Why Elon Musk Is The Worst Human On The Planet

欢迎收听《每日斯多葛》播客，本节目旨在帮助大家把斯多葛的四大美德——勇气、自律、正义与智慧——真正应用到现实生活中。

Welcome to The Daily Stoic Podcast designed to help bring those four key Stoic virtues, courage, discipline, justice, and wisdom into the real world.

埃隆·马斯克。

Elon Musk.

埃隆·马斯克。

Elon Musk.

埃隆·马斯克。

Elon Musk.

埃隆·马斯克。

Elon Musk.

全球最富有的人。

The richest person on the planet.

人类历史上第一位万亿富翁。

The first trillionaire in human history.

埃隆·马斯克对数十万乃至上百万人的死亡负有责任。

Elon Musk is responsible for the deaths of anywhere from hundreds of thousands of people to millions of them.

马斯克掺和进了狗狗币的事儿。

Musk gets involved with Doge.

有保守估计说，对美国国际开发署的削减可能导致今年额外死亡人数高达五十万。

The conservative estimates that say the cuts to USAID should amount to something like five hundred thousand excess deaths this year.

他们砍掉了90%的海外救命项目。

They have cut 90% of the lifesaving programming going on overseas.

这是一场由饥饿、痛苦和死亡构成的大灾难。

It is a holocaust of starvation and suffering and death.

马斯克有个本事，就是用新的丑闻来掩盖旧的丑闻。

Musk has a real talent for bearing all of his most repulsive scandals by creating new ones.

马斯克遇到的很多问题，其实都是自己惹出来的。

So much of what Musk deals with is, like, self inflicted.

这个曾经以第一性原理著称的人，现在却深陷阴谋论和反犹主义。

This guy who was famously good at thinking from first principles now falls for, like, conspiracy theories and antisemitism.

我喜欢读斯多葛派或古人的著作，因为他们总是把伟人的生平拿出来细细审视。

One of the things I love about reading the Stoics or the ancients is how they were always taking the lives of great men and women and putting them up for review.

对吧？

Right?

你听塞内加谈加图，说他哪些地方做得好，哪些地方没做好。

You hear Seneca talking about Cato, what he did well and what where he fell short.

你再看普鲁塔克谈亚历山大大帝、德摩斯梯尼和凯撒。

You see Plutarch talking about Alexander the Great and Demosthenes and Caesar.

他们总是盯着那些改变历史、影响世界的人，分析他们的长处和短板。

They they would look at the people who moved history, who changed the world, and look at what they did well, and look at where they fell short.

看看他们的优点和缺点。

Look at their virtues and their vices.

对吧？

Right?

他们这么做，不是为了评判，也不是为了高人一等，而是为了看清、讨论，明确什么是好生活，什么是坏生活。

And they did this not so much to judge, not to feel superior, but in in fact, to see, to discuss, to to make clear what a good life and a bad life looked like.

我觉得，或许也该拿我住在巴斯托普的这位邻居来做一次这样的分析。

I thought it'd be worth maybe doing that with someone who's actually my neighbor in Bastrop.

我谈的是你们当中可能有人为他工作，或者非常钦佩的人。

I'm talking about someone maybe some of you work for or admire.

我说的是埃隆·马斯克，他就搬到了我住的巴斯罗普。

Talking about Elon Musk, who is decamped to Bastrop where I live.

毫无疑问，从某种意义上说，埃隆·马斯克是个了不起的人物。

And there's no question Elon Musk is a great man in that sense.

对吧？

Right?

他确实改变了这个世界。

He has dented the universe.

他就像从普鲁塔克书里走出来的现代人物。

He is a modern figure straight out of the pages of Plutarch.

但普鲁塔克会提醒我们，了不起和高尚，完全是两码事。

But as Plutarch would remind us, right, great and good, very different things.

一个人可以非常成功，却并不具备美德。

That it's possible to be quite successful and not virtuous.

也可能很正直，却并不成功。

Possible to be quite virtuous and not successful.

举个例子，我觉得看埃隆·马斯克就很清楚，再多的钱也买不来品德。

Like, I would argue looking at Elon Musk, it's very clear that all the money in the world can't buy virtue.

这很明显。

Clearly.

