And I loved it so much that I wanted to share my eight favorite lessons from it.

我非常喜歡這本書，所以想和大家分享我最喜歡的八堂課。

Eight powerful laws that are changing the way that I approach my life in the hope that you'll find some of them helpful.

八條強大的法則改變了我的生活方式，希望其中的一些對你有所幫助。

Now, Stephen Bartlett, if you haven't come across him, is an insanely successful entrepreneur, and he's the host of the podcast, The Diary of a CEO.

斯蒂芬-巴特利特（Stephen Bartlett）是一位非常成功的企業家，也是播客 "CEO 日記 "的主持人。

And he's interviewed hundreds of the world's most famously successful people.

他還採訪了數百位世界上最著名的成功人士。

And so if you're interested in personal development or entrepreneurship, or just generally advice for life, then I hope you'll enjoy this episode of Book Club, the ongoing series where we distill and discuss highlights and summaries from some of my favorite books, and let's just get into it.

是以，如果你對個人發展或創業感興趣，或者只是想獲得一些生活建議，那麼我希望你會喜歡本期的 "讀書俱樂部 "節目。"讀書俱樂部 "是一個持續性的系列節目，我們將從我最喜歡的幾本書中提煉並討論重點和摘要，讓我們進入正題。

Law number one, fill your five buckets in the right order.

第一法則，按照正確的順序裝滿你的五個桶。

So the idea here is that when it comes to our professional success, we all have five buckets.

所以，這裡的意思是，說到我們的職業成功，我們都有五個桶。

Bucket number one is what you know, otherwise known as your knowledge.

第一桶是你所知道的，也就是你的知識。

Bucket number two is what you can do, i.e. your skills.

第二桶是你的能力，即你的技能。

Bucket number three is who you know, i.e. your network.

第三桶是你認識的人，即你的人際網絡。

Bucket number four is what you have, i.e. your resources.

第四桶是你所擁有的，即你的資源。

And bucket number five is what the world thinks of you, i.e. your reputation.

第五桶是世界對你的看法，也就是你的聲譽。

And the idea here is that professional success involves filling these five buckets, but crucially, it involves filling them up in order.

這裡的意思是，職業成功需要填滿這五個桶，但關鍵是要按順序填滿。

He writes that we usually start our professional life acquiring knowledge, school, university, et cetera, and when this knowledge is applied, we call it a skill.

他寫道，我們的職業生涯通常是從獲取知識、上學、上大學等開始的，而當這些知識得到應用時，我們就稱之為技能。

When you have knowledge and skills, you become professionally valuable to others and your network grows.

當你掌握了知識和技能，你就會對他人產生職業價值，你的人際網絡也會隨之擴大。

Consequently, when you have knowledge, skills, and a network, your access to resources expands.

是以，當你擁有知識、技能和網絡時，你獲得資源的管道就會擴大。

And once you have knowledge, skills, a valuable network, and resources, you will undoubtedly earn a reputation.

一旦你掌握了知識、技能、有價值的網絡和資源，你無疑會贏得聲譽。

Now this law, when applied properly, can actually help in decision-making when it comes to what to do with your career and your life.

現在，如果運用得當，這一定律實際上可以幫助你在事業和生活方面做出決策。

So let's say you're young and you're early in your career.

比方說，你很年輕，事業剛剛起步。

This model suggests that you should generally prioritize a career or a job that teaches you knowledge and skills, and you should prioritize those things over something that will give you resources or reputation or network.

這種模式認為，一般來說，你應該優先考慮能讓你學到知識和技能的職業或工作，而且應該優先考慮這些東西，而不是能給你帶來資源、聲譽或人脈的東西。

This means that if, for example, you're in a job where you're not learning anything, it's maybe time to consider a bit of a change, even if that job is giving you more and more money.

這意味著，舉例來說，如果你的工作讓你學不到任何東西，那麼也許是時候考慮換換工作了，即使這份工作能給你帶來越來越多的收入。

The other cool thing here is that these first two buckets, knowledge and skills, are also the two buckets that don't really have a tax associated with them, but also these are the two buckets that can withstand any kind of professional earthquake, as he calls it.

