Life Advice: What can people start doing now that will help them a lot in about five years?
生活建议：有哪些现在开始行动5年后受益良多的事？
原文作者：David Cannon,
There's already a lot here and you probably stopped reading, but I couldn't resist writing a note to my 23 year old self:
已经写得够多了，你可能看不下去了，但是我停不下来，有太多的事想写给23岁的我了。
If you do anything, do this first one: learn how to work hard and stick with something. Learn how to turn off Facebook and control your addiction to social media. You'll instantly be ahead of a majority of your generation.
无论做任何事，先做这第一个：学会如何努力和坚持做事。知道如何关闭Facebook和控制对社交媒体的上瘾程度。你会马上和同龄人拉开很大的距离。
Video games are a time sink. If you can play for an hour and say "That was fun, let's do something else" then you're ok. Otherwise, just get rid of them.
电子游戏是个时间陷阱。如果你一天玩一个小时，之后说“很好玩，不过我现在要做别的事了。”那你是没事的。否则的话，赶紧摆脱它吧。
Pick up an athletic hobby that you can do through the years, or your sedentary academic lifestyle will do horrible things to your posture, back, and gut.
培养一个可以坚持好多年的体育类爱好，否则你久坐不动的生活方式会对你的姿势，背部和肠胃造成伤害。
Learn how to deal with interpersonal conflicts. Read Crucial Conversations and practice - it's a lifechanger (shameless plug:Crucial Conversations Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High, Second Edition)
学会处理人际关系的矛盾。理解关键对话和实践-这会改变你的生活。
Learn as much programming as you can. It's never a bad idea to learn a programming language (unless that language is COBOL—just kidding, you can even make money coding in COBOL). I've foundTreehouseis worth the investment.
尽可能的多学编程语言。学一门编程从来不是坏主意。（除非是COBOL，开玩笑的啦，你甚至可以通过编程赚钱。）我发现树屋非常值得投资。
Learn how to display data in R.
学习如何用R语言显示数据。
Learn how to talk on the phone with people you don't know. It still terrifies most people. Get a phone sales job and quit after a few weeks.
学会如何和陌生人通电话。这依然会让很多人害怕。找个电话销售的工作，然后几个礼拜后辞职。
Start some kind of little side venture to learn entrepreneurial principles. Start a window washing business, buy and sell stuff on Craigslist, do anything. You might need them if you're in between jobs.
开始一些小小的尝试来了解创业的原则。开启个窗户洗涤业务，在Craigslist上卖点东西。你待业的时候可能会需要它们。
Take a course on statistics and how they're misused, specifically how faulty causal arguments are made. It will change the way you approach almost any discussion, quantitative or not. (ReadHow to Lie with Statistics: Darrell Huff)
学习一些统计学的知识以及它们是怎么被误用的，具体的论证是如何产生的。它会改变你应对辩论的方式，以及各种数学等等。
Always have a private place where you can talk out loud to God every day. Even if you're not religious or don't believe in God. Talk out loud to the universe. Sort out your thoughts, verbalize them, and then write down what comes to mind. Something wiser than you is listening and responding, even if it's just another side of you.
总要有个隐秘的地方可以让你每天和上帝大声的交流。即使你不信宗教也不信上帝。和宇宙大生交谈。选出你的想法，用语言表达出来，然后把脑子里浮现的东西写下来。比你更明智的事是倾听和回应，即使只是另一面的你。
Usehttp://Mint.comto track your expenses. Make a budget and learn how to stick to it. Learn to live lean now while you can, so you won't be forced to later on.
用Mint记录你的开销情况。坚持做预算。现在学会生活简朴，以免将来被迫过穷日子。
Learn a foreign language, but only if you anticipate using it. Sure, there are side benefits, but you'll forget it.
学一门外语，不过只是当你用的上这门语言的时候。当然，肯定有附带的好处，不过你会忽略的。
Learn how to network. Read "Never Eat Alone." (plug:http://amzn.to/XQqfrM). Hint: it's about doing things for other people.
学会使用网络，读这篇“不要单独吃饭”，这是关于为别人做点事的。
Learn how to cook tasty, cheap food.
学会如何烹饪好吃的，便宜的食物
Find music that inspires you and makes you feel alive. Listen to it every morning and if it's something embarrassing just don't tell your friends about it.
找一些激励你，让你觉得还活着的音乐。每天早晨都听一听，如果是一些比较尴尬的就不要告诉朋友们啦。
Save up a few thousand dollars and go somewhere crazy with a few friends. Live in a hostel for a few weeks. Get malaria if you have to. It will change your life and you will think about it forever (not the malaria part - you'll get over that.)
存几千英镑，和朋友去一些疯狂的地方。在旅社住几个礼拜。这会改变你的生命的，你会永远想起这次经历。
When someone promises you easy money, run the other way. Yes, it IS a scam.
当别人向你保证能赚一些很容易的钱时，不要信。是的，这是个骗局。
Read a book a week (I listen toAudible.comthe car). When you get ridiculously wealthy, read a book a day. Read fiction too.
每个礼拜看一本书。当你变得非常富有的时候，每天看一本书。或者看看小说。
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