在学校时，我们不需要担心任何事情，只管努力学习就好，也正是因为如此，当我们离开学校走向社会时，很多人会感到非常迷茫，因为从来没有人教过我们社会是怎样的，我们应该如何在社会中独自面对生活？如何选择和做好自己的工作？有一些学校没有教给你的技能，一旦习得就会获益终生。
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In life, there are lots of skills we need to learn to navigate the world. We go to school to learn how to read, write, and do math. These skills are foundational to getting into college, getting our first jobs, and living as a citizen in society.
生活中，我们需要学习很多技能才能从容应对这个世界，我们去学校学习如何阅读、写作和算数，这些技能是进入大学、获得第一份工作以及作为社会公民生活的基础。
But there are some skills you don’t get taught in school that can help you grow and that end up paying off not just in the short term, but throughout your whole life.
但有一些学校没有教给你的技能，也能够帮助你成长，而且不仅是在短期内，而是能让你终身受益。
These skills can be difficult to master, but their long-term benefits far outweigh any frustrations we might experience trying to learn them.
这些技能可能很难掌握，但它们带来的长期收益远重于我们在学习过程中可能遇到的任何挫折。
Here are 10 difficult skills that, once you’ve learned them, will pay off forever:
以下是10个困难但你一旦学会就能终身受益的技能：
1. Working Out Consistently
坚持健身
The hardest part about working out isn’t lifting weights, running long distances, or folding into those yoga poses. The hardest part is actually working out consistently.
健身最难的部分并不是举重、长跑或将身体折成那些瑜伽姿势，最难的部分是坚持。
Learning how to make time in your life, at all stages of your life, to go to the gym, hit the pavement, or roll out your yoga mat is one of the greatest battles you may face within yourself.
学习如何在你的生活中，在你人生的各个阶段，腾出时间去健身房，走上街头，或铺开你的瑜伽垫，是你可能会面对的最难斗争之一。
Even though it’s all in your head, learning to work out consistently will have immense short- and long-term benefits. Working out releases endorphins, controls weight, reduces your risk of cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes, metabolic syndrome and even some cancers. Improving your strength has mental and physical benefits that will echo throughout the rest of your life.
尽管斗争只是心理层面的，但学会坚持锻炼，将会切实地在短期和长期都带给你巨大好处。健身可以释放内啡肽，控制体重，降低心血管疾病、2型糖尿病，代谢综合征甚至一些癌症的风险，提升你的身体素质。对于你的心理和身体，都会有终身的裨益。
If you can master exercising consistently, the payoff will be huge.
如果你能坚持锻炼，回报将是丰厚的。
2. Personal Finance Skills
个人理财技能
No matter how much money you make, if you learn personal finance skills, you can help improve your financial situation. Do research on personal finance and read books like “Rich Dad, Poor Dad” by Robert T. Kiyosaki, “The 80/20 Principle” by Richard Koch, or “Financial Freedom” by Grant Sabatier. Learning how to create a budget, save money, and invest in yourself is a huge asset.
无论你赚多少钱，学习个人理财技能都可以帮助改善你的财务状况，学习个人财务的相关知识，读一些相关书籍，比如，罗伯特·清崎的《富爸爸，穷爸爸》，理查德·科克的《80/20法则》，或葛兰・萨巴帝尔的《财务自由》等，学习如何做预算、省钱和为自己投资是一笔巨大的财富。
When you learn personal finance skills and can keep track of where your money is going, you’ve set your future self up for success.
当你拥有了一些个人理财技能，能够清楚你的钱都花在哪里，你就为你的未来奠定了成功。
3. Meditation
冥想
Sitting in silence for any amount of time can be difficult. Many people practice meditation their entire lives to improve their meditation skills. But science shows that even meditating for just a few minutes a day can have vast improvements on your life and brain. Meditation can help you focus on the present moment, build stress-management skills, increase creativity and patience, and reduce negative emotions.
