How to fix your entire life in 1 day 如何在一天内重启人生

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原文及翻译：

How to fix your entire life in 1 day 如何在一天内重启人生.

I - You aren’t where you want to be because you aren’t the person who would be there

I - 你之所以不在此处，是因为你还不是那个会在此处的人

When it comes to setting big goals, people tend to focus on one of the two requirements for success:
当设定宏大目标时，人们往往只聚焦于成功所需的两大条件之一：

Changing your actions to make progress toward the goal (least important, second order)
改变行动以朝目标推进（最不重要，是第二序的改变）

Changing who you are so that your behavior naturally follows (most important, first order)
改变你的身份，让行为自然随之而来（最重要，是第一序的改变）

Most people set a surface-level goal, hype themselves up to remain disciplined for the first few weeks, then go back to their old ways without much struggle, because they were trying to build a great life on a rotting foundation.
大多数人设定一个肤浅的目标，在最初几周热血沸腾地维持自律，然后没怎么挣扎就退回老路，因为他们试图在腐朽的地基上建造宏伟的人生。

If this doesn’t make sense, let’s run through an example.
如果这说不通，我们来举个例子。

Think of somebody successful. It can be a bodybuilder with a great physique, a founder/CEO worth hundreds of millions, or a charismatic dude who can chat up a group without a shred of anxiety entering his mind.
想象某个成功人士。可以是一个体格健美的健美运动员，一个身价数亿的创始人/CEO，或者一个能毫无焦虑地与一群人谈笑风生的魅力人士。

Do you think the bodybuilder has to “grind” to eat healthy? Does the CEO have to discipline themselves to show up and lead the team? To you, it may seem like that on the surface, but the truth is that they can’t see themselves living any other way. The bodybuilder has to grind to eat unhealthily. The CEO has to force themself to lie in bed past their alarm clock, and they hate every second of it (there is nuance here, just entertain me for a second).
你觉得健美运动员需要”苦苦坚持”才能吃得健康吗？CEO需要”自律”才能出现并领导团队吗？对你来说，表面看来可能如此，但真相是他们无法想象自己以其他方式生活。 对健美运动员来说，吃不健康的食物才是煎熬。 CEO才需要在闹钟响后强迫自己赖床，并且厌恶其中的每一秒。（此处有细微差别，请暂且听我讲。）

To some people, my own lifestyle seems a bit extreme and disciplined. To me, it’s natural, and I don’t say that to contrast it with any other kind of lifestyle. I simply enjoy living this way. When my mom tells me that I should take a break, go out, and have some fun… I hold my tongue from telling her, “If I weren’t having fun, why would I be doing what I’m doing?”
对有些人来说，我自己的生活方式似乎有点极端和自律。对我而言，这很自然，我这么说不是为了对比其他生活方式。我只是享受这样生活。当我妈妈告诉我应该休息一下，出去玩玩，找点乐子时……我忍住没告诉她：” 中，我又何必做我正在做的事呢？ “

This next sentence may sound simple, but it is baffling how many people don’t get it.
接下来这句话听起来简单，但令人费解的是，很多人都不明白。

If you want a specific outcome in life, you must have the lifestyle that creates that outcome long before you reach it.
如果你想要生活中某个特定结果，你必须在达到它之前很久，就拥有那种能创造此结果的生活方式。

If someone says they want to lose 30 pounds, I often don’t believe them. Not because I don’t think they are capable, but because there are too many times when that same person says, “I can’t wait until I’m done losing weight so I can start to enjoy life again.” I hate to break it to you, but if you don’t adopt the lifestyle that led to you losing the weight, for life, and find a reason with a higher gravitational pull than the one tying you to your previous ways, then you will go straight back to where you started, and you can unhappily say that you wasted the resource you will never get back: time.
如果有人说他们想减掉30磅，我通常不信。不是我认为他们能力不足，而是因为同一个人经常会说：”我等不及减完肥，好重新开始享受生活。”我不得不戳破幻想：如果你不 终身采纳 那种让你减重成功的生活方式，并且找到一个比你留恋旧习的引力更强的理由，那么你将直接打回原形，并只能懊恼地说你浪费了永远无法挽回的资源：时间。

When you truly change yourself, all of your habits that don’t move the needle toward your goal become disgusting, because you have a deep and profound awareness of what kind of life those actions compound into. You are okay with your current standards because you are not fully aware of what they are or what they lead to. We will discuss how to uncover this, but we need to build up to that.
当你真正改变自己时，所有那些对你的目标毫无助益的习惯都会变得令人厌恶，因为你深刻认识到那些行为会叠加成怎样的人生。你能容忍目前的现状，是因为你并未完全意识到它们是什么，以及会导向何方。我们会讨论如何揭示这一点，但我们需要循序渐进。

You say you want to change. You say you want to “become financially free” and “get healthy,” but your actions show otherwise for a reason. And it goes a lot deeper than you think.
你说你想改变。你说你想”实现财务自由”和”变得健康”，但你的行为却与此相悖，这是有原因的。而且这背后的根源远比你想的要深。

II – You aren’t where you want to be because you don’t want to be there

II – 你之所以不在此处，是因为你并不真的想去那里

Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement.
只信任行动。生活发生在事件的层面，而非言语的层面。信任行动。

– Alfred Adler
—— 阿尔弗雷德·阿德勒

If you want to change who you are, you must understand how the mind works so that you can start to reprogram it.
如果你想改变自己，必须理解心智如何运作，以便开始重新编程它。

The first step to understanding the mind is to understand that all behavior is goal-oriented. It’s teleological. When you think about it, this is kinda obvious, but when we dig into it, most people don’t want to hear it.
理解心智的第一步，是理解所有行为都是目标导向的。它是有目的的。细想之下，这显而易见，但当我们深挖时，大多数人并不想听。

You take a step forward because you want to reach a certain location.
你向前迈一步，是因为你想到达某个地点。

