此文雖然有了多箇中文版本，還是想重新翻譯一次，算是精讀。
今天是我的生日。我已經 70 歲了。到目前爲止，我學到了一些可能對其他人有幫助的東西。在過去的幾年裏，我每年都會記下一些不請自來的建議，令我驚訝的是，今年我還有更多要補充的東西。所以這是我給大家的生日禮物：103 條我希望我年輕時就知道的人生智慧。
1-10
• About 99% of the time, the right time is right now.
大約99%的時候，最佳時機就是現在。
• No one is as impressed with your possessions as you are.
沒有人像你一樣對你的資產印象深刻。
• Dont ever work for someone you dont want to become.
永遠不要爲你不想成爲的人工作。
• Cultivate 12 people who love you, because they are worth more than 12 million people who like you.
用心滋養12個愛你的人，因爲他們比1200萬喜歡你的人更有價值。
• Dont keep making the same mistakes; try to make new mistakes.
不要一直犯同樣的錯誤；嘗試犯些新的錯誤。
• If you stop to listen to a musician or street performer for more than a minute, you owe them a dollar.
如果你停下來聽一個音樂家或街頭藝人表演超過一分鐘，你就欠他們一美元.
• Anything you say before the word “but” does not count.
你在“但是”這個詞之前說的任何話都不算數。
• When you forgive others, they may not notice, but you will heal. Forgiveness is not something we do for others; it is a gift to ourselves.
當寬恕他人時，對方可能不會注意到，但你會被治癒。寬恕不是我們爲他人做的事；而是給自己的禮物。
• Courtesy costs nothing. Lower the toilet seat after use. Let the people in the elevator exit before you enter. Return shopping carts to their designated areas. When you borrow something, return it better shape (filled up, cleaned) than when you got it.
體面並不需要花錢：（男士）如廁後放下馬桶圈；讓電梯裏的人先出來，你再進去；把購物車放回指定區域；當你借東西的時候，歸還的時候要比你得到的時候更好（填滿，更清潔）。
• Whenever there is an argument between two sides, find the third side.
每當發生兩個觀點的爭執時，找到第三種觀點。
11-20
• Efficiency is highly overrated; Goofing off is highly underrated. Regularly scheduled sabbaths, sabbaticals, vacations, breaks, aimless walks and time off are essential for top performance of any kind. The best work ethic requires a good rest ethic.
高效被過度強調了，而無所事事放空休閒的重要性則被嚴重低估了。定期的週日安息、職業年假、度假出遊、工作日中的茶歇、漫無目的的散步和遠離工作的時間，對任何領域想獲得頂級成就都極其重要。最好的職業道德要求良好的休息道德。
• When you lead, your real job is to create more leaders, not more followers.
真正的領導力，是塑造更多的領導者，而不是更多的追隨者.
• Criticize in private, praise in public.
批評人要在私下，表揚人要儘可能公開。
• Life lessons will be presented to you in the order they are needed. Everything you need to master the lesson is within you. Once you have truly learned a lesson, you will be presented with the next one. If you are alive, that means you still have lessons to learn.
人生功課會按照你需要的順序到來。而且你已經掌握精通此門功課所需要的一切。一旦你真正掌握了一門功課，你就會得到下一個。只要生命在繼續，那也意味着持續的功課.
• It is the duty of a student to get everything out of a teacher, and the duty of a teacher to get everything out of a student.
從老師那裏學到一切是學生的責任，充分激發學生的潛能也是老師的責任
• If winning becomes too important in a game, change the rules to make it more fun. Changing rules can become the new game.
在一場比賽中如果輸贏變得太過重要，就應該改變規則，使其變得更加有趣。改變規則後可以成爲新的遊戲。
• Ask funders for money, and they’ll give you advice; but ask for advice and they’ll give you money.
向投資人籌款，他們會給你建議；但向他們諮詢建議，他們會給你金錢。
• Productivity is often a distraction. Don’t aim for better ways to get through your tasks as quickly as possible, rather aim for better tasks that you never want to stop doing.
