TED演讲｜那个坚持每天4:30起床的人，人生到底有多精彩！？

How wonderful life is to get up at 4:30 every day?

超越自然。超越自然总是更好的。在你的私人生活或职业生活中，无论何时何地，试着将你的极限远远超越你的舒适区。试着不要保持舒适，并以此达到你从未想象过的事情。

But what does it mean to “go beyond natural”? Well, I believe that you don’t need to do a huge thing to make something different. In reality, those big things like employing hundreds of people, saving lives somewhere in Africa, or representing your country when you are part of its government, are the result of many little things, hundreds, thousands, little things that you do in all your life.

但“超越自然”意味着什么呢？好吧，我相信你不需要做一件大事来改变一些事情。事实上，那些大的事情，比如雇佣数百人，在非洲某地拯救生命，或者当你是你的国家政府的一部分时代表你的国家，是你一生中做的许多小事，成百上千件小事的结果。

Of course, you must be ambitious in your life. But, at the same time, you need to be very patient. Because you only reach your most desired goals with a lot of hard work, a few risks and a little bit of luck. And this may take years.

当然，你的人生必须雄心勃勃。但是，与此同时，你需要非常耐心。因为只有付出大量的努力，冒一些风险，再加上一点点运气，你才能达到你最想要的目标。这可能需要几年的时间。

So, today I’m here to show you that a little thing, in some way different than usual, may lead to something great. The best example that I have for you happened with me last year. It started with a simple challenge: wake up at 4:30 am during 21 consecutive days. A challenge that I gave the name of #21earlydays.

所以，今天我在这里向你们展示一件小事，在某种程度上不同于平常，可能会带来一些伟大的东西。我给你的最好的例子发生在去年。它从一个简单的挑战开始：连续21天在凌晨4:30醒来。我给它起了个名字叫#21earlydays的挑战。

So this is the reason I am here today, and the reason I was featured on Business Insider, also on national TV, newspapers and radio. But why? Well, probably you will agree with me that this is quite unusual but, at the same time, this is something that anyone in the world could do, too. I don’t have any special power to wake up at 4:30 am. But this is something that everyone can do. There are millions of people doing that everyday.

所以这就是我今天在这里的原因，也是我在《商业内幕》上的原因，也是在全国电视台、报纸和电台上的原因。但为什么呢？嗯，也许你会同意我的看法，这是很不寻常的，但同时，这也是世界上任何人都可以做的事情。我没有什么特别的能力在凌晨四点半醒来。但这是每个人都能做到的。每天都有成千上万的人这样做。

But if we take a better look on it, you see that my challenge wasn’t to wake up so early. What I challenged was a global status quo that says how your life must be, what you must study, why where you must work, what you must watch on TV, and also at what hour you must wake up. I confess: many times I also fall in this chain where you just follow what the others do, without questioning why.

但如果我们仔细看看，你会发现我的挑战不是这么早起床。我挑战的是一个全球现状，即你的生活必须怎样，你必须学习什么，为什么你必须在哪里工作，你必须在电视上看什么，以及你必须在什么时候醒来。我承认：很多时候，我也陷入了这样的枷锁中，你只是跟着别人做，而不去问为什么。

So, why the hell am I waking up so early? What is the reason behind it? The story behind it is very simple, in fact.

那么，我为什么起得这么早？背后的原因是什么？事实上，它背后的故事非常简单。

One day, I was thinking about why I was doing my days the way I was doing and what I could improve in my life to be a better person. I remembered reading some articles in the press, about how early some of the most successful CEOs in the world wake up, and so I decided to take a chance on it. I thought it was interesting.

有一天，我在想为什么我要用我现在的方式来度过我的每一天，以及我要做一个更好的人需要改进什么。我记得在报纸上读过一些文章，关于世界上一些最成功的首席执行官醒得有多早，所以我决定冒险一试。我觉得很有趣。

But why 21 days? Well, 21 days, I put a limit of 21 days because there are theories that say that it is the right amount of time you need to form a new habit. I didn’t know if it would work, but for me it was more for the sake of establishing a goal. A thing that I always apply to life is to always establish a goal when you want to reach or change something in your life. Because only in this way will you understand if you succeeded or failed.

