英語美文朗讀 第422期 Move out of your comfort zone

Anytime you start something new, anytime you set out on a new path, any time you move out of your comfort zone, you're going to go through what is basically, if you could imagine, a bell curve of frustration. All right? You're going to be excited. You're going to be pumped. You're going to have the momentum to carry you through the first two or three or four days. Maybe it's a week. Maybe it's three weeks. It's different for everybody.

 

無論什么時候，只要你嘗試新事物，走上新征程，跳出舒適區(qū)，你就會經(jīng)歷挫折，可以想象一下，它就像一個鐘擺形狀的曲線。明白嗎？你會興奮無比，你會斗志昂揚，你擁有十足的動力，它讓你順利度過最初的幾天，一周，或者三周，具體時長因人而異。

 

But the point is, is that when you get excited about something, we have a natural energy that pushes us through. But what happens when that energy fades? What happens when you start to get frustrated? What happens when you start to feel like a grind, and things get grueling and they get gritty, and they get tough, and it gets harder to move through the process every single day? What happens then?

然而，重點是，你因為某件事情感到興奮時，你就會有動力，它能讓你奮勇向前。可是，如果這個動力變?nèi)趿耍瑫鯓?？如果你開始感到沮喪，會怎樣？如果你開始覺得，自己很受折磨，一切都讓你筋疲力盡，事情變得非常棘手，條件異常艱苦，每天都變得越來越難熬，會怎樣？那時你該怎么辦？

 

Most people fucking quit. Okay? And here's the fucked-up thing about quitting when things are really fucking hard. Because they're about to get easier. They're about to get more fun. Okay?

大多數(shù)人就這樣放棄了，明白嗎？當事情變得很糟糕的時候，千萬不要半途而廢，因為轉(zhuǎn)機就要來了，因為這一切將會變得越來越有意思，你明白嗎？

 

Think about it. Think about whenever you tried something new. Maybe you play the guitar and when you first started taking lessons, you're like, fuck yeah, I'm gonna be fucking slash. And then you realize that you're not gonna be slashed for about 20 fucking years if ever, and it gets pretty hard. Okay? And after the first two or three lessons you're like, fuck this this is gonna be really hard. And you start to grind it out and you're like, okay, alright, this is tough but I'm learning a little bit each day.

想想看，當你開始嘗試新事物，比如學吉他，當你開始上課時，你會覺得，完了，我肯定學得很爛。然后，你意識到，你可能現(xiàn)在學得不怎么樣，但不會一直都這樣。事情確實會變得很困難，明白嗎？在上了一兩節(jié)課之后，你就會感覺，這肯定很難學。就這樣，你開始了艱苦的學習，然后你會感覺到，還行，挺好的，這確實很難，但我每天都有一點小進步。

 

And then all of a sudden, things start to click and your body and minds start to work together. And all of a sudden, you're playing what sounds kind of like music. You're playing scales and chords and notes. And then it gets exciting, and then you get it, you know, a natural burst of energy, again, like you had in the beginning. And anything in this way, guys, anything. Whether it be a new business, whether it be a new diet a fitness program, whether it be learning a new skill or a hobby that you don't know, anytime we work into a new area of life by moving out of our comfort zone, it's going to get really fucking hard, really fucking fast.

然后，突然間，事情變得順利起來，你的身體和心靈變得非常契合。突然間，你彈出來的音樂聽起來像那么回事兒了，你彈出了音階、和弦、音符。你開始感到興奮，你感受到了一股自然而然的沖勁，就像當初剛開始學吉他的時候一樣。任何事情都是這樣的，朋友，事事皆如此，無論是新的事業(yè)，還是新的飲食，新的運動計劃，新的學習方法，新的你所知不多的愛好。無論什么時候，只要你踏出舒適區(qū)，涉足新領域，走進新生活，事情都會很困難，很棘手。

 

You have to understand that that area where it's really fucking hard is where most people quit and the reason this is relevant is because it's the same in entrepreneurship. Okay? In the beginning everybody's excited. In the beginning everybody's going to become a billionaire. In the beginning everybody's gonna conquer the world. But after a few weeks, a few months, maybe even a few years, they start to get tired. They start to get frustrated and they start to ask why is this so hard. They start asking why is this so hard for me. And they think it's just them. And they think the whole fucking universe is coming down on them. And that's when people quit.

