KK给年轻人的建议

Kevin Kelly，网名KK，是著名的科技评论家，曾经担任《连线》（Wired）杂志的第一任主编。

去年68岁生日的时候，他写了给年轻人的68条建议。今年69岁生日，他又续写了一篇给年轻人的99条建议。

• Learn how to learn from those you disagree with, or even offend you. See if you can find the truth in what they believe.
• 学会向那些与你意见相左甚至冒犯你的人学习。看看你能否从他们的信仰中找到真相。
• Being enthusiastic is worth 25 IQ points.
• 充满热情相当于25分智商。
• Don’t be afraid to ask a question that may sound stupid because 99% of the time everyone else is thinking of the same question and is too embarrassed to ask it.
• 不要害怕问一个听起来很愚蠢的问题，因为99%的时间里每个人都在想同样的问题，他们会因为感到尴尬而不好意思问。
• Gratitude will unlock all other virtues and is something you can get better at.
• 感恩可以释放其他所有美德，这是你可以擅长的事情。
• Treating a person to a meal never fails, and is so easy to do. It’s powerful with old friends and a great way to make new friends.
• 请朋友吃饭是一件非常棒的事情，而且很容易做到。它不仅适用于老朋友，也是结交新朋友的好方法。
• Reading to your children regularly will bond you together and kickstart their imaginations.
• 定期给孩子读书会增进你和孩子之间的感情，并激发他们的想象力。
• Pros are just amateurs who know how to gracefully recover from their mistakes.
• 专业人士只是直到如何从错误中优雅地回复过来的业余爱好者。
• Don’t be the smartest person in the room. Hangout with, and learn from, people smarter than yourself. Even better, find smart people who will disagree with you.
• 不要成为房间里最聪明的人。和比你更聪明的人在一起，并向他们学习。更棒的是，找到那些不同意你观点的聪明人。
• Don’t be the best. Be the only.
• 不要做最好的。而要成为唯一的。
• Everyone is shy. Other people are waiting for you to introduce yourself to them, they are waiting for you to send them an email, they are waiting for you to ask them on a date. Go ahead.
• 每个人都害羞。别人在等待你介绍自己，他们在等待你发邮件，他们在等你约他们，勇敢地去做！
• Promptness is a sign of respect.
• 准时是一种尊重的表现。
• The more you are interested in others, the more interesting they find you. To be interesting, be interested.
• 你对别人越感兴趣，别人对你也就越感兴趣。要有趣，先要感兴趣。
• To make something good, just do it. To make something great, just re-do it, re-do it, re-do it. The secret to making fine things is in remaking them.
• 要想做一些棒的事情，直接去做。要想做一些伟大的事情，只有重复做，重复做，重复做。创造美好事物的秘诀在于重新制作它们。
• If you are looking for something in your house, and you finally find it, when you’re done with it, don’t put it back where you found it. Put it back where you first looked for it.
• 如果你在家里找东西，最后找到了。当你用完的时候，不要把它放回原来的地方，把它放回你第一次找它的地方。
• Saving money and investing money are both good habits. Small amounts of money invested regularly for many decades without deliberation is one path to wealth.
• 存钱和投资都是好习惯。几十年来定期进行少量投资而无需考虑太多就是获得财富的途径之一。
• To make mistakes is human. To own your mistakes is divine. Nothing elevates a person higher than quickly admitting and taking personal responsibility for the mistakes you make and then fixing them fairly. If you mess up, fess up. It’s astounding how powerful this ownership is.
• 犯错是人之常情，承认自己的错误是神圣的。没有什么比迅速承认自己的错误并为自己犯的错误承担个人责任，然后公平地改正错误更能提升一个人的地位了。如果你把事情搞砸了，就承认。这种勇于承担责任的强大能力令人震惊。
• Separate the processes of creation from improving. You can’t write and edit, or sculpt and polish, or make and analyze at the same time. If you do, the editor stops the creator. While you invent, don’t select. While you sketch, don’t inspect. While you write the first draft, don’t reflect. At the start, the creator mind must be unleashed from judgement.
• 将创作和改进分开。你不能同时写作和润色。当你写初稿的时候，不要反思。一开始，创作者的思想应该解放出来。
• Friends are better than money. Almost anything money can do, friends can do better. In so many ways a friend with a boat is better than owning a boat.