另一件很酷的事情是，前兩個桶--知識和技能--也是不需要交稅的兩個桶，而且這兩個桶還能抵禦他所說的任何職業地震。

So for example, even if you lose your job and suddenly you've lost resources and network and a reputation overnight, you still have your knowledge and you still have your skills.

是以，舉例來說，即使你失去了工作，一夜之間突然失去了資源、人脈和聲譽，你仍然擁有自己的知識和技能。

He writes that those who hoard gold have riches for a moment.

他寫道，囤積金子的人一時富足。

Those who hoard knowledge and skills have riches for a lifetime.

囤積知識和技能的人一生都會擁有財富。

True prosperity is what you know and what you can do.

真正的繁榮是你知道什麼，你能做什麼。

And the lesson that I'm taking away from this personally is just the absolute profound importance of spending time every week, or maybe even every day, investing in my own knowledge and skills.

我個人從中汲取的教訓是，每週，甚至每天花時間投資於自己的知識和技能絕對是非常重要的。

It's so easy, especially when running a business, especially when managing a team and like lots of stuff is going on in life, as I'm sure is the case with your life.

這太容易了，尤其是在經營企業時，尤其是在管理團隊時，就像生活中發生的很多事情一樣，我相信你的生活也是如此。

You probably feel that you're very busy, but especially for really busy people, carving out the time to level up our knowledge and our skills, to learn something new, to read something new, to explore a new area that might help us in our business or in our health or in our relationships or in our life, that's continuing to fill the bucket of knowledge and skills.

你可能覺得自己很忙，但特別是對於真正忙碌的人來說，擠出時間來提升我們的知識和技能，學習新東西，閱讀新東西，探索一個可能對我們的事業、健康、人際關係或生活有幫助的新領域，這就是在不斷充實我們的知識和技能。

And those are the things that compound insanely over time.

而這些東西隨著時間的推移會產生驚人的複合效應。

Law number six, ask, don't tell.

法則六，不問不說。

The question behavior effect.

問題行為效應。

Now this vibes with something that I've been thinking for quite a while, which is about the power of powerful questions.

這與我一直在思考的問題不謀而合，那就是強大問題的力量。

And I've really found in my own life that asking the right powerful questions can have an enormous impact on the actions that I take and therefore on the results that I get.

在我的生活中，我確實發現，提出正確而有力的問題會對我採取的行動產生巨大影響，進而影響我取得的成果。

Now I normally do this in the context of journaling, but reading this has made me apply it in one other interesting way in my life as well.

現在，我通常在寫日記時這樣做，但讀了這篇文章後，我在生活中也用到了另一種有趣的方式。

So for example, when journaling, I'll often try and ask myself powerful questions that I know will force me to think.

是以，例如，在寫日記時，我會經常試著問自己一些有力的問題，我知道這些問題會迫使我思考。

So here are some of my favorite powerful questions that I like to ask.

以下是我最喜歡問的一些有力問題。

Number one, what do I really want?

第一，我到底想要什麼？

Number two, what would I do if I knew I wouldn't fail?

第二，如果我知道我不會失敗，我會怎麼做？

Number three, what would I do if I knew I would fail, but I would want to do it anyway?

第三，如果我知道我會失敗，但我還是想去做，我會怎麼做？

Number four, if I won the lottery and had $100 million in the bank, how would I change how I spend my time?

第四，如果我中了彩票，銀行裡有一億美元，我會如何改變我的時間安排？

Number five, if I broadly repeated the things that I did today for the rest of my life, would it give me the life that I want or a life that I don't want?

第五，如果我在餘生中一直重複我今天所做的事情，這會給我帶來我想要的生活還是我不想要的生活？

And I like to collect these lists of powerful questions.

我喜歡收集這些強有力的問題清單。

They're questions that I like to ask to myself, but they're also questions I like to ask to other people.

這些問題是我喜歡問自己的，但也是我喜歡問別人的。

If I'm doing a mini sort of business or life coaching session with a friend or something, I'll just pop a few of these questions out there.