對效率的追求往往會分散注意力。不要總想着尋找可以快速完成任務的方法，而應該尋找你永遠不想停下手的任務。
• Immediately pay what you owe to vendors, workers, contractors. They will go out of their way to work with you first next time.
立即支付您欠供應商、工人、承包商的款項。下次他們會不遺餘力地與您合作，像第一次合作一樣。
• The biggest lie we tell ourselves is “I dont need to write this down because I will remember it.”
我們對自己撒的最大謊言是 "這不需要寫下來，我能記得住"。
21-30
• Your growth as a conscious being is measured by the number of uncomfortable conversations you are willing to have.
作爲一個有意識的人，你的成長是由你樂意進行的不愉快對話的數量來衡量的。
• Speak confidently as if you are right, but listen carefully as if you are wrong.
以“我是對的”那樣充滿自信地講話，但要以“我是錯的”那樣去聆聽。
• Handy measure: the distance between your fingertips of your outstretched arms at shoulder level is your height.
方便的測量方法：你伸開的手臂與肩膀水平的指尖之間的距離就是你的身高。
• The consistency of your endeavors (exercise, companionship, work) is more important than the quantity. Nothing beats small things done every day, which is way more important than what you do occasionally.
你努力（鍛鍊、陪伴、工作）的持續性比數量更重要。沒有什麼比每天堅持做一點小事更重要的了，這比你偶爾做的大事更重要。
• Making art is not selfish; it’s for the rest of us. If you don’t do your thing, you are cheating us.
創造藝術不是自私的；這是給我們其他人的。如果你不做你自己的事，那就是在欺騙我們。
• Never ask a woman if she is pregnant. Let her tell you if she is.
永遠不要問一位女士是否懷孕了，需要讓她自己說出來。
• Three things you need: The ability to not give up something till it works, the ability to give up something that does not work, and the trust in other people to help you distinguish between the two.
人需要三項很重要的能力：堅持不放棄直至成功的能力，能夠放棄不對的事情的能力，以及能夠無條件信任能幫助你鑑別上述兩種情況他人的能力。
• When public speaking, pause frequently. Pause before you say something in a new way, pause after you have said something you believe is important, and pause as a relief to let listeners absorb details.
公開演講時，要經常停頓。在你用新的方式說某事之前停頓一下，在你說了你認爲重要的事情之後停頓一下，然後刻意製造停頓，讓聽衆吸收細節。
• There is no such thing as being “on time.” You are either late or you are early. Your choice.
沒有所謂的 "準時 "之說。你要麼遲到，要麼提前。你別無選擇。
• Ask anyone you admire: Their lucky breaks happened on a detour from their main goal. So embrace detours. Life is not a straight line for anyone.
問問你欽佩的任何人：堪稱幸運的突破和轉機，常發生在偏離主要目標的小道上。所以，請擁抱“偏離”。對任何人來說，生活都不是一條直線。
31-40
• The best way to get a correct answer on the internet is to post an obviously wrong answer and wait for someone to correct you.
在互聯網上獲得正確答案的最好方法是發佈一個明顯錯誤的答案，並等待有人來糾正你。
• You’ll get 10x better results by elevating good behavior rather than punishing bad behavior, especially in children and animals.
想要得到10倍好的結果，應該通過表揚好的行爲而不是懲罰壞的行爲。這在兒童和動物教育身上尤其明顯。
• Spend as much time crafting the subject line of an email as the message itself because the subject line is often the only thing people read.
儘量用心地修改電子郵件的標題，像對比郵件內容一樣，因爲這往往是人們唯一會看的內容。
• Don’t wait for the storm to pass; dance in the rain.
不要等待暴風雨過去，在雨中起舞吧。
• When checking references for a job applicant, employers may be reluctant or prohibited from saying anything negative, so leave or send a message that says, “Get back to me if you highly recommend this applicant as super great.” If they don’t reply take that as a negative.