You scratch your nose because you want to make the itch go away.
你挠鼻子，是因为你想让痒感消失。

Those ones are clear, but most of the time, your goals are unconscious. You may not realize that when you sit on the couch in the middle of the day, you are trying to burn time before your next responsibility, as one simple example.
这些例子很清楚，但大多数时候，你的目标是潜意识的。你可能没有意识到，例如，在白天坐在沙发上，是为了在下一项责任到来前消磨时间。

On an even more unconscious and complex level, you pursue goals that can harm you, but you justify your actions in a way that is socially acceptable and doesn’t make you seem like a loser.
在更深层、更复杂的无意识层面，你追求着可能伤害你的目标，但你用一种社会可接受、不让你显得像个失败者的方式来为此辩护。

As an example, if you can’t stop procrastinating your work, you may justify it with the fact that you “lack discipline,” but in reality, you are attempting to achieve a goal like you always are. In this case, that goal could be to protect yourself from the judgment that comes from finishing and sharing your work.
自己免受完成并分享工作后可能招致的评判。

If you say you want to quit your dead-end job, but stay in it without any real reason, you may start to think you don’t have enough courage, or that you were never really a “risk taker,” but the truth is that you are pursuing the goal of safety, predictability, and an excuse to not look like a failure to everyone else in your life who sees working a dead-end job as a sign of success.
如果你说想辞掉那份没有前途的工作，却没有任何正当理由地留在那里，你可能会开始觉得自己不够勇敢，或从来不是个”冒险家”，但真相是，你正在追求 安全、可预测性 的目标，以及一个借口，以免在那些视拥有一份稳定工作为成功标志的人们眼中显得像个失败者。

The lesson here is that real change requires changing your goals.
这里的教训是，真正的改变需要改变你的目标。

I don’t mean setting some surface-level goal because the act of doing that serves an unconscious goal that is actually harming you. That’s been ran through enough in the productivity space. I mean changing your point of view. Because that’s what a goal is. A goal is a projection into the future that acts as a lens of perception which allows you to notice information, ideas, and resources that aid in you achieving that goal.
我指的不是设定一些肤浅的目标，因为这种行为本身服务于一个实际在伤害你的无意识目标。这种论调在生产力领域已经泛滥了。我指的是 改变你的视角 。因为目标就是如此。目标是对未来的投射，它作为一个感知的透镜，让你注意到有助于实现该目标的信息、想法和资源。

Now let’s dig a bit deeper, because if you don’t understand this, it only becomes more difficult to get out.
现在让我们再深入一点，因为如果你不理解这一点，只会更难脱身。

I send out letters like these 1-2x a week. If you don’t want to miss them, join here. You can also read my book free, other letters, etc.
我每周发出1-2封这样的信件。如果你不想错过，请在此处加入。你也可以免费阅读我的书、其他信件等。

III – You aren’t where you want to be because you’re afraid to be there

III – 你之所以不在此处，是因为你害怕去到那里

The important thing for you to remember is that it does not matter in the least how you got the idea or where it came from. You may never have met a professional hypnotist. You may never have been formally hypnotized. But if you have accepted an idea - from yourself, your teachers, your parents, friends, advertisements, from any other source - and further, if you are firmly convinced that idea is true, it has the same power over you as the hypnotist’s words have over the hypnotized subject.
你需要记住的重要一点是， 你如何得到这个想法或它来自何处，这一点都不重要 。你可能从未见过专业的催眠师。你可能从未被正式催眠过。但如果你接受了一个想法——无论是来自你自己、你的老师、父母、朋友、广告，还是任何其他来源——并且，进一步地，如果你坚信这个想法是真实的，那么它对你就拥有与催眠师对被催眠者的话语同样的力量。

– Maxwell Maltz
—— 麦克斯韦·马尔茨

Here’s how you’ve become who you are today, and how you will become who you will be tomorrow. This is the anatomy of identity:
这就是你如何成为今天的你，以及你将如何成为未来的你的过程。这是身份的解剖结构：

You want to achieve a goal
你想要实现一个目标

You perceive reality through the lens of that goal
你通过那个目标的透镜来感知现实

You only notice “important” information and ideas that allows you to achieve that goal (learning)
你只注意到让你实现该目标的”重要”信息和想法（学习）

You act toward that goal and receive feedback that you are progressing toward it
你朝那个目标行动，并获得正在取得进展的反馈

You repeat that behavior until it becomes automatic and unconscious (conditioning)
你重复该行为直到它变得自动和无意识（条件反射）

That behavior becomes a part of who you think you are (“I am the type of person who…”)
该行为成为你对自己认知的一部分（”我是那种……的人”）

You defend your identity to maintain psychological consistency
你捍卫自己的身份以维持心理一致性

Your identity shapes new goals, restarting the cycle, and if that identity is disadvantageous toward a good life, this gets bad very quick
你的身份塑造新的目标，重启这个循环，而如果那个身份对美好生活不利，这会很快变得糟糕

The unfortunate reality is that you must break the cycle between steps 6 and 7, but this process starts when you are a child.
不幸的现实是，你必须打破第6步和第7步之间的循环，但这个过程从你还是个孩子时就开始了。

You have the goal of survival.
你有生存的目标。

You are dependent on your parents to teach you how to survive. You had to conform. And since the way most people teach is through reward and punishment, unless you adopt their beliefs and values, you will be punished. You don’t actually think for yourself until you see through this.
你依赖父母教你如何生存。你必须顺从。由于大多数人的教学方式是通过奖励和惩罚，除非你采纳他们的信念和价值观，否则就会受到惩罚。除非你看透这一点，否则你并没有真正为自己思考。

But your parents have also gone through this process throughout their entire lives. That’s where it can get dangerous. Your parents, unless they broke the pattern themselves, were conditioned by the culturally accepted ideas of success from the Industrial age. They also carry the best and worst conditioning from their parents and their parents’ parents.
但你的父母也在一生中经历了这个过程。这就是危险所在。你的父母，除非他们自己打破了模式，也曾被工业时代文化所接受的成功理念所塑造。他们也承载着来自他们父母、祖父母最好和最坏的观念。

