翻译这篇文，是因小六老师在群中发了这篇文的英文链接。当时大致看了下，把一点看法说了出来，于是得到让我翻这篇文的光荣任务哈~
草草翻译，不够严谨，仅供参阅。
Post Mortem on the Dan Plan
丹计划的事后分析
May. 27, 2016 By Michael C. Hepp
Sadly, the Dan Plan is over. I analyze what happened and what we can learn from one man's adventure.
丹计划结束了，真让人遗憾。我分析这其中的原因以及我们能从他的冒险中学到什么。
As a child I can remember wanting to be a professional baseball player. My mom told me that being a professional athlete was hard. Really hard. She told me to imagine filling a football stadium full of kids my age, and then selecting the one kid who was going to be a professional baseball player. The rest of us… we were going to be doing something else.
记得我小时候想成为一名职业棒球运动员。我的妈妈告诉我，成为职业运动员很难，非常难。她让我想象一下，一个足球运动场站满了我这样年纪的孩子，但只有一个可能成为职业棒球运动员的孩子被挑选走，剩下的孩子，只能做别的事。
Dear mom was merely helping me set proper expectations. I know it is unpopular now to tell your kids that they can't achieve their dreams. I see other parents telling their children that they can do anything they put their mind to. I get it. We are supposed to be supportive. Trophies for everyone!
我的妈妈只是帮我设定合适的目标。我知道，告诉你们的孩子，他们的梦想不能实现，一定会很不受欢迎。我看到其他一些父母，告诉他们的孩子，他们可以做到任何他们想做的事情。我明白，我们应该持支持的态度，人人都应该获得这样的鼓励。
You can read on the TST forum around once month some young kid will come on saying he wants to be a professional golfer. Most people say "follow your dreams," some will say "good luck," and one or two members will say something similar to what my mom said. A few years ago someone recommended to one of these hopeful people that they read The Talent Code. So I did. The author suggests that greatness isn't born, but rather expertise is earned through hard work. I thoroughly enjoyed the book.
每个月，你都可以在TST论坛看到，一些年轻的孩子说他们想成为一名职业高尔夫球手。大部分人会说，“追随你的梦想”另一些人会说，“祝你好运”，只有一两个人会说些类似于我妈妈曾经对我说过的话。几年前，有人向这些满怀希望的人推荐他们阅读《天才密码》（一万小时天才理论）。所以我也读了。作者认为伟大不是天生的，而是通过努力获得的。我非常喜欢这本书。
So when I first heard about the The Dan Plan, I was immediately attracted to the idea. One of the main tenants of The Talent Code is the ten thousand hour theory. Dan was going to test it. Perfect.
所以，当我第一次听到丹计划，我立即被他的想法吸引了。《天才密码》其中主要的一个观点是一万小时天才理论。丹打算试一下。很酷！
As Dan started, I followed dutifully. I read every blog post and followed his every move. He made movies, and I watched all of them. He did an interview, and I read it. I studied him intently. In a way, he was living a dream that I myself would have loved to try.
当丹开始他的计划，我便持续跟进。我读了他的每一篇博客，并注意他的一举一动。他拍的电影，我都看了。关于他的采访，我也读了。我很专注的研究他。在某种程度上，他在做一个我极想尝试的梦。
But after a few months and watching him on his journey I began to question what he was doing. Learning the game myself I saw him making some of the mistakes that I had made when I was first learning the game. This is was extremely concerning because as anyone in golf will tell you, once you start making mistakes and ingraining them into your muscle memory it is going to take you double the time to unlearn it and put the right stuff in there.
但几个月后在看他的历程时，我对他在做的事情开始有了疑问。我自己学习高尔夫，我看到他犯了一些我初学时犯的错误。这是极其令人担忧的，因为任何学高尔夫的人都会告诉你，一旦你开始了错误的练习并形成了肌肉记忆，你将要花双倍的时间去忘记它，再形成正确的记忆。
He started bouncing around instructors and posting swings that looked like he was not progressing as I would have hoped. Then as I looked deeper I could not find any information on what he was doing for deliberate practice. Some gym work, hitting balls, but nothing specific about what his practice routine was. I began to become disenfranchised.
