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People who break their back and people who win the lottery are back to their baseline happiness two years later.

無論是辛苦打拼的人，還是中樂透的人，兩年後都會回到他們的 baseline happiness。

Whether you're happy or unhappy at the end, it tends not to last.

無論你最後是開心還是不開心，這種感覺通常都持續不了多久。

If you get that thing, then you get used to it, and then you get bored again.

如果你得到了某樣東西，你就會習慣它，然後又對它感到厭倦。

Then a few months later, you want something else.

幾個月後，你又會想要別的東西了。

另一方面，你終究會面臨死亡。

一切都會歸於零，熱能、死亡。

宇宙本身並沒有什麼意義，對吧？

You live long enough, you'll be a philosopher.

你活得夠久，就會成為一個哲學家。

Philosophy is just when you find the hidden, generalizable truths.

哲學就是當你找到那些隱藏的、可推廣的真理。

I think it's just basically being okay with where you are not wanting.

我覺得基本上就是接受自己現在的狀態，不強求。

Not wanting things to be different than the way they are.

Not having the sense that anything is missing in this moment.

在這一刻感覺不到任何東西是缺失的。

I always like the Socrates story where he goes into the marketplace and they show him all these luxuries and fineries, and

我一直很喜歡蘇格拉底的故事，他走進市集，人們給他看各種奢侈品和精美的東西，

he says, how many things there are in this world that I do not want.

他卻說，世界上有這麼多東西是我不需要的。

So not wanting something is as good as having it.

所以，不想要某樣東西，就跟擁有它一樣好。

Ironically, I think most people, if you were to ask them when they were happiest for a sustained period of time, not for a brief moment, because pleasure can override happiness and create kind of this illusion of happiness.

諷刺的是，我認為大多數人，如果你問他們什麼時候能持續地感到快樂，不是短暫的快樂，因為快樂感會蓋過幸福感，造成一種快樂的幻覺。

But if you ask people when they were happy for a sustained period of time, they were probably doing some variation of nothing.

但如果你問人們什麼時候能持續地感到快樂，他們大概都是在做一些無所事事的事情。

That's interesting, because in the chase is this sort of lack, this contingency.

這很有趣，因為在追逐的過程中，就存在著這種匱乏，這種偶然性。

If you just sit around all the time, you get bored.

如果你整天無所事事，你就會感到無聊。

So you want adventure, you want surprise.

所以你想要冒險，你想要驚喜。

Like, there's the funny thought experiment of the bliss machine, right?

就像，有個有趣的思想實驗，叫做極樂機器，對吧？

Which is, suppose I could drill a hole in your head and put an electrode in, and

也就是說，假設我可以在你頭上鑽個洞，放進一個電極，然後

I can stimulate just the right part of your brain, and

我可以刺激你大腦的特定部位，然後

I can put you in bliss, and you'll just be in bliss.

我可以讓你進入極樂，你就會一直處於極樂之中。

So most people will say, well, I don't want that.

所以大多數人會說，嗯，我不要那樣。

And if you kind of run this thought experiment long enough, I think most people realize actually what I want is I want surprise.

而且如果你把這個思想實驗想得夠久，我想大多數人會意識到，其實我想要的是，我想要驚喜。

我希望這個世界能給我驚喜，而且

I want to wrestle with it in ways that are somewhat predictable, but somewhat not.

我想要以一種有點可預期、但又有點出乎意料的方式來面對它。

For some people, pure happiness is the ultimate goal.

對某些人來說，純粹的快樂就是終極目標。

They want to, you know, just be blissfully happy wherever they are, whenever they are.

他們想要，你知道的，無論身在何處、何時，都能開心地極樂。

But I think other people, most people would say, well, I'm here in this world.

但我想另一些人，大多數人會說，嗯，我活在這個世界上。

I don't understand it or why, but I want to be.

我不懂為什麼，但我就是想這麼做。

I want to be engaged, I want to be surprised, I want to do things, I want to accomplish things, I want to want things and then get them right.

我想要投入，我想要驚喜，我想要做事情，我想要完成事情，我想要渴望事物然後得到它們。

That's kind of the whole game that we're all playing here.

這大概是我們在這裡玩的全部遊戲。

If nothing worked out the way you expected, if it was all serendipity and you didn't want that, you would just be a ball of anxiety.

