Day 344: On the Desire for Safety

第344天： 关于对安全的渴求

The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.

对安全的渴求阻碍了一切伟大而崇高的事业。

—Tacitus

When setting any new goals, the desire for safety will fight against the desire for growth. Choosing safety is choosing instant gratification, while going for growth might be uncomfortable now, but will eventually deliver bigger and better rewards.

在设定任何新目标时，对安全的渴求都会与对成长的渴求相互抗衡。

选择安全意味着选择即时的满足感，然而追求发展或许当下会令人不适，但最终必将带来更为宏大且更为优良的回报。

Learn how to overcome the desire for safety by regularly expanding your comfort zone and reaping the rewards of doing so. It’s hard to imagine how beneficial temporarily giving up safety can be unless you actually do it. No words of mine will persuade you more than you actually venturing out, testing it for yourself, and feeling more powerful, thanks to facing your fears.

学习如何通过定期扩大自己的舒适区来克服对安全的渴求，并从中获得回报。

除非你切实付诸行动，否则难以想象暂且舍弃安全能够带来何等丰厚的益处。

我所阐述的一切皆无法与你亲身去冒险、亲身去尝试相媲美，并且在直面恐惧的进程中体悟到自身更为强大的力量。

You can also follow the strategy of alternating between periods of safety and growth: after each big step forward that required courage and put you in an uncomfortable situation, give yourself a few days to enjoy safety. Then, when you feel secure and recharged, expose yourself to danger and growth again. That way, you’ll consistently stretch yourself in a sustainable way, without ever completely exhausting your mental energy.

你亦能够采取安全期与成长期相互交替的策略：每向前迈出重大的一步，需要鼓足勇气，使自己处于不适的境地之后，给自己预留几日来享受安全。

而后，当你感到安全且精力充沛之际，再让自己直面危险并谋求成长。

如此一来，你便能以一种具有可持续性的方式持续拓展自身，而不会全然耗尽自己的精神能量。

That’s what I often do during my rock climbing workouts: on some workouts I favor technical routes that require little courage but lots of focus and then on other workouts, I climb difficult, mental routes where a fear of falling enters into the equation.

这就是我在攀岩训练中经常做的事情：在某些训练中，我偏爱那些不需要多大勇气，但需要高度专注的技术路线。

而在另一些训练中，我会攀登那些难度大、心理压力大的路线，因为在这些路线中，我会有坠落的恐惧。

Thanks to this approach, I rarely don’t feel like climbing; whenever I don’t feel mentally ready to give up the feeling of security, I can simply do something else and then expand my comfort zone the next time, when I’ll have recovered.

得益于这种方法，我很少不想攀岩。

每当我觉得心理上还没有准备好放弃安全感时，我就可以简单地做一些其他事情，然后在下一次，当我恢复过来时，再扩大我的舒适区。

Stretch your comfort zone frequently, but do it in a sustainable way: ensure that you regularly get to enjoy at least a short period of security to gather energy for another expedition that will take you beyond your comfort zone.

经常扩展自己的舒适区，但要以可持续的方式进行：确保自己定期享受至少一小段时间的安全感，为下一次超越舒适区的探险积蓄能量。