本文是对 Medium 上 Advice from 30 year old me to 20 year old me这篇文章的翻译。我将同步列出原文，以便于对应阅读，翻译谬误之处请于留言区指出。
I recently turned 30. For some very odd reason I’ve not warmed to the idea of it just yet. However as I began to evaluate my 20s I realised how many mistakes I’ve made and things I’ve learned in a decade of life.
I took some time to write myself some advice.
我最近刚过30岁。由于某些奇怪的原因，我尚未对此感受到暖意。我回首20多岁的时光，重新认识在这十年里犯下的错误和学到的道理。
我决定花时间为自己写下这些的建议。
- Travel
You have very little responsibility so go and travel. When you get to 30, you’re going to want to travel slightly differently, spend a little more, do slightly more expensive things, eat at slightly better restaurants. So work for a year and save enough money to experience the world on the cheap.
How do you know what you want to do if you don’t know what’s out there to do?
Don’t just travel to the obvious places.
Travel to the tough places.
Travel to learn.
Travel to discover.
Travel to the places that will challenge who you think you want to be.
1）旅行
你需要承担的责任还很小，所以去旅行吧。当你到了30岁，你对待旅行的要求会有些许不同，会花更多钱，体验一些更贵的项目，在更好的饭店吃饭，所以努力工作一年，攒够了钱，用便宜的方式去体验世界吧。
如果你不知道外面的世界能做什么，你怎么会知道你想做什么？
不要总是去明确的景点。
去更难去的地方。
在旅行中学习。
在旅行中发现。
去那些迫使你思考你想成为什么人的地方。
- Build things
Don’t spend too much time working on other people’s visions or in other people’s meetings. Spend time figuring out what your own world view is (see point 1) and where you want to take your own life.
Meetings are where ideas go to die.
If you find yourself in a corporate job that you wish you could leave then do it. Leave. If you don’t have a corporate job yet see point 5.
2）做事
不要把太多时间浪费在别人的愿景或会议中。花时间去弄清楚你自己的世界观（第1条提到的）以及如何度过你自己的一生。
会议使灵感死亡。
如果你想要离开一个公司工作，就离开。如果你还没有开始在一家公司工作，可以直接看第5点。
译者注：作者想要表达的意思是，你发现真正想做的事情再去做，不是指裸辞。
- Read
Read every day. Read everything you can. Don’t just read about things you know about. Read about people. Read people.
3）读书
每天保持阅读。读你能读的任何东西。不要总是读一些你熟悉的东西。阅读关于人的东西，阅读人。
- Stop Watching Television
Right now. Stop it. It’s not helping you get better at anything.
4）不要再看电视
从现在开始，拒绝电视（译者注：电视确实很少有人看了，可以延展到刷抖音快手上）。它无法帮助你在任何事情上的做得更好。
- Career
Do not take that corporate job. Just don’t do it (see point 2).
5）职业生涯
不要接受那种（译者注：消耗你的意志和灵感）公司的工作。千万不要。（第2点中提到的）
- Trust
Even if it kills your relationships. Even if it destroys your ideas. Even if you lose your friends. Even if it means you end up getting hurt.
Trust people until they give you a reason not to.
But don’t be naïve. Some people are out to fuck you.
6）信任
哪怕你的友谊被破坏，哪怕你的理想被毁灭，哪怕失去了朋友，哪怕你最终注定被伤害。
相信人们，直到他们给出一个不值得被信任的理由。
但是不要犯傻，有的人就是专程来坑你的。
- People
People are the best and worst thing that will happen to you. Some will help you go further, faster. Others will pull you down to their level and help you lose. Most are OK. Many are average. Some are excellent.
A few people will change your life forever. Find them.
You don’t need a lot of friends or people around you. You need amazing people who do for you as you do for them.
It’s simple really, a lot of average friends will leave you feeling alone when you need to feel surrounded by people who care.
7）人脉
人是在你身边出现的最好又最差劲的东西。一些人会帮你走得更远，更快。另一些人会将你拉到和他们一个水平，让你失败。大部分人是好的，一些人是平庸之辈，少数是很优秀的。
你的一生会被几个人改变。找到他们。
你不需要很多朋友或者人脉围着你转。你需要的是那些如你对待他们一般互相成就的人。
就是如此，当你感到孤独需要陪伴时，普通的朋友只会让你更孤独。
- Value Time
Don’t waste time on people who you don’t trust. Don’t waste time with lovers who cheat on you. Don’t waste time with friends who don’t treat you the way you treat them (see point 7).
Do not be late.
Value other people’s time. That means that if you’re late, you don’t give a shit about them or their time and that you think you’re worth more and therefore can keep them waiting.
Some people will tell you that it’s OK to be late. It’s not. Some people will tell you that it’s just the way they are. Then you need to reevaluate them (see point 7 above).
8）珍惜时间
不要在你不信任的人身上浪费时间。不要在不忠于你的恋人身上浪费时间。不要和那些不愿意和你一般付出的朋友浪费时间（第7点）。
不要迟到。
珍惜别人的时间。如果你迟到了，意味着你不在意别人或者他们的时间，或你认为你值得让他们花费时间等待。
会有人告诉你迟到也没关系。不是这样的，这么说只是因为他们自己经常迟到，你应该重新评估这些人（第7点）。
- Fail
Fail a lot. Fail often. Fail at love. Fail at sex. Fail at socialising. Fail at making friends. Fail at work. Fail at business. Fail with family. Fail with existing friends.
Fail. But do it quickly and learn a lesson.
If you don’t learn something every time you fail then all you’ve done is failed. If you learn something, then you’ve grown. Every time you grow and learn and fail, you get better at figuring out how the hell to succeed.
9）失败
多失败，常失败。爱情失败，性生活失败，社交失败，交朋友失败，工作失败，生意失败，家庭失败，和已有朋友关系失败。
去失败。然后马上吸取教训。
如果你没有从每次失败中学到东西，那你就真败了。如果你学到一些经验教训，你会成长。每次你成长、学习、失败，你就会离成功更近一步。
- Success
There is no point at which you will have succeeded. Not in your twenties. Not ever.
Get over that fact and start building things (see point 2 and combine with point 9).
10）成功
在你二十岁时，没有成功的说法，不要想着它。
认清这个事实，开始努力做出真正的成就来（参考2和9）。
- Patience
Be patient. Nothing worth doing is worth doing quickly. Nothing worth building is worth building in a rush. Nothing of value is formed in a minute.
Plan in decades. Think in years. Work in months. Live in days.
11）耐心
要有耐心。没有什么有价值的东西是快速完成的，没有什么值得打造的事业是一蹴而就的，短暂的时间不会产出任何有价值的东西。
十年规划，年年思考，数月工作，日日忙碌。
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