美好生活的 100 條建議

簡介

一些簡潔明了的人生建議，易于理解，并且能夠為日常生活中的各個方面提供實用的指導。

財富 (Possessions)

1. If you want to find out about people’s opinions on a product, google \reddit. You’ll get real people arguing, as compared to the SEO’d Google results.
如果你想了解人們對某個產品的看法，可以在 Google 上搜索 \reddit。相比于 SEO (Search Engine Optimization，搜索引擎優化) 優化過的 Google 結果，你會看到真實的人在爭論。

2. Some banks charge you $20 a month for an account, others charge you 0. If you’re with one of the former, have a good explanation for what those $20 are buying.
有些銀行每個月會收取你 20 美元的賬戶費用，另一些銀行則不收取任何費用。如果你在前者中的一家銀行開戶，最好有個合理的解釋，說明這 20 美元花在了什么地方。

3. Things you use for a significant fraction of your life (bed: 1/3rd, office-chair: 1/4th) are worth investing in.
對于那些你生活中使用大量時間的東西（床：三分之一，辦公椅：四分之一），值得投資。

4. “Where is the good knife?” If you’re looking for your good X, you have bad Xs. Throw those out.
“好刀在哪兒？”如果你在找你的好 X，說明你有壞的 X。把那些壞的扔掉。

5. If your work is done on a computer, get a second monitor. Less time navigating between windows means more time for thinking.
如果你的工作是在電腦上完成的，買第二個顯示器。減少在窗口之間切換的時間意味著你有更多的時間思考。

6. Establish clear rules about when to throw out old junk. Once clear rules are established, junk will probably cease to be a problem. This is because any rule would be superior to our implicit rules (“keep this broken stereo for five years in case I learn how to fix it”).
制定明確的規則來規定何時丟掉舊垃圾。一旦明確了規則，垃圾可能就不再是問題了。因為任何規則都比我們隱含的規則要好（“保留這個壞了的立體聲音響五年，以防我學會如何修理它”）。

7. Don’t buy CDs for people. They have Spotify. Buy them merch from a band they like instead. It’s more personal and the band gets more money.
不要給人們買 CD。他們有 Spotify。相反，買他們喜歡的樂隊的周邊產品。這更有個人意義，而且樂隊也能賺到更多錢。

8. When buying things, time and money trade-off against each other. If you’re low on money, take more time to find deals. If you’re low on time, stop looking for great deals and just buy things quickly online.
買東西時，時間和金錢是可以互換的。如果你缺錢，就多花些時間去找優惠。如果你缺時間，就不要再尋找劃算的交易，直接在網上快速購買。

烹飪 (Cooking)

9. Steeping minutes: Green at 3, black at 4, herbal at 5. Good tea is that simple!
浸泡時間：綠茶 3 分鐘，紅茶 4 分鐘，草本茶 5 分鐘。好茶就是這么簡單！

10. Food actually can be both cheap, healthy, tasty, and relatively quick to prepare. All it requires is a few hours one day to prepare many meals for the week.
食物實際上可以既便宜、健康、美味，又相對快速地準備。只需要一天花幾個小時準備好一周的許多餐食。

11. Cooking pollutes the air. Opening windows for a few minutes after cooking can dramatically improve air quality.
做飯會污染空氣。做飯后開窗幾分鐘可以顯著改善空氣質量。

12. Food taste can be made much more exciting through simple seasoning. It’s also an opportunity for expression. Buy a few herbs and spices and experiment away.
食物的味道可以通過簡單的調料變得更加令人興奮。這也是一個表達的機會。買一些香草和香料，盡情嘗試吧。

13. When googling a recipe, precede it with ‘best’. You’ll find better recipes.
在 Google 上搜索食譜時，前面加上“最佳”。你會找到更好的食譜。

生產力 (Productivity)

14. Advanced search features are a fast way to create tighter search statements. For example: img html will return inferior results compared to: img html -w3
高級搜索功能是創建更精確搜索語句的快速方法。例如：img html 會比 img html -w3 返回更差的結果

