Boring.

無聊。

I don't really drink alcohol.

我不喝酒。

Boring.

無聊。

I enjoy reading.

我喜歡閱讀。

Nerd.

書呆子。

Playing recreational sports.

進行休閒運動。

Jock.

蘇格蘭佬。

Going in sunlight.

沐浴在陽光下。

Weirdo.

怪人。

I'm just chatting with friends over coffee.

只是在和朋友喝咖啡哈拉。

Maybe this is why I'm alone.

也許這就是我孤獨的原因。

Maybe this is why my dating profile is so bad.

也許這就是為什麼我的交友網站上的自介會如此糟糕的原因。

But I've done it.

但我嘗試過了。

I've done the partying from Wednesday to Sunday.

從週三到週日，我都在狂歡。

I've done the all nighters.

我幹過通宵達旦的工作。

I've done drinking not one cup of coffee but two cups of coffee.

我喝的不是一杯咖啡，而是兩杯咖啡。

I've gone crazy.

我曾經瘋過。

And honestly, it was mostly peer pressure.

老實說，這主要是迫於同儕的壓力。

And beyond the evidence, and there is evidence that this stuff is bad for you, I just didn't feel happy. I just didn't feel good.

除了證據之外（有證據顯示這些東西對你有害），我純粹感到不快樂。 我就是感覺不太好。

Finally, one day I asked myself, "Why am I doing all these things?"

終於有一天，我問自己：「我為什麼要做這些事情？」

It boiled down to wanting to look normal to like my friends in society.

歸根結底，就是想讓自己看起來像正常人，像社會上的朋友一樣。

It boiled down to FOMO.

歸根結底就是 "FOMO"。

But I never really asked myself why more than once.

但我從未不止一次地問自己為什麼。

And I should have. I should have said, "Zack, why are you doing this?"

我也應該問。我應該問自己：「Zack，你為什麼要這麼做？」

"Well, because it's normal."

「因為這很正常。」

"Well, why do you want to be normal?" "I don't really know."

「那你為什麼想成為正常人呢？」「我其實不知道。」

Because maybe I thought that's what it meant to be a normal, happy human, to, you know, go out all the time, drink, do these things with friends.

因為也許我認為這就是作為一個正常、快樂的人的意義，你知道，一直出去，喝酒，和朋友一起做這些事。

But is that true?

但這是真的嗎？

Is that the thing that defines a normal, happy human?

這就是正常、快樂人類的定義嗎？

And why do I believe that?

我為什麼會這樣認為呢？

And after several more of these wise part way through college, I realized I didn't want to be that average guy.

在大學期間又經歷過幾次這樣的「明智」之舉後，我意識到我不想成為那個普通人。

I didn't want to be normal.

我不想成為普通人。

I wanted to be weird.

我想變得怪異。

I wanted to just do strange things.

我想做一些奇怪的事情。

I didn't really want to go out on the weekend.

週末我真的不想出門。

I don't want to be a normal human.

我不想做一個普通人。

I'd rather be an abnormal Ewok.

我寧願做一個不正常的小奇兵。

You know, one of the ones with one arm or that flies through the sky because he wants to take one of those a two whatever shooting gun things.

你知道，那些只有一隻胳膊或者在天空中飛翔的人，因為他想拿一把那種兩隻什麼的射擊槍。

And so I embraced these weird things.

於是，我接受了這些奇怪的事情。

I began doing the things that I intrinsically wanted to do.

我開始做自己內心想要做的事情。

And this led to some of the best changes and best things that have happened to me ever in my life.

這導致了我一生中發生的一些最好的變化和最美好的事情。

I started a YouTube channel and a website.

我開設了一個 YouTube 頻道和一個網站。

I took a yoga teacher training course.

我參加了瑜伽教師培訓課程。

I went to Buenos Aires and learned to tango.

我去布宜諾斯艾利斯學了探戈。

I threw away 80% of my possessions or donated them.

我扔掉了 80% 的財產，或者把它們捐了出去。

I deleted Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, everything.

我刪除了 Instagram、Facebook、Twitter，刪除了一切。

And I created a religion around Gordon Ramsay, who I pray to every morning, afternoon and night.

我還圍繞著 Gordon Ramsay 建立了一個宗教，每天早上、下午和晚上我都向他祈禱。

The formulation for a good life is identifying one's signature strengths and virtues and using them in work, love, play and parenting to produce abundant and authentic gratification.

美好生活的秘訣在於識別一個人標誌性的優勢和美德，並將其運用到工作、愛、娛樂和養育子女中，以產生豐富而真實的滿足感。

Minimizing the variability in life, focusing on the weird things that I like to do and not the necessarily normal things that I like to do has allowed me to focus on the things that matter.

