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优秀的父母比较清楚，对一个孩子来说，生活应该让人如此兴奋 It is well understood by good parents that life should only ever get so exciting for a baby
在朋友带着礼物光临，对我们展露笑颜之后 after friends have come around and brought presents and made animated faces
在已经有了一些蛋糕和拥抱以及很多明灯之后 after there has been some cake and some cuddles, after there have been a lot of bright lights
或许也有一些歌曲，够了，真的够了 and perhaps some songs too, enough is enough.
孩子开始看起来很严肃，然后泪流满面 The baby will start to look stern and then burst into tears.
明智的父母知道，没有什么特别错的 and the wise parent knows that nothing is particularly wrong
尽管孩子目前可能是愿意的，这只是小憩而已 though the baby may by now be wailing, it is just time for a nap.
大脑需要分块、处理、消化已经吸收的经验 The brain needs to process, digest and divide up the welter of experiences that have been ingested
然后窗帘被拉上，宝宝被放在柔软的玩具旁边，很快安睡 and so the curtains are drawn, baby is laid down next to the soft toys and soon it is asleep and calm descends.
每个人都知道生活将在一个小时之内再次变得更加可控 Everyone knows that life is going to be a lot more manageable again in an hour.
悲伤的是，我们对自己没有那么小心谨慎 Sadly, we exercise no such caution with ourselves.
我们列出每晚要见朋友的周计划 We schedule a week in which we will see friends every night，
一周内我们要开12次会，其中三次需要做很多准备 in which we are going to do 12 meetings, three of them requiring a lot of preparation,
我们要在周三连夜赶往另一个国家 where we'll make a quick overnight dash to another country on the Wednesday,
我们会看三场电影，读14份报纸，换6套床单 where we'll watch three films, read 14 newspapers, change six pairs of sheets,
有五次在晚上八点之后吃晚餐，喝30杯咖啡，然后我们哀叹到 have five heavily meals after 8pm and drink 30 coffees - and then we lament that
我们的生活本该更平和，我们的精神几近崩溃 our lives are not as calm as they might be and that we are close to mental collapse.
我们拒绝严肃对待成年自我中留有多少婴儿时期影响 We refuse to take seriously how much of our babyhood is left inside our adult selves
由此，我们必须付出多少关心来保持事情简单和非常平和 and therefore, how much care we have to take to keep things simple and very very calm.
焦虑通常不是奇怪的现象，它是我们思想上合理的诉求 What registers as anxiety is typically no freakish phenomenon, it is our mind's logical enraged
不要一直持续和过度刺激的诉求 plea not to be continuously and exhaustingly overstimulated.
为了简化我们的生活，以下是我们可能需要做的事情 These are some of the things we may need to do to simplify our lives.
更少的人们，更少的承诺 Fewer People; fewer commitments
理论上，有很多朋友要见和很多事情要做是一种特权 It is theoretically a privilege to have a lot of people to see and things to do.
心理上来说，这也让人精疲力尽，而且最终相当危险 It is also - psychologically speaking - exhausting and ultimately rather dangerous.
表达的方式有点过时和残酷，一个人可能想在 The manner of expression is a little dated and brutal, and one might want to quibble
确切的时间上狡辩，但是弗里德里希·尼采这一点非常敏锐 over the exact timings, but this point from Friedrich Nietzsche remains acute.
和以前一样，人类分为两种：奴隶和自由的人 “Today as always, men fall into two groups: slaves and free men.
没活出自己三分之二人生的是奴隶，不管他是什么人 Whoever does not have two-thirds of his day for himself, is a slave, whatever else he may be
政治家，商人，官员还是学者 a statesman, a businessman, an official, or a scholar.”
我们要明确，一天之内我们身体力行可以达到的 We need to recognize that what is physically possible for us to achieve in a day
就事论事来说，并不是理智或合理的 is not, for that matter, psychologically wise or plausible.
一天之内经过一个或两个外国首都或许是可行的 It may well be feasible to nip over to a foreign capital or two in a day
经营一家公司的同时管理家务或许也可行 and run a company alongside managing a household
但是如果这样例行公事最后导致分崩离析，我们也不应该奇怪 But nor should we be surprised if such routines ultimately contribute to a breakdown.
睡眠 Sleep
充足的睡眠至少是7个小时，或者，如果我们做不到 Plenty of it, of course, at least seven hours. Or if we can't manage it
我们至少要对剥夺的睡眠有充分的认识 we need at a minimum fully to recognize how much we are deprived
这样我们就不会找不知所云的借口来徒增伤悲 so that we won't aggravate our sorrows by searching for abstruse explanations for them.