15. You can automate mundane computer tasks with Autohotkey (or AppleScript). If you keep doing a sequence “so simple a computer can do it”, make the computer do it.
你可以用Autohotkey（或AppleScript）自動化日常電腦任務。如果你一直在做一個“簡單到連電腦都能做”的過程，那就讓電腦去做吧。

16. Learn keyboard shortcuts. They’re easy to learn and you’ll get tasks done faster and easier.
學習鍵盤快捷鍵。它們很容易學，而且你會更快、更輕松地完成任務。

17. Done is better than perfect.
完成比完美更重要。

18. Keep your desk and workspace bare. Treat every object as an imposition upon your attention, because it is. A workspace is not a place for storing things. It is a place for accomplishing things.
保持你的桌面和工作區空曠。把每個物件都當作對你注意力的干擾，因為它確實是。工作區不是儲存物品的地方，而是完成工作的地方。

19. Reward yourself after completing challenges, even badly.
完成挑戰后獎勵自己，即使完成得不太好。

身體 (Body)

20. The 20-20-20 rule: Every 20 minutes of screenwork, look at a spot 20 feet away for 20 seconds. This will reduce eye strain and is easy to remember (or program reminders for).
20-20-20 規則：每工作 20 分鐘，看一個 20 英尺（6.096 米）外的地方 20 秒鐘。這樣可以減輕眼睛疲勞，也容易記住（或者可以設置提醒）。

21. Exercise (weightlifting) not only creates muscle mass, it also improves skeletal structure. Lift!
鍛煉（舉重）不僅能增加肌肉質量，還能改善骨骼結構。舉起來！

22. Exercise is the most important lifestyle intervention you can do. Even the bare minimum (15 minutes a week) has a huge impact. Start small.
鍛煉是你可以做的最重要的生活方式干預。即使是最低限度（每周 15 分鐘）也會產生巨大的影響。從小做起。

23. (~This is not medical advice~). Don’t waste money on multivitamins, they don’t work. Vitamin D supplementation does seem to work, which is important because deficiency is common.
（_{這不是醫療建議}）。不要浪費錢在多種維生素上，它們沒效果。維生素 D 補充確實有效，這很重要，因為缺乏很常見。

24. Phones have gotten heavier in the last decade and they’re actually pretty hard on your wrists! Use a computer when it’s an alternative or try to at least prop up your phone.
在過去十年中，手機變得更重了，它們對你的手腕實際上很有負擔！有替代選項時盡量用電腦，或者至少支撐一下手機。

成功 (Success)

25. History remembers those who got to market first. Getting your creation out into the world is more important than getting it perfect.
歷史會記住那些第一個進入市場的人。把你的創作推向世界比讓它完美更重要。

26. Are you on the fence about breaking up or leaving your job? You should probably go ahead and do it. People, on average, end up happier when they take the plunge.
你是否在猶豫要不要分手或辭職？你應該直接去做。通常情況下，當人們做出這個決定時，他們最終會更快樂。

27. Discipline is superior to motivation. The former can be trained, the latter is fleeting. You won’t be able to accomplish great things if you’re only relying on motivation.
紀律比動力更重要。前者可以被訓練，后者是短暫的。如果你只依賴動力，你不會完成偉大的事情。

28. You can improve your communication skills with practice much more effectively than you can improve your intelligence with practice. If you’re not that smart but can communicate ideas clearly, you have a great advantage over everybody who can’t communicate clearly.
通過練習，你可以比提高智力更有效地提高溝通技能。如果你不是那么聰明，但能夠清晰地傳達思想，你就比那些不能清晰溝通的人有很大優勢。

29. You do not live in a video game. There are no pop-up warnings if you’re about to do something foolish, or if you’ve been going in the wrong direction for too long. You have to create your own warnings.
你不是生活在電子游戲中。如果你要做愚蠢的事，或者你走錯了方向很久，不會有彈出警告。你必須自己創造警告。

30. If you listen to successful people talk about their methods, remember that all the people who used the same methods and failed did not make videos about it.
如果你聽成功人士談論他們的方法，記住所有使用相同方法但失敗的人沒有做視頻來講述。

