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1. Dont try and be happy - it will only make you sad.1. 不要试图去快乐，因为努力快乐只会让你悲伤。Desperately trying to keep a smile on your face will only make your depression worse, a new study suggests.一项新的研究表明，拼命保持微笑只会让你的抑郁更严重。Feeling content has become the sole goal for many in recent years, but embracing your sadness may be more beneficial.近年来，感到满足已成为许多人的唯一目标，但拥抱悲伤可能更有益。University of Melbourne researchers said that societys downright shunning of being sad could be harmful for sufferers of the blues.墨尔本大学的研究人员称，社会对悲伤的完全回避可能对忧郁患者有害。Dr. Brock Bastian, a psychologist behind the study, said: Depression rates are higher in countries that place a premium on happiness.参与这项研究的心理学家布鲁克巴斯蒂安博士说:“在那些重视幸福的国家，抑郁症发病率更高。”Rather than being the by-product of a life well-lived, feeling happy has become a goal in itself. This reinforces the message that we should aim to maximize our positive emotions and avoid our negative ones.快乐不再是美好生活的副产品，它本身就是一个目标。这强化了这样一个信息，即我们应该以最大化积极情绪为目标，避免消极情绪。Society needs to change its attitude on depression if the disorder is to be tackled effectively, Dr. Bastian hinted.巴斯蒂安博士暗示，如果想要有效地治疗抑郁症，社会需要改变对抑郁症的态度。He added that people have become so used to not showing signs of vulnerability due to social media being used to celebrate achievements.他补充说，由于社交媒体被用来庆祝成就，人们已经习惯于不表现出脆弱的迹象。For the study published in the journal Depression and Anxiety, the researchers assessed 112 depressed patients. Each volunteer was asked to rate their symptoms of the blues and how much pressure they faced to be happy. They were tracked over a period of one month.这项研究发表在抑郁与焦虑杂志上，研究人员评估了112名抑郁症患者。每个志愿者都被要求评价他们的抑郁症状，以及他们面对的快乐的压力有多大。他们被跟踪了一个月的时间。2. Sometimes, giving up doesnt have to be a bad thing2. 有时候，放弃不一定是件坏事When you try too hard but you dont succeed; when despite all your efforts you dont get the results you need, give up and move on. Drop it like its hot, and run in the opposite direction as fast as you can.当你竭尽全力却没有成功;当你付出了所有的努力却没有得到你想要的结果时，放弃吧，继续前进。把它像热的那样扔下去，然后以最快的速度朝相反的方向跑。Baffled? What is wrong with giving up?困惑吗?放弃有什么错?Oh yes, we all have been trained and conditioned to work hard to achieve our dreams, and that is a good thing.哦，是的，我们都被训练和训练去努力实现我们的梦想，这是一件好事。The problem arises when all these inspirational quotes start confusing us.当所有这些励志名言开始让我们困惑时，问题就出现了。These messages tell people not to give up, but they dont tell you that it should only apply to your true dreams.这些信息告诉人们不要放弃，但它们并没有告诉你这只适用于你真正的梦想。They tell one to try and try again until they succeed, but that amount of effort should only be put toward what you really want in life and one should never quit at what they think to be their lifes purpose.他们告诉一个人“尝试再尝试”，直到他们成功，但那份努力应该只放在你真正想要的生活上，一个人不应该放弃他们认为是他们生活的目的。The rest is all just there to confuse you, distract you, give you a headache, heartache and depress you, so dont let it.其余的都是为了迷惑你，分散你的注意力，让你头疼，让你心痛，让你沮丧，所以不要让它发生。If you suck at piano and you know its because you dont even like the instrument, give it up.如果你钢琴弹得不好，你知道那是因为你不喜欢钢琴，那就放弃吧。If no matter how hard you study you can hardly score an above average grade, dont worry, your talent lies somewhere else. Not everybody is an A-student.如果无论你多么努力学习，你都很难得到高于平均水平的分数，不要担心，你的天赋在其他地方。不是每个人都是优等生。If you always end up burning the chocolate cake you are trying to bake, maybe it is because you were born to buy one and not make one. Quit baking.如果你总是把要烤的巧克力蛋糕烤糊，那可能是因为你生来就是买蛋糕的，而不是做蛋糕的。退出烘烤。