If you're aware of who you are, if you're aware of what you're good at, what you're not good at, if you're able to see how emotions kind of govern your life, if you can learn what your weaknesses are and how to control them, you can't ever get complete control, but awareness is almost enough.

如果你能意識到自己是誰，如果你能意識到自己擅長什麼，不擅長什麼，如果你能看到情緒是如何支配你的生活的，如果你能瞭解自己的弱點是什麼以及如何控制它們，你不可能完全控制自己，但意識幾乎就足夠了。

Slowly through this process of knowing who you are and understanding other people and how they operate so you don't make stupid mistakes in life, you can increase that little tiny margin more and more and more and you will be a person of power.

慢慢地，通過這個瞭解自己、瞭解他人、瞭解他們如何運作的過程，你就不會在生活中犯愚蠢的錯誤，你就能越來越多地增加那一點點微小的餘地，你就會成為一個有力量的人。

Law number one in the 48 laws of power is called never outshine the master, and almost every single person in the world has violated that law, myself included.

權力 48 條法則的第一條叫做 "永遠不要超越主人"，而世界上幾乎所有的人都違反了這條法則，包括我自己。

Basically how it works, you're so eager to impress your boss or whomever in your new job that you try so hard that you make him or her feel insecure, like maybe you're younger and better than they are, and because of that you're fired or something bad happens to you and you never know why.

基本上是這樣的：你太想在新工作中給你的老闆或其他人留下深刻印象，你太努力了，以至於讓他或她感到不安全，就好像你比他們更年輕、更優秀，正因為如此，你被解僱了，或者發生了一些糟糕的事情，而你卻永遠不知道為什麼。

Do you think meditation is allowing you to make more interesting connections because of the quiet?

您認為冥想是否會讓您因為安靜而建立更多有趣的聯繫？

Ideas are generated in the unconscious.

思想是在無意識中產生的。

They're not generated consciously.

它們不是有意識產生的。

Your conscious mind is very limited what you can hold in your memory, but unconsciously in your subconscious, when you're asleep, when you're dreaming, the mind is filled with thousands upon thousands of ideas and things that are there that are lingering there, and connections are being made all of the time, and occasionally those connections float up to your conscious mind and you have a brilliant idea about how to do something.

你的有意識思維所能保存的記憶非常有限，但在潛意識中，當你熟睡時，當你做夢時，頭腦中充滿了成千上萬的想法和事物，這些想法和事物在那裡徘徊，一直在建立聯繫，偶爾這些聯繫會浮現在你的有意識思維中，你就會有一個關於如何做某事的絕妙想法。

We were born with this natural talent.

我們與生俱來就有這種天賦。

Every single person is born with this talent for getting inside the minds of other people.

每個人與生俱來都有這種洞察他人內心的天賦。

It's something that you're not even aware of.

這是你自己都沒有意識到的事情。

You're walking around in life, I'm not critical because I'm the same, sort of sleepwalking.

你在生活中走來走去，我並不挑剔，因為我也一樣，有點夢遊的感覺。

You're inside hearing your own thoughts day in day out like a continually circling loop in your head.

你的內心日復一日地聆聽著自己的想法，就像在腦海中不斷循環往復。

You're not aware of the fact that if you stop that and you look at other people, a world opens up to you.

你沒有意識到，如果你停下腳步，看看其他人，一個世界就會向你敞開。

So what's the first component of that world?

那麼，這個世界的第一個組成部分是什麼？

Non-verbal communication. 95% of what really matters in communication between people is not through words.

非語言溝通。在人與人之間的交流中，真正重要的95%不是通過語言。

Words are used to deceive you, to disguise what people are really thinking.

語言是用來欺騙你的，用來掩飾人們的真實想法。

What are just a step or two that they can take down that path starting today?

從今天開始，他們可以在這條道路上邁出哪一兩步？

The first thing to understand is the most important, and that it is a skill.

首先要了解的是最重要的一點，那就是這是一種技能。

If you want to play the piano, you can't just sit down and suddenly play.

如果你想彈鋼琴，就不能坐下來突然就彈。

You've got to practice it.

你得多加練習。

You've got to practice it every day, and if you practice an hour a day, you're going to get better at it.

你必須每天練習，如果你每天練習一小時，你就會做得更好。

Why are children able to learn and an adult can't?

為什麼兒童能夠學習，而成人卻不能？

The reason is children don't think that they're superior.

原因是孩子們不認為自己高人一等。

They don't think that they already understand the world.

他們並不認為自己已經瞭解這個世界。

They're small.

它們很小。

They're weak.

他們很弱。

They're defenseless.

他們手無寸鐵。

They have to learn or they're going to die.

他們必須學習，否則就會死。

They have to learn how to speak the language.