但我认为我们可以借此看看，那些伟人的生平——那些我们熟知、或钦佩或震惊的人物——其实能帮我们从另一个角度去理解这些美德。

But I I thought we could look because, again, the lives of the greats, of the big figures, the ones we know about whose, you know, exploits we follow either with admiration or horror, allow us a way to look at some of these virtues from another angle.

比如勇气。

And so, like, courage.

对吧？

Right?

我们可以从勇气说起。

We can start with courage.

对吧？

Right?

我觉得，创办一家公司、挑战现状、把自己的身家押在一个想法上，而且还能多次这么做，需要非凡的道德勇气。

I think it takes an incredible amount of moral courage to start a company, to challenge the status quo, to bet your fortune on an idea that you have, and to do it multiple times.

所以，我不认为我们应该这样低估企业家的勇气。

And so I I don't think we should discount the courage of entrepreneurs in this way.

这很重要。

It matters.

如果像这样的人不这么做，我们的社会只会更糟。

We would be in a worse place if people like that didn't do things like that.

但我确实觉得，值得从亚里士多德所说的那种角度来谈谈勇气。

But I do think it's worth talking about courage in the sense that Aristotle talked about it.

他提到过中庸之道。

He talked about the golden mean.

他说，勇气的反面并不是懦弱。

He said the opposite of courage wasn't cowardice.

他认为，勇气其实是两种恶习之间的中间状态。

He said courage was actually in the middle between two different vices.

一边是怯懦，另一边则是鲁莽。

Cowardice being one, but recklessness on the other hand.

勇气正是在这两者之间的中庸之道。

Courage is the golden mean between these two.

他的朋友说，他其实是个很差的扑克玩家，因为他总是全押。

His friends say he's actually a terrible poker player because he just goes all in constantly.

你要是总这么干，迟早会爆仓，或者就是运气好到爆。

And, you know, eventually you do that and and you blow up or you're just the luckiest person in the world.

所以问题来了：如果你一直盲目冒险，根本不管后果，甚至觉得世界是个模拟程序、一切只是游戏，这还能叫道德勇气吗？

So the argument is like, is it still moral courage if you're just yoloing all the time or, you know, you don't think about the consequences because you believe the world is a computer simulation and this is all a game.

再说一遍，勇气必须包含对风险和后果的认知，否则无论哪一边，都不算真正的勇气。

Again, courage has to be some conception of the risk and the consequences or else it's not courage on on either end.

对吧？

Right?

如果你根本没有恐惧，谈何战胜恐惧？那可能很厉害，但那不是勇气。

Like, if you're not triumphing over that fear, if you don't have any fear, it still might be impressive, but it's not courage.

所以我就觉得，硅谷那种‘快速行动，打破常规’的理念啊。

And so I I just think, like, you know, that Silicon Valley idea of, like, move fast and break things.

这当然很重要。

It's obviously important.

对吧？

Right?

你确实得有勇气去颠覆现状——用个老话来说——但当你只是在测试一个App、社交网络之类的东西时这么做，和当你做的事关系到别人的生命时，完全是两码事。后果由别人来承担，而不是你自己。

You have to be willing to upset the apple cart again to use another cliche, but it's one thing to do it when you're, you know, experimenting with an app or a social network or something, but it's another to do it when people's lives depend on what you do, when the consequences are born by people other than you.

所以我以为，我们真该好好想想什么是勇气，不只是你愿意做什么，有时候我们签下的支票，其实是让别人去兑现——字面意义上，或者比喻意义上。

And so I think it's it's worth thinking about courage, not just what are you willing to do, but sometimes we're we're writing checks that other people have to cash literally, figuratively.

所以，举个例子，当我看到这种人对风险的态度时，我可不会想：‘哎，我要去坐特斯拉的无人出租车。’

So, like, I I'm like, what I know is, like, when I see this person's attitude to risk, I don't go like, I wanna jump in a Tesla Robotaxi.

听着挺安全的。

That sounds safe.

或者特斯拉的火箭飞船。

Or a Tesla rocket ship.

对吧？

Right?

因为我们看到，他们对风险的态度可能和大多数人不一样。

Because we see that that relationship with risk is maybe different than it is for most people.

这更像是一个可以调节的旋钮。

And and it's probably a dial.

对吧？

Right?

亚里士多德说的那个度，就是要拿捏得刚刚好。

The dial that Aristotle is talking about is getting it exactly right.