如果沒有任何事情如你預期地發展，如果一切都是意外的收穫而你又不想要，你就會焦慮不安。

On the other hand, if everything worked out as you expected and wanted, you'd be so bored you might as well be dead.

另一方面，如果一切都如你預期且想要的發展，你就會無聊到好像死了。

So there's some, you know, the river of life kind of flows between these two banks.

所以，你知道，人生的河流就在這兩個岸邊之間流動。

You hear from a lot of successful people, they look back and they say, oh, the journey was the fun part.

你會聽到很多成功人士回顧時說，哦，過程才是好玩的部分。

That was actually the entertaining part and I should have enjoyed it more.

那才是真正有趣的部分，我應該要更享受它的。

And the journey is not only the reward, the journey is the only thing there is, even success.

而過程不僅是獎勵，過程是唯一真實存在的，就連成功也是。

It's human nature to bank it very, very quickly.

快速地將它儲存起來是人之常情。

Because the normal loop that we run through is you sit around, you're bored, then you want something.

因為我們平常經歷的循環是，你坐著，感到無聊，然後你想要某樣東西。

Then when you want something, you decide you're not going to be happy until you get that thing.

當你想要某樣東西時，你就會覺得，如果得不到那個東西，你就無法快樂。

Then you start your bout of suffering or anticipation while you strive to get that thing.

然後你就會開始經歷痛苦或期待的煎熬，直到你得到那個東西。

If you get that thing, then you get used to it and then you get bored again.

如果你得到了那個東西，你就會習慣它，然後又覺得無聊了。

Then a few months later you want something else.

過幾個月後，你又會想要別的東西。

And if you don't get it, then you're unhappy for a bit and then you get over it and then you want something else.

如果你得不到，你就會不高興一陣子，然後你會釋懷，接著又想要別的東西。

So whether you're happy or unhappy at the end, it tends not to last.

所以，無論你最後是開心還是不開心，這種感覺通常都不會持久。

Now, I don't want to be glib and say that, oh, there's no point in making money or being successful.

現在，我不是想輕描淡寫地說，哦，賺錢或成功都沒有意義。

That said, there are those, those stories.

不過，還是有那些、那些故事。

I don't know if you've seen those studies.

不知道你有沒有看過那些研究。

那些辛苦工作的人和中樂透的人，兩年後都會回到他們的 baseline happiness。

I would say in general, this, this loop that we run through of desire, dopamine, fulfillment, unfulfillment, like, you have to enjoy the journey.

我會說，一般來說，我們經歷的這種慾望、多巴胺、滿足、不滿足的循環，你必須享受這個過程。

99% of your time is spent on the journey.

So what kind of a journey is it if you're not going to enjoy it?

所以，如果你不享受這個過程，那會是怎樣的過程呢？

The worst outcome in the world is not having self esteem.

世界上最糟糕的結果就是沒有自尊。

I look at the people who don't like themselves and that's the Toughest slot because they're always wrestling with themselves.

我看那些不喜歡自己的人，那是最艱難的處境，因為他們總是在跟自己搏鬥。

And it's hard enough to face the outside world.

而且光是要面對外面的世界就夠難了。

And no one's gonna like you more than you like yourself.

而且沒有人會比你自己更喜歡你。

So if you're struggling with yourself, then the outside world becomes an insurmountable challenge.

所以，如果你一直在跟自己過不去，那外面的世界就會變成一個無法克服的挑戰。

To some extent, self esteem is a reputation you have with yourself.

某種程度上，自尊是你給自己的評價。

You know what you're doing, and you have your own moral code.

你知道自己在做什麼，而且你有自己的道德準則。

But if you don't live up to your own moral code, the same code that you hold others to, it will damage your self esteem.

但是，如果你沒有遵守自己對別人的道德標準，這會損害你的自尊。

So perhaps one way to build up your self esteem is to live up to your own code.

所以，也許建立自尊的一種方法就是遵守自己的準則。

Another way to raise your self esteem might be to do things for others.

另一種提升自尊的方法，可能是多為別人付出。

If I look back on my life and what are the moments that I'm actually proud of?

如果我回顧我的人生，哪些時刻讓我感到驕傲？

It's not the material success, it's not having learned this thing or that.

不是物質上的成功，也不是學會了某件事或另一件事。

It's when I made a sacrifice for somebody or something that I loved.

而是當我為了我愛的人或事犧牲時。