Name: 為什麼你什麼都堅持不下去？(廣博學優勢) (Why You Can’t Stick To Anything (The Polymath Advantage))
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情態副詞

You probably have a graveyard in your house.

Maybe it is a dusty guitar in the corner that you haven't touched in months.

或許是角落裡蒙著灰塵的吉他，你已經好幾個月沒碰了。

程度副詞

A stack of language books you bought with so much hope but barely opened.

還有那些你曾滿懷希望買下，卻幾乎沒翻開過的語言書。

Or a half finished coding project sitting on your laptop.

或是筆電裡那個還沒完成的程式專案。

And every time you look at them, you feel a little twinge of guilt.

每次看到它們，你都會有點內疚。

They call it flaky, they call it lacking grit.

他們說你善變，說你缺乏毅力。

Or the most famous one, jack of all trades, master of none.

You consume the information greedily and you feel like this is finally the one.

你貪婪地吸收資訊，覺得「就是這個了！」

And then right when things get serious, the feeling evaporates, you get bored, you quit, and

然後就在事情變得認真時，那種感覺就蒸發了，你感到厭煩，你放棄，然後

After a few years of this cycle, the self blame sets in.

經過幾年的這個循環，自我責備就開始了。

You look at your track record and ask, why can't I just stick to something?

你看看你的紀錄，問自己：「為什麼我就是不能堅持一件事？」

But today I want to offer you a different perspective.

但今天我想提供你一個不同的觀點。

One that is a little kinder and a lot more scientific.

一個更友善、也更科學的觀點。

It is easy to feel like being a dabbler is a defect, but

很容易覺得博而不精是一種缺陷，但

you actually share the exact same foundation as a genius polymath.

你其實跟天才博學家有著完全相同的基礎。

You have a high drive for novelty and curiosity.

你對新奇的追求和好奇心都很強。

The difference between you and a master isn't your personality, it is your strategy.

你和專家之間的差別不在於個性，而在於策略。

It comes down to the conditioning of a specific part of your brain.

這取決於你大腦特定部位的制約。

But to unlock that potential, we need to understand the glitch that makes you quit too early.

但要釋放那潛力，我們得先了解讓你太早放棄的那個小毛病。

Let's start by looking at how your brain handles new information.

讓我們從看看你的大腦如何處理新資訊開始。

Cognitive scientists call this the knowledge instinct, which is the drive to reduce uncertainty.

認知科學家稱之為知識本能，也就是減少不確定性的驅動力。

It cares less about having the knowledge and more about the speed of acquiring it.

它不太在意擁有知識，反而更在意獲取知識的速度。

Your brain is highly sensitive to what researchers call reward prediction error.

你的大腦對研究人員所說的「獎勵預測誤差」非常敏感。

Here is what that feels like when you start learning something new, say photography.

當你開始學習新事物，像是攝影時，感覺會是這樣。

You go from knowing nothing to knowing something very quickly.

你會從一無所知，快速變成知道一些東西。

Because the rate of information gain is massive.

這是因為資訊獲取的速率非常龐大。

The world is full of possibility, but this is a trap.

世界充滿了可能性，但這是一個陷阱。

Then you reach a point where you understand the core logic.

然後你會來到一個階段，理解了核心邏輯。

Suddenly the novelty drops, the learning curve flattens.

突然間，新鮮感消退，學習曲線趨於平緩。

You enter the plateau, and for your specific brain type, that means the dopamine shuts off immediately.

你進入了高原期，對你的大腦類型來說，這意味著多巴胺會立刻停止分泌。

A master pushes through this plateau because they are looking for a deeper pattern.

真正的高手會突破這個高原期，因為他們在尋找更深層次的模式。

但博而不精者在這裡就放棄了。

Without fuel, your brain is going through dopamine withdrawal.

沒有了燃料，你的大腦正在經歷多巴胺戒斷。

Your subconscious realizes the energy required to learn this final 20% is no longer worth the reward.