做求職者的背景調查時，原僱主可能不願意或被禁止說任何負面的東西，所以，應發送這樣的調查信息："如果您強烈認爲這位求職者極其出色，請給我回郵件。" 如果他們不回覆，就當作是對候選人的否定。
• Use a password manager: Safer, easier, better.
使用密碼管理器吧：更安全、更簡單、更美好。
• Half the skill of being educated is learning what you can ignore.
接受教育需要掌握的技能有一半是學會哪些東西你可以忽略。
• The advantage of a ridiculously ambitious goal is that it sets the bar very high so even in failure it may be a success measured by the ordinary.
一個荒謬的雄心勃勃的目標的優點是它設定了很高的標準，所以即使失敗了，也可能已經是常規意義上的成功。
• A great way to understand yourself is to seriously reflect on everything you find irritating in others.
瞭解自己的一個好辦法，是認真地思考你發現的他人身上讓你討厭的東西。
• Keep all your things visible in a hotel room, not in drawers, and all gathered into one spot. That way you’ll never leave anything behind. If you need to have something like a charger off to the side, place a couple of other large items next to it, because you are less likely to leave 3 items behind than just one.
住酒店時，把所有的東西都放在顯眼的地方，不要放在抽屜裏，全部集中到一個地方。這樣你就不會落下任何東西。如果你需要把充電器之類的東西放在一邊，在它旁邊放幾件其他的大件物品，你落下三樣東西的可能性比落下一件要小很多。
41-50
• Denying or deflecting a compliment is rude. Accept it with thanks, even if you believe it is not deserved.
否認或迴避讚美很不禮貌。即使你認爲自己並不值得，也應接心懷感激。
• Always read the plaque next to the monument.
總是閱讀紀念碑旁邊的牌匾。
• When you have some success, the feeling of being an imposter can be real. Who am I fooling? But when you create things that only you — with your unique talents and experience — can do, then you are absolutely not an imposter. You are the ordained. It is your duty to work on things that only you can do.
當獲得一些成功時，你很可能會犯“頂替者綜合症”（覺得自己名不副實）。“我在愚弄誰呢？” 但當你創造出只有你--以你獨特的才能和經驗--才能創造的事物時，那你絕不是頂替者。持續去做只有你才能做出來的事情吧，這是你的使命。
• What you do on your bad days matters more than what you do on your good days.
在逆境中你的所爲，比在順境中你的行爲，更重要。
• Make stuff that is good for people to have.
去做對他人有價值的東西。
• When you open paint, even a tiny bit, it will always find its way to your clothes no matter how careful you are. Dress accordingly.
當你打開一瓶顏料時，無論你多麼小心，它總能濺到你的衣服上，哪怕是一點點。根據這個原則對待自己的着裝。
• To keep young kids behaving on a car road trip, have a bag of their favorite candy and throw a piece out the window each time they misbehave.
想讓小孩子在汽車旅行中表現良好，可以準備一袋他們喜歡的糖果，當他/她不乖時，就向窗外扔掉一塊糖。
• You cannot get smart people to work extremely hard just for money.
你永遠沒辦法讓聰明人僅僅爲了錢而拼命工作。
• When you don’t know how much to pay someone for a particular task, ask them “what would be fair” and their answer usually is.
當您不知道爲某項特定任務付給某人多少錢時，問他們“什麼是公平的”，他們的回答通常是你需要的答案。
• 90% of everything is crap. If you think you don’t like opera, romance novels, TikTok, country music, vegan food, NFTs, keep trying to see if you can find the 10% that is not crap.
這世上90%的東西都沒價值。如果你覺得你不喜歡歌劇、言情小說、TikTok、鄉村音樂、素食、NFT，繼續嘗試，看你是否能找到於你而言，有價值的那10%。
51-60
• You will be judged on how well you treat those who can do nothing for you.
評判你的標準是你如何對待那些對你沒有價值的人。
• We tend to overestimate what we can do in a day, and underestimate what we can achieve in a decade. Miraculous things can be accomplished if you give it ten years. A long game will compound small gains to overcome even big mistakes.
