【雙語】美文閱讀——做最好最真實的自己

To give you a little incentive to take on the challenge, to embark on the road to self-discovery, here are three huge benefits from working to become the best, most genuine version of yourself.

為激勵你迎接挑戰(zhàn)、踏上尋求自我的旅途，我列出了成為最好最真實自己后的三大益處：

It will make you happy. Getting to know yourself will make you feel more comfortable in your own skin. It will reduce your stress and anxiety. It will make you a better spouse, a better parent, a better friend. It will make you a better person. Those are all pretty good reasons, if you ask me.

你會感到快樂。了解自己后會讓你更愉悅地接受自己，減輕你的壓力和焦慮，使你成為更好的伴侶、父母、朋友，讓你成為一個更美好的人。這些益處難道不夠說服你為之努力嗎？

Besides, you really won't achieve anything significant in life until you know the real you. Not your brand, your LinkedIn profile, how you come across, or what anyone thinks of you. The genuine you. There's one simple reason why you shouldn't try to be something you're not, and it's that you can't. The real you will come out anyway. So forget your personal brand and start spending time on figuring out who you really are and trying to become the best version of that you can be.

而且，只有了解真實的自己方能成就大事。你需要了解那個真實的你，而不是你的品牌、名譽、LinkedlIn資料、你的過去抑或他人對你的看法。為什么你不應該過他人的生活？很簡單，因為首先你不是“其他人”，你的本性總有一天會現(xiàn)形。所以，請放開你的品牌形象，努力發(fā)掘真實自我、努力把自己經(jīng)營成最好的自己吧。

You pay a huge price when you engage in mindless distraction. The only people that really care about you are your loved ones, your friends and family. Everyone else is too busy living his own little mini drama. To put it bluntly, your network couldn't care less about you.

盲目分心的代價很大。真正在乎你的只有你所愛的人、你的親人和朋友。而其他人都只圍著自己的小日子轉(zhuǎn)罷了。說穿了，社交關系中的人并不可靠。

That's why engaging yourself and others in mindless distraction isn't worth your time or theirs. More important, it will absolutely keep you from focusing on accomplishing whatever great things you might manage to achieve in life if you set your mind to it.

所以，浪費時間盲目分心應付自己或他人都沒有意義。更嚴重的是，當你決心著手生活中的大計劃時，分心會有礙你集中完成目標。

There's a business concept called opportunity cost. When you choose one course of action, you miss out on all the other opportunities you might have chosen to pursue but didn't. People rarely stop to consider that until it's too late.

有一個商業(yè)術語叫“機會成本”。當你選定某個行為時，你也會錯過其他原本可以選擇的機會。很少有人能意識到這一點，就算意識到也為時已晚。

It's the most exciting journey you will ever embark on. We're all enthralled by adventure. We love to read and watch movies about other people's journeys, real or imagined. The Hobbit. Raiders of the Lost Ark. Into Thin Air.

這將是一段前所未有的有趣旅程。我們都樂于于冒險，熱愛閱讀和觀看有關他人或真實或虛構(gòu)的旅程電影，例如，《霍比特人》、《奪寶奇兵》或《走進空氣稀薄地帶》。

We love to take vacations, to travel to all sorts of places. And when we do, we revel in the natural beauty of Kauai's Na Pali Coast, the Grand Canyon, the Alps. We marvel at the great works of others: the art, the architecture, the Pyramids, Stonehenge.

我們熱愛假期，喜歡到各地旅行。我們會驚嘆于考艾島上納波利海岸的自然風光，迷上美國大峽谷、阿爾卑斯山。我們也會驚嘆于他人的杰作：藝術、建筑、金字塔、巨石陣等等。

And yet, the opportunity for adventure is right there in front of each and every one of us. Until you take it, you'll never know what you might achieve. What marvels you might create. What you might discover. All you have to do is start the journey.

而且，冒險之門向每個人敞開。打開這扇門之前，誰也不知道能獲得哪些收獲，會創(chuàng)造哪些奇跡，又將有什么新的發(fā)現(xiàn)……你所要做的，僅僅是啟程。

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