終身受益的9種自我提高法

Already run one mile a day? Why not try seven?
你已經在每天一公里長跑了？爲什麼不試試一天七公里呢？

What makes someone uncomfortable depends on the person, but what's universally true is the value of recognizing boundaries and continually pushing them.
讓人們感到不適的事情因人而異，但有一條普遍性的原則，即認識到自己能力的界限並不斷挑戰自己的界限，這是非常重要的。

Here are some uncomfortable things that other Quora users have found helped them grow:
下面是一些知乎網上的網友提供的事例，這些事情做起來讓他們不舒服，卻也幫助他們成長。

1. Question everything.
1.質疑周遭的一切。

The most uncomfortable thing one can do is to question everything that is taken for granted and seek answers. Try to see the other side of the norm.
最讓人不適的事情就是質疑一切被人們習以爲常的事情，並且去尋找答案，嘗試去認識常規事物的另一面。

2. Be honest.
2.保持誠實。

Being the most honest you've ever been with someone in your life will be one of the most uncomfortable things you can do, but it could also be the most valuable.
在你生活中遇到的某人面前保持前所未及的誠實態度，這也將是你做過的最令人難受的事情之一。不過它也可能成爲最有價值的一件事。

To do this, he suggests writing a list of all the people to whom you have something — good or bad — to say; writing down the honest feelings you need to convey to them in a letter; handing the person the letter; and writing down what happened and how the experience affected you and the other person.
爲了做到這一點，你應該列一張清單，寫下那些你對他有話要講的人的名字，無論你想說的是好事還是壞事；用最坦誠的言語將你的感受寫在信裏傳達給他們，親手將信交給對方，將你所談及的事情對你對他的影響寫下來傳達給他。

3. Wake up extremely early.
3.起牀超級超級早。

Ekin Öcalan loves to wake up before sunrise because it provides the perfect study-and-work environment. While everyone else sleeps, waking at 5 a.m. is the perfect, way to begin the day in silence.
有網友非常喜歡在日出之前起牀，這段時間往往是學習工作的最佳時段。在凌晨5點，別人都還在睡覺的時候你已經起牀，讓你的一天從完美的靜謐中開始，這種感受非常美妙。

4. Watch your pennies.
看住自己的鋼鏰兒

From auto repairs and life insurance to coffee and french fries, keep track of every penny you spend for several months.
從自動修理機到咖啡、薯條等基本生活物資，給你所花的每分錢記個賬，堅持幾個月。

And try paying for everything you can with cash. If you have to reach in your wallet and pull out cash, you will often think twice about how much you need something.
試着在買任何東西的時候都用現金支付。當你在買東西的時候，一旦你需要把手伸進口袋，取出現金，你就會慎重考慮你是否真的需要它了。

5. Track what you eat.
記下你吃過的食物

Keeping track of all the food you eat and all the exercise you do in a day can be challenging, but this helped one web user see the harm she was doing to her body.
記錄下你一整天裏吃過的所有食物以及做過的鍛鍊活動，這會是一項挑戰。可是這樣做讓一位網友瞭解到了，她曾對自己的身體造成怎樣的傷害。

"I didn't realize how little of some nutrients I was getting and how much sugar and fat I was getting daily until I started to do this regularly," she writes.
“過去我從未意識到自己每天攝取的營養多麼少，吃下的糖分和脂肪多麼過量，直到我開始每天做記錄。”她寫道。

6. Eat only nutritious food.
只吃有營養的食物

After you track your food, start eating only what is truly nutritious — This will change your life forever.
記錄下自己的每日飲食之後，開始做到只吃真正有營養的食物吧——這樣做會永遠改變你的生活。

This will be uncomfortable for a number of reasons: It's hard; it's socially limiting; it can be more expensive if you are used to eating off the dollar menu; it's not as tasty when you start, and it takes more time.
你會感到不適，有很多原因：做到這件事很難；它會讓你的社交生活受限制；你的開銷會比過去吃快餐的時候大得多；剛開始的時候，你感到這些食物並不可口，又要花更多時間準備。

But the outcome is 100% worth the effort. "Being a weird health nut and outperforming everyone else is so much more fun than blending in — and that's not just athletically. It's mentally as well."
可是你所得到的收穫絕對值得你這樣付出。“做一個堅持健康飲食的傻瓜，比其他任何人都注重健康，這樣做比跟其他人一起吃垃圾食品要好得多——這不僅對你的身體有益，對你的大腦也有益。

7. Practice public speaking.
練習在公衆面前演講

It may be scary to think about, but you never know when you may be called upon to speak in public. Practice, while daunting, is the key to improving your communication skills.
這件事想想都讓人害怕，可你永遠都不知道什麼時候會被叫到去臺上講話。多加練習——儘管你會很緊張——是提高你的口頭表達能力的關鍵。

It's scary as hell until you realize that everyone around you feels the same.
你會嚇得要死，直到你發現，其實身邊每個人都和你的感受一樣。

8. Accomplish an almost impossible goal.
完成一個幾乎不可能達到的目標

The most uncomfortable thing you can do is to set and achieve a goal that's harder than something you've ever done before.
給自己定下目標，要做到一件比你做過的任何事都困難的事，然後真的達成目標。這可能是最讓你感到不適的事情。

To do that, think about a thing you're comfortable doing every day and amplify it until you get to a point where you become really scared of doing it. If you run a mile every day, the idea of running seven might terrify you. Set this as your one-year goal.
爲了做到這一點，可以設想一件自己每天都做並且應付自如的事情，然後將它的難度增大，直到你感到自己對它感到頗爲恐懼。如果你每天可以跑一公里，努力每天跑七公里的目標可能會嚇到你。可以將它設爲你的年度目標。

9. Pick just one thing to master at a time.
每次只選擇一件事情並完成它

Your approach to self-betterment might be trying as many things as possible and seeing what works. But using the opposite tactic, though uncomfortable, is key.
或許你提高自己的方法是，試着完成很多很多事情，越多越好，看看自己能做到哪一件。然而，用一種相反的策略纔是完成這些事情的關鍵，儘管這會讓你感到不適。

If you're constantly changing interests, you're never going to discover your own internal progress. So pick one thing and become progressively committed to mastering it. It doesn't matter what it is, anything will do, as long as you do.
如果你想做的事總是在變幻，你永遠不會察覺到自己內在的進步幅度。所以你應該選定一件事，下定決心，一步一步地完成它。這件事是什麼不重要，任何事情都可以，只要你真正去做。