如果我在和朋友進行小型的商務或生活輔導，我就會提出一些這樣的問題。

And they generally make people think really hard and come to interesting conclusions about their business or their life.

它們通常會讓人們認真思考，並對自己的事業或生活得出有趣的結論。

But the cool thing that I learned in this chapter, which I'm now applying to my life, is the power of changing a statement into a question to prompt a particular behavior.

但是，我在這一章中學到的很酷的東西，也是我現在應用到生活中的東西，就是把一句話改成一個問題，從而引發一種特定行為的力量。

So for example, instead of thinking, I will go to the gym today, what I'm trying to do is in the morning when I plan out my day, I ask myself, will I go to the gym today?

例如，我現在要做的不是想著 "我今天要去健身房"，而是在早晨計劃一天的工作時，問自己 "我今天會去健身房嗎？

If you ask yourself that question and then you respond yes to it, you are more likely to carry out the behavior rather than if you just told yourself the statement in the morning, I will go to the gym today.

如果你問自己這個問題，然後回答 "是"，那麼你就更有可能實施這個行為，而不是僅僅在早上告訴自己 "我今天要去健身房"。

He writes that the great thing about a yes or no question is that it doesn't give you any wiggle room to deceive yourself.

他寫道，"是 "或 "否 "問題的好處在於，它不會給你任何迴旋餘地來欺騙自己。

It forces you to commit one way or the other.

它迫使你做出這樣或那樣的承諾。

And that brings us to law number nine, always prioritize your first foundation.

這就引出了第九條法則：永遠優先考慮你的第一基礎。

Now there's a story that he tells in the book of a talk that Warren Buffett gave to some students in Omaha, Nebraska.

他在書中講述了沃倫-巴菲特在內布拉斯加州奧馬哈市給一些學生演講的故事。

When I was 16, I had just two things on my mind, girls and cars.

16 歲那年，我腦子裡只有兩件事：女孩和汽車。

I wasn't very good with girls, so I thought about cars.

我不善於和女孩相處，所以我想到了汽車。

I thought about girls too, but I had more luck with cars.

我也想過找女孩，但我在汽車方面運氣比較好。

Let's say that when I turned 16, a genie had appeared to me and that genie said, I'm going to give you the car of your choice.

假設在我 16 歲的時候，有一個精靈出現在我面前，那個精靈說：我要給你一輛你喜歡的車。

It'll be here tomorrow morning with a big bow tied on it, brand new, and it's all yours.

明天一早，它就會嶄新地出現在你的面前，上面還繫著一個大大的蝴蝶結。

Having heard all the genie stories, I would say, what's the catch?

聽過所有的精靈故事後，我想說，有什麼收穫呢？

And the genie would answer, there's only one catch.

精靈會回答，只有一個辦法。

This is the last car you're ever going to get in your life.

這是你這輩子最後一輛車了。

So it's got to last a lifetime.

所以，它必須持續一生。

If that had happened, I would have picked out a car, but can you imagine knowing it had to last a lifetime, what I would do with it?

如果發生了這種情況，我一定會選一輛車，但你能想象，如果知道這輛車必須用一輩子，我會怎麼處理它嗎？

I would read the manual about five times.

我會把手冊讀上五遍。

I would always keep it garaged.

我會一直把它放在車庫裡。

If there was the least little dent or scratch, I'd have it fixed right away because I knew I wouldn't want it rusting.

如果有一點小凹痕或刮痕，我都會馬上修好，因為我知道我不想讓它生鏽。

I would baby that car because it would have to last a lifetime.

我會把這輛車當作寶貝，因為它將伴隨我一生。

This is exactly the position you're in concerning your mind and body.

這正是你的身心所處的位置。

You only get one mind and you only get one body and it's got to last a lifetime.

心靈只有一次，身體只有一個，而且必須終生使用。

Now, it's very easy to let them ride for many years, but if you don't take care of that mind and that body, there'll be a wreck 40 years later, just like the car would be.

