那天有80个人游泳， 其中65个是9到13岁的孩子。 想象一下，这会对 你的处事原则有多大影响， 假如你在9岁就发现 自己可以在13度的水里 游完恶魔岛到旧金山 全程2.4公里的距离。 你又会接纳哪些事? 你会抓住什么不再放弃? 又会作出怎样的努力? 我游完这段，到了水上公园， 从水里出来的时候， 当然那时候一半孩子都已经游完了， 他们就为我各种欢呼，非常兴奋。 我整个脸都冻麻了， 在湾区游过泳的人都知道，我就一边揉脸暖和着， 一边看剩下的人不断游过来。 这时候我发现有个孩子有点不对劲。 他像这样拍打着水。 探头时几乎无法吸气， 很快又猛地砸下水面去。 我看其他的家长也注意到了， 我发誓他们一定 在和我想同一件事： 这就是为什么不让九岁的孩子 从恶魔岛一路游过来的原因。 (但其实)这不是体力原因。突然，两个家长跑上去抓住他， 把他的双臂架到肩上， 这么拖着他， 一瘸一拐地走到岸上。 然后突然他们又走了几步， 扑通一声， 把他放回轮椅。 他把拳头举起来，那种胜利的姿势 是我见过最疯狂的。 我现在还能感受到 在他完成任务的时候 浑身散发出的那种温暖和能量。 那天早些时候我看到他坐在轮椅上， 我完全想不到他是来游泳的。 这样的孩子 再过20年得有多大的成就啊? 之前会有多少人告诉他他做不到， 如果真去游泳可能会把命丢掉呢?

10:32 You prove people wrong, you prove yourself wrong, that you can make little incremental pushes of what you believe is possible. You don't have to be the fastest marathoner in the world, just your own impossibilities, to accomplish those, and it starts with little bitty steps. And the best way to do this is to surround yourself with passionate people. The fastest things to do things you don't think can be done is to surround yourself with people already doing them.

当你发现错误地估计了别人， 错误地估计了自己， 你就能一点一点靠近 自己坚信的目标。 你不用成为世界上 最快的马拉松运动员， 只需要战胜对你自己来说 不可能的事， 一小步一小步开始。 其实最理想的方法就是和充满热情的人相处。 超越自己极限最快的捷径 就是置身于已经超越了 自身极限的人们当中。

10:54 There's this quote by Jim Rohn and it says. "You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with." And there is no bigger lifehack in the history of the world from getting where you are today to where you want to be than the people you choose to put in your corner. They change everything, and it's a proven fact. In 1898, Norman Triplett did this study with a bunch of cyclists, and he would measure their times around the track in a group, and also individually. And he found that every time the cyclists in the group would cycle faster. And it's been repeated in all kinds of walks of life since then,and it proves the same thing over again, that the people around you matter, and environment is everything. But it's on you to control it, because it can go both ways. With 80 percent of people who don't like the work they do, that means most people around us, not in this room, but everywhere else,are encouraging complacency and keeping us from pursuing the things that matter to us so we have to manage those surroundings.

吉米•罗恩曾经说过， “你是你最常接触的五个人的平均值。” 有史以来最厉害的人生黑客， 这个影响你走向未来目的地的人， 恰恰是你选择放在自己身边的那个人。 已经有试验证实他们能改变一切。 1898年，诺曼•特里普莱特 进行了一项研究， 他测量了一群自行车运动员 一起环绕跑道的时间， 以及他们单独通过的时间。 他发现，每次测量都是 一起的时候快一些。 后来这个实验被反复 用在各行各业里， 结果都证明了同一件事， 你身边的人起了重要作用 环境决定一切。 但这个选择权在你手里， 因为你可以选择身边的人。如果说80%的人不喜欢现在的工作， 那就意味着我们身边大多数人， 其他人，不是指在座的各位， 他们鼓励我们安于现状， 阻止我们追求对自己真正重要的事， 所以我们有必要 整理一下自己的环境。

11:45 I found myself in this situation — personal example, a couple years ago. Has anyone ever had a hobby or a passion they poured their heart and soul into, unbelievable amount of time, and they so badly want to call it a business, but no one's paying attention and it doesn't make a dime? OK, I was there for four years trying to build this Live Your Legend movement to help people do work that they genuinely cared about and that inspired them, and I was doing all I could, and there were only three people paying attention, and they're all right there: my mother, father and my wife, Chelsea. Thank you guys for the support.

