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The paradox of self -awareness.
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So everyone understands that actions are more important than words, right?
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You are what you do, not what you say you'll do.
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And there's this line from Hamlet, "Thus conscience does make cowards of us all." never read any Shakespeare.
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I can barely remember even going through it in school, but I came across this line again and did a deep dive on what it means.
我几乎都不记得上学时学过这段内容，但最近又偶然看到这句话，就深入研究了一下它的含义。
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Thus, conscience does make cowards of us all.
因此，良知确实让我们所有人都成了懦夫。
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This line comes from Hamlet and it's usually misheard as an insult.
这句台词出自《哈姆雷特》，人们常常会误听成是一句辱骂。
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It's as if Shakespeare is sort of sneering at morality,
这就好像莎士比亚在某种程度上是在嘲讽道德。
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saying that, um, Ethics soften us, or thought drains courage from the body.
说什么，嗯，伦理道德会让我们变得软弱，或者说思考会抽走身体里的勇气。
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I don't think that's what's happening.
我认为情况并非如此。
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Shakespeare isn't attacking goodness.
莎士比亚并非在抨击善良。
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He's pointing at self -awareness and naming its cost.
他直指自我意识的存在，并点明了它需要付出的代价。
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It's in the to be or not to be soliloquy and Hamlet isn't really weighing life versus death.
这段内容出自“生存还是毁灭”的独白，而哈姆雷特其实并不是在权衡生与死的抉择。
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He's circling a more practical question.
他正在琢磨一个更实际的问题。
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Why do humans hesitate to act even when action would clearly relieve their suffering?
为什么即使采取行动显然能够减轻痛苦，人类还是会犹豫不决？
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Like, why do we endure situations we don't want?
比如说，我们为什么要忍受自己不想要的处境？
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And why do we tolerate lives that we could in theory change?
那我们又为什么会容忍那些理论上我们本可以改变的生活呢？
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Well, Pain isn't the only obstacle.
嗯，佩恩并不是唯一的障碍。
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imagination is, and by conscience, Shakespeare means something closer to consciousness.
想象力，而莎士比亚所说的“良知”其实更接近于意识的含义。
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It's the ability to think ahead, to judge ourselves, to simulate futures before they arrive.
这是一种提前思考、自我审视、在未来到来之前模拟各种可能性的能力。
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It's to see the consequences coming.
就是为了预见即将到来的后果。
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and experience them emotionally, in advance.
并提前在情感上体验它们。
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And unfortunately, that ability cuts both ways, because the very capacity that makes you reflective and ethical and intelligent,
不幸的是，这种能力是一把双刃剑，因为正是这种让你善于反思、有道德感且聪明的能力，
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also makes you hesitant.
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We imagine worst case scenarios so vividly that we treat them as if they're already real.
我们把最坏的情况想象得太过逼真，以至于把它们当成已经发生的现实。
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So, Courage isn't defeated by fear.
所以，勇气不会被恐惧打败。
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It's defeated by simulation.
它被模拟击败了。
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We rehearse embarrassment.
我们排练尴尬。
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loss, rejection, and moral failure in advance, and then our bodies respond as if those things have already happened.
我们会预先设想失去、被拒绝和道德上的失败，然后我们的身体就会做出反应，仿佛这些事情已经发生了。
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Your heart rate rises, your muscles tighten.
你的心率加快，肌肉紧绷。
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Avoidance feels sensible.
选择回避的感觉很明智。
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and inaction feels like safety.
而不作为总让人觉得是安全的。
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Hamlet describes what follows.
哈姆雷特描述了接下来发生的事情。
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Thought, he says, puzzles the will.
他说，思想会困扰意志。
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Thought puzzles the will.
思想磨砺意志。
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reflection drains us.
反思会消耗我们的精力。
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Not because thinking is bad, but because it multiplies potential outcomes faster than our actions can deal with them.
这并不是因为思考本身不好，而是因为思考会让潜在的结果成倍增加，其速度之快超出了我们行动的应对能力。
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I think that's so cool.
