when you are first learning or perfecting a skill, whether it be baking, archery, or public speaking, it is easy to get stuck in the cycle of analysis paralysis. you want to learn as much as you possibly can before you actually do the task, but you end up wasting time preparing yourself instead of just trying to do it.
當你第一次學習或完善一項技能時，無論是烘焙、射箭還是公開演講，都很容易陷入分析癱瘓的怪圈。你想在真正完成任務之前儘可能多地學習，但你最終會浪費時間為自己做準備，而不是試著去做。
dāng nǐ dì yī cì xué xí huò wán shàn yī xiàng jì néng shí ，wú lùn shì hōng bèi 、shè jiàn hái shì gōng kāi yǎn jiǎng ，dōu hěn róng yì xiàn rù fèn xī tān huàn de guài quān 。nǐ xiǎng zài zhēn zhèng wán chéng rèn wù zhī qián jìn kě néng duō dì xué xí ，dàn nǐ zuì zhōng huì làng fèi shí jiān wéi zì jǐ zuò zhǔn bèi ，ér bú shì shì zhe qù zuò 。
major league baseball pitchers don't throw a perfect game every time they play, so why do you expect to be perfect all the time?
美國職業棒球大聯盟的投手們並不是每次都投出完美的球，所以你為什麼期望自己總是完美呢?
měi guó zhí yè bàng qiú dà lián méng de tóu shǒu men bìng bú shì měi cì dōu tóu chū wán měi de qiú ，suǒ yǐ nǐ wéi shí me qī wàng zì jǐ zǒng shì wán měi ne ?
jonathan fields recently wrote an excellent piece on how the key to getting better at something is to make more bad stuff.
喬納森·菲爾茲(jonathan fields)最近寫了一篇很棒的文章，論述瞭如何在某件事上變得更好的關鍵是製造更多的壞東西。
qiáo nà sēn ·fēi ěr zī (jonathan fields)zuì jìn xiě le yī piān hěn bàng de wén zhāng ，lùn shù le rú hé zài mǒu jiàn shì shàng biàn dé gèng hǎo de guān jiàn shì zhì zào gèng duō de huài dōng xī 。
that is a powerful message. in a world filled with perfectionists who don't want to share what they've created with anyone unless they think it is perfect, the best way to get better is actually with hands-on practice. and the best way to practice is by trying over and over again until you stop failing miserably.
這是一個強有力的信息。在一個充滿完美主義者的世界裡，他們不願意與任何人分享他們所創造的東西，除非他們認為它是完美的。最好的練習方法就是一遍又一遍地嘗試，直到你不再悲慘地失敗。
zhè shì yī gè qiáng yǒu lì de xìn xī 。zài yī gè chōng mǎn wán měi zhǔ yì zhě de shì jiè lǐ ，tā men bú yuàn yì yǔ rèn hé rén fèn xiǎng tā men suǒ chuàng zào de dōng xī ，chú fēi tā men rèn wéi tā shì wán měi de 。zuì hǎo de liàn xí fāng fǎ jiù shì yī biàn yòu yī biàn dì cháng shì ，zhí dào nǐ bú zài bēi cǎn dì shī bài 。
jonathan uses the example of building a guitar, but wanting the first one to be perfect.
喬納森以製造吉他為例，但他希望第一把吉他是完美的。
qiáo nà sēn yǐ zhì zào jí tā wéi lì ，dàn tā xī wàng dì yī bǎ jí tā shì wán měi de 。
'go and make a really bad guitar.' stop waiting around, go buy a kit and do it. today.
“去做一把非常糟糕的吉他。“別再等了，去買一套工具來做吧。今天。
“qù zuò yī bǎ fēi cháng zāo gāo de jí tā 。“bié zài děng le ，qù mǎi yī tào gōng jù lái zuò ba 。jīn tiān 。
the first one...will be bad. maybe really bad. but you'll learn more making one bad guitar than you will waiting to do something and then taking a course that teaches you how to do it right. you'll understand a lot more about the "why" behind good and bad building, and that'll put you in a radically different position to do it better moving forward.
