罗马皇帝能教你关于幸福的道理

嘿。

Hey.

最近怎么样？

What's up?

我是利奥，来自actualized.org。

This is Leo for actualized.org.

今天，我想聊聊马可·奥勒留写的《沉思录》。

And today, I wanted to cover the meditations which were written by Marcus Aurelius.

他是罗马皇帝。

He was a Roman Emperor.

重点是，我们能从《沉思录》中学到什么，并应用到生活中，从而对现在的生活获得更多的平静和满足。

And really about the lessons that can be drawn from the meditations and applied to your life in order to get more peace and contentment with the way your life is right now.

那么，《沉思录》是什么呢？

So, what are the meditations?

先简单介绍一下这部作品的历史背景和来源。

Just to give a little bit of a of history, of of where this work comes from.

其实，这是马可·奥勒留·安东尼写的一本日记，他大约在公元两百年左右担任罗马皇帝，而且他被认为是所谓的“好皇帝”之一，在罗马帝国几百年后最终崩溃之前统治着它。马可最有趣的地方在于他的世界观，他如何看待生活，以及他如何将这种观念应用到治理罗马帝国上，还有这个人所拥有的那种平静，以及他思维方式中的那种智慧。

Really, it's a diary written by Marcus Aurelius, Antonius, who was a Roman Emperor back in two hundred AD, thereabouts and he was really considered one of the one of the quote unquote good emperors who who ran the Roman Empire before it ultimately collapsed few hundred years later and what's really interesting about Marcus is his world view and how he viewed life and how he applied that to running the Roman Empire And and the kind of peace that this man has and just the kind of the kind of brilliance in in his way of thinking.

因为《沉思录》的独特之处在于——这实际上是我认为唯一存世的罗马皇帝亲笔著作——你能真正看到他是如何思考的。我觉得这非常有启发性，因为如果我能概括它的核心，他的哲学核心——顺便说一句，那是斯多葛主义——就是人们通常倾向于与生活问题联系在一起的一切都是外在的。

Because what's unique about the Meditations which is actually the only, I believe this is correct, the only surviving work of a Roman Emperor, written work, is is that you really get a picture into how he thought and I think it's very instructive because if I could if I could sum up the gist of it, the gist of his philosophy which was by the way stoicism was that everything that people usually tend to associate with the problems in their life is external.

在困扰我们的外在事物和我们内在的心态、感受和想法之间，存在着这种二元对立。

And there's this dichotomy between the external things that are bothering us and also our internal state of mind and how we're feeling and how we're thinking.

而斯多葛主义所做的，就是彻底翻转这种看法。

And what stoicism does, it really flips that coin on the other side.

通常我们所做的是，我们总是担心别人怎么看我们，我们取得了什么成就，为什么那个人让我感觉不好，我怎样才能通过食物、某种成瘾或娱乐刺激来让自己感觉更好？

So usually what we're doing is we're always concerned about how are people thinking about us, what are we accomplishing, why is that person making me feel bad, how can I make my say, feel better by stimulating myself with food, or some other sort of addiction or just stimulation via entertainment?

所以所有这些都是外在的。

So all of that is external.

然后你还有内在的一面，内在就是你如何感受、如何思考、如何组织你的想法。

And then you have the internal, and the in internal is how you're feeling, how you're thinking, and how you're composing your thoughts.

而《沉思录》真正令人惊叹、对我很有启发的，是它所起的作用。

And what was really amazing about the meditations and instructive for me was the purpose that it served.

对马库斯来说，他写《沉思录》的方式，因为这是写给他自己的，他基本上就是给自己写私人日记。

So for Marcus, the way that he used the meditations because they were written to himself, he basically wrote this personal diary to himself.

他没打算让别人读，他自己每天都会读，用来提醒自己那些更高的理想，以及他想要的生活方式。

He didn't intend anybody else to read it, and he himself would read it on a daily basis and it would serve as a refresher for him as to his higher ideals in the way that he wanted to live.

所以这是他重新连接自己更高自我、价值观、生活原则和更大视角的方式。

So it was a way for him to get back in touch with his higher self, with his values, with the with the principles by which he wanted to to live his life, and with larger perspective.

我觉得问题在于，当你生活在其中，完全沉浸在里面，每天都被各种问题缠住，你太投入了，以至于看不到生活的更大图景。

I think the problem is that when when you're living in life and you're you're completely enmeshed in it, and you're identified with all the problems that you're having on a day to day basis, you're so identified with that that you lose sight of the bigger picture of life.

比如，这里到底发生了什么？

Like, what is actually happening here?

你知道，你会失去对生活壮丽和生命短暂的感知，这些在书中都有深入探讨。

You know, you lose sight of kind of the majesty of life and also the shortness of life, which is which is covered in-depth.

这是《沉思录》里反复出现的主题，就是马库斯努力面对死亡，接受它，不害怕它，因为我觉得这是每个人都会有的自然恐惧。

It's like a recurring theme throughout the meditations, which is Marcus' attempts to really grapple with death and to come to grips with it and to not fear it because I think that's a natural fear for everybody.

那么，《沉思录》是怎么起作用的呢？

So how how did the meditations work?

嗯，其实我觉得这里面有两条线索，或者说它起到了两个作用。

Well, really there were there were two, I think, strands to it, two functions that it served.

一个就是让他重新连接上他的更高自我，就像我们刚才说的；第二个呢，就是起到一种安慰的作用。

One was to to put him back in touch with his higher self, like we already said, And the second was a consolation function.

所以，当他情绪低落、状态不佳，或者基本上快要滑向那个更低层次的自我时，读这些沉思录就能把他拉回到更高的自我状态。

So it served as a way to console him when he was feeling down or unresourceful or basically when he had that tendency to go into his lower self, reading the meditations would prop him back up into the higher self.

比如，如果他因为某个人惹他生气而发了脾气，或者因为有人不尊重他、试图暗中破坏他，这些都会让他偏离自己的轨道，他就会用这些沉思录来让自己重新回到正轨。

So if he was if he was struggling because he got mad at somebody and lost his temper, because somebody was was not respecting him, or was trying to undermine him, then that would that would throw him off his track and he would use his meditations to put him back on that track.

或者，如果政治上发生了什么让他难以处理的事情，或者在宫廷生活中，或者你知道，他作为皇帝，也是军队的领袖，所以那些正在进行的军事行动如果出了问题，也会让他烦恼。

Or if something was happening with politics that that he was having trouble handling or in court life or you know, he was an emperor so he was leader of the army, so military campaigns that were being waged that were causing problems.