To take it a layer deeper, once you fulfill your physical survival needs (which is quite easy to do in today’s world, you’re practically born into safety), you start to survive on the conceptual or ideological level. You may not try to protect and reproduce your body, but you absolutely protect and reproduce your mind. It’s not difficult to see the war of ideas on the internet, and the participants are individual and group identities.
再深入一层，一旦你满足了生理生存需求（这在当今世界相当容易，你几乎天生就处于安全中），你开始在概念或意识形态层面生存。你可能不会试图保护和繁衍你的身体，但你绝对会保护和繁衍你的心智。不难在互联网上看到观念的战争，参与者就是个体和群体的身份。

When your body feels threatened, you go into fight or flight.
当你的身体感到威胁，你会进入战斗或逃跑模式。

When your identity feels threatened, the same thing happens.
当你的身份感到威胁，同样的事情也会发生。

If you are heavily identified with a political ideology (by the process we talked about just before), you will feel threatened when someone challenges your beliefs. You literally feel the stress. You feel, emotionally, like you were just slapped in the face. Since most people don’t analyze their emotions for truth, you tend to get stuck in echo chambers and double down on claims that harm yourself and others.
如果你极度认同某种政治意识形态（通过我们刚谈到的过程），当有人挑战你的信念时，你会感到受威胁。你真的能感受到压力。你在情感上就像被扇了一记耳光。由于大多数人不会分析其情感的真实性，你往往会陷入回音室，并加倍坚持那些对自己和他人有害的主张。

If you were raised in a religious household, and did not think for yourself, you will fight and attack others who threaten your psychological safety within that little bubble.
如果你在宗教家庭长大，并且没有为自己思考，你会攻击那些威胁你在那个小泡泡中心理安全感的他人。

The same thing happens when you unconsciously see yourself as a lawyer, a gamer, or somebody else who would not take the actions to achieve a better life.
同样的情况也会发生，当你无意识地将自己视为律师、游戏玩家或某种不会采取行动去追求更好生活的人时。

IV – The life you want lies within a specific level of mind

IV – 你想要的生活存在于心智的特定层次

The mind evolves through predictable stages over time.
心智会随着时间的推移经历可预测的阶段而发展。

When you’re born, you’re like a little survival sponge that absorbs whatever beliefs you can (which are heavily dictated by your culture) so that you can feel safe and secure. And if you don’t be careful, your mind may crystalize and it may make it difficult to live a meaningful life.
当你出生时，你就像一个小小的生存海绵，吸收你能吸收的任何信念（这很大程度上取决于你的文化），以便感到安全和可靠。如果你不小心，你的心智可能会固化，这可能会让你难以过上充实的生活。

This has been documented enough in models like Maslow’s Hierarchy, Greuter’s stages of ego development, Spiral Dynamics, and Integral Theory, each building off of one another, but it’s also not difficult to observe in society.
这一点在马斯洛需求层次理论、格雷特（Greuter）的自我发展理论、螺旋动力学、整合理论等模型中已有充分记载，它们彼此借鉴，但在社会中观察也并不困难。

I’ve talked about these many times, and synthesized them into my own Human 3.0 model with various AI prompts to uncover your level of development and a path forward (open in a tab to read after if you’d like), but here’s the 80/20 of the 9 stages of ego development as a refresher (because repetition helps reveal things you didn’t notice before, and there are new people reading these letters):
我曾多次谈及这些理论，并将它们综合成我自己的”人类3.0模型”，并辅以各种AI提示，以揭示你的发展阶段和前路方向（如果你愿意，可以打开一个标签页之后阅读）。但这里先快速回顾一下自我发展9个阶段的精髓（因为重复有助于揭示你之前未注意到的东西，而且有新的读者在读这些信件）：

Impulsive — No separation between impulse and action. Black and white thinking. I.e. A toddler hits when angry because the feeling and the behavior are the same thing.
冲动阶段 —— 冲动与行为之间没有分离。非黑即白思维。例如，幼儿生气就打人，因为感觉和行为是同一件事。

Self-Protective — The world is dangerous and you learn to look out for yourself. I.e. A kid learns to hide report cards, lie about chores, and figure out what adults want to hear.
自我保护阶段 —— 世界是危险的，你学会照顾自己。例如，孩子学会藏起成绩单，就家务撒谎，并琢磨大人想听什么。

reality itself. I.e. Someone who genuinely cannot fathom why anyone would vote differently than their family or group.
顺从阶段 —— 你即你的群体，其规则感觉如同现实本身。例如，有人完全无法理解为何有人会投票给不同于其家庭或群体的人。

Self-Aware — You notice you have an inner life that doesn’t match the exterior. I.e. Sitting in church and realizing you’re not sure you believe what everyone around you seems to believe, but not knowing what to do with that feeling yet.
自我觉察阶段 —— 你注意到自己有一个与外部世界不符的内心世界。例如，坐在教堂里，意识到你不确定自己是否相信周围人似乎都相信的东西，但还不知道如何处理这种感觉。

Conscientious — You build your own system of principles and hold yourself accountable to them. I.e. Leaving your family’s religion after careful study and adopting a personal philosophy you can defend, or building a career plan with clear milestones because you believe the right effort yields the right results.
尽责阶段 —— 你建立自己的原则体系，并对自己负责。例如，经过仔细研究后离开家庭的宗教，转而采纳一种可以为自己辩护的个人哲学；或者因为相信正确的努力会带来正确的结果，而建立一个有明确里程碑的职业计划。