静坐无论时间长短都可能很困难，许多人一生都在不断练习冥想，以提升他们的冥想技能，不过科学表明，即使每天只冥想几分钟，也能对你的生活和大脑产生巨大的改善。冥想可以帮助你专注于当下，学会压力管理，提高创造力和耐心并减少负面情绪。
Meditation also has some major long-term benefits. In a study done by UCLA, “Forever Young(er): potential age-defying effects of long-term meditation on gray matter atrophy” – they found that “gray matter loss was less pronounced in meditators” than in non-meditators. Essentially, it can help keep your brain preserved as you age!
冥想也能够带来一些长期的益处，加州大学洛杉矶分校所做的一项研究，“永远年轻：长期冥想对于抗灰质萎缩的潜在作用”，他们发现冥想者的灰质损失比不进行冥想的人要少，它可以从根本上帮助你在年老时，仍拥有一个年轻的大脑。
4. Verbal & Written Communication Skills
口头和书面沟通技能
The way you communicate with the world determines how the world interacts with you. If you can verbally communicate your needs, thoughts, and goals with others in an effective way, you have a superpower that will help you get very far in business, relationships, and life. Being able to communicate with the written word also goes a long way – from being able to craft an email asking your boss for a raise, to writing out a business proposal, being able to communicate through writing has enormous benefits for your life long-term.
你与世界沟通的方式决定了世界如何回应你。如果你可以有效地与他人沟通你的需求、想法以及目标，这样的超能力将能够帮助你在事业、人际关系以及生活的方方面面走得很远，能够用书面文字的形式进行沟通也很重要，从能够措辞一封要求老板加薪的电子邮件，到起草一份商业提案，能够通过书面文字进行沟通，对你的长远生活有巨大好处。
As Tony Robbins has said: “To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.”
正如托尼·罗宾斯所说，“想要有效地沟通，我们必须认识到，每个人感知世界的方式都是不同的，并用这一认识来指导我们与他人沟通”。
5. Waking Up Early
早起
For some, waking up early is as natural as breathing. For others, it takes some getting used to. However, waking up early is one of those skills that can help you reclaim your day, get more hours, and work on the things that matter most to you. Many high-earning CEOs have early morning routines such as Jeff Bezos, Oprah Winfrey, Elon Musk, Howard Schultz, Jeff Weiner, Martha Stewart, Tim Cook, and Bob Iger.
对一些人来说，早起就像呼吸一样自然，对另一些人来说，就需要一些时间来适应。然而，早起这一技能可以帮助你改善你对一天时间的利用，完成那些对你最重要的事情，许多高收入的企业家们都有早起的习惯，如杰夫·贝佐斯、奥普拉·温弗瑞、伊隆·马斯克、霍华德·舒尔茨、杰夫·韦纳、玛莎·斯图尔特、蒂姆·库克以及鲍勃·艾格。
The most important aspect of waking up early is that it forces you to plan your day consciously, instead of just letting other people dictate when you wake up. When you take control of your schedule, you can make room for the things that really matter and improve your life.
早起最重要的一点是，它迫使你有意识地计划你的一天，而不是仅仅由其他人来决定你的起床时间，当你掌控你的时间规划，你就能够为那些真正重要的事情腾出时间，并改善你的生活。
6. Public Speaking
公开演讲
Knowing how to command a crowd can have huge advantages throughout the rest of your life. If you can communicate to a large audience, keep their attention, and express your opinions and thoughts, you’ll get a long way towards accomplishing your goals and aspirations. Public speaking also helps improve your social connections, leadership skills, logical thinking skills, and more.
了解如何引导一个群体，在你的余生都会产生巨大的优势。如果你能与诸多听众沟通，吸引住他们的注意力，并表达清楚你的意见和想法，你将会在实现你的目标和志向上取得长足的进展。公开演讲还有助于提升你的社会关系、领导能力、逻辑思考能力等等。
7. Get Honest with Yourself
对自己诚实
Sometimes, looking at ourselves honestly is one of the hardest things we can do. But if we don’t understand the truth of ourselves and our problems, we can never work to overcome them. Learning how to look at yourself honestly and get real with your issues will help you break through barriers so much faster than if you kept telling yourself lies. In the words of Gift Gugu Mona: “You can never be true to others, if you keep on lying to yourself.”