太保守了，就是懦弱。

Too far in one direction and you're cowardly.

太冒进，就是鲁莽。

Too far in the other direction and you're reckless.

比如斯巴达人会惩罚那些过于勇猛的士兵，因为他们的行为会连累战友。

Like, the Spartans actually punished reckless soldiers who who fought too bravely because they endangered the other men.

所以这就是勇气。

So that's courage.

明白了。

Okay.

我们来谈谈自律。

Let's go to discipline.

好的。

Alright.

埃隆·马斯克工作非常努力，这没人质疑。

There's no question Elon Musk works very hard.

对吧？

Right?

特别拼命。

Extremely hard.

可能比在场所有人都更拼。

Probably harder than everyone in this room.

我觉得埃隆·马斯克最有趣的地方在于，他在某些方面极度自律，可在情感上却完全是个混乱不堪的烂摊子。

I think what's interesting to me about Elon Musk is you have someone who is so disciplined in one sense and then emotionally just a complete chaotic dysfunctional mess in another.

对吧？

Right?

这人做事冲动、情绪反复，但凡冒出个念头，立马就发推特。

Like this is a guy who is impulsive, who's erratic, he's never had a thought that he didn't immediately tweet.

他注册这个平台以来，已经发了三万多次推文。

He's tweeted something like 30,000 times since he joined the app.

一个这么忙的人，发这么多，真够多的。

That's a lot for someone who's so busy, I would say.

恐怕远远超过正常范围了。

Probably more than reasonable.

马克，她确实说过，我们始终拥有不发表意见的自由。

Mark, she really has talked about how we always have the power to have no opinion.

看到那些身居高位、影响巨大却偏偏没有这种自由的人，我觉得特别有意思。

I think it's fascinating to see powerful and important people who for all that power, don't have that power.

他们就是忍不住要表达这个观点。

They can't not express that opinion.

对吧？

Right?

脑子里一冒出什么想法，就非得说出来，哪怕想得不周全，哪怕会伤人感情，哪怕给自己惹麻烦。

They can't not say the thing that pops in their head even if it's poorly thought out, even if it might hurt people's feelings, even if it might cause problems for them.

所以，尽管马斯克取得了这么多成就，他就是缺这份自律。

And so for all of Elon Musk's success, he he lacks that discipline.

正如我之前说的，斯多葛主义讲的是如何应对压力、危机和逆境。

And and look, Stoicism, as I said, is about dealing with stress and pressure and crisis and adversity.

但马斯克遇到的很多问题，其实都是自己找的。

But so much of what Musk deals with is like self inflicted.

如果你觉得马斯克真在做重要的事，那这一点最值得他反思。

And I think if you think Elon Musk is doing really important work, should do, this is probably the criticism that should land the most.

对吧？

Right?

每一条推文背后都有机会成本。

There's an opportunity cost to every one of those tweets.

每一次出庭、每一次审判、每一次冲突、每一篇负面报道、每一个被他惹恼的人，都伴随着机会成本。

There's an opportunity cost to every deposition and trial he has to sit through, conflict, to every negative media story, to every person he turns off.

就像我们刚才说的，有些人明明知道特斯拉环保，却不愿意买，因为品牌已经变得有毒了。

There are people who won't buy Teslas as we were just talking about, even though they'd be good for the environment because the brand is toxic.

这就是自律的重要性所在。

And so that's discipline and why it matters.

接下来我们谈谈正义。

Now let's get to to justice.

我完全不否认特斯拉是一家具有变革意义的优秀公司。

I'm not in any way taking away from what a credible transformative company Tesla is.

它对环境大有裨益。

It's great for the environment.

它已经改变了世界。

That's changed the world.

每个人都应该开电动车。

Everyone should be driving electric cars.

如果大家都这么做了，情况会更好。

It would be better if they did.

他雇了很多人。

He employs lots of people.

他显然给他们的生活带来了积极影响。

He obviously makes positive difference in their lives.

很多很多人即将因为SpaceX上市成为百万富翁。

Many, many people are about to become millionaires because of the SpaceX IPO.

这些都很了不起。

That's all great.

