Some games have finish lines: baseball, football, right?

某些遊戲總會有個終點，像是棒球和足球，對吧？

Getting a part is a finish line.

能夠有所表現，便是你的終點線。

You audition, there's a beginning, middle and end.

一場試鏡有開始、過程、結尾，

There's rehearsal and practice.

有彩排，也有幕後練習。

There's showing up for the audition and you either win or you lose, and then it's over.

你必須為試鏡出席，最後你要不是贏得那個選角，就是沒有得到，一切結束。

That is finite.

這短暫而有限。

But one's career is infinite.

可是，一個人的職業生涯卻是恆久漫長的，

There's no end.

看不見盡頭。

It's like our lives are finite,

就像我們的人生雖然稍縱即逝，

but life is infinite.

生命本身卻無窮盡，

People come and people go but life continues.

身邊的人來來去去，但生命始終持續。

Theater.

一間劇院，

Actors come and actors go but theater continues.

演員們來了又走，但劇院始終生生不息。

It's infinite.

這些是恆久遠的。

You don't win theater.

你無法贏得整間劇院，

You win a part. But what happens once you get the part?

你只能贏得選角，但當角色到手之後呢？

The finite game is over.

那場遊戲戛然而止。

Now you enter the infinite game, you have to be able to convert.

現在你面對的是場無盡的遊戲，你必須認清這個轉變。

And the reason this is important, and I've seen this unfortunately so many times, from a young age all you wanted to do was get to Broadway.

這點之所以很重要是因為......不幸地我看過很多案例，年少時期你們一心一意地想登上百老匯舞台。

And then you get to Broadway, and then what?

你終於。成功了，可是然後呢？

You've devoted your entire life to one finite goal.

你把整個人生投注在一項短暫目標上面，

And when you get there, the immediate response is depression.

當你達到那個目標，立即的反應便是：意志消沉。

Because I spent 15 years of my life for this one thing,

因為我為這件事情花了整整 15 年，

and I got it and now I don't know what to do next.

現在我得到它了，卻不知道接下來還要做什麼。

Like what, get to Broadway again?!

什麼才值得？不會是再次進軍百老匯吧？

It doesn't have the same ambition.

不，那份企圖心再也不會一樣了，

It doesn't have the same passion.

再也不會有等值的熱情。

You know, you've devoted your whole —

你不顧一切地投入.....

You're from Fargo, North Dakota,

假設你來自北達科他州名為 Fargo 的城市，

and that's all you wanted to do is get out of Fargo and make it to Broadway,

你以前唯一的目標就是離開 Fargo、到百老匯表演，

and you made it.

而你成功了，

It doesn't have the same kind of passion.

這份熱情變得不再相同。

And this is because these are finite goals.

只因為你設下的目標短暫、有限。

There's a lot of studies that have been done with athletes who have finite goals.

關於懷抱短暫目標的運動員，有很多不同的研究，

To become the greatest X in the world, right?

想要去成為世界上最偉大的某某人，對吧？

So Andre Agassi was one of these athletes.

安德烈·阿格西曾經也是這種運動員。

He wanted to become the greatest tennis player that ever lived.

他夢想成為有史以來最出色的網球選手，

So guess what?

你猜後來怎麼樣？

Everyone in his life he would view them through,

每一個出現在他生命中的人，阿格西都會看著他思考：

how do you help me get to that?

這個人如何能夠有助於我的目標？

Everything was "How does this help me get to that?”

每一件事都讓他想著：這如何幫助我達成目的？

Everything was a transaction.

一切都變成了一場交易。

"How do you help me move to there?"

你能以何種方式推動我的進步？

And then you know what happens?

你猜猜看接下來發生什麼事？

He achieved it, he became the greatest tennis player in the world,

他確實達成目的，成為全球最偉大的網球選手，

and you know what happened immediately after?

可是你知道接下來發生什麼事嗎？

Depression.

憂鬱症。

Michael Phelps set out to become the most medaled Olympian in history.

麥可·費爾普斯為了拿到全球最多面奧運獎牌而奮鬥，

You know what? He achieved it.

你知道嗎？他成功了。

You know what happened immediately after?

但你猜猜看接下來發生什麼事？

Depression.

也是憂鬱症。

They spend their whole life working for one goal.

他們都花了一輩子的時間，苦苦追尋一個目標。

Though most will never get it,

雖然多數人永遠不可能達到，

the few that do, don't know what to do next because their goals were finite.

但那些達到的少數人，在成功之後，卻不知道下一步是什麼，只因為那個目標短暫易逝。

Their goals were finite.

他們的目標短暫而有限。

And so there are finite components to your career,

同樣地，你的職業生涯裡的確會有無法持久的元素，

but your career should be infinite.

但你的職涯本身理應是恆久遠的。

So yes, of course you have to win the finite game.

因此當然你得想辦法在有終點的遊戲中獲勝

You have to get the part.

你必須贏得那個角色，

But immediately when you get the part,

而一旦達成，

now you convert to infinite.

你必須做的就是轉換成恆久遠的思考。