What one thing do you wish you had known about life when you were in your 20s?
你希望自己20多岁时知道关于生活的哪些事？
Dear Young Bill,
亲爱的比尔杨
1.Porn is Ruining Your Sex Life-So install a porn blocker and give Joey the Password。
1.A片会毁掉你的性生活，安装一个A片拦截器然后把密码给乔伊。
2.Life isn’t a Rom-Com-You aren’t going to marry Carol, stop trying to earn love, if a girl likes you awesome, if they don’t stop wasting your time.
2.生活不是一场浪漫的情感电影-你是要嫁给卡罗尔，不要尝试去获得爱，如果一个女孩喜欢你太棒了，如果女孩不停的浪费你的时间。
3.Your Parents Are Amazing -Call Them More
3.你爸妈很棒，经常打电话给他们
4.You’re Not Special -You make yourself special using two tools, discipline and courage.
4.你不是特殊的，你要用两种工具让自己特殊起来，纪律和勇气
5.Say No When You Want To -Learn to say no more. That’s how you focus, by saying no to distractions and people.
5.当想说不的时候说不，学会说不。那会让你保持专注，对分心的事物和人说不。
6.Stop Planning -You have these huge plans for your life. None of these plans work. Just pick the direction you want your life to go and cultivate skills that are going to make that journey easier.
6.停止计划，你的生活有很多的大计划，这些计划都没有起作用。选择你想让你生活到达的方向，培养将会是这个旅途很轻松的技能。
7.Laugh at Being Jealous -You get jealous a lot, it’s not a big deal. When you do get jealous, say what you’re upset about out loud and start laughing. It will make you feel better and it stops you from taking yourself so seriously.
7.笑对嫉妒，你肯定会嫉妒，没什么大不了的。当你有些嫉妒时，把你不爽的地方大声说出来，然后笑给自己看。这会让你感觉好些，不会再把自己的嫉妒看的太认真。
8.Don’t be Afraid of Being Alone -Time alone isn’t something to run away from it is to be cherished. So work on those novels and screenplays, go to the gym and read books -don’t cry, cultivate skills.
8.不要害怕孤单，珍视孤单的时间而不是逃避它。把时间放在小说和剧本上，去健身房和看书，不要大叫，培养技能。
9.Stop Drinking -I know blasphemous, but when you’re 24 you quit drinking and you’re able to have even more fun when you go out to party and you save a lot of time not being hungover.
9.不要醉酒，我知道有点不尊重，当你24岁的时候停止喝酒，当你去派对上可以省好多时间找到快乐而不是直接喝多了。
10.Work-Out -In the future you’re really muscular, part of what’s keeping you from going to the gym now is that you think you can’t put on muscle, you can, so start lifting.
10.锻炼身体，未来你一定会很强壮，你不去健身房健身的部分原因是你觉得自己不会增长肌肉的，你能的，所以开始举重锻炼吧。
11.Listen to Audiobooks When You Drive and Walk -You waste a lot of time listening to the same songs, over and over again. Listen to audiobooks, you’ll learn a lot and sound smarter.
11.当你开车或走路时，听听有声书-你花了太多的时间挺相同的歌曲，一次又一次的。听听有声书，你会学到很多的。
12.Learn the Rules of Life -Look at life as it is not as you wish it to be.
There are unspoken rules in life, find out what they are and make them work in your favor. This means reading self-development books about relationships, discipline, mastery, economics and body language. Also talk to your Dad more (See #3) because he’s unbelievably wise and you’re unbelievably foolish.
12.领会生活的法则。看待生活并不如你所愿。生活中有很多不言而喻的法则，找到它们，让其帮助自己。意味着看一些自我提升的书，关于经验，精通，经济和肢体语言的。可以多和老爸聊聊，因为他们可能很睿智，而你非常的蠢。
13.Take One Risk a Day- These risks should be to make you better not worse (This isn’t a license to drive drunk), so email CEO’s and talk to pretty girls, you’d be surprised how much doing stuff like this will impact your life.
13.每日一个挑战，这些挑战应该是让你变得更好的而不是更糟糕的（比如去酒驾），比如给CEO发邮件，和漂亮的女生说话，你会惊喜的发现这些挑战会对你的生活产生巨大的影响。
Bill your life turns out great, and you are on a path for success, but if you did these things earlier, you would have enjoyed life more along the way. These things will not only make you more successful, they will make you happier while striving for success.
给你的人生定个目标也很棒，你会通往成功的道路，如果你能提早做这些事，你会更加享受自己的人生。这些事不但会使你更加成功，也会让你为成功而奋斗的过程更快乐。
原文作者及出处：William Beteet, from Quora
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