我很真切地体会过这种境况—— 这是我自己的例子， 发生在几年以前。 有没有人曾经全身心投入进 一种爱好或者冲动? 你花海量时间在上面 就想把它当自己的职业， 但是别人从来不拿它当回事， 而且它还不挣钱。 是的， 我用了四年时间组织了 “活出自己的传奇“ 这个机构， 帮人们做自己真正喜欢， 让他们充满活力的工作， 我做了力所能及的一切， 关注我的只有三个人， 他们都在这里： 我的母亲、父亲和妻子切尔西。 感谢你们的支持!

12:20 (Applause)

12:21 And this is how badly I wanted it, it grew at zero percent for four years, and I was about to shut it down,and right about then, I moved to San Francisco and started to meet some pretty interesting people who had these crazy lifestyles of adventure, of businesses and websites and blogs that surrounded their passions and helped people in a meaningful way. And one of my friends, now, he has a family of eight,and he supports his whole family with a blog that he writes for twice a week. They just came back from a month in Europe, all of them together. This blew my mind. How does this even exist? And I got unbelievably inspired by seeing this, and instead of shutting it down, I decided, let's take it seriously.And I did everything I could to spend my time, every waking hour possible trying to hound these guys,hanging out and having beers and workouts, whatever it was. And after four years of zero growth,within six months of hanging around these people, the community at Live Your Legend grew by 10 times. In another 12 months, it grew by 160 times. And today over 30,000 people from 158 countriesuse our career and connection tools on a monthly basis. And those people have made up that community of passionate folks who inspired that possibility that I dreamed of for Live Your Legend so many years back.

我当时就是这么想做这件事， 但四年里它一直保持零增长， 后来我都快放弃了， 但也就在这前后， 我搬到了旧金山， 见到了一些很有意思的人， 他们的生活疯狂刺激， 满腔热情洒在网站和博客上， 而且还帮了别人做了有意义的事。 我有个朋友，家里有8口人， 他养活着一大家子人的方式就是 每周更新两次博客。 他们全家最近刚刚从欧洲 度了一个月假回来。 我特别震惊， 靠写博客怎么可能养家呢? 这种不可思议给了我巨大的启发， 我不再想放弃我的事业， 开始认真对待它。 我尽可能地花大量时间 去接触这些人， 和他们一起吃喝玩乐， 健身运动等等。 四年来一直都是零增长， 但和这些人相识六个月中， “活出自己的传奇”的 社群规模增长了十倍。 过了12个月，又增长了160倍。 现在每个月都有3万多人次， 来自158多个国家，在使用我们的职业规划 和联络工具。 他们的出现让这里充满了活力， 多年前也正是他们这样的人 给了我创建 “活出自己的传奇”的灵感。

13:35 The people change everything, and this is why — you know, you ask what was going on. Well, for four years, I knew nobody in this space, and I didn't even know it existed, that people could do this stuff,that you could have movements like this. And then I'm over here in San Francisco, and everyone around me was doing it. It became normal, so my thinking went from how could I possibly do this to how could I possibly not. And right then, when that happens, that switch goes on in your head, it ripples across your whole world. And without even trying, your standards go from here to here. You don't need to change your goals. You just need to change your surroundings. That's it, and that's why I love being around this whole group of people, why I go to every TED event I can, and watch them on my iPad on the way to work, whatever it is. Because this is the group of people that inspires possibility. We have a whole day to spend together and plenty more.

人能够改变一切。这也就是为什么—— 你会奇怪到底发生了什么。 因为四年来 我对这个领域的人一无所知， 我甚至不知道这个领域的存在， 不知道人们还能做这样的事。 但我来到旧金山后， 看到周围的人都在做这件事。 再平常不过了。 我的想法从 “我怎么可能做得到”， 慢慢转变为 “我怎么可能做不到”。 然后一石激起千层浪， 大方向变了， 其他一切都变得不同了。 从这儿到这儿，不费吹灰之力， 你的标准就改变了。 你不用改变目标，只要换一个环境。 就是这么简单， 这也是为什么我愿意和这些人在一起， 我尽量参加每一次TED， 上班路上也在iPad上 看TED演讲的原因。 因为这些人让我觉得 没有做不到的事。 我们今天在一起，以后还会常常重聚。

14:24 To sum things up, in terms of these three pillars, they all have one thing in common more than anything else. They are 100 percent in our control. No one can tell you you can't learn about yourself. No one can tell you you can't push your limits and learn your own impossible and push that. No one can tell you you can't surround yourself with inspiring people or get away from the people who bring you down. You can't control a recession. You can't control getting fired or getting in a car accident. Most things are totally out of our hands. These three things are totally on us, and they can change our whole world if we decide to do something about it.