但我觉得，当我们谈论正义，从整体来看这段人生时，我们不得不面对一个事实：一个持过期学生签证从加拿大来的人，却在散布关于移民的虚假信息，鼓吹大规模驱逐移民。

But I think when we think about justice and when we examine this life on a whole, we're gonna have to look at a literal illegal immigrant who came here on an expired student visa from Canada spreading misinformation about immigrants and advocating for mass deportations.

我们还得正视他对待员工和他人像垃圾一样的态度。

We have to look at the fact that he treats people and employees like garbage.

马斯克掺和进了狗狗币的事儿。

Musk gets involved with Doge.

我们该怎么调和这种理想主义和影响力——比如特斯拉、SpaceX、太阳城这些创新——与那些保守预测：今年仅美国国际开发署的削减就可能导致五十万人死亡？

Like, how are we to square the idealism and the impact and the innovation with Tesla and SpaceX and Solar City with the conservative estimates that say the cuts to USAID should amount to something like 500,000 excess deaths this year.

他们预计到2030年，会有四百五十万人，实实在在的数百万人丧生。

They think by 2030, four and a half million, like literally millions of people.

这是一场由饥饿、痛苦和死亡构成的大灾难，根源可以追溯到一个人的一条推文：世界上最富有的人发帖说，‘今天本可以去参加些酷派派对。’

It is a holocaust of starvation and suffering and death that can really be traced back to one person to a tweet where the richest man in the world tweets, could have gone to some cool parties today.

相反，我把这个政府机构扔进了碎纸机。

Instead, I fed this government agency into the wood chipper.

我觉得，这件事居然没让马斯克立刻被主流社会唾弃，居然没遭到所有人一致谴责，这本身就很说明问题。

I would say that the fact that that didn't result in, like, the immediate expulsion from polite society that it wasn't condemned universally by all people.

马斯克曾说过，他认为共情会毁掉西方文明。

Like, Elon Musk has talked about how he thinks empathy will be the death of Western civilization.

西方文明的根本弱点就是共情。

The the fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy.

利用同情心的手段。

The empathy exploit.

我认为，我们对这种行为的容忍和接受，正是道德社会的终结。

I would say that our willingness to tolerate and accept that is the death of a moral society.

这才是真正将西方文明的价值置于考验之中的关键。

That is what puts the values of Western civilization on the line.

我们到底是不是真心认同这些价值？

Do we actually mean them?

如果有人把这一切彻底颠覆，抹去几代人的努力、妥协和政治进步，而我们却因为怕被人在网上议论、怕得罪世界上最富有的人、怕在初选中被挑战，就默默接受了这一切——

Or, you know, if someone comes and turns them upside down, undoes generations of work and compromise and political progress, and we just accept that because we don't wanna have people tweeting about us on the Internet or we don't wanna piss off the richest person in the world or we don't wanna be primaried in an election.

我们就是愿意接受这样的事。

Like, we are willing to accept that.

在我看来，这才是我们真正该警惕的灭顶之灾。

To me, that is the extinction level event that we should be worried about.

真正致命的病毒是恐惧，而不是什么‘觉醒’思维病毒。

That's the virus of fear, not the woke mind virus.

真正让我们担忧的，是这种懦弱与纵容的病毒。

That's the virus of cowardice and complicity that we have to be worried about.

喂。

Hey.

我是瑞安。

It's Ryan.

我现在正在全国各地巡回演讲。

I'm on the road right now doing talks all over the country.

我特别喜欢旅行。

I love traveling.

去新地方总让我很兴奋。

I love going to new places.

不过有个缺点，就是没法睡在家里的床上，我可不只是因为那是家才喜欢，关键是床上有那个Eight Sleep智能床垫。

The thing I don't like about it though is I don't get to sleep in my bed at home, which I like not just because it's home, but because I have an eight sleep on my bed.

我这床铺上用Eight Sleep都快五年了。

I've had an eight sleep on my bed, I don't know, five years.

我特别喜欢它。

My I love it.

我妻子也特别喜欢。

My wife loves it.

我们喜欢是因为它能给床垫降温。

We love it because it cools the mattress.

它还能给床垫加热。

It heats the mattress.

两边可以设置成不同的温度。

You can have different sides cool at different temperatures.

连我早上怎么醒都靠它。

It's even how I wake up in the morning.

不用烦人的闹钟，或者手机里那刺耳的铃声，它会轻轻震动把你叫醒。

Instead of an annoying alarm clock or that, you know, horrible sound on your phone, it lightly buzzes you awake.

