Name: 不要再做自己生活中的旁觀者了｜崔西-愛德華茲 (Stop being a bystander in your own life | Tracy Edwards)
Uploaded: 2020-10-23T20:53:30.000Z
Duration: 11 min 15 s

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Being able to navigate is an extraordinary gift,

and there is nothing like it in the world.

而世界上沒有任何東西能比得上它。

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I get no more sense of satisfaction greater than leaving a port

沒有比離開港口更能讓我感到滿足的了。

and knowing that I can get my team and my boat

我知道我可以讓我的團隊和我的船。

安全地從該端口到另一個端口。

maybe three, four, five, six thousand miles away.

也許三、四、五、六千里之外。

and it is the ultimate opportunity to be you,

You are naked in front of your peers on a boat.

你在船上當著同齡人的面裸體。

I mean, you are literally up against each other,

我的意思是，你是字面上的反對對方。

The greatest moment for me when I'm sailing

對我來說，最棒的時刻就是出海的時候。

and just you and the boat and the elements.

I wish everyone could experience this at least once in their lives.

我希望每個人一生中至少能體驗一次。

and what do we do to get to the other side.

我們該怎麼做才能到達另一邊。

So the question I get asked the most when I go and do talks

所以當我去做講座的時候，被問得最多的問題就是

is "How do you become an ocean-racing sailor?"

And I've always wanted to say "I had a vision,

而我也一直想說 "我有一個理想"。

但是，當然，生活不是這樣的。

and one thing I'm really anxious for people to know about me

有一件事我真的很想讓大家知道我的事

is that my life hasn't gone from A to B --

because how many people can say their lives just go from A to B;

因為有多少人可以說自己的人生就是從A到B。

they think, "I'm going to do this," and they go and do it?

他們想，"我要去做這個，"他們去做嗎？

And the truth is that I was expelled from school when I was 15 years old,

而事實是，我15歲的時候就被學校開除了。

and my long-suffering headmaster sent a long-suffering note

而我那苦命的校長也發來了一張苦命的紙條

basically saying that if Tracy darkens these doors of the school again,

基本上說，如果特雷西黑暗這些學校的門再次，

"Darling, education is not for everyone."

"親愛的，教育不是人人都能接受的。"

And then she gave me the best piece of advice anyone has ever given me.

然後她給了我最好的建議，任何人都給了我。

She said, "Every single one of us is good at something,

她說："我們每個人都有擅長的東西。

you just have to go and find what that is."

你只要去找找那是什麼就好了。"

And at the age of 16, she let me go backpacking off to Greece.

而在16歲的時候，她讓我去希臘揹包旅行。

I ended up working on boats, which was OK --

我最後是在船上工作，這還算好... ...

17 years old, didn't really know what I wanted to do,

17歲，真的不知道自己想做什麼。

然後在我第二次跨大西洋的時候。

my skipper said to me, "Can you navigate?"

我的船長對我說，"你會導航嗎？"

And he said, "Don't you think you should be able to navigate?

他說："你不覺得你應該會導航嗎？

不要再做自己生活中的旁觀者了。

This day, for me, was the day that my whole life started.

這一天，對我來說，是我整個人生開始的日子。

It opened up avenues and opportunities to me that I could never have imagined.

它為我開闢了一條我從未想象過的途徑和機會。

I actually managed to get a ride on a Whitbread Round the World Race boat.

我居然成功地坐上了Whitbread環球帆船賽的船。

and it was the longest nine months of my life.

這是我一生中最漫長的九個月。

而當我到了這場比賽的終點時。

I realized that there were 230 crew in this race,

我才知道，這次比賽有230名隊員參加。

I think the second most profound thought in my entire life was:

我想，我一生中第二深刻的思想是。

"No man is ever going to allow me to be a navigator on their boat, ever."

"沒有人會允許我在他們的船上當領航員，永遠不會。"

there's only been two female navigators that haven't been on an all-female cruise,

只有兩個女導航員沒有參加過全女性的巡航。

That was the moment I thought, "I've got something to fight for."

那一刻，我想，"我有東西要爭取。"

And I had no idea that I wanted to have this fight,

而且我也不知道我想打這場比賽。

and it was something that I took to like a duck to water.

這是我像鴨子上水一樣的東西。

I discovered things about myself that I had no idea existed.

我發現了一些我不知道存在的關於自己的事情。

And it became not just about me wanting to navigate on a boat

而這不僅僅是我想在船上航行的問題。

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