他开始在教练身边蹦跳、摇摆，看起来没有我所希望的进步。当我进一步细看，却没有发现任何信息，说明他在进行刻意练习。他做了一些健身练习，击球，但没有任何清晰的练习路线图。我开始觉得不妙。
As an engineer I felt his process for improving was a mess. I began to worry that at the conclusion of the Dan Plan were not going to be able to determine anything about the ten-thousand-hour theory. No conclusion, nothing. The investment of my time to follow him was going to be wasted.
作为一个工程师，我觉得他的改进过程一团糟。我开始担心丹计划的结论不能验证一万小时理论的任何一点。什么结论都不会有。我跟着他投入的时间被浪费了。
During this time I moved to the Portland area and got the chance to interview Dan. I learned a few things during that interview. One, Dan is a really nice guy. Two, Dan is an artist by trade, and views the world differently than me. He really viewed the Dan Plan as a "meta" experience. Three, he was not going to a professional golfer if he didn't seek a knowledgeable person, and would probably not even wind up a better golfer than me. That last thing I kept to myself until just now.
在这期间，我搬到波特兰地区，得到了采访丹的机会。我从采访中了解到了一些事。第一，丹是个很不错的人。第二，丹是个艺术家，有着不同与我的世界观。他把丹计划看作是一次“元”体验。第三，如果他找不到一个好的老师，他不打算做一个职业高尔夫球手，甚至最后球技水平还不一定比我高。
最后一点我一直保密至今。
Oh, Dan had the chance to surpass me. But he would have needed to do it under the watchful eye of someone smart. Someone who could, every day, teach him the things he needed to work on to get better. Sadly in golf the number of such people is pretty small. Yes, there are thousands of teaching professionals, but most of them are not the smart ones I am talking about. This is of the major problems facing golf right now.
丹有机会超越我，但他需要在一个聪明的人教他。一个每天能教他一些能够使他变得更好的人。很遗憾，高尔夫行业里面这样的人比较少。诚然，那里有成千上万的专业教练，但大部分都不是我所说的那种聪明。这是高尔夫行业当今所面对的主要问题。
In order to grow the game it must be addressed. The golfing bodies that be want to regulate how you hold your putter, roll back the ball, these things are focused on the wrong thing. Improve golf instruction, so people get better faster. Use the knowledge of the smart people who are out there and change the way golf professionals are taught. Stop making them take classes on how to fold a shirt in the pro shop and start teaching them to make golfers get better faster.
要继续下去，这个问题必须得以解决。打高尔夫时调节推杆、把球滚回的身体姿态，聚焦于这些事情都是错误的。改善高尔夫教学，让人们打的又快又好。用聪明人的知识，改变高尔夫的教学方式。不要再让他们在球具店学习如何折叠衬衫，而是教他们更好更快的打球。
In fairness, I see some steps in the right direction. But more progress must be made.
Now we have learned that the Dan Plan is over. Dan has moved on to selling soda. Fine. He needs to make a living. Go forth and be happy.
But if Dan leaves his "Plan" like it is now, we've gained nothing. We don't know anything more about the ten-thousand-hour theory than we did before. I doubt Dan will do any kind of post-mortem as it really isn't his style. He will say that he wants to focus on the positive and to keep looking forward. But, in failing, I believe that Dan has brought one of the major problems facing golf to the forefront. How people learn to play the game is broken and it needs to be fixed.
公平的说，我看到了一点正确的方向，但必须得取得更多的进步。现在我得知丹计划结束了。他现在改去卖苏打水了。是的，他需要生活，向前看并让自己开心。
但丹现在结束他的“计划“，我们什么也没有得到。我们对一万小时理论的了解，仍然和以前一样。我不认为丹会进行事后检讨，这不是他的风格。他会说，他更看重积极性和不断向前看。但通过这次失败，我认为丹已经把高尔夫面临的最前沿的主要问题之一带入人们的视线。人们如何学习玩高尔夫球的计划破碎了，它需要被修正。
原文链接：https://thesandtrap.com/b/thrash_talk/post_mortem_on_the_dan_plan?winzoom=1
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