100 ways to live better

来自Patanumonit的100 Ways to Live Better，有一些有趣的经验，打散放在这里。

工作/Career

When looking for employers, perhaps your first priority should be whether they’re raking in cash. No friendly culture, creative freedom, or generous package can survive long in an unprofitable business. You’re investing your time and energy in an employer so think like an investor. 
在寻找雇主时，或许你的首要考量应是他们是否盈利丰厚。没有友好的企业文化、创作自由或优厚待遇能在亏损的企业中长久维系。你将时间和精力投资于雇主，因此要像投资者一样思考。

You won’t get money, status, fun, impact, and career capital at the same job. Pick two, get the rest elsewhere in your life.
你无法在同一份工作中同时获得金钱、地位、乐趣、影响力和职业资本。选择其中两项，其余的在生活中其他地方获取。

It’s fine to eat lunch alone. Catching up with co-workers every day doesn’t do much beyond what you’d get from catching up once a week. A good podcast is more interesting than your best colleague. Also, you don’t want your main friend group to be contingent on everyone remaining employed at the same place indefinitely.
独自吃午饭没什么不好。每天和同事闲聊带来的好处，并不比每周一次多多少。一个好的播客节目比你最好的同事更有趣。而且，你也不会希望自己的主要朋友圈依赖于大家永远在同一家公司工作。

You can wear the same outfit to the office two days in a row. Your boss won’t notice. Your colleagues won’t notice. The only people who’ll notice are those who have a crush on you so this is a good way to find out who those are.
你可以连续两天穿同一套衣服去办公室。你的老板不会注意到。你的同事也不会注意到。唯一会注意到的人是对你有好感的人，所以这是个找出谁对你有意思的好方法。

At work, if someone wants to set up a meeting or call, don’t accept until they send a clear agenda or a list of questions/topics. If you need someone’s time, send a clear agenda and list ahead of time. Meetings should not be about deciding what the meeting should be about.
在工作中，如果有人想安排会议或电话，除非他们发送明确的议程或问题/主题清单，否则不要接受。如果你需要占用别人的时间，提前发送清晰的议程和清单。会议不应该是用来决定会议该讨论什么内容的。

At any big party or event, your goal should be to make 2-3 connections, not to collect 500 business cards or Facebook friends. Throw quarterly gatherings with only the most recent friends you’ve made to consolidate the relationships and get them to meet each other. 
在任何大型聚会或活动中，你的目标应该是建立 2-3 个有意义的联系，而不是收集 500 张名片或 Facebook 好友。定期举办季度聚会，只邀请最近结识的朋友，以巩固关系并让他们相互认识。

If you think you’re running 10 minutes late, text to say you’ll be 15 minutes late. That way the other person gets one disappointment and one pleasant surprise. Most people do the opposite: they say they’re 5 minutes late when it’s 10 and end up annoying the other and looking like total fools.
如果你觉得自己会迟到 10 分钟，发信息告诉对方你会迟到 15 分钟。这样对方只会经历一次失望和一次惊喜。大多数人恰恰相反：他们实际迟到 10 分钟却说只迟到 5 分钟，结果既惹恼了别人，又显得自己像个十足的傻瓜。

表达/Express

Find a medium of expression and express yourself publicly every day for three months. If you’re good with words, write 100 Tweets. An artist — post 100 sketches on Instagram. Music/dance person — 100 TikToks.
找一个表达媒介，连续三个月每天公开表达自己。如果你擅长文字，就写 100 条推特；若是艺术家——在 Instagram 上发布 100 幅素描；音乐/舞蹈爱好者——发 100 个 TikTok 视频。

Promise people you’ll do 100 of something (like writing pieces of life advice) even if you’re not entirely sure you can do it. Then do 109. Overpromise AND overdeliver.
向别人承诺你会完成 100 件某事（比如写下 100 条人生建议），即使你并不完全确定自己能做到。然后做到 109 件。承诺时夸大其词，兑现时更要超额完成。

“I know we were just introduced, but I forgot your name.”
“我知道我们刚认识，但我忘了你的名字。”
“I saw the email you sent me last month, I just procrastinated and forgot to respond.”
“我看到了你上个月发给我的邮件，我只是拖延症犯了，忘了回复。”
“This is the best effort I was realistically going to make.”
“这已经是我实际上能做出的最大努力了。”
Try it, it’s liberating.  试试看，你会感到无比自由。

