Life rewards action, not intelligence.

生活獎勵的是行動，而不是智慧。

Took me a few years growing up to really learn this.

我長大後花了幾年時間才真正學會這一點。

I think my sense in school was I did quite well on exams just through intelligence without having to do a lot of work.

我在學校的感覺是，我不用做很多作業，光靠聰明就能考得很好。

And for me, when I was quite young, I valued intelligence over action.

對我來說，在我相當年輕的時候，我更看重智慧而不是行動。

I think one of the dangers is smart people, that the smarter you are, the better your excuses.

我認為危險之一在於聰明人，你越聰明，你的藉口就越好。

The more accomplished you are in talking yourself out of taking action, in proving to yourself that every action that you could take is too small, too meaningless, and not worth it.

你越是成功地說服自己不要採取行動，越是成功地向自己證明，你可以採取的每一個行動都太渺小、太無意義、不值得。

And George Leonard, who brought jiu-jitsu from Japan to the US, one of the things he said is absolutely you cannot do everything, but you can do one thing, and another, and another.

把柔術從日本帶到美國的喬治-倫納德（George Leonard）說過的一句話是：你不可能什麼都做，但你可以做一件事，做另一件事，再做另一件事。

And that's the way you make massive progress in life, by doing one thing, and another, and another.

這就是人生取得巨大進步的方式，做一件事，再做一件事，再做一件事。

This idea that life rewards action, not intelligence.

生活獎勵的是行動，而不是智慧。

This YouTube channel, very often I sit down and think, you know, these ideas, they're not particularly deep or wise.

這個 YouTube 頻道，很多時候我坐下來想，你知道，這些想法並不是特別深刻或明智。

But what makes this channel grow, what makes you come and connect is, I guess the ideas aren't terrible, but I show up and I share them.

但是，是什麼讓這個頻道發展壯大，是什麼讓你們來這裡交流，我想這些想法並不可怕，但我出現了，我分享了它們。

And the matter that you show up and try and act week after week, month after month, year after year, with a little bit of intelligence, you start to get better and better and better.

而你每週、每月、每年都會出現並嘗試行動，再加上一點點智慧，你就會開始變得越來越好。

You start to become more articulate.

你開始變得更善於表達。

So this thing, even if the action is poor action, you're gonna learn something from it.

所以，這件事，即使是拙劣的行動，你也會從中學到一些東西。

And it's so easy to talk yourself out of action, but it's so important to remember that life rewards action, not intelligence, not smarts in your brain, but action into the world.

說服自己放棄行動很容易，但重要的是要記住，生活獎勵的是行動，而不是智慧，不是大腦中的聰明才智，而是對世界的行動。

And discipline is necessary in our life in order to generate consistent, systematic action.

在我們的生活中，紀律是必要的，這樣才能產生持續、系統的行動。

But I think until you measure something that matters, you do not know if you're disciplined.

但我認為，在你衡量一些重要的事情之前，你並不知道自己是否嚴於律己。

And perhaps for me, the time that I learned this most was when Iese, my mentor here in the early days as a teacher at Iese, Brian Leggett, would ask me if I would do some writing, just write a few technical notes.

也許對我來說，我學到這一點最多的時候是在 Iese，我早期在 Iese 當老師時的導師布萊恩-萊格特（Brian Leggett）問我是否願意寫點東西，只是寫一些技術說明。

And months passed, years passed, and I just wasn't making progress.

幾個月過去了，幾年過去了，我就是沒有進步。

And I hired a writing coach.

我還請了一位寫作教練。

And for one year, I had a call every Wednesday with a writing coach.

有一年，我每週三都會和一位寫作教練通電話。

And every call would begin with him asking one question, how many words did you write this week?

每次通話開始，他都會問一個問題：你這周寫了多少字？

And he pushed me to measure how many words I wrote each day, how many words I wrote each week.

他逼我衡量每天寫了多少字，每週寫了多少字。

And early on, it was very painful.

而在早期，這是非常痛苦的。

It felt like I was putting a lot of energy into writing.

我感覺自己在寫作中投入了大量精力。

But the actual number of words being produced day after day, week after week was very low.

但日復一日、週而復始的實際字數卻非常少。

And it was only when I really got this measure and made sure that I looked at this measure each morning, each day, each evening, each week, each session with my coach, that I started to realize that so much of the effort was in my head and not turning into words on a page.

只有當我真正掌握了這一衡量標準，並確保每天早上、每天晚上、每週、每次與教練一起訓練時，我都能看到這一衡量標準時，我才開始意識到，很多努力都是在腦子裡，而不是變成紙上的文字。

And it's only when you measure something that really clarifies whether you're getting the actions done that you start to realize whether you have discipline or not.

只有當你衡量的東西真正明確你是否完成了行動時，你才會開始意識到你是否有紀律。

So be very careful in evaluating your discipline, your capacity to turn ideas into action by some measure of whether you feel like you're making an effort.

是以，在評估自己的紀律性、將想法轉化為行動的能力時，一定要小心謹慎，要衡量自己是否覺得自己在努力。

Because your mind will cheat you into believing you're being really busy, you're being really, putting a lot of effort.

因為你的大腦會欺騙你，讓你相信自己真的很忙，真的付出了很多努力。

For me, it was brutal.

對我來說，這是殘酷的。

The feeling in me was I was putting a lot of time and a lot of effort and a lot of energy into writing.

我當時的感覺是，我在寫作上投入了大量的時間、精力和心血。

But those early weeks seeing that it was resulting in so few words being written.

但最初幾周看到的結果是，寫的字太少了。

Videos, you know, make a video.

視頻，你知道的，製作視頻。

A video is a very clear measure of whether you've finished something or not.

視頻是衡量你是否完成任務的一個非常明確的標準。

So again, reminder this week, life rewards action, not intelligence.

所以，本週再次提醒大家，生活獎勵的是行動，而不是智慧。

Action leads you to grow, leads you to engage with others.

行動引領你成長，引領你與他人交往。

Action, everything good in life happens when you're off the sofa and engaging with the world.

行動，生活中的一切美好事物都發生在你離開沙發、與世界接觸的時候。

So my hope for you this week is find a measure of something that matters.

是以，本週我希望你們能找到一些重要的東西。

Pay attention to whether you're making progress on the actions that lead to that measure.

關注您是否在實現該衡量標準的行動方面取得了進展。

And look at what needs to happen in your discipline so that you value action above thinking or intending to take action.

看看在你的學科中需要發生什麼，從而讓你重視行動，而不是思考或打算採取行動。

So have a good one, it's Conor here at the ESA Business School here in Barcelona, teaching a three-day programme to a group of wonderful senior executives this week.

祝您愉快！本週，康納將在巴塞羅那歐空局商學院為一群優秀的高級管理人員講授為期三天的課程。

Have a great one, thank you for your likes, your comments, your questions.

祝您玩得開心，感謝您的喜歡、評論和提問。

Keeps me coming back, making these videos.

讓我不斷回來製作這些視頻。

Have a good one.

祝你愉快