原文标题：Relax for the same result
原文作者：Derek Sivers
【译文】by Yammy
放轻松，也可以得到一样的结果
几年前，我住在加州的圣莫尼卡的一个海滩边。
那里有一条很不错的沿着海边的自行车绿道，单程7.5英里，一个来回15英里。
平时下午，这里几乎没人，非常适合来一场完美的全速骑行。
所以每周几次，我会骑上我的自行车，用尽可能快的速度，完成一次15英里的来回骑行。我的意思是百分百的的全力以赴，微低着头，鼓着红脸，全力冲刺。
最后的结果是我累到不行，这时看看时间，43分钟。
每次都差不多，也许在某一个有风天，会多花一分钟，但基本上总是43分钟。
几个月后，我注意到我对这个骑行的热情越来越少。
我觉得很可能是因为我的大脑已经把这件事跟精疲力尽画上了等号。
所以后来有一天，我决定同样的行程，但轻松一点。放轻松，慢慢的，好好地。
这次确实超级慢，跟以前相比，节省了大概50％的体力。
啊！多美好的一次骑行啊！
我很放松，面带微笑，尽情欣赏四周的美景。不像以前一样涨红着脸，我甚至几乎没费什么劲。
当时，我在水里看到两只海豚，正当我抬头张嘴“哇！”的赞叹一声的时候，刚好有一只鹈鹕从我右侧飞过来，把排泄物拉在了我的嘴里。我到现在还记得那种消化了的贝类的味道。我不得不苦笑，面对这样的新奇。
我通常是这样的，很拼命，很努力，总是尽我所能的干活。放松一次没问题。我觉得我可以永远这样做，没有任何疲惫。
说回这次骑行，当我完成时，我顺便看了看时间， 45分钟。
什么？！？这怎么可能？
是的，我又仔细检查了一遍，确实是45分钟，之前是43分钟。
这很显然，所有以前那个疲惫不堪，涨红着脸，全力以赴，拼命冲刺的我，只不过是给了自己一个4％的提升。
我完全可以很轻松地，获得那96％的结果。
这件事情，在经验上，有巨大的区别：
相同的时间，同样的距离，一种方式让我疲惫不堪，另一种方式让我精力充沛。
这件事对我来说感触很深，我常常会想到它。
当我注意到我被一些东西压抑着，或者我已经拼命到疲惫了，我就会想起那个骑行的经历，然后我就会尝试去保留住50％的精力。
从此之后，令人惊讶的是，每一件事情最后我都是又快又好地完成，最后就像只用了50％的精力一样。
最终，我意识到：
我之前的拼命努力显然并不是真正的努力，反而给我额外的附加了无效的压力，以至于让我产生了这样拼命做就能做到最好的幻觉。
以下是英文原文：
Relax for the same result
By Derek Sivers
A few years ago, I lived in Santa Monica, California, right on the beach.
There’s a great bike path that goes along the ocean for 7½ miles. So, 15 miles round trip.
On weekday afternoons, it’s almost empty. It’s perfect for going full-speed.
So a few times a week, I’d get on my bike and go as fast as I could for the 15 mile loop. I mean really full-on, 100%, head-down, red-faced, sprinting.
I’d finish exhausted, and look at the time. 43 minutes. Every time. Maybe a minute more on a really windy day. But basically always 43 minutes.
After a few months, I noticed I was getting less enthusiastic about this bike ride. I think had mentally linked it with being completely exhausted.
So one day I decided I would do the same ride, but just chill. Take it easy, nice and slow. OK not super-slow, but dialing it back to about 50% of my usual effort.
And ahhh.... What a fun ride. I was relaxed, and smiling, and looking around. Not red-faced. I was barely giving it any effort.
I saw two dolphins in the water. A pelican flew right over me in Marina del Rey. When I looked up to say “wow!”, he shit in my mouth. I can still remember that taste of digested shellfish. I had to laugh at the novelty of it.
I’m usually so damn driven, always doing everything as intensely as I can. It was so nice to take it easy for once. I felt I could do this forever, without any exhaustion.
When I finished, I looked at the time. 45 minutes.
What?!? How could that be? Yep. I double-checked. 45 minutes, as compared to my usual 43.
So apparently all of that exhausting, red-faced, full-on push-push-push I had been doing only gave me a 4% boost.
I could just take it easy, and get 96% of the results.
And what a difference in experience! To go the same distance, in about the same time, but one way leaves me exhausted, and the other way rejeuvenated.
This was really profound for me, and I think of it often.
When I notice I’m all stressed-out about something, or driving myself to exhaustion, I remember that bike ride, and try dialing back my effort by 50%.
It’s been amazing how often everything gets done just as well and just as fast, with what feels like 50% of the effort.
Which, of course, makes me realize that much of my effort apparently wasn’t effort at all, but just ineffective stress added on top of something to make it feel like I’m doing the best I can.
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