本文章由春喜在線英語于2017.11.23日編輯發布

# Don't argue

# 不要爭論

Never try to argue. The only thing that you might achieve if you win an argument is that the other person will hate you in the end. Talk shit behind your back. Backstab you. Or what not. Too complicated..

千萬不要嘗試爭論。如果贏得一場爭論，你唯一的收獲可能是對手最后會恨死你。在你背后講壞話。背后捅你刀子。或者…太復雜了。

# Don't do things you don't like

# 不要做你不喜歡的事情

Whenever you do things you don't like, you will start to hate yourself a bit more. You will hate yourself for not being consistent. For doing things you know that you don't want to be doing. Another stress layer right there..

無論何時，你做了自己不喜歡的事情，你都會更加恨自己。你會怨恨自己前后不一。做了你自己不想做的事情。另一個壓力又來了…

# Do less

# 少做

This is one of the hardest things. Especially for me. I'm doing too many things at the time. In itself, doing many different things to figure out what works and what doesn't isn't that bad.

這是最難的事情之一，尤其是對于我來說。我在同一時間做了太多的事情，本來，做許多困難的事情去驗證什么事情有效果，什么不起作用。

It's actually quite good. But at some point you need to let go of the things that don't work and focus on the things that work. And that's the hardest part.

實際上這樣做很好。但有的時候，你需要放開那些無效的事情，專注有效的事情。這才是最難的部分。

At least for me. I always try to make everything work. And if you always try to make everything work, you'll usually end up with nothing working at all.

至少對于我來說，我總是試著讓一切正常運行。如果你總是試著讓一切得到良好發展，那么，通常來說，后果是什么也起不了作用。

# Get rid of complicated things

# 摒棄復雜的事物

There are many complicated things in life. Complicated relationships, complicated jobs, complicated whatever. What all of these things do is that they steal our focus.

生活中有許多復雜的事物，復雜的關系，復雜的工作以及復雜的其他東西。它們的共同特點是它們偷走了我們的注意力。

They add an additional stress layer to our lives and take over some of our brain's bandwidth. Bandwidth we desperately need to navigate in this crazy and complex world.

它們為我們的生活增添了壓力，占據了大腦的空間，而我們卻迫切希望留有這個空間去探索這個瘋狂而復雜的世界。

# Surround yourself with old people

# 和老人待在一起

Being around old people is awesome. There is probably no better way to decelerate your life. Old people are the incarnation of deceleration. And if you hang out with old people long enough, maybe you'll be able to pick up some of their wisdom.

和老人待在一起的感覺很棒。或許沒有其他比這更好的辦法來減速生活了。老人是慢節奏的化身。如果你和老人在一起久了，你或許會從他們那里學到一些智慧。

# Go for walks

# 去步行

Going for a walk, looking around and enjoying nature is the best way to get rid of all the clutter in your brain. I try to go for at least one walk every day for at least twenty minutes. Going for walks will ultimately give your brain space to breathe. Time to recover and time to solve complex problems.

去步行，到處看看，享受大自然是排除大腦混亂最有效的方式。我試著每天至少步行約20分鐘。步行最終給你大腦呼吸的空間，也給你時間去恢復精力和解決復雜問題。

# Read books, not blogs

# 讀書，而不是博客

Blogs consist of way too much information for our brains to process. Blogs usually leave out the story our brains need. Our brains need a story to remember things.

博客需要我們大腦處理太多信息。博客通常遺漏我們大腦需要的信息，而大腦是需要記住事情的。

Don't believe me? Try it. What parts of this blog post do you remember? Probably none. All that blogs do is that they clutter our brains with useless information we forget immediately after we read them. A waste of time..

不相信我嗎？試試吧！這篇你記住了哪幾個部分。可能一個都沒記住。博客只會用沒用的信息讓我們大腦混亂，讀完我們就忘記了。簡直是浪費時間。

 

There are a number of personal traits which all of us should develop in our earlier life. Lady Gaga visited Google a while ago to talk with Marissa Mayer (now President & CEO of Yahoo), to share with Googlers her believing in herself.

我們應該在年輕的時期多發展個人特質。前不久，Lady Gaga到訪谷歌，跟Marissa Mayer（雅虎現任總裁兼首席執行官）交談，與谷歌人分享她的自信秘籍。

HAVING A PURPOSE

定目標

"I wanted to be what they (fans) are searching for" ~Lady Gaga

Lady Gaga說：“我想成為歌迷心中找尋的樣子。”

Everyone needs to cultivate a purpose in life. 'That is why I am still here, and why I work so hard. I really am very blessed to have fans with such a beautiful spirit. I see something so fearless and so special in my fans.

生活中，每個人都需要樹立目標。這就是為什么我還在這里，也是我努力工作的原因。我真的很幸運，擁有如此多喜歡我的歌迷。在粉絲身上，我看到了無畏和與眾不同。

I also see something afraid, something that is unsure. I really encourage people to look into the darkness, and into the places you would not normally look into, because that’s where the diamonds are hiding'.

我也會看到害怕的東西，看到不確定的東西。我真的鼓勵大家去凝視黑暗，去看看你通常不會去的地方，因為那里往往藏著鉆石。

'Don’t hide yourself and regret, don’t perpetuate negativity in your life, don’t obsess about things you didn’t do, or things you may have not done your best with. Obsess about the future, obsess about today and think endlessly about how you can pull the inner queen or king out of yourself. Let the super-self shine. Fame is inside of you, so always look into yourself for the answer and be the best you, you can be in the future'.