Individualist — You see that your principles were shaped by context and start holding them more loosely. I.e. Realizing your political views have more to do with where you grew up than objective truth, or noticing that your ambitious career goals were really about earning your father’s approval.
个人主义阶段 —— 你看到自己的原则是由背景塑造的，并开始更宽松地看待它们。例如，意识到你的政治观点更多与你成长的地方有关，而非客观真理；或者注意到你雄心勃勃的职业目标其实是为了赢得父亲的认可。

Strategist — You work with systems while aware of your own involvement in them. I.e. Leading an organization while actively questioning your own blind spots, or engaging in politics knowing your perspective is partial and shaped by bias you can’t fully see.
策略家阶段 —— 你在与系统合作时，能意识到自己身处其中。例如，在领导一个组织时，积极质疑自己的盲点；或者参与政治，同时知道自己的视角是片面的，并受到自己无法完全看清的偏见影响。

Construct-Aware — You see all frameworks, including your identity, as useful fictions. I.e. Holding your spiritual beliefs with metaphorically not literally, knowing the map is not the territory, or watching yourself play the role of “founder” or “thought leader” with a kind of gentle amusement.
建构觉察阶段 —— 你将所有框架，包括你的身份，视为有用的虚构。例如，用比喻而非字面意义持有你的精神信仰，知道地图不是领土；或者带着一种温和的趣味看着自己扮演”创始人”或”思想领袖”的角色。

Unitive — Separation between self and life dissolves. I.e. Work, rest, and play feel like the same thing. There’s no one left who needs to become something, just presence responding to what arises.
一体阶段 —— 自我与生活之间的分离消解。例如，工作、休息和玩耍感觉像同一件事。不再有任何人需要成为什么，只有临在回应着发生的一切。

For most people reading this, I would assume you hover between 4 and 8, which is a huge gap. Those closer to 8 are reading this are doing so to either learn something or pass time in a non-destructive way. Those closer to 4 are really looking for a change. You feel like you are meant for more, but you can’t make sense of everything yet, because there’s obviously a lot at play.
对大多数阅读此文的人，我猜测你们徘徊在4到8之间，这是一个巨大的跨度。那些接近8的人读这个，要么是为了学点东西，要么是以一种非破坏性的方式消磨时间。那些接近4的人，才是真正在寻求改变。你感觉自己注定要做更多事，但你还不能理解所有一切，因为显然有太多因素在起作用。

The good thing is, it doesn’t really matter what stage you are in, because moving through any of them follows a pattern.
好消息是，你处在哪个阶段并不重要，因为穿越任何阶段都遵循一个模式。

V – Intelligence is the ability to get what you want out of life

V – 智慧是获得你想要的幸福人生的能力

The only real test of intelligence is if you get what you want out of life.
智慧的唯一真实检验标准，是你是否获得了你想要的幸福人生。

– Naval Ravikant
—— Naval Ravikant

There is a formula for success.
成功有一个公式。

One ingredient is agency.
一个要素是能动性。

One ingredient is opportunity (which many people like to mistake as “privilege” - because they the other ingredients).
一个要素是机遇（许多人喜欢将其误解为”特权”——因为他们缺少其他要素）。

The last ingredient is intelligence.
最后一个要素是智慧。

If you have high agency but low opportunity, it doesn’t matter how likely you are to act toward a goal, because it isn’t a goal that will bear much fruit.
如果你有高能动性但低机遇，无论你朝着目标行动的可能性有多大都没用，因为这并非一个能结出硕果的目标。

If you have opportunity and agency but low intelligence, then you will never be fully able to benefit from that opportunity.
如果你有机遇和能动性但智慧不足，那么你将永远无法充分受益于那个机遇。

First, we’ve talked about agency before here. In terms of opportunity, I can’t tell you to change your physical location, but if you don’t see the abundance of digital opportunity right in front of you, I don’t know what to tell you.
首先，我们之前在这里讨论过能动性。至于机遇，我不能告诉你去改变你的物理位置，但如果你看不到眼前丰富的数字机遇，那我也没什么可说的了。

With that said, I want to focus on what intelligence is in the context of these two other ingredients and this letter. For that, we look to cybernetics.
鉴于此，我想在本文及这两个要素的背景下，重点谈谈智慧是什么。为此，我们求助于控制论。

Cybernetics comes from the greek word kybernetikos which means “to steer” or “good at steering.”
控制论（Cybernetics）源自希腊语”kybernetikos”，意为”驾驭”或”善于驾驭”。

It’s also known as “the art of getting what you want.”
它也被称为”获得你想要之物的艺术”。

So, if Naval’s definition of intelligence is getting what you want out of life, understanding cybernetics helps you do that much faster.
所以，如果Naval对智慧的定义是获得你想要的幸福人生，那么理解控制论能帮你更快做到这一点。

Cybernetics illustrates the properties of intelligent systems.
控制论阐释了智能系统的特性。

To have a goal.
拥有一个目标。

Act toward that goal.
朝着那个目标行动。

Sense where you are.
感知你所在的位置。

Compare it to the goal.
将其与目标进行比较。

And act again based on that feedback.
然后根据那个反馈再次行动。

You can judge intelligence based on the system’s ability to iterate and persist with trial and error.
你可以根据系统迭代和通过试错持续行动的能力来判断智慧。

A ship blown off course that corrects toward its destination. A thermostat sensing a change in heat and turning on. The pancreas excreting insulin after blood glucose spikes.
一艘被吹离航线的船只，它会校正航向驶向目的地。一个感知热量变化并启动的恒温器。血糖飙升后分泌胰岛素的胰腺。

What does this have to do with getting what you want out of life?
这和获得你想要的人生有什么关系？

Everything.
一切。

Acting, sensing, comparing, and understanding the system from a meta-perspective is fundamental to high intelligence (with the definition we are using here).
行动、感知、比较，并从元视角理解系统，是高智慧的基础（在我们使用的定义下）。

High intelligence is the ability to iterate, persist, and understand the big picture. The mark of low intelligence is the inability to learn from your mistakes.
高智慧是迭代、坚持和把握全局的能力。低智慧的标志是无法从错误中学习。

