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So I won't tell you what to do, because no one likes that.

所以我不會告訴你該怎麼做，因為沒人喜歡那樣。

轉承詞

I will, however, give you some life hacks I wish I knew when I was starting out my dreams of a career and navigating life, love, pressure, choices, shame, hope, and friendship.

不過，我會告訴你一些生活小竅門，我真希望在我開始職業夢想，在生活、愛情、壓力、選擇、羞恥、希望和友誼中摸爬滾打的時候，我就已經知道了。

情態副詞

The first of which is, life can be heavy, especially if you try to carry it all at once.

首先，生活是沉重的，尤其是當你試圖同時揹負這一切的時候。

Part of growing up and moving into new chapters of your life is about catch and release.

成長和邁入人生新篇章的一部分就是捕捉和釋放。

What I mean by that is, knowing what things to keep and what things to release.

我的意思是，知道哪些東西該保留，哪些東西該釋放。

All grudges, all updates on your ex, all enviable promotions your school bully got at the hedge fund his uncle started.

所有的恩怨，所有關於你前男友的最新消息，所有你的學霸在他叔叔創辦的對沖基金裡獲得的令人羨慕的晉升。

Decide what is yours to hold, and let the rest go.

決定哪些屬於你，其他的就放手吧。

Oftentimes, the good things in your life are lighter anyway, so there's more room for them.

通常情況下，生活中的美好事物都比較輕盈，是以有更多的空間來容納它們。

One toxic relationship can outweigh so many wonderful, simple joys.

一段有毒的關係可能會抵消許多美好而簡單的歡樂。

You get to pick what your life has time and room for.

你可以選擇你的生活有時間和空間做什麼。

Secondly, learn to live alongside cringe.

No matter how hard you try to avoid being cringe, you will look back on your life and cringe retrospectively.

無論你如何努力避免崩潰，回顧你的人生，你都會感到崩潰。

在人的一生中，尷尬是不可避免的。

Even the term cringe might someday be deemed cringe.

就連 "崩潰 "這個詞有一天也會被視為 "崩潰"。

I promise you, you're probably doing or wearing something right now that you will look back on later and find revolting and hilarious.

我向你保證，你現在可能正在做著或穿著一些你日後回想起來會覺得噁心和好笑的事情。

你無法避免，所以不要試圖避免。

For example, I had a phase where for the entirety of 2012, I dressed like a 1950s housewife.

例如，在 2012 年的整個一年裡，我都穿得像一位上世紀 50 年代的家庭主婦。

回首往事，開懷大笑，其樂無窮。

And while we're talking about things that make us squirm but really shouldn't, I'd like to say I'm a big advocate for not hiding your enthusiasm for things.

既然說到了那些讓我們心驚肉跳卻又實在不該心驚肉跳的事情，我想說的是，我非常提倡不要掩飾自己對事物的熱情。

It seems to me that there is a false stigma around eagerness in our culture of unbothered ambivalence.

在我看來，我們的文化中存在著一種虛假的 "渴望 "成見，這種成見就是不被關注的矛盾心理。

This outlook perpetuates the idea that it's not cool to want it.

這種觀念延續了 "想要它並不酷 "的想法。

The people who don't try are fundamentally more chic than people who do.

從根本上說，不努力的人比努力的人更別緻。

And I wouldn't know because I've been a lot of things, but I've never been an expert on chic, but I'm the one who's up here, so you have to listen to me when I say this.

我也不知道，因為我做過很多事情，但我從來都不是時尚專家，但我是站在這裡的人，所以我說的話你們得聽我的。

The people who wanted it the least were the ones I wanted to date and be friends with in high school.

最不想要它的人，就是我在高中時想約會和交朋友的人。

The people who want it the most are the people I now hire to work for my company.

最想要它的人就是我現在僱用來為我公司工作的人。

I started writing songs when I was 12, and since then it's been the compass guiding my life, and in turn my life guided my writing.

我從 12 歲開始寫歌，從那時起，它就成了指引我生活的指南針，反過來，我的生活也指引著我的寫作。

Everything I do is just an extension of my writing, whether it's directing videos or a short film, creating the visuals for a tour, or standing on a stage performing.

我所做的一切都是寫作的延伸，無論是導演視頻或短片，還是為巡演製作視覺效果，或是站在舞臺上表演。

Everything is connected by my love of the craft, the thrill of working through ideas and narrowing them down and polishing it all up in the end, editing, waking up in the middle of the night, throwing out the old idea because you just thought of a new or better one, or a plot device that ties the whole thing together.

一切都源於我對這門手藝的熱愛，源於我在構思、縮小範圍、最後打磨、編輯、半夜醒來、扔掉舊點子的過程中獲得的快感，因為你剛剛想到了一個新的或更好的點子，或者一個將整部作品聯繫在一起的情節裝置。

他們稱之為 "鉤子 "是有原因的。

Sometimes a string of words just ensnares me, and I can't focus on anything until it's been recorded or written down.

有時，一連串的文字會讓我無法集中精力，直到它被記錄或寫下來。

As a songwriter, I've never been able to sit still or stay in one creative place for too long.

