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On Aging — Maya Angelou 上了年纪–玛雅·安吉洛 When you see me sitting quietly like a sack left on the shelf 当你看到我就那么静静地坐着，如同一个空空的麻袋颓然垂放在架子上 Don't think I need your chattering 可别觉得我需要你的唠叨 I'm listening to myself 我只是在思考 Hold! Stop! Don't pity me! 你可省省吧，我不需要你的怜悯！ Hold! Stop your sympathy! 别，...
This is not my opinion. These are the facts. 这不是我的观点。这是事实。 We know that 80 percent of life's most defining moments take place by age 35. 我们知道一个人的一生中的80%的最重要的时刻发生在35岁。 That means that eight out of 10 of the decisions and experiences and "Aha!" moments that make your life what it is will have happened by your mid-30s. 这就意味...
Okay, now that sounds a little flip, but make no mistake, the stakes are very high. 好吧，刚才那听起来可能有一点轻浮，但是别搞错，在这里筹码非常高。 When a lot has been pushed to your 30s, there is enormous thirtysomething pressure to jump-start a career, 当很多事情被推到三十几岁再做时，在你的三十岁这个阶段就有在极短的时间内开始一个职业， pick a city, partner up, and have tw...
Second, I told Emma that the urban tribe is overrated. 其次，我告诉Emma城市部落被高估了。 Best friends are great for giving rides to the airport, 找好朋友来搭车至机场很棒， but twentysomethings who huddle together with like-minded peers limit who they know, 但二十几岁的人若和思维方式相似的同龄人聚在一起，他们所知道的人， what they know, how they think, how they speak, and wh...
When I was in my 20s, I saw my very first psychotherapy client. 当我20几岁时，我见到了我的第一个需要精神疗法的病人。 I was a Ph.D. student in clinical psychology at Berkeley. 当时我是一个在伯克利大学读临床心理学的Ph.D学生。 She was a 26-year-old woman named Alex. 她是一位叫Alex的26岁女性。 Now Alex walked into her first session wearing jeans and a big slouchy top, 第一次会面...
As a culture, we have trivialized what is actually the defining decade of adulthood. 作为一种文化，我们把实际上是成人期中最重要的一个十年列为不重要的东西。 Leonard Bernstein said that to achieve great things, you need a plan and not quite enough time. Isn't that true? 伦纳德·伯恩斯坦说过如果想办成大事，就需要一个计划和不足够的时间。这不对吗？ So what do you think happens...
That's what psychologists call an "Aha!" moment. 这就是心理学家们所说的“原来如此！”瞬间。 That was the moment I realized, 30 is not the new 20. 在那一瞬间，我明白了三十岁并不是新的二十岁。 Yes, people settle down later than they used to, but that didn't make Alex's 20s a developmental downtime. 没错，人们比以前更晚安顿下来，但这并不说明Alex的二十几岁这...
Well one day, Emma comes in and she hangs her head in her lap, and she sobbed for most of the hour. 有一天，Emma走进来，把头放在膝盖上，然后哭了近一个小时。 She'd just bought a new address book, and she'd spent the morning filling in her many contacts, 她刚买了一个新的地址薄，然后她花了一个上午填她的联系人， but then she'd been left staring at that empty blank th...