等你醒了想关掉，只要轻轻拍一下床垫就行。

And then and then when you're up, you wanna turn it off, you just tap the mattress.

我的Eight Sleep有好多超棒的功能。

There's all sorts of awesome features in my Eight Sleep.

这钱花得真值。

It was worth every penny.

关键是，我特别喜欢我的Eight Sleep，而且它还在不断改进。

The point is I love my Eight Sleep, and the Eight Sleep keeps getting better.

使用Eight Sleep的用户报告说，睡眠质量提升了高达32%，深度睡眠也增加了多达34%。

Eight Sleep users report up to 32% better sleep and up to 34% better deep sleep.

这些好处，你肯定也会喜欢。

This is all stuff you love.

现在就去8sleep.com/DAILY STOIC，输入代码DAILY STOIC，最高可减500美元。

You can use the code DAILY STOIC at 8sleep.com slash DAILY STOIC right now for up to $500 off.

这个7月4日的促销活动7月12日就结束了，别拖了。

And this July 4 sale ends on July 12, so don't wait.

如果你有健康储蓄账户或灵活支出账户，通过TrueMed，部分Eight Sleep产品也能报销，符合条件的用户平均能省下三成左右。

And if you have an HSA or an FSA, some Eight Sleep stuff qualifies for that as well through TrueMed, and qualified customers save about 30% on average.

在购买前，请到 truemed.com/eight-sleep 查看您是否符合资格。

Check your eligibility at truemed.com/ Eight sleep before you buy.

TrueMed 仅限符合条件的客户使用。

TrueMed is for qualified customers.

HSA 和 FSA 的税务优惠可能因人而异。

HSA and FSA tax savings may vary.

前几天在 Daily Stoic 的员工会议上，我问了问有没有人用这个产品。

I was asking some people at the staff meeting for DAILY STOIC the other day if if anyone uses whatnot.

结果我发现我完全落伍了，不仅好几个人在用，还都夸得不得了。

And apparently, I'm way out of the loop because not only did a bunch of them use it, they raved about it.

当你打开那个 App 一看，就明白为什么了。

And and look, when you check out the app, you sort of get it.

说实话，这东西真的很让人兴奋。

It's it's it's really exciting, honestly.

你能实时看到销售数据，还能看到销售员的脸——这可跟普通网购完全不一样。

You're seeing all these sales happen in real time, and and you see the, like, the face of the person who's selling it, which is, of course, not really what online shopping typically is.

如果你还不知道Whatnot是什么，它是目前最大的专属直播购物平台。

If you don't know what Whatnot is, it is the largest dedicated live shopping platform.

美妆、收藏品、电子产品、奢侈品、时尚单品，甚至饼干都能在上面买到。

Beauty, collectibles, electronics, luxury, fashion, even cookies.

上面有很多人在卖货，而且真的把生意做起来了。

And there are people there selling stuff, building real thriving businesses.

不管你的生意规模是大是小，甚至还没开始，任何人都能立刻在Whatnot上开店。

And anyone can start selling on whatnot, whether your business is very big, very small, whether it doesn't even exist yet.

在Whatnot上卖货的人，销量通常是其他主流平台的十倍，因为你不只是上架商品，更是在和买家建立真实的联系。

People selling on whatnot sell 10 times more than other major marketplaces, because you're not just listing products, you're building a real connection with your buyer.

今天就去试试吧。

Check it out today.

你只需要在App Store里搜索Whatnot。

You just go to Whatnot in the App Store.

就是W-H-A-T-N-O-T，直接在App Store里找Whatnot。

That's w h a t n o t, Whatnot in the App Store.

下载之后，马上就能开始卖货了。

Download it, you can start selling right away.

好的。

Okay.

所以说，这就是智慧。

So wisdom.

你瞧。

Look.

埃隆·马斯克很聪明。

Elon Musk is smart.

那当然。

Of course.

他确实特别聪明。

He is very smart.

说他不聪明，就跟说他不富有一样。

Saying he's not smart is like saying he's not rich.

他显然在这两方面都很突出。

He is obviously a lot of both.

他可能比我聪明，也可能比房间里大多数人都聪明。

He is probably smarter than me, probably smarter than most of the people in this room.

但他也做过一些很蠢的事。

He also does some really stupid things.

