又一篇好文来啦，请阁下细细品尝。如果你被困在沙漠中，你会有无限的动力去寻找水，因为这是生存的必要条件，也就是说所以必要性会产生动力。如果我们认为致富和摆脱贫穷是必要的，我们就会有无限的动力去赚钱，会采取必要的行动来实现自己的目标，但是，我们怎样才能够对必要性有正确的认知，从而拥有无限的动力去实现目标？The truth about infinite motivation is that you already have it for certain activities. For example, you likely eat, drink water, work, brush, shower, and socialize every day, plus or minus a few activities maybe. And you’ll likely continue these activities until the end of your life. That’s infinite motivation. And the cause of infinite motivation is necessity.实际上，在某些确定的活动上，你已经拥有了无限的动力。比如，你可能每天都要吃饭、喝水、工作、刷牙、洗澡、社交，活动可能会多一些或者少一些。而且这些活动，你很可能会一直做，直到你生命的尽头。这就是无限的动力。这些活动你之所以有无限的动力的原因是：必要性。For example, if you’re stranded in the desert, you’ll have infinite motivation to find some water, but only as long as you think it’s necessary to survive—and that water is necessary to do that. So necessity leads to motivation, but what causes necessity? Necessity arises from your understanding of the world. And your understanding of the world includes places that you want to go to, like good health and wealth perhaps, and places that you want to avoid, like poverty. And your understanding also includes the means or actions that will get you to both of those places.例如，如果你被困在沙漠中，你会有无限的动力去寻找水，但前提是你认为这是生存的必要条件——而水是生存的必要条件。所以必要性会产生动力，但什么导致了必要性？必要性源于你对世界的理解。你对世界的理解包含你想得到什么，比如健康和财富，也包括你想逃避什么，比如贫穷。你的理解也包含能让你达到这两个目的的方法或行动。So for example, if in your understanding, you believe it’s necessary to get rich and avoid poverty, in the same way you think it’s necessary to drink water when you’re stranded in the desert, you’ll have infinite motivation to try and obtain money, and you’ll act out the actions that you think are necessary to get you there. So your understanding of the world leads to necessity which leads to motivation.比如，如果在你的理解中，你认为致富和避免贫穷是必要的，就像你认为当你被困在沙漠中时必须要喝水一样，你会有无限的动力去尝试赚钱，你会采取你认为必要的行动来实现你的目的。所以你对世界的理解导致了必要性，从而产生了动力。But how does your understanding change? Your understanding of the world changes when you discover and assimilate new and useful knowledge. And really there are two ways you discover new knowledge: either you discover it through someone else, which is imitation, or you discover it for yourself, which is innovation. So discovery leads to a change in understanding which leads to a change in your perception of necessity which leads to a change in motivation.但你的理解如何改变呢？当你发现和吸收新的有用知识时，你对世界的理解就会改变。实际上我们发现新知识有两种方式：要么是通过别人发现，这就是模仿；要么是自己发现，这就是创新。所以，发现会导致理解的改变，而理解的改变又会导致你对必然性认识的改变，从而导致动力的改变。But what causes us to enter a process of discovery? Discovery occurs when we enter a state of crisis, and a state of crisis is one in which you don’t know (A) where you are, or (B) where you want to go, or (C) how to get from where you are to where you want to go, or all of the above. So crisis leads to discovery. But what leads to a crisis? The cause of a crisis is a realization: specifically, a realization that your knowledge is insufficient. So that completes the motivation cycle: realization, crisis, discovery, understanding, necessity, motivation, and back to realization.但是是什么导致我们进入发现的过程呢？发现发生在我们进入危机状态时，而危机状态是指你不知道（A）你在哪里，或者（B）你想去哪里，或者（C）如何从你所在的地方到你想去的地方？或者危机是以上所有的情况。所以危机导致发现。但是，是什么导致了危机呢？导致危机的原因是一种认识：具体来说，就是认识到自己知识的不足。所以这就完成了动力的循环：认识、危机、发现、理解、必要、动机，再回到认识。Now let me explain how the entire cycle works using an example. We’re going to use the example of driving, because so much of life is like driving, where you’re trying to get from some point A to some point B. So imagine that you’re driving to the Pet Store, taking the same roads that you always do. So this is the first stage, normal motivation. And your motivations are oriented properly when you can get from where you are to where you want to go. And in this case, you arrive at the Pet Store with no problems. So everything goes smoothly.现在让我用一个例子来解释整个动力循环是如何运作的。我们将用开车为例，因为生活中的很多事情就像开车一样，你试图从A点到B点。