Are you the worst performer on your sales team, and even the interns are better than you are? Its because you were not supposed to be a sales person, you were meant to be a DJ.你是销售团队中表现最差的吗?即使是实习生也比你强。因为你不应该是一个销售人员，你应该是一个DJ。Try to recognize your talent, your ability and your skills. Find out what you are good at, what makes you happy and then work on it.试着认可你的天赋、能力和技能。找出你擅长什么，什么让你快乐，然后努力去做。If you do, no one would have to tell you or inspire you to not give up because when you love something, you keep trying until you get it right and the enthusiasm flows from within.如果你这样做了，没有人会告诉你或鼓励你不要放弃，因为当你喜欢某件事的时候，你会一直努力，直到你做对了，热情就会从内心涌起。Dont worry about what people will say or think, its your life, you have to live it and you have to be your own boss.不要担心别人会怎么说或怎么想，这是你的生活，你必须活下去，你必须做自己的老板。3. Taking pictures and sharing them every day can increase your happiness3.每天拍照和分享可以增加你的快乐A new study published in the journal Health found that taking a photo (any photo) every day and sharing it online improves your well-being.发表在健康(Health)杂志上的一项新研究发现，每天拍照(任何一张照片)并在网上分享可以改善你的健康状况。Researchers found that snapping and sharing wasnt simply an exercise in narcissism, but an act of self-care.研究人员发现，拍照和分享并不是简单的自恋行为，而是一种自我照顾的行为。Taking the photo encouraged mindfulness, while the sharing promoted social interaction.拍照鼓励专注力，而分享则促进社交互动。Ill stop and take a photograph of this insect sitting on my computer or something. Just taking a moment is very salutary I think, one participant tells scientists at the UKs Lancaster University and University of Sheffield.“我要停下来，拍下这只昆虫坐在我的电脑或其他东西上的照片。我认为，花点时间思考是非常有益的，”一名参与者告诉英国兰开斯特大学(Lancaster University)和谢菲尔德大学(University of Sheffield)的科学家。Looking at photos gives the subjects a sense of purpose, and planning to take them was a motivational force, the researchers say.研究人员说，看照片会给受试者一种使命感，计划拍摄照片是一种激励力量。It encourages me out of the house sometimes, another participant says.“它有时鼓励我走出家门，”另一位参与者说。On the social side, comments kept people connected with their friends and family, and even helped some combat loneliness.在社交方面，评论让人们与朋友和家人保持联系，甚至帮助一些人战胜孤独。Researchers concluded in a press release that posting photos online is an active process of meaning making.研究人员在一份新闻稿中总结称，在网上发布照片是“一个积极的意义创造过程”。4. Are you tired every day? Do three little things to make a difference in your life4. 你每天都累吗?做三件小事来改变你的生活Most of us feel exhausted after working for at least eight hours a day, five days a week. When we get home, we watch at least two episodes on Netflix because its well-deserved and the only time we get to relax before we go to sleep.我们大多数人在每天至少工作八小时，每周工作五天之后都会感到疲惫。回家后，我们至少会在Netflix上看两集，因为这是我们应得的，也是我们睡觉前唯一能“放松”的时间。Wake up and repeat. And repeat and repeat and repeat. No wonder you feel tired.醒来并重复。重复，重复，再重复。难怪你觉得累。So how do you get out of this vicious cycle? How do you restart your life? Hint: NOT by adding something new to your life. But by making sure your body is ready and able to actually handle new hobbies.那么，如何才能摆脱这种恶性循环呢?如何重新开始你的生活?提示:不要给你的生活添加新东西。但是要确保你的身体已经准备好并且能够处理新的爱好。The first 3 things to check to make sure you have right:前三件事要检查，以确保你是正确的:1. YOUR MINDSET1. 你的思维方式Oh man, another one of these self-improvement things. I hope I can do it, but Ive tried these things before, and I just never stick with it.天啊，又是一件自我提升的事。我希望我能做到，但我以前也试过，只是从来没有坚持过。”This was something I used to say to myself every time I try to start something new for myself. Theres a fear-driven side of your brain which tells you, You cant do this.每当我尝试为自己开创新事物时，我总是这样对自己说。你大脑中受恐惧驱使的那一面会告诉你，“你不能这么做。”