当时确实有一些特定的战役给马可·奥勒留带来了很多麻烦，比如在北部日耳曼行省发生的叛乱。

And there were some particular campaigns that were really causing Marcus Aurelius a lot of problems during that time with rebellions up in up in the North in the Germanic provinces.

所以，每当他被那些外部发生的事情搞得心烦意乱时，这些沉思录就会把他带回中心，让他重新与内在的自己连接。

And so, whenever he was getting getting flustered by all that stuff that was happening, all that external stuff, the meditations would would bring him back to center and get him back in touch with the internal.

我觉得这是一个非常宝贵的教训，因为很多时候，我们倾向于认为问题出在外部，解决方案也在外部。

I think this is a really valuable lesson because a lot of times, we tend to to think that our problems are external and that the solutions to our problems are external.

但实际上，很多问题都可以从内部解决，而且也应该这样，因为如果你在寻找内心的平静，那很难从外部获得。

Whereas in fact, a lot of that can be solved internally and in fact it should be because it's very hard to attain peace if that's something that you're looking for in your life.

如果总是向外寻找，很难得到平静。

It's very hard to get that by always looking for it out there.

你会先向外寻找，然后最终意识到，你必须向内寻找才能找到它。

What happens is you look at it for out there and then eventually you realize that you have to go inside to find it.

你必须让自己稳定下来。

You have to stabilize yourself.

我觉得马库斯最令人敬佩的是他那种镇定自若。

I think what was most admirable about Marcus was the kind of equanimity that he had.

那种稳定，还有那种有意识的自我克制。

The kind of stability and just conscious self restraint.

如果要用一个词来概括斯多葛主义，我觉得就是自我克制。

And if I was to sum up stoicism in in one word, I think it would be self restraint.

我不是说那种消极的克制，而是积极的。

And I don't mean that in a negative sense, I mean in a positive sense.

有一种感觉是，当你跟别人讲斯多葛主义，他们听到后会说，斯多葛主义啊，那不是我们应该追求的东西。

There's a there's a sense in which when you tell someone about stoicism and they hear that, they say, well, stoicism that isn't that's not something that we should aspire to.

那不是积极的东西，因为它在某种程度上意味着缺乏情感，意味着这个人僵硬、做作、像机器人一样。

That's not something that's positive because it in some way implies a lack of emotion and it implies that the person is rigid and stilted and robotic.

而且它还意味着，如果你转向内心，你脚踏实地，你专注于内在，那你又怎么去外面实现你想实现的那些大事呢？

And it also implies that if you're turning in within yourself and you're you're grounded and you're you're you're internally focused, then how are you supposed to go out there and achieve the big things you wanna achieve?

你怎么才能有所成就呢？

How are you supposed to be accomplished?

你怎么去发展你的事业呢？

How are you supposed to go and hold down a career?

你怎么去管理家庭，还有那些你在现实世界中可能有的其他实际目标呢？

How are you supposed to manage raising a family and and all these other goals that you might have that are practical and that are out there in the world.

那些目标不只是在你脑子里。

They're not just in your head.

嗯，我觉得那是看待斯多葛主义的一种过于简单的方式。

Well, I think that is a simplistic way to look at stoicism.

我觉得这里面有很多深度，而且你确实可以从斯多葛主义中汲取一些东西，而不必完全投入进去。

I think there's a lot of depth there and there's definitely some stuff that you can draw from stoicism without going into it full bore.

所以你会立刻注意到的一点是，马可之所以是个很好的例子，是因为他并不是那种住在高山上的隐士哲学家，整天研究书本，然后随口说说那些理论。

So one thing that you'll you'll notice right off the bat, the reason that Marcus is such a good example here to use is that he wasn't just a, some sort of hermit philosopher living high in the mountains and and and studying textbooks, and then just spouting the stuff off.

这个人，如果用现代的眼光来看，大概相当于什么职位呢？

This guy is what you would consider in modern times, probably what?

在现代，可能相当于美国总统，或者某个财富500强公司的CEO。

The president of The United States would be an equivalent position in modern times, or the CEO of some fortune 500 company.

所以这个人肩负着很多责任，他生活中有很多琐碎的事情在分散他的注意力。

So this guy was responsible for a lot, and he had a lot of mundane things happening in his life that were that was drawing on his attention.

他得操心军事行动。

So he had military campaigns to worry about.

他得应对内部政治。

He had internal politics.

他还要担心叛乱和破坏分子。

He had revolts and saboteurs to worry about.

他还要考虑自己的名声，以及家族的名声。

He also had, his reputation to consider and the reputation of his family.

他还有自己的家庭。

He also had his own family.

他结婚了。

He had He was married.

他有孩子，这些对他来说都很重要。他就像你我一样是个普通人，但他试图在处理好这一切的同时，保持内心的平静和踏实，并且忠于自己更高层次的追求。

He had children and all of that was important to him, and he was just a normal guy like you or me, but he was trying to figure out how to make sense of all that, but also stay calm and grounded and peaceful in him, and also really stay true to his higher self.

有趣的是，如果你现在的生活让你感到快乐，你追求外在的东西也乐在其中，那其实没什么问题。

So here's the interesting thing is that, if you're living your life and you're happy the way you are right now, and you're happy chasing after the externals in life, then really there's no problem with that.

你可以继续这样做，我有什么资格评判你呢？

You can you can keep doing that and who am I to judge you for doing that?

但我觉得，如果总是渴望外在的东西并不断追逐，最终它会开始侵蚀你，让你内心更高层次的自我感到被忽视。

But I think there's something to be said about always thirsting for the externals and chasing after it because eventually what it does is it starts to undermine you and your higher self starts to feel neglected.

比如说，你可能有一些想要坚持的价值观，比如诚实、积极、为他人做贡献，诸如此类。

For example, you might have certain values that like you like to live up to like honesty and positivity and contribution to others, things of that nature.

也许你没有做到这些，因为你的低级自我正在拖你后腿。

And maybe you're not living up to those because what's happening is that your lower self is dragging you down.

所以，通常情况下，如果你只是随波逐流地生活，生活在现代社会，看现代娱乐，听朋友和家人的话，那么你往往会随大流，而随大流的结果就是你在追求外在的东西，你在看重社会所看重的东西，而其中很多都是相当肤浅的。

So it tends to be the the case that the default position in life is if you're just kinda going along with the flow of life, and you're living in modern society, and you're watching modern entertainment, and you're listening to your friends and to your family, what tends to happen is that you kind of go with the flow, and they'll go and they'll go with the flow is that you're chasing after externals, you're you're valuing things that society values, and a lot of those things are pretty shallow.