現在，讓他們馳騁多年非常容易，但如果你不照顧好他們的身心，40 年後就會發生車禍，就像汽車一樣。

It's what you do right now, today, that determines how your mind and body will operate 10, 20, and 30 years from now.

你現在和今天所做的一切，決定了你 10 年、20 年和 30 年後的身心狀況。

You must take care of it.

你必須照顧好它。

And so this is the idea that Stephen in the book calls your first foundation.

這就是斯蒂芬在書中所說的 "你的第一個基礎"。

Your health is your first foundation.

健康是你的第一基礎。

And one of the things that I really take away from these sort of nonfiction self-help books is like, if I'm just reading the book and all I'm doing is reading and highlighting it, I'm just reading for entertainment.

我從這類非虛構類自助書籍中得到的一個啟示是，如果我只是在讀這本書，而我所做的只是閱讀和突出顯示這本書，那麼我只是在為娛樂而閱讀。

And so what I try and do is make sure that I've taken some action points.

是以，我嘗試做的就是確保我已經採取了一些行動措施。

If I ever have that moment of inspiration while I'm reading a book or watching a video or listening to a podcast, I will try my best to act on it there and then.

如果我在看書、看視頻或收聽播客時有了靈感，我會盡力在當時就付諸行動。

And to the action point here, I was like, oh crap, I'm not prioritizing my health.

說到這裡，我就想，糟糕，我沒有把健康放在首位。

And so what I did was I took action there and then, I opened up my calendar and I tried to figure out, okay, I need to get in three sessions at the gym every single week.

於是，我就在那裡採取了行動，打開我的日程表，想弄清楚，好吧，我需要每週去健身房鍛鍊三次。

And I also need to take flexibility and mobility and stretching a little bit more seriously.

我還需要更認真地對待柔韌性、機動性和伸展運動。

And so I've now downloaded this app called Pliability where most nights I do this sort of 20 minute stretching routine, which is a nice way to wind down.

是以，我現在下載了一個名為 "Pliability "的應用程序，每天晚上我都會做 20 分鐘的伸展運動，這是一種很好的放鬆方式。

But I've also restarted sessions with a personal trainer three times a week.

但我也重新開始了每週三次的私人教練課程。

And by booking the personal trainer and paying for them in advance, it adds that extra nudge and accountability and it forces me to actually get to the gym, which is the thing that I want to do.

提前預約私人教練並支付費用，可以增加額外的動力和責任感，迫使我真正去健身房，這才是我想做的事情。

Basically, every person I've ever spoken to who has a personal trainer says it's a very, very, very ROI positive expense.

基本上，我接觸過的每個有私人教練的人都說，這是一筆非常非常非常積極的投資回報率支出。

And actually, if you struggle with getting to the gym, if you struggle with taking care of your health, any money that you spend investing in your health is gonna pay way more dividends than the money you could spend investing in literally anything else.

實際上，如果你在去健身房鍛鍊方面感到吃力，如果你在照顧自己的健康方面感到吃力，那麼你花在投資健康上的任何錢，都會比你花在投資其他任何方面的錢帶來更多的紅利。

And really, the way that I think about a lot of these behaviors is that it's all about getting to a point where that behavior is on autopilot, i.e. it becomes a habit.

實際上，我對很多行為的看法是，這些行為都是為了達到一種自動駕駛的狀態，也就是成為一種習慣。

Right now for me, going to the gym regularly three times a week and actually working hard at the gym is not enough of a habit.

現在對我來說，每週三次定期去健身房鍛鍊，並真正在健身房努力工作還不足以成為一種習慣。

I don't enjoy it.

我不喜歡這樣。

My whole book, Feel Good Productivity is all about how to make things feel good.

我的整本書《感覺良好的生產力》都在講述如何讓事情感覺良好。

And so as I was reading this, I was thinking, okay, how do I make going to the gym feel good?

所以，當我讀到這裡時，我在想，好吧，我怎樣才能讓去健身房的感覺好起來呢？

Cool, if I get a personal trainer who I know is there to motivate me and I say to the personal trainer, to him or her, be like, hey, look, I just need motivation.

