Name: 2025年達成目標的5個讓人不適但必須改變的心態！ (5 Uncomfortable Mindset Shifts to Achieve Your Goals in 2025)
Uploaded: 2025-12-06T02:35:53.000Z
Duration: 9 min 39 s

If you can think of a popular productivity book, I've read it.

如果你能想到一本熱門的生產力書籍，我肯定都看過了。

其中有些真的改變了我的人生。

But as my responsibilities grew, I realized my quest for ever increasing productivity was turning my life into a walking anxiety dream.

不過，隨著我的責任越來越重，我發現我對不斷提升生產力的追求，竟然把我的生活變成了一個焦慮的夢魘。

Meditations for Mortals gave me a completely new way of thinking about what it means to be productive and cured my addiction to productivity hacks.

Meditations for Mortals 讓我對「生產力」有了全新的思考方式，也治好了我對生產力技巧的沉迷。

In this video, I'll share five powerful lessons from the book that helped me focus on what truly matters and finally let go of the impossible goal of doing everything.

在這支影片裡，我會分享書中五個強大的觀念，幫助我專注於真正重要的事，並且終於放下想做所有事的這種不可能的目標。

There are so many things I want to do in the year ahead.

新的一年，我好多事情都想做。

I want to put energy into the business I run and the people I work with.

我想把心力投入我經營的事業和我共事的人身上。

I want to play the penny whistle in a folk band.

Most modern productivity books focus on systems and hacks designed to help you do more.

大多數現代的生產力書籍都著重在系統和技巧，目的是幫助你做更多事。

But the subtext is you can and should, and

但言外之意是，你可以也應該要做到，而且

if you don't, you'll fall behind and fail to achieve your potential.

如果你做不到，你就會落後，無法發揮你的潛力。

This belief has sort of crept into my subconsciousness and has left me feeling overwhel pretty much all the time.

這個信念不知不覺地滲透到我的潛意識，讓我幾乎一直都感到壓力很大。

So I'm constantly trying out new productivity techniques and hacks, and somehow that seems to make things worse.

所以我總是在嘗試新的生產力技巧和方法，但不知為何，這似乎讓事情變得更糟。

We're only here for a brief moment in time, and

我們在時間的長河中只是一瞬，

there are far more worthwhile things that we could pursue that we'll just never get around to.

有太多有價值的事我們想做卻永遠沒機會。

So the first lesson of this book is to not only accept this reality, but to embrace it.

所以這本書的第一課是，不僅要接受這個事實，還要擁抱它。

It's an outlook that he calls imperfectionism.

這是一種他稱為「不完美主義」的觀點。

And when this idea finally landed with me, it helped me to stop struggling to do everything and to really pour myself into a few things that actually matter.

當這個想法終於讓我領悟時，它幫助我停止掙扎著想做所有事，並真正將精力投入到幾件真正重要的事上。

Now, at this point, you might be thinking, okay, so I can't do everything, but

好了，說到這裡，你可能會想，好吧，我不能做所有事，但是

我該如何實際地安排優先順序？

And he offers some really great advice on this, too.

他在這方面也提供了一些很棒的建議。

Now, particularly if you're a busy person with lots of responsibilities, the decision on how to spend your time can feel like a really important one.

特別是如果你是個忙碌、責任又多的人，如何分配時間的決定，可能會感覺非常重要。

And there are tons of prioritization techniques out there.

而且市面上有很多關於優先順序的技巧。

And in fact, in my last video, I shared one called the Wheel of Life that helps you evaluate different aspects of your life in terms of how satisfied you are as a way of figuring out how to use your time.

事實上，在我上一個影片裡，我分享了一個叫做「生命之輪」的技巧，它能幫助你評估生活中各個面向的滿意度，藉此找出時間該怎麼運用。

Now, Bergman has a completely different take on this challenge, which is to look for the life task.

現在，柏格曼對這個挑戰有完全不同的看法，那就是尋找「人生任務」。

Now, life task is something that life is calling you to do, something to qualify as a life Task, it has to satisfy two rules.

所謂的人生任務，是生命在呼喚你去做的事，要符合人生任務的資格，它必須滿足兩個規則。

The first of them is that it needs to be something that's actually going to take a bunch of effort that will enlarge you in the process.

第一個是，它必須是件實際上需要付出很多努力，並且能在過程中讓你成長的事。

And the second is that different to a calling or a destiny.