所以很多这些东西只是娱乐、金钱、名声或外在的成功，无论是闪亮的新车、新房子还是其他什么。

So a lot of those things are just entertainment or money or fame or external success, whether it's a shiny shiny new car or house or whatever that might be.

我并不是说这些东西不好。

And I'm not discounting any of those things.

这些东西如果适合你，那当然很好，但你要认识到，如果你内心有一部分觉得生活还有更多你没有参与的东西，你想要更多，而且你可能因为没能实现那些更高的理想而感到有些痛苦，那么从《沉思录》中确实可以学到一些教训。

Those things can be great if that's what you're into, but recognize that if some part of you says that there's more to life that you're not partaking in and you want more of that and you also may be suffering a little bit because you don't have enough of that that those higher ideals that you're actually living up to, then there's some lessons to really be drawn from the meditations.

真正酷的是，《沉思录》确实需要去读。

Now what's really cool is the meditations really need to be read.

所以首先，我强烈建议你去读，因为马库斯文字中的那种氛围。

So I first of all, I highly encourage you to read them because of the mood of the words that Marcus has.

光靠我说是没法完全传达的。

I can't really do them justice by talking about them.

这里只是我的一些分析和想法。

This is just a little bit of analysis and some of my thoughts on it.

你可以进一步阅读文章，看看其中的一些摘录。

Really go down further into the article and read some of the excerpts.

我觉得我在总结主要主题方面做得还不错，而且我从书里摘录了很多内容放在文章里，这样即使你没时间读完整本书，也能感受到它的味道。

I think I did a pretty good job of of summarizing the general themes and I took a a lot of, excerpts out of the book to, to mention in the article, so you get a taste for it if you don't have time to read the whole thing.

但我也建议你真正去买一本《沉思录》来读，甚至多读几遍。

But I'd also encourage you to actually buy the meditations and read it, maybe even a couple of times.

因为随着你阅读的深入，你会真正感受到这位哲人的思维方式，以及斯多葛派的心态，还有它可能与你现在的思维方式有多么不同。

Because as you do, you really get a sense of what the man's thinking was like and what a stoic mindset is and also how different it is probably from the way that you're thinking.

它会给你一些启发，让你学会如何以不同的方式看待各种事物。

And it'll give you some ideas about how to think differently, about various various things.

好了，我们来谈谈《沉思录》到底涵盖了哪些内容。

Well, let's let's talk about what the meditations really covers.

它非常关注死亡，以及如何面对死亡，如何面对死亡的预期，以及如何保持平静和从容。

There's a big focus on death and coping with death, and the prospect of death and how to be calm and at ease with that.

我觉得可以说，我们生活中做的很多事情，比如娱乐、名声、成功这些用来分散注意力的事情，某种程度上都可以归结为对死亡的恐惧，不想真正去面对它。因为即使像这样思考死亡会让人感到忧郁，但马库斯在《沉思录》里的思考方式，也是一种现实的方式，因为他想的是这样的。

I think that a case can be made that a lot of stuff that we do in life, a lot of stuff that we distract ourselves with like entertainment and fame and success, in some ways can be boiled down to to a fear of death and not really wanting to face it because even though it can be gloomy to think about death like this, the way that Marcus thinks about it in the meditations, It's also a realistic way to think about it because the way that Marcus thinks about is like this.

说到底，你的生命非常短暂。

Ultimately, your life is very short.

在整个宇宙的寿命中，你在地球上的时间就像一毫秒。

In the lifespan of the whole universe, your time on this earth is just like a millisecond.

一下子就过去了。

There it went.

没了。

It's gone.

你认识的每个人，所有的朋友、家人、孩子，孩子的孩子，一代、两代、三代，在宇宙的寿命中，就这样消失了。

And everybody that you know, all your friends, all your family, your kids, your kids kids, one, two, three, three generations, it's gone just like that in the lifespan of the universe.

所以真的就像尘土，像灰烬，随风飘散，无关紧要，微不足道。

So really it's like dust, it's like ash, it just blows away with the wind, it doesn't matter, it's insignificant.

你在这里的时间这么短，但我们真的想过这一点吗？

And your time here is so short, but do we really think about that?

你每天早上醒来的时候，会想到这些吗？

Do you think about that every every morning you wake up?

大概不会吧。

Probably not.

对吧？

Right?

也许一年里偶尔有那么一次，心情比较深沉的时候会想到，但平时我们根本不会去想这些。

Maybe you think about it like once a year when when you get in that kind of a pensive mood, but usually we don't think about that.

但事实就是，这就是现实。

But the fact is that this is this is reality.

对吧？

Right?

你的生命很短暂。

Your life is short.

这是科学事实，两千年前是这样，今天也是这样，甚至可能更甚，因为今天我们被现代社会提供的各种刺激分散了注意力。

This is this is just scientific fact, and it was apparent two thousand as to as apparent two thousand years ago as it is today, maybe even more so, because today we're just distracted by by all the titillation that modern society offers.

所以我们有点忘了生命短暂这件事，结果呢，我们也忘了自己的优先事项，因为我们总觉得有的是时间做任何想做的事，可以漫无目的地晃荡。

And so we kind of lose track of the the brevity of life, and also as a result, we kind of lose track of our priorities too because we tend to think that we have all this time to do anything we want, and that we can just kind of wander around aimlessly.

如果你觉得那样挺好的，想那样过日子，那当然没问题，但我觉得我们中的一些人，大多数人，会感觉到如果那样活，临终前会后悔的。

And you know if that's if you're happy with that, if you wanna live that kind of life, more power to you, but also I think some of us most of us will sense that if we live a life like that then on your deathbed you're gonna kinda regret it.

你会后悔没有活出那个更高自我所追求的理想。

You're gonna regret not having lived up to those higher ideals that the higher self has.

你可能会后悔没有做到自己本该有的诚实。

You're gonna have probably regret not being as honest as you were.

你可能会后悔没有活出自己想坚守的美德。

You're probably gonna regret not not living the virtues that you wanna live to.

你可能会后悔没有为社会贡献更多。

You're probably gonna regret not having contributed more to society.

你可能会后悔没有建立更深的关系，或者只是被生活中的琐碎小事分了心。

You're probably gonna regret for not having deeper relationships or not or just getting distracted by all the pettiness in life.