第一個……會壞。可能非常糟糕。但你會學到更多的是做一把壞吉他，而不是等著做某件事，然後上一門教你如何做對的課程。你會對好建築和壞建築背後的“為什麼”有更多的瞭解，這將使你處於一個完全不同的位置，以便更好地向前推進。
dì yī gè ……huì huài 。kě néng fēi cháng zāo gāo 。dàn nǐ huì xué dào gèng duō de shì zuò yī bǎ huài jí tā ，ér bú shì děng zhe zuò mǒu jiàn shì ，rán hòu shàng yī mén jiāo nǐ rú hé zuò duì de kè chéng 。nǐ huì duì hǎo jiàn zhù hé huài jiàn zhù bèi hòu de “wéi shí me ”yǒu gèng duō de le jiě ，zhè jiāng shǐ nǐ chù yú yī gè wán quán bú tóng de wèi zhì ，yǐ biàn gèng hǎo dì xiàng qián tuī jìn 。
- jonathan fields
——喬納森字段
——qiáo nà sēn zì duàn
there are no shortcuts
沒有捷徑可走
méi yǒu jié jìng kě zǒu
when we asked whether or not there are shortcuts to becoming an expert, many of the responses revolved around a single theme:
當我們被問及成為專家是否有捷徑時，很多人的回答都圍繞著一個主題:
dāng wǒ men bèi wèn jí chéng wéi zhuān jiā shì fǒu yǒu jié jìng shí ，hěn duō rén de huí dá dōu wéi rào zhe yī gè zhǔ tí :
the quickest path to expertise is to take direct action, get a lot of experience, and work your ass off.
獲得專業知識的最快途徑是採取直接行動，積累大量經驗，努力工作。
huò dé zhuān yè zhī shí de zuì kuài tú jìng shì cǎi qǔ zhí jiē háng dòng ，jī lèi dà liàng jīng yàn ，nǔ lì gōng zuò 。
there may be some mental or physical tricks that you can use to save a little bit of time, but major shortcuts just don’t exist to becoming an expert.
也許有一些心理或身體上的技巧可以幫你節省一點時間，但成為專家並不存在什麼捷徑。
yě xǔ yǒu yī xiē xīn lǐ huò shēn tǐ shàng de jì qiǎo kě yǐ bāng nǐ jiē shěng yī diǎn shí jiān ，dàn chéng wéi zhuān jiā bìng bú cún zài shí me jié jìng 。
there's a lot of emphasis on trying to accelerate the path to success by spending a ton of time studying the methods of those have succeeded before us in the hope that we’ll be able to avoid many of the mistakes they made.
很多人強調要花大量的時間研究前人成功的方法，從而加快成功之路，希望我們能夠避免他們犯的許多錯誤。
hěn duō rén qiáng diào yào huā dà liàng de shí jiān yán jiū qián rén chéng gōng de fāng fǎ ，cóng ér jiā kuài chéng gōng zhī lù ，xī wàng wǒ men néng gòu bì miǎn tā men fàn de xǔ duō cuò wù 。
- jonathan fields
——喬納森字段
——qiáo nà sēn zì duàn
there is no system to game, way to cheat, or 30 steps to success that you can use to become the best at something. practice and focus are the key.
沒有遊戲系統，沒有欺騙的方法，也沒有成功的30個步驟，你可以用來成為某件事的高手。練習和專注是關鍵。
méi yǒu yóu xì xì tǒng ，méi yǒu qī piàn de fāng fǎ ，yě méi yǒu chéng gōng de 30gè bù zhòu ，nǐ kě yǐ yòng lái chéng wéi mǒu jiàn shì de gāo shǒu 。liàn xí hé zhuān zhù shì guān jiàn 。
yes, you should learn necessary things such as the safety procedures before you do something dangerous like rock climbing or strenuous like running a marathon, but just get out there. go for a climb. go for a run.
是的，在你做一些危險的事情之前，比如攀巖或者跑馬拉松，你應該學習一些必要的東西，比如安全程序。去爬山。去跑步。
shì de ，zài nǐ zuò yī xiē wēi xiǎn de shì qíng zhī qián ，bǐ rú pān yán huò zhě pǎo mǎ lā sōng ，nǐ yīng gāi xué xí yī xiē bì yào de dōng xī ，bǐ rú ān quán chéng xù 。qù pá shān 。qù pǎo bù 。
learn from what you did, not what you read.
