Name: 追求越少，發現越多？帶你了解什麼是「幸福的悖論」！ (The Less You Seek, The More You Find - The Paradox of Happiness)
Uploaded: 2024-06-22T21:01:20.000Z
Duration: 7 min 18 s

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You are looking out the window of your living room.

A crisp, bright blue sky contrasts perfectly with the foreground of yellow brick buildings soaking in sunlight.

清爽明亮的藍天與前景中沐浴在陽光下的黃磚建築形成了完美的對比。

A light breeze softly whistles a happy tune through the window, as if it were enjoying the day with you.

微風輕輕地從窗外吹過，彷彿在和你一起享受這美好的一天。

Everything is good. Down below, you watch others go by.

一切都是美好的。在下面，你看著別人走過。

They move with a tenseness and hurriedness, though they simultaneously appear to move very slowly.

他們的動作緊張而匆忙，但同時又顯得非常緩慢。

You look up and follow them around the sky with your head.

你抬起頭，用頭追隨它們在天空中盤旋。

They're flapping wings, creating ripples of experience in your mind. You look back down, your attention redirected by the noise of a loud group passing by.

它們拍打著翅膀，在你的腦海中蕩起層層漣漪。你回頭向下看，一群喧鬧的人群經過時發出的嘈雜聲轉移了你的注意力。

They move through and past your field of view, replaced by new, different groups.

它們在你的視野中穿行，被新的、不同的群體所取代。

Though all the individuals and groups are different, to you, they are the same.

雖然所有的個人和團體都各不相同，但對你來說，他們都是一樣的。

The world is a turning kaleidoscope, with countless details emerging, disappearing, and re-emerging in the same patterns.

世界就像一個轉動的萬花筒，無數細節以相同的模式出現、消失、再出現。

And like a kaleidoscope, everything is so interesting.

就像萬花筒一樣，一切都那麼有趣。

You can't take your eyes off it. A straggler passes by.

你目不轉睛地盯著它。一個流浪者經過。

You lock onto them, wondering who they are, what they are doing, and where they are going.

你鎖定他們，想知道他們是誰，在做什麼，要去哪裡。

You feel a connection to them, more than any of the groups and clusters that have passed by.

你與他們之間的聯繫，勝過任何經過的團體和集群。

You like being with others sometimes too, but you especially love doing things on your own.

你有時也喜歡和別人在一起，但你特別喜歡自己做事情。

You could stay at home all day by yourself and not even realize you were alone.

你可以整天一個人呆在家裡，甚至意識不到自己是一個人。

In fact, it's really only when others come around that you realize that you spent most of the day by yourself.  Right now, you are alone.

事實上，只有當別人來到身邊時，你才會意識到，原來一天中的大部分時間你都是一個人度過的。  現在，你是孤獨的。

Everyone always seems like they need something.

Need to be somewhere, need to do something, need to get something.

需要去某個地方，需要做某件事，需要得到某些東西。

They all seem to feed off of some object you've never seen.

它們似乎都以某種你從未見過的物體為食。

Their diet seems to consist of something inside themselves.

它們的食物似乎就是自己體內的東西。

They appear to have so much, and yet lack so much at the same time.

他們似乎擁有很多，但同時又缺乏很多。

Everything you need is right here, right now. Living has always been easy for you, relatively speaking.

你所需要的一切都在這裡，就在此時此刻。相對來說，生活對你來說一直都很簡單。

You knew how to do it since the day you were born.

你從出生那天起就知道該怎麼做。

You know that everything is just as it is.

Rightness is doing what you need to and little more.

正確就是做你需要做的事，僅此而已。

You take your opportunities when they come.

You enjoy your moments as often as you can.

No philosophy at all.  You're getting tired.

他們似乎心不在焉，他們經常這樣。

You decide it's best to leave them alone.

The blankets are so soft, and the yarn ball toy is exactly where you left it, untouched.

毯子很柔軟，毛線球玩具還在你離開的地方，沒有動過。

You're surprised no one else has played with it.

Even when the others interact with each other, it's rigid.

即使是其他人之間的互動，也是僵硬的。

They don't try to pull the yarn out and let things unravel.

他們不會試圖抽絲剝繭，讓事情變得一團糟。

You push and pull at it, tugging at the string.

Nothing happens, but you're satisfied with your work.

什麼也沒發生，但你對自己的工作很滿意。

That's more than enough. Some time passes.

這就足夠了。時間一分一秒地過去。

And now, around you, is one of the others.

現在，在你身邊的，就是其他人中的一個。

He has come to join you, to sit with you.

他來加入你們，和你們坐在一起。

He is a human, though to you, it's unclear what they are.

他是人類，雖然你不清楚他們是什麼。

Whatever they are and whatever is going on in their lives, you don't care.

無論他們是什麼人，無論他們生活中發生了什麼，你都不在乎。

It's not that you don't care about them, quite the opposite.

這並不是說你不關心他們，恰恰相反。

You just care about them the exact same, regardless of what is going on in their lives. You feel the pet of their hand.

無論他們生活中發生了什麼，你都會一如既往地關心他們。你能感受到他們的愛撫。

You look up at them, and they look down at you.

你抬頭看他們，他們低頭看你。

You don't realize it, but this moment counts for a lot for this human.

你沒有意識到，但這一刻對這個人來說意義重大。

You never set out to teach anyone anything, but by virtue of this very fact, you inform so much of the world around you.

你從未打算教給任何人任何東西，但正因為如此，你讓周圍的世界瞭解了很多。

Without even realizing it, you have taught this individual so much about life.

在不知不覺中，你教會了這個人很多關於生活的道理。

In a technical sense, you are rescued by them, but on top of the bureau across from the bed is a small wooden sign that reads, "Who Rescued Who," with paw prints that look a lot like yours.

從技術意義上講，你是被他們救出來的，但在床對面的櫃子頂上有一個小木牌，上面寫著 「誰救了誰」，上面的爪印和你的很像。今天就快結束了。

The day is almost over now. It was another good one.

Your favorite part was staring out the window.

It's a shame, you think to yourself, that no one else did.

你心想，真可惜，沒有其他人這麼做。

Everyone was so productive today that they didn't have any time to stop and look around, to enjoy doing nothing, to stare out a window.

今天，每個人都忙得不可開交，根本沒有時間停下來四處看看，享受無所事事的樂趣，或者對著窗外發呆。

Though today was great, you won't remember much of it.

雖然今天很棒，但你不會記得太多。

Tomorrow will be the concern of tomorrow.

And maybe tomorrow, if even only for a little while, at some point, the others will join you.

也許明天，哪怕只是一小會兒，在某個時刻，其他動物也會加入你們的行列。

There is much wisdom we can gain from considering the lives of animals.

從動物的生活中，我們可以獲得很多智慧。

That wisdom, however, is found not in what animals literally teach us, but in what we observe and anthropomorphize in them.

然而，這種智慧並不在於動物從字面上教給我們什麼，而在於我們觀察到了什麼，並將其擬人化。

In his book, "The Inner Life of Animals," the author, Peter Volleben, discusses the basis by which humans often create this bridge of understanding, exploring the conscious and emotional similarities and differences we have with animals.

在《動物的內心世界》一書中，作者彼得-沃勒本討論了人類通常建立這種理解橋樑的基礎，探討了我們與動物在意識和情感上的異同。

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你還可以從 27 個不同類別的 6600 多本其他非小說類書籍和播客中學到知識，Blinkist 對這些書籍和播客進行了精心策劃，並將每種書籍和播客抽成大約 15 分鐘的摘要。

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