One of the things that you were saying is that you feel like happiness is something that you can learn.

你剛才說的其中一點是，你覺得幸福是可以學習的。

You can teach yourself to be happy even just by proclaiming that to your friends.

你可以教自己學會快樂，哪怕只是向你的朋友宣佈這一點。

So you've sort of developed a social contract.

所以，你們已經形成了一種社會契約。

I'm a happy person.

我是一個快樂的人。

I have to live up to that.

我必須做到這一點。

Yeah, I've got hundreds of techniques.

是的，我有上百種技巧。

How did you develop that one?

你是如何開發出這一功能的？

There's social consistency, right?

有社會一致性，對嗎？

Humans have a need to be highly consistent with their past pronouncements.

人類需要與自己過去的言論保持高度一致。

So the way I started my first tech company was I was working inside a larger organization and I told everybody that I was going to go start a company.

所以，我創辦第一家科技公司的方式是，我在一家更大的公司裡工作，我告訴大家我要去創辦一家公司。

I'm going to do my own thing.

我要做我自己的事。

I'm going to be a successful entrepreneur.

我要成為一名成功的企業家。

Six months passed, nine months passed, then people started saying, you're still here?

六個月過去了，九個月過去了，然後人們開始說，你還在這裡？

I thought you were going to go start a company.

我還以為你要去開公司呢。

Are you lying?

你在撒謊嗎？

That was the implication.

這就是暗示。

So we kind of know this, right?

所以我們知道這一點，對嗎？

Social contracts are very powerful.

社會契約非常強大。

Like if you want to give up drinking, right?

比如你想戒酒，對吧？

And you're not serious about it, you'll say, I'm going to cut back.

如果你不認真對待，你就會說，我要減少開支。

I'm going to have only one drink a night.

我打算每晚只喝一杯。

I'm going to drink on weekends.

週末我要喝酒。

You tell yourself, but if you're serious, you'll announce it on Facebook.

你告訴自己，但如果你是認真的，你就會在 Facebook 上宣佈。

You'll tell all your friends, you'll tell your wife, you'll say, I'm done drinking.

你會告訴你所有的朋友，你會告訴你的妻子，你會說，我不喝了。

I'm throwing everything out of the house.

我把所有東西都扔出了家門。

You'll never see me drink again.

你再也看不到我喝酒了

When you say that, you know, you're serious.

當你這麼說的時候，你知道，你是認真的。

So I think a lot of these are choices that we make and happiness is just one of those choices.

是以，我認為很多事情都是我們做出的選擇，而幸福只是其中之一。

And this is unpopular to say, because there are people who are actually depressed, you know, chemically or what have you.

這樣說並不受歡迎，因為有些人確實患有抑鬱症，你知道，是化學性抑鬱症還是其他什麼原因。

And there are people who don't believe that it's possible because then it creates a responsibility on them.

有些人不相信這是可能的，因為這會給他們帶來責任。

It says, oh, now you're saying if I'm happy, that's my fault.

它說，哦，你現在說如果我快樂，那就是我的錯。

I'm not saying that, but I'm saying that just like fitness can be a choice.

我不是這個意思，但我想說的是，就像健身可以是一種選擇一樣。

Health can be a choice.

健康可以是一種選擇。

Nutrition can be a choice.

營養可以是一種選擇。

Working hard and making money can be a choice.

努力工作和賺錢可以是一種選擇。

Happiness is also a choice.

幸福也是一種選擇。

If you're so smart, how come you aren't happy?

如果你這麼聰明，怎麼會不快樂呢？

How come you haven't figured that out?

你怎麼還不明白呢？

That's my challenge to all the people who think they're so smart and so capable.

這是我向所有自以為聰明能幹的人提出的挑戰。

If you're so smart and capable, why can't you change this?

如果你這麼聰明能幹，為什麼不能改變這種狀況？

This is old, old Buddhist wisdom.

這是古老而又古老的佛教智慧。

I'm not saying anything original, but desire to me is a contract that you make with yourself to be unhappy until you get what you want.

我並沒有說什麼新穎的話，但在我看來，慾望就是你與自己簽訂的一份契約，在得到你想要的東西之前，你必須不快樂。

And I keep that in front of mind.

我一直銘記在心。

So when I'm unhappy about something, I look for what is the underlying desire that I have that's not being fulfilled.

是以，當我遇到不開心的事情時，我會去尋找我沒有得到滿足的潛在願望是什麼。

It's okay to have desires.

有慾望沒關係。

You're a biological creature.

你是生物

You're put on this earth.

你來到這個世界

You have to do something.

你必須做點什麼。

You have to have desires, but don't have too many.

你必須有慾望，但不要太多。

Don't pick them up unconsciously.

不要無意識地撿起來。

Don't pick them up randomly.

不要隨意挑選。

Don't have thousands of them.

不要成千上萬。

My coffee's too cold.

我的咖啡太涼了

Doesn't taste quite right.

味道不太對

I'm not sitting perfectly.

我的坐姿並不完美。

Oh, I wish it were warmer.

哦，真希望天氣能暖和點。

Oh, my dog pooped in the lawn.

哦，我的狗在草坪上拉屎了。

I have an overwhelming desire and it's okay to suffer over that one, but on all the others, you want to let them go so you can be calm and peaceful and relaxed.

我有一種難以抑制的慾望，為這種慾望而痛苦是可以的，但對於其他慾望，你想讓它們消失，這樣你就能平靜、安寧和放鬆。