.
因為我對自己所處的形勢很清楚，就算你不認可，這也是事實。
Because you think that since I have not acknowledged you, it means that I have not seen you.
你覺得我之所以不肯定你，是因為我沒有見過你。
Because, you walk around with your head up your ass, oblivious to the world around you. Blissfully ignorant of the reality that sits so close to your face that if you stuck your tongue out, just once, you would taste it and realize how delicious the truth actually is.
但事實是，你埋頭前行，對世界不聞不問。你滿心歡喜地忽略就在眼前的真相，可是真相那麼近，你只要探出舌頭那麼一次，就能嘗到它的滋味，它美妙的滋味。
Because you would become an instant addict. Unable to pull yourself from the teat of truth. Finally able to understand your lack of understanding, and then you would see; then you would know that the only thing holding you back from doing something truly amazing, is you.
因為你會欲罷不能，無法將自己從真相的懷抱里拔出。最後你會明白你還未學會理解，然後你會發現，然後你會明白，讓你止步不前難成大器的，只有你自己。
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vt. 引出，預先提出；作為…的前提n. 前提；上述各項；房屋連地基vi. 作出前提
n. 懸崖；絕壁
n. 回合；較量；發作；一陣
vt. 壓倒；淹沒；受打擊
adj. 教育的；有教育意義的
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n. 磨光，擦亮；上光劑，擦亮劑；優雅，精良vi. 擦亮，變光滑vt. 磨光，使發亮adj. 波蘭的
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