对吧？

Right?

对马库斯来说，日常生活中的这些事，和我们没什么两样。

Just on a day to day basis, for Marcus, it was no different than it is for us.

比如他在《沉思录》里就谈到，他得克制自己，别陷入消极思维，也别老想着别人说了他什么坏话，担心那会影响他的名声、声望，或者别人怎么看他。

Like he would in the meditations, talks about how how he has to restrain himself from getting sucked into negative thinking or from getting sucked into thinking about how somebody said something bad about him and how that's gonna reflect on his on his legacy or on his fame or on his prestige or how people think about him.

但最终，当他真正深入思考、认真冥想这些事情时，他会发现那些都不重要，因为别人的看法能有多重要呢？那个人转眼间就会死去，你知道的。

But ultimately, what happens is that when he really thinks about when he digs into it and he meditates on this stuff, he comes to find that none of that matters because how important is the opinion of somebody else when that person is gonna be dead in just the snap of a finger, you know.

马库斯会死，那些对他有负面看法的人也会死，他们教给孩子的那些关于马库斯的坏话，那些孩子也会死，很快这一切都会被遗忘，变得毫无意义。

Marcus is gonna be dead, and then everybody that thought something bad about him is gonna be dead, and all their children who they taught bad things about Marcus to will be dead, and soon all of that will be forgotten, and all of that will be insignificant.

所以，在某种程度上，担心这些完全是多余的，只会让自己心烦意乱。

So worrying about it on some level is entirely entirely trivial and all it does is it just agitates you.

所以，一个主题就是死亡。

So is one topic, death.

大主题。

Big topic.

我觉得它是其他一切的基础。

I think it's like an underpinner of everything else.

但他还谈到了其他话题，我们之前已经稍微提到过这种琐碎的想法，就是整天想着那些鸡毛蒜皮的事，关注那些琐碎的事情，这些真的会让你偏离你的核心价值观。

But other topics that he talks about, we already covered a little bit of the this this notion of the pettiness, thinking having petty thoughts and thinking and concerning yourself with petty things throughout the day that really distract you from your core values.

这是其中一个。

So that one.

他还谈到了如何克制自己的欲望，有些欲望会吸引你，但从长远来看可能对你不健康或有害，以及如何戒除这些欲望。

He also talks about how to restrain yourself from desires, certain desires that draw you in but that might be unhealthy for you or bad for you in the long run, and how to abstain from those.

他还谈到了自我克制，以及如何培养自我克制的能力。

He also talks about topics like self restraint and how to how to cultivate self restraint in oneself.

如何对生活中拥有的东西心怀感激，如何在被事情烦扰时让自己平静下来，基本上都是围绕这些方面的话题。

How to be grateful grateful about the things that you have in life, how to bring yourself to peace when you're agitated by things, and more topics basically along all of those lines.

如何在痛苦时保持冷静，比如生病的时候，或者如何面对他人的离世。

How to be calm when you're in pain, so when you have illness or how to cope with the death of other people.

所以马库斯是个顾家的人。

So Marcus was a family man.

他有家庭，有妻子，有孩子。

He had a family, had wife, he had children.

那么，怎么以沉着的方式去应对呢？

So how to deal with that in in a composed kind of way.

不是说让你完全抽离，变得像个机器人，而是要以一种平静和自信的态度去处理，而不是抓狂、发脾气，或者因为别人说了你不爱听的话就生气。

Not to say that you just totally detach and you're robotic, but that you deal it with with a certain calmness and a certain empowerment rather than pulling your hair out and throwing temper tantrums or getting, mad at people when they say things about you that you don't particularly like.

所以基本上，就是如何在生活中践行美德。

So basically, how to kinda how to how to live up to virtues in life.

我觉得《沉思录》有意思的地方在于，马可·奥勒留是写给自己看的，他每天都要读，以此来让自己回归到更高的自我。

Now what's interesting to me about the meditations is that Marcus wrote them to himself and he had to read them on a daily basis to kind of bring himself back to his higher self.

因为事情是这样的，人的思维很有趣，我们往往会忘记。

Because here's the thing, and it's interesting how the human mind works like this is that we tend to forget.

通常，当我们与自己的价值观、最深层的价值观和人生目标保持联系时，我们会非常兴奋，看到所有的可能性或潜力，变得充满憧憬，一切看起来都很美好。

Usually, when we are in touch with our values, with our deepest values and our purpose in life, we get very excited, and we see all the possibilities or all the potential, and we get starry eyed, and everything seems great.

但第二天早上醒来，生活总有办法把这一切冲淡，因为你的更高自我，即使那个声音很强大，它也非常微妙和微弱，很容易被背景噪音淹没。

But then you wake up the next morning and life has a way of just coming in and washing over all that, because your higher self even though that voice is very powerful, it's also very subtle and faint and it can be easily overwhelmed by the background noise.

而背景噪音就是所有外部的东西。

And the background noise is all the external stuff.

对吧？

Right?

因为内心有更高自我的声音，某种程度上也有更低自我的声音，但还有社会的背景噪音，它在某种程度上煽动更低自我，因为它真的会助长它。

Because there's the internal voices of the higher self and then to some extent, there's also an internal lower self, but then there's also like the background noise of society that it's kinda goading the lower self on because it really feeds into it.

比如广告。

So this would be advertising.

可能是你的家人和朋友，他们在做什么，他们怎么看你。

This might be your family and your friends and what they're doing and what they think of you.

可能是你的同事和你的工作。

This might be your coworkers and your your job.

可能是媒体，你在电视上看的，那些价值观在那里被强化，通过营销、广告、娱乐，所有这些乱七八糟的东西。

This might be, media and what you're watching on television and those values that are getting reinforced there and through marketing, commercials, entertainment, all of that good jazz.

所以，尽可能让自己远离那些背景噪音，这样你才能听到自己内心那微弱的高我鼓点，然后真正跟着那个节奏走，而不是跟着别人或者自己低我的节奏。

So there's really something to be said from disengaging yourself from that background noise as much as possible, so you can hear the faint higher self beat of your drum, and then really march to that beat rather than the everyone else or your own lower self beat.

这往往很难做到，所以你需要不断提醒自己，你的大脑多么容易忘记这一点，真是令人着迷。

And that tends to be difficult to do, so you need to keep reminding yourself that it's really fascinating how your mind easily forgets this.