但为什么是21天？好吧，21天，我把时间限制在21天，因为有理论认为这是你养成新习惯所需要的适当时间。我不知道这是否有效，但对我来说，这更多是为了确立一个目标。当你想达到或改变你生活中的某件事时，我总是把这一点运用到生活中去。因为只有这样你才会明白你是成功了还是失败了。

So, I started to share a lot of thoughts with my network. The advantages of it, the little pleasures and also my progress. Many people started following what I was doing. And 2 or 3 weeks after, there were already people trying to do the same, waking up so early.

所以，我开始在网上分享很多想法。它的优点，小小的乐趣，还有我的进步。很多人开始关注我的所作所为。两到三周后，已经有人试图这么做了，这么早就起床了。

But — This thing about #21earlydays really exploded when I shared a blog post on Medium about the lessons I have learned with that. Thousands of people saw my blog post. My blog post was also republished on Business Insider with more than 1 million views, and the Twitter feed around #21early days is endless, still today.

但是，当我在Medium上分享了一篇关于我从中学到的经验教训的博客文章时，关于#21earlydays的影响力真的爆发了。成千上万的人看到了我的博客。我的博客也在Business Insider上重新发布，浏览量超过了100万次，而Twitter上的feed在21世纪早期是无穷无尽的，直到今天。

So, what did I learn with this? These were my lessons: One, Find support along the way. It is always better to find these people that will push you forward and will hold you accountable for failing, even if they criticize you. This is my blog post — my Facebook post, the original one, about the challenge, and where I was more exposed to many people.

那么，我从中学到了什么？这些是我的经验：一是沿途寻求支持。最好是找到这些人来推动你前进，让你为失败负责，即使他们批评你。这是我的博客——我的Facebook帖子，最早的一篇，关于挑战，我在那里接触了很多人。

Two, People like to see different things. And come on, a young guy like me, waking up so early, is different. At least it’s not what people see on Facebook and at least people see different pictures on their Instagram feed.

第二，人们喜欢看不同的东西。拜托，像我这样的年轻人，这么早就起床，是不一样的。至少这不是人们在Facebook上看到的，至少人们在Instagram上看到的是不同的图片。

Three, No. You don’t need to sleep less. One thing that happened a lot was a lot of people, horrified, asking me: “So you sleep less. How do you manage to do that?”

三，不。你不需要少睡。一件经常发生的事是，很多人惊恐地问我：“所以你睡得少。你怎么做到的？”

And I say: “Okay, I don’t sleep less. I only go to bed earlier.” This is what he is saying. That means: Bed early and rise early. In fact this is simple. I went to sleep a few hours before.

我说：“好吧，我不会少睡的。我只是早点睡觉。”这就是他说的。意思是：早睡早起。其实这很简单。我几个小时前就睡着了。

Four, Get rid of your obstacles. This is really important. When you want to change something in your life, it’s important to eliminate all the obstacles because it becomes much easier to reach your final goal.

第四，摆脱你的障碍。这真的很重要。当你想改变生活中的某些事情时，消除所有的障碍是很重要的，因为它会让你更容易达到最终的目标。

Five, A healthy life is really important if you want to sleep properly. So I sleep well, I eat well and I exercise, and it helps a lot with that. I fall asleep really fast, 5 minutes on average. I sleep well and anywhere if needed, and I wake up without any problems, and this helps a lot, of course with my challenge. This is me exercising. So it’s a proof that I exercise.

第五，如果你想睡个好觉，健康的生活真的很重要。所以我睡得好，吃得好，锻炼身体，这对我很有帮助。我睡得很快，平均5分钟。我睡得很好，如果需要的话，我可以在任何地方睡觉，我醒来时没有任何问题，这对我的挑战有很大帮助。这是我在锻炼。所以这是我锻炼身体的证明。

第六，

Six, Forget snooze, please. For me this is one of the worst inventions ever on mankind. Come on, it doesn’t help you with anything. You delay for 10 minutes, 20 minutes, 30 minutes of your life. There are studies that say that you get more tired sleeping that time, and you are wasting your time for more interesting things. So forget this. Nothing good comes from snooze.

六，别打瞌睡了。对我来说，这是人类有史以来最糟糕的发明之一。拜托，这对你没有任何帮助。你耽搁了10分钟，20分钟，30分钟。有研究表明，那时候你睡得更累，你在为更有趣的事情浪费时间。所以忘了这个吧。打盹没有什么好处。

Seven, I only need 6 or 7 hours of sleep. This is me waking up a little bit. I swear that I’d like to sleep, but my body only demands this much time of sleeping. So why waste my time with sleep when there are a lot of things that are way more interesting?