Learn some improv, at least to get the basic gist of it. Take a class or read Impro. Improv mindset is a great way to approach many social situations including most interactions on the internet. A good comment/reply often starts with “yes, and”.
至少学习一些即兴表演的基础知识，可以参加课程或阅读《即兴》一书。即兴表演的思维方式是应对许多社交场合（包括互联网上的大多数互动）的绝佳方法。一个好的评论/回复通常以“是的，而且”开始。

Tell a bad joke or a pun as soon as you think of it, even if it’s just to your exasperated spouse or coworker. It takes 20 bad jokes to think of a single good one, and you only start making good jokes once you remove the unconscious filter stifling your generative brain. 
想到一个烂笑话或双关语就立刻说出来，哪怕只是对你那无奈的配偶或同事讲。要讲 20 个烂笑话才能想出一个好笑话，只有当你卸下抑制创造性大脑的无意识过滤器时，才会开始制造好笑话。

Are you really going to give up on expressing yourself, learning from mistakes, attracting like-minded people, building a reputation, and changing the world because someone may someday try to cancel you? They can smell the fear, you know. 
难道你真的要因为担心某天可能被人抵制，就放弃表达自我、从错误中学习、吸引志同道合者、建立个人声誉乃至改变世界的机会吗？要知道，恐惧的气味是藏不住的。

Don’t nitpick, that’s the opposite of good improv. You think that the categories in this post are arbitrary? A piece of advice doesn’t apply to your special situation? You’re probably right, but writing this in a comment will just make readers annoyed and make you frustrated when nobody responds.
别吹毛求疵，那与优秀的即兴发挥背道而驰。你觉得这篇文章的分类随意？某条建议不适用于你的特殊情况？你或许是对的，但在评论区写下这些只会惹恼读者，当无人回应时你也会感到沮丧。

娱乐/Entertain

There are more great podcasts than you’ll ever have the time to listen to. If it sucks after 10 minutes, skip half an hour ahead. Still boring? Delete and move on. Obviously, do the same for books.
世上精彩的播客节目多到你永远听不完。如果 10 分钟后仍觉乏味，直接跳到半小时后。依旧无聊？删除并换下一个。显然，对待书籍也该如此。

Should you watch that movie / play that game / read that book? Use the ratio:([# who rated it 5/5] + [# who rated it 1/5]) / [# who rated it 3/5].This doesn’t apply to everything, but it applies to many things, including media. There are too many options out there to waste time on mediocrity, and everything great will be divisive.
该看那部电影/玩那个游戏/读那本书吗？用这个比率衡量：
（[打 5 分的人数] + [打 1 分的人数]） ÷ [打 3 分的人数]。
这并非适用于所有事物，但对包括媒体在内的许多领域都有效。选择太多，不值得在平庸之作上浪费时间，而真正出色的作品总会引发两极评价。

In any giant museum, your goal should be to spend 5+ minutes with 10 amazing works, not 5 seconds with 1,000. If it’s the Louvre, one of those should be Guérin’s “The Return of Marcus Sextus”.
在任何大型博物馆中，你的目标应该是花 5 分钟以上欣赏 10 件杰作，而不是花 5 秒钟浏览 1000 件。如果是卢浮宫，其中一件应该是吉兰的《马库斯·塞克斯图的归来》。

习惯/Habitting

Habits are reinforced by your habitual environment. That’s a big part of why retreats work: they take you away from your usual surroundings and people. If you want to start meditating, doing pushups, intermittent fasting, etc, try starting on a vacation where the new circumstances make it easier to integrate new habits. 
习惯的养成深受你惯常环境的影响。这就是静修之所以有效的重要原因：它让你远离日常的环境与人际圈。若想开始冥想、做俯卧撑或间歇性禁食等，不妨选在假期尝试，新的环境更易于融入新习惯。

The #1 measure of an exercise program should be “is this fun enough to keep me coming back to the gym?” I don’t care how “efficient” HIIT is, it’s for masochists. 
衡量一个锻炼计划的首要标准应该是“它是否足够有趣，能让我持续去健身房？”我不在乎高强度间歇训练（HIIT）有多“高效”，那是给受虐狂准备的。

独处/Meditate

When you’re home alone, blast some music and dance. Don’t think about any particular moves, just focus on the music. Then do the exact same thing when you’re at a dance party.
独自在家时，放点音乐尽情跳舞。别去想什么特定动作，只需专注于音乐。在舞会上也完全照做。