其实，我可以这么说，忘记自己的高远目标和价值观，这可能是个人成长中最难的部分之一，也是为什么自我提升这么难，改变习惯这么难的原因。

In fact, I can make the case that this idea of forgetting forgetting your your higher purpose, your your values is maybe one of the most challenging aspects of personal development is why self development is so difficult and why changing your habits is so difficult.

因为很多时候我们只是靠惯性在生活，要改变自己需要付出有意识的努力和觉察，因为如果你一直按某种固定的模式生活，你是在无意识地做这些事，根本不需要动用那个更高的自我。

Because a lot of times we're just running on autopilot and it takes conscious effort and awareness to to make changes in yourself because if you're running on a certain routine all the time, you do that unconsciously, and you don't need to engage that higher self.

你不需要听那个更高自我的声音来做这些事，实际上，你也不需要把任何东西记在脑子里，比如短期或中期记忆。

You don't need to listen to that higher self to do that, and really you don't need to keep anything in in conscious memory up here like your short to medium term memory.

你可以把它叫做你的内存，打个比方。

You can call it your ram so to speak.

如果你的内存满了，那它的容量是有限的。

If your ram gets filled up, then there's only so much of it.

比如说，你决定下周开始去健身房，而且你以前从来没去过。

So let's say that you decide to start going to the gym, next week and you've never gone before.

突然之间，这件事就得一直放在你脑子里最显眼的位置，你才会去做。

All of a sudden, that's a new thing that has to be sitting at the forefront of your mind for you to do it.

因为如果你不把它放在最显眼的位置，你就会忘记。

Because if you don't put it in the forefront of your mind, you're gonna forget.

你就是会忘掉，你知道吧。

You're quite simply just gonna forget, you know.

可能你现在下个决心，然后到了下周一，该去健身房的时候，你就是会睡过头，或者出去跟朋友聚会，或者看电影，而不是去健身。

It might be the case that you make a resolution right now and then next Monday, when it comes time to go to that gym, you're just gonna you're just gonna sleep in or you're gonna you're gonna you're gonna go out and party with friends or you're watch a movie instead of going doing that gym.

不是因为懒，虽然懒也经常发生，但就是因为你忘了自己还有这么个计划。

Not because you were lazy, that certainly happens a lot, but simply because you forgot that it's even on your agenda anymore.

你有没有过这种经历，就是忘了去做你想做的改变。

How how often has has that happened to you where you just forget to make the changes you wanna make.

健身这件事可能不太容易忘，因为这是个挺大的承诺。

With the gym, maybe that's a little bit less plausible because it's a pretty big kind of commitment that you're making.

而且也很明显，但如果你想在行为上或者生活方式上做些细微的改变，这就可能是个很棘手的问题，因为你真的会忘。

It's also quite noticeable, but if you're trying to make very subtle changes in your behavior or in the way that you run your life, it can be a very pernicious problem because you simply forget.

比如我自己，我一直在练习眼神交流。我长期以来跟人眼神交流都有问题，因为小时候不太爱社交，有点害羞，缺乏自信，所以眼神交流做得不好。

Like one example that I had was that I was working on eye contact and I was for a long time had a problem with making eye contact with people simply because when I was growing up I wasn't very social, I was a little bit shy, had lacked self confidence, and so I didn't have good eye contact.

比如说，跟商店店员、服务员或者朋友说话的时候，我没法像我想的那样直视他们的眼睛，这种交流方式我自己也不满意。

For example, just a simple thing when I'm you know, when I'm talking to a clerk at the store or a waitress or or a friend, I don't look them straight in the eyes the way I want them to and that that's not the kind of communication that I was happy with.

所以我当时下定决心，真的很想练出更坚定的眼神交流。

So what I'd resolved to do is I I really wanted to build that stronger eye contact.

我发现这其实是一个非常细微的改变，因为眼神交流通常是无意识的。

What I found was that it's such a subtle such a subtle change because eye contact is usually an unconscious thing.

如果你在做，那很可能是无意识的。

If you're doing it, it's probably unconscious.

如果你没在做，那也很可能是无意识的。

You're not doing it, it's also probably unconscious.

而我发现的就是，我老是忘记这件事。

And what I found was that I just kept forgetting.

其实，要练出稳定的眼神交流，并不需要花太多实际练习。

Like, it didn't it doesn't take that much actual practice to develop solid eye contact.

问题不在这里。

That's not the problem.

如果你想练这个，真正会出错的地方就是你根本忘了要去做这件事。

The problem where you slip up if you're trying to do that is that you simply forget to to be doing it.

所以可能头一两天，你真的会刻意去努力。

So maybe that first day or two, you're really gonna make a conscious effort.

你去的每家店，每个跟你说话的店员，每个跟你握手的人，你都会直视他们的眼睛。

And every store that you go to, every clerk you talk to, everyone you shake hands with, you're going to really look them straight in the eyes.

然后你会说，对，我要这么做。

And you're gonna you're gonna say, yeah, I'm gonna do that.

而且你会记得去做。

And you're gonna remember to do that.

在你做的时候，你会感觉自己的眼神交流越来越自然，越来越有力量，但你需要坚持几周，甚至几个月，才能真正把它变成一种习惯，让它重新成为你自然状态的一部分。

And while you're doing it, you're getting a little bit of, you can kinda feel that you're getting stronger with your eye contact becoming more natural for you, but you need to keep doing this for weeks, maybe even months to really to really lock it in as a habit and make it something that's that's again part of your your natural way of being.

但问题是，这种刻意努力只持续了几天，你知道，就会有别的事情冒出来，占据你的注意力。

And but what happens is that after just a few days of that conscious effort, you know, something else comes up and something else comes in and and fills that ram that you have.

然后突然之间，你那个关于改善眼神交流的想法，你那个更高层次的自我设定的目标，就被抛到脑后，被别的东西取代了。

And all of a sudden this, this notion or this this idea that you had, your higher self idea of developing better eye contact just gets just gets thrown out and something else gets lodged in.

比如，朋友告诉你周六有新电影上映，你兴奋地想着周六去看，结果就忘了那天要做眼神交流练习。

So maybe your friends tell you about the new movies that's coming out on Saturday and so now you're you're thrilled to go to the new movie on Saturday and you forget to do your eye contact practice that Saturday.

然后第二天，又有别的事情冒出来，你太忙了，就没做，然后你就忘了。

And then the next the next day, you have something else come up and you're too busy so you don't do it then, and then you just forget.