我觉得这太酷了。
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Thinking isn't bad itself, but it's able to generate more realities than our actions can solve.
思考本身并非坏事，但它能产生的现实可能性之多，远超我们行动所能应对的范围。
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Animals don't suffer this, right?
动物不会遭受这种痛苦，对吧？
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They just act when a threshold is crossed.
它们只会在达到某个阈值时才会采取行动。
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Humans linger, and by the time that the moment to move arrives, we feel as if we've already lived through its inevitable failure.
人类总是犹豫不决，等到真正该行动的时刻到来时，我们仿佛已经预见到了它必然失败的结局。
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So we wait.
所以我们就等着。
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This is the deepest psychological point that I think Shakespeare is making.
我认为这正是莎士比亚作品中最深刻的心理学观点。
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And I'm aware that a guy that basically didn't read Shakespeare is just reverse engineering what I think he said.
我也清楚，一个基本上没读过莎士比亚的人，只不过是在凭自己的猜测倒推我认为他说过的话。
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But I do think that this is a cool interpretation, right?
但我确实觉得这个解读挺有意思的，对吧？
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Our intelligence doesn't just protect us.
我们的智能系统不仅仅是保护我们。
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it also inhibits us.
它也会抑制我们。
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We learn quickly from mistakes that we make.
我们能从自己犯的错误中快速学习。
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but we almost never feel the cost of mistakes that we avoid.
但我们几乎从未感受到那些我们避免了的错误所带来的代价。
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The humiliation of speaking and failing leaves a scar, but the decades -long erosion of never speaking leaves nothing that you can point to.
开口发言却遭遇失败的屈辱会留下伤疤，而数十年从不发言所带来的侵蚀，却不会留下任何你能指认的痕迹。
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which, explains why people stay in the wrong job.
这解释了为什么人们会一直从事不合适的工作。
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the wrong relationship, the wrong version of themselves for years.
在一段错误的关系里，多年来一直展现着不真实的自己。
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Not because they don't know better...
并不是因为他们不明事理……
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but because action demands stepping into an unrehearsed future.
而是因为行动意味着踏入一个未经彩排的未来。
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Hamlet names the real enemy.
哈姆雷特指明了真正的敌人。
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which is uncertainty.
这就是不确定性。
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Not pain or effort, but just...
不是痛苦或努力，而只是……
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The Unknown.
未知事物。
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Our minds would rather endure a familiar misery than gamble on an unfamiliar freedom.
我们的心智宁愿忍受熟悉的痛苦，也不愿去赌一场陌生的自由。
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Even suffering becomes tolerable once it's predictable.
一旦痛苦变得可以预测，就连痛苦本身也会变得可以承受。
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But, People would rather spend years in misery than risk a few days of pain.
但人们宁愿长年深陷痛苦，也不愿冒险承受几天的剧痛。
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And this is why modern life, despite being safer than any previous era, often feels more paralyzing.
正因如此，现代生活尽管比以往任何时代都更安全，却常常让人感到更加无所适从。
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Because our nervous system has evolved to avoid death and lions,
因为我们的神经系统进化出了躲避死亡和狮子的机制，
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and now we use it to avoid embarrassment and misjudgment and reputational damage and identity fracture.
如今我们用它来避免尴尬、误判、声誉受损以及身份认同的破裂。
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And here's the final uncomfortable implication Shakespeare leaves hanging.
而这正是莎士比亚留下的最后一个令人不安的暗示。
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Self -awareness is not a pure good.
自我意识并非纯粹的好事。
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right beyond a certain point, Self -awareness actually inhibits agency.
过了某个临界点之后，自我意识实际上会抑制人的自主能动性。
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less reflection can mean more peace.
少一些思虑，或许能多一份内心的平静。
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Less certainty can mean more movement.
不确定性增加，往往意味着变动加剧。
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Less conscience can sometimes mean more life.
少一点良知，有时意味着多一线生机。
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Courage isn't about thinking clearly.