31. The best advice is personal and comes from somebody who knows you well. Take broad-spectrum advice like this as needed, but the best way to get help is to ask honest friends who love you.
最好的建議是個性化的，來自了解你的人。需要時可以采納這種廣泛的建議，但最好的幫助方式是向愛你的誠實朋友尋求幫助。

32. Make accomplishing things as easy as possible. Find the easiest way to start exercising. Find the easiest way to start writing. People make things harder than they have to be and get frustrated when they can’t succeed. Try not to.
讓完成事情變得盡可能容易。找到最簡單的開始鍛煉的方法。找到最簡單的開始寫作的方法。人們往往把事情搞得比需要的復雜，當他們不能成功時就會感到沮喪。盡量不要這樣。

33. Cultivate a reputation for being dependable. Good reputations are valuable because they’re rare (easily destroyed and hard to rebuild). You don’t have to brew the most amazing coffee if your customers know the coffee will always be hot.
培養可靠的聲譽。好的聲譽很有價值，因為它們稀缺（容易被破壞且難以重建）。如果你的顧客知道咖啡總是熱的，你不需要泡制最驚人的咖啡。

34. How you spend every day is how you spend your life.
你每天如何度過，就是你如何度過你的一生。

理性 (Rationality)

35. Noticing biases in others is easy, noticing biases in yourself is hard. However, it has much higher pay-off.
注意到別人身上的偏見很容易，注意到自己身上的偏見很難。然而，這會有更高的回報。

36. Explaining problems is good. Often in the process of laying out a problem, a solution will present itself.
解釋問題是好的。往往在闡述問題的過程中，解決方案會自行出現。

37. Foolish people are right about most things. Endeavour to not let the opinions of foolish people automatically discredit those opinions.
愚蠢的人對大多數事情是對的。盡量不要讓愚蠢的人的意見自動失去信譽。

38. You have a plan. A time-traveller from 2030 appears and tells you your plan failed. Which part of your plan do you think is the one that fails? Fix that part.
你有一個計劃。一個來自 2030 年的時間旅行者出現并告訴你你的計劃失敗了。你認為計劃的哪一部分失敗了？修復那部分。

39. If something surprises you again and again, stop being surprised.
如果某事不斷讓你感到驚訝，那就停止驚訝吧。

40. Should you freak out upon seeing your symptoms on the worst diseases on WebMD? Probably not! Look up the base rates for the disease and then apply Bayes’ Theorem.
看到 WebMD 上最糟糕的疾病癥狀時，你應該驚慌嗎？可能不應該！查找疾病的基本發生率，然后應用貝葉斯定理。

41. Selfish people should listen to advice to be more selfless, selfless people should listen to advice to be more selfish. This applies to many things. Whenever you receive advice, consider its opposite as well. You might be filtering out the advice you need most.
自私的人應該聽取更多無私的建議，無私的人應該聽取更多自私的建議。這適用于許多事情。每當你收到建議時，也要考慮相反的建議。你可能會忽略你最需要的建議。

42. Common systems and tools have been designed so everybody can handle them. So don’t worry that you’re the only one who can’t! You can figure out doing laundry, baking, and driving on a highway.
常見的系統和工具已經被設計得讓每個人都能使用。所以不要擔心你是唯一不能處理的人！你可以學會洗衣服、烘焙和在高速公路上開車。

自我 (Self)

43. Deficiencies do not make you special. The older you get, the more your inability to cook will be a red flag for people.
缺點不會讓你變得特別。隨著年齡的增長，你不會做飯會成為人們眼中的一個危險信號。

44. There is no interpersonal situation that can’t be improved by knowing more about your desires, goals, and structure. ‘Know thyself!’
通過了解更多關于你的欲望、目標和結構，沒有任何人際關系問題不能得到改善。“認識你自己！”

45. If you’re under 90, try things.
如果你還不到 90 歲，嘗試一些事情。

46. Things that aren’t your fault can still be your responsibility.
那些不是你的錯的事情，仍然可以是你的責任。

47. Defining yourself by your suffering is an effective way to keep suffering forever (ex. incels, trauma).
通過痛苦來定義自己是保持永遠痛苦的有效方式（例如，非自愿單身者，創傷）。