Low-intelligence people get stuck on problems rather than solving them. They hit a roadblock and quit. Like a writer who fails to build a readership and quits because they lack the ability to try new things, experiment, and figure out a process that works for them (to think that there isn’t an effective process you can create is verifiably false, no matter your limiting beliefs, hence being low intelligence.)
低智慧的人被问题困住而非解决问题。他们遇到障碍就放弃。就像一个未能建立读者群的作家，因缺乏尝试新事物、实验并找出适合自己方法的能力而放弃（认为你无法创造出一个有效的过程，这是可验证的错误想法，无论你有何限制性信念，这就是低智慧）。

High intelligence is realizing any problem can be solved on a large enough timescale. The reality is that you can achieve any goal you set your mind to.
高智慧是意识到任何问题都可以在足够长的时间尺度上得到解决。现实是，你可以实现你决心达成的任何目标。

Intelligence is realizing that there is a series of choices you can make which lead to achieving the goal you want. You understand that ideas are hierarchical and that you can’t go from papyrus to Google docs in one fell swoop. Even if that goal is impossible right now, you simply don’t have the resources – which may be invented over the next few years – to achieve that thing.
智慧是意识到存在一系列你可以做出的选择，这些选择会引导你实现你想要的目标。你理解到想法是分层次的，你无法一蹴而就从莎草纸跳到谷歌文档。即使那个目标目前不可能实现，你只是缺少资源——这些资源可能在接下来几年内被发明出来——来实现它。

When I talk about “goals,” and as I will continue repeating, I am not speaking from the typical lens of self-help, although that’s a helpful lens to adopt at times.
当我谈论”目标”时，就像我将不断重复的，我不是从典型的自助角度来谈，尽管有时采纳那个视角是有帮助的。

I am speaking from the lens of teleology or the Greek kosmos – that everything serves a purpose. That everything is a part of a greater whole.
我是从目的论或希腊”kosmos”的视角来谈——即一切皆有目的。一切都是更宏大整体的一部分。

Goals determine how you see the world.
目标决定你如何看待世界。

Goals determine what you consider “success” or “failure.”
目标决定你视何为”成功”或”失败”。

You can try to “enjoy the journey,” but if you pursue the wrong goal, you will not enjoy it.
你可以尝试”享受旅程”，但如果你追求错误的目标，你将无法享受它。

Your mind is the operating system for reality.
你的心智是现实的操-作系统。

That system is composed of goals.
那个系统由目标构成。

For most people, those goals are assigned to them. Programmed like lines of code in your psyche.
对大多数人来说，那些目标是分配给他们的。像一行行代码一样被编程进你的心灵。

Go to school. Get the job. Get offended. Play victim. Retire at 65.
上学。找工作。被冒犯。扮演受害者。65岁退休。

A known path that doesn’t work.
一条已知但行不通的路。

To become more intelligent, you must:
要变得更智慧，你必须：

Reject the known path
拒绝已知的道路

Dive into the unknown
潜入未知

Set new, higher goals to expand your mind
设定新的、更高的目标来拓展你的心智

Embrace the chaos and allow for growth
拥抱混沌，允许成长

Study the generalized principles of nature
研究自然的普适原则

Become a deep generalist
成为一个深刻的通才
I understand this may not be the traditional definition of intelligence, but that sequence of steps leads to an extraordinary level of connections in your brain, leading to what we would observe as an intelligent person. Pair that with agency and you’ve got a winner.
我理解这可能不是智慧的传统定义，但这一系列步骤会带来大脑中非凡的连接水平，从而产生我们称之为智慧之人所展现的特质。再加上能动性，你就有了赢家。

That leads us into the next section perfectly.
这完美地将我们引入下一部分。

VI – How to launch into a completely new life (in 1 day)

VI – 如何启动一个全新的生活（在1天内）

The best periods of my life always came after a period of getting absolutely fed up with the lack of progress I was making.
我人生中最好的时期，总是出现在对我进展缓慢感到彻底厌倦之后。

How do you dig into your mind?
你如何深入挖掘你的心灵？

How do you become aware of your conditioning?
你如何意识到你的条件反射？

How do you reach profound insights and truths that change the trajectory of your life?
你如何获得深刻的洞见和真理，从而改变你的人生轨迹？

Through the simple, but often painful act of questioning.
通过提问这个简单却常常痛苦的行为。

Something that so few people do, and you can tell by how they speak or give their thoughts on a specific topic. Questioning is thinking, and very few people do it.
这是一件极少有人做的事，你从他们如何说话或对特定话题发表看法就能看出来。提问就是思考，而很少有人真正做到。

I want to give you a comprehensive protocol that you can use every year to reset your life and launch into a season of intense progress. This protocol helps you ask the right questions.
我想给你一个全面的方案，你可以每年用它来重置生活，并启动一段高强度的进步期。这个方案帮助你提出正确的问题。

These questions will cover the macro to the micro: where you want to be, what you need to do to get there, and what you can do immediately to start moving the needle toward that reality.
这些问题将涵盖从宏观到微观：你想去往何处，你需要做什么才能到达那里，以及你可以立即做些什么来开始朝那个现实推进。

This will require one full day to complete, so I recommend you follow along with the exact protocol. You will need a pen, paper, and an open mind.
这将需要一整天来完成，所以我建议你严格按照这个方案进行。你需要一支笔、一张纸和开放的心态。

When I observe patterns in people who successfully flip their identity, it happens fast after a build up of tension. Specifically, I’ve noticed 3 phases that people tend to go through.
当我观察那些成功转变身份的人的模式时，我发现这通常发生在张力积聚之后，并且发生得很快。具体来说，我注意到人们往往会经历3个阶段。

Dissonance – They feel like they don’t belong in their current life, and become sufficiently fed up with their lack of progress.
失调期 —— 他们感到自己不属于当前的生活，并对缺乏进展感到足够厌倦。

