Name: 我為什麼選擇「無聊」的生活？ (Why I Choose a “Boring” Life)
Uploaded: 2023-12-15T21:01:20.000Z
Duration: 9 min 45 s

I always wake up and go to sleep at the same time.

我總是在同一時間醒來和入睡。

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I'm just chatting with friends over coffee.

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。

I've done the partying from Wednesday to Sunday.

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。

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。

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, 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。

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

這就是正常、快樂人類的定義嗎？

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 really want to go out on the weekend.

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。

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 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?

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？

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。

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.

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

第二點是，有少有事情是「有夠讚」。

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.

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？」

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。

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?

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.

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.

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