然后突然之间，两个星期过去了，直到两个星期后你才想起来，哦，我之前练的那个眼神接触怎么样了？

And then all of a sudden, two weeks pass and all of a sudden after two weeks only then do you go, oh, what happened to that eye contact thing I was working on?

我完全忘了那件事，然后突然你又回到了起点，因为你真的没有把那个新行为内化成自己的习惯。

I totally forgot about that, and all of a sudden you're back at square one because you really haven't ingrained that new behavior yourself.

这只是一个例子，我觉得这挺能说明问题的，但我在自己生活中也看到很多其他方面，比如营养啊，或者我想在职业上做的事情，或者我想多读点书但没做到。

And that's just one example I think that's kind of illustrative of how this works, but I see this I see this in my own life in in so many other facets whether it's nutrition or stuff I wanna be doing in my career or if I wanna be reading more books and I'm not doing that.

所以任何我想在自己身上改进的事情，如果我不把它放在我脑海的最前面，也就是所谓的“内存”里，那我就真的做不成。

So any of this stuff that I wanna work on myself at, if if I don't if I don't make the space for it in in the forefront of my mind, in my ram so to speak, then I'm not going to really get it done.

我觉得马库斯在某种程度上也意识到了这一点，因为对他来说，冥想就是用来对抗这个问题的工具。

And I think Marcus realized that on some level because for him, the meditations were in place as a tool to counteract that.

对吧？

Right?

有趣的是，人类的大脑竟然需要这个。

And it's interesting that the human mind requires this.

光坐在那儿，列出一堆价值观、目标、愿景，然后突然之间你的人生就走上正轨了，这是不够的。

It's not enough to just sit there, come up with a list of values, come up with your goals, come up with a vision, and then all of a sudden your life is on track.

不是的。

No.

你必须每天都要让它保持在正轨上。

You have to keep it on track every day.

对吧？

Right?

如果你想在事业上有所成就，就得每天练习。

If you want to be good at your career, have to be practicing it every day.

如果你想擅长说话和眼神交流，你需要一直练习，或者别的什么。

If you want to be good at speaking and eye contact, you need to be practicing that all the time or whatever else.

尤其是在那些从没做到到做到的转变关键期，那需要更多的努力。

And especially though during those critical phases where you're making the transition from not doing it to doing it, that's where an even more effort is required.

所以，从这些沉思中，我觉得我们可以学到一点，就是如果你真的想鼓励你的更高自我，并且想活出那个样子，那就找方法一次又一次地重新连接你的价值观，你越能做到这一点，你就越能按照它们生活，因为否则的话，你只会忘记。

And so there's this theme with the meditations that I think we can take away, which is if you wanna really encourage your higher self and you wanna be living up to it, then find ways of reconnecting to your values again and again and again and the more you can do that, the more you're gonna be living by them because otherwise what's gonna happen is you're simply gonna forget.

比如说，你重视诚实。

Let's say you value honesty.

如果你每天早上不提醒自己，诚实是你想要坚持的原则，那么一天中可能会遇到一些情况，让你觉得不诚实也能得到短期好处。结果就是，你会选择走捷径，选择那个短期利益，因为你那些价值观被埋在大脑深处，没有放在最前面。

If you don't remind yourself every morning that honesty is something that you wanna live by, well, you might have some situation that will come up throughout the day that means that you can be dishonest and still get the short term a short term benefit from that, and what what's gonna happen is you're gonna just you're gonna choose the easy route, and you're gonna choose that short term benefit because you're not not the values that you have there, they're buried deep somewhere in your in your brain, and they're not at the forefront of it.

所以，当你像马库斯那样每天早上做冥想时，你就是在不断强化这些价值观，这样你在一天中就会更容易注意到那些相关的事情。

So when you're doing the meditations every morning as Marcus did, you're bringing it up and up and up, and you're gonna tend to to see those things throughout your day.

所以，如果你对自己有一个愿景，比如你想转行进入一个新职业，或者想在健身房达到某个体重，或者想吃得健康一点，或者想改善你的关系，让它更顺畅。

So if if you have a vision for yourself, maybe there's a new career that you wanna move into, or you wanna hit a certain weight at the gym, or you wanna be eating cleaner, or you wanna have a better you wanna you wanna change up your relationship so it's working more smoothly.

那么，你需要尽可能持续地把注意力放在那上面，才能得到你想要的结果。

Well, you need to focus your attention on that as consistently as you can in order to get the the results that you want.

否则，你就会维持现状，也就是你现在的情况。

Otherwise, what's gonna happen is you're gonna go with the status quo and that's what you've got right now.

所以，如果你对现状满意，那很好。

So if you're happy with it, great.

但如果你不满意，那可能就需要做出一些改变了。

But if you're not, then there's probably some changes that you gotta put in place.

所以，除了要把想法带到脑海最前面这个观点之外，我觉得《沉思录》里特别酷的一点是，我提到的第二个元素，也就是那个星座元素，就是马库斯真的花了很多时间来强化他的内在自我。

So besides besides this idea that you really need to be bringing ideas to the forefront of your mind, I think what's really cool about the the meditations is that that second element, that constellation element that that I mentioned, is that Marcus really takes a lot of time to to strengthen his inner self.

所以他首先会提醒自己，他已经拥有的所有美好的东西，以及他对所拥有的一切是多么感恩。

So he really reminds himself of first of all, all the great things that he already has in life and how blessed he is with everything that he has.

他对自己的父母、成长经历，还有父母给予的一切，感到多么幸福。

How happy he is with the parents that he's had, with the upbringing that he's had, with the parents.

我是说，他生命中得到的所有的机会，以及这些机会如何塑造了他。

I mean, with the with with just all the opportunities that he's been given in life and how that has shaped him.

所以他努力把这些重新带回他的注意力中。

And so he takes effort to to really bring that back up into his attention.

因为再说一次，如果你不把自己已经拥有的、已经取得的成就，时不时地重新带回脑海最前面，你就会把这些视为理所当然，哪怕你是世界上最成功的人。

Because again, if you're not bringing what you already got and what you've already achieved and your accomplishments back up into the forefront of your mind, at least once in a while, what's gonna happen is you're gonna take that for granted and you can be the most successful person on earth.

你可能一年赚几百万美元，而现在你可能觉得，如果我一年赚五百万美元，我一定会欣喜若狂。

You can be making millions of dollars and it right now, it might seem like, well, if I was making $5,000,000 a year, I would just be so ecstatic.

我会非常开心，如果我拥有那些演员的名气，我也会非常开心，我的生活就会完美无缺。

I'd be so happy and if I had all the fame that that some actors have, I would be so happy and my life would just be perfect.