Uncertainty – They don’t know what comes next, so they either experiment or get lost and feel worse.
不确定期 —— 他们不知道接下来会发生什么，所以他们要么尝试，要么迷失并感觉更糟。

Discovery – They discover what they want to pursue and make 6 years of progress in 6 months. 发现期 —— 他们发现自己想要追求什么，并在6个月内取得6年的进展。

So, our goal with this protocol is to help you reach the point of dissonance, navigate through uncertainty, and discover what it truly is that you want to achieve, so much so that the clarity is overwhelming and distractions no longer hold their weight.
所以，我们设计这个方案的目标是帮助你达到失调点，度过不确定期，并发现你真正想要实现的是什么，以至于这种清晰感是如此强烈，干扰因素不再构成干扰。

This protocol is structured so that it can be completed in one day. In the morning, you do a psychological excavation to uncover your own hidden motives. During the day, you prompt yourself with interrupts to keep you out of autopilot and contemplate your life. At night, you synthesize the insights into a direction you will start to move in tomorrow.
这个方案的结构使其可以在一天内完成。早晨，你进行一次心理挖掘，以揭示你隐藏的动机。白天，你用一些中断提示来让自己摆脱自动驾驶模式，并思考你的人生。晚上，你将各种洞见综合成一个方向，明天就开始朝这个方向前进。

I cannot guarantee that this will work for everyone, because I cannot guarantee that everyone reading this is in the right chapter of their own story that would make these points impactful. You can’t place the climax at the start of the book and expect it to be interesting.
我不能保证这对每个人都有效，因为我无法保证每个读到这篇文章的人都处在自己人生故事中能感受到这些观点冲击力的正确章节。你不能把高潮放在书的开头，还指望它有趣。

Part 1) Morning – Psychological Excavation – Vision & Anti-Vision

第一部分）早晨 – 心理挖掘 – 愿景与反愿景

First we must create a new frame, or lens of perception, for your mind to operate from.
首先，我们必须为你的心智创建一个新的框架，或者说感知的透镜，让它从这个框架运作。

This is like creating a new shell, leaving your old one, and slowly growing into it over time. It won’t feel like it fits at first. That’s a good thing.
这就像创建一个新的外壳，离开旧的，然后随着时间的推移慢慢适应它。起初它会感觉不合身。这是好事。

Set aside 15-30 minutes (the length of one YouTube video… you can do it) to think about and answer these questions. Do not attempt to outsource this contemplation to AI. I want you to break past the limiter that is on your mind. If you can’t answer these immediately, come back to them later.
留出15-30分钟（相当于一个YouTube视频的长度……你能做到的）来思考并回答这些问题。不要试图把这份思考外包给AI。我希望你突破你心智上的限制器。如果你无法立即回答，可以稍后再回来。

What is the dull and persistent dissatisfaction you’ve learned to live with? Not the deep suffering but what you’ve learned to tolerate. (If you don’t hate it, you will tolerate it) 什么是你已经学会与之共存的、沉闷而持久的”不满”？不是那种深深的痛苦，而是你已经学会容忍的东西。（如果你不恨它，你就会容忍它）
What do you complain about repeatedly but never actually change? Write down the three complaints you’ve voiced most often in the past year. 你反复抱怨但从未真正改变的是什么？写下你在过去一年中最常抱怨的三件事。
For each complaint: What would someone who watched your behavior (not your words) conclude that you actually want? 针对每一个抱怨：一个观察你行为（而非言语）的人会得出什么结论，认为你实际上想要什么？
What truth about your current life would be unbearable to admit to someone you deeply respect? 关于你当前的生活，有什么真相会让你羞于向一个你深深尊重的人承认？

Those questions are meant to make you aware of the pain in your current life. Now, we need to turn those into what I call an “anti-vision,” which is a brutal awareness of the life you do not want to live. That way, you can use that negative energy to aim your efforts in a positive direction and act from a place of intrinsic motivation.
这些问题旨在让你意识到当前生活中的痛苦。现在，我们需要把这些变成我称之为”反愿景”的东西，即对你不想过的生活的残酷认识。这样，你就可以利用这种负能量将你的努力导向积极方向，并从内在动机出发行动。

If absolutely nothing changes for the next five years, describe an average Tuesday. Where do you wake up? What does your body feel like? What’s the first thing you think about? Who’s around you? What do you do between 9am and 6pm? How do you feel at 10pm? 如果未来五年绝对没有任何改变，描述一个普通的星期二。你在哪里醒来？你的身体感觉如何？你想到的第一件事是什么？谁在你身边？你在上午9点到下午6点之间做什么？晚上10点时你感觉如何？
Now do it but for ten years. What have you missed? What opportunities closed? Who gave up on you? What do people say about you when you’re not in the room? 现在为十年后做同样的事。你错过了什么？哪些机会消失了？谁对你放弃了希望？当你不在场时，人们会如何议论你？
You’re at the end of your life. You lived the safe version. You never broke the pattern. What was the cost? What did you never let yourself feel, try, or become? 你走到了生命的尽头。你过着安稳版的人生。你从未打破模式。代价是什么？你从未让自己去感受、尝试或成为什么？
Who in your life is already living the future you just described? Someone five, ten, twenty years ahead on the same trajectory? What do you feel when you think about becoming them? 在你的生活中，谁已经在过着你刚刚描述的那种未来？谁比你领先五年、十年、二十年，走在同一条轨迹上？当你想到要变成他们那样时，你有什么感觉？
What identity would you have to give up to actually change? (“I am the type of person who…”) What would it cost you socially to no longer be that person? 要真正改变，你必须放弃什么身份？（”我是那种……的人”）不再作为那种人，在社交上会让你付出什么代价？
What is the most embarrassing reason you haven’t changed? The one that makes you sound weak, scared, or lazy rather than reasonable? 你尚未改变的最令人尴尬的原因是什么？那个让你听起来软弱、害怕或懒惰，而不是理智的原因？
If your current behavior is a form of self-protection, what exactly are you protecting? And what is that protection costing you? 如果你目前的行为是一种自我保护，你到底在保护什么？而这种保护又在让你付出什么代价？