酷，如果我找了一個私人教練，我知道他能激勵我，我就對私人教練說，嘿，聽著，我只是需要激勵。

I need you to make this fun for me.

我需要你給我帶來樂趣。

Then chances are, I'll be way more likely to go to the gym and therefore treat my health as genuinely my first foundation.

這樣，我就更有可能去健身房，從而真正把健康作為我的第一基礎。

And another law that has changed my life happens to be the law of learning, which is why I'm very excited to say that this video is sponsored by Skillshare.

而另一個改變我生活的法則恰好就是學習法則，這就是為什麼我非常興奮地宣佈本視頻由 Skillshare 贊助的原因。

If you haven't heard by now, Skillshare is a fantastic online platform that has classes on all sorts of topics, ranging from illustration and graphic design to coding, to interior design, to cooking.

如果你現在還沒聽說過，Skillshare 是一個非常棒的在線平臺，有各種主題的課程，從插圖和平面設計到編碼、室內設計，再到烹飪，應有盡有。

There's loads of stuff on there.

上面有很多東西。

I've personally been teaching classes on Skillshare since 2019, and I've got around a dozen classes on Skillshare, which you can access completely for free if you sign up for the Skillshare free trial.

自 2019 年以來，我個人一直在 Skillshare 上授課，我在 Skillshare 上開設了十幾門課程，如果您註冊 Skillshare 免費試用版，就可以完全免費訪問這些課程。

If you're interested in being more productive, I've got three classes that are all about different facets of productivity.

如果你對提高工作效率感興趣，我有三門課程都是關於工作效率的不同方面。

If you're interested in being a YouTuber, I've got an incredible class on how to edit videos in Final Cut Pro.

如果你有興趣成為一名 YouTuber，我開設了一門令人難以置信的課程，講授如何用 Final Cut Pro 剪輯視頻。

And if you wanna organise your life or your work or your studies, you might like to check out my complete beginner's guide to using Notion.

如果你想安排好自己的生活、工作或學習，不妨看看我的 Notion 入門指南。

If you've been following the stuff with AI recently, you might like to check out a brand new Skillshare original by Smitesh Mystery called Make AI Work For You, which is all about beating creative block.

如果你最近一直在關注人工智能方面的內容，不妨看看 Smitesh Mystery 的全新 Skillshare 原創作品《讓人工智能為你工作》（Make AI Work For You），這本書的主題是戰勝創意障礙。

And Skillshare can also help you level up in your career with lots of classes on marketing and UI and UX design.

此外，Skillshare 還提供大量有關市場營銷、用戶界面和用戶體驗設計的課程，幫助你提升職業水準。

And they've even got classes on how to be a freelancer along with some side hustle ideas as well.

他們甚至還開設了如何成為自由職業者的課程，以及一些副業創意。

So if you happen to be one of the first 1000 people to hit the link in the video description, that will let you sign up for a completely free one month trial of Skillshare.

是以，如果您碰巧是點擊視頻描述中鏈接的前 1000 名用戶之一，您就可以註冊獲得 Skillshare 一個月的免費試用期。

And during that time, you can watch all of my classes, you can check them all out, you can do all the class projects, but you can also browse the incredible library of other online classes available on Skillshare.

在這段時間裡，你可以觀看我的所有課程，查看所有課程，完成所有課程項目，還可以瀏覽 Skillshare 上令人難以置信的其他在線課程庫。

So thank you so much Skillshare for sponsoring this video and let's get back to it.

非常感謝 Skillshare 贊助本視頻，讓我們回到正題。

Law number 19, you must sweat the small stuff.

第 19 條法則，你必須為小事流汗。

Now, when it comes to productivity, one of the common things that you'll hear is the 80-20 rule.

現在，說到生產率，你經常會聽到的一個說法是 80-20 法則。

Focus on the 20% of inputs that are gonna get you 80% of the outputs.

專注於 20% 的投入，才能獲得 80% 的產出。

This is the Pareto principle.

這就是帕累託原則。

And I think there's a lot of value in it.