從你所做的中學到東西，而不是從你所讀到的。
cóng nǐ suǒ zuò de zhōng xué dào dōng xī ，ér bú shì cóng nǐ suǒ dú dào de 。
end the analysis paralysis
結束分析癱瘓
jié shù fèn xī tān huàn
by spending too much time with your nose in a book, reading how-to articles online, or watching video tutorials you will hurt the speed of your learning by not putting yourself out there, trying to do great work, failing, and then getting better.
如果你花太多的時間埋頭讀書，在線閱讀指導文章，或者觀看視頻教程，你就會因為不把自己投入其中，努力做好工作，失敗，然後變得更好而損害你的學習速度。
rú guǒ nǐ huā tài duō de shí jiān mái tóu dú shū ，zài xiàn yuè dú zhǐ dǎo wén zhāng ，huò zhě guān kàn shì pín jiāo chéng ，nǐ jiù huì yīn wéi bú bǎ zì jǐ tóu rù qí zhōng ，nǔ lì zuò hǎo gōng zuò ，shī bài ，rán hòu biàn dé gèng hǎo ér sǔn hài nǐ de xué xí sù dù 。
so, learn, what you can, but at the same time, get your head out of the classroom and start making more bad stuff.
所以，學你能學的，但同時，把你的頭從教室裡拿出來，開始做更多的壞事。
suǒ yǐ ，xué nǐ néng xué de ，dàn tóng shí ，bǎ nǐ de tóu cóng jiāo shì lǐ ná chū lái ，kāi shǐ zuò gèng duō de huài shì 。
- jonathan fields
——喬納森字段
——qiáo nà sēn zì duàn
don't worry about how bad you do the first time. you learned to walk as a child by continually falling on your face trying to take your first steps. life is the same way.
不要擔心第一次做得有多糟。當你還是個孩子的時候，為了邁出第一步，你不斷地撲倒在地，學著走路。生活也是如此。
bú yào dān xīn dì yī cì zuò dé yǒu duō zāo 。dāng nǐ hái shì gè hái zǐ de shí hòu ，wéi le mài chū dì yī bù ，nǐ bú duàn dì pū dǎo zài dì ，xué zhe zǒu lù 。shēng huó yě shì rú cǐ 。
be so determined that no matter what happens the first time you try to do something you will try again. keep yourself from focusing too much on the failure. decide at the start that you just need to reach completion once in whatever way you can. then do it again, and again, until you are satisfied with the results.
下定決心，無論你第一次嘗試做什麼，你都會再試一次。不要讓自己過於關注失敗。從一開始就決定，你只需要以任何你能做到的方式完成一次。然後不斷重複，直到你對結果滿意為止。
xià dìng jué xīn ，wú lùn nǐ dì yī cì cháng shì zuò shí me ，nǐ dōu huì zài shì yī cì 。bú yào ràng zì jǐ guò yú guān zhù shī bài 。cóng yī kāi shǐ jiù jué dìng ，nǐ zhī xū yào yǐ rèn hé nǐ néng zuò dào de fāng shì wán chéng yī cì 。rán hòu bú duàn zhòng fù ，zhí dào nǐ duì jié guǒ mǎn yì wéi zhǐ 。
there's no greater accelerant along the path to genius than a flaming trail of crap.
在通往天才的道路上，沒有什麼比一條燃燒的垃圾之路更能加速前進了。
zài tōng wǎng tiān cái de dào lù shàng ，méi yǒu shí me bǐ yī tiáo rán shāo de lā jī zhī lù gèng néng jiā sù qián jìn le 。
- jonathan fields
——喬納森字段
——qiáo nà sēn zì duàn
what is one thing you have been putting off doing for far too long?
有一件事你拖延太久了?
yǒu yī jiàn shì nǐ tuō yán tài jiǔ le ?
is there something you are too afraid to start working towards because you don't want to fail?
你是否因為害怕失敗而不敢開始努力?
nǐ shì fǒu yīn wéi hài pà shī bài ér bú gǎn kāi shǐ nǔ lì ?
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