总结起来，上面的三件事 都有一个共同特点。 它们完全由我们自己掌控。 不要听别人说你无法了解你自己。 不要听别人说你不能再往前走了， 你找不到自己的“不可能”， 你无法战胜它。 不要听人说 你不能和积极向上的人在一起， 或者无法离开不停打击你的人。 你无法阻止经济衰退、 被炒鱿鱼，或者车祸。 很多事都不在我们的控制中。 但是这三件事 只有我们自己说了算。 如果我们决定行动， 就有可能彻底改变自己。

15:03 And the thing is, it's starting to happen on a widespread level. I just read in Forbes, the US Government reported for the first time in a month where more people had quit their jobs than had been laid off. They thought this was an anomaly, but it's happened three months straight. In a time where people claim it's kind of a tough environment, people are giving a middle finger to this scripted life, the things that people say you're supposed to do, in exchange for things that matter to them and do the things that inspire them.

而且这具有传播效应。 我刚从《福布斯》上看到 美国政府报告说， 一个月里主动辞职的人数首次超过了 裁员的人数。 他们认为这很反常， 但连续三个月都是这样。 在经济不景气的大环境下， 人们受够了既定的生活方式， 这种听别人告诉你 应该怎么过日子的生活， 人们不愿再放弃对自己重要的东西， 不愿把想做的事再拖下去。

15:27 And the thing is, people are waking up to this possibility, that really the only thing that limits possibility now is imagination. That's not a cliché anymore. I don't care what it is that you're into, what passion, what hobby. If you're into knitting, you can find someone who is killing it knitting, and you can learn from them. It's wild. And that's what this whole day is about, to learn from the folks speaking, and we profile these people on Live Your Legend every day, because when ordinary people are doing the extraordinary, and we can be around that, it becomes normal. And this isn't about being Gandhi or Steve Jobs, doing something crazy. It's just about doing something that matters to you, and makes an impact that only you can make.

很多人现在意识到 你的想象力才是自己的唯一束缚。 这绝不是陈词滥调。 不管你真心想做的事是什么。 要是喜欢编织， 你可以找到登峰造极的编织大师， 并可以跟他们学习。 这完全取决于你。 今天来和这里的人们学习 也是同样的道理， “活出自己的传奇”每天都在 更新每个人的近况， 因为如果普通人在做不普通的事， 并且我们都身处其中， 这就变成了司空见惯的事儿。 并不是说要成为甘地、乔布斯那样， 做很多疯狂的事。 就是做对你自己来说最重要的事， 一种只有你自己才能带来的影响。

16:10 Speaking of Gandhi, he was a recovering lawyer, as I've heard the term, and he was called to a greater cause, something that mattered to him, he couldn't not do. And he has this quote that I absolutely live by. "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."

说到甘地，我知道他是位成功的律师， 之前听说过， 但是他发现了自己更想做的事， 一种让他放不下的使命。 甘地有句话是我的座右铭。 “一开始，他们忽视你， 然后嘲笑你， 他们还会打你， 最后，他们输给了你。”

16:28 Everything was impossible until somebody did it. You can either hang around the people who tell you it can't be done and tell you you're stupid for trying, or surround yourself with the people who inspire possibility, the people who are in this room. Because I see it as our responsibility to show the world that what's seen as impossible can become that new normal. And that's already starting to happen. First, do the things that inspire us, so we can inspire other people to do the things that inspire them. But we can't find that unless we know what we're looking for. We have to do our work on ourself, be intentional about that, and make those discoveries. Because I imagine a world where 80 percent of people love the work they do. What would that look like? What would the innovation be like? How would you treat the people around you? Things would start to change.

有人迈出第一步以前， 一切都是不可能的。 你可以选择跟告诉你你做不到， 不要尝试做傻事的人做朋友，还是给你鼓励，助你冲破枷锁， 和在座的各位一样的人。 我觉得我们有责任向世人说明， 今天看来做不到的， 就是明天的新常态， 这场自我复苏的革命已经开始了。 首先，做激励我们自己的事情， 然后，我们就能激励其他人 去做让他们感到振奋的事， 但是做自己钟爱的事， 我们要先知道自己想要什么。 我们要扪心自问， 用心寻找，发现自己。 我期待一个世界，80%的人 都热爱自己的工作。 那会是怎样一番景象呢?创新是什么样的呢? 你又会怎样对待周围的人? 一切都会开始转变。

17:19 And as we finish up, I have just one question to ask you guys, and I think it's the only question that matters. And it's what is the work you can't not do? Discover that, live it, not just for you, but for everybody around you, because that is what starts to change the world. What is the work you can't not do?

我想用一个问题来结束我的演讲， 我认为也只有这个问题最重要。 那就是： 什么工作是你非做不可的? 去发现，为它奋斗， 不仅是为了自己，也为了身边的人， 因为改变世界的起点就在这里。 什么工作，是你非做不可的?

17:41 Thank you guys.

非常感谢大家!

17:42 (Applause)

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