The fastest way to ruin your life:
最快毁掉你生活的方法：

Do what others want for you.
做别人想让你做的事。

Never question what you’re told.
永远不去质疑别人告诉你的。

Take the route that seems safe on the surface, but is the least safe of them all.
走表面上看起来安全的路线，但这是所有路线中最不安全的。

Avoid the essence of life – trial and error – and close yourself off to the profound, the deep, and the meaningful.
避开生活的本质--尝试和错误--把自己关在深奥、深刻和有意义的东西之外。

The greatest mistake of all is not making any mistakes.
最大的错误是不犯任何错误。

This is the life of the masses.
这就是大众的生活。

Bouncing around on the surface.
在表面上弹来弹去。

Only learning what they’re taught in school.
只学学校里教的东西。

Only experiencing the same day over and over again.
只是一遍又一遍地经历同一天。

Clock in, clock out, and fill the rest of your day numbing your mind from the thought of what will happen between tomorrow.
打卡上班，打卡下班，用一天中剩下的时间来麻痹你的大脑，不去想明天和明天之间会发生什么。

The path out of meaningless living is already available to you. Deep in your core.
走出无意义生活的道路已经向你敞开。在你内心深处。

We all have access to Nature’s Compass.
我们都可以使用自然指南针。

Nature’s Compass 大自然的指南针
If you don’t know what you want, you will be told what you want, and you will believe it. – The Art of Focus
如果你不知道你想要什么，你会被告知你想要什么，你会相信它。

How to do whatever you want:
如何做你想做的事：

Do what you want, but don’t ignore the consequences of your actions.
做你想做的，但不要忽视你行为的后果。

You have to do what you think you want to realize what you don’t want. You have to remove what you don’t want to do what you really want.
你必须做你认为你想做的事才能意识到你不想做的事。你必须去除你不想做的事情，做你真正想做的事情。

It is impossible to know with absolute certainty what is going to happen in the future.
要绝对肯定地知道将来会发生什么是不可能的。

This is why the masses flock to "secure" jobs and belief systems.
这就是为什么大众涌向“安全”的工作和信仰体系。

It's an illusion of certainty to avoid struggle. You can't skip making mistakes. Mistakes are your light in the dark. Mistakes reveal problems to be solved. Problems are the limits on your mind.
这是一种避免争斗的确定性幻觉。你不能不犯错误。错误是黑暗中的光明。错误揭示了需要解决的问题。问题是你思想的极限。

As Einstein said, “You can’t solve a problem with the same mind that created it.”
正如爱因斯坦所说，“你不能用创造它的同一个头脑来解决问题。

Most people skip that part.
大多数人跳过这一部分。

They think they want a nice car, cushy job, and to travel the world – but once they do those things, the superficial shine fades fast.
他们认为他们想要一辆好车，轻松的工作，环游世界-但一旦他们做了这些事情，表面的光泽很快就会消失。

They continue convincing themselves that’s the life they want, never evolve, never pursue anything deeper, and never get what they really want.
他们继续说服自己，这就是他们想要的生活，从不进化，从不追求更深层次的东西，永远不会得到他们真正想要的东西。

That is, they never get what their nature wants, not what their ego wants.
也就是说，他们永远不会得到他们的本性想要的，而不是他们的自我想要的。

To get what you want out of life:
从生活中得到你想要的：

Pursue what you think you want
追求你认为你想要的
Realize what you don’t want
意识到你不想要什么
Become aware of that problem
意识到这个问题
Sit with it, study it, dissect it
坐下来研究它剖析它
Expand your mind to see beyond it
扩展你的思维去超越它
Solve the problem to evolve one level
解决问题进化一个层次
Repeat the process until you reach the essence of life itself
重复这个过程，直到你到达生命本身的本质

There is absolutely no set path that someone can give you to accomplish this.
绝对没有固定的路径，有人可以给你给予，以实现这一点。

People can give you direction with advice and tips, but they can’t act, think, or solve problems for you.
人们可以给你给予建议和提示，但他们不能为你行动、思考或解决问题。

You don't know what you want out of life because you haven't tried anything.
你不知道自己想要什么因为你什么都没尝试过。

You're not getting results because you don't have the skill required to get those results.
你没有得到结果，因为你没有得到这些结果所需的技能。

You don't know what's possible because you haven't exposed yourself to the perspective that makes it possible.
你不知道什么是可能的，因为你没有把自己暴露在使之成为可能的视角下。

