精彩生活与平庸生活的区别

The Difference between Living Life and Not

Not everyone has passion. Not everyone is moved emotionally by what they do. And, that’s extremely unfortunate. But fortunately, you are not like everyone else.

The winning organizations in every industry are filled with passionate ,vocal , active people (also, we have more fun doing what we do). To us, it isn’t even really “work” in the sense that it flows naturally and feels more like creative freedom.

I think that truly passionate people are not understood by much of the world. I’ll give you one example: I don’t watch TV anymore. I tell people this, and it feels like many of them mentally file me in a category of being weird or socially deviant . Most people cannot fathom a world without television.

This is unfortunate, and altogether sad. We are at such an incredible turning point in society, and the world is changing for the better due to people with passion. Think about this:
From Clay Shirky:
If you take Wikipedia as a kind of unit, all of Wikipedia, the whole project—every page, every edit, every talk page, every line of code , in every language that Wikipedia exists in—that represents something like the cumulation of 100 million hours of human thought. I worked this out with Martin Wattenberg at IBM; it’s a back-of-the-envelope calculation , but it’s the right order of magnitude , about 100 million hours of thought.And television watching? Two hundred billion hours, in the U. S. alone, every year. Put another way, now that we have a unit, that’s 2,000 Wikipedia projects a year spent watching television. Or put still another way, in the U. S., we spend 100 million hours every weekend, just watching the ads. This is a pretty big surplus . People asking, “Where do they find the time?” when they’re looking at things like Wikipedia don’t understand how tiny that entire project is, as a carve -out of this asset that’s finally being dragged into what Tim calls an architecture of participation .
The world is shifting, and where before intellectuals used to be isolated and work on projects in a vacuum , now new social tools are allowing them to work together on deep projects that benefit everyone. Imagine, a group of complete strangers working together to create something incredible,inspiring and useful—all for free, and all due to pure internal motivation and desire to help the world.

Are you a part of a global project like Wikipedia? Or, global conversations about what you do professionally or are interested in personally? If not, you should be—the tools exist to interact with fantastic minds in our world, learn from them, and get better results and get inspiration for whatever you are doing.

Sorry if you’re a TV watcher, but if you watch even more than a tiny amount, it is a waste of life. I don’t mean to offend you, but really think about it: you are given a fleeting amount of time to physically exist on this planet and do something to change things for the better, and then you are gone.

By watching TV for endless hours, you’re squandering life, the most precious gift there is.By watching TV you make the ultimate sacrifice —you could be reading, writing, making art, or actually interacting with your friends, family and other professionals in your industry. Would you rather look back at a life spent passively absorbing nonsense , or one spent changing the world for the better and creating what inspires you. The choice is obvious.

I feel like most of you here don’t waste your life passively, so this post isn’t really for you. You’re already motivated and inspired.Forward this to a friend who isn’t.
Here’s what too many in society do:
Get up in the morning
Work, thinking inside the lines the entire day
Come home
Watch TV
Sleep
It is an altogether nuremarkable existence. And, those people probably produce ultimately unremarkable results and lead average lives.

If you wake up in the morning and aren’t inspired every day to throw yourself into your work and life with 100% passion, you’re not living it. I don’t understand how someone can live even one day like this.

Perhaps they’re in the wrong field, or have lost that creative spark. But regardless , there is no other way for truly intelligent people to live other than taking an active, passionate role in life and pouring their soul into something that inspires them.

The planet is billions of years old, and your lifespan is merely a cosmic blink . There’s not a day to waste.

