成功=自律+谦虚+责任感

There are no shortcuts. There are no hacks.

人生没有捷径，没有窍门。

If you want to take the easy road, I promise you: it’s longer and more painful than the hard road.

如果你想走捷径，我向你保证，这条路比困难的路更长更痛苦。

I know. I’ve lived it. I’ve ventured down the easy road at times in my life and it never led to anywhere good. The positive things in my life always came when I faced the biggest challenges.

我知道，因为我经过。在我的人生中，我走过捷径，但是从未得到什么好的结果。在我的生活中，每当我面临挑战的时候，总会有积极的事情发生。

I joined the Navy. I took the hard road in the Navy and made it into the SEAL Teams. There, I had the honor of leading men in combat. I learned some lessons along the way, lessons that have been tested on the battlefield and, when implemented, lead to success in any arena.

我加入了海军，选择了海军中最艰难的路，成为一名海豹突击队员，在那里，我有幸成为作战中的领军人物，一路走来，我学到不少的经验，这些经验来自于实战中，把这些经验应用到其他领域均可获得成功。

One of the best things I’ve learned is that anyone has what it takes to travel the hard road – to walk the path that leads to success. That includes you. It won’t be easy. It will demand everything you’ve got to give. But you can do it, and I want to give you three key principles I’ve learned that will help you to get it done.

我学到的最好的经验就是，任何人都有战胜艰难险阻的能力，走向成功，这也包括你，那肯定会不容易，他要求你付出的更多，但你能做到的，我把我学到的三条基本原则告诉你，它将帮助你成功。

Principle number one: Discipline Equals Freedom.

第一条原则：自律等于自由。

That’s not a contradiction – it’s an equation. Discipline might appear to be the opposite of freedom. But, in fact, discipline is the path to freedom.

这不矛盾，这是一条等式。自律似乎是自由的对立面，但实际上，自律是通往自由的道路。

Discipline is the driver of daily execution. Discipline defeats the infinite excuses that hold you back.

自律是日常执行力的驱动者。自律战胜拖你后腿的无数理由。

Some people think motivation is what will compel them to get things done. But motivation is just an emotion – a feeling, and like all feelings, it’s fickle: it comes and goes. You can’t  count on motivation to be there when you need to get through truly challenging times.

有人认为，迫使人们完成任务的是动机，但是动机不过是一种情感，一种感受，就像所有的感受一样，反复无常，来去匆匆。你不能指望当你需要度过真正具有挑战性时刻的时候，动机会出现。

But you can count on discipline. Discipline is something you dictate.

但是你能指望自律，自律是由你支配的。

Motivation won’t make you exercise every day; discipline will. Motivation won’t stay up late and finish a project for you; discipline will. Motivation isn’t going to get you out of bed in the morning; discipline will. Make discipline part of your daily life and your daily life will get better.

动机不会让你每日锻炼，自律可以。动机不替你熬夜帮你完成计划，自律可以。动机不会让你早早的从床上爬起来，自律可以。让自律成为你日常生活的一部分，你的生活会更美好。

Principle number two: Stay Humble.

第二条原则：保持谦虚。

In life, you are going to have to do things that you don’t want to do. Maybe things that you don’t think you should have to do – things that offend your precious ego.

在生活中，你必须做你不想做的事情，也许是一些你认为你不应该做的事情，一些冒犯到你宝贵自我的事情。

When I got done with Basic SEAL Training and reported on board SEAL Team One, you know what I was assigned to do? I was assigned to clean toilets. That’s right – despite having just graduated some of the most difficult military training in the world, despite being assigned to an “elite” commando unit – my first mission at the actual SEAL Team was to clean toilets. Not exactly a glorious job.

当我完成基本海豹突击队训练，到海豹突击队一队报道，你知道我被指派做什么吗？我被指派去清理马桶，没错，尽管我刚刚完成世界上一些难度最大的军事训练，尽管被指派到“精英”突击队，我在海豹突击队的第一次任务是清理马桶。而不是一个什么光荣的任务。

But you know what? I did it. I did it to the best of my ability and took pride in doing it well. And that attitude got noticed: if I cared that much about how clean the toilets were, people knew I would do a good job with even more important assignments. After a short period of time, I got those more important assignments. But it was humility that opened the door for me.

但是你知道吗？我做到了，我尽力完成，为做到最好而自豪，而这种态度得到别人的注意，如果我在意马桶有多干净，他们会知道我能很好的完成更重要的任务，过了一阵子，我得到了一些重要的任务，但是谦虚是我的敲门砖。

Now, being humble does not mean that you shouldn’t be confident. You certainly have to believe that you are a capable person. But don’t let confidence turn into arrogance. So keep your ego in check and stay humble.

保持谦虚，不意味着你不应该保持谦虚，你当然得相信你是个有能力的人，但别让自信变成自大。所以，控制克制，保持谦虚。

The third and final principle: Take Ownership of Everything.

第三个也是最后一个原则：承担一切事情的责任。

I call this “Extreme Ownership.”

我把这叫做极端责任感，

In the military, the best leaders and the best troops were the ones that took ownership of everything in their world – not just the things they were responsible for, but for every challenge and obstacle that impacted their mission.

在军队，是最佳领导和最佳部队，在他们的世界中承担一切事情的责任。不仅他们的职责，也包括影响到他们任务的所有挑战和阻碍。

When something went wrong: They cast no blame, they made no excuses. They took ownership of the problem and fixed it.

当事情变糟时，他们不自责，他们不找借口。他们承担起这个问题的责任并解决它。

You can implement this attitude as well – not only in your job, but in your life. Let other people blame their parents, their boss, or the system. Let weaker people complain that the world isn’t fair. You are the leader of your life: take ownership of everything in it.

你可以执行这个态度，不仅用在你的工作上，也用在你的生活中，让其他人埋怨他们的父母他们的上司或者这个制度，让弱者抱怨这个世界不公平，你是你人生的领导者，承担起其中的一切责任。

So: be disciplined in all that you do. Don’t subject yourself to the whims of motivation. Stay humble and be willing to do what needs to be done.

所以，行为处事时，保持自律，不要服从一时的冲动，保持谦虚并做必须做的事情。

And: take extreme ownership of your life and everything in it.

还有：承担起你生活中一切事情的责任。

Then: choose the hard path – the path of responsibility, hard work, and sacrifice. The path of discipline, humility, and ownership that ultimately leads to freedom.

接着，选择艰难的路，责任，努力和奉献的路，自律，谦虚和责任，最终走向自由的路。

If you follow these principles, then nothing in the world will stop you.

如果你遵循这些原则，世界上没有任何东西能够阻止你。