Name: 73歲的我…花了52年才學到這件事 (別再浪費你的時間了)！ (I'm 73... It Took Me 52 Years To Learn This (Don't Waste Yours))
Uploaded: 2025-12-21T02:10:18.000Z
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I'm 73 years old, and I'm about to tell you something that might upset you.

我今年73歲，接下來要說的話，可能會讓你有點驚訝。

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Everything you think you know about getting older is completely wrong.

所有你認為關於變老的知識，其實都是錯的。

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The people who should be telling you this.

那些本來應該告訴你真相的人。

Your parents, your teachers, society, they're either lying to you or they don't know themselves.

你的父母、老師、社會，他們不是騙你，就是他們自己也不知道。

You see, I spent the first 50 years of my life believing the same lies you probably believe right now.

你知道嗎？我花了人生前50年，也相信著你現在可能相信的那些謊言。

I had the career, the house, the respect of my peers.

我有事業、有房子、也贏得了同儕的尊重。

But at 52, something happened that shattered everything I thought I knew.

但在我52歲那年，發生了一件事，徹底顛覆了我對一切的認知。

And what I discovered in the 21 years since then has completely changed how I see life, death, and

而這21年來我所發現的，完全改變了我對生命、死亡的看法，以及

But before I tell you what happened, I need you to understand something.

但在我告訴你發生了什麼事之前，有件事我必須讓你明白。

The reason I'm making this video isn't to impress you or to make myself feel wise.

我拍這支影片，不是為了要讓你覺得我很厲害，也不是為了讓自己感覺很聰明。

I'm making this because I'm running out of time.

我拍這支影片，是因為我的時間不多了。

And there are things you need to hear before it's too late.

有些事情，在你太遲之前，你一定要聽聽。

At 52, I had what doctors call a cardiac event.

在我52歲那年，我發生了醫生口中的「心臟事件」。

That's a fancy way of saying my heart tried to kill me.

這句話聽起來很專業，但簡單來說，就是我的心臟差點要了我的命。

I was in a meeting discussing quarterly projections when suddenly the room started spinning.

當時我正在開會，討論著季度預測，突然間，整個房間開始天旋地轉。

The next thing I remember is waking up in a hospital bed with tubes coming out of my arms and my wife crying in the corner.

我記得的下一件事，就是我醒來時躺在醫院的病床上，手臂上插著管子，我太太則在角落哭泣。

I had just come face to face with my own mortality, and they called it luck.

我才剛親身面對死亡的威脅，他們卻說是幸運。

Because lying in that hospital bed with nothing to do but think, I realized something terrifying.

因為躺在醫院床上，無事可做只能思考，我意識到一件很可怕的事。

I had been living my entire life on autopilot.

我整個人生都活在自動駕駛模式裡。

I was just going through the motions, checking boxes, trying to meet everyone else's expectations.

我只是在走流程、打勾，試圖滿足別人的期望。

And here's the part that haunts me to this day.

而這是我到今天都還會感到心煩的部分。

If I had died that day, if my heart had stopped permanently, what would I have left behind?

如果那天我走了，如果我的心臟永遠停止跳動，我會留下什麼？

A collection of achievements that nobody would remember in five years?

一堆沒人會在五年後記得的成就？

Let me tell you the biggest lie you're probably telling yourself right now.

讓你們知道你們現在可能在對自己說的最大謊言。

I'll do that later, when I'm older, I'll finally live the life I want.

我之後再做，等我老一點，我終於要過我想要的生活了。

I see young people in their 20s, 30s, even 40s, and they're all saying the same thing.

我看到很多二十幾歲、三十幾歲，甚至四十幾歲的年輕人，他們都說著同樣的話。

When I make more money, then I'll be happy.

等我賺更多錢，我就會快樂了。

When I get that promotion, then I'll relax when the kids are grown, then I'll travel.

等我升職了，等孩子長大了，我就要放鬆、去旅行。

When I retire, then I'll finally do what I love.

等我退休了，我就要去做我熱愛的事了。

Let me save you 50 years of regret with one simple truth.

我要用一個簡單的真相，幫你省下五十年的遺憾。

You get the promotion and suddenly you need the next one.

你升職了，然後你又想要下一個升職。

You make more money, and suddenly you need more money.

你賺了更多錢，然後你又想要更多錢。

You're always chasing something just out of reach.

你總是在追逐著夠不著的東西。

And before you know it, you're 70 years old, wondering where your life went.

然後不知不覺，你就七十歲了，在想著人生去哪了。

I spent 30 years climbing a ladder, only to realize when I got to the top that it was leaning against the wrong wall.

我花了三十年爬梯子，爬到頂端才發現，梯子靠錯牆了。

And you can't climb back down and start over.

Here's something nobody tells you when you're young.

這是一件年輕時沒人會告訴你的事。

And I say this as someone who achieved everything I set out to achieve.

我這麼說，是因為我達成我設定的每一個目標。

I made partner at my firm, I bought the house.

我成了事務所的合夥人，買了房子。

You achieve your goal and for about 48 hours, you feel amazing.

你達成目標後，大概有 48 小時感覺很棒。

Now you need a new goal, a bigger achievement, More validation.

現在你需要一個新目標，一個更大的成就，更多的肯定。

I had a friend who died three years ago at 68.

我有個朋友三年前過世了，享壽 68 歲。

他一輩子都在工作，每週工時 70 小時。

他建立了一個價值數百萬美元的事業。

At his funeral, his son said, my father was a successful man, but I barely knew him.

在他告別式上，他兒子說：我爸是個成功的人，但我幾乎不認識他。

Your regrets won't be about the things you did wrong.

They'll be about the things you didn't do at all.

I don't lie awake at night thinking about failed business deals.

我晚上不會因為生意失敗而睡不著。

The trip to Japan I never took because I was too busy.

是我因為太忙而沒去成的日本旅行。

The relationship with my brother that I let deteriorate.

The book I always wanted to write but never started.

The time I didn't spend with my kids because I was working late.

我因為加班而沒陪小孩的時間。

The missed opportunities, the roads not taken.

The risks you didn't take because you were afraid.

Your parents, your siblings, your close friends.

你的父母、兄弟姊妹、親近的朋友。

You think you have unlimited time with them.

你覺得你跟他們有無限的時間。

We had a complicated relationship and I was always too busy to really work on it.

我們之間的關係很複雜，我總是太忙，沒辦法真正去經營。

I kept thinking we'd have time to talk when I was less busy.

我一直想著，等我沒那麼忙的時候，我們會有時間好好聊聊。

你知道我最大的遺憾是什麼嗎？

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