• 朋友胜过金钱。几乎任何钱能办到的事情，朋友都能够做得更好。在很多时候，一个有船的朋友比拥有船更好。
• You are what you do. Not what you say, not what you believe, not how you vote, but what you spend your time on.
• 你就是你所做的每件事。不是你所说的话，不是你相信什么，不是你的投票，而是你把时间花在了什么上。
• There is no limit on better. Talent is distributed unfairly, but there is no limit on how much we can improve what we start with.
• 想要变得更好是没有限制的。起点资源的分配是不公平的，但是我们能在起点的基础上提高多少是没有限制的。
• Be prepared: When you are 90% done any large project (a house, a film, an event, an app) the rest of the myriad details will take a second 90% to complete.
• 做好准备：当你完成任何一个大的项目（房子、电影、活动、应用程序）的90%之后，剩下的无数细节需要90%的时间来完善。
• When you die you take absolutely nothing with you except your reputation.
• 当你去世时，除了荣誉之外，你什么也带不走。
• Before you are old, attend as many funerals as you can bear, and listen. Nobody talks about the departed’s achievements. The only thing people will remember is what kind of person you were while you were achieving.
• 在你老去之前，尽可能多地参加葬礼，并且倾听。没有人会谈论逝者的成就。人们唯一会记得的是你在取得成就时是什么样的人。
• Anything real begins with the fiction of what could be. Imagination is therefore the most potent force in the universe, and a skill you can get better at. It’s the one skill in life that benefits from ignoring what everyone else knows.
• 任何真实的事物都是从虚构的事物开始。因此，想象力是宇宙中最强大的力量，是一种你可以学得更好的技能。这是生活中一项技能，它能从忽视别人所知道的事情中获益。
• When crisis and disaster strike, don’t waste them. No problems, no progress.
• 当灾难和危机来临时，不要错过他们。没有苦难就没有进步。
• If you desperately need a job, you are just another problem for a boss; if you can solve many of the problems the boss has right now, you are hired. To be hired, think like your boss.
• 如果你迫切需要一份工作，那么对于老板来说，这只是另外一个问题。如果您能解决老板所面临的许多问题，你就会被录用。要想被录用，就要像老板一样思考。
• How to apologize: Quickly, specifically, sincerely.
• 如何道歉：迅速、真诚、具体
• When someone is nasty, rude, hateful, or mean with you, pretend they have a disease. That makes it easier to have empathy toward them which can soften the conflict.
• 当有人讨厌、粗鲁、可恶或对你刻薄时，假装他们有病。这样更容易对他们产生同情心，从而缓和冲突。
• Buying tools: Start by buying the absolute cheapest tools you can find. Upgrade the ones you use a lot. If you wind up using some tool for a job, buy the very best you can afford.
• 购买工具：首先购买你能找到的最便宜的工具。 升级您经常使用的产品。 如果您最终会使用某种工具来工作，请购买您能负担得起的最好的工具。
• Following your bliss is a recipe for paralysis if you don’t know what you are passionate about. A better motto for most youth is “master something, anything”. Through mastery of one thing, you can drift towards extensions of that mastery that bring you more joy, and eventually discover where your bliss is.
• 如果你不知道自己的激情所在，追寻幸福就会让你陷入瘫痪。对大多数年轻人来说，更好的座右铭是“精通一件事”。通过对一件事的掌握，你可以逐渐扩大对这件事的掌握，从而带给你更多的快乐，最终发现你的幸福在哪里。
• The universe is conspiring behind your back to make you a success. This will be much easier to do if you embrace this pronoia.
• 宇宙在你背后阴谋使你成功。如果你接受这个暗示，这将会更容易做到。
• Don’t aim to have others like you; aim to have them respect you.
• 不要以别人喜欢你为目标，目标是要别人尊重你。
• Be strict with yourself and forgiving of others. The reverse is hell for everyone.
• 严于律己宽以待人。
• Be the change you wish to see.
• 做出你自己喜欢的改变。
• When brainstorming, improvising, jamming with others, you’ll go much further and deeper if you build upon each contribution with a playful “yes — and” example instead of a deflating “no — but” reply.
• 当头脑风暴，即兴创作的时候，你要多使用”是的，并且…“等话语，而不是”不对，而是…“的口气，你将会更进一步。
• Advice like these are not laws. They are like hats. If one doesn’t fit, try another.
• 这些建议不是法律。 他们就像帽子。 如果其中一个不合适，请尝试另一个。