勇气并不意味着保持清醒的头脑。
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It's about moving while things are still unclear.
这是关于在情况尚不明朗时采取行动。
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You know, there's that famous line, "the unexamined life is not worth living", but A life can be deeply examined, and still never lived.
你知道，有一句名言说“未经审视的人生是不值得过的”，但即便人生被反复审视，也依然可能从未真正活过。
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This paradox of self -awareness, the fact that the deeper you think, sometimes the less you're able to act.
这种自我意识的悖论，即你思考得越深入，有时反而越无法采取行动。
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If your mind is able to generate realities more quickly than you are able to come up with solutions
如果你的大脑构建现实的速度比你想出解决方案的速度还要快
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or move through them, you kind of have this weird cost - benefit imbalance or maybe like a cost profit,
或者要通过这些障碍时，就会出现一种奇怪的成本收益失衡，或者说成本利润不对等的情况。
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your balance sheet is offset where the overheads are higher than the revenue.
你的资产负债表出现了收支相抵的情况，即间接费用高于收入。
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And this sort of puts you in a negative equity in terms of your ability to move forward.
这在某种程度上会让你在前进的能力方面陷入负资产的困境。
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And that can freeze you in place.
而这会让你僵在原地。
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You don't want to do something because you think...
你因为觉得……而不想去做某件事。
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Look at all the ways that could go wrong.
想想所有可能出错的地方。
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And.. the more ways it could go wrong, the less ability I'm going to have to act.
而且……可能出错的地方越多，我能采取行动的能力就越弱。
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And what if this thing occurs and that thing occurs?
如果这件事发生了，那件事也发生了，那该怎么办？
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And over time, conscience makes cowards of us all.
久而久之，良知会让我们所有人都变得懦弱。
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Uh...
呃……
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It's weird because most people probably need to be more thoughtful.
这很奇怪，因为大多数人或许需要更周全一些。
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They need to spend more time, be less rash, act less impulsively.
他们需要多花些时间，不要那么鲁莽，也不要那么冲动行事。
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But there is a cohort of people that are the opposite and the people like me and maybe you too. And other people who...
但有一群人恰恰相反，比如我，可能还有你，以及其他一些人……
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think more than they should.
想太多。
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talk themselves out of more things than into them and actually move more slowly.
他们往往会说服自己放弃更多事情，而非着手去做，实际行动起来也更加迟缓。
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They get less done in life due to their thought than more.
他们在生活中因为思虑过多，做成的事反而更少，而不是更多。
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Now they'll make way fewer mistakes and that's great.
现在他们犯的错误会少得多，这真是太好了。
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But again, the mistake of omission is different to the mistake of commission.
但话说回来，遗漏的错误与主动犯下的错误是不同的。
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So what's the People make commission errors if they don't think enough.
人们如果思考不够充分，就会犯执行错误。
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People make omission errors if they think too much.
人们如果思考过多，就会出现遗漏错误。
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Like if you overthink, decide not to go up and speak to
比如如果你想太多，就会决定不上前去搭话
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that girl that's been in the cafeteria at work for six months, she gets a boyfriend, would have been the perfect partner for you.
那个在公司食堂待了六个月的女生，她交了男朋友，她本来会是最适合你的对象。
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And you decide to not make the move because you've talked yourself into and out of it so many times.
而你最终决定不采取行动，因为这件事你已经在心里反复权衡、犹豫了无数次。
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Your mind's ability to show you what could go wrong is greater than your actions ability to fix it in reality.
你的大脑预想出各种可能出错的情况的能力，远远超过了你在现实中采取行动去解决这些问题的能力。
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That is an omission error, but we don't see it in the same way because it's not as obvious.
那是一项遗漏错误，但我们的看法不同，因为它并不那么明显。
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For instance, I chose to not bring a number of guests on this podcast in 2024.
举个例子，2024年我选择不在这期播客节目中邀请多位嘉宾。
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And Maybe that's leaked out of me in a couple of other vlogs or whatever, but I didn't make a big song and dance about it.