48. Keep your identity small. “I’m not the kind of person who does things like that” is not an explanation, it’s a trap. It prevents nerds from working out and men from dancing.
保持你的身份標簽簡單。“我不是那種做這種事的人”不是解釋，是陷阱。這會阻止書呆子鍛煉和男人跳舞。

49. Don’t confuse ‘doing a thing because I like it’ with ‘doing a thing because I want to be seen as the sort of person who does such things’
不要把“因為我喜歡做某事”與“因為我想被看作做這種事的人”混淆。

50. Remember that you are dying.
記住，你正在走向死亡。

51. Events can hurt us, not just our perceptions of them. It’s good to build resilience, but sometimes it isn’t your fault if something really gets to you.
事件本身會傷害我們，不僅僅是我們對它們的感知。建立韌性是好的，但有時候如果某些事情真的影響到你，這不是你的錯。

52. If you want to become funny, try just saying stupid shit (in the right company!) until something sticks.
如果你想變得有趣，嘗試說些愚蠢的話（在合適的場合！）直到有些東西粘住了。

53. To start defining your problems, say (out loud) “everything in my life is completely fine.” Notice what objections arise.
為了開始定義你的問題，大聲說“我生活中的一切都完全正常。”注意你腦中冒出的反對意見。

54. Procrastination comes naturally, so apply it to bad things. “I want to hurt myself right now. I’ll do it in an hour.” “I want a smoke now, so in half an hour I’ll go have a smoke.” Then repeat. Much like our good plans fall apart while we delay them, so can our bad plans.
拖延是自然的，所以把它應用到壞事上。“我現在想傷害自己。我一個小時后再做。”“我現在想抽煙，所以半小時后去抽煙。”然后重復。就像我們的好計劃因拖延而崩潰一樣，我們的壞計劃也會如此。

55. Personal epiphanies feel great, but they fade within weeks. Upon having an epiphany, make a plan and start actually changing behavior.
個人頓悟感覺很好，但幾周內就會消退。頓悟之后，制定計劃并開始實際改變行為。

56. Sometimes unsolvable questions like “what is my purpose?” and “why should I exist?” lose their force upon lifestyle fixes. In other words, seeing friends regularly and getting enough sleep can go a long way to solving existentialism.
有時一些無解的問題，如“我的目的是什么？”和“我為什么存在？”會隨著生活方式的改善失去力量。換句話說，定期見朋友和充足的睡眠可以在很大程度上解決存在主義問題。

危險 (Hazards)

57. There are two red flags to avoid almost all dangerous people: 1. The perpetually aggrieved; 2. The angry.
有兩個危險信號可以用來避免幾乎所有危險的人：1. 總是抱怨的人；2. 易怒的人。

58. Some people create drama out of habit. You can avoid these people.
有些人習慣制造戲劇性事件。你可以避開這些人。

59. Those who generate anxiety in you and promise that they have the solution are grifters. See: politicians, marketers, new masculinity gurus, etc. Avoid these.
那些讓你產生焦慮并承諾他們有解決方案的人是騙子。參見：政客、營銷人員、新男性主義導師等。避開這些人。

60. (~This is not legal advice!~)
DO NOT TALK TO COPS.
（_{這不是法律建議！}）
不要與警察交談。

61. It is cheap for people to talk about their values, goals, rules, and lifestyle. When people’s actions contradict their talk, pay attention!
人們談論他們的價值觀、目標、規則和生活方式很便宜。當人們的行為與他們的言論相矛盾時，請注意！

62. “If they’ll do it with you, they’ll do it to you” and “those who live by the sword die by the sword” mean the same thing. Viciousness you excuse in yourself, friends, or teammates will one day return to you, and then you won’t have an excuse.
“如果他們愿意和你一起做，他們也會對你做”和“玩火者必自焚”意味著同樣的事情。你在自己、朋友或隊友身上原諒的惡行有一天會回到你身上，到那時你將沒有借口。

他人 (Others)

63. In choosing between living with 0-1 people vs 2 or more people, remember that ascertaining responsibility will no longer be instantaneous with more than one roommate (“whose dishes are these?”).
在選擇與 0-1 人還是 2 人以上同住時，請記住，超過一個室友后，確定責任將不再是瞬時的（“這些盤子是誰的？”）。