而第二個，跟召喚或命運不同。

It has to be something that you can actually do within the constraints of your life.

它必須是你能在你人生限制內實際做到的事。

Now, I love prioritization techniques like the Wheel of Life.

我非常喜歡像「生命之輪」這樣的優先順序技巧。

But on so many occasions I've had this intuitive sense.

但很多時候，我都有這種直覺。

I've been using them just to come to a conclusion that I wanted to, or as a way of avoiding working on the thing that I actually needed to work on.

我一直用它們來得出我想要的結論，或是用來逃避做我實際上需要做的事情。

And since reading this book, whenever I've been struggling to figure out how to prioritize my time, I found that asking what's the life task here?

自從讀了這本書之後，每當我努力想弄清楚如何安排我的時間時，我發現問「這裡的生命任務是什麼？」

Has been a good way of just cutting to the chase and narrowing in on the thing that I probably already knew subconsciously that I actually needed to be prioritizing.

這是一個很好的方法，可以直搗黃龍，縮小範圍，找到我可能已經在潛意識裡知道我實際上需要優先處理的事情。

But even if you do narrow in on what the life task is, it turns out for most people, regardless of what their goal is, the most difficult part is actually just getting started.

但即使你縮小範圍找出生命任務是什麼，對大多數人來說，無論他們的目標是什麼，最困難的部分其實只是開始。

And he has some really helpful advice here too, in the form of a metaphor.

而且他這裡也有一些非常有用的建議，用一個比喻的方式。

I'll give you an example from my own life.

About a year ago, I decided that I wanted to be able to jump higher so that maybe just once, before it was too late, I would be able to dunk a basketball.

大約一年前，我決定我想要能夠跳得更高，這樣也許有一次，在太晚之前，我就能灌籃了。

So I started researching programs online that would increase my vertical leap.

所以我開始在網路上研究能增加我垂直跳躍力的訓練計畫。

I bought new trainers that were cushing my landing.

我買了新運動鞋，它們能減緩我的落地衝擊。

I even bought a new basketball so that I could practice at my local court.

我甚至買了個新籃球，這樣我就可以在住家附近的球場練習了。

A month into the journey, I hadn't jumped once.

開始一個月了，我一次都沒跳起來過。

The magnitude of the task felt overwhelming.

這件事的規模讓我覺得有點吃不消。

I don't think this experience is uncommon.

The fact that I wanted to jump higher is neither here nor there.

我想跳得更高這件事，其實沒那麼重要。

I could have equally wanted to write a book or start a business.

我也可以同樣想寫一本書或創辦一個事業。

There are so many people, myself included, who are way more comfortable being the kind of person that plans how they're going to become a different person instead of actually just doing something about it.

有好多人，包括我自己，都更習慣當那種會規劃如何變成另一個人的人，而不是真的就採取行動。

And Burkeman offers two images to help clarify why this might be the case in the form of the kayak and the superyacht Gornj Bergman.

而 Burkeman 提出了兩個比喻，用獨木舟和超級遊艇 Gornj Bergman 來幫助我們釐清為什麼會這樣。

Life is like being in a one person kayak.

人生就像是坐在一艘一人獨木舟裡。

We're traveling down a river that we've never explored before.

我們正沿著一條從未探索過的河流前進。

We're at the mercy of the tide and the elements we have to steer in response to the obstacles we find along the way, using the skills and resources that we have at that given moment.

我們聽憑潮水和天氣的擺佈，必須根據沿途遇到的障礙來操控，運用當下擁有的技巧和資源。

But most of us want to believe that we're in a super yacht where we can just plug in our destination, sit in the swivel chair and wait till we arrive.

但我們大多數人都寧願相信自己是搭乘超級遊艇，可以設定好目的地，坐在旋轉椅上等待抵達。

Now, I was treating this goal of jumping higher with a super yacht mentality, pretending like all the planning and the buying of new kit and equipment was going to do the work for me.

現在，我就是用超級遊艇的心態來面對「跳得更高」這個目標，假裝所有規劃和購買新裝備的行為都會替我完成工作。

Now, there's some merit in doing that stuff so that you start on the right foot.

當然，做這些事還是有些好處，能讓你一開始就走在正確的道路上。

But the hardest thing for most of us is just to spend an hour, half an hour, 15 minutes, whatever it is, doing the thing doesn't have to be jumping higher.