What you want right now may be completely different tomorrow, or next month, or next year.
你现在想要的东西可能在明天、下个月或明年就完全不同了。

Nothing lasts forever. Meaning is found in endless problem-solving until you drill so deep you find what you are looking for.
没有什么是永恒的。意义存在于无休止的解决问题中，直到你钻得很深，你找到了你在寻找的东西。

This is normal. This is life.
这很正常生活就是如此

The Macro Cycle Of Life – Why You Always Feel Lost生命的宏观周期-为什么你总是感到失落

You feel lost because you don’t know what to do next.
你感到失落，因为你不知道下一步该做什么。

You don’t know what to do next because you don’t have a goal.
你不知道下一步该做什么，因为你没有目标。

You don’t have a goal (that you care about) because you aren’t aware of a problem that demands your focus.
你没有一个目标（你关心的目标），因为你没有意识到一个需要你关注的问题。

Stop worrying about setting goals until you identify the next problem you want to solve in your life.
不要再担心设定目标，直到你确定了生活中你想解决的下一个问题。

Life unfolds in chapters, phases, and cycles.
生命以章节、阶段和循环展开。

Your life is a story.
你的生活就是一个故事。

Your year is a story.
你的一年是一个故事。

Your day is a story.
你的一天就是一个故事。

Each of them have a series of goals, problems, highs, and lows that may repeat themselves as time passes.
他们每个人都有一系列的目标，问题，高潮和低谷，随着时间的推移可能会重复自己。

There is one macrocycle of life.
有一个生命的大循环。

Once you understand it, you can identify which part of the story you are in, become aware of its components, and ease your mind until you enter the next phase.
一旦你理解了它，你就可以确定你在故事的哪一部分，意识到它的组成部分，放松你的思想，直到你进入下一个阶段。

The cycle is composed of 3 phases:
该周期由3个阶段组成：

You feel lost. You don’t know what to pursue next. You’ve solved a problem, achieved a goal, and thought it was the end.
你感到失落。你不知道下一步该做什么。你已经解决了一个问题，实现了一个目标，并认为这是结束。

You become curious. You experiment with different topics, interests, and ideas until you become fully aware of the problem you want to solve.
你变得好奇。你尝试不同的主题、兴趣和想法，直到你完全意识到你想要解决的问题。

You become obsessed. You dive deeper into the crevice of reality of your choice. You can’t stop learning and building toward your goal.
你变得痴迷。你会更深地潜入你所选择的现实的裂缝中。你不能停止学习和朝着你的目标前进。

When you feel lost, you must force yourself to experiment in 2 directions:
当你感到失落时，你必须强迫自己在两个方向上进行实验：

1) Experiment Inward向内实验

Rest. Nap. Journal. Walk. Embrace silence.
休息、 打盹、日记、徒步、拥抱沉默。

Observe and deconstruct your thoughts.
观察并解构你的想法

Attempt to catch a signal of opportunity.
试图抓住机会的信号。

Follow your thoughts to a root problem.
跟随你的想法找到根本问题。

2) Experiment Outward 2)实验结果

Learn. Read. Scroll. Build. Try new things.
学习、阅读、翻动、构建、尝试新事物。

Refocus on the only things that matter in life.
把注意力集中在生活中唯一重要的事情上。

Health, wealth, relationships, happiness.
健康，财富，人际关系，幸福。

Experiment with techniques that invest energy into a goal. Any goal.
尝试将精力投入到目标中的技巧。任何目标。

During the experimentation phase, you are trying to accumulate new experience until your next quest becomes visible.
在实验阶段，你试图积累新的经验，直到你的下一个任务变得可见。

Like a video game, you are at a point where the quest isn’t unlocked, but you don’t have any other to pursue. You have to fumble around in the dark until you find a candle off in the distance.
就像电子游戏一样，你正处于任务尚未解锁的阶段，同时你也没有其他任务可以追求。这时候你很可能是盲目的，但你必须在黑暗中摸索，直到找到远处尚未点燃的蜡烛。

Note: avoid labeling this as shiny object syndrome.
注意：避免将其标记为闪亮物体综合征。【闪亮物体综合症（SOS）是一种流行文化，心理学概念，指的是人们专注于一个新的和时尚的想法，而不管它最终可能是多么有价值或有帮助。】

