Matt Cutts 是谷歌的一位工程师。他曾一度对自己的工作感到枯燥和无聊，想去寻找新的挑战。
通过尝试，他从一个IT宅男，变成一位爱骑自行车去工作，爱去冒险的人。
他从中悟出了这样一个道理：跳出原本的圈子，给自己一个全新的挑战，用30天的时间去完成它，用30天的时间去养成一个新习惯，这不仅乐趣无穷，也足以改变你的人生。
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A few years ago, I felt like I was stuck in a rut, so I decided to followin the footsteps ofthe great American philosopher, Morgan Spurlock, and try something new for 30 days. The idea is actually pretty simple. Think about something you've always wanted to add to your life and try it for the next 30 days. It turns out30 days is just about the right amount of time to add a new habit or subtract a habit -- like watching the news -- from your life.
几年前， 我对当时的生活感到枯燥乏味， 所以我决定效法伟大的美国哲学家摩根·斯普尔洛克，用30天时间尝试去做新的事情。这个活动其实非常简单。想一想，那些你非常想做的事情，然后接下来30天投入其中。我们在30天内刚好能养成一个新习惯或者改掉一个旧习惯——比如看新闻。
stuck in a rut 一成不变
follow in the footsteps of 效法
turn out 最后是，结果是
There's a few things I learned while doing these 30-day challenges. The first was, instead of the months flying by, forgotten, the time was much more memorable. This was part of a challenge I did to take a picture every day for a month. And I remember exactly where I was and what I was doing that day. I also noticed that as I started to do more and harder 30-day challenges, my self-confidence grew. I went from desk-dwelling computer nerd to the kind of guy who bikes to work. For fun!
通过30天的挑战，我总结了以下心得。第一，往日我们觉得时光飞逝，记不住日子是怎么度过的。开始尝试新事物后，这段时间的记忆变得非常令人难忘。我要尝试的新事物中的一件事是在一个月内每天拍一张照片。我清楚地记得那一天我在哪里都干了什么。我也注意到随着我尝试更多、难度更大的事时，我自信心增强了。我从一个台式计算机宅男变成了一个爱骑着自行车去上班的人——因为这样更加有趣。
Even last year, I ended up hiking up Mt. Kilimanjaro, the highest mountain in Africa. I would never have been that adventurous before I started my 30-day challenges.
甚至在去年我完成了在非洲最高山峰乞力马扎罗山的远足。在我开始30天挑战之前，我从来没有这样爱冒险过。
end up 结束
I als o figured outthat if you really want something badly enough, you can do anything for 30 days. Have you ever wanted to write a novel? Every November, tens of thousandsof people try to write their own 50,000-word novel, from scratch, in 30 days. It turns out, all you have to do is write 1,667 words a day for a month. So I did. By the way, the secret is not to go to sleep until you've written your words for the day. You might be sleep-deprived, but you'll finish your novel. Now is my book the next great American novel? No. I wrote it in a month. It's awful.
我还意识到，如果你内心对某事物极其渴望，你在30天里可以完成任何事。你曾想写小说吗？每年11月，成千上万的人那个月都想从零尝试写他们的5万字小说。事实证明，你所要做的只是在那个月的每一天写1667个字。我做到了。顺便说一下，秘诀是一天除非写完1667个字，否则就甭想睡觉。你可能缺觉， 但你将会写完你的小说。那么我写的书会是下一部流行全美的小说吗？不会的。我用一个月就写完它。它看上去可糟糕了。
figure out 想出
tens of thousands 成千上万
from scratch 从头做起
sleep-deprived 睡眠剥夺
But for the rest of my life, if I meet John Hodgman at a TED party, I don't have to say, "I'm a computer scientist." No, no, if I want to, I can say, "I'm a novelist."
但在我的余生， 如果我在TED聚会上遇见约翰·霍奇曼， 我不会说 “我是一个电脑科学家。” 不，我绝对不会这么自我介绍，我想我或许可以说，“我是一个小说家。”
So here's one last thing I'd like to mention. I learned that when I made small, sustainable changes, things I could keep doing, they were more likely to stick. There's nothing wrong with big, crazy challenges. In fact, they're a ton of fun. But they're less likely to stick. When I gave up sugar for 30 days, day 31 looked like this.
我这儿想提的最后一件事。 当我做了一些小的、持续性的变化， 我可以长期做的一些事， 我可以非常轻易地坚持下来。那些大的、疯狂的挑战也没有问题。事实上，大的改变带来的乐趣无穷。但是，我们不太可能坚持下来。当我坚持30天戒糖时， 31天后的我看上去这样。
So here's my question to you: What are you waiting for? I guarantee you the next 30 days are going to pass whether you like it or not, so why not think about something you have always wanted to try and give it a shot! For the next 30 days.
所以我给大家的问题是：你还在等什么？我肯定，不管你喜不喜欢，接下来的30天都会过去。那么为什么不考虑在未来30天尝试一下你一直想做的事呢？在未来30天里，试试看。
give it a shot 试试
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