64. Understand people have the right to be tasteless.
理解人們有權品味不高。

65. You will prevent yourself from even having thoughts that could lower your status. Avoid blocking yourself off just so people keep thinking you’re cool.
你會阻止自己產生可能降低你地位的想法。避免讓自己封閉起來僅僅是為了讓人們認為你很酷。

66. Being in groups is important. If you don’t want to join a sports team, consider starting a shitty band. It’s the closest you’ll get to being in an RPG. Train with 2-4 other characters, learn new moves, travel from pub to pub, and get quests from NPCs.
融入群體很重要。如果你不想加入體育隊，考慮組建一個糟糕的樂隊。這是你最接近 RPG (Role-playing Game，角色扮演游戲) 的體驗。和 2-4 個其他角色一起訓練，學習新技能，從一個酒吧到另一個酒吧旅行，并從 NPC (Non-Player Character, 非玩家角色) 那里獲得任務。

67. It’s possible to get people to do things that make you like them more but respect them less. Avoid this, it destroys relationships.
你可以讓人們做一些讓你更喜歡他們但尊重他們更少的事情。避免這樣做，它會破壞關系。

68. Think a little about why you enjoy what you enjoy. If you can explain what you love about Dune, you can now communicate not only with Dune fans, but with people who love those aspects in other books.
想想為什么你喜歡你喜歡的東西。如果你能解釋你喜歡《沙丘》的原因，你不僅可以和《沙丘》的粉絲交流，還可以和喜歡其他書中那些方面的人交流。

69. When you ask people, “What’s your favorite book / movie / band?” and they stumble, ask them instead what book / movie / band they’re currently enjoying most. They’ll almost always have one and be able to talk about it.
當你問別人“你最喜歡的書/電影/樂隊是什么？”而他們遲疑時，改問他們目前最喜歡的書/電影/樂隊是什么。他們幾乎總是會有一個答案，并能聊聊它。

70. Bored people are boring.
無聊的人是無趣的。

71. A norm of eating with your family without watching something will lead to better conversations. If this idea fills you with dread, consider getting a new family.
與家人一起吃飯而不看任何東西的習慣會帶來更好的對話。如果這個想法讓你感到恐懼，考慮換個家庭。

72. If you bus to other cities, consider finding a rideshare on Facebook instead. It’s cheaper, faster, and leads to interesting conversations.
如果你乘坐巴士去其他城市，考慮在 Facebook 上找拼車。這更便宜，更快，還能帶來有趣的對話。

Relationships

73. In relationships look for somebody you can enjoy just hanging out near. Long-term relationships are mostly spent just chilling.
在戀愛中，找一個你可以只是在旁邊一起放松就能享受的人。長期關系大多是一起閑逛度過的。

74. Sometimes things last a long time because they’re good (jambalaya). But that doesn’t mean that because something has lasted a long time that it is good (penile subincisions). Apply this to relationships, careers, and beliefs as appropriate.
有時一些事情持續很長時間是因為它們是好的（比如什錦飯）。但這并不意味著因為某件事持續了很長時間就一定是好的（比如陰莖切開術）。適當地將這應用于人際關系、職業和信念。

75. Don’t complain about your partner to coworkers or online. The benefits are negligible and the cost is destroying a bit of your soul.
不要向同事或在網上抱怨你的伴侶。好處微乎其微，而代價是摧毀你的一部分靈魂。

76. After a breakup, cease all contact as soon as practical. The potential for drama is endless, and the potential for a good friendship is negligible. Wait a year before trying to be friends again.
分手后，盡快停止所有聯系。戲劇化的潛力是無窮的，而成為好朋友的潛力微乎其微。等待一年再嘗試重新成為朋友。

77. If you haven’t figured things out sexually, remember that there isn’t a deadline. If somebody is making you feel like there is, consider the possibility that they aren’t your pal.
如果你在性方面還沒有搞清楚，記住沒有截止日期。如果有人讓你覺得有，那就考慮他們可能不是你的朋友。