他們必須學會說這種語言。

They have to learn what's going on with their parents or they're literally going to die.

他們必須瞭解父母的情況，否則他們真的會死。

Do you have tricks that you use for ensuring that genius does not become young man's game, that your books truly get better and better over time?

您有什麼訣竅可以確保天才不會成為年輕人的遊戲，確保您的圖書真正隨著時間的推移變得越來越好？

Basically, every time I begin a book, I'm deathly afraid of failing.

基本上，每當我開始寫一本書時，我都非常害怕失敗。

I feel like, oh, it's not going to sell as well as the last book.

我覺得，哦，這本書不會像上一本書那樣暢銷。

I'm losing it.

我快瘋了

I got to go back to square one.

我得回到原點。

Each project, each thing that you do in life, you have to kind of create that feeling in the gut like, oh, I don't know if I'm going to be able to pull it off.

每一個項目，每一件你在生活中做的事情，你都必須在內心深處產生一種感覺，就像，哦，我不知道我是否能夠完成它。

I don't know if I can go 12 rounds with Floyd Mayweather this time.

我不知道這次能不能和弗洛伊德-梅威瑟打 12 個回合。

I don't know it.

我不知道。

I'm back to where I was in the beginning, you know?

我又回到了最初的狀態，你知道嗎？

You got to feel a little bit of that nervousness and that excitement and that sense of I've got to build it now.

你必須感受到一點緊張、興奮和 "我必須現在就把它建起來 "的感覺。

And you're starting from zero.

而你卻從零開始。

And that's sort of how I approach it.

我就是這麼做的。

And negative capability is rule number one for being a creative person.

消極能力是成為一個有創造力的人的第一法則。

And if you don't follow anything else in mastery, that would be enough.

如果你不掌握其他任何東西，這就足夠了。

It's basically the ability to keep two ideas that contradict each other in your mind without feeling uncomfortable, without having to come to a conclusion.

它基本上是一種能力，能將兩個相互矛盾的想法保留在腦海中，而不會感到不舒服，也不必得出結論。

You can think about something without rushing to judgment and conclusion.

你可以思考一些問題，而不急於做出判斷和結論。

You can be in the moment.

你可以置身當下。

You can say, well, it could be this.

你可以說，可能是這樣的。

It could be that.

可能是這樣。

It could be that.

可能是這樣。

And you don't have to decide whether it's A, B, or C.

你不必決定是 A、B 還是 C。

You're open to adopting three or four different viewpoints.

你願意採納三、四種不同的觀點。

People say, you know, live your passions.

人們說，你知道，要活出自己的激情。

These are cliches.

這些都是陳詞濫調。

And nobody changes their life based on a cliche.

沒有人會因為陳詞濫調而改變自己的生活。

You know, you've got to do hard work.

要知道，你必須付出艱辛的努力。

And to do hard work, you have to have a roadmap.

而要做艱苦的工作，你必須有一個路線圖。

Somebody has to show you steps to get there.

必須有人告訴你到達那裡的步驟。

How do you really help people to, say, follow your passion?

你如何真正幫助人們，比如說，追隨你的激情？

That's just so simple and easy.

就是這麼簡單，這麼容易。

There's a process.

有一個過程。

The process begins by first knowing what you really love.

這個過程首先要了解自己真正熱愛什麼。

And believe me, I do a lot of consulting.

相信我，我做過很多諮詢工作。

A lot of people have no self-awareness.

很多人都沒有自知之明。

They don't even really know what it is that they were meant to do in life.

他們甚至不知道自己的人生目標是什麼。

They loved music when they were a kid, but then they got into law or whatever because of their parents.

他們小時候喜歡音樂，但後來因為父母的原因，他們進入了法律或其他行業。

And then they don't know who they are anymore.

然後他們就不知道自己是誰了。

Well, do I really like music?

我真的喜歡音樂嗎？

You've got to go through that process first of figuring out what it is that really connects to you in a deep, visceral way, what you loved when you were a kid, what still excites you.

你必須先經歷這樣一個過程，找出真正能與你產生深層次內在聯繫的東西，找出你小時候喜歡的東西，找出仍然讓你興奮的東西。

Once you go through that and you understand it and you've got some clarity about it, okay, how do I incorporate that in my life?

一旦你經歷了這一切，你理解了它，你對它有了一些清晰的認識，那麼，好吧，我該如何將它融入我的生活呢？

So if you're 23 years old, it's a little easier.

所以，如果你 23 歲，就會容易一些。

I love music, but I'm not a musician because I've not been practicing.

我喜歡音樂，但我不是音樂家，因為我沒有練習。

I just love music, but I have a real good sense of business.

我只是熱愛音樂，但我也很有商業頭腦。

I've been studying business and I have an MBA, et cetera.