我們往往高估我們一天能做什麼，而低估我們十年能實現什麼。如果你給它十年的時間，奇蹟般的事情是可以達到的。一場漫長的比賽會持續積累小的收穫，甚至以此克服巨大的錯誤。
• Thank a teacher who changed your life.
感謝改變了你生活的那位老師。
• You cant reason someone out of a notion that they didn’t reason themselves into.
你無法用一個他們沒有說服自己的想法（概念、體系）來說服他人。
• Your best job will be one that you were unqualified for because it stretches you. In fact only apply to jobs you are unqualified for.
最好的工作是你不能勝任的工作，因爲它會最大限度擴展你的能力。其實人應該只申請你不能勝任的工作。
• Buy used books. They have the same words as the new ones. Also libraries.
買二手書吧。和（更貴的）新書、以及圖書館（裏的書）字都一樣。
• You can be whatever you want, so be the person who ends meetings early.
你能做任何你想做的事——所以，做一個提前結束會議的人。
• A wise man said, “Before you speak, let your words pass through three gates. At the first gate, ask yourself, “Is it true?” At the second gate ask, “Is it necessary?” At the third gate ask, “Is it kind?”
智者雲：“話說出口之前，請三省自問。第一層自問，“它是真的嗎？”，第二層自問：“有必要說麼？”第三層自問：“是出於善意的麼？”
• Take the stairs.
儘可能走樓梯。
• What you actually pay for something is at least twice the listed price because of the energy, time, money needed to set it up, learn, maintain, repair, and dispose of at the end. Not all prices appear on labels. Actual costs are 2x listed prices.
人爲某樣東西實際支付的成本至少是標價的兩倍，因爲買來後設置、學習、維護、修理，以及最後處置，也需要耗費精力、時間和錢。不是所有的實際成本都在價簽上。實際成本是標價的2倍。
61-70
• When you arrive at your room in a hotel, locate the emergency exits. It only takes a minute.
進入酒店房間第一件事，先查看緊急出口。只需要花一分鐘時間。
• The only productive way to answer “what should I do now?” is to first tackle the question of “who should I become?”
回答 "我現在應該做什麼？"的唯一有效的方式是首先回答 "我想成爲誰？"。
• Average returns sustained over an above-average period of time yield extraordinary results. Buy and hold.
即使是表現平平的資產，在高於平均的時長內持有，也會產生非凡的回報。買入並持有吧。
• It’s thrilling to be extremely polite to rude strangers.
對粗魯的陌生人非常有禮貌是令人興奮的。
• It’s possible that a not-so smart person, who can communicate well, can do much better than a super smart person who can’t communicate well. That is good news because it is much easier to improve your communication skills than your intelligence.
一個不太聰明但溝通能力不錯的人，可能會比一個超級聰明但溝通能力欠缺的人更成功。這是個好消息，因爲提高溝通能力的提高，比智商的提高要容易得多。
• Getting cheated occasionally is the small price for trusting the best of everyone, because when you trust the best in others, they generally treat you best.
總是去信任他人身上的閃光點，因爲看到他人閃光點且信任的人，也常收穫他人對你的好。偶爾被騙只是伴隨的小代價。
• Art is whatever you can get away with.
任意能讓你脫離現實的避風港，都是藝術。
• For the best results with your children, spend only half the money you think you should, but double the time with them.
在孩子身上獲得最好的收穫，請只花你預算的一半的錢，但花雙倍的時間陪伴他們。
• Purchase the most recent tourist guidebook to your home town or region. You’ll learn a lot by playing the tourist once a year.
購買您家鄉或地區的最新旅遊指南。通過每年"扮演"一次遊客，你會學到很多東西。
• Dont wait in line to eat something famous. It is rarely worth the wait.
不要爲網紅食物排隊。它常常不值得花費的時間。
71-80
• To rapidly reveal the true character of a person you just met, move them onto an abysmally slow internet connection. Observe.
