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我對(duì)成功有一些觀察，你不可能在所有事情上成功。我們常聽到有關(guān)工作和休閑的平衡，鬼話。你不可能全部擁有。你就是不能。所有對(duì)成功的想象，必須承認(rèn)他們同時(shí)也失去了一些東西，放棄了一些東西。我想一個(gè)智者能接受，如我所說，總是有什么是我們得不到的。

Here's an insight that I've had about success: You can't be successful at everything. We hear a lot of talk about work-life balance. Nonsense. You can't have it all. You can't. So any vision of success has to admit what it's losing out on, where the element of loss is. And I think any wise life will accept, as I say, that there is going to be an element where we're not succeeding.

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這種我們能創(chuàng)造一個(gè)每個(gè)人的能力都忠實(shí)地被分級(jí)，好的就到頂端，壞的就到底部，而且保證過程毫無差錯(cuò)，這是不可能的。這世上有太多偶然的契機(jī)，不同的機(jī)運(yùn)，出身，疾病，從天而降的意外等等，我們卻無法將這些因素分級(jí)，無法完全忠實(shí)的將人分級(jí)。

The idea that we will make a society where literally everybody is graded, the good at the top, bad at the bottom, exactly done as it should be, is impossible. There are simply too many random factors: accidents, accidents of birth, accidents of things dropping on people's heads, illnesses, etc. We will never get to grade them, never get to grade people as they should.

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有什么方法可以解決剛才提到的這些焦慮呢？是有的。我想提出幾項(xiàng)，先說“功績(jī)主義”，也就是相信每個(gè)人的地位忠實(shí)呈現(xiàn)他的能力，我認(rèn)為這種想法太瘋狂了，我可以支持所有相信這個(gè)想法的，無論是左傾還是右傾的政治家，我同樣相信功績(jī)主義，但我認(rèn)為一個(gè)完全徹底以能力取決地位的社會(huì)，是個(gè)不可能的夢(mèng)想。

Is there any relief from some of thesepressures that I've been outlining? I think there is. I just want to turn to afew of them. Let's take meritocracy. This idea that everybody deserves to getwhere they get to, I think it's a crazy idea, completely crazy. I will support any politician of Left and Right, with any halfway-decent meritocratic idea; I am a meritocrat in that sense. But I think it's insane to believe that we will ever make a society that is genuinely meritocratic; it's an impossible dream.

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我們可以從書店中感受到這些問題所造成的后果，當(dāng)你像我一樣到大型書店里的，自我?guī)椭鷷悺Ｈ绻惴治霈F(xiàn)在出版的這些自我?guī)椭悤鼈兓旧戏殖蓛煞N，第一種告訴你“你做得到！你能成功！沒有不可能！”另外一種則教導(dǎo)你如何處理，我們婉轉(zhuǎn)地稱呼為“缺乏自信”，或是直接了當(dāng)?shù)胤Q為“自我感覺極差”。

The consequences of this problem make themselves felt in bookshops. When you go to a large bookshop and look at the self-help sections, as I sometimes do -- if you analyze self-help book sproduced in the world today, there are basically two kinds. The first kind tells you, "You can do it! You can make it! Anything's possible!" The other kind tells you how to cope with what we politely call "low self-esteem," or impolitely call, "feeling very bad about yourself."

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在這種時(shí)刻，感覺就像是自己逃過了死神的追殺——不過，同時(shí)涌現(xiàn)的另一種感受又會(huì)使得這個(gè)時(shí)刻更令人哀傷，也就是覺得自己不可能永遠(yuǎn)都能這么騙過死神。

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生活就是用一種焦慮代替另一種焦慮，用一直欲望代替另一種欲望的過程——這樣說，并非要我們永遠(yuǎn)都不要去努力克服焦慮，或不要努力去滿足某種欲望，而是要求我們?cè)谂ψ非蟮倪^程中要明白一個(gè)道理：我們的任何一個(gè)目標(biāo)向我們提供的一勞永逸的保證，按照目標(biāo)本身的意思，是不可能實(shí)現(xiàn)的。

阿蘭·德波頓

生活就是用一種焦慮代替另一種焦慮，用一種欲望代替另一種欲望的過程——這樣說，并非要我們永遠(yuǎn)都不要去努力克服焦慮，或不要努力去滿足某種欲望，而是要求我們?cè)谂ψ非蟮倪^程中要明白一個(gè)道理：我們的任何一個(gè)目標(biāo)向我們提供的一勞永逸的保證，按照目標(biāo)本身的意思，是不可能實(shí)現(xiàn)的。

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奧斯維辛之后寫詩(shī)是野蠻的，也是不可能的。