盡量減少生活中的變化，專注於我喜歡做的奇怪的事情，而不是我喜歡做的正常的事情，這讓我能夠專注於重要的事情。

Does it matter what color clothes I wear?

我穿什麼顏色的衣服重要嗎？

Does it matter what things I eat every morning?

我每天早上吃什麼東西重要嗎？

Does it matter if I visit all these foreign countries and spend a day or two there because that's what everyone else is doing?

如果我去了這些外國國家並在那裡待上一兩天，因為其他人都在這樣做，這有這麼重要嗎？

Nope, to me, (it) doesn't matter.

不重要，對我來說，不重要。

What matters to me is to deepen relationships with the people I care about; to be a good doctor to create something cool and impactful on the world.

重要的是加深與我所關心的人的關係，成為一名好醫生，為世界創造很酷、很有影響力的東西。

And the most important thing is to make fluffy amazing scrambled eggs.

最重要的是做出鬆軟可口的炒蛋。

Gordon Ramsay.

Gordon Ramsay。

Beautiful, bloody, beautiful is beautiful Gordon.

美麗、非常美麗，就是美麗的戈登。

It just feels better to live a boring life.

乏味的生活讓人感覺更好。

Point number two is, it's rarely hell yeah.

第二點是，有少有事情是「有夠讚」。

The one it is, I do it.

但「有夠讚」的那個，我會去做。

Inspired by Derek Sivers who initially said only do things that are fuck yeah, I do things that are only hell yeah.

受到 Derek Sivers 的啟發，他最初說只做那些「媽的很讚」的事情，我只做「有夠讚」的事情。

And because I've eliminated those things that normally take up so much extra time in my life,

因為我已經消除了那些通常佔用我生活中大量額外時間的事情，

like 14 hours of TV a week, maybe two hours of picking clothes or certain random food I'm gonna eat a week,

例如每週看 14 小時的電視，也許花兩個小時挑選衣服或我每週要吃的某些隨便的食物，

entire day that I've lost, you know, being hung over or recovering from a night out.

我失去了一整天的時間，你知道，因為宿醉或從晚上外出中恢復過來。

I have that extra time to dedicate to the things that matter to dedicate to the things that I think are important.

我有額外的時間專注於重要的事情，專注於我認為重要的事情。

I have nearly an extra 30 hours a week to do things that matter to me.

我每週有將近 30 個小時的額外時間來做對我來說重要的事情。

For example, I've always wanted to try living in Buenos Aires or Italy for an extended period of time.

例如，我一直想嘗試在布宜諾斯艾利斯或意大利長期生活。

Thanks to the opportunities that YouTube's created for me.

感謝 YouTube 為我創造的機會。

But also thanks to the scheduling that I've done to free up a lot of my time.

但也要感謝我的日程安排，讓我騰出了很多時間。

I was able to dedicate myself to do that at the end of my medical school.

在醫學院畢業時，我能夠全身心地投入到這項工作中。

And it's the worst feeling in the world to jump on something to do something or to see something on the calendar that you have to do that you only feel like meh about.

當你急著去做某件事情，或者看到日曆上寫著你必須去做某件事情時，這是世界上最糟糕的感覺。

For example, when I first started this YouTube channel and it started to pick up a little bit of traction, I get so many emails, so many things like, "Do you want to sponsor this product?"

例如，當我第一次創建這個 YouTube 頻道並開始受到關注時，我收到了很多電子郵件，很多諸如「你想贊助這個產品嗎？」之類的內容。

"Do you want to review this product?" "Do you want to come visit us here?"

「你想評價一下這個產品嗎？」「你想來我們這裡看看嗎？」

"Do you want to?"

「你想嗎？」

But I would accept a lot of it because, you know, I just thought I had to say yes to everything, but eventually it was too much.

以前我會接受很多，因為我覺得我必須對所有事情都說 "是"，但最終還是受不了。

I felt, you know, I don't really care about these things.

我覺得，你知道，我並不關心這些事情。

The money isn't that important to me.

錢對我來說沒那麼重要。

It's more important to me, again, to focus on those things that are important to me.

對我來說，更重要的還是專注於那些對我來說重要的事情。

So I started saying no to pretty much everything.

所以我開始拒絕幾乎所有的事情。

But now, when I see something that I'm excited about that I want to do, it's that much better because I only do the things that are hell yeah.

但現在，當我看到一些讓我興奮、我想做的事情時，情況就好多了，因為我只做那些「有夠讚」的事情。

So now I commit infrequently and when I commit, it's only because I really wanna do it.