但事实是，一旦你尝到了一点甜头，也许你做了某件事，获得了一点名气。

But the fact is that once you start getting a taste of that, maybe maybe there's something you do and you get a little bit of fame.

也许你做了某件事，赚了一点钱。

Maybe there's, something you do and you get a little bit of money.

也许不是五百万，也许你找到了一份好工作，得到了不错的加薪，诸如此类。

Maybe not the 5,000,000, maybe you get a good you get a good job, you get a good raise, whatever.

你开始发现，你知道吗？

You start to see that, you know what?

我现在所处的位置，客观来说，比五年前好太多了。

Where I am now is so much better objectively speaking than where I was five years ago.

但我并没有真的感觉更快乐。

But I don't actually feel much happier.

而你会意识到，你不觉得更快乐，是因为你没有提醒自己这种差异。

And what you'll realize is you don't feel happier because you don't remind yourself of that difference.

现在，你可能坐在美国一个还算不错的城市的两居室公寓里，可能正为工作发愁，抱怨生活中某些事情不如意，我鼓励你去解决这些问题。

Right now, you might be sitting in your, you know, in your in your two bedroom apartment in a relatively nice city in America, and you might be struggling with your job, and you might be complaining and whining that certain things in your life aren't right, and I encourage you to fix all that stuff.

但另一方面，当你把视角拉远，从更大的格局来看这一切时，会发生什么呢？

But on the other hand, what happens when you zoom out and you take the larger perspective on all that?

我是说，你生活在美国，说实话，你的生活应该相当不错，你应该感到非常非常感恩。

I mean, you're living in America, honestly, you should be your life should be pretty awesome and you should be feeling very very grateful.

因为想想那些生活在非洲的人，他们拥有的东西连你的一丁点都比不上。

Because think about the people that are living in Africa, they don't have anything even close to what you have.

他们没有我们拥有的那么多，没有我们拥有的那些自由。

They don't have any of the many that we have, any of the freedoms that we have.

那些生活在国家、村庄和部落里的人，他们几乎连干净的水都喝不上，连基本的住所都没有，只有最基本的食物，甚至还要面对政府缺乏保护、混乱横行的情况。嗯。

People living in countries and villages and tribes where they have barely any access to clean water, any shelter, just the basics of food and even stuff protection from government where chaos is is running rampant and Mhmm.

你走在街上，实际上有很高的概率被枪击、被捅，或者被砍刀砍死。

You are you actually have pretty high probability of getting shot or stabbed or machete to death when you walk down the street.

你知道，把你现在的生活和那种情况相比，你突然就会对自己的生活感觉好多了。

You know, Compare where you are right now with that kind of scenario and all of a sudden you start to feel pretty good about your life.

对吧？

Right?

你突然觉得，工作上跟老板的那点小问题，一下子就变得不那么重要了。

You're suddenly all that that little problem that you have at work with with your boss, all of a sudden somewhat insignificant.

甚至让你觉得，自己为这事儿抱怨都有点不好意思。

Almost makes you kind of feel bad about even whining about it.

但我觉得，把事物放在更大的视角下看很重要，因为如果你以为只要积累一堆东西，比如房子、车子、钱、工作，甚至更虚无缥缈的名声，比如你觉得自己会出名，然后突然就变得快乐了。

But I think this is important putting stuff in perspective because if you think that you're just gonna amass a bunch of things in your life, houses, cars, and money, and jobs, and even more ethereal things like fame, like you're gonna become famous and all of sudden that's gonna make you happy.

其实，有很多很多例子，你可以在传记、报纸文章、杂志等等里面读到，或者直接跟人聊聊，他们都会告诉你并证实这一点，这已经被充分证实了，事实根本不是那样，金钱和名声的多少跟你的快乐程度没有直接的联系。

Well, think there are many many cases where where you that you can read about in biographies and you know, newspaper articles, magazines, etcetera, or just talking to people that will tell you and confirm this, this has been very well confirmed, that's not at all the case and there's not a direct link between just how much money and fame you have and how happy you are.

而且事实上，很多时候，那些在文化外在意义上超级成功的人，比如很多音乐家、摇滚明星和演员，其实相当痛苦，因为他们沉迷于毒品，用食物和其他刺激来试图给自己带来快乐，因为金钱和名声还不够。

And that in fact, a lot of times people that are mega successful successful in this in the sort of cultural external sense, like many musicians and rock stars and and actors are actually quite miserable because they they are hooked on drugs and they use food and other stimulation to to try to get happiness for themselves because the money and the fame wasn't enough.

所以，马库斯，我觉得他有一些很好的解药来应对这个，真正的解药就是感恩，并且持续地这样做。

And so, Marcus, I think has some good antidotes to this and the antidote to that it really is is gratitude and doing that consistently.

你不能只感恩一次。

You can't just be grateful once.

这是你必须为自己培养成一种习惯的事情。

This is something you have to cultivate as a habit for yourself.

事实上，马库斯对名声的看法非常负面。

In fact, Marcus has a really negative view on fame.

他在《沉思录》中确实经常嘲笑名声。而且，关于他有一个小故事，说他雇了一个仆人或者奴隶，基本上就是跟着他在他住的法庭里到处走。

He really he really kind of ridicules it throughout the meditations and fact, there's a little anecdote about him, told about him that he hired a servant or a slave at that time to basically follow him around throughout the courtroom, where he lived.

那个仆人的唯一工作就是跟着马库斯，时不时在他耳边低声说：“你只是个凡人，你很快也会死的。”

And the servant, his only job was to follow Marcus around and periodically he would whisper in his ear, you are only a man and you will soon be dead too.

所以，这个做法的原因挺让人震撼的。

And so, reason for this is kinda striking.

我很喜欢这个提醒，因为它能让马库斯记住，即使他是皇帝，他也没有比其他人更好。

I I love that that antidote is because it would it would get Marcus to remember that he's no better even though he's an emperor.

他真的不比他的臣民好到哪里去。

He's really no better than than his subjects.

对吧？

Right?

而且，死亡是每个人都平等拥有的礼物，就像其他人一样。

And that more mortality is is a gift that he has been given just like everyone else.

而且他终将死去，很快他做过的一切、写下的所有东西、所有的善行、赢得的战争，都会被遗忘。

And that he will be dead and soon all of all of the things he's done and everything he's written and all the good deeds he's done and all the wars he's won, all that will be forgotten.

