【双语阅读】让你此生难成大器的七宗罪

　　Yeah that’s right; you heard me… I’m talking to you… I’m calling you out.

　　I’m looking you in the eyes, (ok well, not really since you are probably reading this article, but figuratively, I am burning a cyclops type hole in your face right now) and telling you that you don’t stand a chance.

　　I’m telling you that if you can read this article, look through this list and not claim it as your own, then you should be a little worried.

　　Actually, you should be very worried. You should drop everything and immediately question your existence on earth. You should find a mirror, look yourself in the eyes, raise your hand and slap yourself in the face.

　　Got it? Now repeat that until you come to your senses and continue reading whenever you’re ready.

　　I’m Talkin’ ‘Bout Street Skills Son!

　　I’m not talking about the: study hard, party light, graduate top-of-your-class skills.

　　I’m not even talking about the: slack-off, skip class, smoke weed, drink and party but still graduate, skill-set your $50,000+ diploma has lead you to believe you have.

　　“I’m talking ’bout, step out your door, make some moves, and get-some-shit-done, kind of skills! Some, move out your mama’s house, quit your job?—?say “fuck the world”?—?and then actually go do it, kind of skills”.

　　The kind of skills you develop in the real world, outside the bubble of your parents protection or the ideological indoctrination that has overwhelmed our entire educational system.

　　Skills that can be had by anyone willing to pay the price to get them. Skills that are quickly becoming extinct.

　　I’m talking about skills that cannot be taught in a classroom or in a textbook. Skills you can only learn by doing; by learning how to fly after jumping off the cliff.

　　Skills that can only be developed when you find your true self. When you put yourself on the line or otherwise expose yourself to the possibility of failure.

　　The skills you can only develop when you are willing to risk it all in order to do that one amazing thing.

　　Skills that up until now, you thought you had.

　　“Basically, what I am trying to tell you is that, in this game called life, you don’t stand a chance…

　　1 :: Because You Have Not Failed Enough

　　Because you are comfortable in your mediocrity; because you choose not to try.

　　Because it is easier to talk about learning that new (programming?) language as opposed to actually learning it.

　　Because you think everything is too hard or too complicated so you will just “sit this one out”, or maybe you’ll, “do-it-tomorrow”!

　　Because you hate your job but won’t get a new one; because it is easy to reject rejection.

　　Because while you’re sitting around failing to try, I am out there trying to fail, challenging myself, learning new things and failing as fast as possible.

　　Because as I fail, I learn, and then adjust my course to make sure my path is always forward. Like the process of annealing steel, I’ve been through the fire and pounded into shape. The shape of a sword with polished edges and a razor sharp blade that will cut you in half if you are not equally hardened.

　　2 :: Because You Care What Others Think About You

　　Because you have to fit in.

　　Because you believe that being different is only cool if you’re different in the same way that other people are different.

　　Because you are afraid to embrace your true self for fear of how the world will see you. You think that because you judge others, this means that those people must, in-turn, be judging you.

　　Because you care more about the stuff you have as opposed to the things you’ve done.

　　Because while you’re out spending your money on new outfits, new cars, overpriced meals or nights at the bar, I’ll be investing in myself. And while you try to fit in with the world I’ll make the world fit in with me.

　　Because I will recklessly abandon all insecurities and expose my true self to the world. I will become immune to the impact of your opinion and stand naked in a crowd of ideas; comfortable in knowing that while you married the mundane I explored the exceptional.

　　3 :: Because You Think You Are Smarter Than You Are

　　Because you did what everyone else did; you studied what they studied and read what they read.

　　Because you learned what you had to learn in order to pass their tests and you think that makes you smart.

　　Because you think learning is only something people do in schools.

　　Because while you were away at college, I was studying life; because instead of learning about the world in a classroom I went out and learned it by living.

　　Because I know more than any piece of paper you could ever frame from a university. Because smart is not what you learn, it’s how you live.

　　Because I might not have a degree but I challenge you to find a topic that I can’t talk to you about cohesively.

　　Because I could pass your tests if I had to, but you couldn’t stand for a single second in the face of the tests that life has thrown me. Tests that are not graded on a bell curve or by percentages; tests that are graded by one simple stipulation: survival!

　　4 :: Because You Don’t Read

　　Because you read the things you are required to read or nothing at all.

　　Because you think history is boring and philosophy is stupid.

　　Because you would rather sit and watch “E!” or “MTV” instead of exploring something new, instead of ping head first, into the brain of another man in an attempt to better understand the world around you.

　　Because you refuse to acknowledge that all the power in the world comes from the words of those that lived before us. That anything you desire can be had by searching through the multitude of words that are available to us now more abundantly than ever before.

　　Because you are probably not reading this article even though you know you should.

　　Because the people that are reading this already know these things.

　　Because you can lead a horse to water but you can’t make him drink.

　　5 :: Because You Lack Curiosity

　　Because you get your news from copy-cat members of the state-controlled media.

　　Because you are unwilling to ask this simple question… “What if it’s all a lie?”, and accept the possibility that maybe it is; that just maybe, the methods of mass media are under direct orders to: keep you distracted.