这两件事其实是有关联的。

And those two things are related.

对吧？

Right?

我之前说过，自负是最大的敌人。

Ego is the enemy as I have talked about.

你可以想象，要是你朋友都来劝你别创业，结果你创办的公司成了全球市值最高的企业，你还会听得进批评吗？

You can imagine how if your friends stage an intervention because you wanna start a company and then that company becomes the most valuable company in the history of markets, you're not gonna listen to criticism that much.

人们会告诉你一些对他们有利的事，但未必对你有益。

And people are gonna want to tell you things that are good for them, but maybe not always for you.

你就想想古罗马的皇帝吧。

Like, you think about the emperor of Rome.

那位皇帝能听到多少真心话呢？

How much honest feedback does the emperor of Rome have or get?

估计少得可怜。

Probably not much.

哈德良的一位顾问讲过一个笑话，说掌控五十个军团的人，永远是对的。

There's a joke from one of Hadrian's advisers who says, you know, the man who controls 50 legions is always correct.

那个发你工资、掌握期权、拥有全球最大音量的人，谁敢去批评他呢？

The person who writes your paychecks, who controls the stock options, who has the largest megaphone in the world, you know, this is someone that people don't want to criticize.

就像我住的这个小镇上，有个人是最大的地主和雇主，大家心里都清楚。

I he's like the largest landowner and employer in the county, the little rural county that I live in.

这些事，人们其实都明白。

These are things that people think about.

我懂。

I get it.

所以，显然这里需要勇气，但我觉得这对他是件坏事。

So, obviously, courage comes in here, but I I think about it as being bad for him.

对吧？

Right?

皇帝没穿衣服这个故事，讲的就是当领袖或权势人物听不到真话时会发生什么。

The the story of the emperor having no clothes is a cautionary tale about what happens when the emperor or when a leader or when a powerful person does not get told the truth.

于是我们看到，这个原本强大又聪明的人，变得非常脆弱。

And so here we have this powerful, smart person becoming very vulnerable.

以前能靠读苏联火箭手册搞懂航天业的人，现在却靠推文和播客了解世界——这些当然有帮助，但完全不是一回事。

Like, the guy who used to read Soviet rocket manuals to figure out the aerospace business is now hearing about the world through tweets and and podcasts, which are good as far as they go, but it's not quite the same thing.

对吧？

Right?

他身边全是纵容他的人。

He's surrounded by enablers.

马克·斯特鲁斯说过，被皇帝的披风染成紫色，意思就是被权力同化了。

Mark Strouse would talk about being stained purple, right, being dyed purple by the cloak of the emperor.

当没人愿意给你真心话的时候，结果就是搞出个赛博卡车。

And, you know, when people won't give you honest feedback, I think, you know, you get the cyber truck.

对吧？

Right?

事情就是这么发展的。

That's what happens.

就像我在《智慧之书》里说的，我觉得马斯克把自己的脑子搞坏了。

So as I talk about in the wisdom book, I think Elon Musk broke his brain.

他以前那么聪明。

He was so smart.

他的脑子确实出问题了。

He broke his brain.

他花太多时间在推特上了。

He spent too much time on Twitter.

结果他没想着去戒瘾，反而把推特买下来，想把别人的脑子也搞坏。

And then instead of going like, oh, I gotta go to rehab for this, he bought Twitter and tried to break everyone else's brain.

所以这个曾经以第一性原理思考著称的人，现在却深信各种阴谋论和反犹主义。

And so this guy who was famously good at thinking from first principles now falls for, like, conspiracy theories and antisemitism.

你知道吗？沃尔特·艾萨克森在他写的传记里提到，马斯克说过：犯错没关系。

You know, he he he's quoted by Walter Isaacson in Isaacson's bio where he says, it's okay to be wrong.

只要别自信满满地犯错就行。

It's just don't be confident and wrong.

可现在呢？情况就是这样。

Well, here we are.

所以再说一遍，这里有个警示：你再聪明也没用。

And so so, again, the cautionary tale here is that you can be very smart.

事实上，聪明和智慧是两码事，就像权力和成功不等于美德一样。

And in fact, that intelligence is something distinct from wisdom just as power and success is distinct from virtue.

我不想多说了，但你看，这个人有钱、有名，成就也摆在这儿。

So I don't want to belabor this, but I think here we have a guy who's rich and famous and accomplishment.

