Millennial Millionaire: Stop Thinking Time Is Money
中英文文本：
The biggest myth that I think holds most people back from making as much money and as little time as possible, is that they think that time is money.
我认为最大的谬论是，人们认为时间就是金钱，这阻碍了大多数人用尽可能少的时间赚尽可能多的钱。
Time is not money at all.
时间根本就不是金钱。
While they're both essentially human inventions, there are very different things.
虽然它们本质上都是人类的发明，但它们有着本质的区别。
First, money is infinite.
首先，金钱是无限的。
You can always go out and make more money.
你总是可以出去赚更多的钱。
You're never going to get back in time.
但你的时间再也回不去了。
Once this moment is gone, you're not going to get it back forever.
一旦这一刻过去了，你将永远无法再得到它了。
And so being careful about how you spend your time and make money.
所以要谨慎，你该如何利用时间并且赚钱。
And the simple thing is that the money-time relationship, it's not linear.
简单的关系就是，金钱和时间之间不是线性的。
If you think that you just have to trade your own time for money, you're missing out on the biggest wealth opportunity of all.
如果你简单的认为，只需要用自己的时间来换取金钱，你将会错过最大的财富机会。
Which is that you can actually go out and trade other people's time for money.
那就是你可以出去把别人的时间换成金钱。
That's how you get to financial freedom.�
这就是你获得经济自由的途径。
A simple way to do this, you know, if you walk dogs for yourself, you're only limited by the amount of hours that you have in a day.
举个简单的例子，你知道的，如果你自己遛狗，只会限制你这一天里的时间。
If you drive for Lyft or Uber, you're limited by the amount of time that you can drive.
如果你为Lyft或Uber开车，你所能驾驶的时间是有限的。
But if you go out and hire your friends to walk dogs or someone else to walk dog, all of a sudden you're no longer limited by your own time to make money.
但是，如果你出门并雇你的朋友或其他人帮你遛狗，突然之间你就不再受自己时间限制而去赚钱了。
You're trading other people's time and compensating them for their time.
你这就是在换取别人的时间并以此对其补偿。
The other thing is that if you think that time is money, you're not going to go out and try to make as much as possible.
另一个方面就是，如果你认为时间就是金钱，你就不会出去努力多赚点钱了。
And the best form of passive income, hands down which is making money in little to no time, is investing that money.
最好的被动收入形式，就是金钱投资，能够在短时间内赚到唾手可得的钱。
So, I actually just checked yesterday and I've made over $2,000 in the last 24 hours.
那么，我昨天才查过，在过去的24小时里我赚了2000多美元。
I haven't even worked a single hour and, in fact, I calculated so far this year that I've made $45 per hour in my life, even when I'm sleeping.
事实上，我工作连一个小时都不到，我计算过今年到目前为止，我平均每小时赚45美元，甚至在我睡觉的时候。
Warren Buffett he makes over $1.5 million per hour even when he's asleep.
Warren Buffett，即使是在他睡觉的时候，每小时的收入也超过150万美元。
He's not working for that.
他并不为此而工作。
He's asleep and he's making money and the thing is that's available to everyone.
他睡觉也能赚钱，这种事不是每个人都能做到的。
You could do that today.
你今天就能做到。
At the end of the day whenever you're trading your time money, you have to ask, is this worth trading my life for?
在这一天结束的时候，当你在交易你的时间、钱的时候，你要扪心自问，这样值得用我的生命来换取吗？
And lead with that question because if you lead with that question and realize that you're never going to get this hour back.
先问问自己，因为如果你先思考一下这个问题，然后你就会意识到你再也回不去那个时间了。
Not only might you think twice about how you're making money but it only makes sense then to make as much money as possible for that hour of your life that you're trading for it.
你可能会对如何赚钱三思而后行，但只有这样，你才有可能在你生命中交易的那一个小时里赚到尽可能多的钱。
So stop thinking that time is money because it's not.
所以不要以为时间就是金钱，因为时间根本就不是金钱。
Time is so much more than that and that's the great opportunity here because it's never been easier to make more money in less time.
时间比金钱要多得多，这是一个很好的机会，因为用更少的时间赚更多的钱从来都不是一件容易的事。
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