“不要隱藏自己，不要遺憾，對待生活，不要太消極，不要癡迷于你沒有做的或是那些你沒能做到最好的事情。請癡迷于未來，癡迷于現在，不斷思考如何把內心的女王或國王激發出來。讓自己變得閃閃發光。名聲在你內心深處，因此要去自己內心深處找尋答案，做最好的自己，這樣的話，你就是未來的自己。”

SKILL & CREATIVITY

技能&創造力

“Stay in school” ~Lady Gaga

Lady Gaga：“像是待在學校里一樣。”

Train and develop your unique skills. 'Respect good old faithful (you). I am creative and the most important thing with creativity is that you honor your creativity, and that you don’t ever ignore it or go against what that creative image is telling you just because of what society is projecting on you'.

培訓、發展你獨特的技能。“尊重忠實的自己，我具有創造力，但是最重要的事情是你得尊重創造力，你從來不會忽視它，也不會僅僅因為社會賦予你的而違背創造的初衷。

'I have continuously developed my skills (a song writer, co-producer etc.) I am a classically trained jazz musician and also I vocally rehearse every single day (30 minute warm-up).

“我不斷發展技能（曲作家，聯合制片人等等），我是科班出生的爵士音樂人，每天都會排練（30分鐘的熱身）。

It has been the same vocal warm-up that I have been doing since I was 11 years old. My mentor Don Warren has been my voice teacher since I was 11. Piano, always stays with you, if you practice for a while and then focus it comes back. With piano I try to do shows and jazz sessions with my band just for fun'.

從11歲起，我就開始練聲熱身。那年導師沃倫就擔任我的聲樂老師。鋼琴總是和你在一起，如果你練習一段時間，專注于它。我嘗試帶著剛請表演，與樂隊表演爵士樂，僅僅是為了好玩而已。

'When you say, I'm too tired and I want to go to bed, the creativity stops coming. When god calls, you pick up the phone'.

“當你說，我實在太累，想去睡覺，那個時候創造力就沒了。當上帝叫醒你時，你又拾起電話。”

HARD WORK

努力工作

"I go on stage dead or alive" ~Lady Gaga

Lady Gaga：“我會永遠留在舞臺。”

Never stop trying and working hard. 'I was never the winner, I was always the loser, and that still stays with me, and I don't want to stick it to anybody. I just want to make music.

嘗試不要停，努力工作不要停。“我從未是贏家，還總愛失敗，失敗仍然如影隨形地跟著我，我不想苛刻對待任何人，只想好好做音樂。”

Very often people make jokes about my diet because they know I have to stay fit for music videos. I don’t go out after the show and get plastered, I am very disciplined and hard working'.

人們經常拿我的飲食來開玩笑，他們知道為了音樂錄影帶，我不得不保持健康。表演過后，我不會外出喝酒，我很自律，工作也努力。

'As a blond woman, I am very proud of my musical accomplishments. Women in pop music have a very bad rap, and people have learned to expect very little from us. This is very unfair and prejudice. I am very proud to be in music. Many people think that you became a star overnight, but to tell you the truth, I have been working so hard'.

作為一個金發女人，對于我在音樂上的成就，我很驕傲。女人在流行音樂上的地位本不被看好，很少有人對我們有所期待。這太不公平，絕對有偏見。而我對能做音樂這點上感到自豪。許多人認為你一夜成名，但是實話告訴你吧，我工作一直非常努力。

PHYSICAL & MENTAL HEALTH

身體&心理健康

'It took a lot of bravery to get to where we are today' Lady Gaga

Lady Gaga：能走到今天，我們花了多少勇氣啊！

Take care of your body and mind. 'I am very into Yoga. It is the only thing that I feel I can do really bad, and nobody knows. I take comfort in the journey of becoming good at Yoga, just me'.

照顧好你的身體和頭腦。“我很熱衷于瑜伽。沒有人知道，這是我真正感到會做得很糟的一件事。我很欣慰能通過旅途變得擅長瑜伽，只有我知道哦！”

'I love cooking, I am a really good cook, I love spending time with my mom and listening to the music. I don’t want to focus on anything negative, there are always things in your life you can do without. I have got a really good family, and we worked hard, and because of that we are stronger than ever'.

“我喜歡烹飪，也是極好的廚師，我喜歡和媽媽待在一起，喜歡聽音樂。我不想專注于消極的事情，離開了某物，你的生活仍會繼續。我有溫馨的家庭，并努力工作著，正因為這樣，我們比以往更加強大。”

'A lot of people see glasses and shoulder pads and crazy outfits. Over the years it was very difficult because that was all that people would talk about. Fame is difficult if you screw up, Google is there. I am doing wonderful now because of how brave all of my fans have made me, thank you for making me brave and I hope I can make you brave'.

“很多人看到眼鏡，墊肩和夸張的服裝。多年來，穿戴這些顯得異常困難，因為人們會談論。如果你搞砸了，名聲就沒了。瞧，谷歌就在那兒。現在，我正在做美好的事物，因為我所有的粉絲讓我勇敢，謝謝你們讓我勇敢，我希望也能讓你們感到勇敢。”

GREATEST PIECE OF ADVICE

最好的建議

"If you don’t have any shadows, you’re not standing in the light" ~Lady Gaga

Lady Gaga: “如果你看不到陰暗，說明你沒站在光明里。”

'I say that to myself every day. I am not a squeaky clean person, and my fans are not squeaky clean. If you are magical, you always have shadows. If you are in the light, you must cast a shadow'.

“我每天都對自己說。我的品行并非那么完美，粉絲們也一樣。如果你很神奇，也會有陰影。如果你站在光下，光也會給你投下倒影。