Day 322: On Subtraction
第322天：关于减法哲学
We survive on too little sleep, wolf down fast foods on the run, fuel up with coffee and cool down with alcohol and sleeping pills. Faced with relentless demands at work, we become short-tempered and easily distracted. We return home from long days at work feeling exhausted and often experience our families not as a source of joy and renewal, but as one more demand in an already overburdened life.
我们睡眠不足，狼吞虎咽地吃快餐，用咖啡来提神，用酒精和安眠药让自己镇静。
面对工作中无休止的要求，我们变得脾气暴躁、容易分心。
长时间的工作让我们疲惫不堪，回到家后，我们常常觉得家庭不是快乐的源泉和精神的慰藉，而是已经不堪重负的生活中又多了一项要求。
—Jim Loehr
It makes me exhausted just to read this quote, let alone imagine that it’s possible to achieve any kind of positive results while living such a life.
光是读到这段话就已经让我精疲力竭了，更不用说想象在这样的环境中生活还能取得任何积极的成果。
If you’re overburdened and feel like you have no control over your life, it’s time to change your life philosophy from the philosophy of addition to the philosophy of subtraction . Let me explain…
如果你负担过重，感觉已经快要无法掌控自己的生活了，那么是时候改变你的生活哲学了，从 "加法哲学 "变为 "减法哲学"。
让我来解释一下...
The philosophy of addition is thinking that more is better. It means that you’re afraid to miss out on opportunities and that you say yes to everything, worried that saying no will make you unpopular or that you’ll appear selfish or lazy.
加法哲学认为越多越好。
这意味着你害怕错过机会，对一切都说“好”，担心说“不”会让自己不受欢迎，或者显得自私或懒惰。
You constantly add and add, thinking that it’s through adding that your life gets better. Of course, in a certain way it does. The more you learn, the better you are. Generally speaking, the more money you have, the easier your life is.
你不断地增加、增加，认为通过增加，生活会变得更美好。
当然，在某种程度上确实如此。
你学得越多，你就越优秀。
一般来说，钱越多，生活越轻松。
However, this doesn’t apply to obligations and your calendar. The more tasks you have in your schedule and the more duties you need to attend to, the more difficult it is to stop, reflect, and decide what deserves your attention and what doesn’t.
然而，这并不适用于职责和你的日程安排。
日程表上的任务越多，需要处理的事务越多，就越难停下来思考，决定哪些值得关注，哪些不值得关注。
For this reason, I suggest adopting the philosophy of subtraction. You believe that less is more. You think twice before you accept any new responsibilities. You constantly seek to simplify your life and free up your calendar instead of stacking one task on top of another. You feel proud of having leisure time instead of feeling guilty about it.
因此，我建议采用减法哲学。
你相信少即是多。
在接受任何新的事务之前，你都会三思而后行。
你不断寻求简化生活，腾出日程表，而不是把一项任务堆在另一项任务之上。
你为拥有闲暇时间而感到自豪，而不是为此感到内疚。
As an exercise for today, think of just one regular task in your schedule that you could eliminate, in order to make your life less of a burden.
作为今天的练习，请想一想，在你的日程安排中，为了减轻生活负担，你可以取消哪一项常规任务。
Perhaps you can hire a maid to save time spent keeping the house clean.
也许你可以雇一个女佣来节省打扫房间的时间。
Maybe you already have enough money, but not enough time, and it would make sense to reduce the number of hours spent at work and accept the trade-off for the sake of your well-being.
也许你的钱已经够多了，但时间却不够用，为了自己的幸福，减少工作时间，接受取舍是有意义的。
Maybe you can move closer to your workplace, or the opposite: start working at home.
也许你可以搬到离工作地点更近的地方，或者相反：开始在家办公。
Perhaps it would be a good investment to use the services of a home meal delivery company and save the time spent on cooking and grocery shopping.
也许使用家庭送餐公司的服务是一项不错的投资，可以节省做饭和买菜的时间。
Subtract the unessential from your life to increase your focus on what is essential, but doesn’t get enough attention because of all the other, less-important obligations.
减少生活中不重要的事情，让自己更专注于那些由于其他不太重要的事务而没有得到足够关注的重要的事情。