Many business today is only possible because them tried and “failed” at many different business models. In reflection, those failures were periods of skill stacking, problem solving, and increasing the awareness surface area for the right opportunities.
今天的很多生意之所以有可能，是因为尝试了许多种不同的商业模式，但都失败了。反思一下，这些失败是技能积累、解决问题和增加对正确机会的意识表面积的时期。

Now, understand that there is no time limit for this phase.
现在，要明白这个阶段没有时间限制。

It could last weeks, months, or years.
可能会持续几周，几个月，甚至几年。

You must stick it out until you accumulate enough vision to stop going wide and start going deep.
你必须坚持下去，直到你积累了足够的视野，停止向宽度扩展，而是开始向更深处发展。

When you find your obsession, experimentation doesn’t stop.
当你找到你念念不忘的事情，你的尝试就不再会停止。

3) Experiment Downward 向下尝试

The secret is to try everything until you find that one thing that you can't pull yourself away from. Then, once it becomes a normal part of your life, repeat the process.
秘诀就是尝试一切，直到你找到一件你无法摆脱的事情。然后，一旦它成为你生活的一部分，重复这个过程。

When you find that one thing, go deep.
当你发现一件事，深入。

Learn everything you can about that domain.
尽你所能了解这个领域。

Dissect all perspectives and avoid becoming dogmatic about one.
剖析所有的观点，避免对一个观点教条化。

In nutrition, collect truth from veganism, keto, carnivore, Ray Peat, flexible dieting, and other ideologies until you are confident enough to create your own that is closer to truth. Truth is a process not a commandment.
在营养学方面，从素食主义、酮、食肉动物、雷泥炭、灵活节食和其他意识形态中收集真理，直到你有足够的信心创造出更接近真理的自己。真理是一个过程，而不是一条戒律。

In business, collect truth from e-commerce, freelancing, software, and other models until you note the principles that bring clarity to your own endeavors.
在商业中，从电子商务、自由职业者、软件和其他模式中收集真理，直到你注意到那些为你自己的努力带来清晰的原则。

Self-experimentation is the only way to solve your problems for good.
自我实验是永远解决问题的唯一方法。

People can diagnose and prescribe a solution to your problems, but that lacks regard for the difference in perspective, goals, and experience from those prescribing the solutions.
人们可以为你的问题做出诊断并开出解决方案，但这缺乏对那些开出解决方案的人在视角、目标和经验上的差异的考虑。

4) Experiment Upward 向上尝试

Persistence and iteration.
持久性和迭代。

I’m assuming that once you’ve found your obsession you want to make it a consistent part of your life.
我假设，一旦你找到了你的痴迷，你想让它成为你生活的一部分。

This means you must earn a creative income from that interest.
这意味着你必须从这种兴趣中获得创造性的收入。

In today’s world, that means:
在当今世界，这意味着：

Building a project to spread to help others solve their problems.
建立一个项目来传播，以帮助他人解决他们的问题。

Teaching in public to attract people with those problems.
在公共场合教书来吸引那些有问题的人。

Selling your project so you can continue pursuing your obsession.
卖掉你的项目，这样你就可以继续追求你的痴迷。

Improving your project as you learn what can only be learned through feedback.
改进您的项目，因为您了解只能通过反馈学习的内容。

Evolving to a new project when you’ve reached the level that can only be reached through business.
发展到一个新的项目时，你已经达到了只能通过业务达到的水平。

There are many ways to do this. Experiment.
有很多方法可以做到这一点。实验

But I can tell you with confidence, through my experimentation, that the creator economy is the “most true” model to follow considering human nature and the future of work.
但我可以自信地告诉你，通过我的实验，考虑到人性和工作的未来，创造者经济是“最真实”的模式。

The Digital Renaissance数字复兴

We are living through a second Golden Age and it belongs to those who value:
我们正在经历第二个黄金时代，它属于那些重视的人：

Self-education
自学

Self-experimentation
自我实验

Multidisciplinary study
多学科研究

Digital leverage
数字杠杆

Skill acquisition
技能获取

Building your own thing
建立自己的东西

If you want to thrive, become a digital renaissance man.
如果你想茁壮成长，成为一个数字复兴的人。

Here’s what you do: 你应该这么做：

Join The New Society加入新社会

Social media is not just an app on your phone.
社交媒体不仅仅是手机上的一个应用程序。

It is a decentralized public school, marketplace, and podium but only for those who value personal responsibility. You aren’t forced to be a part of this society, and that’s why it’s important.
它是一个分散的公立学校，市场和讲台，但只适合那些重视个人责任的人。你不是被迫成为这个社会的一部分，这就是为什么它很重要。