你的潛意識意識到，學習最後 20% 所需的能量已經不值得回報了。

But we need to have an honest moment here.

但我們需要在這裡坦誠地聊一聊。

Are you quitting because you truly mastered the skill?

你是因為真正掌握了這項技能而放棄嗎？

A dabbler quits because they hit the first obstacle.

博而不精者在遇到第一個障礙時就放棄了。

他們的自尊心受挫，然後就跑掉了。

And the reason you give in to that fear is because a specific muscle in your brain is weak.

而你之所以屈服於恐懼，是因為你大腦中某個特定的肌肉比較弱。

We often talk about grit or willpower as if they are magical character traits.

我們常把毅力或意志力說得好像是神奇的性格特質。

But neuroscience shows that tenacity is physical.

但神經科學顯示，毅力是實際存在的。

It lives in a specific brain region called the anterior midcingulate cortex, or amcc.

它存在於大腦一個叫做前扣帶皮質（anterior midcingulate cortex, amcc）的特定區域。

You can simply think of the AMCC as a muscle inside your head.

你可以把 AMCC 想像成你腦袋裡的一塊肌肉。

Research shows that this area engages when you do something that you do not want to do.

研究顯示，當你做一件不想做的事情時，這個區域就會啟動。

如果你喜歡這項任務，AMCC 就會休息。

If you hate the task, but do it anyway, the AMCC fires.

如果你討厭這項任務，卻還是做了，AMCC 就會啟動。

If you let this muscle bear weight, it grows.

如果你讓這塊肌肉負荷重量，它就會成長。

For a dabbler, the AMCC is often like a weak muscle that cannot even lift a water bottle.

對於博而不精者來說，AMCC 常常就像一塊虛弱的肌肉，連水瓶都提不起來。

Every time you felt a moment of boredom or frustration in the past, you quit.

過去每一次感到無聊或沮喪的時刻，你都放棄了。

So now even a tiny inconvenience, like a difficult chapter in a book or a confusing line of code is enough to trigger a give up decision.

所以現在，即使是像書本裡難懂的章節或程式碼裡令人困惑的一行這樣的小不便，都足以觸發放棄的決定。

It's like asking someone who's never run to suddenly sprint a marathon.

這就像要求一個從未跑過步的人，突然要他跑一場馬拉松。

This feeling of weakness isn't a moral failing.

這種虛弱的感覺並非道德上的缺陷。

But the good news is that this brain region is plastic.

不過好消息是，這個大腦區域是具有可塑性的。

Studies on superagers, older adults who maintain incredible cognitive function show that they have AMCCs that are just as thick as young people.

對超級長青族的研究，也就是那些能維持驚人認知功能的老年人，顯示他們的 AMCC 和年輕人一樣厚。

Because they spent a lifetime overcoming challenges.

因為他們花了一輩子克服挑戰。

So even if you are young, your willpower muscle might be weaker than a 70 year old who has lived a hard life.

所以即使你年輕，你的毅力肌肉可能比一個歷經滄桑的七十歲老人還要弱。

Just like a real gym, you don't walk in and try to deadlift £500.

就像真的健身房一樣，你不會一進去就想舉起 500 英鎊的重量。

When you are practicing your new hobby and you feel that familiar urge to quit, that moment when the dopamine fades and the frustration starts.

當你練習新嗜好，感覺到熟悉的想放棄的衝動，那個多巴胺消退、挫折感開始的時刻。

Do not quit immediately, but also do not try to force yourself to work for another four hours.

不要立刻放棄，但也不要強迫自己再做四小時。

If you plan to read 10 pages and you want to stop at page three, read to page four then stop.

如果你計畫讀 10 頁，想在第三頁停下來，那就讀到第四頁再停。

That tiny gap, that small moment of doing what you did not want to do is the rep.

那微小的差距，那一點點做你不想做的事的時刻，就是一次訓練。