If you answered those truthfully, and if you are in the right chapter of your life, you will feel a deep sense of dis-ease and possibly disgust for how you are currently living. Now, we need to orient that energy in a positive direction. We need to create a minimum viable vision, because your vision is like a product. It starts out unclear, but with time and experience, it grows stronger and more potent.
如果你如实回答了这些问题，并且正处在人生中合适的章节，你会对目前的生活方式感到深深的不安甚至厌恶。现在，我们需要将这种能量导向积极的方向。我们需要创建一个最小可行愿景，因为你的愿景就像一个产品。起初它并不清晰，但随着时间的推移和经验，它会变得更强大、更有力。

Forget practicality for a minute. If you could snap your fingers and be living a different life in three years, not what’s realistic, what you actually want? What does an average Tuesday look like? Same level of detail as question 5. 暂且忘记实用性。如果你能打个响指，在三年后过上一种不同的生活，不是现实可行的，而是你真正想要的？一个普通的星期二是什么样的？像问题5一样详细。
What would you have to believe about yourself for that life to feel natural rather than forced? Write the identity statement: “I am the type of person who…” 要让那种生活感觉自然而非被迫，你必须对自己抱有什么样的信念？写下身份陈述：”我是那种……的人。”
What is one thing you would do this week if you were already that person? 如果你已经是那个人，这周你会做哪一件事？

Answer all of those first thing in the morning tomorrow.
明早第一件事就是回答所有这些问题。

Part 2) Throughout The Day – Interrupting Autopilot – Breaking Unconscious Patterns

第二部分）全天 – 中断自动驾驶 – 打破无意识模式

These journaling exercises are cute, but we want real change.
这些日记练习很好，但我们想要的是真正的改变。

Frankly, that’s not going to happen if you don’t break the current unconscious patterns that are keeping you the same.
坦白说，如果你不打破目前让你停滞不前的无意识模式，真正的改变就不会发生。

Throughout the day, I want you to contemplate on everything you journaled in part one. Beyond that, I don’t want you to forget to contemplate. Please take this seriously. You aren’t going to change by doing the same thing for the rest of your life. You need to consciously force a pattern break.
全天，我希望你思考你在第一部分写下的所有内容。除此之外，我不希望你忘记思考。请认真对待。你不会因为余生都做同样的事情而改变。你需要有意识地强行打破模式。

Take the time right now to create reminders or calendar events in your phone. Include the question in the reminder or event so that you can immediately start thinking about it.
现在就花时间在你的手机里设置提醒或日历事件。把问题包含在提醒或事件中，这样你可以立即开始思考它。

The more random and non-conflicting with your schedule there are, the better.
越随机，并且与你的日程安排不冲突越好。

11:00am: What am I avoiding right now by doing what I’m doing?
上午11:00：我正在做的这件事，让我在逃避什么？
1:30pm: If someone filmed the last two hours, what would they conclude I want from my life?
下午1:30：如果有人拍摄了过去两个小时，他们会得出什么关于我人生追求的结论？
3:15pm: Am I moving toward the life I hate or the life I want?
下午3:15：我是在走向我讨厌的生活，还是我想要的生活？
5:00pm: What’s the most important thing I’m pretending isn’t important?
下午5:00：我正在假装不重要的最重要的事情是什么？
7:30pm: What did I do today out of identity protection rather than genuine desire? (Hint: it’s most things you do)
晚上7:30：我今天做了什么事是出于身份保护，而非真正的渴望？（提示：你做的绝大多数事情都是）
9:00pm: When did I feel most alive today? When did I feel most dead?
晚上9:00：今天什么时候我感觉最有活力？什么时候我感觉最死气沉沉？

To add a bit more fuel to the fire, schedule these questions during times where you are either commuting, walking, or lying around.
再加把劲，在你通勤、散步或躺着的时候安排思考这些问题。

What would change if I stopped needing people to see me as [the identity you wrote in question 10]?
如果我不再需要别人把我看作[你在问题10中写下的身份]，会有什么改变？
Where in my life am I trading aliveness for safety?
在我的生活中，我在哪些地方用”生命力”来交换”安全感”？
What’s the smallest version of the person I want to become that I could be tomorrow?
我想成为的那个人，明天我能展现出的最小化版本是什么？

Part 3) Evening – Synthesizing Insight – Entering A Season Of Progress

第三部分）晚上 – 洞见整合 – 进入进展期

If you followed that process, I would be surprised if you didn’t have at least one profound insight that could alter the course of your life. Now, we need to make those known, integrate them into who we are, and act on them to begin solidifying our journey to a new level of mind.
如果你遵循了这个过程，你至少会有一个足以改变人生轨迹的深刻洞见。现在，我们需要让这些洞见清晰可见，将它们整合进我们的身份，并依此行动，以开始巩固我们迈向新心智层次的旅程。

After today, what feels most true about why you’ve been stuck? 在今天之后，关于你为何停滞不前，什么感觉最真实？
What is the actual enemy? Name it clearly. Not circumstances. Not other people. The internal pattern or belief that has been running the show. 真正的敌人是什么？清晰地指出来。不是环境。不是他人。是那个一直在幕后主导的内在模式或信念。
Write a single sentence that captures what you refuse to let your life become. This is your anti-vision compressed. It should make you feel something when you read it. 写下一句话，概括你拒绝让你的人生成为的样子。这是你的浓缩版反愿景。当你读到它时，它应该能让你有所触动。
Write a single sentence that captures what you’re building toward, knowing it will evolve. This is your vision MVP. 写下一句话，概括你正在努力构建的方向，同时明白它会不断发展。这是你的最小可行愿景。