可他自己也承认，要是别人知道他脑子里整天想些什么，根本不想跟他换位置。

But by his own admission, he says if anyone knew what it was like in his head, you would not want to be him.

你肯定不想跟他换位置。

You would not want to trade places.

他说，我的脑子就像一场风暴。

He says my mind is a storm.

我的脑子就像一场风暴。

My mind is a storm.

我觉得大多数人并不想成为我。

I don't think most people would want to be me.

他们也许以为自己想成为我，但实际上并不想。

They may think they would want to be me, but they don't.

他们根本不清楚。

They don't know.

他们完全不理解。

They don't understand.

他哥哥曾提到，他沉迷于戏剧性的情节。

His brother has talked about how he's addicted to drama.

这简直就是他人生的主旋律。

That's the theme of his life.

他总是跟人吵架，麻烦不断，情绪在极端的高点和低谷之间反复摇摆。

He is constantly fighting with people, constantly in trouble, constantly alternating between extreme highs and extreme lows.

他从来都没法放松一下。

He's never at leisure.

他哪有时间去见他那么一大帮亲戚呢？

He can't possibly have enough time to see his enormous family.

他怎么见得过来？

How would he?

再加上他后来政治上变得激进，就间接卷入了世界上各种糟糕的事——腐败、无能，全都有他的份。

And then because he got politically radicalized, he is complicit in all this horrible stuff that is happening in the world, the corruption and the incompetence.

至于那个爱泼斯坦的事，还有那个看起来像纳粹敬礼的举动，咱们就不细说了。

And look, don't have to get into the Epstein stuff, the thing that looked a lot like a Nazi salute.

而且咱们也不用非得去评判他。

And we don't have to judge either.

我们只是要意识到，若非上帝的恩典，我们每个人都有可能走上同样的路。

We just have to go, hey, there but for the grace of God go all of us.

对吧？

Right?

如果连这么聪明、勤奋又勇敢的人都会沦落至此，那谁都有可能。

If it can happen to someone who is that smart and that hardworking and that courageous, like it can happen to all of us.

所以斯多葛学派才会把伟人的生平拿出来反复审视。

That's why the Stoics put up the lives of the greats for review.

为的是在他们身上看到自己，发现自己的影子，从他人的经历中学习，而不是总靠自己撞得头破血流才明白。

To see ourselves in them, to see our own tendencies in them, to try to learn from the experiences of others instead of always by our own powerful trial and error.

我们既能从这些人的生命中学到值得借鉴的地方，也能看清哪些坑要避开。

And we can take good things from the lives of these people as well as the things to steer clear from.

没有人是纯粹的好人，也没有人是彻底的坏人。

No one is all good or all bad.

但当我们回顾一个人的一生时，更该问的是：我能从中吸取什么？有哪些道德上的启示？

But when we look at the life, we we wanna see, hey, what do I take away from what are the moral lessons?

不是他们在哪一天做了什么，而是从中学到什么才是好生活的真谛？

It's not they did this on this date, but what do I take away from that about what a good life looks like?

自私、为了节制而节制、自我膨胀和傲慢，会带来什么代价？

And what are the costs of selfishness and in moderation, risks sake, and ego and hubris?

这些会把我们引向哪里？

Where do they lead us?

它们会把我们引向这里。

They lead us here.

我们之所以要思考什么才是好生活，是因为人生只有一次。

And the reason we wanna think about what makes for a good life is that we only get one life.

斯多葛学派会说，我们在这世上不过短短一瞬。

We are only here for a very short amount of time, the Stoics would say.

半年一晃就过去了。

Like, a half a year is is dead and gone.

对吧？

Right?

已经过去了。

Dead and gone.

塞内加说，把死亡看成是未来的事是不对的。

Seneca say it's wrong think of death as something in the future.

死亡正在当下发生。

It's something that's happening right now.

他说，我们每分钟都在走向死亡。

He says we're dying every minute.

我们每天都在死去。

We are dying every day.

所以，我们把时间花在哪儿，我们忙些什么，我们是谁，我们想追求什么，这些都很重要。

So what we spend our time on, what we work on, who we are, what we are trying to do, this matters.

我们所花掉的时间，都是用生命在支付的。

What we are spending our time on is something we are paying for with our lives.