作為一名詞曲作者，我從來都無法靜下心來，也無法在一個創作地點停留太久。

I've made and released 11 albums, and in the process, I've switched genre from country to pop to alternative to folk, and this might sound like a very songwriter-centric line of discussion, but in a way, I really do think we are all writers, and most of us write in a different voice for different situations.

我已經制作併發行了 11 張專輯，在這個過程中，我轉換了不同的音樂風格，從鄉村音樂到流行音樂，從另類音樂到民謠，這可能聽起來像是一個非常以歌曲創作者為中心的討論，但在某種程度上，我確實認為我們都是作家，我們中的大多數人都會在不同的情況下用不同的聲音寫作。

You write differently in your Instagram stories than you do your senior thesis.

你在 Instagram 上寫的故事和你寫的畢業論文是不一樣的。

You send a different type of email to your boss than you do your best friend from home.

你給老闆發送的電子郵件和你給家裡最好的朋友發送的電子郵件是不同類型的。

We are all literary chameleons, and I think it's fascinating.

我們都是文學變色龍，我認為這很迷人。

It's just a continuation of the idea that we are so many things all the time, and I know it can be really overwhelming figuring out who to be and when, who you are now, and how to act in order to get where you want to go.

這只是一個想法的延續，即我們總是身兼數職，我知道，要想知道什麼時候該做什麼人，你現在是誰，以及如何行動才能到達你想去的地方，真的會讓人不知所措。

I said to you earlier that I don't ever offer advice unless someone asks me for it, and now I'll tell you why.

我之前跟你說過，除非有人向我諮詢，否則我從不提供建議，現在我來告訴你為什麼。

As a person who started my very public career at the age of 15, it came with a price, and that price was years of unsolicited advice.

我 15 歲就開始了自己的公開職業生涯，但這也付出了代價，那就是多年來別人不請自來的建議。

Being the youngest person in every room for over a decade meant that I was constantly being issued warnings from older members of the music industry, media, interviewers, executives, and this advice often presented itself as thinly veiled warnings.

十多年來，我在每個房間裡都是最年輕的，這意味著音樂界的前輩、媒體、採訪者、管理者不斷向我發出警告，而這些建議往往是隱晦的警告。

See, I was a teenager at a time when our society was absolutely obsessed with the idea of having perfect young female role models.

你看，我十幾歲的時候，我們的社會正沉迷於擁有完美的年輕女性榜樣的想法。

It felt like every interview I did included slight barbs by the interviewer about me one day running off the rails, and that meant a different thing to every person who said it to me.

我感覺自己接受的每一次採訪都會被採訪者輕微地諷刺，說我有一天會跑偏，而這對每一個對我說這話的人來說都意味著不同的事情。

So I became a young adult while being fed the message that if I didn't make any mistakes, all the children of America would grow up to be perfect angels.

是以，我在成為青年的同時，也被灌輸了這樣的資訊：如果我不犯任何錯誤，美國所有的孩子都會成長為完美的天使。

However, if I did slip up, the entire Earth would fall off its axis, and it would be entirely my fault, and I would go to pop star jail forever and ever.

不過，如果我真的出了差錯，整個地球都會從地軸上掉下來，那就完全是我的錯了，我會被關進歌星監獄，永永遠遠。

It was all centered around the idea that mistakes equal failure, and ultimately, the loss of any chance at a happy or rewarding life.

這一切都圍繞著這樣一個想法：犯錯就等於失敗，最終就會失去任何幸福或有價值的生活的機會。

My experience has been that my mistakes led to the best things in my life, and being embarrassed when you mess up, it's part of the human experience.

我的經驗是，我的錯誤導致了我生命中最美好的東西，當你搞砸時感到尷尬，這是人類經驗的一部分。

Getting back up, dusting yourself off, and seeing who still wants to hang out with you afterward and laugh about it, that's a gift.

重新站起來，撣去身上的塵土，看看誰還願意在事後和你一起玩耍，笑談此事，這就是一種恩賜。

The times I was told no or wasn't included, wasn't chosen, didn't win, didn't make the cut, looking back, it really feels like those moments were as important, if not more crucial, than the moments I was told yes.

回首往事，我真切地感覺到，那些被拒絕的時刻，或者沒有被接納的時刻，沒有被選中的時刻，沒有獲獎的時刻，沒有入選的時刻，都和我被接受的時刻一樣重要，甚至更加關鍵。

Not being invited to the parties and sleepovers in my hometown made me feel hopelessly lonely.

沒有人邀請我參加家鄉的聚會和夜遊，讓我感到孤獨無助。

But because I felt alone, I would sit in my room and write the songs that would get me a ticket somewhere else.

但因為我感到孤獨，所以我會坐在房間裡寫歌，為自己爭取一張去其他地方的機票。

Having label executives in Nashville tell me that only 35-year-old housewives listen to country music, and there was no place for a 13-year-old on their roster, made me cry in the car on the way home.

納什維爾的唱片公司高管告訴我，只有 35 歲的家庭主婦才會聽鄉村音樂，他們的花名冊上沒有 13 歲孩子的位置，這讓我在回家的路上在車裡哭了起來。

But then, I'd post my songs on my MySpace, and, yes, MySpace.