所以我現在很少承諾，即使承諾也只是因為我真的想這麼做。

And the third reason I love my boring life and the probably the most important reason, but the most kind of cliche corny reason is I've learned to find happiness kind of in the day to day.

我熱愛枯燥生活的第三個原因可能是最重要的原因，但也是最老套的原因，那就是我學會了在日復一日的生活中尋找快樂。

I've learned that happiness isn't found in another country or with a specific person or with the most brilliant chef's knife in the world (even though it comes close with the chef's knife),

我了解到幸福不是在另一個國家或與某個特定的人或世界上最出色的廚師刀（即使它與廚師刀很接近）找到的，

it's found in yourself and it's kind of cheesy, but it's found in me.

它存在於你自己身上，有點俗氣，但它存在於我身上。

Finding happiness in the day-to-day life and walking to and from the hospital and eating dinner and watching a movie and sleeping is one of the biggest life hacks ever.

在日常生活中尋找快樂，步行往返醫院、吃晚餐、看電影和睡覺是有史以來最大的生活小技巧之一。

Epictetus said, "He is wise who doesn't grieve for the things he doesn't have but rejoices for the things he does have."

Epictetus 說過：「不為自己沒有的東西悲傷，而為自己擁有的東西歡欣鼓舞的人是聰明人。」

Well, how do you implement this life hack?

那麼，如何實現這個生活小竅門呢？

Well, some of the ways I found to implement this life hack are gratefulness, practice, journaling and meditation and constant vigilance.

嗯，我發現實施這個生活小技巧的一些方法是感恩、練習、日記、冥想和持續的警覺。

Really, 'cause this mind can throw around lots of things. Just being constantly vigilant to kind of what you're thinking about.

真的，因為這個頭腦可以丟掉很多東西。 對你正在想的事情保持警覺就對了。

How nice is it that you feel safe where you live?

你覺得自己住的地方安全嗎？

Have a washing machine in your apartment, never really have to worry about food.

公寓裡有洗衣機，就再也不用為食物發愁了。

Get to have the weekends off and like enjoy time with people you care about.

週末休息，喜歡和你關心的人一起享受時光。

Have two functioning legs, two functioning eyes, two functioning arms.

有兩條能用的腿，兩只能用的眼睛，兩條能用的手臂。

Imagine the people that don't have these things.

想象一下那些沒有這些東西的人們。

Again, it seems like silly things and these are things that I feel like my parents used to tell me all the time.

同樣，這些看起來很傻的事情，我覺得是我父母經常告訴我的。

But studies show that these things actually have a beneficial impact.

但研究表明，這些東西實際上會產生有益的影響。

And finally, the internet isn't everything.

最後，網路不是萬能的。

What I try to do with my YouTube channel is try to bring a more level-headed approach to a lot of things and a lot of times this isn't gonna get me more views, right?

我在 YouTube 頻道上所做的，就是嘗試用更平和的態度來看待很多事情，而很多時候這並不會讓我獲得更多的瀏覽量，對嗎？

Because that's not the way the internet works.

因為網路不是這樣運作的。

The way the internet works usually is off the incentive of money, TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, TV shows, right, movies.

網路的運作方式通常不受金錢、TikTok、Instagram、YouTube、電視節目、電影等的激勵。

These things are usually gonna get more views, the more extreme they are.

這些事情越極端，通常會得到更多的關注。

because the more extreme things people have found, get more views and the things that get more views get paid more to advertise on.

因為人們發現的事物越極端，就會獲得更多的瀏覽量，而獲得更多瀏覽量的事物就會獲得更多的廣告費用。

And if you get paid more to do this, you're getting feedback, you're getting positive feedback to create more extreme and crazy things.

如果你為此獲得更多報酬，你就會得到回饋，你會得到正面的回饋來創造更極端和瘋狂的事情。

So you can get paid more money and it just goes around and around and around.

這樣你就可以得到更多的錢，而且它就這樣一直循環下去。

And these can be highly positive, right? Things with like models, lavish lifestyles and really fancy cars.

這些可能是非常正面的，對嗎？ 諸如模特、奢華的生活方式和真正豪華的汽車之類的東西。

Or this can be extremely negative, right? With horrific crimes. Look at all the crime shows that are out there, right?

或者這也可能是非常負面的，對吧？ 伴隨著可怕的罪行。 看看所有的犯罪節目，對吧？

Or extreme and exaggerated and dramatized sadness on some of these reality TV shows.

或是在一些真人秀節目中極端、誇張和戲劇化的悲傷。

Or radical political statements on either end or religious statements on either end that I don't think the people actually believe,

或任何一方的激進政治言論或任何一方的宗教言論，我認為人們實際上並不相信，

but they're just saying it because they found that this is the way to get more views.