我们不一定要离婚，在一个完全不一样的职位重新开始 We don't necessarily have to get divorced, retrain in a completely different profession
或者离开这个国家，我们可能仅仅需要的是多休息 or move country, we may just need to get some more rest.
媒体 Media
当我们看手机时我们所吸收的可能是影响 What we're taking in when we check our phones is perhaps
我们精神疾病的唯一且最重要的因素 the single greatest contributor to our mental ill-health.
在历史的长河中，不可思议的是存在太多新闻 For most of history, it was inconceivable that there could ever be such a thing as 'too much news'.
来自政界或外国的信息既少又珍贵 Information from political circles or foreign countries was rare, prized and expensive
但是自从二十世纪中叶以来，新闻已经被商品化 But since the middle of the twentieth century news has been commodified
尽管鲜为人知，在这个过程中，新闻已经成为一个 and in the process, it has become a major - though still too little known -
精神领域生存之战中重要的风险 risk to our mental survival.
每一天的每一分钟向我们呈现未知的选择，让我们充满 Every minute of every day presents us with untold options for filling our minds with
狂躁、剥削、祸难、愤怒、逆转、胜利、精神错乱和灾害 the mania, exploits, disasters, furies, reversals, triumphs, insanity and cataclysms
而这些来自于分布在愚蠢的星球各地的陌生人 of complete strangers all around our benighted planet.
新闻机构总是讨论我们需要知道的，当务之急 Always, news organisations speak of our need to know - and to need to know right now.
但是他们忽略的是那些同等重要，甚至更重要的，不需要知道的 But what they have left out is our equally great, and often even greater need not to know
因为我们不能改变任何事，那些事情太暴力、沮丧和悲伤 Because we can't change anything, because the stories are too violent, dispiriting and sad,
我们的思想很脆弱，我们有责任离家更近 because our minds are fragile, because we have responsibilities closer to home,
我们需要过自己的生活，而不是被他人的生活所左右 because we need to lead our own lives rather than be torn apart by stories
别人的生活终归离我们很远，与我们无关 of the lives of others who are ultimately as remote from and irrelevant to us
就像公元前2613年末Sneferu国王的埃及法庭里的居民 as the inhabitants of the Egyptian court of King Sneferu in late 2,613 BC.
思考 Thinking
失眠和焦虑是白天我们拒绝清晰思考的后果 Insomnia and anxiety are the mind's revenge for all the thoughts we refuse to have consciously during the day.
为了能够伺机休息，我们需要分出大量时间 In order to be able to find rest, we need to carve off chunks of time
在此期间我们躺在床上用垫子和纸来思考，其他时候无所事事 where we have nothing to do other than lie in bed with a pad and paper in order to think.
我们需要特别考虑三个主题 We need to consider three topics in particular
第一，是什么引起我的焦虑？ Firstly, what's making me anxious?
第二，是什么导致我的痛苦，如何做到的？ Secondly, what's causing me pain and how?
第三，是什么让我兴奋激动？ And thirdly, what's exciting me?
我们需要梳理让我们思绪混乱的想法 We need to sift through the chaotic contents of our minds.
每一小时的生活需要至少十分钟的梳理 Every hour of living requires at least ten minutes of sifting.
期望 Expectations
当然，独特、闻名和震撼世界可能让人愉悦 Of course, it might be pleasant to be extraordinary, famous and world-beating,
但是保持理智和善良可能会是更大的成就 but maybe it will be an even greater achievement to stay sane and kind.
我们可能不去选择征服世界，倾向于更长寿宁静的生活 We might opt not to conquer the world in favour of living a longer, and more serene life.
我们并不是逃离挑战，而是改变对何为真正挑战的看法 We are not backing away from challenge, we're simply shifting our sense of what the real challenge might be.
真正的价值所在更为重要 And more importantly where the real rewards may lie.
平静的生活并不一定意味着是辞职或逃离 A quiet life isn't necessarily one of the resignation or flight,
它可能形成一种极其明智的认知，即真正令人满意的东西 it may constitute a supremely wise recognition that the truly satisfying things are available
远离聚光灯和大城市，在中庸的工资水平 away from the spotlight and the big cities, on modest salaries
而且尽可能远离职业地位竞赛中的狂躁和失眠 and as far as possible from the manic, sleepless competition to win the professional status race.
正如我们所说，兴奋可以暂时得以发现，但也会消失 As we're discovering, excitement can be found for a time, but also it kills.
简单是真正的智慧，我们可能需要更多的小憩 Simplicity is true wisdom, we may need a lot more naps.
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