　　Because you call me a know-it-all but refuse to call yourself a know-nothing-at-all.

　　Because I thirst for knowledge, regardless the topic.

　　Because while you’re busy playing Candy Crush, or Megalopolis, I am reading about string theory and quantum mechanics.

　　Because while you waste your time with Tosh.o I am learning how to edit video, build websites and design mobile apps.

　　Because if we were to go heads-up in a debate, I would crush you. I would make it a point to defeat my own argument; from every imaginable angle; in order to understand everything you might be able to use against me.

　　Because I would dedicate myself to understanding both sides of the argument so thoroughly that I could argue your side for you and win; even after having just handed you a defeat in the same debate.

　　6 :: Because You Don’t Ask Enough Questions

　　Because you do not question authority.

　　Because you don’t question yourself.

　　Because you don’t understand the power of properly placed questioning in life, respectful disagreements and standing up for what you know to be right in the face of someone telling you otherwise. Unable to question reality; stuck in a self imposed survival strategy within a matrix-style monotony.

　　Because I know that you will give me all the information I need to destroy you by letting you talk.

　　Because I study human behaviors and you ignore everyone but yourself.

　　Because I watch how you say the things you say just as closely as I listen to what you say; and you say way too much!

　　Because control comes, not from spewing your ignorance like some incurable case of logorrhea, but from properly structuring the context of your questions.

　　Because I study the premise of your argument and destroy it from the ground level before you even get a chance to establish your ideas.

　　7 :: Because You Can’t Handle The Truth

　　Because you refuse to admit that you don’t even know the things you don’t know.

　　Because there isn’t an article online that would make up for all the time you have wasted in life.

　　Because even if I told you everything could be different tomorrow you would wait until then to begin doing anything about it.

　　Because even when you think I’m not, I’m aware of my surroundings.

　　Because you think that since I have not acknowledged you, it means that I have not seen you.

　　Because, you walk around with your head up your ass, oblivious to the world around you. Blissfully ignorant of the reality that sits so close to your face that if you stuck your tongue out, just once, you would taste it and realize how delicious the truth actually is.

　　Because you would become an instant addict. Unable to pull yourself from the teat of truth. Finally able to understand your lack of understanding, and then you would see; then you would know that the only thing holding you back from doing something truly amazing, is you.

　　中文版：

　　是，你没看错......说的就是你……说的就是你呢！

　　我此刻死盯着你的眼睛（好吧，也不是那么名副其实的“盯着”，因为你看到的是这篇文章不是我，但请想象，我现在正在死盯着你，我的镭射眼大概已经“看穿”你的脸了）告诉你，你一点儿机会都没有。