你一定要明白，最困難的地方，就是大多數(shù)人放棄的地方。這中間有什么關聯(lián)呢？就是因為，這和創(chuàng)業(yè)是同樣的道理，明白嗎？一開始，每個人都很興奮，每個人都可能成為百萬富翁，每個人都要去征服世界。但是，幾個星期過后，幾個月過后，幾年過后，他們就倦怠了。他們開始感到沮喪，他們不斷質(zhì)問，為什么一切都如此困難？他們開始懷疑，為什么偏偏是我遭遇這樣的困難？他們以為受到挫折的只有自己，他們覺得世界都要崩塌了，這種時候他們就放棄了。

 

And guys we all feel that way. We all have times of frustration. We all have times of anger. We all have times of why me, why is this so hard for me. But at the end of the day, guys, when you start feeling that massive frustration, that massive anger, that massive irritation, and massive stress, you are about to have a breakthrough. You are about to move through an area that most people can't make it through.

朋友們，我們都有那樣的感受。我們都曾遭遇挫折，我們都曾滿腔憤懣，我們都曾感到困惑。為什么是我？憑什么要讓我遭受這樣的困難？但是，朋友們，事實上，當你感到十分沮喪，十分憤怒，十分惱火，十分壓抑時，這正是你將要取得突破的時候，你即將度過一個大多數(shù)人無法度過的難關。

 

And you've just got to keep moving because when you make it through that area that's when shit gets fun. That's when you say, oh shit man I'm actually doing this. I'm actually an entrepreneur. I'm actually doing okay. The reason that 9 out of 10 businesses fucking fail, guys, isn't because there's something wrong with business. Because there's something wrong with people's minds. They don't have the ability to make it through the first curve of frustration.

你必須堅持前進，因為只要你度過了那個難關，事情就會好轉(zhuǎn)。這時，你就會覺得，哇塞，我真的在做這件事了耶，我可是個創(chuàng)業(yè)者，我現(xiàn)在感覺還挺好的。做生意的人，十有八九都失敗了，這不是因為做生意這件事本身有什么問題，而是因為人們的思維方式有問題，他們沒法熬過第一個絕望的低谷。

 

And along your career, and along your journey, and becoming great at anything at all, you're gonna have these curves appear over and over and over again. But you have to keep in mind, guys, that just like the old saying goes, things are the hardest right before they get better. Things are the most frustrating right before they get done. Things are the worst right before they get better. And it's hard to remember that when you're going through it. It's hard to remember that when you owe every single creditor, when your wife or husbands yelling at you for spending too much time at work or too much time in the weight room or too much time on this or that or whatever.

在你的事業(yè)生涯中，在你的人生旅途中，在你為偉大目標奮斗的過程中，你都會反反復復地遇到這樣的低谷。但是，朋友們，你們必須記住，老話說得好，山重水復疑無路，柳暗花明又一村，置之死地才能后生。風水輪流轉(zhuǎn)，在低谷之后就會出現(xiàn)轉(zhuǎn)機。在你備受煎熬的時候，在你身無分文的時候，在你的伴侶對你大喊大叫說你在工作、在健身房之類的浪費太多時間的時候，要你記住前面那些道理確實是很難的。

 

It's hard to remember that things are going to get better but they are. And this is part of the process, and all of us go through these little curves. We all do it. And guys, it's the ones who understand that things are going to improve and keep focused on the end result that make it through these curves.

要你記住一切都會越來越好，這是很難的，但是，事情確實在變好。這是過程的一部分，我們所有人都會經(jīng)歷這些小小的低谷，所有人都如此。朋友，只有那些相信事情會慢慢變好的人，那些緊緊盯著目標的人，才能熬過這些低谷。