What can you do? Well, the tip here is to talk to yourself like youre talking to a friend, or a coworker, or a child who is being told by a bully they cant do something they want to try. So the next time you try something new, be kind to yourself like you would be kind to others. You are your own worst critic. But you can also be your staunch defender. Stand up for yourself against yourself.你能做什么?嗯，这里的建议是，像对朋友、同事或被恶霸告知不能做自己想做的事情的孩子那样对自己说话。所以下次你尝试新事物时，善待自己，就像善待他人一样。你是自己最大的批评家。但你也可以成为自己坚定的捍卫者。站起来反对你自己。2. YOUR SLEEP2. 你的睡眠Without sufficient sleep, were basically going through the day drunk. This means tiredness, difficulty to respond quickly and smartly to anything that comes up.没有充足的睡眠，我们基本上是在醉酒中度过一天。这意味着你会感到疲劳，很难对任何事情做出快速而明智的反应。The sleeping hours needed for an average adult ranges from 7 to 9 hours. Just keep in mind that your body is not wired in the same way your computer is. You cannot have instantaneous change. Let yourself have at least 1 to 2 weeks minimum to start sleeping a little earlier regularly. And this sort of timeline is meant for small changes, like 15 minutes to 30 minutes earlier than your current sleeping schedule.成年人的平均睡眠时间为7至9小时。只要记住，你的身体不像你的电脑那样连接。你不可能有瞬间的改变。让自己至少有一到两周的时间来开始规律地早睡。这种时间安排意味着小的改变，比如比你现在的睡眠时间提前15到30分钟。But this is an absolutely must. Without sleep, your body and mind is weak, slow, and definitely not energetic enough to accommodate any new activities you want to do.但这是绝对必须的。没有睡眠，你的身心就会变得虚弱、迟钝，而且绝对没有足够的精力来适应你想做的任何新活动。3. YOUR FOOD3.你的食物If you are looking at what you eat for the reason to feel energized, then the general rules are:如果你是为了感觉精力充沛而吃东西，那么一般的规则是:1) Eat when youre hungry. Dont eat when youre not.饿的时候再吃。不吃东西的时候就不要吃。2) Be mindful when you eat. Chew at least 20 times. Let yourself taste and digest your food.吃东西的时候要小心。至少咀嚼20次。让自己品尝和消化食物。3) Dont do three things at once when youre eating. Your body wasnt made for that.吃饭的时候不要同时做三件事。你的身体不是为此而生的。4) Preferably, eat real food. Eat food your great-grandmother would realize as food.最好吃“真正的”食物。吃曾祖母认为是食物的食物。Dont let your days roll by in the continual humdrum. Start by re-examining these key habits in your life already to build a body that can start doing things you want.不要让你的日子在无休止的无聊中度过。从重新审视你生活中的这些关键习惯开始，建立一个可以开始做你想做的事情的身体。5. Control yourself, modest and confident to moderate5. 克制自己，谦虚而自信地适度These arent even that good. I think I could do better. Thats one of the reasons I started writing. Because I was reading other articles and that thought came to mind. Ive even thought that about books. Famous books. Brilliant books.“这些甚至都没有那么好。我觉得我可以做得更好。”这也是我开始写作的原因之一。因为我在阅读其他文章的时候，这个想法就出现了。我甚至对书也有这样的想法。著名的书籍。聪明的书。Who am I to think that我凭什么这么想Thats my ego.这是我的自我。And Im grateful for it.我很感激。Because I never wouldve started writing without it. I never wouldve found something I love to do without it. I never wouldve been able to quit my 9-5 without it.因为如果没有它，我根本不会开始写作。如果没有它，我永远也找不到我喜欢做的事情。如果没有它，我不可能放弃我的朝九晚五。But, sometimes I get too caught up in it. Ill let other peoples accomplishments get inside me and make me feel bad. I become jealous. I become resentful.但是，有时候我太沉迷其中了。我会让别人的成就进入我的内心，让我感觉糟糕。我变得嫉妒。我变得愤怒。I let myself be tricked into think Im not good enough, or doing enough, or being enough. Thats when my ego becomes unhelpful.我让自己被欺骗，认为自己不够好，或者做得不够好，或者不够好。那就是我的自我变得毫无用处的时候。I dont think having an ego is good or bad.我不认为自负是好是坏。I think its good and bad.我认为它有好有坏。6. Folk Cultures6. 民间文化A folk culture is a small isolated, cohesive, conservative, nearly self-sufficient group that is homogeneous in custom and race with a strong family or clan structure and highly developed rituals. 