所以想象一下，你开车去宠物店，走的是你所熟悉的路。这是第一阶段，正常动机。而当你能从你所在的地方到达你想去的地方时，你的动机就有了正确的导向。在这种情况下，你到达宠物店的时候没有任何问题，一切都很顺利。Now imagine a second scenario, where you go to where the Pet Store usually is, but it’s no longer there. So a realization dawns on you: your knowledge is insufficient and you have no idea now where you are relative to the pet store, where the pet store is, and how to get there. You enter a state of crisis, and this leads to a process of discovery. So you meet some people nearby who say that they can help you get to the new location for the Pet Store. You follow them and arrive successfully.现在想象第二种情况，你所要去的宠物店所在地，但宠物店已经不在了。于是，你恍然大悟：你的知识是不足的，你现在不知道自己与宠物店的相对位置，不知道宠物店在哪里，也不知道怎么去到那里。你进入了一种危机状态，这就产生了发现的过程。于是你在附近遇到一些人，他们可以帮助你到达宠物店新的所在地。你跟着他们，成功到达宠物店。Overcoming the crisis has lead to discovery of new knowledge through imitation, which leads you to a new understanding of the world, which leads to a new perspective of what’s necessary to arrive at the pet store, which restores your motivation in being able to get there. Life is back to normal.克服危机的过程中，你通过模仿发现了新的知识，从而对这个世界有了新的认识，从而对到达宠物店的必要条件有了新的看法，从而恢复了你能够到达那里的动力。生活又恢复了正常。But let’s imagine that you never met those people nearby, so instead, you start searching the area nearby for the Pet Store and eventually stumble upon it. This is discovery through innovation, and it leads to the same end result of having your motivation restored. And when it comes to motivation, people typically run into one of two problems. Imagine a spectrum, and in the middle, is someone who is properly motivated. This means that they can always get to where they wanna go from where they are. On the right end of the spectrum is someone who’s wrongly motivated. They are highly motivated, but they never get to where they wanna go from where they are: they’re motivated in the wrong direction.但是，让我们想象一下，你从没遇到附近的那些人，你反而开始在附近的区域寻找宠物店，最终偶然找到了宠物店。这就是通过创新来发现，这种创新导致的最终结果也是让你的动力恢复。而在动力方面，人们通常会遇到两个问题之一。想象一个光谱，中间这个人是动机适当的人，这意味着，他们总能从现在的位置到达他们想去的地方。在光谱的右边是个动机错误的人，他们有很强的动力，但他们永远无法从他们所在的地方到达他们想去的地方：他们的动机在错误的方向上。And this is because they never realize that their knowledge is insufficient. They are too prideful and confident in what they know, so they remain motivated, but they never arrive at their destination, and that’s because they never feel the need to update their beliefs. On the left end of the spectrum is someone who has no motivation. This is typically because they are in a state of crisis, where they may have realized that their knowledge is insufficient, but they haven’t engaged in a successful discovery process that gives them new knowledge to overcome their crisis.这是因为他们从来没有意识到自己的知识是不足的，他们对自己的知识太过骄傲和自信，虽然他们仍然有动力，但他们永远不会到达目的地，因为他们从来不觉得有必要更新自己的知识。在这个光谱的左边是没有动力的人，这通常是因为他们正处于危机状态，他们可能已经意识到自己的知识不足，但他们还没有进入到成功发现的过程，这个过程将给他们提供新的知识来克服危机。So in conclusion, infinite motivation occurs naturally when you know where you are, where you want to go, and how to get there from where you are. A crisis in motivation occurs when you realize that you have insufficient knowledge to get to where you want to go.总而言之，当你知道你在哪里、你想去哪里，以及如何从你所在的地方到达目的地，就会自然而然地产生无限的动力。当你意识到自己的知识不足以到达你想去的地方时，就会产生动机的危机。Crisis is resolved through the discovery of new and useful knowledge that allows you to arrive at your destination, and new knowledge is discovered through one of two means: imitation or innovation. Imitation is when you copy someone else’s solution to your problem, and innovation is when you come up with your own. The discovery of new knowledge updates your understanding of the world, which updates what you perceive as necessary to get to your destination, and the correct perception of necessity leads to the restoration of your motivation.危机是通过发现新的有用的知识来解决的，这些知识可以让你到达目的地，而新的知识是通过两种方式之一来发现的：模仿或创新。模仿是指你复制别人的解决方案来解决你的问题，创新是指你提出自己的解决方案。新知识的发现更新了你对世界的理解，从而更新了你对到达目的地的必要性的认知，对必要性的正确认知导致了你恢复动力。By Freedom In Thought译：良哥