15条永不过时的生活智慧

7. Be reliable.
做个可信之人。

"Do what you say you're going to do."
“言而有信，说到就要做到。”

8. Do the right thing.
做正确的事情。

"Advice from Charlie Munger (not proffered personally): The safest way to try to get what you want is to try to deserve what you want."
“从查理-芒格那里得到的建议(不是亲自得到的)：想得到东西的最安全的方式就是努力去让自己理应得到想要的东西。”

9. Slow down.
慢下来

"When I was in my 20s I worked as a waiter at a very popular restaurant. I found it very difficult to keep up with the orders and, consequently, my tips were very low.
“当我20多岁时，我在一家非常受欢迎的餐厅当服务员。我发现很难跟得上那些订单，因此，我的小费非常少。”

One of the very experienced servers took me aside and she said, 'Slow down and take longer steps. You'll feel more relaxed and your customers will see that and trust you.'
“一位非常有经验的服务员把我拉到一边，告诉我，‘慢下来，多走几步。你会更加放松，你的顾客也能够感受到并因而信任你。’”

If you slow down, you have time to think and plan better. Taking longer steps means more than just how you move through a space. It's about looking ahead and covering more ground, encompassing more than just the task at hand."
如果你慢下来，你就有时间思考，并能更好地计划。多走几步不仅仅是走路。它还包括往前看，多注意一些详细的情况，而不仅仅是手头的任务。”

10. Everyone ends up in the same place.
每个人都会在同一地方结束。

"'At the end of the game, the king and the pawn go back in the same box.' —Italian Proverb
“在游戏的最后，国王和小兵都会回到同一个盒子里。” ——意大利谚语

When you really think about this, in the end we all end up the same. You can't take your money and fame with you after you die."
“你仔细想想，到最后其实我们都是一样的。金钱和名誉都是生不带来死不带去的。”

11. Time is not money. It's better.
时间不是金钱。它比金钱更重要。

"Always choose time over money. Contrary to what people say, time is not money. Time is much much more than money. At the end of your life, it's guaranteed you will be out of time and more than likely out of money as well, if you didn't value time."
“在时间和金钱前，要选择金钱。和人们说的不同，时间不是金钱。时间比金钱要重要的多。在你生命的尽头，你肯定会没时间，如果你不珍惜时间的话，很有可能也没钱。”

12. Don't worry what other people think.
不要担心别人怎么想。

"Stop being so self-conscious because absolutely nobody is paying any attention to you anyway — they are only paying attention to themselves."
“不要那么不自然，因为绝对没人注意你。——他们只会注意自己。”

13. You can't truly control anything but how well you do things.
你无法真正地去控制任何事情，但你能控制自己如何去做事情。

"To find happiness in life's tasks, invest in the process (which you can control), not in the outcome (which is largely out of your control)."
“在生活的过程中去寻找幸福，在过程中投资（这样你可以控制），不要在结果上投资（大部分都是无法控制的。）”

14. Listen.
倾听

"God gave you two ears and one mouth; use them proportionally."
“上天给了你两只耳朵和一张嘴;按比例使用它们。”

15. Take risks when you can.
能冒险时就冒险。

"On deciding whether to step off my career track in my mid-20s to live abroad for a year: 'You have the rest of your life to work. You'll be working for 40 years. I don't know why we were in such a hurry when we were young.' I took the year off."
“在我20多岁的时候，我要做一个决定，是否放弃职业生涯去国外生活一年：‘你的余生都要工作。你要工作40年。我不知道为什么年轻时我们要这么着急。‘我选择了出去一年。”

来源：沪江英语

编辑：杜娟