我認為這很有價值。

But then there's also value in the complete other side of the coin, which is that you must sweat the small stuff.

但是，硬幣的另一面也很有價值，那就是，你必須為小事流汗。

Now, Stephen Bartlett's podcast, The Diary of a CEO has grown an absolutely insane amount.

現在，斯蒂芬-巴特利特的《首席執行官日記》播客已經發展到了絕對瘋狂的地步。

It's like growing faster than Joe Rogan even certain months this year.

這就像今年某些月份的增長速度甚至超過了喬-羅根。

And in the book, he talks about how he thinks his podcast has grown so fast.

在書中，他談到了他是如何看待自己的播客發展如此之快的。

And he writes that, the secret in my opinion is that we sweat the small stuff more than any team I've ever encountered.

他寫道："在我看來，祕訣在於我們比我遇到過的任何團隊都更注重小事。

We obsess over thousands of small details that I believe most people would dismiss as trivial, crazy or a waste of time.

我們糾結於數以千計的小細節，我相信大多數人都會認為這些細節是瑣碎的、瘋狂的或浪費時間的。

Similarly, when I interviewed Mr. Who's the Boss, who is one of the biggest tech YouTubers in the world, making stupid amounts of money every year, he obsesses over every tiny detail of his videos.

同樣，當我採訪 "誰是老闆 "先生時，他是世界上最大的科技 YouTuber 之一，每年都賺得盆滿缽滿。

He spends lots of time painstakingly analyzing the YouTube analytics.

他花了很多時間煞費苦心地分析 YouTube 的分析數據。

He scripts everything word for word.

他一字不漏地寫下了所有腳本。

Then he goes over the script multiple times to make sure the script would be accessible to three different people that he's got in mind as his target audience.

然後，他反覆推敲劇本，確保劇本能讓他心目中的三個不同目標閱聽人都能接受。

And when I asked him how long he spends scripting each of his videos, he said, oh, probably, I don't know, 50, 60, 70, 80 hours.

當我問他每個視頻要花多長時間編寫腳本時，他說，哦，大概，我也不知道，50、60、70、80 個小時吧。

I think that was probably three and a half days of scripting.

我想那大概是三天半的腳本製作。

Three and a half days?

三天半？

Yeah.

是啊

Are we talking eight hour days?

你是說每天工作八小時嗎？

No, we're talking like 14 hour days.

不，我們說的是每天工作 14 個小時。

And I was just like absolutely mind blown because that is the pure definition of sweating the small stuff.

我當時真的是大吃一驚，因為這就是 "小題大做 "的純粹定義。

It's such a level of attention to detail.

這是對細節的高度關注。

And it's the complete opposite of the 80-20 principle.

這與 80-20 原則完全相反。

And in the book, he talks about the Japanese philosophy of Kaizen, which you might've come across, which is basically continuous small improvements over time.

在書中，他談到了日本的 "改善"（Kaizen）哲學，你可能已經聽說過，基本上就是隨著時間的推移不斷進行微小的改進。

He writes that in the Kaizen philosophy, innovation is seen as an incremental process.

他寫道，在 Kaizen 哲學中，創新被視為一個漸進的過程。

It's not about making big leaps forward, but rather making small things better in small ways everywhere you can on a daily basis.

這並不是說要有大的飛躍，而是要在日常工作中處處以小見大，把小事做得更好。

And so the action point, or the question for you to consider here is what is one area of your life in which you would benefit from trying to get minor improvements every single day?

是以，你在這裡要考慮的行動要點或問題是，在你的生活中，有哪一個方面是你每天都要努力稍作改進就能從中受益的？

It could be your health.

這可能與你的健康有關。

It could be in work.

可能是在工作中。

It could be in relationships.

可能是在人際關係中。

It could even be in all three.

甚至三者都有可能。

And I think there's a lot of value in thinking this way and trying to make things always a little bit better over time.

我認為，這樣思考並努力讓事情隨著時間的推移變得越來越好，是非常有價值的。

Now, quite a lot of what I do in my daily life is try and find these little small improvements, these minor changes where over time, they'll compound to create a big result.