想要迅速瞭解剛認識的人的真實性格，可以給他們一個超級慢的網絡。觀察他的表現。
• Prescription for popular success: do something strange. Make a habit of your weird.
世俗成功的奧祕：做一些奇怪的事情。養成你古怪行爲的習慣。
• Be a pro. Back up your back up. Have at least one physical backup and one backup in the cloud. Have more than one of each. How much would you pay to retrieve all your data, photos, notes, if you lost them? Backups are cheap compared to regrets.
專業點！對一切數據進行冗餘備份，至少要有一個物理硬盤備份和一個雲端備份。每個備份都要多於一個。想想要是你弄丟了所有數據、照片、筆記，得花多少錢來找回它們？與遺憾相比，備份很便宜。
• Dont believe everything you think you believe.
不要相信你認爲自己相信的一切。
• To signal an emergency, use the rule of three; 3 shouts, 3 horn blasts, or 3 whistles.
發出一個緊急信號，要使用“三”法則；三次呼喊、三聲喇叭或三聲哨聲。
• At a restaurant do you order what you know is great, or do you try something new? Do you make what you know will sell or try something new? Do you keep dating new folks or try to commit to someone you already met? The optimal balance for exploring new things vs exploiting them once found is: 1/3. Spend 1/3 of your time on exploring and 2/3 time on deepening. It is harder to devote time to exploring as you age because it seems unproductive, but aim for 1/3.
在餐廳，您會點自己認爲很棒的東西，還是嘗試新的東西？你做你知道會大賣的東西還是嘗試新的東西？您是否繼續與新朋友約會或嘗試向您已經認識的人做出承諾？探索新事物與最大化收穫已有事物的最佳平衡是：1/3。將 1/3 的時間用於探索，2/3 的時間用於深化。隨着年齡的增長，更難花時間去探索，因爲它似乎沒有成效，但請將比例維持在 1/3。
• Actual great opportunities do not have “Great Opportunities” in the subject line.
實際的好機會不會在主題欄中出現 "我的好機會"的標籤。
• When introduced to someone make eye contact and count to 4. You’ll both remember each other.
當被介紹給某人時，要有眼神接觸並數到4，你們都會記住對方。
• Take note if you find yourself wondering “Where is my good knife? Or, where is my good pen?” That means you have bad ones. Get rid of those.
如果你發現自己在想 "咦，我的好刀呢？”或者“我的好筆在哪裏？" 這意味着你有的是壞的東西。把壞的扔掉吧。
• When you are stuck, explain your problem to others. Often simply laying out a problem will present a solution. Make “explaining the problem” part of your troubleshooting process.
當陷入困境時，向別人解釋你遇到的問題。通常情況下，僅僅是把問題描述出來，就會呈現出一個解決方案。讓 "描述問題 "成爲你排除故障的一個固定流程。
81-90
• When buying a garden hose, an extension cord, or a ladder, get one substantially longer than you think you need. It’ll be the right size.
買水管、延長線或梯子時，買比你認爲需要的長得多的。那纔會是正確的尺寸。
• Dont bother fighting the old; just build the new.
別費勁去折騰舊事物了。建立新的吧。
• Your group can achieve great things way beyond your means simply by showing people that they are appreciated.
你的團隊可以取得超出你能力範圍的偉大成就。只要簡單向小夥伴們表達感恩，珍視大家的付出。
• When someone tells you about the peak year of human history, the period of time when things were good before things went downhill, it will always be the years of when they were 10 years old — which is the peak of any human’s existence.
當有人和你講人類歷史的巔峯輝煌之年，即事情走下坡路之前的那段時期，你發現好像總是他們10歲的時候--這是任何人類存在的高峯。
• You are as big as the things that make you angry.
你和讓你生氣的事情一樣大。
• When speaking to an audience it’s better to fix your gaze on a few people than to “spray” your gaze across the room. Your eyes telegraph to others whether you really believe what you are saying.