民俗文化是一个小的、孤立的、有凝聚力的、保守的、几乎自给自足的群体，它在习俗和种族上都是同质的，有着强大的家庭或宗族结构和高度发达的仪式。Order is maintained through sanctions based in the religion or family and interpersonal relationships are strong. 秩序是通过基于宗教或家庭的制裁来维持的，人际关系也很牢固。Tradition is paramount, and change comes infrequently and slowly.传统是最重要的，改变很少，也很慢。There is relatively little division of labor into specialized duties. Rather, each person is expected to perform a great variety of tasks, though duties may differ between the sexes. 专门的分工相对较少。相反，每个人都要完成各种各样的任务，尽管不同性别的人职责不同。Most goods are handmade and subsistence economy prevails. 大多数商品是手工制作的，以自给自足为主。Individualism is weakly developed in folk cultures as are social classes. 个人主义在民间文化中发展得很弱，社会阶层也是如此。Unaltered folk cultures no longer exist in industrialized countries such as the United States and Canada. 在美国和加拿大等工业化国家，一成不变的民间文化已不复存在。Perhaps the nearest modern equivalent in Anglo America is the Amish, a German American farming sect that largely renounces the products and labor saving devices of the industrial age. 在现代美洲的盎格鲁地区，与之最接近的是Amish。Amish是一个德裔美国人的农耕部落，他们在很大程度上放弃了工业时代的产品和节省劳力的设备。In Amish areas, horse drawn buggies still serve as a local transportation device and the faithful are not permitted to own automobiles. 在Amish地区，轻便马车仍然是当地的交通工具，信徒们不允许拥有汽车。The Amishs central religious concept of Demut humility, clearly reflects the weakness of individualism and social class so typical of folk cultures and there is a corresponding strength of Amish group identity.Amish宗教中的核心概念Demut即谦卑典型地反映了在民间文化中个人主义和阶级的不发达，而与此同时，Amish对群体的认同性却十分强。 Rarely do the Amish marry outside their sect.The religion, a variety of the Mennonite faith, provides the principal mechanism for maintaining orders.Amish人很少与他们宗派以外的人通婚。宗教是Mennonite信仰的一种，它提供了维持秩序的主要机制。By contrast a popular culture is a large heterogeneous group often highly individualistic and constantly changing. 相反，大众文化是一个大的异质群体，往往高度个人主义和不断变化。Relationships tend to be impersonal and a pronounced division of labor exists, leading to the establishment of many specialized professions. 人际关系往往是非个人的，存在着明显的劳动分工，导致了许多专门职业的建立。Secular institutions of control such as the police and army take the place of religion and family in maintaining order, and a money-based economy prevails. 在维持秩序方面，警察和军队等世俗控制机构取代了宗教和家庭，盛行以货币为基础的经济。Because of these contrasts, popular may be viewed as clearly different from folk. 由于这些对比，“受欢迎的”可能被视为与“民间的”截然不同。The popular is replacing the folk in industrialized countries and in many developing nations. Folk-made objects give way to their popular equivalent, usually because the popular item is more quickly or cheaply produced, is easier or time saving to use or leads more prestige to the owner.在工业化国家和许多发展中国家，大众文化正在取代民间文化。民间制造的物品让位于流行的同类物品，通常是因为流行的物品生产起来更快、更便宜、使用起来更方便、更省时，或者能给主人带来更多的威望。 7. Growth That Starts From Thinking7. 从思考开始的成长It seems to me a very difficult thing to put into words the beliefs we hold and what they make you do in your life. 在我看来，很难用语言来表达我们的信仰，以及它们对你的生活的影响。I think I was fortunate because I grew up in a family where there was a very deep religious feeling. I dont think it was spoken of a great deal. 我认为我是幸运的，因为我生长在一个有很深的宗教信仰的家庭。我不认为它被谈论了很多。It was more or less taken for granted that everybody held certain beliefs and needed certain reinforcements of their own strength and that that came through your belief in God and your knowledge of prayer.人们或多或少地认为每个人都有某种信仰，都需要某种力量的帮助，而这种力量来自于你对上帝的信仰和对祈祷的理解。