七，我只需要6到7个小时的睡眠。这是我醒来的时候。我发誓我想睡觉，但我的身体只需要这么多的睡眠时间。既然有很多有趣的事情，为什么还要浪费时间睡觉呢？

Eight, I found that doing this, I have more working time. In fact 2 more hours per day. And in the end I can leave the office earlier and have some drinks with my friends enjoying the beautiful sun of Lisbon.

第八，我发现这样做，我有更多的工作时间。事实上，每天还有2个小时。最后我可以早点离开办公室，和朋友们一起喝点饮料，享受里斯本美丽的阳光。

Nine, I found that it was a better way to get messages out of my way. During the morning no one is working, so I can answer all the emails and messages and I have an Inbox zero and no instant answer for today, and this is a great feeling during the morning.

第九，我发现这是一个更好的方式，让我的信息的方式。在早上没有人工作，所以我可以回答所有的电子邮件和信息，我有一个收件箱零，今天没有即时答复，这是一个伟大的感觉在上午。

Ten, I found that I have also more time at the gym. So this is the proof that I go to the gym, and I found that waking up earlier, when I go to the gym I am not so tired. As I worked before for 2 hours that’s not an excuse. It helps a lot on those days when you think that you don’t have enough time to exercise.

十，我发现我也有更多的时间在健身房。这就是我去健身房的证据，我发现早起，当我去健身房的时候，我并没有那么累。我以前工作了两个小时，这不是借口。当你认为自己没有足够的时间锻炼的时候，这会有很大的帮助。

Eleven, New view on the world. This gave me a few little feeling for pleasures like seeing a sunrise when I was running. This is great.

十一，新世界观。这给了我一些快乐的感觉，比如跑步时看到日出。太棒了。

Twelve and last. You need the will to do it. But if you have it, no one will stop you. So this challenge was the result of many thoughts and many conversations that I had in the weeks before. This was a personal experience that put people to think and discuss about this subject. Many shared the story.

最后一点。你要有意志力地去做。但如果你拥有它，没有人会阻止你。所以这个挑战是我在几周前的许多想法和谈话的结果。这是一次让人们思考和讨论这个问题的个人经历。许多人分享了这个故事。

#21earlydays is still today, one of the most active hashtags on Twitter, without paying a cent for it. And more important than that, even the best part of it is that still today I continue receiving messages from people all over the world saying that they are waking up earlier, because of me, and that they are happier doing that! That’s great!

#21earlydays仍然是今天，Twitter上最活跃的标签之一，不用花一分钱。更重要的是，即使是最美好的部分，我仍然不断收到来自世界各地的人们的信息，他们说，因为我，他们醒得更早了，而且他们更乐意这样做！太好了！

So, here’s my point: a small act, but different act, such as waking up at 4:30 am originated a big result such as putting people to think and discuss about their own schedules and how to be more productive.

所以，我的观点是：一个小动作，但不同的动作，比如凌晨4:30起床，产生了一个大结果，比如让人们思考和讨论他们自己的日程安排，以及如何提高工作效率。

Nothing of it was planned, and I never imagined that it would reach so big dimension. But I think this is what happens in everyone’s lives if you are willing to take that extra mile. Like in the butterfly effect, where a small change in one stage may lead to large differences in a later stage, anything you do today can result in a big thing tomorrow, for you and for other people.

这一切都不是计划好的，我从来没有想过会达到这么大的规模。但我认为这是每个人的生活中都会发生的事情，如果你愿意多走一段路的话。就像蝴蝶效应一样，一个阶段的微小变化可能会导致后期的巨大差异，你今天做的任何事情都可能导致明天的大事，对你和其他人来说。

And this is more likely to happen if you do a lot of little things that you believe that will improve your life.

如果你做了很多你认为会改善你生活的小事，这种情况就更有可能发生。

So, please, never forget: go beyond natural and think different; every little thing that you do everyday may lead to a big thing, a surprising thing in the future.

所以，请不要忘记：超越自然，另辟蹊径；你每天所做的每一件小事都可能导致一件大事，一件令人惊讶的事。

I don’t know where you’re going to be in the future, but I can assure you of one thing, that doing this you will grow, you’ll be a better person, and you’ll be happier.Thank you.

我不知道你将来会在哪里，但我可以向你保证一件事，这样做你会成长，你会成为一个更好的人，你会更快乐。非常感谢。