精彩生活与平庸生活的区别


不是所有人都有激情。并不是所有人都对自己所从事的工作魂牵梦绕，这一点确实极度不幸，但庆幸的是，你与众不同。
每个行业都有一些成功的团队。这些团队之所以能够取得成功，其中关键的一条是团队里的人都干劲十足、直抒己见、做事积极主动（而且，这些人能从工作中获取更多的乐趣）。事实上对我们而言，当工作带给我们一种自然而然的感觉时，它已不再像工作，更像是自由创作。
我认为真正有激情的人并不为世上多数人所理解。为此，我特举一例：我已不再看电视。当我把这一习惯告诉大家时，似乎很多人在头脑中把我划为怪人或者社交异类的行列。多数人难以想象，如果没有电视，这世界会是什么样子。

这一点非常不幸，也特别令人悲伤。我们的社会正处在这么一个不可思议的转折点，而且由于存在充满激情的人们，这个世界正在不断好转。请思考下列问题：
引自克莱•舍基：
如果你把维基百科看作一种测算单位，那么，维基百科的所有内容，维基百科的整个项目——每一页，每一处编辑，每一个对话页面，每一行代码，以各种语言呈现的维基百科——它们所代表的内容类似于累积一亿个小时的人类思想。我和IBM公司的马丁•瓦滕伯格曾做过一个粗略的测算，得出了上述数据，最起码数据的数量级是正确的，约一亿个小时的人类思想。

而看电视呢？仅在美国，人们每年花2000亿个小时看电视。换句话说，用我们约定好的测算单位计算，人们每年看电视的时间可完成2000个维基百科项目。再换个说法，在美国，每个周末人们用一亿个小时看电视广告，这是一个相当大的过剩。当人们看着类似维基百科这样的项目，他们会问：
"他们哪有时间做这个？”却不知道这其实是个多么小的项目，通过资产拆分，最终归于蒂姆（美国科技作家蒂姆•欧内利）所称的一个“参与式架构”。
这个世界正在转变，以前学者们常常与世隔绝，在象牙塔里做项目。现在他们掌握了新的社交工具，可以协同工作，攻克难点项目，让全人类受益。想象一下，一群陌生人在一起工作，创造出一些神奇的、吸引人的、有用的产品，而且全部可以免费使用，这一切都源自纯粹的内动力和改善世界的渴望。

你是否参与了类似于维基百科这样的全球项目？或者参与全球对话，讨论你的专业或者你的个人兴趣？如果没有，你应当参与——竟然有这样的工具，让你与世界上最出色的人交流互动，你向他们提出问题，可以得到很好的答复，并且对你正在做的事情有所启发。如果你是个爱看电视的人，那就很遗憾。即便你花在看电视上的时间并不多，那也是浪费生命。我并不是有意要冒犯你，但你真的需要认真思考一下：你在这个星球上的时间极其短暂，在离开之前，你应该做一些让世界更美好的事。若是无休止地看电视，你就是在荒废人生，而人生可是世界上最珍贵的礼物。
一味地盯着电视，你是在做最大的牺牲——这段时间，你本可以阅读，你本可以写作，你本可以制作艺术品，或者与你的朋友、家人或业内其他专业人士交流。当你回首往事时，你希望看到一种被动吸收无意义内容的生活，还是一生都用来改善世界，全心全意扑在你热爱的事业上的生活？很明显，你会选后者。

我感觉这里的多数人不会被动地浪费自己的人生，因此我这篇文章真的不适合大家。你们已经目标明确、激情十足。不过你们可以将这篇文章转给需要的朋友。
社会上许多人会这样度过自己的一天：
早上起床
工作，全天循规蹈矩地思考
回家
看电视
睡觉
这种生活实在太寻常了。那些人往往最终不会有什么大成就，平平淡淡度过一生。
如果你每天早上醒来，精神不振，不能充满100%激情地全身心投入到工作和生活当中，你就是枉度一天。我不理解有些人怎么能如此虚度一天。
也许他们入错了行，或者失去了创造力的火花。但是不管怎样，真正的智者都会在生活中发挥积极热情的作用，全身心投入到让自己欢欣鼓舞的工作中去。
地球已历经几十亿年的沧桑，相比之下，人的生命只是短短的一瞬间，因此不要浪费任何一天。

Thanks!