Give meditation a 50 hour trial with a good app or guidebook. If it ain’t your thing, give it up
使用一款好的应用或指南书，给冥想 50 小时的试用期。如果它不适合你，就放弃吧。

If you have too little social life, wake up at 10 am every day to have energy in the evening. Too many people bothering you — wake up at 5 am to enjoy some alone time in the morning. 
如果社交生活太少，每天上午 10 点起床以保持晚上精力充沛。若太多人打扰你——清晨 5 点起床，享受早晨的独处时光。

旅行/Travel

Do vacations where you just spend two weeks in a city. You’ll run out of touristy things to do and discover the climbing gyms, live shows, art classes that you’ll love. You’ll also be forced to start actually chatting with the locals.
去那些你只需待上两周的城市度假。你会做完所有游客必做的事，然后发现攀岩馆、现场演出、艺术课程这些你会爱上的活动。你还会被迫真正开始和当地人聊天。

彩蛋/Adventures

Do you know what a sex toy in your butt feels like? You should at least find out. 
你知道屁股里放个性玩具是什么感觉吗？至少该去了解一下。

Have sex in a public park at 1 am. 10% chance of getting caught = 10x erotic excitement.
凌晨 1 点在公园公开场合发生性行为。被发现的概率是 10%，但刺激感会放大 10 倍。

Every week at the grocery store buy one ingredient you’re not sure what to do with. Try eating it raw if you haven’t been able to figure out where to incorporate it.
每周在杂货店买一种你不知道怎么处理的食材。如果还没想好怎么用它，可以尝试生吃。

Learn to make one cocktail really well and always keep the ingredients at home. It impresses people, and no one ever expects you to pull off a second one. My go-to: cucumber elderflower gimlet. 
学会调一款拿手鸡尾酒，并常备材料在家。这招能惊艳众人，且没人会指望你再来一杯。我的首选：黄瓜接骨木花吉姆雷特。

Any <$100 purchase that may turn into a hobby is worth it even if the hit rate is low. Sports equipment, a musical instrument, art supplies, etc. If it doesn’t catch on, gift it to a friend. 
任何可能发展成爱好的低于 100 美元的消费都值得一试，哪怕成功率不高。运动装备、乐器、美术用品等皆在此列。若未能坚持，转赠朋友即可。

An espresso machine with all the functions (grinder, milk steamer, etc) not only makes better coffee but also provides you with a meaningful, multi-step ritual to start your day with. 
一台具备所有功能（研磨机、牛奶蒸汽机等）的意式浓缩咖啡机不仅能制作出更美味的咖啡，还能为你提供一个有意义的多步骤晨间仪式。

Talk to people on flights, starting at the boarding gate. Everyone is bored and alienated in airports, and you get the chance to meet people far outside your normal circles. Offer people gummy bears to break the ice. 
在登机口就开始与航班上的人交谈。机场里每个人都感到无聊且疏离，而你则有机会结识平常圈子之外的人。用软糖熊来打破僵局。

亲友/Relationships

Put a reminder on your phone to call your grandma. Ask her to tell you about some of the dumbest shit she has done in her life. 
在手机上设个提醒，打电话给奶奶。让她给你讲讲她这辈子干过最蠢的事。

Your parents can handle hearing about your crazy life, dumb mistakes, and weird opinions. How will they learn to respect you as an adult if you don’t believe in your own story enough to share it?
你的父母能够接受你疯狂的生活、愚蠢的错误和古怪的观点。如果你对自己的故事都不够自信，不愿分享，他们又怎能学会尊重你作为一个成年人呢？

Interview people you know, even if they’re not famous or experts in any particular thing. Just write down 10 questions and hit record. You’ll learn a lot and deepen the relationship. 
采访你认识的人，即使他们并不出名或不是任何领域的专家。只需写下 10 个问题并开始录音。你会学到很多，还能加深彼此的关系。

If you’re not having fun on dates, think of something you enjoy and do that as a date. Painting class dates, hiking dates, ping pong dates, board game dates…
如果你在约会时感到无趣，那就想想你喜欢的事情，然后把它变成约会。绘画课约会、徒步约会、乒乓球约会、桌游约会……

原则/Principles

Before lying or doing something unethical, consider the real possibility that you and everyone you know will live for hundreds of years with enhanced memory and reputation tracking. 
在撒谎或做不道德的事情之前，请认真考虑这样一种可能性：你和你认识的每一个人都可能活上几百年，并且拥有强化的记忆和声誉追踪能力。