那些都会化为灰烬，知道这些事的人也都会死去。

All that will be ash and all the people that have that have known about it will be dead too.

所以归根结底，如果追逐那些意味着要牺牲你更高的理想，那还有什么意义呢？

And so ultimately, what's what's the point in in chasing after that if it if it means that you're gonna sacrifice your higher ideals.

那么关于《沉思录》，我还想说什么呢？

So what else did I want to really say about the meditations?

我觉得最终的教训是，你可以通过专注于更高的自我来开始改变你的生活。而做到这一点的方法，嗯，一种方法就是真正写你自己的沉思录。

I think the ultimate lessons is that you can can start changing your life by putting focus on your higher self And the way to do that is, well, one way to do it is to actually make your own meditations.

不要用马库斯的，用你自己的。

Don't do it with Marcus', do it with your own.

所以也许可以列一个对你真正重要的事情的清单。

So maybe make a list of the things that are really important to you.

你想实现什么样的目标？

What kind of goals do you want to accomplish?

比如说，未来几年内。

Let's say over the next few years.

你想以什么样的价值观来生活？

What kind of values do you wanna live your life by?

什么样的价值观让你感觉良好？

What kind of values make you feel good?

是帮助别人吗？

Is it helping other people?

是诚实吗？

Is it being honest?

是取得很多成功和成就吗？

Is it having a lot of success and achievement?

是做你真正热爱的事情吗？

Is it doing something that you're really passionate about?

你知道，不管这些是什么，都可以是任何东西。

You know, whatever those things are, it can be anything.

把这些东西写下来，然后经常回去看看，这样你就能经常看到它们，不会忘记。

Write those things down and come back to them very very often, so that you are are seeing it in front of your eyes and you're not forgetting about it.

另外，当你心情不好的时候，试着安慰自己。

Also, trying to console yourself when you're feeling bad.

如果你因为别人说了你的坏话而心情不好，那么把一些原则写在纸上，随时可以翻阅，这是一个非常有效的策略。

If you're feeling bad because someone said something bad about you, having some sort of principles written down on paper that you can turn to is very effective strategy.

所以，如果有人在工作中对你说了一些难听的话，你回到家，为此心烦意乱，一直在想，反复琢磨，结果毁了你整个晚上。

So if someone said something nasty to you at work and you come home and you're all upset about it, and you're thinking about it, and you're ruminating about it, and it's spoiling the rest of your evening.

如果你能看看一张小纸条，上面写着你生活中所有重要的事情，其中一条就是生命短暂，你真的没有时间浪费在琐碎的事情上，而且你现在花在反复琢磨工作中那次争吵的时间，也许可以用来去看日落，或者和亲人在一起，或者做一些重要的事情，比如帮助别人，或者推进你的商业想法，或者做一些积极的事情，比如读一本书，而不是纠结于这些琐碎的废话。

If you were to look at a little piece of paper that told you all the important things that that were important to you in your life, and one thing on there would be would be that life is short, and that you really don't have time to waste on pettiness, and that well, the time that you're wasting right now ruminating about this argument that you had at work, where someone says something nasty about you, maybe that's the time you could go spend watching the sunset, or spending it with your loved ones, or working on something important, maybe like helping people, or working on that business idea that you have, or doing something just positive overall, maybe reading a book instead of ruminating on this petty petty nonsense.

所以，拥有这些指导你生活的原则是非常强大的。

And so having those kinds of principles that are guiding your life is is very powerful.

我实际上试过这个方法。

I've actually tried this.

我坚持了大约三十到四十天，每天早晨我都会读一遍我写下的那些对我来说重要的事情的清单。

I went about thirty or forty days where I wrote out a list of things that were important to me and every day in the morning, I would read through it.

你知道，这只需要大约五分钟，然后你可以挑出一两条你那天真正想专注的要点。

You know, it only takes about five minutes and maybe pick one or two of those points that you really wanna focus on that day.

所以也许那天你想专注于对人友善，并且你知道，容忍他们扔给你的所有那些破事，而不生气。

So maybe that day you wanna focus on being nice to people and just you know, tolerating all the bullshit that they throw at you without getting upset.

那就选那一条，然后度过你的一天，看看感觉如何。

So pick that one and go through your day and see how that feels.

或者也许是别的事情，你知道的。

Or maybe it's gonna be something something else you know.

也许会有另一个原则，比如你的生命很短暂，你那天就专注于这一点，那会怎样改变你的生活？

Maybe there's gonna be some other principle like the fact that your life is short and you're just gonna focus on that for the day, and how is that gonna change your life?

你现在正在容忍哪些事情，并且告诉自己，哦，没事，这挺好的。

What kind of things are you doing right now that you're kind of tolerating and you're telling yourself, oh, know, this is fine.

我现在所处的位置让我很舒服。

I'm comfortable where I'm at right now.

而事实上，当你真的把生命很短暂、你没有太多时间去完成你想做的事情这个想法放在脑海最前面时，那么也许你会开始思考，你的大脑会开始想办法去完成你想做的事情。

Whereas in fact, when I when you really have this idea, the forefront of your mind that your life is very short and you don't have a lot of time to get the stuff you wanna get done, then maybe what you're gonna do is you're gonna start thinking, your brain is gonna start thinking of ways to get the stuff that you want done.

所以，如果你有那个创业的想法，也许你的大脑会开始活跃起来，真正开始思考怎么去实现它，而不是光做梦。

So if you have that business idea, maybe your brain will start getting jogged up and start actually contemplating ways to make it happen rather than just dream about it.

对吧？

Right?

或者，如果你想开始那个一直拖延的节食计划，也许现在你会意识到，哎呀，糟糕。

Or maybe if if you wanted to start that diet that you've been putting off, maybe now you'll start to realize that, well, shit.

我得现在就开始，否则就没机会了。

I gotta start it now or never.

所以，想想这些，想想你的价值观，想想你可以做哪些冥想，然后继续读这篇文章的其余部分，感受一下斯多葛哲学是什么样的，以及那位两千年前的罗马皇帝，他的思维方式，他如何管理自己的生活，同时还统治着罗马帝国。

So think about that, think about what your values are, think about what kind of meditations you could be doing, and go ahead and read through the rest of the article here and just get a sense, just kinda get a sense of what Stoic philosophy is like, and what a amazing individual, a Roman Emperor from two thousand years ago, the way he thought, and the way that he managed his life, and also ran the Roman Empire.

好了。

Alright.

今天就到这里。

That's it for today.

再见。

Peace out.