我一直在學習商業，並獲得了工商管理碩士學位，等等。

Okay.

好的

I've got to now find a way to craft a career that combines my knowledge of business and my love of music.

現在，我必須找到一種方法，將我的商業知識和對音樂的熱愛結合起來，創造出一份事業。

And if I follow that and I do it smart and I plan it out, eventually what starts out with more business than music will end up becoming more creative as I get better and better at it.

如果我遵循這一點，並且聰明地去做，計劃好，最終，隨著我的能力越來越強，開始時的業務多於音樂，最終會變得更有創造力。

How do you prepare somebody to survive that initial stage of boredom and pain?

你如何讓一個人準備好度過最初的無聊和痛苦階段？

Well, pain is great.

好吧，痛苦是巨大的。

You've got to embrace pain.

你必須接受痛苦。

Well, you know that when you're exercising, when you're running or you're working out or whatever, it hurts, but it leads to something pleasurable.

嗯，你知道，當你運動時，當你跑步或健身時，或其他什麼時候，雖然會很痛，但卻會帶來一些愉悅。

You have to be able to translate that to mental things.

你必須能夠將其轉化為精神上的東西。

And if you make that switch in your mind, it is mind blowing what can happen to you.

如果你能在頭腦中進行這種轉換，那麼你將會遇到令人難以置信的事情。

Each person is born unique.

每個人生來都是獨一無二的。

The problem in life is as you get older, you can become more and more like other people.

生活中的問題是，隨著年齡的增長，你會變得越來越像其他人。

You spend a lot of your time thinking about what other people like and you're not aware of what you like.

你花了很多時間考慮別人喜歡什麼，卻不知道自己喜歡什麼。

You go into careers because you listen to other people.

你之所以從事職業，是因為你聽取了其他人的意見。

But if you look at all of the brilliant people who've succeeded in life, if you look at a Steve Jobs, you look at an Elon Musk, there's nobody else out there like them.

但是，如果你看看所有成功的傑出人士，如果你看看史蒂夫-喬布斯，你看看埃隆-馬斯克，就會發現沒有其他人能像他們一樣。

You're never going to be able to pinpoint one other person like them.

你永遠無法找到一個像他們一樣的人。

They are completely unique and those are the people that end up having power in the world.

他們完全是獨一無二的，這些人最終在世界上擁有權力。

So if you're going to be able to create that website, that blog, that whatever it is, that startup that is different, that has its own niche and reflects you, something good will happen from it.

是以，如果你能創建網站、博客，不管是什麼，只要是與眾不同、有自己的定位並能反映你的創業公司，就會有好事發生。

We want to believe that there are shortcuts to success.

我們願意相信，成功是有捷徑的。

We want to believe we can take a drug or we can do something that'll make it quick and easy.

我們希望相信我們可以吃藥，或者我們可以做一些事情，讓事情變得簡單快捷。

But the truth is, it takes grit.

但事實上，這需要勇氣。

It takes persistence.

這需要堅持不懈。

To me, failure in life is not not having money.

對我來說，人生的失敗不是沒有錢。

It's not realizing your potential.

這不是在發揮你的潛能。

You're 60 years old and you said, I could have been this and I never did it.

你已經 60 歲了，你說，我本可以成為這樣的人，但我從來沒有做到過。

That's like the worst thought I think anybody can have.

這是我認為任何人都會有的最糟糕的想法。

And you don't think about it in the moment because your life is okay.

你當下不會去想它，因為你的生活很好。

But you've got to wake up and understand that there's an urgency here and that if you're not practicing something now, if you're not aware, if you don't have a path towards something better, you're rotting on the vine and the day of reckoning will come at some point and it will be painful.

但是，你必須清醒地認識到，這裡有一種緊迫感，如果你現在不實踐，如果你沒有意識到，如果你沒有一條通往更好的道路，你就會在藤蔓上腐爛，清算的那一天總會到來，而且會很痛苦。

You're not going to feel it suddenly.

你不會突然感覺到的。

It'll be slow, but it'll come and it won't be good.

這將是緩慢的，但它會到來，而且不會是好事。

Just being aware that you now have a plan is enough to lift you out of that depression.

只要意識到你現在有了一個計劃，就足以讓你走出抑鬱。

Okay, I'm working at Burger King, but I know I'm going to get to this community college and get a degree here after I save enough money.

好吧，我現在在漢堡王打工，但我知道，等我攢夠了錢，我就會去上這所社區大學，在這裡拿到學位。

Having a goal will change you completely from being depressed or not taking care of yourself to being energized and moving in the right direction.

有了目標，你就會徹底改變自己，從抑鬱或不關心自己的狀態轉變為充滿活力，朝著正確的方向前進。