NO.34 Focus one thing! you will eliminate many of your potential

If you don’t like your life如果你不喜欢你的生活
You are the only one that can change it只有你可以改变你的生活
The most common gift that God ever gave any human
上天给予每个人最公平的礼物
Is time就是时间
Time is something that we all have the exact same amount of每个人都拥有完全相同的时间
24hours a day, 7 days a week每天24小时，每周7天
That’s all you’re gonna get这就是你拥有的全部时间
Do you feel like there’s just not enough time in your day to accomplish your goal你有没有觉得时间总不够用，完成不了日常的目标
Isn’t it amazing that some people do so much with their life有些人的一生做到的事情多到让人惊讶
And other people do so pitifully little with their lives而其他人却只做了很少的事
Do you know how many young people right now you are average你知道现在多少年轻人平庸无奇
Do you know you are average because your father was average你知道吗，你的父亲平庸，所以你也平庸
Or your grandfather was average又或者是你的祖父平庸
There’s some folks right now because you are average your life is messed up有些老话说，因为你平庸，所以你的生活一团糟
Your wife’s life is messed up你的妻子的生活也一团糟
Your kids’ life is messed up你的孩子的生活跟着一团糟
Are you hearing me because you average你听到了吗？就因为你平庸
What you are and what you become你是谁？你会成为谁
Depends on how you use your time取决于你对时间的利用
We can’t blame it on circumstances我们不要埋怨环境
We are the ones who need to rise up我们才是应该振作的那个人
And begin to live the life on purpose the God wants us to live站起来，活出我们该有的姿态
And stop just blaming everything 不要再抱怨任何事物了
That’s going on around us from how we were raise to 当我们认真面对的时候，一切都会变得好
The government to this to something else面对政府，面对困境，面对其他的东西
Life is not just the passing of time生活不该匆匆而过
Life is a collection of experiences生活是经验的积累
Their frequency and their intensity有宽度，也有深度
Life is not just watching clock tick away生活不是眼睁睁看着秒针躺过
Time is too valuable to waste时光太宝贵，经不起浪费
And if you don’t believe that如果你不相信我说的话
Now you just wait till you get something up那模拟可以走着瞧
In the 60s or 70s and see if you don’t think等到你七老八十的时候，再想是不是这个道理
That time is valuable时间真的很宝贵
Please listen to me you are not going to be twenty forever请你认真听我讲，你不会永远二十岁
And you will be 40 before you know it在你无意识的时候，你就到了40了
And those you that are 40 will be 50 before you know it而到50岁的时候，也同样是不知不觉的
And the thing is if your life smart now重点是，如果现在你认真地生活
You can have a great future你才会拥有一个美好的明天
But if you waste your time now但如果你现在浪费时间
You know what you’re gonna end up with你知道你的结局就是
Nothing but regrets一事无成，空余满腔懊悔
We do live in the age of dramatic dis traction我们身处一个诱惑极多的世界
Most people 很多人心太散
It’s no judgement just reporting这不是下结论，只是单纯地报告数据
But most people really are addicted to their phones但是很多人沉迷于手机
And there is a lot of research showing that而且有很多研究表明
It is an addition the same part of the brain responsible to这种沉迷于大脑的控制区相同
For our addiction to technology is the same center因为我们对科技的沉迷是一样的中心
where cocain* addiction stems from这个中心负责生产咖啡*
that’s because when you pulled away from your main tasks因为当你从主任务中分心
into a distraction or some other tasks或者切换到其它任务时
you’re not just wasting the time你不仅仅是在浪费时间
that it takes to get distraction done with你还会分散注意力
there’s also something called a cognitive switching penalty有一样事物叫做有意识转换成本
in order to take action为了能够行动
your brain has to load你的大脑需要加载
The context of what you’re doing into working memory你正在做的事情储存为工作记忆
You constantly switch the focus of your intention如果你持续转换注意力
You’re forcing your brain to spend time and effort thrashing你就是在强迫大脑花时间和精力不断切换中
Loading and reloading contexts over and over again不断地加载又加载新的事物
That’s why it’s possible to spend an entire day multitasking这就是为什么你能够在一天之内同时开展多项任务
Getting nothing done and feel exhausted at the end却啥也没做成，还觉得莫名地累
You’ve burned all of your energy context switching你正在浪费你用来转换内容的能量
Instead of making progress这不是进步
Focus！ 专注
Focus is super underrated专注常常被人低估
Like if you commit all that you are就好像你把你所有的精力
And all your energy to one thing都集中到一样事情上
You can do 10 things to like the first degree like this right here你可以完成10件事，而他们的完成水平却低于平均水平
That’s how well you’ll do all 10things这就是你做的10件事
Or you can do one thing又或者你只做一件事
To the tenth degree right there把它做到一百分
And look how much better you do that然后再来看看你做到了多少
So when it comes to focus to put all of your energy into one thing所以所谓专注，也就是集中精力在一件事情上
Is to di that one thing really well就能把事情做得很好
The best of your ability is to take it all the way你最强的能力就是专心做好一件事
And to scatter yourself mean you’re never actually accomplishing everything分散注意力就意味着你一事无成
You’re just sort of chipping away at a bunch of nothingness你不过是把能量廉价地消耗掉而已
And this is true for work this is true for life这点对于工作和生活都是通用的
Dating versus committing yourself to one person同时与多人约会和只与一个人认真恋爱
Friendship everything like友谊是这样，其它事情都一样
Really focusing and investing yourself into something you’re passionate about will always yield better results十分专注地把你的精力都投放在你热爱的事情上，这样才能获得更好的结果
Then scattering yourself around and spreading yourself thin分散注意力其实就是在撕扯自己
This is why it’s so important to build the ability to focus这就是为什么建立起专注的能力如此重要的原因
If you can do that如果你能够做到这点
You’re going to eliminate a lot of these potential你可以开发你很多的潜能
Cognitive switching penalties you could have incurred from your day 你就可以真正把握有意识转换成本的含义
And that means you’re gonna be able to pack your work这就意味着你能够很好地安排工作
Into a more concentrated shorter amount if time在更短更专注的时间内
And get more done得到更多的产出
The only kind of force that will truly create change in your life只有一种力量能够真正改变你的生活
Is you那就是你
The internal kind of force那就是你内心的力量