78. If you have trouble talking during dates, try saying whatever comes into your head. At worst you’ll ruin some dates (which weren’t going well anyways), at best you’ll have some great conversations. Alcohol can help.
如果你在約會時有說話困難，試著說出你腦子里想到的任何東西。最壞的情況是你會搞砸一些約會（反正這些約會也不怎么順利），最好的情況是你會有一些很棒的對話。酒精可以幫助你。

79. When dating, de-emphasizing your quirks will lead to 90% of people thinking you’re kind of alright. Emphasizing your quirks will lead to 10% of people thinking you’re fascinating and fun. Those are the people interested in dating you. Aim for them.
在約會時，淡化你的怪癖會讓90%的人覺得你還不錯。強調你的怪癖會讓10%的人覺得你很迷人和有趣。這些人是對你感興趣的。瞄準他們。

80. Relationships need novelty. It’s hard to have novelty during Covid—but have you planned your post-Covid adventure yet?
關系需要新鮮感。在疫情期間很難有新鮮感——但你是否已經計劃好疫情后的冒險了？

81. People can be the wrong fit for you without being bad. Being a person is complicated and hard.
人們可能不適合你，但這并不代表他們不好。成為一個人是復雜而艱難的。

Compassion

82. Call your parents when you think of them, tell your friends when you love them.
想到父母時打電話給他們，愛朋友時告訴他們。

83. Compliment people more. Many people have trouble thinking of themselves as smart, or pretty, or kind, unless told by someone else. You can help them out.
多贊美別人。許多人難以認為自己聰明、漂亮或善良，除非別人告訴他們。你可以幫助他們。

84. If somebody is undergoing group criticism, the tribal part in you will want to join in the fun of righteously destroying somebody. Resist this, you’ll only add ugliness to the world. And anyway, they’ve already learned the lesson they’re going to learn and it probably isn’t the lesson you want.
如果有人正在遭受群體批評，你內心的部落本能會想加入到正義地摧毀某人的樂趣中。抵制這種沖動，你只會為世界增加丑陋。而且，無論如何，他們已經學到了他們將要學到的教訓，而這可能不是你想要的教訓。

85. Cultivate compassion for those less intelligent than you. Many people, through no fault of their own, can’t handle forms, scammers, or complex situations. Be kind to them because the world is not.
對那些智力不如你的人培養同情心。許多人因并非自己的過錯而無法處理表格、騙子或復雜情況。對他們善良，因為這個世界不會。

86. Cultivate patience for difficult people. Communication is extremely complicated and involves getting both tone and complex ideas across. Many people can barely do either. Don’t punish them.
對難相處的人培養耐心。溝通非常復雜，涉及傳達語氣和復雜的想法。許多人幾乎無法做到其中任何一點。不要懲罰他們。

87. Don’t punish people for trying. You teach them to not try with you. Punishing includes whining that it took them so long, that they did it badly, or that others have done it better.
不要因為別人的嘗試而懲罰他們。你會教會他們不再與你嘗試。懲罰包括抱怨他們花了太久，做得不好，或者其他人做得更好。

88. Remember that many people suffer invisibly, and some of the worst suffering is shame. Not everybody can make their pain legible.
記住，許多人在無形中受苦，一些最嚴重的痛苦是羞恥。不是每個人都能讓自己的痛苦顯現出來。

89. Don’t punish people for admitting they were wrong, you make it harder for them to improve.
不要因為別人承認錯誤而懲罰他們，這會讓他們更難進步。

90. In general, you will look for excuses to not be kind to people. Resist these.
一般來說，你會找借口不對別人友善。抵制這些借口。

Joy

91. Human mood and well-being are heavily influenced by simple things: Exercise, good sleep, light, being in nature. It’s cheap to experiment with these.
人的情緒和幸福感受深受簡單事物的影響：鍛煉、良好的睡眠、光線、親近自然。嘗試這些成本不高。

92. You have vanishingly little political influence and every thought you spend on politics will probably come to nothing. Consider building things instead, or at least going for a walk.
你幾乎沒有任何政治影響力，你在政治上花費的每一個想法可能都會毫無結果。考慮建造一些東西，或者至少去散散步。

