I dare you to watch this entire video

你覺得你看得完這整個影片嗎?

no skipping ahead,no pausing,no opening another tab and letting this play in the background

不能跳過、不能暫停、不能開啟其他分頁或者只是打開影片做其他事

I dare you to sit still and do nothing but watch a single three minute internet video.

你要好好坐著不做其他事情，就只是單單認真專注地看這部三分鐘影片

Hmm, it’s difficult for you,isn't it?

恩，對你來說是不是很難呢?

You’re becoming bored

你開始慢慢感到無聊

Your brain is beginning to itch inside your skull

你的大腦也開始你的搔癢你顱骨

begging for a morsel of distraction from the internet

乞求能夠分心一下觀看其他網路上的東西

And you’re holding it together for now, but the truth is you’re frightened.

你現在可能還ㄍㄧㄥ的住，但實際上你開始驚慌開始分心了

It’s been so long since you've tried to focus like this

因為你已經很久沒有這麼專注在某一件事物上

that you don’t know if you can do it anymore.

你甚至不曉得你是否能不能夠做到

And this video is boring isn't it.

再加上這部影片實在很無聊，是吧

Maybe you think it’s a trick that there is some reward for sticking it out

也許你在想這部影片可能是個幌子，如果堅持地底可能會有獎勵

You think that at 2 minutes and 50 seconds

你認為在2分50秒的時候

funny message will appear for a frame or two.

會一兩個有趣的訊息出現

And you will only see it if you watch the whole thing.

或者是如果你看完整部影片的人才會看見什麼驚喜

You've probably already scrubbed along the bottom of the progress bar to see if that happens right?

你可能已經將底下的時間軸拉到最後去看是否有什麼事情發生對吧？

Well. It doesn’t, there is no joke, no prize

恩並沒有，沒有笑話，沒有獎品

There is just you and this video

只有你和這部影片

Either you watch it or you don’t –

你可以選擇沒有看完這部影片或是不要

I dare you to watch it.

我賭你會不想看完

But the obstacles are mounting.

因為干擾你的東西接踵出現

That was an e-mail

一封Email來了

That was a new post on Instagram.

喔有一篇新貼文在Instagram

That was a celebrity who just died on Twitter

喔在Twitter上有個名人似乎死掉了

maybe it was Shack (Shaq)

也死是Shaq

everyone is tweeting about Shack’s(Shaq) death

每個人都在討論Shack(Shaq)的死忙消息(註:俠客歐尼爾暱稱(Shaq)2011年6月1日，歐尼爾在自己的Twitter上宣布，因為受到傷病的困擾，將結束自己19年的職業球員生涯，選擇退休。)

And you are missing it.

但你卻錯過了

Are you comfortable with that?

你感覺到舒服嗎

That was 10 seconds, but it felt like a year didn’t it

恩..剛剛過了10秒，但卻像是一年一樣，對吧

a decade of instantaneous entertainment

十年來的隨時點閱的即時娛樂

has made you so mentally soft and fat that you find even 10 seconds of boredom excruciating

已經使你的精神上變得很低弱，你甚至覺得短短的10秒都覺得無聊到痛苦至極

how sad

多麼悲哀阿

Remember when you were a child

還記得當你還小的時候

you could spend an entire hour watching an ant crawl across the rock

你可以花上整整一小時去觀察螞蟻在石頭上爬行

One afternoon you took out a library book

或者是在一個下午你去圖書館借了本書

and you were so engrossed you read the entire thing in just

而你是多麼的全神貫注將整本書讀完

one day

只在一天內

When is the last time that happened to you?

你上一次這樣做是在什麼時候？

The truth is you are weaker now,

事實是你變得越來脆弱

attention is the scalpel you use to cut away the fat from your life

專注力就像是你的手術刀，它能幫助你切除在你人生中那些不好、不適當的東西

but the internet has robbed you of it

但是網路從你身上剝奪走了它

and now instead of choosing what you experience

而現在你不再選擇你所體驗的事物

you drift from tab to tab full of content you hate

反而你網頁分頁中的內容充斥了你所討厭的資訊內容

like a hungry ghost who will never be full

就像是一個餓死鬼一樣，永遠不滿足

Your life is filtering through your fingers and you are doing nothing to stop it.

你的人生就在你的指尖中流逝，可是你卻什麼都不做也不阻止

But if you watch this entire video

但若是你看完這整部影片

if you make the choice to sit and be bored for these 180 seconds

如果你做的選擇是坐在影片前，享受這無聊的180秒

you will have finally taken the first step in regaining control over the one truly unrenewable resource in life,

你終於邁出了第一步，重拾掌控生活中主導權

your time

你的時間

Less than three minutes ago I dared you to watch this entire video

在三分鐘之前，我不認為你會看完這部影片

In a moment you will have won or lost and only you will know the difference

再過幾秒你就會知道你會贏還是輸，也會曉得是否帶給你改變

Either way the dare will be over

不管如何，這個挑戰即將結束

to decide what you will do with the rest of your life

你想要決定你的剩餘的人生嗎

You will have to dare yourself

你必須勇於挑戰自己