在面向聽衆講話時，將目光固定在幾個人身上比將目光 "掃射 "到整個房間更好。你的眼睛會向別人傳達你的堅信。
• Habit is far more dependable than inspiration. Make progress by making habits. Dont focus on getting into shape. Focus on becoming the kind of person who never misses a workout.
習慣比靈感要可靠得多。通過養成習慣來取得進步。不要把注意力放在塑身上。專注於成爲那種從不錯過鍛鍊的人。
• When negotiating, dont aim for a bigger piece of the pie; aim to create a bigger pie.
談判時，勿以搶更大份的蛋糕爲目標；以做一個更大的蛋糕爲目標。
• If you repeated what you did today 365 more times will you be where you want to be next year?
若你把今天所做的事情再重複365次，明年你會獲得你想要獲得的嗎？
• You see only 2% of another person, and they see only 2% of you. Attune yourselves to the hidden 98%.
你只能看到別人的2%，他們看你也是如此。圍繞自己那隱藏的98%（真正的本性）去展開生活。
91-100
• Your time and space are limited. Remove, give away, throw out things in your life that dont spark joy any longer in order to make room for those that do.
你的時間和空間都是有限的。移除、放棄、扔掉生活裏那些不再能激發愉悅的東西，爲那些能激發快樂的新事物騰出空間。
• Our descendants will achieve things that will amaze us, yet a portion of what they will create could have been made with today’s materials and tools if we had had the imagination. Think bigger.
人類的一代代後代，將取得令我們驚訝的成就，然而如果我們有想象力，未來的他們將會創造的一部分東西，已經可以用今天現有的材料和工具來製造。展開暢想吧。
• For a great payoff be especially curious about the things you are not interested in.
爲了獲得巨大的回報，對你不感興趣的事情也應足夠好奇。
• Focus on directions rather than destinations. Who knows their destiny? But maintain the right direction and you’ll arrive at where you want to go.
專注於方向而不是目的地。誰能知曉自己的命運？但保持正確的方向，你就定會到達你想去的地方。
• Every breakthrough is at first laughable and ridiculous. In fact if it did not start out laughable and ridiculous, it is not a breakthrough.
每一項偉大突破最開始都是可笑的、荒謬的。事實上，如果它一開始不是可笑和荒謬的，就不是突破。
• If you loan someone $20 and you never see them again because they are avoiding paying you back, that makes it worth $20.
如果你借給某人20 美元，之後再也見不到他們還回來，那這人就值 20 美元。
• Copying others is a good way to start. Copying yourself is a disappointing way to end.
借鑑他人是一種好的開始方法。抄襲自己則是一個令人失望的結束方式。
• The best time to negotiate your salary for a new job is the moment AFTER they say they want you, and not before. Then it becomes a game of chicken for each side to name an amount first, but it is to your advantage to get them to give a number before you do.
爲一份新工作談判薪水的最佳時機是在他們說想要你之後，而不是之前。然後，雙方先說出一個數字就變成了一場膽小鬼遊戲，但讓他們在你之前給出一個數字對你有利。
• Rather than steering your life to avoid surprises, aim directly for them.
與其控制你的生活以避免意外，不如去迎接意外。
• Dont purchase extra insurance if you are renting a car with a credit card.
如果你用信用卡租車，不要購買額外的保險。
100-103
• If your opinions on one subject can be predicted from your opinions on another, you may be in the grip of an ideology. When you truly think for yourself your conclusions will not be predictable.
如果你對一個主題的觀點可以從你對另一個主題的觀點中預測出來，那麼你可能處於一種意識形態的掌控之中。當您真正獨立思考時，您的結論將無法預測。
• Aim to die broke. Give to your beneficiaries before you die; it’s more fun and useful. Spend it all. Your last check should go to the funeral home and it should bounce.
爭取死時一貧如洗。在你離世之前，去捐贈；這更有趣也更有用。花光所有的錢。你的最後一張支票應該支付給殯儀館，且儘量讓它因餘額不足而退票。
• The chief prevention against getting old is to remain astonished.
避免老化的主要方法是保持驚訝。