但後來，我會在我的 MySpace 上發佈我的歌曲，沒錯，就是 MySpace。

And I would message with other teenagers like me who loved country music, but just didn't have anyone singing from their perspective.

我還會給其他像我一樣喜歡鄉村音樂的青少年留言，只是沒有人從他們的角度來唱歌。

Having journalists write in-depth, oftentimes critical, pieces about who they perceive me to be made me feel like I was living in some weird simulation.

記者們就他們眼中的我撰寫深度報道，有時甚至是批評性報道，這讓我覺得自己生活在某種奇怪的模擬環境中。

But it also made me look inward to learn about who I actually am.

但它也讓我向內看，瞭解自己究竟是誰。

Having the world treat my love life like a spectator sport in which I lose every single game was not a great way to date in my teens and twenties.

在我十幾歲和二十幾歲的時候，世界把我的感情生活當成了一場輸掉每一場比賽的觀賞運動，這不是一種好的約會方式。

But it taught me to protect my private life fiercely.

但它教會了我要堅決保護自己的私生活。

Being publicly humiliated over and over again at a young age was excruciatingly painful.

年少時一次又一次地當眾受辱，令人痛苦不堪。

But it forced me to devalue the ridiculous notion of minute-by-minute, ever-fluctuating social relevance and likability.

但它迫使我貶低分秒必爭、不斷波動的社會相關性和受歡迎程度這一荒謬概念。

Getting cancelled on the internet and nearly losing my career gave me an excellent knowledge of all the types of wine.

在互聯網上被取消資格，差點丟了飯碗，這讓我對所有類型的葡萄酒都瞭如指掌。

I know I sound like a consummate optimist,    but I'm really not.

我知道我聽起來像個完美的樂觀主義者，但我真的不是。

Sometimes everything just feels completely pointless.

I know the pressure of living your life through the lens of perfectionism.

我深知完美主義給生活帶來的壓力。

And I know that I'm talking to a group of perfectionists because you are here today graduating from NYU.

我知道我是在和一群完美主義者說話，因為你們今天在這裡是從紐約大學畢業的。

In your life, you will inevitably misspeak, trust the wrong person, underreact, overreact, hurt the people who didn't deserve it, overthink, not think at all, self-sabotage, create a reality where only your experience exists, ruin perfectly good moments for yourself and others, deny any wrongdoing, not take the steps to make it right, feel very guilty, let the guilt eat at you, hit rock bottom, finally address the pain you caused, try to do better next time, rinse, repeat.

在生活中，你不可避免地會說錯話、信錯人、反應不足、反應過度、傷害不該傷害的人、想得太多、根本不思考、自我破壞、創造一個只有你的經驗存在的現實、毀掉自己和他人的美好時光、否認任何錯誤行為、不採取步驟糾正錯誤、感到非常內疚、讓內疚侵蝕你、跌入谷底、最終解決你造成的痛苦、嘗試下次做得更好、沖洗、重複。

These mistakes will cause you to lose things.

I'm trying to tell you that losing things doesn't just mean losing.

我想告訴你，失去東西並不僅僅意味著失去。

A lot of the time when we lose things, we gain things too.

很多時候，當我們失去一些東西時，我們也會得到一些東西。

Now you leave the structure and framework of school and chart your own path.

現在，你們離開了學校的結構和框架，開始規劃自己的道路。

Every choice you make leads to the next choice, which leads to the next, and I know it's hard to know which path to take.

你的每一個選擇都會導致下一個選擇，而下一個選擇又會導致下一個選擇，我知道很難知道該走哪條路。

There will be times in life where you need to stand up for yourself, times when the right thing is actually to back down and apologize, times when the right thing is to fight, times when the right thing is to turn and run, times to hold on with all you have, and times to let go with grace.

在生活中，有時你需要為自己挺身而出，有時正確的做法其實是退縮和道歉，有時正確的做法是抗爭，有時正確的做法是轉身逃跑，有時需要全力堅持，有時需要優雅地放手。

Sometimes the right thing to do is to throw out the old schools of thought in the name of progress and reform.

有時，正確的做法是以進步和改革的名義拋棄舊的思想流派。

Sometimes the right thing to do is to sit and listen to the wisdom of those who have come before us.

有時，正確的做法是坐下來聆聽前人的智慧。

How will you know what the right choice is in these crucial moments?

在這些關鍵時刻，您如何知道正確的選擇是什麼？

How do I give advice to this many people about their life choices?

我如何給這麼多人的人生選擇提供建議？

The scary news is, you're on your own now.

可怕的是，你現在只能靠自己了。

But the cool news is, you're on your own now.

但好消息是，你現在只能靠自己了。

We are led by our gut instincts, our intuition, our desires and fears, our scars and our dreams.

我們被直覺、直覺、慾望和恐懼、傷疤和夢想所引導。

And when I do, you will most likely read about it on the internet.

當我這樣做的時候，你很可能會在互聯網上看到相關報道。

無論如何，我們都會遇到困難。