可能我在其他几支视频博客里不小心透露过这件事，但我并没有大肆宣扬。
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I basically never spoke about it.
我基本上从来没提过这件事。
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I'm never going to get credit for the things that I didn't do.
我永远不会因为那些我没做过的事而得到认可。
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And in the same way, you never pay a cost, for the things that you don't do.
同样的，你也永远不会为自己没有做过的事情付出代价。
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I mean, look, if you leave a person to bleed out on the side of the street without calling the ambulance, that's a kind of omission error, but it's pretty obvious.
我的意思是，你看，如果有人倒在路边流血不止，你却不叫救护车，这属于一种不作为的过错，但这种情况其实很明显。
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A much more quiet omission error is, I was scared of building the business because my mind taught me all of the different ways that stuff could go wrong.
一种更为隐蔽的疏漏错误是，我当时害怕拓展业务，因为我的脑子里不断冒出各种可能出错的念头。
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So I didn't do it.
所以我没有那么做。
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And I'll never know the pain of not fulfilling my dreams, but I avoided the pain of failure.
我永远不会体会到未能实现梦想的痛苦，但我也避开了失败的痛苦。
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And the pains of failure are much more prevalent in our mind than the pain of, fuck, what if this doesn't go well?
失败带来的痛苦在我们脑海中远比那种“搞砸了怎么办”的焦虑要普遍得多。
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So there's this great...
所以有这么个很棒的……
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audio book from Tony Robbins.
托尼·罗宾斯的有声书。
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It's 30 years old.
它已经有30年历史了。
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George Mack sent it to me.
乔治·麦克把它发给我了。
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I don't even know how to find it.
我甚至都不知道该怎么找到它。
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I'll try and find it and put it in the links, but it's basically an hour and a half worksheet, Awaken the Giant Within.
我会尽量找到它并放到链接里，那基本上是一份一个半小时的练习材料，主题是《Awaken the Giant Within》。
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It's an audio book.
这是一本有声书。
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And all he does, it's basically one long exercise to try and front load the pain.
他所做的一切，基本上就是一场漫长的尝试，试图把所有痛苦都提前承受。
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as much as possible.
尽可能。
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Look at what this situation you're in now has cost you in the past.
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Look at what it's costing you right now and look at what it will cost you in the future.
看看你现在付出的代价，再看看未来你将要付出的代价。
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and he tries to get you to sit in the discomfort as much as possible.
他还会尽量让你长时间处于这种不适的状态。
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It's horrible, awful exercise.
这是一项非常可怕、非常糟糕的运动。
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It's like the mental equivalent of an ice bath.
这就好比是精神层面的冰水浴。
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And then, He gets you to try and do the opposite.
然后，他会让你试着做相反的事。
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Look at what would have happened in the past if you'd made the change that you want to, that you think is right.
回想一下，如果你过去做出了你现在想要做、并且认为是正确的改变，会发生什么。
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If you'd improved this thing, look at what would be happening now and look at what would happen in the future.
要是你当初改进了这个东西，看看现在会是什么情况，再看看未来又会发生什么。
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And he tries to sort of get you to use, he calls it the pain and pleasure principle.
他还试图让你运用他所谓的痛苦与快乐原则。
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motivate your behavior through pain and pleasure and uh The type of pain?
通过痛苦和快乐来驱动你的行为，那痛苦的类型又是什么呢？
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that you can front load with Look at what not starting this thing.
你可以先把重点放在看看不启动这件事会带来什么后果上。
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has cost you in the past and now in the future.
过去、现在和未来，这都让你付出了代价。
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You have to be much more conscious.
你得更加留心才行。
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Like the, um, commission errors come naturally to us, but the omission errors are much more hidden.
比如，嗯，我们很容易犯执行性错误，但疏漏性错误要隐蔽得多。
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So you need to kind of, you need to do an exercise.
所以你需要做一些练习。
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You need to consciously bring omission errors in like, fuck, like I've always wanted to be a standup comedian.