但對我們大多數人來說，最難的是花上一小時、半小時、15分鐘，不管多久，去做那件事，而那件事不一定要是跳得更高。

It could be starting a new creative project or launching a business.

可以是開始一個新的創意專案，或是創辦一個事業。

So the lesson here is to remember that you're not in a superyacht, you're in a kayak.

所以這裡的教訓是，要記住你不是在超級遊艇上，你是在獨木舟裡。

So getting started as a cornichon size problem, then keeping going is more of an orange size problem.

所以，從一個小小的問題開始，然後持續下去，就像橘子大小的問題一樣。

A few years ago, I flew to Dublin to see a lecture by one of my heroes in magic, David Benn.

幾年前，我飛到都柏林，聽我一位魔法界的偶像 David Benn 的演講。

It was honestly one of the most inspiring evenings of my life.

說實話，那是我生命中最鼓舞人心的一個夜晚。

He performed and demonstrated for four hours straight, and each routine was more magical than the last.

他連續表演和示範了四個小時，每個節目都比前一個更神奇。

Every word, gesture, nuance was carefully considered, and he had the audience transfixed and baffled in equal measure.

每個字、每個手勢、每個細微之處都經過精心考量，他讓觀眾著迷又困惑。

At the end of the lecture, somebody asked David a question about his process for developing routines, and

演講結束時，有人問 David 他在開發節目時的過程，

Now, at this point, he was in his late 50s and had been performing professionally for about 40 years.

那時他已經快六十歲了，從事專業表演大約四十年。

And his goal, he said, was to try and create two or three amaterial new routines every year.

他說，他的目標是每年試著創作出兩到三個全新的表演節目。

And before you knew it, he had more than enough material to last him a lifetime of shows.

不知不覺中，他就累積了足夠一輩子演出的素材。

In a section of the book titled On Finding Focus, he shares a passage from the economist Adam Smith that reminded me of this experience.

在書中一個名為「關於尋找專注」的章節裡，他分享了一段經濟學家亞當·史密斯的文字，讓我想起了這段經歷。

The man who works moderately so as to be able to work constantly, not only preserves his health the longest, but

他說，一個為了能持續工作而適度工作的人，不僅能最長久地保持健康，

in the course of the year, executes the greatest amount of work.

而且在一整年中，能完成最多的工作。

If you watched my last video, you'll know my main goal this year is to try and grow this channel.

如果你看過我上一個影片，就會知道我今年的主要目標是試著讓這個頻道成長。

At the moment, I can share a video about once a month.

目前，我大約一個月能分享一支影片。

Now, I know if I was to release a video every fortnight, or even better, once a week, I'd reach my goal much more quickly.

我知道，如果我每兩週發布一支影片，甚至更好，每週發布一支，我會更快達成目標。

But I also know that increasing my output like this would smash me into the ground.

但我知道，這樣增加產出會讓我精疲力盡。

It would almost certainly affect my sanity and impact my long term progress.

這幾乎肯定會影響我的精神狀態，並影響我長期的進步。

So the lesson here is rather than try and squeeze out every morsel of productivity each day, better to find two or three hours daily ish where you focus on your goal, make some concrete progress, and

所以這裡的重點是，與其每天試圖榨乾每一點生產力，不如每天找兩到三個小時左右的時間，專注於你的目標，取得具體進展，然後

before you know it, time will have passed and you will have accomplished an enormous amount, hopefully while still enjoying the process.

不知不覺間，時間就過去了，你會完成很多事情，希望過程中也能享受樂趣。

But regardless of how sustainable a pace you work at en route to achieving your goal, you're gonna come across situations where you just don't want to do certain things, but

但無論你以多麼可持續的步調朝著目標邁進，你都會遇到一些情況，就是你根本不想做某些事，但

they're going to be absolutely necessary for you to keep making progress.

為了讓你持續進步，這些事又是絕對必要的。

And if you don't do them, then you won't.

So what do you do in these circumstances?

那麼，在這種情況下你會怎麼做？

Well, before we get onto that, if you're still watching, then you are part of a group of 20% of people who are still watching at this stage.

嗯，在我們進入這個話題之前，如果你還在看，那麼你就是還在看這個階段的 20% 人群中的一員。

So my guess is you're finding this information quite interesting.

所以我的猜測是，你覺得這些資訊很有趣。

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