Y-Combinator CEO： 写在30岁的人生建议
2015-11-23 Sam Altman
I turned 30 last week and a friend asked me if I’d figured out any life advice in the past decade worth passing on. I’m somewhat hesitant to publish this becau I think the lists usually em hollow, but here is a cleaned up version of my answer:
1) Never put your family, friends, or significant other low on your priority list. Prefer a handful of truly clo friends to a hundred acquaintances. Don’t lo touch with old friends. Occasionally stay up until the sun ris talking to people. Have parties.
重视家庭和朋友。有几个知己胜过一百个熟人。不要和老朋友失去联系。偶尔不妨彻夜长谈。多聚会。
2) Life is not a dress rehearsal—this is probably it. Make it count. Time is extremely limited and goes by fast. Do what makes you happy and fulfilled—few people get remembered hundreds of years after they dieanyway. Don’t dostuff that doesn’t make you happy (this ha
ppens mostoften when other people want you to do something). Don’t spend timetrying to maintain relationships with people you don’tlike, and cut negative people out of your life. Negativity is really bad. Don’t let yourlf make excusfor not doing the things you want to do.
驰名中外的近义词人生不是带妆彩排。要分秒必争。生命有限，时光飞逝。做自己开心并且有成就感的事情。很少有人死后还会被记住。不要做那些不开心的事（特别是别人要求你做的事）。不要花时间在不喜欢的人身上。远离消极的人。消极极其有害。想做的事情，不要找借口不做。洗手歌>两个无的成语
3) How to succeed: pick the right thing to do(this is critical and usually ignored), focus, believe in yourlf (especiallywhen others tell you it’s not going to work), developpersonal connections with people that will help you, learn to identify talentedpeople, and work hard. It’s hard to identify what to work on becau original thoughtis hard.
如何成功：选择做正确的事情（这至关重要而又经常被忽视）、专注、相信自己（特别是别人告诉你不行的时候）、和能帮助你的人建立联系、学会识别人才，勤奋工作。找到自
己想做的事情不容易，开始的想法总是比较粗糙。
4) On work: it’sdifficult to do a great job on work you don’t careabout. And it’shard to be totally happy/fulfilled in life if you don’tlike what you do for your work. Workvery hard—a surprising number of people will beoffended that you choo to work hard—but not so hardthat the rest of your life pass you by. Aim to be the best in the world at whatever you doprofessionally. Even ifyou miss, you’ll probably end up in a pretty goodplace. Figure out your own productivitysystem—don’t waste time beingunorganized, working at suboptimal times, etc. Don’t be afraid to take somecareer risks, especially early on. Most people pick their career fairly randomly—really think hard about what you like, what fields are goingto be successful, and try to talk to people in tho fields.
江西高考成绩关于工作：你不上心的工作很难做出大的成就。如果工作不喜欢，也很难完全开心或有成就感。努力工作（可能有人因此不高兴），但也不要彻底忽视你生活的其他部分。 目标成为某个专业领域最好的，即使最后没达到，你也不会太差。搞清楚你的生产效率系统—诸如不要无计划、或不在最佳状态工作。不要害怕职业冒险，特别人生早期。很多人随机的选择职业—认真思考你喜欢什么，哪些领域能够成功，和那些领域的人多交流。
5) On money: Whether or not money can buyhappiness, it can buy freedom, and that’s a big deal. Also, lack of money is very stressful. In almost all ways, having enough money sothat you don’t stress about paying rent does more tochange your wellbeing than having enough money to buy your own jet. Making money is often more fun thanspending it, though I personally have never regretted money I’vespent on friends, new experiences, saving time, travel, and caus I believein.
关于钱：钱或许不能带来快乐，但钱能买来自由。这很重要。没钱会有压力。大多数情况下，保证你有足够的钱能交房租，这比有钱能买的起飞机，更能影响你的幸福指数。挣钱通常比花钱很有趣，尽管我从未后悔花钱帮助朋友、获得新体验、节省时间、旅行或其他有有意义的事情。
6) Talk to people more. Read more long content and less tweets. Watch less TV. Spend less time on the Internet.
多和人交谈。多读长内容，少发tweets。少看TV， 少或时间在网上。
7) Don’t waste time. Most people waste most of their time,especially in business.
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不要浪费时间。大部分人大部分时候都是在浪费时间，特别在生意上。
8) Don’t let yourlfget pushed around. As PaulGraham once said to me, “People can become formidable,but it’s hard to predict who”. (There is a big difference betweenconfident and arrogant. Aim forthe former, obviously.)
不要任人摆布。像PaulGraham有一次对我说：人能变得令人生畏，但很难预测谁。（自信和傲慢有巨大差别，去做前者。）
9) Have clear goals for yourlf every day,every year, and every decade.
每天，每年，每10年都要有清晰的目标。
10) However, as valuable as planning is, if agreat opportunity comes along you should take it. Don’t be afraid to do somethingslightly reckless. One ofthe benefits of working hard is that good opportunities will come along, but it’s still up to you to jump on them when they do.
计划固然重要，但机会来了不要错过。有时候有一点不顾后果，也不用担心。努力工作的一个好处就是：机会自然会来。但机会来了，仍然看你能否抓住。
11) Go out of your way to be around smart,interesting, ambitious people. Workfor them and hire them (in fact, one of the most satisfying parts of work isforging deep relationships with really good people). Try to spend time with people who areeither among the best in the world at what they do or extremely promising buttotally unknown. Itreally is true that you become an average of the people you spend the most timewith.
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和聪明、有趣并且有雄心的人呆在一起。为他们工作或者雇佣他们（工作最让人满足的一个原因就是能和真正优秀的人形成深度的关系）。花时间和那些在某个领域最棒的人一起，或者和那些有巨大潜力但仍未可知的人一起。和谁在一起花的时间多，你就会成为他们一样的人。
12) Minimize your own cognitive load fromdistracting things that don’t really matter. It’s hard tooverstate how important this is, and how bad most people are at it. Get rid of distractions in your life. Develop very strong ways to avoid lettingcrap you don’t like doin
邪恶的反义词g pile up and take your mentalcycles, especially in your work life.