你得有意识地加入一些口误，比如，我靠，就像我一直想当一名脱口秀演员那样。
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I've always just wanted to do, I've always, I want to do an open mic.
我一直都想尝试，一直以来，我都想参加一次开放麦。
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I just really want to do an open mic and you've put it off for Decades, you never did it.
我真的很想参加一次开放麦，可你拖了几十年都没去做。
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You never closed that loop and you might hate it.
你一直没有把那个闭环补上，现在可能会为此感到后悔。
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Here's the other thing.
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The thing that you're putting off from doing, you might absolutely hate.
你一直拖延着不去做的那件事，你可能会非常讨厌。
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at least once you realize whether you like it or you don't, you go up and speak to the girl in the cafeteria and find out she's got horrible breath and she's an asshole.
至少有一次你会发现，不管你喜不喜欢，当你走到食堂里和那个女孩搭话，才发现她口气特别重，而且人还很糟糕。
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There you go.
好了，给你。
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Loop closed.
循环已闭合。
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You don't need to think about it.
你不需要考虑这件事。
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But the what if after the fact will kill you.
但事后那些“如果当初”的念头会把你折磨得生不如死。
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But the what if before the fact is really hard to determine.
但事前的各种假设情况实在难以确定。
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So yeah, I think this conscience does make cowards of us all.
所以是啊，我觉得这种良知确实让我们所有人都变成了懦夫。
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That is my...
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You're seven.
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fourth grade assessment of Shakespeare.
四年级莎士比亚作品评估
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感谢大家来听我的 TED 演讲。
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這個視頻適合誰？
無論你是準備雅思口语练习的考生，還是想提升日常表達的英語學習者，這段視頻都很適合。它的語速中等，內容圍繞心理和文學展開，既能鍛煉理解複雜觀點的能力，又能積累深度詞彙。尤其是想練英语影子跟读（shadow speech）的同學，其邏輯清晰的論述結構，非常適合模仿語調和節奏。
值得借鑒的詞彙和短語
- vicious cost：惡性代價（指自我意識帶來的負面影響）
- paradox：悖論（如視頻中“行動比言語重要，但自我意識卻阻礙行動”的矛盾）
- soliloquy：獨白（哈姆雷特的經典臺詞就是獨白）
- puzzle the will：動搖意志（思考讓人遲疑不決）
這些詞匯不僅能豐富你的英语口语练习詞庫，還能幫你表達更深刻的思想。
如何練好口音？
這位講者的發音清晰，重點在於語調的起伏和停頓的節奏。比如說到“Thus conscience does make cowards of us all”時，“conscience”和“cowards”要稍微加重語氣，突出對比。練習時可以用看YouTube学英语的方法，先跟讀整句，再拆分短語，注意“simulation”（模擬）這類長詞的重音在第二個音節。通過影子跟讀，逐漸掌握思考時的自然語速，讓你的口語聽起來更流暢、有邏輯。
视频中的语法
说话人最常用的结构，并附上视频中的原话：
| 结构 | 视频中的用法 |
|---|---|
| 条件句 if + 从句，will/would + 动词 — 条件及其结果 | if after the fact will kill |
| 现在完成时 have/has + 过去分词 — 过去发生但与现在仍有关联的事 | have already happened · we've already lived · has evolved |
| 被动语态 be + 过去分词 — 强调发生了什么，而不是谁做的 | isn't defeated · is crossed · being dehydrated |
什么是跟读法？
跟读法 (Shadowing) 是一种有科学依据的语言学习技巧，最初开发用于专业口译员的培训，并由多语言者Alexander Arguelles博士普及。这个方法简单而强大：您在听英语母语原声的同时立即大声重复——就像是一个延迟1-2秒紧跟说话者的影子。与被动听力或语法练习不同，跟读法强迫您的大脑和口腔肌肉同时处理并模仿真实的讲话模式。研究表明它能显着提高发音准确性，语调，节奏，连读，听力理解和口语流利度——使其成为雅思口语备考和真实英语交流最有效的方法之一。