I only just recently wrotea blog postrelated to this topic.
关于这个话题我最近刚写了一篇博客。
Here is what average people do: They wake up at 10am, read some news, eat, watch Game of Thrones for 2 hours, eat more junk food, lay on the sofa and stare at their phones for three hours, and then probably watch more TV and sleep. Of course, there will be variations based on one’s social status and geographical locations - I’m largely generalizing, but this is what most average people do on weekends.
大部分平庸的人是这样做的：他们十点钟起床，看些新闻，吃饭，看两个小时的权利的游戏，吃很多垃圾食品。躺在沙发，盯着自己的手机大概三个小时，待会儿可能看电视或者睡觉。不过根据每个人不同的社会地位和地理环境稍微有些不同-我大致概括一下，但是这就是大部分平庸的人周末做的事。
They don’t achieve much. They don’t have goals or plans, and they live everyday without much thought.
他们没有得到很多。他们没有目标和计划，他们每天活着却没有太多的想法。
This is what I lived like for eighteen years.
我差不多这样子活了18年
Before college, all I wanted to do was get the guy I liked to notice me, or hang with all my friends and go downtown everyday. I wanted to get in a good university but I wasn’t actually willing to put in any effort. I didn’t actuallywork hardfor anything.
在大学之前，我想要的就是让我喜欢的人注意到我，或者是和朋友在一起天天逛街。我想去一所好的大学，自己却不想付出努力。对任何事我都没有认真做。
You see the trend? I wascomfortable.
你看到这个趋势了吗？我很舒服。
And that’s where I got it wrong.I indulged in pleasure, not happiness.I let myself do whatever I wantedin the moment,without actually putting myself under pressure for a better future.
In high school, I binge watchedLast Man on Earthinstead of studying for my bio exam. In college, I ate chocolate and scrolled my Instagram for forty minutes instead of getting a head start on my business project.
Mother of God, what was I doing?
这就是我错了。我沉溺于快乐，不幸福。我让自己做当下想做的任何事，没有把自己放在为了更美好未来的压力之下。高中的时候，我放纵自己看地球上的最后一个男人，而不是准备自己的生物考试。大学的时候，我边吃巧克力边刷Instagram四十分钟，而不是开始自己的商业项目。
If you want to beaboveaverage, you need to get used to beinguncomfortable.You need to get used to pain, to discomfort, to prolonged hours of just sitting there and forcing yourself to get through one more page of that fucking essay, one more lesson on code academy.
如果你想不平庸，你需要变得不舒适。你需要习惯痛苦，习惯不舒适，长时间坐在那里强迫自己再多看一页文章，再多看一节编程的课程。
And in the age of distractions, it’s even harder. Messages, notifications, the allure ofmultiplesocial media accounts you gotta keep up to, piled with schoolwork and activities you gotta attend - it’s horror.
在容易分心的年，这非常的困难。信息，通知，多重社交账户的诱惑，这些你都需要关心着，同时还有堆积着的学校的作业和活动——简直可怕
But those aren’t real excuses.Everyonegoes through them. At the end of the day when you evaluate yourself, whether that’s when you graduate or when you die, you’ll see that nothing is excusable.
但是这些都不是理由。每个人都要经历这些。当一天结束你评估自己时，或者是当你毕业时，或者当你临死前，你就会明白没有什么是可以原谅的。
For me, my excuse for not working hard in high school was that “my mom forced me too much.” My mom’s excuse was that her mom "turned the TV on too loud so [she] couldn’t focus.”
对于我来说，我高中不努力的理由是“我妈把我逼得太狠了。”我妈的理由是她妈妈“电视开的太响了以至于她不能专心。”
Bull fucking shit.
（这句你们懂就好了，我就不翻了）
You can lie to others but stop lying to yourself.The rest of this break, I want to get ahead on building traction for my blog as much as possible, and figure out what I want to do in the tech industry in the future.
你骗得了别人但是不要再骗自己了。接下来的休息时间，我想尽可能的提升我的博客，然后想出未来的科技行业我想做什么。
If I say I “didn’t have enough time”, or “I was too tired”, then I’m lying to myself. I’m in Beijing for two and a half weeks and I have nothing to do.
如果我说“我没有足够的时间”，或者“我太累了”然后我骗了自己。我在北京两个半礼拜，什么也没做成。
So there. Fuck it. Fuck all the lies you keep telling yourself.If you want to be above average, then you have to be willing to drip blood and sweat for whatever you want to achieve- otherwise, you’ll just be left behind. A mere speck waiting to be extinguished by the trailing dust of the above-average.
所以啊，不要再对自己撒谎了。如果你想不再平庸，那你不得不为你想得到的东西流血流汗。否则，你只会被落在后面。最终一粒小斑点被高于平均水平的尘埃所灭。
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