You no longer need startup capital to start a business.
你不再需要启动资金来创业。

You no longer need a job board to find a career.
你不再需要一个工作板来找到一个职业。

You no longer need a publisher to launch a book.
你不再需要出版商来出版一本书。

You no longer need a record label to make music.
你不再需要唱片公司来制作音乐。

You no longer need formal education to become an expert.
你不再需要正规教育就能成为专家。

You no longer need religious institutions to feed you meaning.
你不再需要宗教机构来喂养你的意义。

The centralized authority over learning, meaning, and earning is only a thing for those who are still asleep.
对学习、意义和收入的集中火力，是针对那些那些还在沉睡的人的唯一的方法。

All you need is an internet connection, social media account, and the courage to teach, fail, improve, and persist.
你所需要的只是一个连接互联网的机会，社交媒体帐户，以及教育，失败，改进和坚持的勇气。

Become Valuable 成为有价值

Everyone tells you to become valuable but nobody tells you what value is.
每个人都告诉你要变得有价值，但没有人告诉你什么是价值。

Value is the relationship between what you do, why you do it, how you do it, and who benefits from that equation.
价值是你做什么、为什么做、如何做以及谁从这个等式中受益之间的关系。

Value is composed of 4 parts.
价值由四部分组成。

Problem – A limitation or challenge that creates pain when unsolved.
问题-一个限制或挑战，造成痛苦时，未解决的。

Solution – An impactful end result that allows the recipient to evolve beyond the problem.
解决方案-一个有影响力的最终结果，允许接受者超越问题。

Clarity – A creative system that breeds knowledge, skill, and awareness to bridge the gap between problem and solution.
清晰度-一个创造性的系统，培养知识，技能和意识，以弥合问题和解决方案之间的差距。

People – The amount of people that suffer from the problem, can benefit from the solution, and are ready to receive the clarity to act.
人--受问题困扰、能从解决方案中受益、并准备好接受清晰行动的人的数量。

Value is experience exchange.
价值是经验的交换。

Value is the impact of your story.
价值是你的故事的影响力。

So, to make a creative income, our job is to gain experience by solving the problems that prevent our evolution and pass down the condensed wisdom to those who are ready to receive it.
因此，为了创造性的收入，我们的工作就是通过解决阻碍我们进化的问题来获得经验，并将浓缩的智慧传递给那些准备好接受它的人。

1) Unveil Problems With An Anti-Vision用反愿景揭示问题

It’s easier to know what you don’t want – from experience – than it is to know what you want – from imagination.
从经验中知道你不想要什么比从想象中知道你想要什么更容易。

So, create an anti-vision for your future.
所以，为你的未来创造一个反愿景。

Keep a running note that you will add to as you observe life:
做一个记录，当你观察生活时，你会添加到记录中：

What do you not want to look like?
你不想要什么样子的？

How do you not want to feel?
怎么会不想有这样的感觉呢？

What does your worst day look like?
你最糟糕的一天是什么样的

What qualities do you not want in your friends, customers, partner, and co-workers?‘’
您不希望您的朋友、客户、合作伙伴和同事具备哪些品质？

How much money isn’t enough to survive?
多少钱还不够生存？

How does everything above spread into each area of your life and prevent you from doing what you want?
上述一切是如何蔓延到你生活的各个领域并阻止你做你想做的事的？

Hit on the things that matter. Health, wealth, relationships, and happiness. Those are the eternal markets in business. If you build a creative solution for a problem within those domains, you won’t have a problem making a living from your experience.
抓住重点。健康、财富、人际关系和幸福。这些是商业中永恒的市场。如果你在这些领域内为一个问题建立了一个创造性的解决方案，那么你就不会有问题，可以从你的经验中谋生。

2) Identify Solutions With A Vision通过愿景确定解决方案

You now have a plethora of problems to solve to gradually increase your value.
你现在有太多的问题要解决，以逐步增加你的价值。

Pick one. Solve it. Move on to the next. Meaning is found not in the achievement of a goal, but in solving the endless string of problems that pull you deeper into the nature of reality.
选一个把它解决了。继续下一个。意义并不存在于目标的实现中，而是存在于解决无尽的问题中，这些问题将你拉进现实的本质中。

Now, to increase your desire to solve it, create a vision for your ideal future.
现在，为了增加你解决问题的欲望，为你的理想未来创造一个愿景。