有时，诚实地审视自己是最难做到的事情之一。但如果我们不了解真正的自己和我们真正的问题，我们就永远无法克服它们，相比一昧地对自己撒谎，学习如何诚实地看待自己，诚实地面对自己的问题，将帮助你更快地突破障碍。吉夫特·古古·莫娜曾说，“如果你一直对自己撒谎，你就永远不可能对别人诚实”。
8. Leadership
领导力
Maya Angelou is quoted as saying: “If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.” Learning how to lead helps improve your career options and opportunities, boosts your confidence, and helps bring your vision to life. Without leadership skills, it’s very hard to make change in the world. Doing it alone is almost never as effective as bringing a team together. If you can master leadership skills, you’ll see its rewards forever.
引用玛雅·安吉洛的话说：“如果幸运的话,单个的幻想可以完全改变100万个现实。”，学习如何领导有助于改善，你的职业选择和机会，增强你的信心，并有助于将你的愿景变为现实，没有领导能力就很难做出影响世界的改变。单打独斗几乎不可能赶上聚集起一个团队的效率。如果你能掌握领导技能，你将受益终身。
9. Decision Making
决策
Susan Wojcicki, CEO of YouTube once said: “Rarely are opportunities presented to you in a perfect way. In a nice little box with a yellow bow on top. “Here, open it, it’s perfect. You’ll love it.” Opportunities – the good ones – are messy, confusing and hard to recognize. They’re risky. They challenge you.”
Youtube的首席执行官苏珊·沃西基曾说：“你很少能碰上称得上完美的机会装在一个漂亮的小盒子里，上面系着黄色的蝴蝶结，‘来，快打开，它很完美，你一定喜欢’。那些好的机会是混乱的、令人困惑的、难以识别的，也是有风险的，它们是对你的挑战”。
One of the hardest parts of life is simply deciding what path to take in any given situation. Sometimes, we can get decision paralysis, which occurs when there are so many options, we can’t choose one, so we end up doing nothing. But if you can master the skill of making decisions, sorting through your options, and making a choice from confidence, you can keep moving forward without wasting time.
生活中最困难的部分之一就是简单地决定，在任何特定情况下采取什么做法，有时，我们会出现决策瘫痪，当选择实在太多，我们不知道该选哪一个，于是就干脆什么都不做。但是，如果你能掌握决策技能，理清你的选项，自信做出选择，你就能不断前进，不浪费时间。
Part of decision making is accepting that you can’t know the outcomes of every possible option. You can only know what you know now, so you have to make the best decision with that information. If you discover later down the road that you should have done something differently, learn how to pivot quickly and without guilt.
决策的一部分是接受你不可能，知道每个可能选项的结果。你只能知道你现在所知道的，所以你必须用这些信息做出最佳决定。如果你后来发现，你应该去做别的事情，那么要学会如何快速转向，并且不要感到愧疚。
10. Listening
倾听
In “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change” by Stephen R. Covey, he writes that: “Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.”
在史蒂芬·R·柯维的《高效人士的七个习惯：教你如何实现个人改变》中，他写道，“大多数人并不是以理解为目的进行倾听，而是以回答为目的进行倾听”。
Listeners are learners. When you can learn how to listen, you’ll learn all kinds of useful information. Being able to listen can help you close a sales deal that’s about to fall through. It can help you repair relationships with friends and family. It can show you new things you never knew before. Realize that you don’t know everything and start listening to those around you, they might just have something valuable to share.
倾听者也是学习者，当你能学会如何倾听，你就能够学到各种有用的信息，善于倾听可以帮助你完成一桩即将失败的销售交易，它可以帮助你修复与朋友和家人的关系，它可以帮助你了解你以前从未知道的新事物，意识到你并不是什么都知道，并开始倾听你周围的人，他们可能会有一些有价值的内容可以分享给你。
Try cultivating these ten skills in your own life and see how they affect your life both in the short- and long-term. It might just surprise you.
试着在你的生活中培养这十项技能，看看它们对于你短期和长期的生活会有什么样的影响，结果可能会令你大吃一惊。