　　我肯定，如果你看完这文章这罪状还不觉得这是你的问题所在，那你就该发愁了。

　　其实你该愁死了才对。你该做的就是放下手头一切事情，深刻反省自己的存在有何意义。你该照面镜子，盯着自己的眼睛，举起手来给自己一个大耳刮子才是。

　　听明白了吗？那就继续重复这个动作直到你醒悟过来、准备好了的时候，再继续往下看吧。

　　我说的是“真枪实弹”的实战技能！

　　不是所谓的“多学少玩名”，也不是你那本价值“五万金”的文凭宣称你身怀的“懒散逃课抽大麻照旧毕业”绝技。

　　我说的是，起身出门、有所行动、干出点儿屁事来的技能！就是那一套搬出老妈的房子、辞职再冲全世界吼一声“草泥马”然后真真正正干点儿事情的技能。

　　那套人人都愿意为之付出学习代价的技能，那套已日渐消亡的技能。

　　如此技能自然不能在课堂上或课本中习得。要掌握如此技能，实践出真知是唯一方法，譬如，借从悬崖跳落之际习得飞翔技巧。

　　如此技能只有在一个人发现了真正自我之时才能学会。也就是说，只有当你真正处于危险之中或直面失败的时候，才能掌握。

　　如此技能，只有在你愿意付出一切只为做成一件大事的时候，才能习得。

　　如此技能，在此刻之前，你以为你已经掌握。

　　“简单说来，我要说的就是，在生活这个游戏里，你连门儿都没找着”。

　　宗罪：你失败得还不够。

　　因为你满足于平庸，因为你选择不去尝试。

　　因为只在嘴上说说学习一门新外语（或编程）比真正去学容易太多。

　　因为在你看来，每件事都是“太难”或者“太复杂”，所以你选择“等等看吧“或者”明天再做好了“。

　　即便你讨厌自己的工作，也不愿意换另一份，因为你觉得自己可以轻易拒绝”被拒绝“这件事。

　　但就在你一事无成、败于尝试之际，我正在尝试各种可能、哪怕失败，我正在挑战自我、学习新知识、如果失败，那么越早越好。

　　因为就算失败也是宝贵的一课，我会调整方向，保证自己一路向前。正如炼钢，烈火锤炼我已经历。一把磨得尖利的宝剑，必能把未经历练的你，切成两半。

　　第二宗罪：你在乎别人对你的看法。

　　因为你要合群。

　　因为你坚信，与众不同的你，要跟大众一起用同样的方法与众不同，才算酷。

　　因为你害怕面对真正的自己，因为你害怕世界会对你另眼相看。就因为你会对别人评头论足，你非认为别人也在做同样的事。

　　你在乎拥有的东西多过做过的事情。

　　但当你在不断买新衣、新车、光顾昂贵餐厅和各色酒吧之时，我正在不断投资自己。你在不断努力求得主流认可，而我将让主流认可我。

　　我会一窝蜂抛掉所有不安全感，让世界看见真正的我。你怎么看我，我不再在乎。我会只身受信念大潮的冲洗，怡然自得地看你与世俗联姻，而我却与超凡携手。

　　第三宗罪：因为你自觉十分聪明。

　　因为别人干什么你就干什么，别人学什么你就学什么，别人读什么书你也依葫芦画瓢读同一本。

　　因为你学习是为了通过考试，通过既定的考试又让你觉得自己很聪明。

　　因为你觉得学习那是只发生在学校里的事。

　　但你读大学的时候，我正在学习人生；我选择不在教室里学习这个世界，而是真正闯进去，活在真实世界里，以此为我的课堂。

　　因为我懂的，远比任何一张文凭赋予的都多。因为聪明从来都不是学来的，聪明是从生活中来的。

　　也许我没有文凭，但我打赌，你找不出任何一个让我哑口无言的话题。

　　你的所谓考试，如果有必要去考，那我也能考过，但我所经历的生活的考试，你连一丁点儿通过的机会都没有。生活的考试，从不依据什么贝尔曲线、通过率来评分，生活的考试有且仅有那么一条评分依据：生存！

　　第四宗罪：你从不阅读。

　　因为你要么就是读些必读的书，要么就是根本连读都不读。

　　因为你觉得历史枯燥无味，哲学更是愚蠢可笑。

　　因为你宁可坐在那看八卦新闻、音乐台，也不愿意去学点新东西，不愿一头扎进其他人的思想里去更好地了解这个世界。

　　你不愿承认，世界上所有的力量都源自先人的思想。你不愿承认你想要的所有东西，都能从那前人无数的思想里寻获，且在当下，寻获这些信息是前所未有的便捷。

　　你大概连这篇文章都看不完吧，即使你清楚自己应该从头到尾看一遍。

　　现在正在看这文章的人，都已经懂得这些道理。

　　而你，虽可引马到水边，却不能让马低头饮。

　　第五宗罪：你毫无好奇心。

　　因为就连你看的新闻，也全是从政府掌控的媒体上来的。

　　因为你连“如果这些全是假的怎么办？”这么简单的问题都不愿意问，更别说接受如此假设成真的可能了，或许，主流媒体都是言听计从混淆大众的呢。

　　你说我“自以为无所不知”，却不肯承认自己一无所知。

　　我渴望知识，任何知识。

　　因为你在玩糖果粉碎传奇、在玩大富翁，我却在学习弦理论和量子力学。

　　因为你在看连续剧，我却在学习怎么编辑视频、建立网站和开发手机应用。

　　如果我们在一场辩论中针锋相对，那我必定会让你一败涂地。因为我首先会自己试着从所有能设想到的方面摧毁自己的论点，如此，我就能从你的角度，了解你有可能用来反驳我的所有观点。

　　我会去透彻了解论点的两个对立面，透彻到虽然我已打败了你，但如果我俩互换立场，我仍能辩胜。

　　第六宗罪：因为你问得太少。

　　因为你从不质问权威。

　　因为你从不质问自己。

　　因为你不明白正确的问题在生活中有着怎样的意义、你不懂礼貌的反对和在与自己意见相悖的人面前捍卫自己正确观点的力量几何。不能真正提出疑问，无疑等于被困在自我欺骗的牢笼里，以此为生存策略。

　　因为我知道，只要倾听，就能知道怎样可以摧毁你了。

　　因为我研究人类行为，而你，除了自己谁都不在乎。

　　因为我不但听你说话，而且看你说话，而你一开口就停不下来！

　　因为不是不停地说说说像是无药可治的多言癖并不能给你控制权，真正的控制权来源于合理提问。

　　你的论点的前提我已掌握，且我可以在你张口建立自己的论点之前就彻底摧毁你。

　　第七宗罪：因为你不能直面真相

　　因为你不愿承认你不懂的事情，你是真的不懂。

　　因为世界上任何一篇网上的文章都不可能足以挽回你浪费了的时间。

　　因为就算我告诉你，明天一切都会改变，你也会等到明天才开始行动。

　　因为我对自己所处的形势很清楚，就算你不认可，这也是事实。

　　你觉得我之所以不肯定你，是因为我没有见过你。

　　但事实是，你埋头前行，对世界不闻不问。你满心欢喜地忽略就在眼前的真相，可是真相那么近，你只要探出舌头那么一次，就能尝到它的滋味，它美妙的滋味。

　　因为你会欲罢不能，无法将自己从真相的怀抱里拔出。最后你会明白你还未学会理解，然后你会发现，然后你会明白，让你止步不前难成大器的，只有你自己。