It seems to me that the personal evolutionary process—the looping I described in the last chapter—takes place in five distinct steps. If you can do those five things well, you will almost certainly be successful. Here they are in a nutshell:
在我看来，个人的进化过程——我在上一章中描述的循环——分五个不同的步骤进行。如果你能做好这五件事，你几乎肯定会成功。简而言之：
- Have clear goals.
有明确的目标。 - Identify and don’t tolerate the problems that stand in the way of your achieving those goals.
识别并不要容忍阻碍您实现这些目标的问题。 - Accurately diagnose the problems to get at their root causes.
准确诊断问题，找出问题根源。 - Design plans that will get you around them.
设计能够帮助你解决这些问题的计划。 - Do what’s necessary to push these designs through to results.
采取必要措施来推动这些设计取得成果。
Together, these five steps make up a loop, like the one here. Let’s look at this process more granularly.
这五个步骤一起构成一个循环，就像这里的循环一样。让我们更详细地看看这个过程。
First you have to pick what you are going after—your goals. Your choice of goals will determine your direction. As you move toward them, you will encounter problems. Some of those problems will bring you up against your own weaknesses. How you react to the pain that causes is up to you. If you want to reach your goals, you must be calm and analytical so that you can accurately diagnose your problems, design a plan that will get you around them, and do what’s necessary to push through to results. Then you will look at the new results you achieve and go through the process again. To evolve quickly, you will have to do this fast and continuously, setting your goals successively higher.
首先，你必须选择你要追求的东西——你的目标。你选择的目标将决定你的方向。当你走向他们时，你会遇到问题。其中一些问题会让你发现自己的弱点。你对引起的疼痛的反应取决于你。如果你想实现你的目标，你必须保持冷静和分析，这样你才能准确地诊断你的问题，设计一个可以解决这些问题的计划，并采取必要的措施来推动结果。然后你会看到你取得的新成果并再次经历这个过程。为了快速发展，你必须快速、持续地做到这一点，不断设定更高的目标。
You will need to do all five steps well to be successful and you must do them one at a time and in order. For example, when setting goals, just set goals. Don’t think about how you will achieve them or what you will do if something goes wrong. When you are diagnosing problems, don’t think about how you will solve them—just diagnose them. Blurring the steps leads to suboptimal outcomes because it interferes with uncovering the true problems. The process is iterative: Doing each step thoroughly will provide you with the information you need to move on to the next step and do it well.
你需要做好所有五个步骤才能成功，并且必须一次按顺序执行一个步骤。例如，设定目标时，就设定目标即可。不要考虑如何实现这些目标，或者如果出现问题你会做什么。当你诊断问题时，不要考虑如何解决它们——只需诊断它们。模糊步骤会导致次优结果，因为它会干扰发现真正的问题。这个过程是迭代的：彻底完成每一步将为你提供继续下一步并做好它所需的信息。
It is essential that you approach this process in a clearheaded, rational way, looking down on yourself from a higher level and being ruthlessly honest. If your emotions are getting the better of you, step back and take time out until you can reflect clearly. If necessary, seek guidance from calm, thoughtful people.
至关重要的是，你必须以清醒、理性的方式对待这个过程，从更高的层面审视自己，并保持无情的诚实。如果你的情绪控制住了你，请退一步，花点时间，直到你能够清楚地反思。如有必要，请向冷静、有思想的人寻求指导。
To help you stay centered and effective, pretend that your life is a martial art or a game, the object of which is to get around a challenge and reach a goal. Once you accept its rules, you’ll get used to the discomfort that comes with the constant frustration. You will never handle everything perfectly: Mistakes are inevitable and it’s important to recognize and accept this fact of life. The good news is that every mistake you make can teach you something, so there’s no end to learning. You’ll soon realize that excuses like “that’s not easy” or “it doesn’t seem fair” or even “I can’t do that” are of no value and that it pays to push through.
为了帮助你保持专注和高效，假设你的生活是一场武术或一场游戏，其目的是绕过挑战并达到目标。一旦你接受了它的规则，你就会习惯不断的挫折带来的不适。你永远不可能完美地处理所有事情：错误是不可避免的，认识并接受这个生活事实很重要。好消息是，你犯的每一个错误都能教会你一些东西，所以学习永无止境。你很快就会意识到，“这并不容易”或“这似乎不公平”甚至“我做不到”之类的借口没有任何价值，坚持到底是值得的。
So what if you don’t have all the skills you need to succeed? Don’t worry about it because that’s true for everyone. You just have to know when they are needed and where you can go to get them. With practice, you will eventually play this game with a calm unstoppable centeredness in the face of adversity. Your ability to get what you want will thrill you.
那么，如果你不具备成功所需的所有技能怎么办？不用担心，因为这对每个人来说都是如此。你只需要知道何时需要它们以及可以去哪里获取它们。通过练习，你最终会在逆境中保持冷静、不可阻挡的专注来玩这个游戏。你获得你想要的东西的能力会让你兴奋不已。
source:https://www.principles.com/principles/689e0214-1e50-4ca0-a5d2-5e223599badf/
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