Lastly, we need to create goals.
最后，我们需要制定目标。

Again, these aren’t goals that you set for the sake of achievement, because goals are just projections. They are unreliable and make you feel bound to something that will inevitably change. Instead, think of goals as a point of view. A lens that you can exchange to enter the right state of mind to perform the action that will lead away from the life you don’t want. Do not worry about some kind of finish line, because as we will find, it doesn’t exist. Enjoyment is found in progress.
再次强调，这些不是你为了”达成”而设定的目标，因为目标只是投射。它们不可靠，会让你感觉被注定会改变的东西所束缚。相反，把目标看作一种观点。一个你可以切换的透镜，以进入正确的心态，执行那些将引领你远离你不想要的生活的行动。不要担心某种终点线，因为正如我们将发现的，它并不存在。享受存在于进步之中。

One-year lens: What would have to be true in one year for you to know you’ve broken the old pattern? One concrete thing.
一年之镜： 一年内必须发生什么具体的事，才能让你知道你已打破旧模式？一件具体的事。

One-month lens: What would have to be true in one month for the one-year lens to remain possible?
一月之镜： 一个月内必须发生什么，才能让”一年之镜”仍然是可能的？

Daily lens: What are 2-3 actions you can timeblock tomorrow that the person you’re becoming would simply do?
每日之镜： 明天你能安排哪2-3个行动，是你将要成为的那个人会自然而然去做的？

That was a lot.
内容很多。

Hopefully it was helpful.
希望对你有帮助。

But we have one last piece to lock it all in.
但我们还有最后一块拼图来锁定这一切。

Stick with me.
请继续听我说。

VII – Turn Your Life Into A Video Game

VII – 将你的人生变成一款电子游戏

The optimal state of inner experience is one in which there is order in consciousness. This happens when psychic energy—or attention—is invested in realistic goals, and when skills match the opportunities for action. The pursuit of a goal brings order in awareness because a person must concentrate attention on the task at hand and momentarily forget everything else.
最优的内心体验状态是意识中有秩序。当心理能量——或称注意力——投入于现实的目标，且技能与行动机会相匹配时，就会发生这种情况。追求目标会带来意识的秩序，因为人必须将注意力集中在手头的任务上，暂时忘记其他一切。

– Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
——米哈里·契克森米哈赖

You now have all of the components that lead to a good life.
你现在拥有了所有通向美好生活的组成部分。

Now, it may be helpful to organize all of your insights into one coherent plan. Pull out a new page and write down these 6 components:
现在，将你所有的洞见组织成一个连贯的计划可能会很有帮助。拿出一张新纸，写下这6个组成部分：

Anti-vision – What is the bane of my existence, or the life I never want to experience again?
反愿景 —— 什么是我存在的祸根，或是我再也不想经历的生活？
Vision – What is the ideal life that I think I want and can improve as I work toward it?
愿景 —— 什么是我认为我想要，并且可以在努力过程中不断完善的理想生活？
1 year goal – What will my life look like in 1 year time, and is that closer to the life I want?
1年目标 —— 1年后我的生活会是什么样子？那是更接近我想要的生活吗？
1 month project – What do I need to learn? What skills do I need to acquire? What can I build that will move me closer to the one year goal?
1月项目 —— 我需要学习什么？我需要掌握什么技能？我能构建什么，来让我更接近那1年目标？
Daily levers – What are the priority, needle-moving tasks that bring my project closer to completion?
每日杠杆 —— 哪些是能推动我的项目更接近完成的优先、关键性任务？
Constraints – What am I not willing to sacrifice to achieve my vision from the ground up?
约束条件 —— 为了实现我的愿景，我不愿意牺牲什么？

Why is this so powerful?
为什么这如此强大？

Because these components literally create your own little world. If you are meant to pursue this hierarchy of goals at this stage of your life, you will have no other option but to become obsessed. You will feel the pull to something greater. You will not see anything else as an option.
因为这些组成部分实实在在地创造了你自己的小世界。如果你命中注定要在人生的这个阶段追求这个目标层级，你将别无选择，只能为之着迷。你会感受到被某种更伟大的事物吸引。你将看不到其他任何选项。

You turn your life into a video game.
你把你的人生变成了一款电子游戏。

Because games are the poster child for obsession, enjoyment, and flow states. They have all the components that lead to focus and clarity, so if we reverse engineer what those components are, we can live in a state of deeper enjoyment, less distractions, and more success.
因为游戏是痴迷、享受和心流状态的典范。它们拥有所有导致专注和清晰度的组成部分，所以如果我们对它们进行逆向工程，找出这些组成部分是什么，我们就能活在一种更深度的享受、更少的干扰和更大的成功状态中。

Your vision is how you win. At least until the game evolves.
你的愿景就是你的获胜方式。至少直到游戏进化为止。

Your anti-vision is what’s at stake. What happens if you lose or give up.
你的反愿景就是押注的赌注。如果你输了或放弃了会发生什么。

Your 1 year goal is the mission. This is your sole priority in life.
你的1年目标就是任务。这是你人生中唯一的优先事项。

Your 1 month project is the boss fight. How you gain XP and acquire loot.
你的1月项目就是Boss战。是你如何获得经验值和战利品。

Your daily levers are the quests. The daily process that unlocks new opportunities.
你的每日杠杆就是任务。是解锁新机会的日常流程。

Your constraints are the rules. The limitations that encourage creativity.
你的约束条件就是规则。是激发创造力的限制。

All of these act as a concentric set of circles, like a forcefield, that guard your mind from distractions and shiny objects.
所有这些就像一个同心圆组成的力场，保护你的心智免受干扰和诱惑物的侵袭。

The more you play the game, the stronger this force becomes, and soon enough it becomes who you are, and you wouldn’t have it any other way.
你玩这个游戏越多，这个力场就越强，很快它就变成了你的一部分，并且你不会想要任何其他的方式。

– Dan