But as I grew older I questioned a great many of the things that I knew very well my grandmother who had brought me up had taken for granted. 但随着年龄的增长，我对许多祖母认为理所当然的事情产生了怀疑。And I think I might have been a quite difficult person to live with if it hadnt been for the fact that my husband once said it didnt do you any harm to learn those things, so why not let your children learn them? 我想如果不是因为我丈夫曾经说过学习这些东西对你没有任何害处，我可能是一个很难相处的人，所以为什么不让你的孩子学习这些东西呢?When they grow up theyll think things out for themselves.当他们长大后，他们会自己想事情。And that gave me a feeling that perhaps thats what we all must dothink out for ourselves what we could believe and how we could live by it. 这给了我一种感觉，也许这就是我们所有人都必须做的为我们自己想想，我们可以相信什么，我们怎样才能靠它生活。And so I came to the conclusion that you had to use this life to develop the very best that you could develop.所以我得出结论，你必须利用这一生来发展你所能发展的最好的东西。I dont know whether I believe in a future life. I believe that all that you go through here must have some value, therefore there must be some reason. And there must be some “going on.”How exactly that happens Ive never been able to decide. There is a future that Im sure of.我不知道我是否相信来生。我相信你在这里所经历的一切一定有一定的价值，因此一定有一定的道理。一定有一些“正在进行中”。“这到底是怎么发生的，我一直无法决定。我对未来充满信心。But how that I dont know. And I came to feel that it didnt really matter very much because whatever the future held youd have to face it when you came to it, just as whatever life holds you have to face it exactly the same way. 但我不知道为什么。我开始觉得这真的不是很重要，因为无论未来如何，当你面对它的时候，你必须面对它，就像无论生活如何，你必须以同样的方式面对它。And the important thing was that you never let down doing the best that you were able to do it might be poor because you might not have very much within you to give, or to help other people with, or to live your life with.最重要的是，你永远不会让自己失望尽你所能做到最好可能会很糟糕，因为你可能没有太多的内在去给予，去帮助别人，去生活。 But as long as you did the very best that you were able to do, then that was what you were put here to do and that was what you were accomplishing by being here.但只要你尽了最大的努力，那就是你被派到这里来做的事，那就是你在这里所完成的事。And so I have tried to follow that out and not to worry about the future or what was going to happen. I think I am pretty much of a fatalist. 所以我一直在努力做到这一点，不去担心未来会发生什么。我想我是一个宿命论者。You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.你必须接受一切，最重要的是你要用勇气和最好的自己去面对。8. Sleep8. 睡眠Sleep is part of a persons daily activity cycle. 睡眠是一个人日常活动周期的一部分。There are several different stages of sleep, and they too occur in cycles. If you are an average sleeper, your sleep cycle is as follows.睡眠有几个不同的阶段，它们也是循环发生的。如果你是一个普通的睡眠者，你的睡眠周期如下。 When you first drift off into slumber, your eyes will roll about a bit, your temperature will drop slightly, your muscles will relax, and your breathing well slow and become quite regular. 当你第一次进入睡眠状态时，你的眼睛会转动一下，体温会轻微下降，肌肉会放松，呼吸会变得缓慢而有规律。Your brain waves slow down a bit too, with the alpha rhythm of rather fast waves predominating for the first few minutes. This is called stage 1 sleep. 你的脑电波也会慢一点，在最初的几分钟里，快速脑电波的阿尔法节奏占主导地位。这被称为第一阶段睡眠。For the next half hour or so, as you relax more and more, you will drift down through stage 2 and stage 3 sleep. The lower your stage of sleep, the slower your brain waves will be. 在接下来的半小时左右，随着你越来越放松，你会进入第二阶段和第三阶段的睡眠。你的睡眠阶段越低，你的脑电波就会越慢。Then about 40 to 60 minutes after you lose consciousness you will have reached the deepest sleep of all. Your brain waves will show the large slow waves that are known as the delta rhythm. This is stage 4 sleep.大约在你失去意识后的40到60分钟，你就进入了沉睡状态。你的脑电波会显示出巨大的慢波，这就是众所周知的节奏。这是第四阶段睡眠。You do not remain at this deep fourth stage all night long, but inst