但他們會這樣說只是因為他們發現這是獲得更多觀看次數的方法。

This is the way to get more eyes on whatever you're doing.

這樣才能讓更多人關注你的工作。

And by definition, these extreme things aren't normal.

而根據定義，這些極端的事情並不正常。

However, because these extreme things are more exciting, they're more interesting to people.

然而，因為這些極端的事情更令人興奮，所以人們對它們更感興趣。

That's because our lizard brains are kind of programmed to react to these things.

這是因為我們的蜥蜴大腦被設定為對這些事情做出反應。

They get more views and when they get more views, advertisers will pay more money.

他們獲得更多的瀏覽量，而當他們獲得更多的瀏覽量時，廣告商就會支付更多的錢。

And when the people that create this content, see, "OK, we can get more money, the crazier we go, they get crazier."

當創造這些內容的人看到：「OK，我們可以得到更多的錢，我們越瘋狂，他們就越瘋狂。」

And the problem is our poor human brains which still have a lot of lizard in them, still have a lot of other lower evolutionary things in them react to these things.

問題是，我們可憐的人類大腦中還殘留著許多蜥蜴的基因，還殘留著許多其他低等進化生物對這些東西的反應。

And we start to sometimes believe that these extreme things are normal.

我們有時開始相信，這些極端的事情是正常的。

When again, by definition, they're not.

根據定義，它們並不是。

The algorithms are much smarter than me. I can't beat them.

演算法比我聰明得多，我打不過他們。

And some of the best times of my life are when I've escaped these algorithms.

而我生命中最美好的時光，就是逃離這些演算法的時候。

When I'm just having a conversation with my family or friends over dinner with no phones.

當我和家人或朋友共進晚餐時，在沒有電話的情況下哈拉，

Or when I'm playing a great intense game of soccer, I can't think about anything else.

或者當我在踢一場精彩激烈的足球比賽時，我什麼也顧不上想。

My mind is just soccer, soccer, soccer, I suck. Soccer, soccer, soccer. I'm good.

我的腦子裡只有足球、足球、足球，我糟透了。足球、足球、足球。我很棒。

Soccer, soccer, soccer, I suck. It's just soccer

足球，足球，足球，我很爛。就只有足球。

Or when I have an interaction with a patient in the hospital I'm thinking not only is this cool and interesting.

或者當我在醫院與病人互動時，我想這不僅很酷而且很有趣。

Wow. I learned all this medicine stuff and I actually get to learn about the human body and kind of have an impact with medicine and drugs and interventions.

哇。 我學習了所有這些醫學知識，實際上我開始了解人體，並對醫學、藥物和乾預措施產生影響。

And I kind of understand what's going on here. That's cool.

我有點明白是怎麼回事了。太酷了。

And this person is looking up to me kind of for help in this moment and what a privilege it is right to help this person at such a vulnerable time.

在這個時刻，這個人向我尋求幫助，能在他如此脆弱的時候幫助他是我的榮幸。

They're sharing their deepest, darkest secrets with me, with me.

他們與我分享他們內心深處最黑暗的祕密。

This crazy 29-year-old kid who is just crazy pumped and excited to be here and to hear these things, what a privilege that is.

這個 29 歲的瘋狂孩子，能夠來到這裡，聽到這些事情，我感到非常興奮和激動，這是多大的榮幸啊！

Embracing my boring life was difficult, but I'm so much happier because of it. Thank you, Gordon.

接受我枯燥乏味的生活雖然很困難，但我卻是以而更加快樂。謝謝你，戈登。

And here's a quote from Seneca.

這是塞內加的一句話。

"Once inner peace is achieved, any place or environment will be pleasant.

「一旦內心平靜下來，任何地方或環境都會令人愉悅。

If you saw this fact, clearly, you would not be surprised at getting no benefit from the fresh scenes.

如果你清楚地看到了這一事實，你就不會對新鮮場景毫無益處感到驚訝了。

As it is, however, you are not journeying; you are drifting and being driven only exchanging one place for another,

然而，你不是在旅行，而是在漂泊，在被驅趕，只是在一個地方換另一個地方。

although that which you seek to live well is found everywhere."

雖然你所追求的美好生活隨處可見。」

I'm boring and I like it.

我很無聊，我喜歡這樣。

But that's it. Thank you so much for watching and I will see you on the next one.

謝謝大家收看，我們下期再見。

Do you approve?

哦，你同意嗎？

Oh, master.

哦，主人。

Oh, Lord and Savior Gordon, the seven tables.

哦，主啊，救世主戈登，七張桌子。

Gordon, the Holy Gordon, the ruler.

戈登，神聖的戈登，統治者。