Write out the opposite of everything you listed for your anti-vision.
写下你列出的反愿景的反面。

Treat this as a Minimum Viable Vision. You will add to it with time. What you want will change as you do.
把它作为一个最低限度的可行愿景。随着时间的推移，你会增加它。你想要的会随着你的改变而改变。

3) Learn & Build For Clarity学习和构建清晰度

Don’t learn to build, build to learn.
不要学习如何构建，而是要构建中开始学习。

You’ve chosen a problem you want to solve in your life. This could be related to fitness, finances, freedom, or anything else that is preventing you from living the life you want.
你选择了一个你想在生活中解决的问题。这可能与健康、财务、自由或其他任何阻止你过上你想要的生活的事情有关。

With that problem in mind, laser in on one big goal.
考虑到这个问题，瞄准一个大目标。

But remember, goals don’t start out magnetic. You probably don’t care about the goal.
但请记住，目标一开始并没有磁性。你可能不在乎目标。

You must invest energy into the goal until you feel as if you are wasting resources for not achieving it. Your goal must frame your perspective for enough time to register reasons to continue pursuing it.
你必须为目标投入精力，直到你觉得自己是在浪费资源，因为你没有实现它。你的目标必须为你的观点提供足够的时间，以记录继续追求它的理由。

You don’t develop an intrinsic philosophy in a day.
你不会在一天之内发展出一种内在的哲学。

You develop it through conversations, reading, listening, and filtering reality until you stack enough “whys” to hold you accountable.
你通过对话、阅读、倾听和过滤现实来发展它，直到你积累了足够的“为什么”来让你负责。

You will fail. That’s the only way to identify what you need to learn next.
你会失败的这是确定你下一步需要学习什么的唯一方法。

When you do fail, reframe it immediately as a knowledge gap.
当你失败时，立即将其重新定义为知识差距。

Use the failure as a new frame to filter your experiences for answers.
用失败作为一个新的框架来过滤你的经验，寻找答案。

4) Attract People With Your Story用你的故事吸引人们

Be a failure.
成为一个失败者。

Launch the project to a crowd of crickets. Publish your thoughts and get called a fool. Start the venture and watch people criticize your first moves.

哪怕是没有任何答复或反应也要发起这个项目。发表你的想法，哪怕被称为傻瓜。开始创业，看着人们批评你的第一步。

Everyone else did it. You aren’t a special case.
其他人都这么做了。 你并不是特例。

Invest in your portfolio of failures until you can afford to succeed.
投资于你的失败组合，直到你能够成功。

Your portfolio of failures is your story.
你的失败就是你的故事。

Like a movie, people are interested more in the lows than the highs.
就像电影一样，人们对低谷比高潮更感兴趣。

You attract people and profit to you when you have the solution to a problem in your life.
当你有办法解决生活中的问题时，你会吸引人们并为你带来好处。

Distribute Your Value 分配您的价值
The greatest skill is writing because:
写作是最重要的，因为：

It forces you to articulate your value
它迫使你清楚地表达你的价值
It is the foundation of all media
它是所有媒体的基础
It can be repurposed into any other medium
它可以被重新利用到任何其他媒介中
Any other skill you acquire enhances it
你获得的任何其他技能都会增强它
It brings immense mental clarity
它带来了巨大的精神清晰度

Learn to write.
学习写作吧。

It takes time to realize that writing is the highest leverage work.
需要时间来认识到写作是最高杠杆的工作。

You must synthesize your value into impactful ideas that live in the heads of others rent free and influence their thoughts and behaviors.
你必须将你的价值观综合成有影响力的想法，这些想法存在于他人的头脑中，并影响他们的思想和行为。

You do this by writing emails, content, guides, and products with persistent and iterative effort.
你可以通过持续不断的努力来写电子邮件、内容、指南和产品来做到这一点。

Writing is the foundation of communication.
写作是沟通的基础。

Communication is how you distribute value.
沟通是你分配价值的方式。

Distributing value is how you attract people.
分配价值是你吸引人的方式。

If you don’t attract people, you will never have someone else in the value exchange process.
如果你不吸引人，你永远不会有别人在价值交换过程中。

This isn’t a job where someone hands you a paycheck for completing mechanical tasks that will be replaced.
这不是一个工作，有人递给你一个完成机械任务，将被取代的薪水。

This is a purpose that must be shared by another in order to earn a creative income.
这是一个必须由另一个人分享的目的，以便赚取创造性收入。

from Dan Koe