93. Sturgeon’s law states that 90% of everything is crap. If you dislike poetry, or fine art, or anything, it’s possible you’ve only ever seen the crap. Go looking!
斯特金定律指出，90%的事物都是垃圾。如果你不喜歡詩歌、精美藝術或其他東西，可能是因為你只看到了垃圾。去找找看！

94. You don’t have to love your job. Jobs can be many things, but they’re also a way to make money. Many people live fine lives in okay jobs by using the money they make on things they care about.
你不必愛你的工作。工作可以是很多東西，但它們也是賺錢的方式。許多人通過在普通工作中賺的錢，過上了不錯的生活，并用這些錢去做他們關心的事情。

95. Some types of sophistication won’t make you enjoy the object more, they’ll make you enjoy it less. For example, wine snobs don’t enjoy wine twice as much as you, they’re more keenly aware of how most wine isn’t good enough. Avoid sophistication that diminishes your enjoyment.
某些類型的復雜性不會讓你更享受事物，而是讓你更少享受。比如，葡萄酒愛好者并沒有比你更享受葡萄酒，他們只是更敏銳地意識到大多數葡萄酒不夠好。避免那些減少你享受的復雜性。

96. If other people having it worse than you means you can’t be sad, then other people having it better than you would mean you can’t be happy. Feel what you feel.
如果別人過得比你差意味著你不能悲傷，那么別人過得比你好意味著你不能快樂。感受你所感受到的。

97. Liking and wanting things are different. There are things like junk food that you want beyond enjoyment. But you can also like things (like reading) without wanting them. If you remember enjoying something but don’t feel a desire for it now, try pushing yourself.
喜歡和想要事物是不同的。有些東西像垃圾食品，你想要超過了享受。但你也可以喜歡某些東西（比如閱讀）而不想要它們。如果你記得曾經喜歡某樣東西但現在不再感到想要，試著逼自己一下。

98. People don’t realize how much they hate commuting. A nice house farther from work is not worth the fraction of your life you are giving to boredom and fatigue.
人們沒有意識到他們有多討厭通勤。一座離工作地點較遠的漂亮房子不值得你用一部分生命去忍受無聊和疲勞。

99. There’s some evidence that introverts and extroverts both benefit from being pushed to be more extroverted. Consider this the next time you aren’t sure if you feel like going out.
有一些證據表明，內向者和外向者都能從被推動更加外向中受益。下次你不確定是否想外出時，考慮一下這一點。

100. Bad things happen dramatically (a pandemic). Good things happen gradually (malaria deaths dropping annually) and don’t feel like ‘news’. Endeavour to keep track of the good things to avoid an inaccurate and dismal view of the world.
壞事發生得很戲劇性（比如疫情）。好事發生得很逐漸（比如瘧疾死亡率每年都在下降）而且不覺得是“新聞”。努力關注好事，避免對世界產生不準確和陰暗的看法。

人工智能 (AI)

If someone did nothing but read 24 hours a day for their entire life, they’d consume eight billion words. And of course, that’s a lot of words. But today, the most advanced AIs consume more than eight trillion words in a single month of training. The long arc of technological history is now in an extraordinary new phase.

如果有人一輩子每天 24 小時都在讀書，他/她將讀到 80 億個單詞。當然，這是大量的單詞。但如今，最先進的 AI 能在一個月的訓練中閱讀超過八萬億個單詞。科技的歷史長河現在到了一個非同尋常的新階段。

AI will transform how we live, work, and play, just as electricity did a century ago. Embrace this change rather than resist it, and you’ll find more opportunities than threats.
人工智能將像一個世紀前的電力一樣改變我們的生活、工作和娛樂。擁抱這種變化而不是抵制它，你會發現更多的機會而不是威脅。

AI can analyze more data in a day than any human could in a lifetime. But it’s your creativity and critical thinking that can turn that data into actionable insights.
人工智能可以在一天內分析的數據比任何人一生中能分析的數據還多。但將這些數據轉化為可操作的見解的是你的創造力和批判性思維。

原文：https://ideopunk.com/blog/tipsforabetterlife